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British icons of the silver screen like Judi Dench, Audrey Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Taylor and Alec Guinness have also all been awarded Oscars once, respectively.
Hamlet. At the 1948 Academy Awards, held at The Academy Awards Theatre, Hollywood on 24 Mar 1949, the Oscar for Best Film went to Hamlet (GB 1948), directed by Lawrence Olivier (1907-1989), who also received Best Actor award for his title role performance.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(CLbFZri8OeLFwPAP4_-gYA__36,
Emil Jannings. Emil Jannings was the inaugural winner, for two films: The Last Command (1928) & The Way of All Flesh (1927).);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(CLbFZri8OeLFwPAP4_-gYA__40,
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor.
George Arliss. One of the oldest actors on the screen in the 1920s and 1930s, George Arliss starred on the London stage from an early age. He came to the United States and starred in several films, but it was his role as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) that brought him his greatest success.