{"slug": "academy-award-for-best-actor", "label": "Academy Award for Best Actor", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103916", "qid": "Q103916", "description": "award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1964, 2014], "span_label": ["1964 CE", "2014 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Best Actor in a Leading Role"], "related": [{"slug": "academy-awards", "label": "Academy Awards", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "academy-award-for-best-actress", "label": "Academy Award for Best Actress", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – At the 36th Academy Awards ceremony, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award in the category Best Actor in a Leading Role in Lilies of the Field.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#April", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – At the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Rex Harrison wins an Oscar for Best Actor. Mary Poppins takes home 5 Oscars. Julie Andrews wins an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. Sherman Brothers receives 2 Oscars including Best Song, \"Chim Chim Cher-ee\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#March–April", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – James Stewart, 89, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Vertigo), Oscar winner (1941), heart attack as a result of pulmonary embolism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360157214", "title": "Deaths in July 1997", "revid": 1360157214, "section": "Deaths › July"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – Rod Steiger, 77, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago), Oscar winner (1968), kidney failure.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369245552", "title": "Deaths in July 2002", "revid": 1369245552, "section": "Deaths › July"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire), Oscar winner (1954, 1973), pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory failure.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372505903", "title": "Deaths in July 2004", "revid": 1372505903, "section": "Deaths › July"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – Paul Newman, 83, American actor (The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, The Color of Money) and entrepreneur, Oscar winner (1987), lung cancer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372044902", "title": "Deaths in September 2008", "revid": 1372044902, "section": "Deaths › September"}}, {"year": 2014, "year_label": "2014 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 2", "text": "February 2 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, American actor (Capote, Magnolia, Doubt), Oscar winner (2006), acute mixed drug intoxication.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372917337", "title": "Deaths in February 2014", "revid": 1372917337, "section": "Deaths › February"}}]}