{"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": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1965, 2014], "span_label": ["1965 CE", "2014 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 7}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "academy-award-for-best-actress", "label": "Academy Award for Best Actress", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"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": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Sir Alec Guinness, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1958), liver cancer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371656070", "title": "Deaths in August 2000", "revid": 1371656070, "section": "Deaths › August"}}, {"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": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – Charlton Heston, 84, American actor (Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes), president of the NRA (1998–2003), Oscar winner (1960), pneumonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364127051", "title": "Deaths in April 2008", "revid": 1364127051, "section": "Deaths › April"}}, {"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"}}]}