How many Canadian actors or actresses have won an Oscar?

Answer 1

Mary Pickford, the second Best Actress winner, was born in Canada. She won the award for Coquette. The next two winners were also born in Canada: Norma Shearer and Marie Dressler.

Answer 2

The Canadian-born singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie won the 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Up Where We Belong" from "An Officer and a Gentleman." She shared the award with co-writers Jack Nitzsche and Will Jennings.

Answer 3

Canadian actors who won Academy Awardswere Mary Pickford (Best Actress 1928-29), Norma Shearer (Best Actress 1929-30), Marie Dressler (Best Actress 1930-31), Harold Russell (Best Supporting Actor 1946), Walter Huston (Best Supporting Actor 1948) and Christopher Plummer (Best Supporting Actor 2011). Anna Paquin (Best Supporting Actress 1993) was born in Canada, but moved to New Zealand as a child.

Answer 4

In 1929 Mary Pickford won Best Actress for Coquette.

Answer 5

No Canadian movie won the Oscar for Best Picture. One Canadian movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: 2003's The Barbarian Invasions.

Answer 6

Buffy Sainte-Marie, who was born in Sasketchewan, won a 1982 Academy Award for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" from "An Officer and a Gentleman."

Answer 7

Canada-born Celion Dion sang Oscar-winning song "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic (1997).

Answer 8

No Best Actor winners were born in Canada. Best Supporting Actor winners that were born in Canada: Harold Russell and Walter Huston.

Answer 9

The great silent screen star Mary Pickford, who was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto in 1892, won a 1928-1929 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Coquette," her first sound film.