2-time Oscar winner Marlon Brando It has had a historic trajectory for 70 years that has not yet been equaled or replicated. Some of Marlon Brando’s best films came out of Hollywood’s Golden Age, which ran from the late 1910s through the early 1960s. Although many of Brando’s most prolific roles came in the 1970s in Francis Ford Coppola The godfather and Apocalypse nowHis leading man performances were equally impressive at the beginning of his acting career in the early 1950s.
Brando remains one of the few actors in Oscar history to win the Best Actor Oscar twice in his career. He is cemented among other great actors like Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Sean Penn and Anthony Hopkins. Daniel Day-Lewis remains the only actor to win the award for three separate performances. It also remains the third youngest actor to win an Oscar after winning for By the sea in 1954, at 30 years and 361 days.
Marlon Brando was nominated for an Oscar for best actor four years in a row
Brando only won one Oscar during that On the Waterfront sequence
Marlon Brando holds the Oscar record for longest streak of consecutive Best Actor nominations. He received four consecutive nominations for Best Actor from 1951 to 1954, winning only in 1954 for By the sea. He was also nominated for his leading roles in A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Elia Kazan (1951), Long live Zapata! (1952) directed by Elia Kazan, and Julius Caesar (1953) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz before taking home his first Oscar in 1955.
Brando would receive three other nominations for Best Actor in his lifetime, in 1957 Sayonara directed by Joshua Logan, 1972 The godfather directed by Coppola, which marked his second and final Oscar win, and 1972 Last Tango in Paris directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Brando was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for 1989 A dry and white season directed by Euzhan Palcy. He also won three BAFTA Awards, five Golden Globes and a Supporting Actor Emmy for Roots: the next generation in 1979.
Only four actors have come close to Marlon Brando’s best actor Oscar record
Richard Burton, Al Pacino, William Hurt and Russell Crowe were each nominated for 3 consecutive years
Only four actors in Hollywood history have come close to matching Brando’s four-year streak of Best Actor nominations. Richard Burton (1964-1966), Al Pacino (1973-1975), William Hurt (1985-1987) and Russell Crowe (1999-2001) are the only actors since 1954 to receive three consecutive Best Actor nominations. Burton received six Best Actor nominations but no wins, while Hurt won in 1986 for Kiss from the Spider Woman. Pacino has been nominated five times and won in 1993 for Scent of a Woman. Crowe received three nominations and won in 2001 for Gladiator. Any modern actor is unlikely to break Marlon Brando historical sequence of 4 years.