Academy Awards
The Oscars recognise work in film.
Awards & achievements
People in Academy Awards
99 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 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.
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.
ActorSophia Loren
Winning an Oscar for the Italian-language drama Two Women.
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.
ActorLeonardo DiCaprio
Starring in Titanic, Inception and The Revenant.
ActorMichelle Yeoh
Starring in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
ActorViola Davis
Playing Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder and Rose in Fences.
ActorRobert Downey Jr.
Playing Iron Man and winning an Oscar for Oppenheimer.
ActorAl Pacino
Playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather films and Tony Montana in Scarface.
ActorMorgan Freeman
Playing Red in The Shawshank Redemption and bringing a distinctive voice to film narration.
ActorJack Nicholson
Playing memorable outsiders in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Chinatown and The Shining.
ActorAnthony Hopkins
Playing Hannibal Lecter and portraying dementia in The Father.
ActorKatharine Hepburn
Winning four Best Actress Oscars and creating a screen image of independence.
ActorIngrid Bergman
Playing Ilsa in Casablanca and leading films across Swedish, American and Italian cinema.
ActorFrances McDormand
Playing sharply drawn characters in Fargo, Three Billboards and Nomadland.
ActorCate Blanchett
Playing roles from Elizabeth I and Galadriel to the conductor in Tár.
ActorEmma Stone
Winning Oscars for La La Land and Poor Things after breaking through in comedy.
ActorOctavia Spencer
Winning an Oscar for The Help and portraying Dorothy Vaughan in Hidden Figures.
ActorMahershala Ali
Winning supporting-actor Oscars for Moonlight and Green Book.
ActorForest Whitaker
Winning an Oscar as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.
FilmmakerBong Joon-ho
Directing Parasite, the first non-English-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar.
FilmmakerAng Lee
Directing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi.
FilmmakerChloé Zhao
Directing Nomadland and becoming the first woman of colour to win the directing Oscar.
FilmmakerAsghar Farhadi
Directing A Separation and The Salesman, both Academy Award-winning films.
FilmmakerSteven Spielberg
Directing Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.
FilmmakerChristopher Nolan
Directing The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Oppenheimer.
FilmmakerGuillermo del Toro
Creating dark fairy tales including Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.
FilmmakerAlfonso Cuarón
Directing Gravity, Children of Men and Roma.
FilmmakerAlejandro González Iñárritu
Directing Birdman and The Revenant and winning consecutive directing Oscars.
FilmmakerJane Campion
Directing The Piano and The Power of the Dog.
FilmmakerPeter Jackson
Bringing The Lord of the Rings to the screen as a three-film epic.
FilmmakerClint Eastwood
Moving from iconic Western roles to directing Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.
FilmmakerJames Cameron
Directing Titanic and Avatar while advancing large-scale visual filmmaking.
FilmmakerSteven Soderbergh
Directing Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s Eleven across independent and mainstream cinema.
FilmmakerBarry Jenkins
Directing Moonlight, an intimate coming-of-age film that won Best Picture.
FilmmakerKathryn Bigelow
Becoming the first woman to win the directing Oscar, for The Hurt Locker.
FilmmakerJordan Peele
Using horror to explore race and social anxiety in Get Out, Us and Nope.
ActorDaniel Day-Lewis
Winning three Best Actor Oscars for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln.
ActorJamie Foxx
Winning an Oscar for portraying Ray Charles while maintaining careers in comedy and music.
ActorOlivia Colman
Winning an Oscar as Queen Anne in The Favourite after a career spanning comedy and drama.
ActorBrie Larson
Winning an Oscar for Room and playing Captain Marvel.
ActorJessica Chastain
Winning an Oscar for The Eyes of Tammy Faye and leading films including Zero Dark Thirty.
ActorSusan Sarandon
Winning an Oscar for Dead Man Walking and starring in Thelma & Louise.
ActorJennifer Lawrence
Leading The Hunger Games and winning an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook.
ActorWill Smith
Moving from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to global film stardom and an Oscar for King Richard.
ActorJulia Roberts
Starring in Pretty Woman and winning an Oscar for Erin Brockovich.
ActorSidney Poitier
Becoming the first Black winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor.
ActorWes Studi
Bringing commanding Native American characters to major films.
ActorPenélope Cruz
Building an international film career and winning an Oscar for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
ActorChristian Bale
Playing Batman and transforming himself for demanding dramatic roles.
FilmmakerTaika Waititi
Combining offbeat comedy with emotionally direct films such as Jojo Rabbit.
ActorHeath Ledger
Playing the Joker in The Dark Knight and Ennis in Brokeback Mountain.
FilmmakerSidney Lumet
Directing 12 Angry Men, Serpico and Network: tense dramas about justice, power and compromised institutions.
FilmmakerDavid Lean
Directing Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai and other expansive historical epics.
FilmmakerFrank Capra
Directing It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, stories of ordinary people confronting powerful systems.
FilmmakerBilly Wilder
Directing and co-writing Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, mixing sharp comedy with moral discomfort.
FilmmakerJohn Ford
Directing The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath, and winning four Oscars for directing.
FilmmakerWilliam Wyler
Directing Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday and The Best Years of Our Lives, with three directing Oscars across his career.
FilmmakerStanley Kubrick
Directing 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Dr. Strangelove, with meticulous images and unsettling views of human behaviour.
FilmmakerMichelangelo Antonioni
Directing L'Avventura and Blowup, films that made uncertainty and modern alienation central to cinema.
FilmmakerVittorio De Sica
Directing Bicycle Thieves, a defining film of Italian neorealism about poverty, work and a father and son.
FilmmakerAgnès Varda
Pioneering a personal, playful cinema through Cléo from 5 to 7, Vagabond and The Gleaners and I.
FilmmakerLina Wertmüller
Becoming the first woman nominated for the directing Oscar, for Seven Beauties.
FilmmakerDeepa Mehta
Directing the Elements trilogy: Fire, Earth and Water, about desire, Partition and the treatment of widows.
FilmmakerAbderrahmane Sissako
Directing Timbuktu and Bamako, films examining power through the lives of ordinary people.
FilmmakerDavid Fincher
Directing Seven, Fight Club and The Social Network, with exacting visual control and an interest in obsession and power.
ActorMarlon Brando
Playing Stanley Kowalski, Terry Malloy and Vito Corleone in performances that changed screen acting.
FilmmakerFrancis Ford Coppola
Directing The Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now.
ActorElizabeth Taylor
Starring in Cleopatra, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
ActorCharlize Theron
Playing Aileen Wuornos in Monster and Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road.
FilmmakerFred Zinnemann
Directing High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.
ActorHumphrey Bogart
Playing Rick Blaine in Casablanca and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon.