John Travolta
Travolta in 2018
Born	John Joseph Travolta (1954-02-18) February 18, 1954 (age 71) Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupations	Actor singer producer
Years active	1972–present
Works	Filmography
Spouse	Kelly Preston (m. 1991; died 2020)
Children	3
Relatives	Ellen Travolta (sister) Margaret Travolta (sister) Joey Travolta (brother)
Awards	Full list
Website	travolta.com
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John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954^[1]) is an American actor. He began acting in television before transitioning into a leading man in films. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Travolta came to prominence starring in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), followed by leading roles in Carrie (1976), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Blow Out (1981). He earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994). His other notable films include Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Michael (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998), The General's Daughter (1999), The Punisher (2004), Wild Hogs (2007), Hairspray (2007), Bolt (2008), and Savages (2012).

Travolta returned to television portraying lawyer Robert Shapiro in the series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. He received an Emmy Award as a producer as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He was also Emmy-nominated for his role in the action-comedy web series Die Hart (2021).

Outside of acting, Travolta has released nine albums, including four singles that have charted on the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. His albums have typically accompanied films he has starred in, such as Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1978), which topped the Billboard 200. Travolta is also a private pilot.^[2]

Early life

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The youngest of six children,^[3] Travolta was born and raised in Englewood, an inner-ring suburb of New York City in Bergen County, New Jersey.

His father, Salvatore "Sam" Travolta, was a semiprofessional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company, Travolta Tire Exchange.^[4] His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke), was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher.^[5] His siblings Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam Travolta were all inspired by their mother's love of theater and drama and became actors.^[5] His father was a second-generation Italian American with roots in Godrano, Sicily, and his mother was Irish American.^[6]^[7]

He grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture.^[8]^[9] He was raised Catholic, but later converted to Scientology in 1975 at age 21.^[7]^[10] He converted after being given the book Dianetics from former actress Joan Prather.^[11] Travolta attended Dwight Morrow High School, but dropped out as a junior at age 17 in 1971.^[12]

Career

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1970s

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After dropping out of school, Travolta moved across the Hudson River to New York City and landed a role in the touring company of the musical Grease as Doody and on Broadway in Over Here!, singing the Sherman Brothers' song "Dream Drummin'".^[13]^[14] He then moved to Los Angeles for professional reasons. Travolta's first screen role in California was as a fall victim in Emergency! (Season 2, Episode 2) in September 1972,^[15] but his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, a bully who was goaded into playing a prank on Sissy Spacek's character in the horror film Carrie (1976) directed by Brian de Palma.^[16] Around that time, he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the ABC TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).^[17]

Travolta had a hit single titled "Let Her In", peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976.^[18]^[19]^[20] In the next few years, he starred in the television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and two of his most noted screen roles: Tony Manero in the dance drama Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Danny Zuko in the musical Grease (1978).^[5] The films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom.^[21] Saturday Night Fever earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor,^[22] making him, at age 24, one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.^[23] His mother and his sister Ann appeared very briefly in Saturday Night Fever and his sister Ellen played a waitress in Grease. Travolta performed on the Grease soundtrack album.^[24] After the failure of the romance Moment by Moment (1978), in which he starred with Lily Tomlin, Travolta rebounded in 1980, riding a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger.^[25]

1980s

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Travolta followed up Urban Cowboy with a starring role in Brian de Palma's 1981 film Blow Out, which was critically lauded but a box office disappointment, likely due to its bleak ending.^[26] After Blow Out came a series of commercial and critical failures which sidelined Travolta's acting career. These included Two of a Kind (1983), a romantic comedy reuniting him with Olivia Newton-John, and Perfect (1985), co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis. He also starred in Staying Alive, the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever, for which he trained rigorously to portray a professional dancer and lost 20 pounds (9.1 kg);^[27] the film was a financial success, grossing over $65 million, though it, too, was scorned by critics.

During that time, Travolta was offered, but declined, lead roles in what would become box-office hits, including American Gigolo^[28] and An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere, as well as Splash, which went to Tom Hanks.^[29] In 1989, Travolta starred with Kirstie Alley in Look Who's Talking, which grossed $297 million, making it his most successful film since Grease.

1990s

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Travolta subsequently starred in Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and Look Who's Talking Now (1993), but it was not until he played against type as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), with Samuel L. Jackson, for which he received an Academy Award nomination, that his career was revived.^[5]^[30]^[31] It was Travolta's third film alongside Bruce Willis.^[32] The movie shifted him back onto the A-list and notable roles that followed include a movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), a factory worker in White Man's Burden (1995), a corrupt U.S. Air Force pilot in Broken Arrow (1996), an everyman with extraordinary powers in Phenomenon (1996), an archangel in Michael (1996), an FBI agent and terrorist in Face/Off (1997), a desperate attorney in A Civil Action (1998), a Bill Clinton–esque presidential candidate in Primary Colors (1998),^[5] and a military investigator in The General's Daughter (1999).

2000s

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In 2000, Travolta starred in and co-produced the science fiction film Battlefield Earth, based on the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard, in which he played the villainous leading role as a leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film was a dream project for Travolta since the book's release in 1982, when Hubbard wrote to him to try to help make a film adaptation.^[33] The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office.^[34] Travolta's performance in Battlefield Earth also earned him two Razzie Awards.

Throughout the 2000s, Travolta remained busy as an actor, starring in Swordfish (2001); Lucky Numbers (2000); Domestic Disturbance (2001); Ladder 49 (2004); Be Cool (2005); Lonely Hearts (2006); Wild Hogs (2007); the Disney animated film Bolt (2008), in which Travolta voiced the title character; The Taking of Pelham 123; and Old Dogs (both 2009).

In 2007, Travolta played Edna Turnblad in the remake of Hairspray, his first musical since Grease.^[35]

2010s

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Since 2010, Travolta has starred mostly in action films and thrillers, such as From Paris with Love (2010) and Savages (2012). In 2016, he returned to television in the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, titled The People v. O. J. Simpson, in which he played lawyer Robert Shapiro.^[36] For his performance he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

2020s

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Following the death of his wife Kelly Preston in July 2020, Travolta hinted on his Instagram account that he would be putting his career on hold, stating, "I will be taking some time to be there for my children who have lost their mother, so forgive me in advance if you don't hear from us for a while".^[37]

Other ventures

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Aviation

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Travolta is a pilot^[2] and rated to fly Boeing 707, 737, and 747 planes.^[a] He owns four aircraft. Travolta owned an ex-Qantas Boeing 707-138B (Ex-VH-EBM) which bears an old livery of Qantas, and Travolta acted as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flew.^[38] Travolta named his 707 "Jett Clipper Ella", in honor of his children. The "Clipper" in the name refers to the use of that word by Pan Am as the company's call sign^[39] as well as in the names of their aircraft.^[40] In 2017, Travolta donated the Boeing 707 to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) near Wollongong, Australia. This was expected to be flown to Australia in November 2019,^[41] but was later delayed to sometime in 2020 due to condition of the aircraft.^[42] Travolta planned to be on board when the aircraft was to be flown to Illawarra Regional Airport, where HARS is based, but was not allowed to fly it, because it was to be registered as an Australian aircraft.^[41]

On November 24, 1992, Travolta was piloting his Gulfstream N728T at night above a solid undercast when he experienced a total electrical system failure while flying under instrument flight rules into Washington National Airport. During the emergency landing, he almost had a mid-air collision with a USAir Boeing 727, an event attributed to a risky decision by an air traffic controller.^[43]

In 1984, Travolta was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and presented with the Golden Plate Award by Awards Council member General Chuck Yeager, USAF.^[44] Travolta was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2007 and acts as the award show's official ambassador.^[45]

On September 13, 2010, during the first episode of the final season of her talk show, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be taking her entire studio audience on an eight-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Australia, with Travolta serving as pilot for the trip. He had helped Winfrey plan the trip for more than a year.^[46]

He is the author of the book Propeller One-Way Night Coach, the story of a young boy's first flight.^[47]

His estate in Ocala, Florida, is situated at Jumbolair Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to his house, with two outbuildings for covered access to planes.^[2]^[48]

Philanthropy

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After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, joining other celebrities in helping with the relief efforts, Travolta reportedly flew his Boeing 707 full of supplies, doctors, and Scientologist Volunteer Ministers into the disaster area.^[49]

Personal life

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Relationships and family

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Travolta was in a relationship with actress Diana Hyland, whom he met while filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976). They remained together until Hyland's death from breast cancer on March 27, 1977. In 1980, Travolta dated French actress Catherine Deneuve.^[50] Travolta also had an on-again/off-again relationship with actress Marilu Henner, which ended permanently in 1985.^[51] In 1988 while filming The Experts, Travolta met actress Kelly Preston, whom he married in Paris in 1991. They had three children: Jett (1992–2009), Ella Bleu (born 2000), and Benjamin (born 2010).^[52] They regularly attended marriage counseling and Travolta has stated that therapy helped the marriage.^[53] They lived near Ocala, Florida.

On January 2, 2009, Jett died at age sixteen while on a Christmas vacation in The Bahamas.^[54]^[55] A Bahamian death certificate was issued, attributing the cause of death to a seizure.^[56] Jett, who had a history of seizures, reportedly had Kawasaki disease since the age of two.^[57]^[58] Travolta confirmed that Jett was autistic and had regular seizures, and immediately made his public statements while giving testimony at the trial of two defendants (a paramedic and a former Bahamas senator) who Travolta alleged tried to blackmail him with a multimillion-dollar extortion plot involving private information in connection with the death of his son Jett.^[59] After a mistrial, Travolta dropped the charges and has credited his immediate family and Scientology with helping him to cope with Jett's death and move forward with his career.^[60]^[61]^[62] In memory of Jett, Travolta created the Jett Travolta Foundation, a nonprofit organization to help children with special needs.^[63] It has contributed to organizations such as the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, and Simon Wiesenthal Center.^[64]

On July 12, 2020, Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, died at the age of 57, at their home in Clearwater, Florida,^[65] two years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.^[66] Preston had undergone treatment at different hospitals, and at the time of her death, was receiving treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.^[67]

Legal issues

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In May 2012, an anonymous masseur filed a lawsuit against Travolta, citing claims of sexual assault and battery. A lawyer for Travolta said that the allegations were "complete fiction and fabrication". Travolta's counsel also stated that his client would be able to prove that he was not in California on the day in question and asserted that Travolta would "sue the attorney and Plaintiff for malicious prosecution" after getting the case thrown out.^[68] A second masseur later joined the lawsuit, making similar claims.^[69]^[70] Both lawsuits were subsequently dropped by the complainants and dismissed without prejudice.^[71]

On September 27, 2012, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Travolta and his attorney Marty Singer by writer Robert Randolph because he found that a letter, written by Singer in response to allegations in a book by Randolph, was protected by free speech.^[72]

Discography

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Albums

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Year	Album	Chart
Year	Album	US
1974	Over Here! (musical)	—
1976	John Travolta	39
1977	Can't Let You Go	69
1978	Travolta Fever	161
1978	Grease (soundtrack)	1
1983	Two of a Kind (soundtrack)	26
1986	The Road to Freedom (collaboration)	—
1996	Let Her In: The Best of John Travolta	—
2003	The Collection	—
2007	Hairspray (soundtrack)	2
2012	This Christmas (with Olivia Newton-John)	81

Singles

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Year	Title	Peak chart positions
Year	Title	US Billboard ^[73]	US Cash Box	US Record World	US AC ^[74]	AUS ^[75]	CAN	CAN AC	UK ^[76]
1974	"Dream Drummin'"
1975	"Easy Evil"
1975	"Can't Let You Go"
1976	"You Set My Dreams to Music"
	"Goodnight Mr. Moon"
	"Rainbows"
	"Settle Down"
	"Moonlight Lady"
	"Right Time of the Night"
	"Big Trouble"
	"What Would They Say"
	"Back Doors Crying"
	"Let Her In"	10^[77]	5^[78]	12	16^[79]	74^[80]	7^[81]	12^[82]
	"Whenever I'm Away from You"	38	62	64	26	—	61	29
	"Slow Dancing"
	"It Had to Be You"
	"I Don't Know What I Like About You Baby"
1977	"All Strung Out on You"	34	28	48	35	—	30
	"(Feels So Good) Slow Dancin"	106		127
	"Baby, I Could Be So Good at Lovin' You"
	"Razzamatazz"
1978	"You're the One That I Want" (with Olivia Newton-John)	1	3	1	23	1	2		1
	"Summer Nights" (with Olivia Newton-John)	5	3	4	21	6	3		1
	"Sandy"	—	—	—	—	—		—	2
	"Greased Lightnin'"	47	45	51		40			11
1980	"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"				—	—	—	—	—
1983	"Take a Chance" (with Olivia Newton-John)				3	—	—		—
1990	"The Grease Megamix" (with Olivia Newton-John)			—		1	—	—	3
1991	"Grease: The Dream Mix" (with Frankie Valli & Olivia Newton-John)			—		—	—	—	47
1997	"Two Sleepy People" (with Carly Simon)			—		—	—	—	—
2008	"I Thought I Lost You" (with Miley Cyrus)			—		—

Filmography

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Awards and nominations

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Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, the most recent being in 2011. In 2014, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema.^[83]

See also

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List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest Nominees for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Explanatory notes

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^ FAA Airmen Certification Database of September 1, 2014, lists Travolta as ID A1927078, with private pilot licence ratings P/ASEL (Private Airplane Single Engine Land), P/AMEL (Private Airplane Multi-Engine Land), P/INSTA (Private Instrument Airplane), and eight aircraft: P/B-707 (Boeing 707), P/B-720 (Boeing 720), P/CE-500 (Cessna 500), P/CL-600 (Bombardier Challenger 600), P/EA-500S (Eclipse 500), P/G-1159 (Gulfstream II), P/HS-125 (British Aerospace 125), P/LR-JET (Learjet).

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Further reading

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Tast, Brigitte, ed. (1978). John Travolta (in German). Hildesheim, Germany: Kulleraugen. ISBN 3-88842-103-9. Pamphlet.

Books by Travolta

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Travolta, John (1984). John Travolta, Staying Fit!: His Complete Program for Reshaping Your Body Through Weight Resistance Training and Modern Dance Techniques. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-49798-9.
Travolta, John (1997). Propeller One-Way Night Coach: A Fable for All Ages. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-44652-257-1.

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Awards for John Travolta

v t e AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story
2000s	Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave – The Gathering Storm (2002) Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton – Something's Gotta Give (2003) James Garner and Gena Rowlands – The Notebook (2004) Craig T. Nelson and Diane Keaton – The Family Stone (2005) Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner – The Last Kiss (2006) John Travolta and Christopher Walken – Hairspray (2007) Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey (2008) Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia (2009)
2010s	Annette Bening and Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right (2010) Jim Broadbent and Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady (2011) Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren – Hitchcock (2012) James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said (2013) John Lithgow and Alfred Molina – Love Is Strange (2014) Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton – 5 Flights Up (2015) Richard Jenkins and Margo Martindale – The Hollars (2016) Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams – The Greatest Showman (2017) Robert Forster and Blythe Danner – What They Had (2018) No Award (2019)
2020s	Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci – Supernova (2020) Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett – Cyrano (2021) Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

v t e Britannia Awards
Excellence in Film	Albert R. Broccoli (1989) Michael Caine (1990) Peter Ustinov (1992) Martin Scorsese (1993) Anthony Hopkins (1995) Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein (1996) Dustin Hoffman (1997) John Travolta (1998) Stanley Kubrick (1999) Steven Spielberg (2000) George Lucas (2002) Hugh Grant (2003) Tom Hanks (2004) Tom Cruise (2005) Clint Eastwood (2006) Denzel Washington (2007) Sean Penn (2008) Robert De Niro (2009) Jeff Bridges (2010) Warren Beatty (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) George Clooney (2013) Robert Downey Jr. (2014) Meryl Streep (2015) Jodie Foster (2016) Matt Damon (2017) Cate Blanchett (2018) Jane Fonda (2019)
Excellence in Directing	Peter Weir (2003) Jim Sheridan (2004) Mike Newell (2005) Anthony Minghella (2006) Martin Campbell (2007) Stephen Frears (2008) Danny Boyle (2009) Christopher Nolan (2010) David Yates (2011) Quentin Tarantino (2012) Kathryn Bigelow (2013) Mike Leigh (2014) Sam Mendes (2015) Ang Lee (2016) Ava DuVernay (2017) Steve McQueen (2018) Jordan Peele (2019)
Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment	Howard Stringer (2003) Kirk Douglas (2009) Ridley Scott & Tony Scott (2010) John Lasseter (2011) Will Wright (2012) Ben Kingsley (2013) Judi Dench (2014) Harrison Ford (2015) Samuel L. Jackson (2016) Kenneth Branagh (2017) Kevin Feige (2018) Jackie Chan (2019)
British Artist of the Year	Rachel Weisz (2006) Kate Winslet (2007) Tilda Swinton (2008) Emily Blunt (2009) Michael Sheen (2010) Helena Bonham Carter (2011) Daniel Craig (2012) Benedict Cumberbatch (2013) Emma Watson (2014) James Corden (2015) Felicity Jones (2016) Claire Foy (2017) Emilia Clarke (2018) Phoebe Waller-Bridge (2019)
Excellence in Comedy	Betty White (2010) Ben Stiller (2011) Trey Parker and Matt Stone (2012) Sacha Baron Cohen (2013) Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2014) Amy Schumer (2015) Ricky Gervais (2016) Aziz Ansari (2017) Jim Carrey (2018) Steve Coogan (2019)
Excellence in Television	Aaron Spelling (1999) HBO Original Programming (2002) Dick Van Dyke (2017) Damian Lewis (2018) Norman Lear (2019)
Humanitarian Award	Richard Curtis (2007) Don Cheadle (2008) Colin Firth (2009) Idris Elba (2013) Mark Ruffalo (2014) Orlando Bloom (2015) Ewan McGregor (2016)
Retired Awards	BBC (1999) Tarsem Singh (1999) Angela Lansbury (2003) Helen Mirren (2004) Elizabeth Taylor (2005) Ronald Neame (2005) Sidney Poitier (2006) Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne (2007)

David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor

1957–1975

Laurence Olivier (1957)
Marlon Brando / Charles Laughton (1958)
Jean Gabin (1959)
Cary Grant (1960)
Charlton Heston (1961)
Anthony Perkins / Spencer Tracy (1962)
Gregory Peck (1963)
Fredric March / Peter O'Toole (1964)
Rex Harrison (1965)
Richard Burton (1966)
Richard Burton / Peter O'Toole (1967)
Warren Beatty / Spencer Tracy (1968)
Rod Steiger (1969)
Dustin Hoffman / Peter O'Toole (1970)
Ryan O'Neal (1971)
Chaim Topol (1972)
Yves Montand / Laurence Olivier (1973)
Al Pacino / Robert Redford (1974)
Burt Lancaster / Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau (1975)

1976–1996

Jack Nicholson / Philippe Noiret (1976)
Dustin Hoffman / Sylvester Stallone (1977)
Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
Richard Gere / Michel Serrault (1979)
Dustin Hoffman / Jack Lemmon (1980)
Burt Lancaster (1981)
Klaus Maria Brandauer (1982)
Paul Newman (1983)
Woody Allen (1984)
Tom Hulce (1985)
William Hurt (1986)
Dexter Gordon (1987)
Michael Douglas (1988)
Dustin Hoffman (1989)
Philippe Noiret (1990)
Jeremy Irons (1991)
John Turturro (1992)
Daniel Auteuil (1993)
Anthony Hopkins (1994)
John Travolta (1995)
Harvey Keitel (1996)

Donostia Award

Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival

1986: Gregory Peck / Gene Tierney
1987: Glenn Ford
1988: Vittorio Gassman
1989: Bette Davis
1990: Claudette Colbert
1991: Anthony Perkins
1992: Lauren Bacall
1993: Robert Mitchum
1994: Lana Turner
1995: Susan Sarandon / Catherine Deneuve
1996: Al Pacino
1997: Michael Douglas / Jeremy Irons
1998: Jeanne Moreau / Anthony Hopkins / John Malkovich
1999: Anjelica Huston / Fernando Fernán Gómez / Vanessa Redgrave
2000: Michael Caine / Robert De Niro
2001: Julie Andrews / Warren Beatty / Francisco Rabal
2002: Jessica Lange / Bob Hoskins / Dennis Hopper / Francis Ford Coppola
2003: Robert Duvall / Sean Penn / Isabelle Huppert
2004: Annette Bening / Jeff Bridges / Woody Allen
2005: Willem Dafoe / Ben Gazzara
2006: Max von Sydow / Matt Dillon
2007: Liv Ullmann / Richard Gere
2008: Meryl Streep / Antonio Banderas
2009: Ian McKellen
2010: Julia Roberts
2011: Glenn Close
2012: Oliver Stone / Ewan McGregor / Tommy Lee Jones / John Travolta / Dustin Hoffman
2013: Carmen Maura / Hugh Jackman
2014: Denzel Washington / Benicio del Toro
2015: Emily Watson
2016: Sigourney Weaver / Ethan Hawke
2017: Ricardo Darín / Monica Bellucci / Agnès Varda
2018: Hirokazu Kore-eda / Danny DeVito / Judi Dench
2019: Penélope Cruz / Costa-Gavras / Donald Sutherland
2020: Viggo Mortensen
2021: Johnny Depp / Marion Cotillard
2022: Juliette Binoche / David Cronenberg
2023: Javier Bardem / Víctor Erice / Hayao Miyazaki
2024: Pedro Almodóvar / Cate Blanchett

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
1950–1976	Fred Astaire (1949) Danny Kaye (1951) Donald O'Connor (1952) David Niven (1953) James Mason (1954) Tom Ewell (1955) Mario Moreno (1956) Frank Sinatra (1957) Danny Kaye (1958) Jack Lemmon (1959) Jack Lemmon (1960) Glenn Ford (1961) Marcello Mastroianni (1962) Alberto Sordi (1963) Rex Harrison (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Alan Arkin (1966) Richard Harris (1967) Ron Moody (1968) Peter O'Toole (1969) Albert Finney (1970) Chaim Topol (1971) Jack Lemmon (1972) George Segal (1973) Art Carney (1974) George Burns / Walter Matthau (1975)
1976–2000	Kris Kristofferson (1976) Richard Dreyfuss (1977) Warren Beatty (1978) Peter Sellers (1979) Ray Sharkey (1980) Dudley Moore (1981) Dustin Hoffman (1982) Michael Caine (1983) Dudley Moore (1984) Jack Nicholson (1985) Paul Hogan (1986) Robin Williams (1987) Tom Hanks (1988) Morgan Freeman (1989) Gérard Depardieu (1990) Robin Williams (1991) Tim Robbins (1992) Robin Williams (1993) Hugh Grant (1994) John Travolta (1995) Tom Cruise (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Michael Caine (1998) Jim Carrey (1999) George Clooney (2000)
2001–present	Gene Hackman (2001) Richard Gere (2002) Bill Murray (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Joaquin Phoenix (2005) Sacha Baron Cohen (2006) Johnny Depp (2007) Colin Farrell (2008) Robert Downey Jr. (2009) Paul Giamatti (2010) Jean Dujardin (2011) Hugh Jackman (2012) Leonardo DiCaprio (2013) Michael Keaton (2014) Matt Damon (2015) Ryan Gosling (2016) James Franco (2017) Christian Bale (2018) Taron Egerton (2019) Sacha Baron Cohen (2020) Andrew Garfield (2021) Colin Farrell (2022) Paul Giamatti (2023) Sebastian Stan (2024)

v t e Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor
1980s	Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer (1980) Klinton Spilsbury – The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) Laurence Olivier – Inchon (1982) Christopher Atkins – A Night in Heaven (1983) Sylvester Stallone – Rhinestone (1984) Sylvester Stallone – Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV (1985) Prince – Under the Cherry Moon (1986) Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987) Sylvester Stallone – Rambo III (1988) William Shatner – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
1990s	Andrew Dice Clay – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) Kevin Costner – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) Sylvester Stallone – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) Burt Reynolds – Cop and a Half (1993) Kevin Costner – Wyatt Earp (1994) Pauly Shore – Jury Duty (1995) Tom Arnold – Big Bully, Carpool, and The Stupids / Pauly Shore – Bio-Dome (1996) Kevin Costner – The Postman (1997) Bruce Willis – Armageddon, Mercury Rising, and The Siege (1998) Adam Sandler – Big Daddy (1999)
2000s	John Travolta – Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers (2000) Tom Green – Freddy Got Fingered (2001) Roberto Benigni (dubbed Godzilla-style by Breckin Meyer) – Pinocchio (2002) Ben Affleck – Daredevil, Gigli, and Paycheck (2003) George W. Bush – Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Rob Schneider – Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans – Little Man (2006) Eddie Murphy – Norbit (2007) Mike Myers – The Love Guru (2008) Jonas Brothers (Joe, Kevin, and Nick) – Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)
2010s	Ashton Kutcher – Killers and Valentine's Day (2010) Adam Sandler – Jack and Jill and Just Go with It (2011) Adam Sandler – That's My Boy (2012) Jaden Smith – After Earth (2013) Kirk Cameron – Saving Christmas (2014) Jamie Dornan – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Dinesh D'Souza – Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016) Tom Cruise – The Mummy (2017) Donald Trump – Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) John Travolta – The Fanatic and Trading Paint (2019)
2020s	Mike Lindell (The "My Pillow Guy") – Absolute Proof (2020/21) LeBron James – Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) Jared Leto – Morbius (2022) Jon Voight – Mercy (2023) Jerry Seinfeld – Unfrosted (2024)

v t e Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Combo
1990s	Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt – Interview with the Vampire / Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone – The Specialist (1994) Any combination of two people (or two body parts) – Showgirls (1995) Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds – Striptease (1996) Dennis Rodman and Jean-Claude Van Damme – Double Team (1997) Leonardo DiCaprio and Leonardo DiCaprio (as twins) – The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) Kevin Kline and Will Smith – Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s	John Travolta and anyone sharing the screen with him – Battlefield Earth (2000) Tom Green and any animal he abuses – Freddy Got Fingered (2001) Adriano Giannini and Madonna – Swept Away (2002) Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez – Gigli (2003) George W. Bush and either Condoleezza Rice or his pet goat – Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman – Bewitched (2005) Shawn Wayans and either Kerry Washington or Marlon Wayans – Little Man (2006) Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan (as twins) – I Know Who Killed Me (2007) Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore – The Hottie and the Nottie (2008) Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper – All About Steve (2009)
2010s	The entire cast of Sex and the City 2 (2010) Adam Sandler and either Katie Holmes, Al Pacino or Adam Sandler – Jack and Jill / The entire cast of Jack and Jill (2011) Mackenzie Foy and Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 / The entire cast of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) Jaden Smith and Will Smith on planet nepotism – After Earth (2013) Kirk Cameron and his ego – Saving Christmas (2014) Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Any two obnoxious Emojis – The Emoji Movie (2017) Donald Trump and "His Self Perpetuating Pettiness" – Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) Any two half-feline/half-human hairballs – Cats (2019)
2020s	Rudy Giuliani and his pants zipper – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) LeBron James and any Warner cartoon character (or Time-Warner product) he dribbles on – Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) Tom Hanks and his latex-laden face (and ludicrous accent) – Elvis (2022) Pooh and Piglet (as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers) – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga – Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Between 2010–2012, the category also included Worst Screen Ensemble.

Hasty Pudding Men of the Year

Bob Hope (1967)
Paul Newman (1968)
Bill Cosby (1969)
Robert Redford (1970)
James Stewart (1971)
Dustin Hoffman (1972)
Jack Lemmon (1973)
Peter Falk (1974)
Warren Beatty (1975)
Robert Blake (1976)
Johnny Carson (1977)
Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
Robert De Niro (1979)
Alan Alda (1980)
John Travolta (1981)
James Cagney (1982)
Steven Spielberg (1983)
Sean Connery (1984)
Bill Murray (1985)
Sylvester Stallone (1986)
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1987)
Steve Martin (1988)
Robin Williams (1989)
Kevin Costner (1990)
Clint Eastwood (1991)
Michael Douglas (1992)
Chevy Chase (1993)
Tom Cruise (1994)
Tom Hanks (1995)
Harrison Ford (1996)
Mel Gibson (1997)
Kevin Kline (1998)
Samuel L. Jackson (1999)
Billy Crystal (2000)
Anthony Hopkins (2001)
Bruce Willis (2002)
Martin Scorsese (2003)
Robert Downey Jr. (2004)
Tim Robbins (2005)
Richard Gere (2006)
Ben Stiller (2007)
Christopher Walken (2008)
James Franco (2009)
Justin Timberlake (2010)
Jay Leno (2011)
Jason Segel (2012)
Kiefer Sutherland (2013)
Neil Patrick Harris (2014)
Chris Pratt (2015)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2016)
Ryan Reynolds (2017)
Paul Rudd (2018)
Milo Ventimiglia (2019)
Ben Platt (2020)
Jason Bateman (2022)
Bob Odenkirk (2023)
Barry Keoghan (2024)
Jon Hamm (2025)

v t e Kirk Douglas Award
2007–present	Kirk Douglas (2007) John Travolta (2008) Ed Harris (2009) Quentin Tarantino (2010) Harrison Ford (2011) Michael Douglas (2012) Robert De Niro (2013) Forest Whitaker (2014) Jessica Lange (2015) Jane Fonda (2016) Warren Beatty (2017) Judi Dench (2018) Hugh Jackman (2019) Martin Scorsese (2020) Michelle Yeoh (2023) Ryan Gosling (2024) Will Ferrell (2025)
Festival editions	2024 2025

London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

1975–2000

Al Pacino (1975)
Robert De Niro (1976)
Richard Dreyfuss (1977)
Jon Voight (1978)
Dustin Hoffman (1979)
Robert De Niro (1980)
Burt Lancaster (1981)
Ben Kingsley (1982)
Robert Duvall (1983)
F. Murray Abraham / Albert Finney (1984)
William Hurt (1985)
Bob Hoskins (1986)
Jack Nicholson / Steve Martin (1987)
Tom Hanks (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
Jeremy Irons (1990)
Nick Nolte (1991)
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Anthony Hopkins (1993)
John Travolta (1994)
Nicolas Cage (1995)
Geoffrey Rush (1996)
Robert Duvall (1997)
Ian McKellen (1998)
Russell Crowe (1999)
Michael Douglas (2000)

2001–2021

Denzel Washington (2001)
Daniel Day-Lewis / Jack Nicholson (2002)
Bill Murray (2003)
Liam Neeson (2004)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
Sacha Baron Cohen / Forest Whitaker (2006)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
Sean Penn (2008)
Jeff Bridges (2009)
Colin Firth (2010)
Michael Fassbender (2011)
Joaquin Phoenix (2012)
Bruce Dern (2013)
Tom Hardy (2014)
Michael Fassbender (2015)
Adam Driver (2016)
Timothée Chalamet (2017)
Ethan Hawke (2018)
Antonio Banderas (2019)
Chadwick Boseman (2020)
Simon Rex (2021)

MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Duo

Best On-Screen Duo (1992–2000)

Best On-Screen Team (2001–2006)

Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz & Lucy Liu (2001)
Vin Diesel & Paul Walker (2002)
Sean Astin, Andy Serkis & Elijah Wood (2003)
Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore (2004)
Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert & Amanda Seyfried (2005)
Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson (2006)

Best Cast (2012)	Best On-Screen Duo (2013–2015)
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson & Tom Felton (2012)	Mark Wahlberg & Seth MacFarlane (2013) Vin Diesel & Paul Walker (2014) Zac Efron & Dave Franco (2015)

Ensemble Cast (2016)	Best Duo (2017)
Pitch Perfect 2	Hugh Jackman & Dafne Keen (2017)

Best On-Screen Team (2018)

Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Martell, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor & Chosen Jacobs (2018)

Best Team (2022)	Best Duo (2023)
Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino & Owen Wilson (2022)	Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey (2023)

v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
1945–1975	Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier (1946) Michael Redgrave (1947) Walter Huston (1948) Ralph Richardson (1949) Alec Guinness (1950) Richard Basehart (1951) Ralph Richardson (1952) James Mason (1953) Bing Crosby (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Yul Brynner (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) Spencer Tracy (1958) Victor Sjöström (1959) Robert Mitchum (1960) Albert Finney (1961) Jason Robards (1962) Rex Harrison (1963) Anthony Quinn (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Peter Finch (1967) Cliff Robertson (1968) Peter O'Toole (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Peter O'Toole (1972) Al Pacino / Robert Ryan (1973) Gene Hackman (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975)
1976–2000	David Carradine (1976) John Travolta (1977) Jon Voight / Laurence Olivier (1978) Peter Sellers (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Tom Conti (1983) Victor Banerjee (1984) William Hurt / Raul Julia (1985) Paul Newman (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Gene Hackman (1988) Morgan Freeman (1989) Robert De Niro / Robin Williams (1990) Warren Beatty (1991) Jack Lemmon (1992) Anthony Hopkins (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Tom Cruise (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Ian McKellen (1998) Russell Crowe (1999) Javier Bardem (2000)
2001–present	Billy Bob Thornton (2001) Campbell Scott (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) George Clooney (2007) Clint Eastwood (2008) George Clooney / Morgan Freeman (2009) Jesse Eisenberg (2010) George Clooney (2011) Bradley Cooper (2012) Bruce Dern (2013) Michael Keaton / Oscar Isaac (2014) Matt Damon (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Tom Hanks (2017) Viggo Mortensen (2018) Adam Sandler (2019) Riz Ahmed (2020) Will Smith (2021) Colin Farrell (2022) Paul Giamatti (2023) Daniel Craig (2024)

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