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Oscar Actor to Movie

These actors won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Name the movie they starred in that won them the award.
Year = year of release, not of Oscar ceremony
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First submittedMarch 20, 2015
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Actor
Year
Movie
Will Smith
2021
King Richard
Joaquin Phoenix
2019
Joker
Leonardo DiCaprio
2015
The Revenant
Matthew McConaughey
2013
Dallas Buyers Club
Daniel Day-Lewis
2012
Lincoln
Colin Firth
2010
The King's Speech
Sean Penn
2008
Milk
Forest Whitaker
2006
The Last King of
Scotland
Jamie Foxx
2004
Ray
Denzel Washington
2001
Training Day
Actor
Year
Movie
Russell Crowe
2000
Gladiator
Nicolas Cage
1995
Leaving Las Vegas
Tom Hanks
1994
Forrest Gump
1993
Philadelphia
Dustin Hoffman
1988
Rain Man
Michael Douglas
1987
Wall Street
Ben Kingsley
1982
Gandhi
Marlon Brando
1972
The Godfather
George C. Scott
1970
Patton
Gregory Peck
1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
DorkmeisterBlu
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Level 72
May 27, 2015
Daniel Day-Lewis also won Best Actor for My left foot and There will be blood, and Sean Penn won for Mystic river.
ander217
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Level 75
May 27, 2015
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camus
+7
Level 78
May 27, 2015
And Brando won for On the Waterfront, and Hoffman for Kramer vs. Kramer. But the quiz doesn't have to be about all the films which the actors won Oscars for.
jmellor13
+5
Level 67
Jun 1, 2015
I would agree, but it seems odd that both of Tom Hanks's wins are included, but only one for everyone else.
PoetsCorner
+4
Level 85
Jun 7, 2022
I came to the comments to say the same. Six two-time winners but only one gets acknowledged as such.
DanJS
+3
Level 74
Aug 30, 2017
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ander217
+1
Level 75
May 27, 2015
Totally blanked on Denzel Washington, only one I missed.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
May 27, 2015
Only one I missed, too, and am surprised by it. Of all the good roles he's had, he got a statue for Training Day? hm..
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
May 28, 2015
To be honest I barely remember that movie. I'll take your word for it.
PoetsCorner
+5
Level 85
Jun 7, 2022
Denzel Washington won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor of 1989 for Glory. FAR more well-deserved than his Training Day Oscar.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Jun 18, 2022
I rewatched both Training Day and Glory recently and agree with Poets.
howard38
+1
Level 61
Aug 30, 2017
Crappy movie but Washington did well with what he was given.
Jacktheguy
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Level 89
Aug 30, 2017
In my opinion, he was the best part of the movie. Everything else was just... mediocre at best.
divantilya
+2
Level 37
Mar 8, 2018
He does well in all of his movies. He should have won for Malcolm X.

When, at the end of the movie, they flashed photos of the real Malcolm, it took me a few seconds to recognize him. That's how powerful Denzel's portrayal of him was.

PoetsCorner
+1
Level 85
Jun 7, 2022
I love Malcolm X and thought it should have won Best Picture that year (wasn't even nominated, sadly) but I always felt the Academy got it right with Pacino. It was his 8th nomination and he'd still never won. Denzel already had one. Moreover, while Pacino's problem is that he's been giving some version of his Scent of a Woman performance ever since. But it was pretty great the first time.
PorcNBeanz
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Level 57
May 29, 2015
The real travesty here is how did the Academy ever let Nick Cage win a best actor Oscar? He would perennially be at the top of my worst actor list.
drLuigi
+4
Level 45
May 30, 2015
He wasn't this bad back in the day
jmellor13
+4
Level 67
Aug 30, 2017
It's not about an actor's total body of work (at least, it shouldn't be). It's about who had the best performance that year. Cage was really good in Leaving Las Vegas. He's been really good in a few films (Adaptation comes to mind), but those performances are overshadowed by his many ridiculous and terrible performances. His problems are that he will be in anything and he has no subtlety. That's usually killer for an actor, but in the right role, it can work as an advantage.
PoetsCorner
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Level 85
Jun 7, 2022
Although I personally would have given Best Actor of 1995 to Sean Penn for Dead Man Walking, I admit it's pretty hard to argue with Cage in Leaving Las Vegas. A career high for sure.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 89
Aug 30, 2017
The last good movie he's been in was a movie called Joe, released back in 2014 and has an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. Everything else after that is either meh or complete crap.
CMJ
+2
Level 54
Sep 7, 2017
I feel the same way about Sandra Bullock. That we can use "academy award winner" before her name makes my skin crawl. She can't act her way out of a ripped paper bag.
Djilas
+3
Level 82
Nov 18, 2019
It's really a different case, Cage genuinely made some great roles, while Bullock is just loved by America but hasn't done anything special.
cledun2
+2
Level 89
Jun 8, 2022
Nic cage deserves a best actor award for every film he has done
WillemLAif
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Level 76
Jun 11, 2022
It's fashionable to trash Cage, but he does variety and you've got to respect that. Most actors simply get typecast, end of story. Personally, I think that's genuinely sad.

That said, the guy's pretty massive financial issues must have played a role in his selection of roles of late. Wherever and whatever the money comes from. A lot of that is bound to be a steaming heap of you-know-what. A bit like Willis collecting for his retirement just before revealing his brain damage and killing the career. And to think that Stallone was whining the guy was greedy and lazy, not even bothering to learn his lines, while in fact he couldn't...

zimba
+1
Level 50
Jun 2, 2015
I don't know what went wrong with Cage, but at one time he was a very good actor. Now he's making straight to video crap like Left Behind. Unbelievable.
leckscheid
+1
Level 37
Jun 9, 2015
Left Behind actually made it into theaters. The Kirk Cameron ones were direct to video
Yossarian
+1
Level 64
Aug 30, 2017
Nick Cage has to pay off them tax bills somehow!
howard38
+1
Level 61
Aug 30, 2017
A lot of good and even great actors get relegated to B-movie status for one reason or another. Shitty movies can make such actors look like hacks.
Archer1212
+1
Level 63
Aug 30, 2017
nailed it with 2:28 left.
jmellor13
+2
Level 67
Aug 30, 2017
This seems as good a place as any to drop my favorite Oscars trivia question. There are six actors who have won both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor: Denzel, Kevin Spacey, De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon.

There might be one more...

Jacktheguy
+1
Level 89
Aug 30, 2017
Just checked. Those are the only six.
POOCH
+1
Level 73
May 31, 2018
I'm just happy to see one of my two favorites of all time, "To Kill a Mockingbird", receive a mention. Maybe my other favorite, "Gentlemen's Agreement", will make the best picture category.
manOFsteel
+1
Level 44
Sep 26, 2017
Missed Forrest Gump. *facepalm*

But how did Denzel not win for Remember the Titans

cornflakesfu
+4
Level 86
Jul 20, 2018
I guess they forgot! *ba-dum tish*

I'm here all week, folks.

PoetsCorner
+1
Level 85
Jun 7, 2022
VERY stiff competition that year:

Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls

Russell Crowe for Gladiator

Tom Hanks for Cast Away

Ed Harris for Pollock

Geoffrey Rush for Quills

cpgatbyu
+1
Level 85
Jun 7, 2022
Whee! Three Kings!
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jun 8, 2022
Easiest way to get an Oscar. Get in a king movie.
WillemLAif
+1
Level 76
Jun 11, 2022
Or, stay in the game long enough and they "have to" give you one (as one of the older actors commented on his Oscar from "not one of his better movies").
Dimby
+2
Level 77
Jun 13, 2022
Best caveat ever. I love you quizmaster!
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Feb 15, 2023
Dallas Buyer's Club was somewhere at the back of my brain but I couldn't retrieve it. Otherwise just missed Patton
FatSpartanJediLlama
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Level 67
Sep 17, 2023
I like how it does the confetti now when you get 100%
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