The last three Academy Award winners for Best Actor were:
1. 2014 -- Eddie Redmayne for "The Theory of Everything."
2. 2013 -- Matthew McConnaughey for "Dallas Buyers Club."
3. 2012 -- Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln."
The last three Academy Award winners for Best Actress were:
1. 2014 -- Julianne Moore for "Still Alice."
2. 2013 -- Cate Blanchett for "Blue Jasmine."
3. 2012 -- Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook."
Approximately 300 actors and actresses have won the Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress. Please follow the related links below to see a complete list of nominees and winners.
In 2008, the Academy Awards parted from the long-held custom of having the previous year's Best Actor present the award for Best Actress and vice versa. That year, a group of five previous Best Actor winners presented the award for Best Actor, and five previous Best Actress winners presented the award for Best Actress.
Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn won for On Golden Pond.
There is no New Actor category at the Academy Awards.
Approximately 820 men and women have been nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress. (82 Academy Awards x 5 nominations X 2 categories = 820 nominees). It is not practical to reproduce such a long list here. Please follow the links below to view a list of all nominees and winners of the Best Actor and Best Actress awards.
Actually, there have been five black winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress:
No actor has ever won an Academy Award for a television performance.
The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992. The film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture that night was The Silence of the Lambs. The film won an overall 5 Academy Awards that year.
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Benicio del Toro won an Academy Award (oscar) for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Traffic (2000). Traditionally, the award for Best Supporting Actor is presented by the same person who won Best Actress the preceeding year. Hilary Swank won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Boys Don't Cry (1999).
Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the 2009 film The Blind Side.