No actor has ever won an Academy Award for a television performance.
Art Carney portrayed Ed Norton in the classic TV series The Honeymooners. He won an Oscar as Best Actor for Harry and Tonto (1974). Other Academy Award winners that started on TV include Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
Adrien Brody.
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Sidney Poitier, who won the 1963 Best Actor award for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
There is no New Actor category at the Academy Awards.
He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity (1953).
Tom Hanks.
No. Tom Hanks won Academy Awards for his work in the films Philadelphia and Forest Gump.
He has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, for Spartacus (1960) and for Topkapi (1964).