Oscar for Directing and Nominated for Acting
by Hoekkie | created - 29 Jun 2017 | updated - 07 Jul 2017 | PublicThese five famous artists didn't win the Academy Award for acting, but they did win the Academy Award for directing. Who do you think is the best actor?
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1. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, the son of Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood, a housewife turned IBM operator. He had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing in nearby Piedmont. At school ...
Won:
Best Achievement in Directing - Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Best Director - Unforgiven (1992)
Nominated:
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Unforgiven (1992)
2. Woody Allen
Writer | Manhattan
Woody Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, to Nettie (Cherrie), a bookkeeper, and Martin Konigsberg, a waiter and jewellery engraver. His father was of Russian Jewish descent, and his maternal grandparents were Austrian Jewish immigrants. As a young boy...
Won:
Best Director - Annie Hall (1977)
Nominated:
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Annie Hall (1977)
3. Warren Beatty
Actor | Bonnie and Clyde
Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...
Won:
Best Director - Reds (1981)
Nominated:
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Bugsy (1991)
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Reds (1981)
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
4. Robert Redford
Actor | The Natural
Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha (Hart), from Texas, and Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, who was originally from Connecticut. He is of English, Scottish, Cornish, and Irish ancestry. Robert's mother died in 1955,...
Won:
Best Director - Ordinary People (1980)
Nominated:
Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Sting (1973)
5. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
Won:
Best Director - Dances with Wolves (1990)
Nominated:
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Dances with Wolves (1990)
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