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6 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
2 days ago · Marvin Hamlisch: Won three Oscars in 1973; Best Score-Adaptation or Treatment for the film The Sting, and Best Original Score and Best Original Song for the title song of the film The Way We Were, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976
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May 9, 2024 · Matt Damon (born October 8, 1970, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer who was noted for his clean-cut good looks and intelligent performances. He won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997). Early life and career.
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May 19, 2024 · Hopkins took home the Best Actor Oscar in 1991. Several Best Supporting Actor performances also made the cut. Gregory Peck's performance as Atticus Finch in the film To Kill A Mockingbird , based on the novel by Harper Lee, earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1962.
3 days ago · Robert De Niro. Born: August 17, 1943, New York City, New York, U.S. (age 80) Awards And Honors: Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016) Cecil B. DeMille Award (2011) Kennedy Center Honors (2009) Academy Award (1981) Academy Award (1975) Academy Award (1981): Actor in a Leading Role. Academy Award (1975): Actor in a Supporting Role.
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May 1, 2024 · Roberto Benigni, Italian actor and director known for his comedic work, most notably Life Is Beautiful, for which he won an Academy Award for best actor. The movie, in which he plays a man pretending to his child that a Nazi concentration camp is a game, also won the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
2 days ago · Oliver! is the only G-rated film and Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film (what is categorized as an NC-17 film today), so far, to win Best Picture; they won in back-to-back years, 1968 and 1969. The latter has since been changed to an R rating.
