who was the first person to win an oscar for best actor?
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1st Academy Awards Unlike later ceremonies, an actor or director could be awarded for multiple works within a year. Emil Jannings, for example, was given the Best Actor award for his work in both The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. Moreover, Charlie Chaplin and Warner Brothers each received an Honorary Award.
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- Timothy Hutton made history in 1981 when he won a best supporting actor Oscar for his work in Ordinary People at just 20 years old, making him the youngest male actor to take home the prize. He also might just hold the record (along with Richard Dreyfuss) for the coldest Oscar, because his shiny gold statue is in his fridge. He once said that his sister thought that [it] would be kind of funny to put the Oscar in the refrigerator [so] when people would go grab a beer or something [they'd see it]...
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Brad Pitt didn't think he'd ever win an Oscar Photo credit: WENN.com. Brad Pitt is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but he never thought he would take home an Academy Award. The actor won his first Oscar as a producer for Best Picture 12 Years a Slave during this year's award show. I don't know where I'm going to put it, Pitt told E! News. I never thought I'd take one home, so I haven't thought that far in advance.. Pitt and fiancee Fiancée Angelina jolie'aren t without their, awards. though
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- Katharine Hepburn had the most Oscar wins for a performer, with four. Daniel Day-Lewis is the only person to have three Best Actor Oscars. Tatum O'Neal is the youngest person to ever win an Oscar at 10 years, 148 days old.
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Kevin OâConnell Wins First Oscar for âHacksaw Ridgeâ After 21 Nominations The 21st time was the charm for legendary sound mixer Kevin O’Connell at the Oscars. He won his first Academy Award — after 20 previous losses — for his work on Mel Gibson’s WWII drama “Hacksaw Ridge.”. The win was a modest upset, as many pundits had pegged musical “La La Land” to waltz off with the prize.
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Oscar Fun Facts. Marlon Brando [wiki], who won in 1972 for his role in The Godfather, also refused his Oscar based on the poor depiction of Native Americans by Hollywood. The first man to refuse the Oscar, however, was not an actor. In 1935, a writer named Dudley Nichols [wiki] refused it (for The Informer) because at the time, Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios.
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Oscars: Every single best actor winner Charles Laughton (1934) – British actor Charles Laughton won the best actor Oscar for the title role The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), beating out Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square (1933) and Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932).
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20 Oscar âFirstsâ And Other Trivia You May Be Surprised To Learn Godfather, Part II, was the first sequel to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 47th Academy Awards in 1975 (for pictures made in 1974). Horses everywhere breathed a sigh of relief. Sidney Poitier was the first African-American actor to win Best Actor in a Leading Role for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field at the 36th Academy Awards.
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Robert De Niro Biography The most celebrated American film actor of his era, Robert De Niro won an Oscar as best supporting actor for The Godfather, Part II in 1974.
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Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar. On this day in 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather.
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Oscars Flashback '94: Spielberg Wins His First VIDEO: E.T. Gets the ET Treatment. Spielberg not only won his first Oscar in 1994 for the Holocaust-based Schindler's List but won his first two Oscars that night, adding Best Picture to his Best Director Award.
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James Cagney In 1938, he received his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, for Angels with Dirty Faces, for his subtle portrayal of the tough guy/man-child Rocky Sullivan. In 1942, Cagney won the Oscar for his energetic portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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First Academy Awards Ceremony (1929) Janet Gaynor, first actress to win the Oscar. The first ever Academy Awards ceremony was held in March 1929, in a simple yet dignified manner as opposed to the present day razzle, dazzle, glitz, glamour and, more often than not, a controversial spectacle.
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Oscars: Every single best actor winner Sidney Poitier (1964) – Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win the best actor Oscar -- for his work in Lilies of the Field.. Poitier had been nominated once before for The Defiant Ones.. Interestingly, Poitier was the only one of the four acting category winners present at the 1964 ceremony.
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Oldest and youngest Oscar nominees in years past Jackie Cooper. Wallis isn’t the only 9-year-old to have been nominated for an Oscar. In 1931, then-9-year-old Jackie Cooper received a Best Actor nomination for playing the precocious title character in Skippy, a film about a wealthy doctor’s son who teams up with a kid from the proverbial opposite side of the tracks.
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First Academy Awards Ceremony (1929) On May 16, 1929, the first Academy Awards ceremony was held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The presenter of the ceremony that historic night was Douglas Fairbanks and the host no other than Mayer.
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Humphrey Bogart In 1949, Walter and John Huston became the first father and son pair to win Oscars. Walter Huston won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Treasure of the Si…erra Madre (1948).
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Tom Hanks Joins Back-to-Back Oscar Elite Rex Weiner. The first time Hollywood gave its highest accolade to an actor two years in a row, Franklin Roosevelt was president, the Depression hung over the land and Luise Rainer was Oscar’s two-time winner for “The Great Ziegfeld” and “The Good Earth.”.
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Who was the first African American woman to win an Oscar? Sidney Poitier was the first African American man to win an Academy Award. He won the Best Actor award for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field (1963). James Baskett was the first African American man to receive an Academy Award.
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The Complex History of African Americans and the Academy Awards Poitier was also nominated in 1963 and became the first black man to win best actor as well as first black person to win an Oscar for best actor for his lead role as a carpenter assisting a group of Arizona nuns in Lillies of the Field.
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Oscars best actor shortlist does not include a previous winner for first time in nine years The shortlist of Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bradley Cooper, Steve Carell and Michael Keaton is the first in nine years not to include a former Academy Award winner. At every previous ceremony since 2007, at least one owner of a coveted golden statuette has been in the running to take home the award.
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Which actors have refused an Academy Award? George C. Scott. In 1971, George C. Scott made international headlines by refusing to accept his Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the title role of Patton, deriding the awards ceremony as a meat parade..
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12 Members of the EGOT Winnerâs Circle Unlike his three predecessors, the Oscar wasn’t the first award John Gielgud won on his road to EGOT. Instead it was the Tony, which he first won in 1948 for The Importance of Being Earnest. He won a second Tony in 1961, as the director of Big Fish, Little Fish. Next came the Grammy, in 1979, for his dramatic recording of Ages of Man.
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Oscars fast facts Gone with the Wind, at 3 hours and 56 minutes, was the longest film to have won a Best Picture Oscar; it was also the first film in color to win Best Picture.The 1968 movie, War and Peace, was the longest film (431 minutes) to an Academy Award – for best Foreign picture.enry Fonda was first nominated for a Best Actor Oscar in 1941 for his role in The Grapes of Wrath but had to wait 41 years before he finally achieved a win in 1982 for his role in On Golden Pond. At 76, he is the oldest actor yet to have received the Best Actor award.
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Christopher Plummer Wins Best Supporting Actor At The Oscars The octogenarian snags an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Hal Fields in ‘Beginners.’. Christopher Plummer, 82, is the oldest actor to win an Oscar.
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Denzel Washington Wins Best Actor: 2002 Oscars Denzel Washington wins the Oscar for Best Actor for Training Day at the 74th Annual Academy Awards. Julia Roberts presents the award. See more 2002 Oscar highlights: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Become an Oscar Insider: http://www.oscars.org/insider/.