A blog formerly known as Bookishness / By Charles Matthews

"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Living Oscar Winners for Acting

Bold Roman = Best Actor
Bold Italics = Best Actress 
Roman = Best Supporting Actor
Italics = Best Supporting Actress

Eva Marie Saint 7/4/1924
Lee Grant 10/31/1925*
Estelle Parsons 11/20/1927
Gene Hackman 1/30/1930
Gene Hackman 1/30/1930
Joanne Woodward 2/27/1930
Robert Duvall 1/5/1931
Rita Moreno 12/11/1931
Joel Grey 4/11/1932
Ellen Burstyn 12/7/1932
Michael Caine 3/14/1933
Shirley Jones 3/31/1934
Shirley MacLaine 4/24/1934
George Chakiris 9/16/1934
Sophia Loren 9/20/1934
Judi Dench 12/9/1934
Maggie Smith 12/28/1934
Maggie Smith 12/28/1934
Julie Andrews 10/1/1935
Louis Gossett Jr. 5/27/1936
Vanessa Redgrave 1/30/1937
Jack Nicholson 4/22/1937
Jack Nicholson 4/22/1937
Morgan Freeman 6/1/1937
Dustin Hoffman 8/8/1937
Jane Fonda 12/21/1937
Anthony Hopkins 12/31/1937
Jon Voight 12/29/1938
F. Murray Abraham 10/24/1939
Julie Christie 4/14/1940
Al Pacino 4/25/1940
Faye Dunaway 1/14/1941
Barbra Streisand 4/24/1942
Joe Pesci 2/9/1943
Christopher Walken 3/31/1943
Robert De Niro 8/17/1943
Robert De Niro 8/17/1943
Ben Kingsley 12/31/1943
Michael Douglas 9/25/1944
Brenda Fricker 2/17/1945
Linda Hunt 4/2/1945
Helen Mirren 7/26/1945
Goldie Hawn 11/21/1945
Diane Keaton 1/5/1946
Liza Minnelli 3/12/1946
Cher 5/20/1946
Tommy Lee Jones 9/15/1946
Susan Sarandon 10/4/1946
Sally Field 11/6/1946
Kevin Kline 10/24/1947
Richard Dreyfuss 10/29/1947
Youn Yuh-jung 6/19/1947
Kathy Bates 1/28/1948
Mercedes Ruehl 2/28/1948
Dianne Wiest 3/28/1948
Jeremy Irons 9/19/1948
Jessica Lange 4/20/1949
Jessica Lange 4/20/1949
Jim Broadbent 5/24/1949
Meryl Streep 6/22/1949
Meryl Streep 6/22/1949
Jeff Bridges 12/4/1949
Sissy Spacek 12/25/1949
Geoffrey Rush 7/6/1951
Anjelica Huston 7/8/1951
Chris Cooper 7/9/1951
Roberto Benigni 10/27/1952
Mary Steenburgen 2/8/1953
Kim Basinger 12/8/1953
Denzel Washington 12/28/1954
Denzel Washington 12/28/1954
J.K. Simmons 1/9/1955
Whoopi Goldberg 11/13/1955
Geena Davis 1/21/1956
Tom Hanks 7/9/1956
Christoph Waltz 10/4/1956
Frances McDormand 1/23/1957
Daniel Day-Lewis 4/29/1957
Holly Hunter 3/20/1958
Gary Oldman 3/21/1958
Tim Robbins 10/18/1958
Emma Thompson 4/15/1959
Kevin Spacey 7/26/1959
Kevin Spacey 7/26/1959
Marcia Gay Harden 8/14/1959
Allison Janney 11/19/1959
Mark Rylance 1/18/1960
Timothy Hutton 8/16/1960
Sean Penn 8/17/1960
Colin Firth 9/10/1960
Melissa Leo 9/14/1960
Tilda Swinton 11/5/1960
Julianne Moore 12/3/1960
George Clooney 5/6/1961
Forest Whitaker 7/15/1961
Jodie Foster 11/19/1962
Helen Hunt 6/15/1963
Tatum O'Neal 11/5/1963
Brad Pitt 12/18/1963
Nicolas Cage 1/7/1964
Juliette Binoche 3/9/1964
Russell Crowe 4/7/1964
Sandra Bullock 7/26/1964
Marisa Tomei 12/4/1964
Robert Downey Jr. 4/4/1965
Viola Davis 8/11/1965
Marlee Matlin 8/24/1965
Halle Berry 8/14/1966
Laura Dern 2/10/1967
Benicio del Toro 2/19/1967
Nicole Kidman 6/20/1967
Mira Sorvino 9/28/1967
Julia Roberts 10/28/1967
Mo'Nique 12/11/1967
Jamie Foxx 12/13/1967
Cuba Gooding Jr. 1/2/1968
Patricia Arquette 4/8/1968
Troy Kotsur 7/24/1968
Will Smith 9/25/1968
Sam Rockwell 11/5/1968
Javier Bardem 3/1/1969
Renée Zellweger 4/25/1969
Renée Zellweger 4/25/1969
Cate Blanchett 5/14/1969
Cate Blanchett 5/14/1969
Catherine Zeta-Jones 9/25/1969
Matthew McConaughey 11/4/1969
Rachel Weisz 3/7/1970
Jennifer Connelly 12/12/1970
Regina King 1/15/1971
Jared Leto 12/26/1971
Octavia Spencer 5/25/1972
Jean Dujardin 6/19/1972
Gwyneth Paltrow 9/27/1972
Adrien Brody 4/14/1973
Olivia Colman 1/30/1974
Christian Bale 1/30/1974
Mahershala Ali 2/16/1974
Penélope Cruz 4/28/1974
Hilary Swank 7/30/1974
Joaquin Phoenix 10/28/1974
Leonardo DiCaprio 11/11/1974
Angelina Jolie 6/4/1975
Charlize Theron 8/7/1975
Casey Affleck 8/12/1975
Marion Cotillard 9/30/1975
Kate Winslet 10/5/1975
Reese Witherspoon 3/22/1976
Cillian Murphy 5/25/1976
Jessica Chastain 3/21/1977
Rami Malek 5/12/1981
Natalie Portman 6/9/1981
Jennifer Hudson 9/12/1981
Eddie Redmayne 1/6/1982
Anna Paquin 7/24/1982
Anne Hathaway 11/12/1982
Lupita Nyong'o 3/1/1983
Da'Vine Joy Randolph 5/21/1986 
Alicia Vikander 10/3/1988
Emma Stone 11/6/1988
Daniel Kaluuya 2/24/1989
Brie Larson 10/1/1989
Jennifer Lawrence 8/15/1990
Ariana DeBose 1/25/1991

*Grant's exact date of birth is a well-kept secret. See the Wikipedia article on her for the details. 

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