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.
Kevin Spacey.
On March 26, 2000, Kevin Spacey won the 1999 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "American Beauty."
Art Carney won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1974.
James Coburn won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1998.
Colin Firth won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2010.
Kevin Spacey.
Kevin Spacey.
Anthony Quinn won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Bette Davis won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Dianne Wiest won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress twice.Dustin Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Elizabeth Taylor won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Fredric March won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Gary Cooper won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Glenda Jackson won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Hilary Swank won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Ingrid Bergman won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Jack Nicholson won the Oscar for Best Actor twice and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor once.Jane Fonda won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Jason Robards won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Jodie Foster won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress four times.Luise Rainer won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Many actors and actresses have more than one acting Oscar.Marlon Brando won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Melvyn Douglas won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Michael Caine won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Olivia de Havilland won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Peter Ustinov won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Sally Field won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Sean Penn won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Shelley Winters won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress twice.Spencer Tracy won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Vivien Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Walter Brennan won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor three times.
On March 26, 2000, Kevin Spacey won the 1999 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "American Beauty."
Art Carney won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1974.
Al Pacino won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1992.
Kevin Kline won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his appearance in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) as Otto WestKevin Spacey won the Oscar for Best Supportign Actor for his appearance in The Usual Suspects (1995) as Roger 'Verbal' Kint. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for his appearance in American Beauty (1999) as Lester Burnham
Sidney Poitier was the African American man who won Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field(1963).
Kevin Spacey has been nominated eight times for Golden Globe Awards for his work in films such as American Beauty and The Usual Suspects. (He won Academy Awards for both of those films.) In 2015, he finally won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series (Drama) for his memorable portrayal of Frank Underwood in the Netflix original series House of Cards.
Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for the Best Actor category in 2013.
Anthony Quinn for Viva Zapata.
No African-American actor or actress has won more than one Oscar for Best Actor/Actress. Denzel Washington is the only one who won 2 Oscars, one of them for Best Supporting Actor.