Director Steven Spielberg gave the award for Best Picture to Slumdog Millionaire (2008).
The first movie to win the Best Picture Oscar was Wingsin 1929.
The previous year's Best Actor winner, Russell Crowe.
Richard Burton won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1978 for Equus.
Tom Hanks won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1994 for Philadelphia.
Marlon Brando won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1973 for The Godfather.
Peter O'Toole was nominated for eight Academy Awards during his distinguished career. He has never won a competitive Oscar, although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with an honorary award in 2003.
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Yes, Emil Jannings was the first person to with the Oscar for Best Actor. Since this was the first Oscar presented at the first Academy Awards ceremony, he is also the firs man ever to win an Academy Award (Oscar).
The first movie to win the Best Picture Oscar was Wingsin 1929.
The first foreign-born actor to win an Academy Award for acting was Emil Jannings. He won the very first Oscar for Best Actor at the very first Academy Awards. He was also the very first person to ever be presented with an Oscar Award as Best Actor was the first award presented that evening. He was born in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father. He won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929 for his work in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command.
There are thousands and thousands of actors who are also motion picture directos. A few of the more notable include Jodi Foster, Ron Howard and Penny Marshall.Two actors directed their own Oscar-winning performances: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet and Roberto Benigniin Life Is Beautiful. To date, however, no individual has won both Best Actor and Best Director.
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The previous year's Best Actor winner, Russell Crowe.
Spencer Tracy won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1954 for The Actress.
Marlon Brando won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1955 for On The Waterfront.