Academy Award for Best Actor

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Academy Award acting award film award

The Academy Award for Best Actor is a prestigious Oscar presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor an outstanding leading performance by a male actor in a film.

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Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Academy Award → acting award → film award →
administeredBy	AMPAS Board of Governors →
alsoKnownAs	Oscar for Best Actor →
awardFor	best performance by an actor in a leading role →
awardType	competitive award →
ceremonyFrequency	annual →
country	United States →
eligibilityMedium	feature films →
eligibilityScope	primarily English-language and U.S.-released films →
field	film acting →
firstAwardedForYear	1927–1928 →
genderRestriction	male →
hasCategoryCode	Best Actor in a Leading Role →
hasGenderedCounterpart	Academy Award for Best Actress →
hasNomineesPerYear	typically five nominees →
inception	1929 →
isConsidered	one of the most prestigious acting awards in cinema →
languageOfCeremony	English →
notableMultipleWinners	Daniel Day-Lewis → Jack Nicholson → Spencer Tracy → Tom Hanks →
notableRecord	Daniel Day-Lewis holds the record with three Best Actor wins →
officialWebsite	https://www.oscars.org →
organizer	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
partOf	Academy Awards →
presentedBy	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
relatedAward	Academy Award for Best Actress → Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor → BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role → Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama →
selectionCriterion	artistic merit of the leading performance →
selectionProcess	voted on by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
statuetteMaterial	gold-plated bronze →
statuetteShape	knight holding a crusader’s sword standing on a film reel →
timePeriodCovered	previous calendar year’s film releases →
trophyName	Oscar statuette →
typicalAnnouncementMonth	February →
typicalCeremonyLocation	Los Angeles →
typicalCeremonyVenue	Dolby Theatre →
votingBody	Academy actors branch (nominations) → entire Academy membership (winners) →

Referenced by (251)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
...And Justice for All → 127 Hours → A Star Is Born (1954 film) → A Star Is Born (2018 film) → Adam Driver → Adaptation → Al Pacino ("Academy Award for Best Actor for ...And Justice for All") → Alan Arkin → Albert Finney → Andrew Garfield → Antonio Banderas → Babes in Arms → Benedict Cumberbatch → Bill Murray → Bill Nighy → Billy Bob Thornton → Birdman of Alcatraz → Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) → Blood Diamond → Bob Hoskins → Bonnie and Clyde → Bruce Dern → Bruce Dern → Bryan Cranston → Cary Grant ("Academy Award for Best Actor for None but the Lonely Heart") → Cast Away → Chiwetel Ejiofor → Citizen Kane → Colin Farrell → Dead Poets Society → Dog Day Afternoon → East of Eden → Fences (2016 film) → Flight → Frank Langella → Frank Morgan → Frost/Nixon → Gentleman's Agreement → Get Out → Good Will Hunting → Guess Who's Coming to Dinner → Harrison Ford → Jacob Julius Garfinkle → James Franco → James Stewart → James Woods → Jesse Eisenberg → John Garfield → John Garfield ("Oscar for Best Actor for Body and Soul") → John Garfield → John Hurt → Johnny Depp → Jude Law → Kirk Douglas → Laurence Olivier ("Academy Award for Best Actor for The Entertainer (1960 film)") → Lawrence of Arabia → Leonardo DiCaprio → Leonardo DiCaprio → Les Misérables (2012 film) → Lew Ayres → Lost in Translation → Ma Rainey's Black Bottom → Marriage Story → Matt Damon → Michael Caine → Michael Fassbender → Michael Keaton → Midnight Cowboy ("Academy Award for Best Actor for Jon Voight") → Montgomery Clift → Mr. Deeds Goes to Town → Mr. Smith Goes to Washington → Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) → None but the Lonely Heart → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Paul Giamatti → Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl → Pulp Fiction → Quills → Ralph Fiennes → Rebecca (1940 film) → Richard Burton → Robert Downey Jr. → Rock Hudson → Rocky → Roy Scheider ("Academy Award for Best Actor for All That Jazz") → Saving Private Ryan → Silver Linings Playbook → Sleuth (1972 film) ("Academy Award for Best Actor – Laurence Olivier") → Some Like It Hot → Spencer Tracy ("Academy Award for Best Actor for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner") → Spencer Tracy ("Academy Award for Best Actor for Judgment at Nuremberg") → Spencer Tracy ("Academy Award for Best Actor for Inherit the Wind") → Spencer Tracy ("Academy Award for Best Actor for Father of the Bride") → Spencer Tracy ("Academy Award for Best Actor for San Francisco") → Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) → Sylvester Stallone → The Apartment → The Aviator → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button → The Danish Girl → The Descendants → The Dresser → The Entertainer (1960 film) → The Fisher King → The Graduate → The Great Dictator → The Hurricane ("Academy Award for Best Actor (Denzel Washington)") → The Imitation Game → The Lion in Winter → The Madness of King George → The Martian → The Power of the Dog (2021 film) → The Pride of the Yankees → The Shawshank Redemption → The Social Network → The Wolf of Wall Street → The Yearling (1946 film) → Tom Jones (1963 film) → Tom Wilkinson → Tootsie → True Grit (2010 film) → Twelve O’Clock High → Viva Zapata! → Warren Beatty → Willem Dafoe → William James Murray → Woody Harrelson →	nominatedFor
Adrien Brody → Al Pacino → American Beauty → Anthony Hopkins → Ben-Hur → Bing Crosby → Bohemian Rhapsody → Boys Town → Burt Lancaster → Capote (film) → Casey Affleck → Casey Affleck → Casey Affleck → Charly → Cillian Murphy → Clark Gable → Clark Gable → Colin Firth → Colin Firth → Coming Home → Daniel Day-Lewis → David Niven → Denzel Washington → Ed Harris ("Academy Award for Best Actor (nominations)") → Eldred Gregory Peck → Forest Whitaker → Gary Cooper → Gary Oldman → Geoffrey Rush → George C. Scott → Gladiator → Gregory Peck → Gregory Peck → Hamlet (1948 film) → Henry Fonda → Humphrey Bogart → It Happened One Night → Jack Lemmon → Jack Nicholson → James Stewart → Jamie Foxx → Joaquin Phoenix → Kevin Spacey → Kramer vs. Kramer → Laurence Olivier → Leonardo DiCaprio → Leonardo DiCaprio → Lilies of the Field → Manchester by the Sea → Marlon Brando → Marty → Matthew McConaughey → Michael Douglas → On the Waterfront → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest → Oppenheimer (2023 film) → Peter Finch → Philip Seymour Hoffman → Rami Malek → Ray Milland → Richard Dreyfuss → Robert De Niro → Rod Steiger → Ronald Colman → Russell Crowe → Sean Penn → Separate Tables (1958 film) → Shine → Spencer Tracy → Spencer Tracy ("Best Actor Academy Award for Captains Courageous") → The King’s Speech → The Lost Weekend → There Will Be Blood → Tom Hanks → Training Day →	awardReceived
Five Easy Pieces → Gangs of New York → Good Night, and Good Luck → Invictus → James Dean ("Academy Award for Best Actor for East of Eden") → Louis Calhern → Roy Scheider → The Keys of the Kingdom → Witness for the Prosecution →	awardNomination
Captains Courageous (1937 film) → High Noon → In the Heat of the Night ("Academy Award for Best Actor (Rod Steiger)") → Sergeant York → The Artist → The Godfather → The Silence of the Lambs →	academyAward
Casey Affleck ("Academy Award for Best Actor – Manchester by the Sea") → Clark Gable ("Academy Award for Best Actor for "It Happened One Night"") → Colin Firth ("Academy Award for Best Actor – The King’s Speech") → Russell Crowe ("Academy Award for Best Actor for Gladiator") →	awardReceivedForWork
Academy Award for Best Actress → Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress → BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role → Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy →	relatedAward
A Single Man → Gaslight (1944 film) →	academyAwardNomination
American Hustle → Up in the Air →	awardNominatedFor
The English Patient → The Godfather Part II →	nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress → Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor →	relatedCategory
On Golden Pond →	AcademyAward
Fiddler on the Roof →	academyAwardNominations
Academy Award for Best Actor ("Oscar for Best Actor") →	alsoKnownAs
Academy Award for Best Director →	associatedWith
Joker (2019 film) →	awarded
The Insider →	awardNominated
Joaquin Phoenix ("Academy Award for Best Actor – Joker") →	awardReceivedFor
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →	awardsPresented
The African Queen →	awardWon
César Award for Best Actor →	equivalentTo
Forrest Gump →	hasAward
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor →	hasRelatedCategory
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor →	isDistinctFrom
Peter Finch →	isPosthumousAwardRecipientOf
The Pursuit of Happyness →	leadActorNomination
Raging Bull →	leadActorWon
The Remains of the Day →	notableAwardNomination