Sep 4, 2023: Research in Progress
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.
Winners: 84 (males); 96 (roles)
Nominees: 160
Total: 244
A: 7
B: 24
C: 26
D: 22
E: 2
F: 18
G: 8
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: /
Total 244
Winners’ names are bolded
OCCUPATIONAL INHERITANCE
A (7)
Abrahams, F. Murray, 1984: No
Affleck, Cassey, 2016: No
Ahmed, Riz: No
Allen, Woody: No
Arkin, Alan (winner of Supp. Actor): No
Arliss, George, 1930
Ayres, Lew:
Abrahams, F. Murray, 1984, No
Affleck, Cassey, 2016, No
Ahmed, Riz (Brit Pakistani): No
Allen, Woody, No
Arkin, Alan (winner of Supp. Actor): No
Arliss, George, 1930, N0
Ayres, Lew: No
B (24)
Bale, Christian (winner of Supp. Actor) (British):
Bancroft, George: N0
Banderas, Antonio
Bardem, Javier (winner of supp. actor): Yes
Barrymore, Lionel: Yes
Barthelmess, Richard: Yes
Bates, Alan: Yes
Baxter, Warner: No
Beatty, Warren: Yes
Beery, Wallace: No
Benigni, Roberto (Italian): No
Bichir, Damien
Bogart, Humphrey: No
Borgnine, Ernest: No
Boseman, Chadwick (2020, black): No
Boyer, Charles (French): No
Branagh, Kenneth (Irish, Brit): No
Brando, Marlon (nominee, supp. actor):
Bridges, Jeff (nominee, supp. actor): Yes
Brody, Adrien (US): No
Brynner, Yul:
Burton, Richard (Wales, Brit): No
Busey, Gary: No Data
Butler, Austin: No
B=24
C (26)
Cage, Nicholas: Yes
Cagney, James: No
Caine, Michael (British) winner of 2 Supp. Actor): No
Calhern, Lewis (also supp): N0
Carney, Art (US):
Carell, Steve: No
Chalamet, Timothee (US/French): Yes?
Chaplin, Charlie: No
Cheadle, Don (Black, US)
Chevalier, Maurice: No
Clift, Montgomery (nominee, supp. actor)
Clooney, George (winner of Supp. Actor)
Colman, Ronald
Conti, Tom
Cooper, Bradley (nominee, supp. actor)
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, Jackie
Costner, Kevin
Courtenay, Tom
Cranston, Bryan
Crawford, Broderick
Crosby, Bing
Crowe, Russell
Cruise, Tom (nominee, supp. actor)
Cumberbatch, Benedict
Curtis, Tony (Jewish): No
C=
D (21)
Dafoe, Willem:
Dailey, Dan:
Damon, Matt:
Day-Lewis, Daniel
Dean, James
De Niro, Robert:
Depardieu, Gerard
Depp, Johnny
Dern, Bruce (nominee, supp.)
Dexter, Gordon
DiCaprio, Leonardo:
Dix, Richard
Donat, Robert
Douglas, Kirk
Douglas, Melvyn (winner of 2 Supp. Actor)
Douglas, Michael
Downey, Robert Jr.
Dreyfuss, Richard
Driver, Adam
DuJardin, Jean
21. Duvall, Robert
E (2)
Eastwood, Clint: No
Ejiofor, Chiwetel: No
F (18)
Farnsworth, Richard:
Farrell, Colin
Fassbender, Michael
Ferrer, Jose (nominee, supp)
Fiennes, Ralph (nominee, supp)
Finch, Peter
Finney, Albert (nominee, supp)
Firth, Colin
Fishburne, Laurence
Fitzgerald, Barry (winner of Supp. Actor)
Fonda, Henry
Fonda, Peter
Ford, Harrison
Foxx, Jamie: No
Franciosa, Anthony
Fraser, Brendan
Freeman, Morgan:
G (8)
Gable, Clark: No
Garfield, Andrew
Garfield, John, working class; father clothes presser and part-time cantor (nominee, supp)
Garner, James
Giannini, Giancarlo
Gosling, Ryan
Grant, Cary
Guinness, Alec:
H (22)
Hackman, Gene:
Hanks, Tom:
Harrelson, Woody:
Harris, Ed:
Harris, Richard
Harrison, Rex
Harvey, Laurence
Hawthorne, Nigel
Heston, Charles
Hoffman, Dustin
Hoffman, Philip Seymour:
Holden, William
Hopkins, Anthony:
Hoskins, Bob
Howard, Leslie
Howard, Terrence
Howard, Trevor
Hudson, Rock
Hulce, Tom
Hurt, John:
Hurt, William:
22. Huston, Walter
I (1)
Irons, Jeremy
J (4)
Jannings, Emil
Jenkins, Richard
Jones, James Earl
Jones, Tommy Lee (winner of Supp. Actor)
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
Langella, Frank
Laughton, Charles
Ledger, Heath (winner of Supp. Actor)
Lemmon, Jack (winner of Supp. Actor)
Lukas, Paul
Lunt, Alfred
M (22)
McConaughey, Matthew
McKellen, Ian (nominee, supp)
McLaglen, Victor (nominee, supp)
McQueen, Steve
March, Fredric
Marvin, Lee
Mascal, Paul
Mason, James (nominee, supp)
Massey, Raymond
Mastroianni, Marcello
Matthau, Walter (winner of Supp. Actor)
Menjou, Adolph
Milland, Ray
Montgomery, Robert
Moody, Ron
Moore, Dudley
Morgan, Frank
Morris, Chester
Mortensen, Vigo
Muni, Paul
22. Murray, Bill
N (7)
Neeson, Liam
Newman, Paul (nominee, supp)
Nicholson, Jack (also winner of Supp Actor)
Nighy, Bill
Niven, David
Nolte, Nick (nom, supp)
Norton, Edward (nom, supp)
O (5)
O’Herlihy, Dan
Olivier, Laurence (nom, supp)
Olmos, Edward James
O’Neal, Ryan
O’Toole, Peter
P (10)
Pacino, Al (nom, supp)
Parks, Larry
Peck, Gregory
Penn, Sean
Phoenix, Joaquin (nom, supp)
Pidgeon, Walter
Pitt, Brad (winner of Supp. Actor)
Poitier, Sidney
Powell, William
Pryce, Jonathan
Q (1)
Quinn, Anthony (winner of 2 Supp. Actor)
R (9)
Rea, Stephen
Redford, Robert
Redmayne, Eddie
Redgrave, Michael
Renner, Jeremy (nom, supp)
Robertson, Cliff
Rooney, Mickey (nom, supp)
Rourke, Mickey
Rush, Geoffrey (nom, supp)
S (13)
Scheider, Roy (nom, supp)
Schell, Maximilian
Scofield, Paul (nom, supp)
Scott, George C. (nom, supp)
Sellers, Peter
Sinatra, Frank (winner, supp)
Smith, Will, 2021
Spacey, Kevin (winner of Supp. Actor)
Stallone, Sylvester
Steiger, Rod (nom, supp)
Stewart, James
Stone, Lewis
Strathairn, David
T (8)
Thornton, Billy Bob (nom, supp)
Tibbett, Lawrence
Todd, Richard
Tone, Franchot
Topol
Tracy, Spencer
Travolta, John
Troisi, Massimo
U
V (2)
Voight, Jon (nom, supp)
Von Sydow, Max
W (15)
Washington, Denzel (winner of Supp. Actor)
Waterston, Sam
Wayne, John
Webb, Clifton
Welles, Orson
Werner, Oskar
Whitaker, Forest
Whitman, Stuart
Whitmore, James
Wilde, Cornell
Wilkinson, Tom
Williams, Robin (winner of Supp. Actor)
Winfield, Paul
Wood, James
Woolley, Monty
Y: 1
Yeun, Steven (2020)