Secret to win an acting Oscar

(By Saswat Mishra AKA Raja)

Winning an acting Oscar either in leading or supporting is every artist’s dream. But a few succeed to make it. In fact, many actors and actresses have won their respective Oscar by portraying a real person. All the male actors who have won all the major awards (Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG and critic’s choice) for a single performance have portrayed a real person except Daniel-Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood.

Here are the actors who have won the Oscar for portraying the biographical characters outstandingly in the last decade.

83^rd Oscars

Colin Firth – King George VI (Beat Actor)

Christian Bale – Dicky Eklund (Best Supporting Actor)

Melissa Leo – Alice Ward (Best Supporting Actress)

82^nd Oscars

Sandra Bullock – Leigh Anne Tuohy (Best Actress)

81^st Oscars

Sean Penn – Harvey Milk (Beat Actor)

80^th Oscars

Marion Cotillard – Edith Piaf (Best Actress)

79^th Oscars

Forest Whitaker – Idi Amin (Beat Actor)

Helen Mirren – Queen Elizabeth II (Best Actress)

78^th Oscars

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Truman Capote (Beat Actor)

Reese Witherspoon – June Carter Cash (Best Actress)

77^th Oscars

Jamie Foxx – Ray Charles (Beat Actor)

Cate Blanchett – Katharine Hepburn (Best Supporting Actress)

76^th Oscars

Charlize Theron – Aileen Wuornos (Best Actress)

 75^th Oscars

Adrein Brody – Wladyslaw Szpilman (Beat Actor)

Nicole Kidman – Virginia Woolf (Best Actress)

Chris Cooper – John Laroche (Best Supporting Actor)

 74^th Oscars

Jim Broadbent – John Bayley (Best Supporting Actor)

Jennifer Connelly – Alicia Nash (Best Supporting Actress)