International Presence
There is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
- Australia: Peter Finch (born in England), Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe (born in New Zealand)
- Austria: Paul Muni, Maximilian Schell
- The Bahamas: Sidney Poitier (Poitier was born in the United States to Bahamian parents and spent his childhood in the Bahamas.)
- France: Jean Dujardin
- Germany: Emil Jannings
- Hungary: Paul Lukas
- Ireland: Daniel Day-Lewis (Day-Lewis is English but holds dual citizenship of Ireland and the United Kingdom.)
- Italy: Roberto Benigni
- Puerto Rico: José Ferrer
- Russia: Yul Brynner
- United Kingdom: George Arliss, Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert Donat, Colin Firth, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Charles Laughton, Victor McLaglen, Ray Milland, David Niven, Paul Scofield
There have been two years in which all four of the top acting Academy Awards were presented to non-Americans.
- At the 37th Academy Awards (1964), the winners were Rex Harrison (British), Julie Andrews (British), Peter Ustinov (British), and Lila Kedrova (Russian-born French).
- At the 80th Academy Awards (2007), the winners were Daniel Day-Lewis (British and Irish), Marion Cotillard (French), Javier Bardem (Spanish), and Tilda Swinton (British).
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