Peter Finch won the Oscar for Best Actor for: Network (1976) Nomination and award were posthumous. Finch became the first posthumous winner in an acting category. His widow Eletha Finch and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky accepted the award on his behalf.
Probably Heath Ledger, who won 30 or more different awards (including a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) for his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" (2008). The movie was released about six months after Ledger's accidental death from the misuse of prescription medication on January 22, 2008.
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Peter Finch Peter Finch actually was nominated and won after his death, so that's not it.
Susan Hayward won the Oscar for Best Actress for I Want to Live! (1958).
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Peter Finch won a posthumous Oscar in 1976 for Network.
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Cate Blanchett won a Best Supporting Oscar for her portrayal of 4-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator(2004).
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Probably Heath Ledger, who won 30 or more different awards (including a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) for his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" (2008). The movie was released about six months after Ledger's accidental death from the misuse of prescription medication on January 22, 2008.
Yes, Peter Finch posthumously won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the 1976 movie "Network".
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He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations (although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories).
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