Actors with Most Oscar Nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor Combined
by judas1982 | created - 09 Feb 2017 | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
12 Noms.
1. Easy Rider - 1969 : BSA (1)
2. Five Easy Pieces - 1970 : BA (1)
3. The Last Detail - 1973 : BA (2)
4. Chinatown - 1974 : BA (3)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975 : BA (4) [WON]
6. Reds - 1981 : BSA (2)
7. Terms of Endearment - 1983 : BSA (3) [WON]
8. Prizzi's Honor - 1985 : BA (5)
9. Ironweed - 1987 : BA (6)
10. A Few Good Men - 1992 : BSA (4)
11. As Good as It Gets - 1997 : BA (7) [WON]
12. About Schmidt - 2002 : BA (8)
2. Laurence Olivier
Actor | Sleuth
Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...
10 Noms.
1. Wuthering Heights - 1939 : BA (1)
2. Rebecca - 1940 : BA (2)
3. Henry V - 1946 : BA (3)
4. Hamlet - 1948 : BA (4) [WON]
5. Richard III - 1956 : BA (5)
6. The Entertainer - 1960 : BA (6)
7. Othello - 1965 : BA (7)
8. Sleuth - 1972 : BA (8)
9. Marathon Man - 1976 : BSA (1)
10. The Boys from Brazil - 1978 : BA (9)
3. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
9 Noms.
1. The Godfather - 1972 : BSA (1)
2. Serpico - 1973 : BA (1)
3. The Godfather Part II - 1974 : BA (2)
4. Dog Day Afternoon - 1975 : BA (3)
5. ...And Justice for All - 1979 : BA (4)
6. Dick Tracy - 1990 : BSA (2)
7. Scent of a Woman - 1992 : BA (5) [WON]
8. Glengarry Glen Ross - 1992 : BSA (3)
9. The Irishman - 2019 : BSA (4)
4. Denzel Washington
Actor | Fences
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
9 Noms.
1. Cry Freedom - 1987 : BSA (1)
2. Glory - 1989 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. Malcolm X - 1992 : BA (1)
4. The Hurricane - 1999 : BA (2)
5. Training Day - 2001 : BA (3) [WON]
6. Flight - 2012 : BA (4)
7. Fences - 2016 : BA (5)
8. Roman J. Israel, Esq. - 2017 : BA (6)
9. The Tragedy of Macbeth - 2021 : BA (7)
5. Spencer Tracy
Actor | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Spencer Tracy was the second son born on April 5, 1900, to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard...
9 Noms.
1. San Francisco - 1936 : BA (1)
2. Captains Courageous - 1937 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Boys Town - 1938 : BA (3) [WON]
4. Father of the Bride - 1950 : BA (4)
5. Bad Day at Black Rock - 1955 : BA (5)
6. The Old Man and the Sea - 1958 : BA (6)
7. Inherit the Wind - 1960 : BA (7)
8. Judgment at Nuremberg - 1961 : BA (8)
9. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967 : BA (9)
6. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
9 Noms.
1. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 1958 : BA (1)
2. The Hustler - 1961 : BA (2)
3. Hud - 1963 : BA (3)
4. Cool Hand Luke - 1967 : BA (4)
5. Absence of Malice - 1981 : BA (5)
6. The Verdict - 1982 : BA (6)
7. The Color of Money - 1986 : BA (7) [WON]
8. Nobody's Fool - 1994 : BA (8)
9. Road to Perdition - 2002 : BSA (1)
7. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
8 Noms.
1. The Godfather Part II - 1974 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Taxi Driver - 1976 : BA (1)
3. The Deer Hunter - 1978 : BA (2)
4. Raging Bull - 1980 : BA (3) [WON]
5. Awakenings - 1990 : BA (4)
6. Cape Fear - 1991 : BA (5)
7. Silver Linings Playbook - 2012 : BSA (2)
8. Killers of the Flower Moon - 2023 : BSA (3)
8. Peter O'Toole
Actor | Lawrence of Arabia
A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a...
8 Noms.
1. Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 : BA (1)
2. Becket - 1964 : BA (2)
3. The Lion in Winter - 1968 : BA (3)
4. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - 1969 : BA (4)
5. The Ruling Class - 1972 : BA (5)
6. The Stunt Man - 1980 : BA (6)
7. My Favorite Year - 1982 : BA (7)
8. Venus - 2006 : BA (8)
9. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
8 Noms.
1. A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951 : BA (1)
2. Viva Zapata! - 1952 : BA (2)
3. Julius Caesar - 1953 : BA (3)
4. On the Waterfront - 1954 : BA (4) [WON]
5. Sayonara - 1957 : BA (5)
6. The Godfather - 1972 : BA (6) [WON]
7. Last Tango in Paris - 1973 : BA (7)
8. A Dry White Season - 1989 : BSA (1)
10. Jack Lemmon
Actor | The Apartment
Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...
8 Noms.
1. Mister Roberts - 1955 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Some Like It Hot - 1959 : BA (1)
3. The Apartment - 1960 : BA (2)
4. Days of Wine and Roses - 1962 : BA (3)
5. Save the Tiger - 1973 : BA (4) [WON]
6. The China Syndrome - 1979 : BA (5)
7. Tribute - 1980 : BA (6)
8. Missing - 1982 : BA (7)
11. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
7 Noms.
1. The Graduate - 1967 : BA (1)
2. Midnight Cowboy - 1969 : BA (2)
3. Lenny - 1974 : BA (3)
4. Kramer vs. Kramer - 1979 : BA (4) [WON]
5. Tootsie - 1982 : BA (5)
6. Rain Man - 1988 : BA (6) [WON]
7. Wag the Dog - 1997 : BA (7)
12. Jeff Bridges
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
7 Noms.
1. The Last Picture Show - 1971 : BSA (1)
2. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - 1974 : BSA (2)
3. Starman - 1984 : BA (1)
4. The Contender - 2000 : BSA (3)
5. Crazy Heart - 2009 : BA (2) [WON]
6. True Grit - 2010 : BA (3)
7. Hell or High Water - 2016 : BSA (4)
13. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
7 Noms.
1. The Godfather - 1972 : BSA (1)
2. Apocalypse Now - 1979 : BSA (2)
3. The Great Santini - 1980 : BA (1)
4. Tender Mercies - 1983 : BA (2) [WON]
5. The Apostle - 1997 : BA (3)
6. A Civil Action - 1998 : BSA (3)
7. The Judge - 2014 : BSA (4)
14. Richard Burton
Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period.
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in ...
7 Noms.
1. My Cousin Rachel - 1952 : BSA (1)
2. The Robe - 1953 : BA (1)
3. Becket - 1964 : BA (2)
4. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - 1965 : BA (3)
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 1966 : BA (4)
6. Anne of the Thousand Days - 1969 : BA (5)
7. Equus - 1977 : BA (6)
15. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
6 Noms.
1. What's Eating Gilbert Grape - 1993 : BSA (1)
2. The Aviator - 2004 : BA (1)
3. Blood Diamond - 2006 : BA (2)
4. The Wolf of Wall Street - 2013 : BA (3)
5. The Revenant - 2015 : BA (4) [WON]
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 2019 : BA (5)
16. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
6 Noms.
1. The Silence of the Lambs - 1991 : BA (1) [WON]
2. The Remains of the Day - 1993 : BA (2)
3. Nixon - 1995 : BA (3)
4. Amistad - 1997 : BSA (1)
5. The Two Popes - 2019 : BSA (2)
6. The Father - 2020 : BA (4) [WON]
17. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
6 Noms.
1. Alfie - 1966 : BA (1)
2. Sleuth - 1972 : BA (2)
3. Educating Rita - 1983 : BA (3)
4. Hannah and Her Sisters - 1986 : BSA (1) [WON]
5. The Cider House Rules - 1999 : BSA (2) [WON]
6. The Quiet American - 2002 : BA (4)
18. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
6 Noms.
1. My Left Foot - 1989 : BA (1) [WON]
2. In the Name of the Father - 1993 : BA (2)
3. Gangs of New York - 2002 : BA (3)
4. There Will Be Blood - 2007 : BA (4) [WON]
5. Lincoln - 2012 : BA (5) [WON]
6. Phantom Thread - 2017 : BA (6)
19. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
6 Noms.
1. Big - 1988 : BA (1)
2. Philadelphia - 1993 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Forrest Gump - 1994 : BA (3) [WON]
4. Saving Private Ryan - 1998 : BA (4)
5. Cast Away - 2000 : BA (5)
6. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - 2019 : BSA (1)
20. Bradley Cooper
Actor | A Star Is Born
Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...
5 Noms.
1. Silver Linings Playbook - 2012 : BA (1)
2. American Hustle - 2013 : BSA (1)
3. American Sniper - 2014 : BA (2)
4. A Star Is Born - 2018 : BA (3)
5. Maestro - 2023 : BA (4)
21. Sean Penn
Actor | Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...
5 Noms.
1. Dead Man Walking - 1995 : BA (1)
2. Sweet and Lowdown - 1999 : BA (2)
3. I Am Sam - 2001 : BA (3)
4. Mystic River - 2003 : BA (4) [WON]
5. Milk - 2008 : BA (5) [WON]
22. Gene Hackman
Actor | The French Connection
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...
5 Noms.
1. Bonnie and Clyde - 1967 : BSA (1)
2. I Never Sang for My Father - 1970 : BSA (2)
3. The French Connection - 1971 : BA (1) [WON]
4. Mississippi Burning - 1988 : BA (2)
5. Unforgiven - 1992 : BSA (3) [WON]
23. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
5 Noms.
1. Street Smart - 1987 : BSA (1)
2. Driving Miss Daisy - 1989 : BA (1)
3. The Shawshank Redemption - 1994 : BA (2)
4. Million Dollar Baby - 2004 : BSA (2) [WON]
5. Invictus - 2009 : BA (3)
24. Albert Finney
Actor | Murder on the Orient Express
The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...
5 Noms.
1. Tom Jones - 1963 : BA (1)
2. Murder on the Orient Express - 1974 : BA (2)
3. The Dresser - 1983 : BA (3)
4. Under the Volcano - 1984 : BA (4)
5. Erin Brockovich - 2000 : BSA (1)
25. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
5 Noms.
1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 1939 : BA (1)
2. The Philadelphia Story - 1940 : BA (2) [WON]
3. It's a Wonderful Life - 1946 : BA (3)
4. Harvey - 1950 : BA (4)
5. Anatomy of a Murder - 1959 : BA (5)
26. Gregory Peck
Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child...
5 Noms.
1. The Keys of the Kingdom - 1945 : BA (1)
2. The Yearling - 1946 : BA (2)
3. Gentleman's Agreement - 1947 : BA (3)
4. Twelve O'Clock High - 1949 : BA (4)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962 : BA (5) [WON]
27. Gary Cooper
Actor | High Noon
Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a ...
5 Noms.
1. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - 1936 : BA (1)
2. Sergeant York - 1941 : BA (2) [WON]
3. The Pride of the Yankees - 1942 : BA (3)
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1943 : BA (4)
5. High Noon - 1952 : BA (5) [WON]
28. Fredric March
Actor | Inherit the Wind
Fredric March began a career in banking but in 1920 found himself cast as an extra in films being produced in New York. He starred on the Broadway stage first in 1926 and would return there between screen appearances later on. He won plaudits (and an Academy Award nomination) for his send-up of ...
5 Noms.
1. The Royal Family of Broadway - 1930/31 : BA (1)
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 1931/32 : BA (2) [WON]
3. A Star Is Born - 1937 : BA (3)
4. The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946 : BA (4) [WON]
5. Death of a Salesman - 1951 : BA (5)
29. Arthur Kennedy
Actor | Lawrence of Arabia
Arthur Kennedy, one of the premier character actors in American film from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, achieved fame in the role of Biff in Elia Kazan's historic production of Arthur Miller's Pultizer-Prize winning play "Death of a Salesman." Although he was not selected to recreate the ...
5 Noms.
1. Champion - 1949 : BSA (1)
2. Bright Victory - 1951 : BA (1)
3. Trial - 1955 : BSA (2)
4. Peyton Place - 1957 : BSA (3)
5. Some Came Running - 1958 : BSA (4)
30. Paul Muni
Actor | Scarface
Paul Muni was born Sept. 22, 1895, in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Salli and Phillip Weisenfreund, who were both professionals. His family was Jewish, and spoke Yiddish. Paul was educated in New York and Cleveland public schools. He was described as 5 feet 10 inches, with black hair and ...
5 Noms.
1. The Valiant - 1928/29 : BA (1)
2. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - 1932/33 : BA (2)
3. The Story of Louis Pasteur - 1936 : BA (3) [WON]
4. The Life of Emile Zola - 1937 : BA (4)
5. The Last Angry Man - 1959 : BA (5)
31. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
4 Noms.
1. The Kids Are All Right - 2010 : BSA (1)
2. Foxcatcher - 2014 : BSA (2)
3. Spotlight - 2015 : BSA (3)
4. Poor Things - 2023 : BSA (4)
32. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
4 Noms.
1. Gladiator - 2000 : BSA (1)
2. Walk the Line - 2005 : BA (1)
3. The Master - 2012 : BA (2)
4. Joker - 2019 : BA (3) [WON]
33. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
4 Noms.
1. 12 Monkeys - 1995 : BSA (1)
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 2008 : BA (1)
3. Moneyball - 2011 : BA (2)
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 2019 : BSA (2) [WON]
34. Christian Bale
Actor | The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...
4 Noms.
1. The Fighter - 2010 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. American Hustle - 2013 : BA (1)
3. The Big Short - 2015 : BSA (2)
4. Vice - 2018 : BA (2)
35. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
4 Noms.
1. Platoon - 1986 : BSA (1)
2. Shadow of the Vampire - 2000 : BSA (2)
3. The Florida Project - 2017 : BSA (3)
4. At Eternity's Gate - 2018 : BA (1)
36. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
4 Noms.
1. Before Night Falls - 2000 : BA (1)
2. No Country for Old Men - 2007 : BSA (1) [WON]
3. Biutiful - 2010 : BA (2)
4. Being the Ricardos - 2021 : BA (3)
37. George Clooney
Actor | The Ides of March
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...
4 Noms.
1. Syriana - 2005 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Michael Clayton - 2007 : BA (1)
3. Up in the Air - 2009 : BA (2)
4. The Descendants - 2011 : BA (3)
38. Tommy Lee Jones
Actor | The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...
4 Noms.
1. JFK - 1991 : BSA (1)
2. The Fugitive - 1993 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. In the Valley of Elah - 2007 : BA (1)
4. Lincoln - 2012 : BSA (3)
39. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor | The Master
Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...
4 Noms.
1. Capote - 2005 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Charlie Wilson's War - 2007 : BSA (1)
3. Doubt - 2008 : BSA (2)
4. The Master - 2012 : BSA (3)
40. Alan Arkin
Actor | Argo
Alan Arkin was an Academy Award-winning American actor who was also an acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer.
He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. In 1946, the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to...
4 Noms.
1. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - 1966 : BA (1)
2. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - 1968 : BA (2)
3. Little Miss Sunshine - 2006 : BSA (1) [WON]
4. Argo - 2012 : BSA (2)
41. Ben Kingsley
Actor | Sexy Beast
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...
4 Noms.
1. Gandhi - 1982 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Bugsy - 1991 : BSA (1)
3. Sexy Beast - 2001 : BSA (2)
4. House of Sand and Fog - 2003 : BA (2)
42. Jon Voight
Actor | Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight is an American actor of German and Slovak descent. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978). He has also been nominated for the same award other two times. He was first ...
4 Noms.
1. Midnight Cowboy - 1969 : BA (1)
2. Coming Home - 1978 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Runaway Train - 1985 : BA (3)
4. Ali - 2001 : BSA (1)
43. Ed Harris
Actor | Appaloosa
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...
4 Noms.
1. Apollo 13 - 1995 : BSA (1)
2. The Truman Show - 1998 : BSA (2)
3. Pollock - 2000 : BA (1)
4. The Hours - 2002 : BSA (3)
44. Alec Guinness
Actor | Star Wars
Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...
4 Noms.
1. The Lavender Hill Mob - 1952 : BA (1)
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai - 1957 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Star Wars - 1977 : BSA (1)
4. Little Dorrit - 1988 : BSA (2)
45. Warren Beatty
Actor | Reds
Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...
4 Noms.
1. Bonnie and Clyde - 1967 : BA (1)
2. Heaven Can Wait - 1978 : BA (2)
3. Reds - 1981 : BA (3)
4. Bugsy - 1991 : BA (4)
46. Robin Williams
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...
4 Noms.
1. Good Morning, Vietnam - 1987 : BA (1)
2. Dead Poets Society - 1989 : BA (2)
3. The Fisher King - 1991 : BA (3)
4. Good Will Hunting - 1997 : BSA (1) [WON]
47. Geoffrey Rush
Actor | The King's Speech
Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. ...
4 Noms.
1. Shine - 1996 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Shakespeare in Love - 1998 : BSA (1)
3. Quills - 2000 : BA (2)
4. The King's Speech - 2010 : BSA (2)
48. William Hurt
Actor | A History of Violence
William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...
4 Noms.
1. Kiss of the Spider Woman - 1985 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Children of a Lesser God - 1986 : BA (2)
3. Broadcast News - 1987 : BA (3)
4. A History of Violence - 2005 : BSA (1)
49. Mickey Rooney
Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. He first took the stage as a toddler in his parents vaudeville act at 17 months old. He made his first film appearance in 1926. The following year, he played the lead character in the first Mickey McGuire short film. ...
4 Noms.
1. Babes in Arms - 1939 : BA (1)
2. The Human Comedy - 1943 : BA (2)
3. The Bold and the Brave - 1956 : BSA (1)
4. The Black Stallion - 1979 : BSA (2)
50. Burt Lancaster
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and ...
4 Noms.
1. From Here to Eternity - 1953 : BA (1)
2. Elmer Gantry - 1960 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Birdman of Alcatraz - 1962 : BA (3)
4. Atlantic City - 1981 : BA (4)
51. George C. Scott
Actor | Patton
George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...
4 Noms.
1. Anatomy of a Murder - 1959 : BSA (1)
2. The Hustler - 1961 : BSA (2)
3. Patton - 1970 : BA (1) [WON]
4. The Hospital - 1971 : BA (2)
52. Montgomery Clift
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Edward Montgomery Clift (nicknamed 'Monty' his entire life) was born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, just after his twin sister Roberta (1920-2014) and eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. He was the son of Ethel "Sunny" Anderson (Fogg; 1888-1988) and William Brooks Clift (1886-...
4 Noms.
1. The Search - 1948 : BA (1)
2. A Place in the Sun - 1951 : BA (2)
3. From Here to Eternity - 1953 : BA (3)
4. Judgment at Nuremberg - 1961 : BSA (1)
53. Claude Rains
Actor | Casablanca
William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth...
4 Noms.
1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 1939 : BA (1)
2. Casablanca - 1943 : BA (2)
3. Mr. Skeffington - 1944 : BA (3)
4. Notorious - 1946 : BA (4)
54. Anthony Quinn
Actor | Alexis Zorbas
Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...
4 Noms.
1. Viva Zapata! - 1952 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Lust for Life - 1956 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. None but the Lonely Heart - 1957 : BA (1)
4. Zorba the Greek - 1964 : BA (2)
55. Walter Brennan
Actor | The Westerner
In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and ...
4 Noms.
1. Come and Get It - 1936 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Kentucky - 1938 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. The Westerner - 1940 : BSA (3) [WON]
4. Sergeant York - 1941 : BSA (4)
56. Charles Boyer
Actor | Gaslight
Charles Boyer studied philosophy before he went to the theater where he gave his debut in 1920. Although he had at first no intentions to pursue a career at the movies (his first movie was Man of the Sea (1920) by Marcel L'Herbier) he used his chance in Hollywood after several filming stations all ...
4 Noms.
1. Conquest - 1937 : BA (1)
2. Algiers - 1938 : BA (2)
3. Gaslight - 1944 : BA (3)
4. Fanny - 1961 : BA (4)
57. Walter Huston
Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer and his vocation for the stage. In 1909 he dedicated himself to the theatre, and made his debut on Broadway in 1924. In 1929 he journeyed to Hollywood, where his talent and ability made him one of the most respected actors in ...
4 Noms.
1. Dodsworth - 1936 : BA (1)
2. The Devil and Daniel Webster - 1941 : BA (2)
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy - 1942 : BSA (1)
4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948 : BSA (2) [WON]
58. Ryan Gosling
Actor | Blue Valentine
Born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...
3 Noms.
1. Half Nelson - 2006 : BA (1)
2. La La Land - 2016 : BA (2)
3. Barbie - 2023 : BSA (1)
59. Robert Downey Jr.
Actor | Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.
Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...
3 Noms.
1. Chaplin - 1992 : BA (1)
2. Tropic Thunder - 2008 : BSA (1)
3. Oppenheimer - 2023 : BSA (2) [WON]
60. Will Smith
Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
3 Noms.
1. Ali - 2001 : BA (1)
2. The Pursuit of Happyness - 2006 : BA (2)
3. King Richard - 2021 : BA (3) [WON]
61. Gary Oldman
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
3 Noms.
1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - 2011 : BA (1)
2. Darkest Hour - 2017 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Mank - 2020 : BA (3)
62. Joe Pesci
Actor | Goodfellas
Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....
3 Noms.
1. Raging Bull - 1980 : BSA (1)
2. Goodfellas - 1990 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. The Irishman - 2019 : BSA (3)
63. Christopher Plummer
Actor | Beginners
Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...
3 Noms.
1. The Last Station - 2009 : BSA (1)
2. Beginners - 2011 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. All the Money in the World - 2017 : BSA (3)
64. Woody Harrelson
Actor | True Detective
Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson. He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, where his mother was from. After receiving degrees in theater arts and English from Hanover College, he...
3 Noms.
1. The People vs. Larry Flynt - 1996 : BA (1)
2. The Messenger - 2009 : BSA (1)
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 2017 : BSA (2)
65. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
3 Noms.
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - 2003 : BA (1)
2. Finding Neverland - 2004 : BA (2)
3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007 : BA (3)
66. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
3 Noms.
1. Good Will Hunting - 1997 : BA (1)
2. Invictus - 2009 : BSA (1)
3. The Martian - 2015 : BA (2)
67. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
3 Noms.
1. Born on the Fourth of July - 1989 : BA (1)
2. Jerry Maguire - 1996 : BA (2)
3. Magnolia - 1999 : BSA (1)
68. William Holden
Actor | Stalag 17
Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". For almost four decades, the handsome, affable 'Golden Holden' was among Hollywood's most durable and engaging stars. He was born William Franklin Beedle Jr., one of three sons to a high school English teacher, Mary ...
3 Noms.
1. Sunset Boulevard - 1950 : BA (1)
2. Stalag 17 - 1953 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Network - 1976 : BA (3)
69. Viggo Mortensen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...
3 Noms.
1. Eastern Promises - 2007 : BA (1)
2. Captain Fantastic - 2016 : BA (2)
3. Green Book - 2018 : BA (3)
70. Nick Nolte
Actor | Warrior
Nick Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska and began his career on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse and in regional theatre productions. His breakthrough role was in the TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), playing the role of "Tom/Tommy Jordache". Nick Nolte said that when he played a young man in ...
3 Noms.
1. The Prince of Tides - 1991 : BA (1)
2. Affliction - 1998 : BA (2)
3. Warrior - 2011 : BSA (1)
71. Clark Gable
Actor | It Happened One Night
William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle ...
3 Noms.
1. It Happened One Night - 1934 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Mutiny on the Bounty - 1935 : BA (2)
3. Gone with the Wind - 1939 : BA (3)
72. Kirk Douglas
Actor | The Final Countdown
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
3 Noms.
1. Champion - 1949 : BA (1)
2. The Bad and the Beautiful - 1952 : BA (2)
3. Lust for Life - 1956 : BA (3)
73. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
3 Noms.
1. Primal Fear - 1996 : BSA (1)
2. American History X - 1998 : BA (1)
3. Birdman - 2014 : BSA (2)
74. Jack Palance
Actor | City Slickers
Jack Palance quite often exemplified evil incarnate on film, portraying some of the most intensely feral villains witnessed in 1950s westerns and melodrama. Enhanced by his tall, powerful build, icy voice, and piercing eyes, he earned two "Best Supporting Actor" nominations early in his career. It ...
3 Noms.
1. Sudden Fear - 1952 : BSA (1)
2. Shane - 1953 : BSA (2)
3. City Slickers - 1991 : BSA (3) [WON]
75. Charles Laughton
Actor | Witness for the Prosecution
Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. He was educated at Stonyhurst (a highly esteemed Jesuit college in England) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (received gold medal). ...
3 Noms.
1. The Private Life of Henry VIII - 1932/33 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Mutiny on the Bounty - 1935 : BA (2)
3. Witness for the Prosecution - 1957 : BA (3)
76. Martin Landau
Actor | Ed Wood
Oscar-winning character actor Martin Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for ...
3 Noms.
1. Tucker: The Man and His Dream - 1988 : BSA (1)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors - 1989 : BSA (2)
3. Ed Wood - 1994 : BSA (3) [WON]
77. Russell Crowe
Actor | Les Misérables
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...
3 Noms.
1. The Insider - 1999 : BA (1)
2. Gladiator - 2000 : BA (2) [WON]
3. A Beautiful Mind - 2001 : BA (3)
78. Bing Crosby
Actor | White Christmas
Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby, Jr. in Tacoma, Washington, the fourth of seven children of Catherine (Harrigan) and Harry Lincoln Crosby, a brewery bookkeeper. He was of English and Irish descent. Crosby studied law at Gonzaga University in Spokane but was more interested in playing the ...
3 Noms.
1. Going My Way - 1944 : BA (1) [WON]
2. The Bells of St. Mary's - 1945 : BA (2)
3. The Country Girl - 1954 : BA (3)
79. Humphrey Bogart
Actor | Casablanca
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...
3 Noms.
1. Casablanca - 1943 : BA (1)
2. The African Queen - 1951 : BA (2) [WON]
3. The Caine Mutiny - 1954 : BA (3)
80. James Cagney
Actor | Angels with Dirty Faces
One of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn (Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur ...
3 Noms.
1. Angels with Dirty Faces - 1938 : BA (1)
2. Yankee Doodle Dandy - 1942 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Love Me or Leave Me - 1955 : BA (3)
81. Walter Matthau
Actor | The Odd Couple
Walter Matthau was best known for starring in many films which included Charade (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Dennis the Menace (1993). He often worked with Jack Lemmon and the two were Hollywood's craziest stars.
He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York...
3 Noms.
1. The Fortune Cookie - 1966 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Kotch - 1971 : BA (1)
3. The Sunshine Boys - 1975 : BA (2)
82. Jason Robards
Actor | All the President's Men
Powerful and highly respected American actor Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hope Maxine (Glanville) and stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Robards was raised mostly in Los Angeles. A star athlete at ...
3 Noms.
1. All the President's Men - 1976 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Julia - 1977 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. Melvin and Howard - 1980 : BSA (3)
83. Peter Ustinov
Actor | Spartacus
Peter Ustinov was a two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.
He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinow on April 16, 1921 in Swiss Cottage, ...
3 Noms.
1. Quo Vadis - 1951 : BSA (1)
2. Spartacus - 1960 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. Topkapi - 1964 : BSA (3) [WON]
84. Gig Young
Actor | They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Gig Young was born Byron Barr to parents John and Emma Barr in Minnesota, and raised in Washington, DC, where he developed a passion for theatre while appearing in high school plays. After gaining some amateur experience, he applied for and received a scholarship to the acclaimed Southern ...
3 Noms.
1. Come Fill the Cup - 1951 : BSA (1)
2. Teacher's Pet - 1958 : BSA (2)
3. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - 1969 : BSA (3) [WON]
85. Charles Coburn
Actor | The More the Merrier
A cigar-smoking, monocled, swag-bellied character actor known for his Old South manners and charm. In 1918 he and his first wife formed the Coburn Players and appeared on Broadway in many plays. With her death in 1937, he accepted a Hollywood contract and began making films at the age of sixty.
3 Noms.
1. The Devil and Miss Jones - 1941 : BSA (1)
2. The More the Merrier - 1943 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. The Green Years - 1946 : BSA (3)
86. Charles Bickford
Actor | A Star Is Born
American character actor of gruff voice and appearance who was a fixture in Hollywood pictures from the earliest days of the talkies. The fifth of seven children, he was born in the first minute of 1891. He was a boisterous child, and at nine was tried and acquitted for attempted murder in the ...
3 Noms.
1. The Song of Bernadette - 1943 : BSA (1)
2. The Farmer's Daughter - 1947 : BSA (2)
3. Johnny Belinda - 1948 : BSA (3)
87. Ronald Colman
Actor | A Double Life
British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he discovered amateur theatre. He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's ...
3 Noms.
1. Bulldog Drummond / Condemned - 1929/30 : BA (1)
2. Random Harvest - 1942 : BA (2)
3. A Double Life - 1947 : BA (3)
88. Marcello Mastroianni
Actor | La dolce vita
Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian ...
3 Noms.
1. Divorce Italian Style - 1962 : BA (1)
2. A Special Day - 1977 : BA (2)
3. Dark Eyes - 1987 : BA (3)
89. Clifton Webb
Actor | Laura
Already trained in dance and theater, he quit school at age 13 to study music and painting. By 19 he was a professional ballroom dancer in New York, and by his mid-twenties he was performing in musicals, dramas on Broadway and in London, and in silent movies. His first real success in film came in ...
3 Noms.
1. Laura - 1944 : BSA (1)
2. The Razor's Edge - 1946 : BSA (2)
3. Sitting Pretty - 1948 : BA (1)
90. William Powell
Actor | The Thin Man
William Powell was on the New York stage by 1912, but it would be ten years before his film career would begin. In 1924 he went to Paramount Pictures, where he was employed for the next seven years. During that time, he played in a number of interesting films, but stardom was elusive. He did ...
3 Noms.
1. The Thin Man - 1934 : BA (1)
2. My Man Godfrey - 1936 : BA (2)
3. Life with Father - 1947 : BA (3)
91. James Mason
Actor | Lolita
James Mason was born in Huddersfield and had a film career spanning over 50 years during which he appeared in over 100 films in England and America but never won an Oscar. Whatever role he played, from the wounded Belfast gunman in Odd Man Out to Rommel in The Desert Fox, his creamy velvet voice ...
3 Noms.
1. A Star Is Born - 1954 : BA (1)
2. Georgy Girl - 1966 : BSA (1)
3. The Verdict - 1982 : BSA (2)
92. Rod Steiger
Actor | In the Heat of the Night
Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. He was of German and Austrian ancestry. After his parents' divorce, Steiger was raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of Westside High school at...
3 Noms.
1. On the Waterfront - 1954 : BSA (1)
2. The Pawnbroker - 1965 : BA (1)
3. In the Heat of the Night - 1967 : BA (2) [WON]
93. Melvyn Douglas
Actor | Being There
Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of America's finest actors, and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.
Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard...
3 Noms.
1. Hud - 1963 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. I Never Sang for My Father - 1970 : BA (1)
3. Being There - 1979 : BSA (2) [WON]
94. José Ferrer
Actor | The Caine Mutiny
José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, and also the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
In 1912, Ferrer was...
3 Noms.
1. Joan of Arc - 1948 : BSA (1)
2. Cyrano de Bergerac - 1950 : BA (1) [WON]
3. Moulin Rouge - 1952 : BA (2)
95. Maximilian Schell
Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg
Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award. Like Jannings, Schell won the Oscar, but unlike him, he was a dedicated anti-Nazi. Indeed, with the exception of Maurice Chevalier and ...
3 Noms.
1. Judgment at Nuremberg - 1961 : BA (1) [WON]
2. The Man in the Glass Booth - 1975 : BA (2)
3. Julia - 1977 : BSA (1)
96. Daniel Kaluuya
Actor | Get Out
Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor and writer. He is best known for Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018) and for portraying Fred Hampton in Judas & The Black Messiah (2021).
He had a supporting role in Sicario (2015).
He also starred in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits".
For his work in...
2 Noms.
1. Get Out - 2017 : BA
2. Judas and the Black Messiah - 2020 : BSA [WON]
97. Mahershala Ali
Actor | Leave the World Behind
Mahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.
He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...
2 Noms.
1. Moonlight - 2016 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Green Book - 2018 : BSA (2) [WON]
98. Adam Driver
Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Adam Douglas Driver was born in San Diego, California. His mother, Nancy (Needham) Wright, is a paralegal from Mishawaka, Indiana, and his father, Joe Douglas Driver, who has deep roots in the American South, is from Little Rock, Arkansas. His stepfather is a Baptist minister. His ancestry includes...
2 Noms.
1. BlacKkKlansman - 2018 : BSA (1)
2. Marriage Story - 2019 : BA (1)
99. Richard Jenkins
Actor | The Shape of Water
Richard Jenkins was born on May 4, 1947 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Shape of Water (2017), The Visitor (2007) and Step Brothers (2008). He has been married to Sharon R. Friedrick since August 23, 1969. They have two children.
2 Noms.
1. The Visitor - 2008 : BA (1)
2. The Shape of Water - 2017 : BSA (1)
100. Andrew Garfield
Actor | Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
2 Noms.
1. Hacksaw Ridge - 2016 : BA (1)
2. Tick, Tick...Boom! - 2021 : BA (2)
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