The Best of Paul Newman on FilmPaul Newman was one of the greatest movie stars of all time. He ranks with Gary Cooper, Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood, Clark Gable and John Wayne as one of the most popular stars at the box office in movie history, but he also was considered a first-rate actor, someone whose best
performances were in the same league as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino. Cooper, Gable and The Duke all won the Best Actor Academy Awards (with Coop copping two competitive Oscars and a third, honorary award for his career), but none of these top box office stars received the sustained critical acclaim for their acting that Paul Newman did. Paul Newman received nine Oscar nominations in his legendary career that spanned more than half a century. He received an honorary Oscar in recognition of his outstanding career in 1986, then followed it up the very next year by winning a competitive Oscar for Best Actor in The Color of Money, a reprise of one of his most memorable characters, Fast Eddie Felson from 1961′s The Hustler. In 1994, Newman was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Scienes in recognition of his peerless charitable work.Not all of Paul Newman’s greatest performances merited attention from the Academy, but many of them did. Here are the top 10 Paul Newman performances captured on film, listed in alphabetical order:
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