Oscar Winning Portrayals of Real People

1937-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Captain Alfred Dreyfus (The Life of Emile Zola)

1940-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Judge Roy Bean (The Westerner)

1952-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Eufemio Zapata (Viva Zapata!)

1956-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Paul Gaugin (Lust for Life)

1959-Best Supporting Actress
Role: Petronella van Daan/Auguste van Pels (The Diary of Anne Frank)

1960-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Lentulus Batiatus (Spartacus)

1962-Best Supporting Actress
Role: Helen Keller (The Miracle Worker)

1967-Best Supporting Actress
Role: Blanche Barrow (Bonnie & Clyde)

1976-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Ben Bradlee (All the President's Men)

1977-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Dashiell Hammett (Julia)

1984-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Dith Pran (The Killing Fields)

1994-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Bela Lugosi (Ed Wood)

1998-Best Supporting Actress
Role: Queen Elizabeth I (Shakespeare in Love)

2001-Best Supporting Actress
Role: Alicia Nash (A Beautiful Mind)

2004-Best Supporting Actress
Role: Katherine Hepburn (The Aviator)

2010-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Dicky Eklund (The Fighter)

2015-Best Supporting Actress
Role: Gerda Wegener (The Danish Girl)

2015-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Rudolf Abel (Bridge of Spies)

2018-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Don Shirley (Greenbook)

2020-Best Supporting Actor
Role: Fred Hampton (Judas and the Black Messiah)