Colin Firth won the 2010 Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Britain's King George VI in "The King's Speech."
Casey Affleck received the 2016 Best Actor award for his performance in the drama "Manchester by the Sea."
Colin Firth was awarded the Oscar. He got it for Best Actor Award. The year of his nomination was 2010.
It was for the Oscar award , for best actor.
The German actor, Emil Jannings was the first person ever to be awarded an Oscar for Best Actor in 1929.
Jean Dujardin won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2012, for his performance in "The Artist" (2011).
Denzel Washington won the Best Actor award for "Training Day." The Best Supporting Actor award went to Jim Broadbent for "Iris."
Leonardo DiCaprio has never won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for this award for his role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He has also been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor twice, but he has not won yet.
No. He was never nominated for an Academy Award.
Russell Crowe.
It seems to have become traditional to present the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor first every night at the Academy Award (Oscar) ceremony.
The first foreign-born actor to win an Academy Award for acting was Emil Jannings. He won the very first Oscar for Best Actor at the very first Academy Awards. He was also the very first person to ever be presented with an Oscar Award as Best Actor was the first award presented that evening. He was born in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father. He won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929 for his work in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command.
The Academy Award for Best Actor of 1988 was presented to Dustin Hoffman for his performance in "Rain Man." It was his second Oscar win, following the1979 Best Actor award he received for his work in "Kramer vs. Kramer." Hoffman has earned seven overall Oscar nominations -- all in the Best Actor category.