Born in Britain or Ireland 2
by valis1984 | created - 20 Oct 2017 | updated - 30 Mar 2022 | PublicActors born in Britain or Ireland who have received honorary Academy Awards or won Oscars for categories other than acting.
England 18
Scotland 4
Ireland 2
1. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
Special Award 1927/28: To Charles Chaplin, for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus (1928). Honorary Award 1971: To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. Original Dramatic Score Limelight (1952)
2. Bob Hope
Actor | The Ghost Breakers
Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons of Avis (Townes), light opera singer, and William Henry Hope, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His maternal grandmother was Welsh. Hope moved to Bristol before emigrating with his parents...
Special Award (Silver Plaque) 1940:To Bob Hope, in recognition of his unselfish services to the Motion Picture Industry. Special Award (Life Membership) 1944: To Bob Hope for his many services to the Academy. Honorary Award 1952: To Bob Hope for his contribution to the laughter of the world, his service to the motion picture industry, and his devotion to the American premise. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1959 Honorary Award (Gold Medal) 1965: To Bob Hope for unique and distinguished service to our industry and the Academy.
3. Noël Coward
Writer | In Which We Serve
Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century. An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was indeed the first Brit pop star, the first ambassador of "cool...
Special Award 1942: To Noel Coward for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve (1942).
4. 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 ...
Special Award 1946: To Laurence Olivier for his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944) to the screen.
5. Jon Whiteley
Actor | The Kidnappers
Amazingly talented child star Jon Whiteley was born Jon James Lamont Whiteley on February 19, 1945 in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and put together an enviable, albeit brief, career in 1950s film drama. This precocious talent started things off winningly at age six by earning first prize for ...
Honorary Award 1954: To Jon Whiteley for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Kidnappers (1953)
6. Vincent Winter
Assistant_director | Superman
Vincent Winter was born on December 29, 1947 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Superman (1978), The Little Kidnappers (1953) and Superman II (1980). He died on November 2, 1998 in Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK.
Honorary Award 1954: To Vincent Winter for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Kidnappers (1953)
7. Stan Laurel
Actor | Saps at Sea
Stan Laurel came from a theatrical family, his father was an actor and theatre manager, and he made his stage debut at the age of 16 at Pickard's Museum, Glasgow. He traveled with Fred Karno's vaudeville company to the United States in 1910 and again in 1913. While with that company he was Charles ...
Honorary Award 1960: To Stan Laurel for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy.
8. Hayley Mills
Actress | Pollyanna
Born Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills in London in 1946, she is the daughter of the great actor Sir John Mills and the well-known novelist-playwright Mary Hayley Bell. Her sister is the actress Juliet Mills. She grew up in her parents' home, an outgoing, funny child, and, because she spent so ...
Honorary Award 1960: To Hayley Mills for Pollyanna (1960), the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960.
9. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
Honorary Award 1969: To Cary Grant for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues.
10. 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...
Honorary Award 1979: To Alec Guinness for advancing the art of screen acting through a host of memorable and distinguished performances.
11. Colin Welland
Actor | Straw Dogs
In a career of over 30 years this Lancashire-born former art teacher has achieved great success in acting, both in television and film and writing, for television, film and stage.
His first film appearance is perhaps still his best-loved, the sympathetic Mr Farthing in Kes (1969), for which he won a...
Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Chariots of Fire (1981)
12. Richard Attenborough
Actor | Jurassic Park
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...
Director, Best Picture Gandhi (1982)
13. Elizabeth Taylor
Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1992
14. Deborah Kerr
Actress | The King and I
Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...
Honorary Award 1993: To Deborah Kerr, in appreciation for a full career's worth of elegant and beautifully crafted performances.
15. Peter Capaldi
Actor | Doctor Who
Peter Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy (Soutar) and Gerald John Capaldi. His parents owned an ice cream business. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), Scottish, and Irish descent. Capaldi attended drama classes and was accepted into the Glasgow School of Art. After ...
Short Film (Live Action) Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993)
16. Emma Thompson
Actress | Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...
Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Sense and Sensibility (1995)
17. 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...
Honorary Award 2002: To Peter O'Toole, whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history with some of its most memorable characters.
18. Angela Lansbury
Actress | The Manchurian Candidate
Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...
Honorary Award 2013: To Angela Lansbury, an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors.
19. Maureen O'Hara
Actress | The Quiet Man
In America, the early performing arts accomplishments of young Maureen FitzSimons (who we know as Maureen O'Hara) would definitely have put her in the child prodigy category. However, for a child of Irish heritage surrounded by gifted parents and family, these were very natural traits. Maureen made...
Honorary Award 2014: To Maureen O'Hara, one of Hollywood's brightest stars, whose inspiring performances glowed with passion, warmth and strength.
20. Chris Overton
Producer | The Silent Child
Chris Overton is an Academy Award® winning director, producer and a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was born and raised in Cannock, Staffordshire in the West Midlands. Chris has been working professionally in the industry for over 20 years.
Chris is the CEO of Slick ...
Short Film (Live Action) The Silent Child (2017)
21. Rachel Shenton
Actress | All Creatures Great & Small
Rachel Joy Shenton is a British actress and writer born in the Midlands. Shenton started her career at Edinburgh fringe festival, where her play received critical acclaim. In 2018 Shenton won the Academy Award® for Best Live Action short film, for The Silent Child that she both wrote, produced and ...
Short Film (Live Action) The Silent Child (2017)
22. Emerald Fennell
Writer | Saltburn
Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first ...
Original Screenplay Promising Young Woman (2020)
23. Riz Ahmed
Actor | Sound of Metal
Riz Ahmed (born 1 December 1982), also known by his stage name Riz MC and birth name Rizwan Ahmed, is a British Pakistani actor, rapper, and activist. As an actor, he has won one Emmy Award, out of two Emmy nominations, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and three...
Short Film (Live Action) The Long Goodbye (2020)
24. Kenneth Branagh
Actor | Henry V
Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family ...
Original Screenplay Belfast (2021)
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