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unusual facts about Best Actor



Adiyozhukkukal

Mammootty received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance as Karunan, and Jayanan Vincent won the award for Best Cinematography.

Detective Investigation Files IV

It won two TVB Anniversary Awards, including Best Actor for Louis Koo and Best Actress for Jessica Hsuan.

Kaliyattam

In 1998, Suresh Gopi received the National Film Award for Best Actor, and Jayaraaj the award for Best Director for their work on the film.

Leading actor

Thus, sometimes two actors in the same performance piece are nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress -- categories traditionally reserved for leads.

Monty Woolley

Woolley was nominated twice for an Academy Award, as Best Actor in 1943 for The Pied Piper and as Best Supporting Actor in 1945 for Since You Went Away.

Oded Kotler

In 1967, he won the award for Best Actor at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival for his role in the film Three Days and a Child.

Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam

It won two Kerala State Film Awards: Best Actor (Nedumudi Venu) and Best Film with Popular Appeal and Aesthetic Value.

Ponkunnam

Bipin Chandran, a famous script-writer of Malayalam Cinema Industry who was famous for the superhit film Best Actor.

Rickshawkaran

M. G. R, the lead actor won a National Film Award in the Best Actor category.

Roschdy Zem

He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in the film Days of Glory at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Rosy Business

The awards include Best Drama, Best Actress (Sheren Tang), Best Actor (Wayne Lai), Best Supporting Actress (Susan Tse), My Favourite Male Character (Lai) and Most Improved Male Artiste (Ngo Ka-nin).

War and Beauty

It starred TVB Anniversary Awards Best Actress winners Gigi Lai, Sheren Tang, Maggie Cheung, and Charmaine Sheh, and Best Actor winners Bowie Lam and Moses Chan.


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1988 Metro Manila Film Festival

The lead star, unknown stuntman-actor Baldo Marro won the Best Actor award for his role as a dedicated policeman edging out the favored Christopher de Leon.

1991 Metro Manila Film Festival

FLT Film International’s Juan Tamad at Mister Shooli sa Mongolian Barbeque (The Movie) received seven awards--- Best Actor (Eric Quizon); Best Supporting Actor (Leo Martinez); Best Cinematography (Johnny Arajo); Best Sound Recording (Gaudencio Barredo); Best Production Design (Edel Templonuevo); the festival’s Second Best Picture and the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards.

Alan Cassell

Film credits include:Money Movers, Cathy's Child (for which he was nominated for "Best Actor"), Squizzy Taylor, Breaker Morant, Puberty Blues and The Club.

Alexander Pechersky

The revolt was also dramatized in the 1987 British TV movie Escape from Sobibor, in which Rutger Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television) for his portrayal of "Sasha".

Arizona Onstage Productions

In 2005, the company received two nominations for best musical (one for Joel Payley's Ruthless! The Musical, and one for William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain), two nominations for Best Actress and one for Best Actor.

Bill Flynn

Bill's movie of Saturday Night at The Palace won several Vita Film Awards, a Best Actor award at the Italian Taormina Film festival as well as a Merit Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Boston Society of Film Critics

The 2009 award for best picture and best director went to The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow and also won three other awards (best actor, best cinematography and best film editing).

Children of Fire Mountain

That year it received the Feltex Television Awards for "Best Drama", "Best Script", and Terence Cooper as "Best Actor" for his role as Sir Charles Pemberton.

Claus von Bülow

Jeremy Irons starred as Claus von Bülow (a performance which won him both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actor), Ron Silver as Dershowitz, and Glenn Close as Sunny von Bülow.

Clayton LeBouef

His portrayal of barbershop owner Tom Taylor in the short film The Doll won him "Best Actor" honors at the San Diego Black Film Festival.

Daniel Hsia

Daniel Henney also won a Best Actor award at the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival, and Hsia also won a Best New Director / Outstanding First Feature Award at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Daniel Keyes

The novel has been adapted several times for other media, most prominently as the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson (who won an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom.

Daniele Luchetti

His most recent films are Mio fratello è figlio unico (2006), for which Elio Germano won the David di Donatello as best actor in a leading role, and La nostra vita (2010), which was the only Italian film selected for official competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Denis Côté

In August 2010, his feature film Curling was presented at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the prize for best directing as well as the prize for best actor (Emmanuel Bilodeau).

Don Matteo

The series received two awards at the 42nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2002: Terence Hill won the award for Best Actor and Alessandro Jacchia won the award for Best Producer.

Eddie Foy, Jr.

He also appeared in At Home Abroad, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Red Mill, The Pajama Game, Donnybrook!, and Rumple, for which he received a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical.

Eddie Garcia

He is also known to play the part of Leandro Montemayor, the fictional Philippine President on the television drama series, "Kung Mawawala Ka" (If Ever You Were Gone), and gave him his first Best Actor in a Drama Series in the 2002 Star Awards, and is also known for portraying various roles either the main villain or the lead or supporting character.

Edward Hogg

He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2009 for his role in White Lightnin, and won Best Actor awards at the Monterrey and Mumbai Film Festivals for the same role.

Ethan Peck

He received the Best Actor award at the 2009 Sonoma International Film Festival for his portrayal of "Sailor".

Great Lakes Theater

Notable alumni include Tom Hanks (1977-79 as an intern and core company member, and later winner of the Cleveland Critics' circle for best actor in Festival's production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Donald Moffat, Larry Linville, Cloris Leachman, Piper Laurie, Obie Cytron, Jean Stapleton, Hal Holbrook and Olympia Dukakis.

Harry, He's Here to Help

The film won several 2001 César Awards including for Best Actor (Lopez), Best Director (Moll) and Best Editing (Yannick Kergoat).

Jack Gilford

He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor in (1973) for his role as Phil Green in Save the Tiger (his co-star Jack Lemmon won for Best Actor).

Joe Landon

2002 Grabby Awards winner of Best Actor and Best Three-Way Sex Scene in "Apprentice 2: Dark Heart" with Trent Atkins and Danny Rhymes (Delta Video).

Josh Greenfeld

Josh Greenfeld (born 1928) is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky, which earned them an Academy Award nomination and its star, Art Carney, the Oscar itself for Best Actor.

Kermit Bloomgarden

Command Decision (1947) written by William Wister Haines, followed, with Paul Kelly sharing the Best Actor Tony Award that year for his performance and James Whitmore earning the Tony for "Best Performance by a Newcomer".

Luciano Castro

He received the Martín Fierro Award to the best actor, and the telenovela got the majority of awards, including the golden one.

Michael McGruther

It is widely known as Colin Farrell's breakthrough film, garnering Farrell the Boston Society of Film Critics Best Actor Award and the London Critics Circle Film Award for British Newcomer of the year.

Monty Woolley

He won a Best Actor award from the National Board of Review in 1942 for his role in The Pied Piper.

Neil Ryan Sese

In Huling Pasadsa, he was nominated for Best Actor by the respected critics but lost out to a deserving veteran, Ronnie Lazaro.

Nelson Villagra

After a period in Europe he went on to Cuba to work with some of the most important South American directors of his time, such as Humberto Solás (La Cantata de Chile) and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, winning the Best Actor award for his role as 'El Conde' in Gutiérrez Alea's The Last Supper at the 1978 Festival Internacional de Cine de Biarritz.

Nomura Mansai

Mansai was nominated by the Japanese Academy for best actor for his performance in The Floating Castle.

Paolo Contis

In 2008, Contis was hailed as the Best Actor at the 24th PMPC Star AwardsBest Actor award for Banal, a film directed by GMA reporter Cesar Apolinario (who won as Best Director in the Metro Manila Film Festival in that same year).

Patrick O'Kane

He played John Proctor in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, opening the theatre's new performance space in April 2011 to rave reviews and receiving a nomination for best actor in the Irish Theatre Awards for his performance.

Paul Doucet

He won a Prix Gémeaux for Meilleure interprétation premier rôle masculin - série dramatique (Best Actor in a Leading Role - Drama) for his portrayal of Jean Duceppe in the Jean Duceppe episode 5.

Pavle Vuisić

Famous actor Orson Welles said in interview for former Yugoslav television RTZ that he considered Pavle Vuisić as the best actor in the world.

Philippe Lioret

Kad Merad from the movie won Cesar for Best Actor in a Secondary Role for and Mélanie Laurent won Cesar for Best Female Newcomer

Quintus Roscius Gallus

When Thomas Nashe wanted to praise Edward Alleyn as the best actor of his generation, he called Alleyn a Roscius (Pierce Penniless, 1592); John Downes titled his history of Restoration drama Roscius Anglicanus (1708).

Sabyasachi Chakrabarty

In 1996 he received the Best Actor award for his performance in Kakababu Here Gelen and, again, in 2005 he was awarded Best Actor for his role in Mahulbanir Sereng, by Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (BFJA).

Sergio Basañez

Then, in 1998, his last performances for Televisa were in La usurpadora and La Mentira, as he moved to TV Azteca, in 1999, where he got the leading role of Catalina y Sebastián, with Mexican actress Silvia Navarro, followed by La calle de las novias (2000), and Cuando seas mía (2001), for which he was awarded as the best actor in a leading role.

Shanghai Calling

Daniel Henney also won a Best Actor award at the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival, and Daniel Hsia won a Best New Director / Outstanding First Feature Award at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Shirley Stoler

The film, the success of which depended a great deal on her, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 1976, and garnered Wertmüller nominations as Best Director (a first for a woman) and Best Original Screenplay, and Stoler's co-star Giannini a nod as Best Actor.

Silent Gunpowder

At the 1990 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslavian version of the Academy Awards), the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović), and Best Makeup (Snježana Tomljenović).

Stephen Douglass

He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance as Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, and he originated the role of Ulysses in Jerome Moross and John Latouche's The Golden Apple.

Steve Evets

This role saw him tipped for the Best Actor award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

The Big Pond

Maurice Chevalier was nominated for a 1930 Academy Award for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" for his performance in The Big Pond as well as his performance in The Love Parade (1929).

The Man on the Balcony

It was a great success and won the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor (Gösta Ekman), Best Screenplay (Daniel Alfredson & Jonas Cornell) and Best Film (Hans Lönnerheden, producer).

Themis Panou

He is the first and only Greek actor to win the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, a prestigious award given during the Venice Film Festival.

Toni Servillo

In 2013, Servillo was selected as best actor at the 26th European Film Awards for his appearance in Paolo Sorrentino's film The Great Beauty.

Voja Mirić

In 1964 he won the "Silver Arena" award as Best Actor in the Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films for the Fadil Hadžić movie Službeni položaj.