List of oldest living Academy Award winners and nominees
This is a list of oldest living Academy Award winners and nominees. This also contains a list of earliest surviving Academy Award winners and nominees.
This information is current as of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 9, 2020, which honored the best films of 2019. This list encompasses Academy Awards in directing and acting categories only.
Oldest living winners
Academy Award | Oldest Living Winner | Date of Birth | Current Age |
---|---|---|---|
Best Director | Clint Eastwood | May 31, 1930 | 90 years old |
Best Actor | Sidney Poitier[1] | February 20, 1927 | 93 years old |
Best Actress | Joanne Woodward | February 27, 1930 | 90 years old |
Best Supporting Actor | Christopher Plummer | December 13, 1929 | 90 years old |
Best Supporting Actress | Eva Marie Saint[2] | July 4, 1924 | 96 years old |
Oldest living nominees
Academy Award | Oldest Living Nominee | Date of Birth | Current Age |
---|---|---|---|
Best Director | Norman Jewison | July 21, 1926 | 94 years old |
Best Actor | Sidney Poitier | February 20, 1927 | 93 years old |
Best Actress | Cicely Tyson | December 19, 1924 | 95 years old |
Best Supporting Actor | Hal Holbrook | February 17, 1925 | 95 years old |
Best Supporting Actress | Glynis Johns | October 5, 1923 | 96 years old |
Earliest surviving winners
Academy Award | Earliest Surviving Winner | Award Ceremony | Years Ago |
---|---|---|---|
Best Director | William Friedkin | 44th Academy Awards (1971) | 49 years ago |
Best Actor | Sidney Poitier | 36th Academy Awards (1963) | 57 years ago |
Best Actress | Joanne Woodward | 30th Academy Awards (1957) | 63 years ago |
Best Supporting Actor | George Chakiris | 34th Academy Awards (1961) | 59 years ago |
Best Supporting Actress | Eva Marie Saint | 27th Academy Awards (1954) | 66 years ago |
Earliest surviving nominees
Academy Award | Earliest Surviving Nominee | Award Ceremony | Years Ago |
---|---|---|---|
Best Director | Claude Lelouch | 39th Academy Awards (1966) | 54 years ago |
Best Actor | Sidney Poitier | 31st Academy Awards (1958) | 62 years ago |
Best Actress | Leslie Caron | 26th Academy Awards (1953) | 67 years ago |
Best Supporting Actor | Don Murray | 29th Academy Awards (1956) | 64 years ago |
Best Supporting Actress | Angela Lansbury | 17th Academy Awards (1944) | 76 years ago |
Superlatives
Among the oldest living and earliest surviving winners and nominees of Academy Awards in directing and acting categories, the following superlatives emerge:
Superlative | Name | Date of Birth | Current Age |
---|---|---|---|
Oldest Living Winner | Eva Marie Saint | July 4, 1924 | 96 years old |
Oldest Living Nominee | Glynis Johns | October 5, 1923 | 96 years old |
Superlative | Name | Award Ceremony | Years Ago |
Earliest Surviving Winner | Eva Marie Saint | 27th Academy Awards (1954) | 66 years ago |
Earliest Surviving Nominee | Angela Lansbury | 17th Academy Awards (1944) | 76 years ago |
Chronology of record holders
Oldest living Academy Award winners and nominees
Date | Best Actor Winner |
Best Actor Nominee |
Best Actress Winner |
Best Actress Nominee |
Best Supporting Actor Winner |
Best Supporting Actor Nominee |
Best Supporting Actress Winner |
Best Supporting Actress Nominee |
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May 16, 1929 | Emil Jannings | Emil Jannings | Janet Gaynor | Louise Dresser | ||||
April 3, 1930 | Lewis Stone | Mary Pickford | ||||||
November 5, 1930 | George Arliss | George Arliss | ||||||
November 10, 1931 | Marie Dressler | Marie Dressler | ||||||
March 16, 1934 | May Robson | |||||||
July 28, 1934 | Mary Pickford | |||||||
March 4, 1937 | Walter Brennan | Basil Rathbone | Gale Sondergaard | Maria Ouspenskaya | ||||
March 10, 1938 | H. B. Warner | Alice Brady | May Whitty | |||||
February 27, 1941 | Albert Bassermann | Jane Darwell | ||||||
February 26, 1942 | Louise Dresser | Donald Crisp | ||||||
March 2, 1944 | Charles Coburn | |||||||
March 2, 1944 | Lionel Barrymore | Lionel Barrymore | ||||||
May 29, 1948 | Maria Ouspenskaya | |||||||
December 3, 1949 | Lucile Watson | |||||||
March 29, 1951 | Josephine Hull | Josephine Hull | ||||||
May 15, 1952 | Henry Travers | |||||||
November 15, 1954 | Victor McLaglen | George Bancroft | ||||||
October 2, 1956 | Victor McLaglen | |||||||
March 12, 1957 | Ethel Barrymore | Lucile Watson | ||||||
June 18, 1959 | Jane Darwell | |||||||
November 7, 1959 | Paul Lukas | Maurice Chevalier | ||||||
August 30, 1961 | Donald Crisp | |||||||
June 24, 1962 | Jane Darwell | |||||||
April 24, 1965 | Lynn Fontanne | |||||||
October 18, 1965 | Donald Crisp | |||||||
August 13, 1967 | Margaret Rutherford | Billie Burke | ||||||
May 14, 1970 | Spring Byington | |||||||
August 15, 1971 | Fredric March | |||||||
September 7, 1971 | Edith Evans | |||||||
January 1, 1972 | Charles Chaplin | |||||||
May 22, 1972 | Ruth Gordon | |||||||
May 25, 1974 | George Burns | Stanley Holloway | ||||||
April 14, 1975 | James Cagney | |||||||
October 14, 1976 | ||||||||
December 25, 1977 | William Powell | Beulah Bondi | ||||||
May 29, 1979 | Shirley Booth | |||||||
January 11, 1981 | Lillian Gish | |||||||
January 30, 1982 | Sam Jaffe | |||||||
July 30, 1983 | Elisabeth Bergner | |||||||
March 5, 1984 | Walter Pidgeon | |||||||
March 24, 1984 | ||||||||
September 25, 1984 | James Cagney | George Burns | ||||||
August 28, 1985 | Helen Hayes | |||||||
March 30, 1986 | Laurence Olivier | Cary Grant | ||||||
May 12, 1986 | Shirley Booth | |||||||
November 29, 1986 | Alexander Knox | |||||||
July 11, 1989 | Rex Harrison | |||||||
June 2, 1990 | James Stewart | |||||||
October 16, 1992 | Helen Hayes | Helen Hayes | ||||||
February 27, 1993 | Lilia Skala | |||||||
March 17, 1993 | Claudette Colbert | Claudette Colbert | Claire Trevor | |||||
December 18, 1994 | Ann Sothern | |||||||
April 25, 1995 | Lew Ayres | |||||||
March 9, 1996 | John Gielgud | John Gielgud | ||||||
July 30, 1996 | Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn | ||||||
December 30, 1996 | James Stewart | |||||||
July 2, 1997 | Alec Guinness | Alec Guinness | ||||||
April 8, 2000 | Wendy Hiller | |||||||
May 21, 2000 | John Mills | Eddie Albert | ||||||
August 5, 2000 | Gregory Peck | Anthony Quinn | ||||||
March 15, 2001 | Gloria Stuart | |||||||
June 3, 2001 | Gregory Peck | |||||||
May 14, 2003 | Mercedes McCambridge | |||||||
June 12, 2003 | Ernest Borgnine | Kirk Douglas | ||||||
June 29, 2003 | Luise Rainer | Luise Rainer | ||||||
March 2, 2004 | Celeste Holm | |||||||
April 23, 2005 | Karl Malden | |||||||
May 26, 2005 | Karl Malden | |||||||
July 1, 2009 | George Kennedy | Kevin McCarthy | ||||||
September 11, 2010 | Joe Mantell | |||||||
September 26, 2010 | Juanita Moore | |||||||
September 29, 2010 | Mickey Rooney | |||||||
July 8, 2012 | Sidney Poitier | |||||||
July 15, 2012 | Dorothy Malone | |||||||
January 1, 2014 | Olivia de Havilland | |||||||
April 6, 2014 | Theodore Bikel | |||||||
December 30, 2014 | Olivia de Havilland | Olivia de Havilland | ||||||
July 21, 2015 | Hal Holbrook | |||||||
February 28, 2016 | Martin Landau | |||||||
July 15, 2017 | Christopher Plummer | |||||||
January 19, 2018 | Eva Marie Saint | |||||||
February 5, 2020 | Sidney Poitier | |||||||
July 26, 2020 | Joanne Woodward | Cicely Tyson | Glynis Johns |
See also
References
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