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Academy Award for Best Actor

award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Summary

Academy Award for Best Actor is an award for best leading actor[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of award for best leading actor entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36,627 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Winner: Emil Jannings[3], Warner Baxter[4], George Arliss[5], Lionel Barrymore[6], Wallace Beery[7], Fredric March[8], Charles Laughton[9], Clark Gable[10], Victor McLaglen[11], Paul Muni[12], Spencer Tracy[13], Robert Donat[14], James Stewart[15], Gary Cooper[16]
  • Country: United States[17]
  • Instance of: Academy Awards[18]
  • Commons category: Winners of Academy Award for Best Actor[19]
  • Inception: 1929[20]
  • Official website: https://oscar.go.com/nominees/actor-in-a-leading-role[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Best Actor Academy Award winners[22]
  • Commons gallery: Academy Award for Best Actor[23]
  • Conferred by: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences[24]

Why It Matters

Academy Award for Best Actor has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

FAQs

What awards did Academy Award for Best Actor receive?

Honors received include Emil Jannings[3], Warner Baxter[4], George Arliss[5], and Lionel Barrymore[6].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · CommonsDelinker · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Academy Award for Best Actor
    Official website → https://oscar.go.com/nominees/actor-in-a-leading-role
    Category for recipients of this award → Category:Best Actor Academy Award winners, Category:Films featuring a Best Actor Academy Award–winning performance
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    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Icon: Premio Oscar.png, Removing [[:c:File:Premio_Oscar.png|Premio_Oscar.png]], it has been deleted from Commons by [[:c:User:Infrogmation|Infrogmation]] b"
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