When Franco
won lead actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical for his portrayal of Wiseau, Franco grabbed his younger brother and costar Dave Franco and dragged him onstage.
Gary Oldman
won the lead actor award for his work as Winston Churchill in «Darkest Hour.»
Poitier
won the lead actor Oscar for 1963's charming «Lilies of the Field,» as an itinerant handyman who builds a chapel for some East German nuns.
Gary Oldman
won the lead actor award for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's «Darkest Hour» and was brought to tears during his acceptance speech.
Affleck
won the lead actor Oscar in February for «Manchester by the Sea,» but his awards season appearances were dogged by questions over two sexual harassment suits that were filed against him by two women in 2010 in civil court.
Elsewhere, Rami Malek
won Lead Actor, Drama for Mr. Robot (it'll be interesting to see if the show's more divisive second season appears on nominating lists next year), while Ben Mendelsohn won a Supporting Actor, Drama award for Bloodline, which is better news than the series has had of late.
Gary Oldman
won the lead actor Oscar at the 90th annual Academy Awards Sunday night for his performance as Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's «Darkest Hour.»
Tommy Lee Jones and Daniel Day - Lewis made SAG history over the weekend by become the first pair to
win Lead Actor and Supporting from the same film.
In 2014, just before
he won a leading Actor Oscar, Matthew McConnaughey was at the height of one of the biggest career turnarounds.
«The Theory of Everything» star Eddie Redmayne poses backstage after
winning the lead actor category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Colin Firth did
win the lead actor for that film, however.
Casey Affleck
won Leading Actor for his performance in Manchester by the Sea, which also won Original Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan), while other unexpected wins include Viola Davis, taking home Best Supporting Actress for Fences and Dev Patel, landing Best Supporting Actor for Lion.
Not exact matches
Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to
win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water
won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female
actor in the
lead role hasn't
won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
It was nominated for 11 other Oscars,
winning Best Director and Best Cinematography, in addition to Best
Actor in a
Leading Role.
The
actor thanked God when he won his Best Actor Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards for his lead role in Dallas Buyers
actor thanked God when he
won his Best
Actor Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards for his lead role in Dallas Buyers
Actor Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards for his
lead role in Dallas Buyers Club.
Here's the verdict of THE EMMYS: The real shocker, quite the welcome one, was NBC / Direct TV's Friday Night Lights
winning both Outstanding Writing and
Lead Actor, giving series creator Jason Katims and star Kyle Chandler their first
wins.
The notion that «the economy» is an
actor in its own right, disembodied from «the change,» has
led some analysts to float the strange argument that Republicans should have
won more convincingly than they did.
Sterling K. Brown, of «This is Us,» made history, becoming the first black
actor to
win the TV
lead actor drama category.
I am so happy Leo
won Best
Leading Actor... I think there would have been an uproar if he didn't!
In 2015, Caitlyn Jenner
won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards and Jeffrey Tambor
won the award for Outstanding
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of a transgender person on Amazon's «Transparent.»
One of Warner's earnest biopics of great men, with good acting from Paul Muni in the
lead and Joseph Schildkraut who
won a Supporting
Actor Oscar as the wrongly accused Captain Alfred Dreyfus
The easiest category to pick among all the nominations is
Lead Actor - Benedict Cumberbatch does so far and away the best in his role, it will be an injustice if anyone else
wins.
In 1978, he
won the Oscar for Best
Actor in a
Leading Role for his portrayal of a quadriplegic Vietnam War veteran in COMING HOME.
Then there's the talent: director Steven Spielberg and
lead actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks are so decorated their list of award
wins and nominations all require dedicated Wikipedia pages.
For her performance as Carrie Mathison on HOMELAND she has
won back - to - back Golden Globe ® Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama, a 2013 Screen
Actors Guild Award ® for Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actor in a Drama Series and the 2012 Emmy ® Award for Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Nominated for 12 Oscars — the most of any film — it
won four statuettes, including for Colin Firth for
lead actor, Tom Hooper for director, and David Seidler for...
It took home both supporting
actor categories (Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell), which leaves Big Bang Theory «s Jim Parsons with the
lead actor win.
After
winning the Best Supporting
Actor Oscar for The Deer Hunter, Christopher Walken got his chance to be a
leading man.
In 2012, his role in One Man, Two Guvnors
won him Best
Leading Actor in a Play.
His only nomination in the category for Best
Actor in a
Leading Role resulted in Hoffman's first Oscar
win.
Larson's
lead performance as Ma, a young mother living in captivity, first drew praise for its power and sensitivity at the Telluride Film Festival in September and has steadily collected accolades all season long — on Sunday she
won a Golden Globe for the role, and she is also nominated for Screen
Actors Guild and Independent Spirit awards.
Veteran French
actor André Wilms, whose association with the filmmaker dates back to 1992's «The Bohemian Life» (for which he
won a European Film Award) takes the
lead here, while other Kaurismäki alumni in the cast include New Wave icon Jean - Pierre Léaud and, of course, the director's favorite actress Kati Outinen.
Backstage cover star Eddie Redmayne
won best
lead actor for his performance as the ALS - inflicted Stephen Hawking in «The Theory of Everything» with the obvious choice, J.K. Simmons («Whiplash»), taking best supporting.
The same would hold true of a
Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that
wins actors awards, the Best
Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.
The project lingered on as
lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio went off to make «The Wolf of Wall Street,» which gave Mr. Iñárritu time to direct «Birdman» (which went on to
win four Oscars last year, including best picture and director).
Taking home not one, but five category
wins with
Lead Actress Frances McDormand being named as Best Actress and co-star Sam Rockwell snagging Best Supporting
Actor honors.
Paul Thomas Anderson swept up Best Director for his virtuosic work in Phantom Thread, while the film's
lead actor Daniel Day - Lewis wins Best A
actor Daniel Day - Lewis
wins Best
ActorActor.
The film's cast took home the Best Ensemble Cast prize, with Mahershala Ali
winning Best Supporting
Actor for his portrayal of Juan, a father - figure of sorts to the film's
lead character Chiron, a young African - American male coming to terms with his sexual orientation.
That a classy spy film
won the prize, an American president took
Leading Actor and an 85 year - old landed
Leading Actress is a testament to the inclusiveness of the BAFTAs this year - and we think that's rather a good result.
It also features two superbly
winning actors in the
lead roles, and the chemistry between them is...
«Nebraska» has already gained acclaim on the festival circuit, particularly for Dern's
lead performance (which
won Best
Actor at Cannes earlier this year), but there's nothing really special about any of the acting here.
The Emmy Award -
winning, and Golden Globe, Screen
Actors Guild and Tony Award - nominated
actor could be still coasting on the success of his turn as the
lead of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, which came to an end in 2014, and which felt like the gilded cherry atop a career cake that has encompassed everything from The Purple Rose of Cairo to Dumb and Dumber, The Hours, Good Night, and Good Luck and The Squid and the Whale.
Argo is one of my absolute favorites of the year that I predict will
win some Oscars, hopefully for Affleck in
lead actor and director.
Their first movie, «Training Day» was a major hit in the box office and
led to both men receiving Oscar nominations, with Denzel Washington
winning an Academy Award for best
actor.
Day - Lewis
won his first
lead actor Academy Award for 1989's «My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown.»
Meanwhile,
lead actor John Goodman was nominated seven times for his performance and never
won.
Latino talent triumphed again when the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, starring trans
actor Daniela Vega in the
lead,
won best foreign film.
La La Land stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling will attempt to repeat their performance
wins at the Golden Globes, receiving nods for Best
Leading Actress and
Leading Actor, respectively.
French love story «Blue Is the Warmest Color»
won in all categories it was nominated for, including foreign language film and young
actor / actress for the film's
lead, Adele Exarchopoulos.
Bryan Lee O'Malley's guitar - slinging Canadian comic book hero Scott Pilgrim came into the world in 2004, and after a series of five award -
winning graphic novels (and a 6th debuting on July 20th) Scott Pilgrim makes his big screen debut with Canuck cult
actor Michael Cera in the
lead, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright at the helm, and a cast that includes Kieran Culkin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and indie favourite Jason Schwartzman!