Research in progress, Aug 22, 2023–2540
K: 6
L: 7
M: 22
Total: 35
It includes the nominees of 2020, 2021, 2022
Occupational Inheritance in Acting Profession
Occupational inheritance refers to the phenomenon where sons and daughters follow in the career paths of their parents. This trend has been documented in engineering, medicine, military, and education, but not in the acting profession.
Over the past 95 years of the Academy Awards (first given in 1929), 84 men have won the Best Actor Oscar (some more than once), and 160 men have been nominated.
In 2020, the five nominees were: Riz Ahmed, Chadwick Boseman (black, posthumous), Anthony Hopkins (winner, second Oscar), Gary Oldman (previous winner) Steven Yeun (Asian).
In 2021, the nominees were: Xavier Bardem, Cumberbatch, Andrew Garfield, Will Smith, Denzel Washington
In 2022, the nominees were all first-timers: Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Paul Mescal, Bill Nighy
Summary
A: 7
B: 24
C: 26
D: 21
E: 2
F: 18
G: 9
H: 22
I: 1
J: 4
K: 6
L: 8
M: 22
N: 7
O: 6
P: 10
Q: 1
R: 9
S: 13
T: 8
U: /
V: 2
W: 15
X: /
Y: 1 (Yeun)
Z: /
Winners’ names are bolded
Winners: 84 (males); 96 (roles)
Nominees: 160
Total: 244
Black: 14 out of 244
Winners: 5 out of 84
Nominees: 9 out of 160
Boseman, Chadwick: No
Cheadle, Don (Black): No
Dexter, Gordon
Ejiofor, Chiwetel
Fishburne, Laurence
Foxx, Jamie
Freeman, Morgan
Howard, Terrence
Kaluuya, Daniel
Poitier, Sidney
Smith, Will
Washington, Denzel
Whitaker, Forest
Winfield, Paul
JEWISH
Allen, Woody
Arkin, Alan
Chalamet (half)
Curtis, Tony
Douglas, Kirk
Douglas, Melvin father)
Douglas, Michael
Dreyfuss, Richard
Garfield, Andrew
Garfield. John
Lujas, :aul
Muni. Paul
Newman, Paul
Sellers, Peter
Steiger, Rod
Topol
K (6)
Kaluuya, Daniel (winner, supp)
Keaton, Michael (nominee, supp)
Kelly, Gene
Kennedy, Arthur (nominee, supp)
Kingsley, Ben (nominee, supp)
Knox, Alexander
L (7)
Lancaster, Burt: No
Langella, Frank
Laughton, Charles
Ledger, Heath (winner of Supp. Actor)
Lemmon, Jack (winner of Supp. Actor)
Lukas, Paul, Hungary: No
Lunt, Alfred, US: No
Lancaster, Burt
East Harlem, New York City
Father: Mailman
Grandparents: immigrants
Interest in acrobatics; act with Nick Cravat
Military service
Burt Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and producer. Initially known for playing tough guys with tender heart, he achieved success with more complex, and challenging roles over a 45-year career in films and television series.
He was a four-time nominee for the Best Actor Oscar (winning once), and he also won two BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Lancaster performed as a circus acrobat in the 1930s. After serving in World War II, the 32-year-old Lancaster landed a role in Broadway play and drew the attention of a Hollywood agent. His breakthrough role was in the film noir The Killers in 1946 alongside Ava Gardner. A critical success, it launched both of their careers.
In 1948, Lancaster starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the commercially and critically acclaimed film Sorry, Wrong Number where he portrayed the husband to her bedridden, invalid character. In 1953, Lancaster played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity. A box office smash, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and landed a Best Actor nomination for Lancaster.
In the 1950s, he starred in The Rainmaker (1956), with Katharine Hepburn, earning a Best Actor Globe nomination, and in 1957 he starred in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with frequent co-star Kirk Douglas.
During the 1950s, his production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster was highly successful, with Lancaster acting in Trapeze (1956), box office smash in which he used his acrobatic skills and for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor; Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a dark drama; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), WWII submarine drama with Clark Gable; and Separate Tables (1958), a hotel-set drama which received 7 Oscar nominations.
In the early 1960s, Lancaster starred in a string of critically successful films, each in very disparate roles. Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor.
He played a Nazi war criminal in 1961 in the all-star, war-crime-trial film, Judgment at Nuremberg.
Playing a bird expert prisoner in Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, he earned the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and his third Oscar nomination. In 1963, Lancaster traveled to Italy to star as an Italian prince in Visconti’s epic period drama The Leopard.
In 1964, he played a US Air Force General who, opposed by a Colonel played by Douglas, tries to overthrow the President in Seven Days in May. In 1966, he played an explosives expert in the western The Professionals. Although the reception of his 1968 film The Swimmer was initially lackluster, it has grown in stature critically and attained cult following.
In 1970, Lancaster starred in the box-office hit, air-disaster drama Airport. In 1974 he again starred in a Visconti film, Conversation Piece. He experienced career resurgence in 1980 with the crime-romance Atlantic City, winning the BAFTA for Best Actor and landing his fourth Oscar nomination.
Starting in the late 1970s, he also appeared in TV mini-series, including the award-winning Separate but Equal with Sidney Poitier. He continued acting into his late 70s, until stroke in 1990 forced him to retire; four years later he died from a heart attack. His final film role was in the Oscar-nominated Field of Dreams.
Lancaster was born on November 2, 1913, in New York City, at his parents’ home at 209 East 106th Street, the son of Elizabeth (née Roberts) and mailman James Lancaster.
Both of his parents were Protestants of working-class origin. All 4of his grandparents were emigrants from Ireland, from the province of Ulster. His maternal grandparents were from Belfast and were descendants of English dissenters who had colonized Ireland as part of the Plantation of Ulster.
Lancaster grew up in East Harlem, New York City. He developed great interest and skill in gymnastics while attending DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was a basketball star. Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Lancaster was accepted by New York University with an athletic scholarship, but dropped out.
At age 9, Lancaster met Nick Cravat with whom he developed a lifelong partnership. Together, they learned to act in local theatre productions and circus arts at Union Settlement, one of the city’s oldest settlement houses. In the 1930s, they formed the acrobat duo Lang and Cravat and soon joined the Kay Brothers circus. However, in 1939, an injury forced Lancaster to give up the profession, with great regret. He then found temporary work, first as a salesman for Marshall Fields and then as a singing waiter in various restaurants.
Lukas, Paul, Jewish: No
Hungarian Jewish
Parents: No Data
Adopted by father, advertising exec
Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; May 26, 1894 – August 15, 1971) was Hungarian actor. He won the Best Actor, and the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in the film Watch on the Rhine (1943), reprising the role he had created on Broadway.
Lukas was born Pál Lukács in Budapest into a Hungarian-Jewish family, the son of Adolf Munkácsi and Mária Schneckendorf. He was later adopted by Mária (née Zilahy) and János Lukács, advertising executive.
Lukas made stage debut in Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917. At first, he played elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly he became typecast as a villain. He had a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany, and Austria, where he worked with Max Reinhardt.
He arrived in Hollywood in 1927 and became naturalized citizen of the US in 1937.
In 1935 he built a home near the new Racquet Club of Palm Springs, California.
In the 1930s, appearing in Cukor’s the melodrama Rockabye, the crime caper Grumpy, Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, the comedy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth.
He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series detective Philo Vance, cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in The Casino Murder Case (1935).
His major film success came in Watch on the Rhine (1943), where he played a man working against the Nazis, a role he originated in the Broadway premiere of the play of the same name in 1941. His portrayal of Kurt Mueller, a German émigré with an American wife, played by Bette Davis, was lauded by critics.
He won the Best Actor Oscar for the role. He also received the New York Film Critics Award for his performance.
In 1943, he guest starred as the lead character in an episode of the radio program Suspense, “Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer” as well as the character of a blind composer in the episode “A World of Darkness”.
On 2 April 1944, he starred in “The Steadfast Heart” on Silver Theater.
In the 1940s, Lukas was a charter member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, conservative lobbying group opposed to possible Communist influence in Hollywood.
Lukas also starred as Professor Aronnax in Walt Disney’s version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).
Lukas’ film career continued into the 1960s with 9 films, including Fun in Acapulco with Elvis Presley in 1963 and Lord Jim with Peter O’Toole in 1965. His final film, The Challenge, was released in 1970.
The remainder of his career moved from Hollywood to the stage to television. His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman for over 600 performances (he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film Little Women).
Lukas died 15 August 1971, in Tangier, Morocco, while searching for a place to spend his retirement years. He is buried in Spain.
Lunt, Alfred
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Father: prosperous lumberman and land agent
Mother: No data
Acting in high school and at Carroll College in Waukesha
Emerson College, Boston
Alfred David Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was American actor and director, known for long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, starring in Broadway and West End productions.
After their marriage, they nearly always appeared together. They became known as “the Lunts” and were celebrated.
Although they appeared in classics including The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull and Pygmalion, and dark comedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Lunts were best known for their stylish performances in light comedies by Noël Coward, S. N. Behrman, Terence Rattigan and others, and romantic plays by writers such as Robert E. Sherwood. Lunt directed some of the couple’s productions, and staged plays for other managements. Though they rarely acted for the camera, The Lunts each received an Emmy Award and were nominated for an Academy Award.
The Lunts retired from the stage in 1960, and lived at their home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Lunt died in 1977 and Fontanne in 1983.
Alfred David Lunt, Jr. was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 12, 1892, the son of Alfred David Lunt and his wife Harriet Washburn née Briggs.
Alfred senior was prosperous lumberman and land agent. He died in 1894, leaving more than $500,000 to his family. His widow, an eccentric and willful woman, gradually lost money, and the family moved to Waukesha, where they ran boarding house.
From early age, Lunt had fascination with the theatre. He began acting in high school and at Carroll College in Waukesha.
Considering career as architect, he transferred to Emerson College, Boston, in 1912.
His biographer Jared Brown writes that Lunt “rarely attended classes, having found a job as a minor actor and assistant stage manager with the Castle Square Theatre in Boston”.[1] He made his first professional stage appearance there on October 7, 1912, as the Sheriff in The Aviator, and remained as a member of the stock company for two years.
In 1914, Lunt toured with Margaret Anglin in Beverley’s Balance, remaining with her company for 18 months, appearing in Green Stockings, As You Like It, Iphigenia in Tauris and Medea. He toured with Lillie Langtry, Laura Hope Crews and Anglin again.
In 1917, he made Broadway debut with Crews’s company, playing Claude Estabrook in Romance and Arabella. He appeared in summer stock season in Washington, D.C., where he met Lynn Fontanne, rising young English actress. They fell in love, although Lunt’s wooing was more hesitant than Fontanne would have wished.
In 1919, Lunt had his first important role in Booth Tarkington’s comedy Clarence (1919), which ran on Broadway for 300 performances.
In May 1922, he married Fontanne, and in 1923 they made their first appearance together in Broadway production, revival of Paul Kester’s 1900 costume drama Sweet Nell of Old Drury.
