Academy Awards
The Oscars recognise work in film.
Awards & achievements
People in Academy Awards
34 profiles
ActorAngelina Jolie
Playing Lara Croft and Maleficent.
ActorBrad Pitt
Playing Tyler Durden and producing 12 Years a Slave.
ActorJon Voight
Starring in Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.
ActorAudrey Hepburn
Playing Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
FilmmakerAkira Kurosawa
Directing Seven Samurai and Rashomon.
ActorMeryl Streep
Playing Sophie, Miranda Priestly and Margaret Thatcher.
FilmmakerHayao Miyazaki
Directing Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.
ActorNicolas Cage
Starring in Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off and National Treasure.
ActorPaul Newman
Starring in The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
ActorClark Gable
Playing Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.
ActorLupita Nyong'o
Playing Patsey in 12 Years a Slave and Nakia in Black Panther.
FilmmakerSpike Lee
Directing Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.
ActorGary Oldman
Playing Sirius Black, Commissioner Gordon and George Smiley.
FilmmakerQuentin Tarantino
Writing and directing Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.
ActorBette Davis
Playing formidable, complicated women in films including All About Eve.
ActorMary Pickford
Becoming a silent-film star who also helped take control of film distribution.
ActorHenry Fonda
Playing principled Americans in The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men.
ActorHattie McDaniel
Becoming the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
ActorNicole Kidman
Starring in Moulin Rouge!, The Hours and Big Little Lies.
ActorTom Hanks
Playing Forrest Gump, Captain Miller and the voice of Woody.
ActorHalle Berry
Becoming the first Black woman to win the leading-actress Oscar.
ActorRobert De Niro
Playing the volatile leads of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.
ActorSophia Loren
Winning an Oscar for the Italian-language drama Two Women.
ActorGwyneth Paltrow
Winning an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love and playing Pepper Potts.
ActorJulie Andrews
Playing Mary Poppins and Maria in The Sound of Music, with a voice inseparable from both films.
ActorKate Winslet
Playing Rose in Titanic and emotionally complex women in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
ActorVivien Leigh
Playing Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
ActorSally Field
Moving from television comedy to Oscar-winning performances in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart.
ActorGrace Kelly
Starring in Hitchcock thrillers before becoming Princess of Monaco.
ActorWhoopi Goldberg
Combining dramatic roles, comedy and television, from The Color Purple to Sister Act.
FilmmakerMartin Scorsese
Directing Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, films about ambition, violence and guilt.
ActorJulianne Moore
Playing complex, vulnerable women in films including Boogie Nights, Far from Heaven and Still Alice.
ActorJane Fonda
Starring in Klute, Coming Home and 9 to 5, alongside a long public life in activism.
ActorDenzel Washington
Starring in Malcolm X, Training Day and Glory, with major roles on both screen and stage.