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	Academy Awards Best Actor
		The Best Actor award should actually be titled "the best performance by an actor in a leading role." The same rules that govern the Best Actor category apply to the Best Actress category.
		Mexican-born Anthony Quinn was nominated twice as Best Actor for Wild is the Wind (1957) and Zorba the Greek (1964).
		Laurence Olivier, Best Actor for Hamlet (1948), and Vivien Leigh, Best Actress for
	www.filmsite.org /bestactor.html (3846 words)

	2002 Best Supporting Actor/Actress Picks
		Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress races at this years Academy Awards are just loaded with talent.
		Reilly was actually in 3 of the 5 nominees for Best Picture this year, and he was fabulous in the films that I have seen him in.
		One of the best performances that will have you bouncing in your seat comes from her and I am ecstatic to see her be nominated.
	www.ticon.net /~bugzy/2002support.html (1055 words)

	Halfbakery: Best Character Actor Award
		I don't think there's any requirement for the Best Supporting Actor to be a "main" character in order to be eligible - notable, yes, but the most notable performance doesn't have to be the longest.
		And I'm not sure "character actor" is the right term anyway; you could easily class someone like Steve Buscemi as a "character actor" even in films like Ghostworld where his role is fairly central.
		The actor who played the old man hinge-maker, who survived getting shot because the soldier's gun jammed, is the sort of character actor I'm talking about.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Best_20Character_20Actor_20Award (547 words)

	Best actor belongs to Jamie Foxx - More Oscar news - MSNBC.com
		He brought layers to the part, as convincing as a determined businessman as he was as a passionate singer of rhythm and blues, as well as a lover, a friend, a musician, a star and a father.
		Foxx is a 4-5 favorite to win as best actor (he’s also nominated in the supporting category for “Collateral”) according to one Vegas oddsmaker, 1-2 by another. If he doesn’t win, it’ll be one of the biggest temblors to hit Tinseltown in Oscar history.
		As an actor, he is probably best known for playing Harry Callahan in the “Dirty Harry” pictures, and as The Man With No Name (although he did have one) in the Sergio Leone Westerns.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6968765 (867 words)

	Academy Award for Best Actor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses.
		The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.
		Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor (183 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - Golden Satellites Shine on '24,' 'Bernie Mac'
		Victor Garber from "Alias" won best supporting actor in a drama and Debra Messing won for best actress in a comedy for "Will and Grace" while Eric Roberts took best actor in a comedy for "Less Than Perfect" and "Everybody Loves Raymond's" Doris Roberts won best supporting actress in a comedy.
		Best actress in a TV drama went to C.C.H. Pounder of "The Shield" who said, "The great reward for people like myself is to get the job.
		It won for best motion picture made for TV, best actress in a supporting role in a movie or miniseries for Helen Mirren and best actor in a movie or miniseries for TV for the co-writer and star William H. Macy.
	tv.zap2it.com /news/tvnewsdaily.html?29626 (700 words)

	Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor
		Best Supporting Actor Oscars are traditionally given to actors who stand out in small roles.
		See the Best Supporting Actress section for seven actresses who have duplicated the feat.) In 1944, Barry Fitzgerald received simultaneous nominations in lead and supporting categories - for the same role (something that the Academy would prevent in future years by not allowing a double nomination for the same performance).
		A win for Sofia Coppola for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation (2003) made her part of the second family of three-generation Oscar winners (her father is a five-time winner and her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, won for musical score on The Godfather Part II (1974)).
	www.filmsite.org /bestsuppactor.html (3054 words)

	NEWSMAKERS: Farrell, Best Actor?! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strapping Irish stud Colin Farrell was named the year's best actor for his work in "Tigerland" by the Boston Society of Film Critics on Saturday.
		The Boston critics handed the best picture award to "Almost Famous," as well as the best director mention to the film's helmer Cameron Crowe, who also shared the best screenplay award with "Wonder Boys" scribe Steven Kloves.
		Best supporting actress went to Frances McDormand for her performances in both "Almost Famous" and "Wonder Boys," and best supporting actor belonged to "Best in Show's" Fred Willard as the faux-pas-spilling announcer.
	www.hollywood.com /news/detail/article/313397 (438 words)

	List of Golden Globe Awards: Film, Best Actor... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	URIAN BEST ACTOR ROLL
		By the time he won his Best Actor trophy, he was already a far more mature actor ready to tackle complicated roles like the one he did in Sana Maulit Muli (with Lea Salonga).
		His best scene here is the part where he listens behind a wall as Dawn Zulueta belittles his character (as a stable boy).
		Then, as the decade drew to a close, he was named Best Actor by the Urian in 1999 as the abusive cop in Saranggola.
	www.newsflash.org /2002/04/sb/sb002173.htm (887 words)

	USATODAY.com - Who's the best actor/actress in Hollywood? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Votes for Hollywood's best actress were more divided: Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Glenn Close and Jodie Foster were named most often.
		He's been a favorite ever since I was a kid watching him on The Electric Company, and I have seen many movies just because of his participation — even Robin Hood and Hard Rain, both of which should have been TV Movie of the Night specials.
		For best actor it would have to be Joaquin Phoenix.
	www.usatoday.com /life/columnist/candy/2001-07-25-candy-question.htm (563 words)

	In best supporting actor, anything goes - More Oscar news - MSNBC.com
		Unlike, lead actor — where you need to pay a certain amount of dues in the industry or your role has to be in an ultra serious film — best supporting actor offers chances for a range of different performances.
		These long-in-the-tooth actors seem to receive their Academy Awards not only for the terrific films they were nominated for, but for a lifetime of good work.
		One of the hard parts about the supporting actor category is that some of the nominees seem like co-leads (this year, that would be all four others), while some really do seem like smaller, supporting roles.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6936481 (1236 words)

	New York Daily News - Entertainment - Paul Winfield, 62; Best Actor nominee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the time, he was only the third fl actor to receive a Best Actor nomination.
		He was Emmy-nominated for best actor for "King," the 1978 miniseries about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and nominated the next year in the best supporting actor category for playing a college chancellor willing to sing Negro spirituals to get donations for his school in "Roots: The Next Generation."
		The Emmy eluded him each time, but he won in 1995 for an appearance on "Picket Fences"; he played a judge whose rulings on busing inner-city children are challenged by a local resident.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/story/172054p-150058c.html (310 words)

	TeeVee.org: TeeVee Awards '03: Best Hour Actor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The problem is that in ensemble dramas the characters only exist as a means for the writers to show off their cleverly devised crime scenario, or to advance whichever simplistic sociopolitical aphorism they're touting that week.
		The actor becomes a mere puppet, capering from crime scene to crime scene at the behest of the writer's insistent hand.
		Effectively reduced to well-paid props, all but the very best actors simply go where their strings pull them, week after week giving wooden, by-numbers performances that are less nuanced than the work put in by Grover during your average episode of Sesame Street.
	www.teevee.org /archive/2003/08/25 (1371 words)

	74th Academy Award Winners - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		You know, when I was in college first starting out as an actor, they asked each one of us what we wanted to do.
		I said I want to be the best actor in the world.
		Life has taught me to just try and be the best that I can be, and I thank the Academy for saying to me that on this given night I was the best that I could be.
	www.oscars.org /74academyawards/winners/02leadingactor.html (231 words)

	“Sweet” Man Gets Best Actor Nomimation
		Man plays Taylor, a burned-out, ex-military hero who is just trying to make a buck, but lands in the midst of a murder, a missing manuscript and a father he never knew.
		A former successful business owner, with a dark and checkered past, Man made the transition to being a full time actor about five years ago, bringing with him the angels and demons that make him the intense, yet sensitive performer he is today.
		Best Actor Nominee Steven Man and John Ashton (Beverly Hills Cop I, II) star in Best Picture Nominee "Sweet Deadly Dreams".
	www.prweb.com /releases/2005/9/inktomi290447.php (492 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Director Lewis Milestone, an Oscar winner for the somber All Quiet on the Western Front (1931), showed a dazzling versatility and set a new trend in film comedies with the zippy pace and overlapping dialogue of The Front Page.
		The movie won Oscar nominations as Best Picture, Director and Actor (Menjou, a last-minute replacement after the sudden death of Louis Wolheim, the original choice to play Burns).
		A 10-disc set that includes the new documentary Garbo plus some of her finest films from the silent & sound era such as Flesh and the Devil and Anna Christie.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,87886,00.html (625 words)

	Best actor nominations
		BEN KINGSLEY, "House of Sand and Fog": This is Sir Ben's fourth nomination; he took home a best actor award for "Gandhi." He plays a proud Iranian immigrant fighting to keep a home for his family.
		SEAN PENN, "Mystic River": After best actor nominations for "Dead Man Walking," "Sweet and Lowdown" and "I Am Sam," this may be his best chance yet for a powerful performance as a man looking to avenge his daughter's death.
		DIANE KEATON, "Something's Gotta Give": At 58, Keaton's on her fourth best actress nomination (she won for "Annie Hall" in 1978).
	www.freep.com /entertainment/movies/besta28_20040128.htm (413 words)

	CNN.com - It's a knockout for 'Million Dollar Baby' - Feb 28, 2005
		Hilary Swank won best actress for "Million Dollar Baby," her second Oscar in five years.
		Then, when nominees were announced from the audience for other categories, the winners gave their thank-you speeches from a microphone set up nearby, as if they were asking questions of a CEO at a conference.
		At one point, Jeremy Irons gave the award for best live-action short from the audience and was interrupted by a sudden muffled bang.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/27/oscar.night (1265 words)

	ABC News: Jamie Foxx Wins Best Actor Golden Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jamie Foxx, who is nominated for best actor in a musical or comedy for his work in "Ray," arrives for the 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
		Bening won for best actress in a movie musical or comedy, playing an aging stage diva in 1930s London who plots gleeful revenge against the men in her life.
		"Nip/Tuck" won for best dramatic TV series, while "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" took the Globe for best TV movie or miniseries and Jason Bateman of "Arrested Development" was honored as best actor in a comedy series.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=418020 (888 words)

	Worst Oscar Snub Submission: Humphrey Bogart winning Best Actor over Marlon Brando (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But Brando was equally snubbed for 'Viva Zapata!',as pointed out by Montgomery Clift, and 'Last Tango in Paris', which should be obvious to everyone who is not a moron.
		He, himself chose not to campaign for Best Actor like his competition and his co-stars.
		Of course the performance by the actor contributes to the award, it isn't the humanitarian award show, all I'm saying is that the character of the actor and how the actor translate himself in the industry plays a minor but important part as well.
	www.oscarworld.net /oscarsnubs_read.asp?SnubId=34 (464 words)

	2005 ACADEMY AWARDS: Best actor nominees
		A year after being nominated for "Pirates of the Caribbean," Depp returns to the best actor sweepstakes for his portrayal of J.M. Barrie, the playwright behind "Peter Pan."
		Leo never got the nod for "Titanic" and earns his first best actor nomination starring as billionaire aviator and playboy Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's big-screen biographical epic.
		Eastwood receives his second best actor nomination (the first was for 1992's "Unforgiven") for playing an aging trainer who takes on Hilary Swank's boxing career.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/movies/noms-bar226e_20050126.htm (223 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Bennett play takes theatre prizes
		The Producers was named best musical, Victoria Hamilton was best actress for Suddenly Last Summer and Festen's Rufus Norris was named best director.
		Paul Rhys was its best Shakespearean performer for Measure for Measure at the National Theatre and Christopher Oram won the design award for Suddenly Last Summer.
		Diana Rigg was best actress for Suddenly Last Summer, Dame Judi Dench was best supporting actress for the RSC's All's Well That Ends Well and The History Boys' Samuel Barnett was best supporting actor.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4226795.stm (263 words)

	Entertainment Weekly -- Oscar Nominees Spotlight: Best Actor, Russell Crowe -- 02-23-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In short, Best Actor winner Russell Crowe -- the thinking man's animal -- is the reason we're still talking about ''Gladiator''.
		As Maximus, the fearless swashbuckling Roman general who's reduced to fight-to-the-death slavery by Emperor Marcus Aurelius' evil son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Crowe is a revelation of vengeance -- a mix of Spartacus and Shaft.
		Crowe may have signed on to ''Gladiator'' as one of our most promising actors, but by the end credits he had become something else entirely: a star.
	www.ew.com /ew/oscar2001/spotlight/actor_crowe.html (292 words)

	ABC News: Jamie Foxx Wins Best Actor Oscar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jamie Foxx Wins Best Actor Oscar for His Portrayal of Blues Legend Ray Charles in 'Ray'
		Foxx is nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role for his work in "Ray" and best supporting actor for "Collateral." (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
		LOS ANGELES Feb 27, 2005 — Jamie Foxx won the best-actor Academy Award on Sunday for the title role in "Ray," in which he delivered an uncanny emulation of beloved singer Ray Charles.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=537187 (158 words)

	Walter Huston - Best Supporting Actor: MovieActors.com
		Born in Canada Walter Huston became a hit on Broadway and in Hollywood in the 1920's after many years as an engineer and a struggling actor.
		Walter Huston's other nominations (Best Actor) were for:
		And in 1942 Houston received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.
	www.movieactors.com /winsm/sm48.htm (92 words)

	Foxx Wins Best Actor For 'Ray' Portrayal
		But "Ray" was recognized with an Oscar for best sound mixing, accepted by Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer and Steve Cantamessa.
		In the two major music-related categories, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek won best original score for “Finding Neverland,” while "Al Otro Lado Del Rio” from “The Motorcycle Diaries” was named best original song.
		The latter was performed during the ABC telecast by Antonio Banderas and Carlos Santana.
	billboard.com /bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000818339 (154 words)

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