John Wayne won the Oscar for Best Actor in True Grit(1969) for the role of Rooster Cogburn.
John Wayne won his only Oscar for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 movie "True Grit"
No actor has ever received an Oscar for playing James Bond.
Ian McKellan
Laurence Olivier is the only actor to have won an Oscar for a Shakespearean performance: Best Actor for Hamlet (1948).
John Gielgud
He won as Best Supporting Actor for The Untouchables(1987).
The only Oscar to win an Oscar was the famed lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.
He won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Cat Ballou (1965). This was his only Oscar win and his only Oscar nomination.
He is the only actor to win an Oscar posthumously (after his death).
The only actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner is Cate Blanchett. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2004 for playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.Robert Downey, Jr. is the only other actor nominated for playing a previous nominee, Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin.Maggie Smith won an Oscar as supporting actress for portraying a fictional actress in The California Suite (1978). In the movie she gets ready for the ceremony, and returns to the hotel afterwards, without the award.
No U.S. president has ever won an Academy Award for acting, and only actor Daniel Day-Lewis has ever won an Oscar for playing a U.S. president. He won the 2012 Best Actor award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."
No, but it has happened with a movie and its sequel. The role of Don Vito Corleone won Academy Awards for Marlon Brando (Best Actor of 1972 for "The Godfather") and Robert De Niro (Best Supporting Actor of 1974 for "The Godfather Part II"). Brando declined his award. If Jeff Bridges wins the 2010 Best Actor Award for his performance as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, it would be the second time that two actors won Oscars for playing the same character in different films. John Wayne won his only Oscar for his portrayal of Cogburn in the 1969 version of "True Grit."