The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress annually since 1928. The Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress Awards has been awarded annually since 1936. The Academy Award (nicknamed the "Oscar") is the most prestigious award that a film actor can receive.
The following lists Jewish actors and actresses who received this award:
1936 Paul Muni The Story of Louis Pasteur
1967 Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night
1977 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl
1979 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer
1988 Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
2002 Adrien Brody The Pianist
1929-30 Norma Shearer The Divorcee (convert)
1936 Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld
1937 Luise Rainer The Good Earth
1950 Judy Holliday Born Yesterday
1968 Barbra Streisand (tie) Funny Girl
1986 Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God
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Rod Steiger portrayed Jews in several movies, but was not himself Jewish.
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