Academy Awards for Actors, Directors and Other People

1. Gary Oldman

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), ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Sid & Nancy Dracula Immortal Beloved Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Darkest Hour Mank

Best Supporting Actor:

JFK Léon: The Professional The Contender

Won for:

Sid & Nancy (Tie with Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa) JFK (Tie with John Goodman for Barton Fink) Immortal Beloved (Tie with Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption) The Contender (Tie with Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Darkest Hour Mank (Tie with Anthony Hopkins in The Father)

2. Ewan McGregor

Actor | Moulin Rouge!

Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Trainspotting Moulin Rouge! Beginners The Impossible American Pastoral

Best Supporting Actor:

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Black Hawk Down Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Miles Ahead?

Won for:

Trainspotting Black Hawk Down Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

3. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

American Psycho The Machinist Batman Begins Rescue Dawn The Dark Knight The Fighter The Dark Knight Rises American Hustle Hostiles Vice Ford V Ferrari

Best Supporting Actor:

The Big Short

Won for:

The Dark Knight (Tie with Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler) The Fighter (Tie with Colin Firth for The King’s Speech) The Dark Knight Rises (Tie with Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables) American Hustle (Tie with Hugh Jackman in Prisoners) Vice

4. 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...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Lawrence of Arabia Becket The Lion in Winter Goodbye, Mr. Chips The Ruling Class The Stunt Man My Favorite Year Venus

Best Supporting Actor:

The Last Emperor

Won for:

Lawrence of Arabia The Lion in Winter My Favorite Year (Tie with Ben Kingsley in Gandhi and Paul Newman in The Verdict) The Last Emperor (Tie with Morgan Freeman in Street Smart and Vincent Price for The Whales of August)

5. Peter Sellers

Actor | Being There

Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. His parents worked in an acting company run by his ...

Nominated and

Won for:

Best Actor:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Being There

Best Short Film- Live Action:

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

Won for:

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

6. Roy Scheider

Actor | Jaws

Lean, angular-faced and authoritatively spoken lead / supporting actor Roy Scheider obviously never heard the old actor's axiom about "never appearing with kids or animals" lest they overshadow your performance. Breaking that rule did him no harm, though, as he achieved pop cult status by finding, ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

Jaws (Tie with Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) All That Jazz

Best Supporting Actor:

The French Connection

7. Tim Roth

Actor | Rob Roy

Often mistaken for an American because of his skill at imitating accents, actor Tim Roth was born Timothy Simon Roth on May 14, 1961 in Lambeth, London, England. His mother, Ann, was a teacher and landscape painter. His father, Ernie, was a journalist who had changed the family name from "Smith" to ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Legend of 1900

Best Supporting Actor:

Reservoir Dogs Rob Roy

Won for:

Reservoir Dogs and Rob Roy

8. 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, ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Silence of the Lambs The Remains of the Day Nixon The Father

Best Supporting Actor:

The Lion in Winter Amistad

Won for:

The Lion in Winter, The Silence of the Lambs and The Father (Tie with Gary Oldman in Mank)

9. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington The Philadelphia Story It's a Wonderful Life Harvey Rear Window Vertigo Anatomy of a Murder

Won for:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Rear Window (Tie with Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront), Vertigo (Tie with Paul Newman for Cat on Hot Tin Roof) and Anatomy of a Murder (Tie with Charlton Heston for Ben-Hur and Jack Lemon for Some Like it Hot)

10. Henry Fonda

Actor | 12 Angry Men

This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Grapes of Wrath 12 Angry Men On Golden Pond

Best Supporting Actor:

Once Upon a Time in the West

Best Picture:

12 Angry Men

Wins for:

Grapes of Wrath (Tie with Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator and Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois) Once Upon a Time in the West

11. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

It Happened One Night Mutiny on the Bounty Gone With the Wind

Won for:

It Happened One Night and Mutiny on the Bounty

12. Mark Hamill

Actor | Star Wars

Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - a role he reprised in Star Wars: Episode VII - ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor: Star Wars (Tied with Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl)

13. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actor: Pulp Fiction

14. Spencer Tracy

Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg

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...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

San Francisco Captains Courageous Boys Town Father of the Bride Bad Day at Black Rock The Old Man and the Sea Inherit the Wind Judgment at Nuremberg It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Won for:

Captains Courageous, Boys Town (Tie with Robert Donate for the Citadel) and Judgment at Nuremberg (Tie with Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo and Paul Newman in The Hustler)

15. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Hustler Hud Cool Hand Luke Absence of Malice The Verdict The Color of Money

Best Supporting Actor:

Road to Perdition

Won for:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tie with James Stewart for Vertigo), The Hustler (Tie with Toshiro Minfune in Yojimbo and Spencer Tracy in Judgement at Nuremberg) Cool Hand Luke and The Verdict (Tie with Ben Kingsley in Gahndi and Peter O’Toole in My Favorite Year)

16. Steve McQueen

Actor | The Great Escape

He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ...

Nominated for Best Actor for:

The Great Escape The Cincinnati Kid The Sand Pebbles Papillon

Won for:

Papillon (Tie with Al Pacino in Serpico)

17. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Robe Cleopatra Becket The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? Anne of the Thousand Days Equus

Best Supporting Actor:

My Cousin Rachel

Won for:

My Cousin Rachel and Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?

18. Audrey Hepburn

Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's

Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian parents.

After her parents' divorce, ...

Nominated for:

Best Actress:

Roman Holiday Sabrina The Nun's Story Breakfast at Tiffany's Wait Until Dark

Won for:

Roman Holiday, Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany's

19. Matthew Lillard

Actor | Scooby-Doo

Matthew Lillard was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Paula and Jeffrey Lillard. He lived with his family in Tustin, California, from first grade to high school graduation. The summer after high school, he was hired as an extra for Ghoulies Go to College (1990). Matthew was the MC of the Nickelodeon ...

Nominated and won for:

Best Supporting Actor: Scream (Tie with Steve Buscemi for Fargo)

20. 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, ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Half Nelson Blue Valentine Drive La La Land

Won for:

Half Nelson

21. Daniel Craig

Actor | Casino Royale

One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

He was born ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Layer Cake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Skyfall

Won for:

Layer Cake (Tie with Tom Cruise for Collateral)

22. Rooney Mara

Actress | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actress:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

23. 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,...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

The Aviator Shutter Island The Wolf of Wall Street The Revenant

Best Supporting Actor:

What's Eating Gilbert Grape Django Unchained

Won for:

What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator (Tie with Tom Cruise for Collateral and Jamie Foxx in Ray) and Django Unchained

24. Jamie Foxx

Actor | Collateral

Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Ray (Tied with Tom Cruise for Collateral and Leonardo DiCaprio for The Aviator)

Best Supporting Actor:

Collateral

Won for:

Ray (Tied with Tom Cruise for Collateral and Leonardo DiCaprio for The Aviator)

25. 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),...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor: The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind

26. Hugh Jackman

Actor | Les Misérables

Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor: Les Misérables (Tie with Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises) Prisoners (Tie with Christian Bale in American Hustle)

27. Anne Hathaway

Actress | Les Misérables

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series ...

Nominated and won for:

Best Actress for Rachel Getting Married and Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables

28. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Walk the Line The Master

Best Supporting Actor:

Gladiator

Won for:

Gladiator

29. Mark Wahlberg

Producer | The Fighter

American actor Mark Wahlberg is one of a handful of respected entertainers who successfully made the transition from teen pop idol to acclaimed actor. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (2006) who went on to receive positive critical reviews for his performance in The Fighter (...

Best Actor:

The Fighter Lone Surviror

Best Supporting Actor:

The Departed

Best Picture:

The Fighter

Won for:

The Departed

30. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Good Will Hunting The Bourne Ultimatum The Martian Stillwater

Best Supporting Actor:

Invictus

Best Picture:

Manchester by the Sea

Best Original Screenplay:

Good Will Hunting

Won for:

Best Actor and Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, Manchester by the Sea and Stillwater

31. Amy Adams

Actress | Arrival

Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...

Nominated for:

Best Actress:

American Hustle

Best Supporting Actress:

Junebug Doubt The Fighter The Master

Won for:

Doubt, The Fighter and American Hustle

32. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Edward Scissorhands Ed Wood Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl Finding Neverland Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Public Enemies Black Mass

Won for:

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Black Mass

33. Emma Stone

Actress | La La Land

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...

Nominated and won for:

Best Supporting Actress:

Birdman

34. George Lucas

Writer | Star Wars

George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Director:

American Graffiti Star Wars

Best Original Screenplay:

American Graffiti Star Wars

35. Christopher Nolan

Writer | Tenet

Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...

Nominated and won for:

Best Original Screenplay for Memento and Inception Best Director and Best Picture for: The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar

36. Stanley Kubrick

Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...

Nominated and won for:

Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay for:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange.

Adapted Screenplay: Full Metal Jacket

Best Special Effects for- 2001: A Space Odysey

37. Martin Scorsese

Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...

Nominated for:

Best Director:

Taxi Driver Raging Bull Goodfellas Cape Fear The Aviator The Departed Hugo The Wolf of Wall Street

Won for:

Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Departed

38. Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Director:

Jaws, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan

Best Picture:

Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan

39. Quentin Tarantino

Writer | Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.

In January of...

Nominated for:

Best Original Screenplay:

Reservoir Dogs Pulp Fiction Inglorious Basterds Django Unchained The Hateful Eight Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Director:

Pulp Fiction Inglorious Basterds Django Unchained The Hateful Eight Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Won for:

Best Original Screenplay:

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

40. Alfred Hitchcock

Director | Psycho

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...

Nominated for:

Rebecca Rear Window Vertigo North by Northwest Psycho The Birds

Won for:

Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho

41. Frank Capra

Director | It's a Wonderful Life

One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...

Nominated for:

Best Director:

Lady For a Day It Happened One Night Mr. Deeds Goes to Town You Can't Take It With You Mr. Smith Goes to Washington It's A Wonderful Life

Won for:

It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's A Wonderful Life

42. Ridley Scott

Producer | The Martian

Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...

Nominated for:

Best Director:

Alien Blade Runner Thelma and Louise Gladiator Black Hawk Down

Won for:

Gladiator

43. Joel Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...

Nominated for:

Best Director, Screenplay and Picture:

Fargo O Brother, Where Art Thou? No Country for Old Men True Grit

Won for:

Best Director, Screenplay and Picture for Fargo and Best Adapted Screenplay for O Brother, Where Art Thou?

44. Ethan Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...

Nominated for:

Best Director, Screenplay and Picture:

Fargo O Brother, Where Art Thou? No Country for Old Men True Grit

Won for:

Best Director, Screenplay and Picture for Fargo and Best Adapted Screenplay for O Brother, Where Art Thou?

45. Lawrence Bender

Producer | Pulp Fiction

Lawrence Bender is a movie producer working in the entertainment industry for 20 years. He helped produce Hollywood films like Reservoir Dogs (1992), Good Will Hunting (1997), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django (2012). Lawrence won 6 Academy Awards with 29 nominations including 3 Best Picture ...

Nominated for:

Best Picture:

Pulp Fiction Good Will Hunting Inglorious Basterds

Won for:

Good Will Hunting

46. Don Hertzfeldt

Director | World of Tomorrow

Don Hertzfeldt was born on August 1, 1976 in Fremont, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for World of Tomorrow (2015), It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011) and The Simpsons (1989).

Nominated and Won for: Best Animated Short Film for Rejected and World of Tomorrow

47. Banksy

Director | Exit Through the Gift Shop

Banksy is known for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) and History of the Wall (2017).

Nominated and Won for: Best Documentary for Exit, Through the Gift Shop

48. Bill Murray

Actor | Lost in Translation

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Lost in Translation

Best Supporting Actor:

Rushmore

Won for:

Rushmore

49. Carey Mulligan

Actress | Never Let Me Go

Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her mother is from Llandeilo, Wales, and Carey also has Irish and English ancestry.

Her first major appearance was ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actress:

An Education

50. Minnie Driver

Actress | Circle of Friends

Minnie Driver was born January 31, 1970 in London and raised in Barbados until she was seven. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward, was a designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Driver, was a businessman. Minnie's mother was her father's mistress while he was still married ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actress:

Good Will Hunting

51. 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 ...

Nominated For:

Best Actor:

Streetcar Named Desire Viva Zapata! Julius Caesar On the Waterfront Sayonara Last Tango in Paris

Best Supporting Actor:

The Godfather A Dry White Season

Won for:

Streetcar Named Desire On the Waterfront (Tie with James Stewart in Rear Window) The Godfather (Tie with Robert Duvall and James Cann in The Godfather)

52. 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)...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Godfather Serpico The Godfather: Part II Dog Day Afternoon ...And Justice For All Scarface The Godfather: Part III Scent of a Woman

Best Supporting Actor:

Dick Tracy Glengarry Glen Ross The Irishman

Wins for:

The Godfather Serpico (Tie with Steve McQueen in Papillon) The Godfather: Part II Scarface (Tied with Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies) The Godfather: Part III

53. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Taxi Driver The Deer Hunter Raging Bull Awakenings Cape Fear

Best Supporting Actor:

The Godfather: Part II Silver Linings Playbook

Best Picture:

The Irishman

Won for:

The Godfather: Part II Taxi Driver The Deer Hunter Raging Bull (Tied with John Hurt in The Elephant Man)

54. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Tender Mercies The Apostle

Best Supporting Actor:

The Godfather Apocalypse Now

Won for:

The Godfather (Tie with James Cann and Marlon Brando in The Godfather) Apocalypse Now Tender Mercies (Tied with Al Pacino in Scarface)

55. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Ipcress File Alfie Sleuth Educating Rita The Quiet American

Best Supporting Actor:

Zulu Hannah and Her Sisters The Cider House Rules

Won for:

Zulu and The Ipcress File

56. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Good Morning, Vietnam Dead Poet's Society The Fisher King

Best Supporting Actor:

Good Will Hunting

Won for:

Good Morning, Vietnam Good Will Hunting

57. 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...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Driving Miss Daisy The Shawshank Redemption Invictus

Best Supporting Actor:

Clean and Sober Street Smart Million Dollar Baby

Won for:

Street Smart (Tie with Peter O’Toole in The Last Emperor and Vincent Price in The Whales of August) The Shawshank Redemption (Tie with Gary Oldman in Immortal Beloved)

58. Omar Sharif

Actor | Lawrence of Arabia

Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Doctor Zhivago

Best Supporting Actor:

Lawrence of Arabia

Won for:

Lawrence of Arabia

59. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Five Easy Pieces The Last Detail Chinatown One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Prizzi's Honor Ironweed As Good as It Gets About Schmidt

Best Supporting Actor:

Easy Rider Reds Terms of Endearment A Few Good Men

Won for:

Easy Rider, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Tie with Roy Scheider in Jaws) and Terms of Endearment

60. Robert Shaw

Actor | Jaws

Robert Archibald Shaw was born on August 9, 1927, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Doreen Nora (Avery), a nurse, and Thomas Archibald Shaw, a doctor. His paternal grandfather was Scottish, from Argyll. Shaw's mother, who was born in Piggs Peak, Swaziland, met his father while...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actor:

A Man for All Seasons and Jaws (Tie with Brad Dourif in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

61. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Henry V

Best Supporting Actor:

My Weekend with Marilyn

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Hamlet

Best Director:

Henry V

Best Short Film:

Swan Song

Won for:

Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet and Best Director for Henry V

62. Burgess Meredith

Actor | Clash of the Titans

One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century, who often suffered lesser roles, Burgess Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts, before joining Eva Le Gallienne's Student Repertory stage company in 1929. By 1934 he was a star ...

Nominated for:

Best Supporting Actor:

Day of the Locust

Rocky

Won for:

Rocky

63. Brad Dourif

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His father died when Dourif was three years old, ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actor:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Tie with Robert Shaw in Jaws)

64. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Some Like It Hot The Apartment Days of Wine and Roses Save the Tiger The China Syndrome Missing

Best Supporting Actor:

Mister Roberts

Won for:

Mister Roberts and Some Like It Hot (Tie with Charlton Heston for Ben-Hur and James Stewart for Anatomy of a Murder)

65. 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...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Lavender Hill Mob Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Supporting Actor:

Star Wars The Lavender Hill Mob

Best Adapted Screenplay for:

The Horse's Mouth

Won for:

Bridge on the River Kwai, The Horse's Mouth and Star Wars

66. 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 ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

The Kid, City Lights, The Great Dictator (Tie with Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath) and Limelight (Tie with Gary Cooper in High Noon)

Best Original Screenplay:

City Lights, The Great Dictator and Monsieur Verdoux

Best Director:

The Great Dictator

Best Picture:

The Great Dictator

Best Original Score:

Limelight

67. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Maltese Falcon Casablanca The African Queen The Caine Mutiny

Won for:

The Maltese Falcon (Tie with Orson Wells in Citizen Kane) and Casablanca

68. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

Nominated and Won for:

Citizen Kane- Best Actor (Tie with Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon), Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture

69. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Royal Family of Broadway Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde A Star is Born The Best Years of Our Lives Death of a Salesman

Won for:

The Royal Family of Broadway, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and A Star is Born

70. Lon Chaney

Actor | He Who Gets Slapped

Although his parents were deaf, Leonidas Chaney became an actor and also owner of a theatre company (together with his brother John). He made his debut at the movies in 1912, and his filmography is vast. Lon Chaney was especially famous for his horror parts in movies like e.g. Quasimodo in The ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera

71. Lon Chaney Jr.

Actor | The Wolf Man

American character actor whose career was influenced (and often overshadowed) by that of his father, silent film star Lon Chaney. The younger Chaney was born while his parents were on a theatrical tour, and he joined them onstage for the first time at the age of six months. However, as a young man,...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Wolf Man

Best Supporting Actor:

Of Mice and Men

Won for:

Of Mice and Men

72. Michelle Pfeiffer

Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High ...

Nominated for:

Best Actress:

The Fabulous Baker Boys Love Field

Best Supporting Actress:

Scarface Dangerous Liaisons

Won for:

Scarface and The Fabulous Baker Boys

73. Kate Winslet

Actress | Titanic

Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...

Nominated for:

Best Actress:

Titanic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Little Children The Reader

Best Supporting Actress:

Sense and Sensibility Iris

Won for:

Titanic and Iris

74. Gary Kurtz

Producer | Star Wars

Gary Kurtz was born on July 27, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and assistant director, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), American Graffiti (1973) and The Dark Crystal (1982). He was married to Stephanie Clare Gabriel, Roberta Jimenez and Meredith Marie ...

Nominated for:

Best Picture:

American Graffiti Star Wars

Won for:

Star Wars

75. 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...

Nominated for:

Best Supporting Actor:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Casablanca Mr. Skeffington Notorious

Won for:

Casablanca, Mr. Skeffington and Notorious

76. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

Nominated and won for:

Best Actor in The Elephant Man (Tied with Robert De Niro in Raging Bull) and Best Supporting Actor Midnight Express

77. Anthony Perkins

Actor | Psycho

Anthony Perkins was born April 4, 1932 in New York City, to Janet Esselstyn (Rane) and Osgood Perkins, an actor of both stage and film. His father died when he was five. Anthony's paternal great-grandfather was engraver Andrew Varick Stout Anthony. Perkins attended the Brooks School, the Browne & ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

Psycho (Tie with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus)

Best Supporting Actor:

Friendly Persuasion

78. James Dean

Actor | East of Eden

James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to ...

Nominated and won for:

East of Eden (Tie with Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm) and Giant (Tie with John Wayne for The Searchers)

79. John Wayne

Actor | True Grit

John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.

Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Sands of Iwo Jima The Searchers The Alamo True Grit

Best Director:

The Alamo

Best Picture:

The Alamo

Won for:

The Sands of Iwo Jima and The Searchers (Tie with James Dean for Giant)

80. John Williams

Composer | Jurassic Park

As one of the best known, awarded, and financially successful composers in US history, John Williams is as easy to recall as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein, illustrating why he is "America's composer" time and again. With a massive list of awards that includes over 52 Oscar ...

Nominated for:

Best Original Music Score:

Won for:

Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Arc, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Return of the Jedi, Home Alone, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

81. Raul Julia

Actor | Street Fighter

Raul Julia was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Olga Arcelay, a mezzo-soprano singer, and Raúl Juliá, an electrical engineer. He graduated from Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola High School in San Juan. Here he studied the rigorous classical curriculum of the Jesuits and was always active ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actor:

One from the Heart

82. Dennis Hopper

Actor | Easy Rider

Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actor for Blue Velvet and Best Original Screenplay for Easy Rider (shared with Peter Fonda)

83. Jeremy Irons

Actor | Dead Ringers

British actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. He is the son of Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe) and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant. Young Jeremy didn't prove very fond of figures. He visited mainland England only once a year. He wound up ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor for The French Lieutenant's Woman

84. Liam Neeson

Actor | Kinsey

Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

Schindler's List (Tie with Tom Hanks for Philadelphia)

85. Steve Carell

Actor | The Office

Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor in Foxcatcher and Best Supporting Actor in Vice

86. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Silver Linings Playbook American Sniper A Star is Born

Best Supporting Actor:

American Hustle

Best Director:

A Star is Born

Best Picture:

American Sniper Joker

Best Adapted Screenplay:

A Star is Born

Won for:

American Hustle and Best Picture for American Sniper

87. Fred Astaire

Actor | The Towering Inferno

Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Johanna (Geilus) and Fritz Austerlitz, a brewer. Fred entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

Flying Down to Rio and Top Hat

Best Supporting Actor:

On the Beach

88. Hans Zimmer

Composer | Gladiator

German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents. He featured in the music video for The Buggles' single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Original Score:

Rain Man Lion King Gladiator The Dark Knight Inception The Dark Knight Rises Interstellar Dunkirk

89. Ginger Rogers

Actress | Kitty Foyle

Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911, the daughter of Lela E. Rogers (née Lela Emogene Owens) and William Eddins McMath. Her mother went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. She had a baby earlier in their marriage and he ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actress:

Top Hat and Kitty Foyle

90. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Penny Serenade None But the Lonely Heart

Won for:

None But the Lonely Heart

91. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Thin Man My Man Godfrey Life with Father

Won for:

My Man Godfrey and Life with Father

92. 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...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

The Keys of the Kingdom The Yearling Twelve O'Clock High Gentleman's Agreement To Kill a Mockingbird

Won for:

Gentleman's Agreement

93. 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. ...

Nominated for Best Actor for:

Champion Bad & the Beautiful Lust for Life Spartacus

Won for: Spartacus (Tie with Anthony Perkins in Psycho)

94. 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 ...

Nominated for:

Best Actor:

Chaplin

Best Supporting Actor:

Zodiac Tropic Thunder

Won for:

Chaplin and Zodiac

95. George Segal

Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

George Segal was born on February 13, 1934 in New York City, New York, to Fannie Blanche (Bodkin) and George Segal Sr., a malt and hop agent. All of his grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. After a stint in the military, he made his bones as a stage actor before being cast in his first ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actor:

Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?

96. David Fincher

Director | Se7en

David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...

Nominated for:

Best Director:

Se7en Zodiac The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Won for:

Zodiac and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

97. Elijah Wood

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Elijah Wood is an American actor best known for portraying Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In addition to reprising the role in The Hobbit series, Wood also played Ryan in the FX television comedy Wilfred (2011) and voiced Beck in the Disney XD animated ...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

98. Sean Astin

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer, family man, author, marathon runner, political activist and philanthropist who is well known for his film debut portraying Mikey in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies (1985), for playing...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Supporting Actor:

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

99. Malcolm McDowell

Actor | A Clockwork Orange

Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943 in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Edna (McDowell), a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a publican. His father was an alcoholic. Malcolm hated his parents' ways. His father was keen to send his son to private school to give him a good start in life...

Nominated and Won for:

Best Actor:

A Clockwork Orange

100. 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 ...

Best Actor:

Se7en The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Moneyball

Best Supporting Actor:

12 Monkeys Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Best Picture:

The Departed Moneyball 12 Years a Slave

Won for:

The Departed and Best Picture for Moneyball