List of oldest living Academy Award winners and nominees
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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[edit]
| Academy Award | Oldest living winner | Date of birth | Current age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood | May 31, 1930 | 94 years old |
| Best Actor | Sidney Poitier[1] | February 20, 1927 | 97 years old |
| Best Actress | Joanne Woodward | February 27, 1930 | 94 years old |
| Best Supporting Actor | Gene Hackman | January 30, 1930 | 94 years old |
| Best Supporting Actress | Eva Marie Saint[2] | July 4, 1924 | 100 years old |
Oldest living nominees[edit]
| Academy Award | Oldest living nominee | Date of birth | Current age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Director | Norman Jewison | July 21, 1926 | 98 years old |
| Best Actor | Sidney Poitier | February 20, 1927 | 97 years old |
| Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | October 16, 1929 | 95 years old |
| Best Supporting Actor | Don Murray | July 31, 1929 | 95 years old |
| Best Supporting Actress | Glynis Johns | October 5, 1923 | 101 years old |
Earliest surviving winners[edit]
| Academy Award | Earliest surviving winner | Award ceremony | Years ago |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Director | William Friedkin | 44th Academy Awards (1971) | 53 years ago |
| Best Actor | Sidney Poitier | 36th Academy Awards (1963) | 61 years ago |
| Best Actress | Joanne Woodward | 30th Academy Awards (1957) | 67 years ago |
| Best Supporting Actor | George Chakiris | 34th Academy Awards (1961) | 63 years ago |
| Best Supporting Actress | Eva Marie Saint | 27th Academy Awards (1954) | 70 years ago |
Earliest surviving nominees[edit]
| Academy Award | Earliest surviving nominee | Award ceremony | Years ago |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Director | Claude Lelouch | 39th Academy Awards (1966) | 58 years ago |
| Best Actor | Sidney Poitier | 31st Academy Awards (1958) | 66 years ago |
| Best Actress | Leslie Caron | 26th Academy Awards (1953) | 71 years ago |
| Best Supporting Actor | Don Murray | 29th Academy Awards (1956) | 68 years ago |
| Best Supporting Actress | Angela Lansbury | 17th Academy Awards (1944) | 80 years ago |
Superlatives[edit]
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 | 100 years old |
| Oldest Living Nominee | Glynis Johns | October 5, 1923 | 101 years old |
| Superlative | Name | Award ceremony | Years ago |
| Earliest Surviving Winner | Eva Marie Saint | 27th Academy Awards (1954) | 70 years ago |
| Earliest Surviving Nominee | Angela Lansbury | 17th Academy Awards (1944) | 80 years ago |
Chronology of oldest living winners and nominees[edit]
| Date | Best Director Winner |
Best Director Nominee |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1929 | Frank Borzage | Herbert Brenon | Emil Jannings | Emil Jannings | Janet Gaynor | Louise Dresser | ||||
| April 3, 1930 | Frank Lloyd | Lionel Barrymore | 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 | Herbert Brenon | Victor McLaglen | George Bancroft | |||||||
| October 2, 1956 | Victor McLaglen | |||||||||
| March 12, 1957 | Ethel Barrymore | Lucile Watson | ||||||||
| June 21, 1958 | Cecil B. DeMille | |||||||||
| January 21, 1959 | Henry King | |||||||||
| June 18, 1959 | Jane Darwell | |||||||||
| November 7, 1959 | Paul Lukas | Maurice Chevalier | ||||||||
| August 10, 1960 | Michael Curtiz | |||||||||
| August 30, 1961 | Donald Crisp | |||||||||
| April 11, 1962 | John Ford | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| August 31, 1973 | Lewis Milestone | |||||||||
| May 25, 1974 | George Burns | Stanley Holloway | ||||||||
| April 14, 1975 | James Cagney | |||||||||
| October 14, 1976 | Beulah Bondi | |||||||||
| December 25, 1977 | William Powell | |||||||||
| May 29, 1979 | Shirley Booth | |||||||||
| september 25, 1980 | Frank Capra | |||||||||
| January 11, 1981 | Lillian Gish | |||||||||
| January 30, 1982 | Sam Jaffe | |||||||||
| June 29, 1982 | Clarence Brown | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| August 17, 1987 | Mervyn LeRoy | |||||||||
| September 13, 1987 | Frank Capra | |||||||||
| July 11, 1989 | Rex Harrison | |||||||||
| June 2, 1990 | James Stewart | |||||||||
| September 3, 1991 | Billy Wilder | Jean Negulesco | ||||||||
| October 16, 1992 | Helen Hayes | Helen Hayes | ||||||||
| February 27, 1993 | Lilia Skala | |||||||||
| March 17, 1993 | Claudette Colbert | Claudette Colbert | Claire Trevor | |||||||
| July 18, 1993 | Billy Wilder | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| March 27, 2002 | Elia Kazan | Elia Kazan | ||||||||
| May 14, 2003 | Mercedes McCambridge | |||||||||
| June 12, 2003 | Ernest Borgnine | Kirk Douglas | ||||||||
| June 29, 2003 | Luise Rainer | Luise Rainer | ||||||||
| September 28, 2003 | Robert Wise | Jules Dassin | ||||||||
| March 2, 2004 | Celeste Holm | |||||||||
| April 23, 2005 | Karl Malden | |||||||||
| May 26, 2005 | Karl Malden | |||||||||
| September 14, 2005 | Delbert Mann | |||||||||
| November 11, 2007 | Richard Attenborough | |||||||||
| March 31, 2008 | Jack Cardiff | |||||||||
| March 31, 2008 | Michael Anderson | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| August 24, 2014 | Clint Eastwood | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| April 25, 2018 | Franco Zeffirelli | |||||||||
| June 15, 2019 | Norman Jewison | |||||||||
| February 5, 2020 | Sidney Poitier | |||||||||
| July 26, 2020 | Joanne Woodward | Cicely Tyson | Glynis Johns | |||||||
| January 23, 2021 | Don Murray | |||||||||
| January 28, 2021 | Fernanda Montenegro | |||||||||
| February 5, 2021 | Gene Hackman |
Chronology of earliest surviving winners and nominees[edit]
| Date | Best Director Winner |
Best Director Nominee |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1929 | Lewis Milestone | King Vidor | Emil Jannings | Charles Chaplin | Janet Gaynor | Janet Gaynor | ||||
| March 4, 1937 | Walter Brennan | Walter Brennan | Gale Sondergaard | Bonita Granville | ||||||
| January 2, 1950 | Warner Baxter | |||||||||
| May 7, 1951 | Lionel Barrymore | |||||||||
| November 15, 1954 | Fredric March | |||||||||
| September 21, 1974 | Harold Russell | Ralph Bellamy | ||||||||
| April 14, 1975 | James Stewart | |||||||||
| December 25, 1977 | Jackie Cooper | |||||||||
| September 25, 1980 | Norman Taurog | |||||||||
| April 7, 1981 | Frank Capra | |||||||||
| November 1, 1982 | Clarence Brown | |||||||||
| September 14, 1984 | Helen Hayes | Bessie Love | ||||||||
| August 14, 1985 | Mary Astor | |||||||||
| April 26, 1986 | Greta Garbo | |||||||||
| August 17, 1987 | Frank Capra | |||||||||
| September 25, 1987 | Teresa Wright | |||||||||
| October 11, 1988 | Claire Trevor | |||||||||
| April 15, 1990 | Marlene Dietrich | |||||||||
| September 3, 1991 | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | ||||||||
| November 29, 1991 | Robert Morley | |||||||||
| May 6, 1992 | Helen Hayes | |||||||||
| June 3, 1992 | Hume Cronyn | |||||||||
| March 17, 1993 | Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn | ||||||||
| July 2, 1997 | Marlon Brando | |||||||||
| April 8, 2000 | Olivia de Havilland | |||||||||
| January 29, 2002 | Karl Malden | |||||||||
| March 27, 2002 | Elia Kazan | Elia Kazan | ||||||||
| June 15, 2003 | Richard Widmark | |||||||||
| June 29, 2003 | Luise Rainer | Luise Rainer | ||||||||
| September 28, 2003 | Delbert Mann | Delbert Mann | ||||||||
| April 3, 2004 | Ernest Borgnine | |||||||||
| March 6, 2005 | Celeste Holm | |||||||||
| November 11, 2007 | Mike Nichols | Michael Anderson | ||||||||
| March 24, 2008 | James Whitmore | |||||||||
| February 6, 2009 | Kevin McCarthy | |||||||||
| July 1, 2009 | George Chakiris | |||||||||
| September 11, 2010 | Joe Mantell | |||||||||
| September 29, 2010 | Don Murray | |||||||||
| May 3, 2011 | Mickey Rooney | |||||||||
| July 8, 2012 | Maximilian Schell | |||||||||
| July 15, 2012 | Eva Marie Saint | |||||||||
| February 1, 2014 | Sidney Poitier | |||||||||
| April 6, 2014 | Kirk Douglas | |||||||||
| November 19, 2014 | William Friedkin | |||||||||
| December 30, 2014 | Olivia de Havilland | Olivia de Havilland | ||||||||
| April 18, 2018 | Claude Lelouch | |||||||||
| February 5, 2020 | Sidney Poitier | |||||||||
| July 26, 2020 | Joanne Woodward | Leslie Caron | Angela Lansbury |
See also[edit]
- List of Academy Award records
- List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
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