Charlize Theron won the Academy Award for playing Aileen Wuornos
Actor Joe Pesci won an Oscar for playing Tommy DeVito in 1990.
Hillary Swank won the best actess Oscar for playing a male. Linda hunt also won a best supporting Oscar for playing a male.
There was no character named Oscar in A Fish Called Wanda. Kevin Kline won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Otto in A Fish Called Wanda (1988).
Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind(2001)
Two men named Tom have won Oscars for acting. Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for playing Marshall Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive (1993). Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia (1993) and for playing Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994).
Actor Joe Pesci won an Oscar for playing Tommy DeVito in 1990.
Hillary Swank won the best actess Oscar for playing a male. Linda hunt also won a best supporting Oscar for playing a male.
There was no character named Oscar in A Fish Called Wanda. Kevin Kline won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Otto in A Fish Called Wanda (1988).
Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind(2001)
Laurence Olivier is the only actor to have won an Oscar for a Shakespearean performance: Best Actor for Hamlet (1948).
Actress Maggie Smith won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing an actress who's nominated for an Oscar but doesn't win in California Suite (1978).
Greer Garson.
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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.
Yul Brynner
Woody Allen.
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