Oscar Photos

Forest Whitaker (Best Actor)

Jennifer Hudson (Best Supporting Actress)

Helen Mirren (Best Actress)

Alan Arkin (Best Supporting Actor) 

2007

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Fun Shoots

For the past few years, Newsweek has done various interviews with possible Oscar nominees. Here are some of the shots from past Oscars Actors Roundtables. The Roundtables took place before Oscar nominations were announced for that particular year. These actors were asked to participate because they were all front-runners.

2007: Brad Pitt (Babel), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Penelope Cruz (Volver), and Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal)

*Pitt did not receive a nomination that year

*Whitaker and Mirren won Oscars that year

2008: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood), Ellen Page (Juno), Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose), Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart), James McAvoy (Atonement), and George Clooney (Michael Clayton)

*McAvoy and Jolie did not receive nominations that year

*Day-Lewis and Cotillard won Oscars that year

2009: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)

Not pictured: Robert Downey, Jr.(Tropic Thunder), and Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)

*Hawkins did not receive a nomination that year

2010: Woody Harrelson (The Messanger), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Gaboruey Sidibe (Precious), Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), Carey Mulligan (An Education), and Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)

*Bridges and Bullock won Oscars that year

2011: James Franco (127 Hours), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Colin Firth (The King's Speech), Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), and Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

*Firth and Portman won Oscars that year

2012: Michael Fassbender (Shame), Charlize Theron (Young Adult), Christopher Plummer (Beginners), Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), George Clooney (The Descendants), and Viola Davis (The Help)

*Fassbender, Theron, and Swinton did not receive nominations that year

*Plummer won an Oscar that year

Oscar Photos

Best Actor winner Forest Whitaker (for "The Last

King of Scotland") holds tight to wife, Keisha, 2007

Oscar Nominees of Color

* there are 20 acting nominations every year, since 1937. Between 1928 and 1936, there were no supporting categories. Also the very first Academy Awards only had 3 Best Actor and 3 Best Actress nominees.

as of 2012:

* there are a total of 1,576 acting nominees in Oscar history

*there are 113 non-white nominations out of 1,576, which means actors of color make up 7% of those nominated

*there have been 316 acting winners in Oscar history

* of those 316, there were 27 wins for actors of color (25 winners because Denzel Washington and Anthony Quinn are the only persons of color to win twice)

***persons of color are those of African, Asian, Latin, Native American (north, central, and south), Middle Eastern, and Hispanic heritage

1936

Merle Oberon

"The Dark Angel"

Best Actress

1937-1939 - No Nominations

1940

Hattie McDaniel

"Gone with the Wind"

Best Supporting Actress

1941-1948 - No Nominations

1949

Jose Ferrer

"Joan of Arc"

Best Supporting Actor

1950

Ethel Waters

"Pinky"

Best Supporting Actor

1951

Jose Ferrer

"Cyrano de Bergerac"

Best Actor

1952 - No Nominations

1953

Jose Ferrer

"Moulin Rouge"

Best Actor

Anthony Quinn

"Viva Zapata!"

Best Supporting Actor

1954 - No Nominations

1955

Dorothy Dandridge

"Carmen Jones"

Best Actress

Katy Jurado

"Broken Lance"

Best Supporting Actress

1956 - No Nominations

1957

Yul Brynner

"The King and I"

Best Actor

Anthony Quinn

"Lust for Life"

Best Supporting Actor

1958

Anthony Quinn

"Wild in the Wind"

Best Actor

Sessue Hayakawa

"The Bridge on the River Kwai"

Best Supporting Actor

Miyoshi Umeki

"Sayonara"

Best Supporting Actress

1959

Sidney Poitier

"The Defiant Ones"

Best Actor

1960

Susan Kohner

"Imitations of Life"

Best Supporting Actress

Juanita Moore

"Imitations of Life"

Best Supporting Actress

1961 - No Nominations

1962

George Chakiris

"West Side Story"

Best Supporting Actor

Rita Moreno

"West Side Story"

Best Supporting Actress

1963

Omar Sharif

"Lawrence of Arabia"

Best Supporting Actor

1964

Sidney Poitier

"Lilies of the Field"

Best Actor

1965

Anthony Quinn

"Zorba the Greek"

Best Actor

1966 - No Nominations

1967

Mako

"The Sand Pebbles"

Best Supporting Actor

Jocelyne LaGarde

"Hawaii"

Best Supporting Actress

1968

Carol Channing

"Thoroughly Modern Millie"

Best Supporting Actress

Beah Richards

"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"

Best Supporting Actress

1969 - No Nominations

1970

Rupert Crosse

"The Reivers"

Best Supporting Actor

1971

James Earl Jones

"The Great White Hope"

Best Actor

Chief Dan George

"Little Big Man"

Best Supporting Actor

1972

Topol

"Fiddler on the Roof"

Best Actor

1973

Paul Winfield

"Sounder"

Best Actor

Diana Ross

"Lady Sings the Blues"

Best Actress

Cicely Tyson

"Sounder"

Best Actress

1974 - No Nominations

1975

Diahann Carroll

"Claudine"

Best Actress

1976-1981 - No Nominations

1982

Howard Rollins

"Ragtime"

Best Supporting Actor

1983

Ben Kingsley

"Gandhi"

Best Actor

Louis Gossett, Jr.

"An Officer and a Gentleman"

Best Supporting Actor

1984

Alfre Woodard

"Cross Creek"

Best Supporting Actress

1985

F. Murray Abraham

"Amadeus"

Best Actor

Adolph Caesar

"A Soldier's Story"

Best Supporting Actor

Pat Morita

"The Karate Kid"

Best Supporting Actor

Haing S. Ngor

"The Killing Fields"

Best Supporting Actor

1986

Whoopi Goldberg

"The Color Purple"

Best Actress

Margaret Avery

"The Color Purple"

Best Supporting Actress

Meg Tilly

"Agnes of God"

Best Supporting Actress

Oprah Winfrey

"The Color Purple"

Best Supporting Actress

1987

Dexter Gordon

"'Round Midnight"

Best Actor

1988

Morgan Freeman

"Street Smart"

Best Supporting Actor

Denzel Washington

"Cry Freedom"

Best Supporting Actor

Norma Aleandro

"Gaby: A True Story"

Best Supporting Actress

1989

Edward James Olmos

"Stand and Deliver"

Best Actor

1990

Morgan Freeman

"Driving Miss Daisy"

Best Actor

Denzel Washington

"Glory"

Best Supporting Actor

1991

Andy Garcia

"The Godfather: Part III"

Best Supporting Actor

Graham Greene

"Dances with Wolves"

Best Supporting Actor

Whoopi Goldberg

"Ghost"

Best Supporting Actress

1992

Mercedes Ruehl

"The Fisher King"

Best Supporting Actress

1993

Denzel Washington

"Malcolm X"

Best Actor

Jaye Davidson

"The Crying Game"

Best Supporting Actor

1994

Laurence Fishburne

"What's Love Got to Do with It"

Best Actor

Angela Bassett

"What's Love Got to Do with It"

Best Actress

Rosie Perez

"Fearless"

Best Supporting Actress

1995

Morgan Freeman

"The Shawshank Redemption"

Best Supporting Actor

Samuel L. Jackson

"Pulp Fiction"

Best Supporting Actor

Jennifer Tilly

"Bullets Over Broadway"

Best Supporting Actress

1996 - No Nominations

1997

Cuba Gooding, Jr

"Jerry Maguire"

Best Supporting Actor

Marianna Jean-Baptiste

"Secrets & Lies"

Best Supporting Actress

1998 - No Nominations

1999

Fernanda Montenegro

"Central Station"

Best Actress

2000

Denzel Washington

"The Hurricane"

Best Actor

Michael Clarke Duncan

"The Green Mile"

Best Supporting Actor

2001

Javier Bardem

"Before Night Falls"

Best Actor

Benicio del Toro

"Traffic"

Best Supporting Actor

2002

Will Smith

"Ali"

Best Actor

Denzel Washington

"Training Day"

Best Actor

Halle Berry

"Monster's Ball"

Best Actress

Ben Kingsley

"Sexy Beast"

Best Supporting Actor

2003

Salma Hayek

"Frida"

Best Actress

Queen Latifah

"Chicago"

Best Supporting Actress

Catherine Zeta-Jones

"Chicago"

Best Supporting Actress

2004

Ben Kingsley

"House of Sand and Fog"

Best Actor

Keisha Castle-Hughes

"Whale Rider"

Best Actress

Benicio del Toro

"21 Grams"

Best Supporting Actor

Djimon Hounsou

"In America"

Best Supporting Actor

Ken Watanabe

"The Last Samurai"

Best Supporting Actor

Shohreh Aghdashloo

"House of Sand and Fog"

Best Supporting Actress

2005

Don Cheadle

"Hotel Rwanda"

Best Actor

Jamie Foxx

"Ray"

Best Actor

Catalina Sandino Moreno

"Maria Full of Grace"

Best Actress

Jamie Foxx

"Collateral"

Best Supporting Actor

Morgan Freeman

"Million Dollar Baby"

Best Supporting Actor

Sophie Okonedo

"Hotel Rwanda"

Best Supporting Actress

2006

Terrence Howard

"Hustle & Flow"

Best Actor

2007

Will Smith

"The Pursuit of Happyness"

Best Actor

Forest Whitkaer

"The Last King of Scotland"

Best Actor

Penelope Cruz

"Volver"

Best Actress

Djimon Hounsou

"Blood Diamond"

Best Supporting Actor

Eddie Murphy

"Dreamgirls"

Best Supporting Actor

Adriana Barraza

"Babel"

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Hudson

"Dreamgirls"

Best Supporting Actress

Rinko Kikuchi

"Babel"

Best Supporting Actress

2008

Javier Bardem

"No Country for Old Men"

Best Supporting Actor

Ruby Dee

"American Gangster"

Best Supporting Actress

2009

Penelope Cruz

"Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis

"Doubt"

Best Supporting Actress

Taraji P. Henson

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Supporting Actress

2010

Morgan Freeman

"Invictus"

Best Actor

Gabourey Sidibe

"Precious"

Best Actress

Penelope Cruz

"Nine"

Best Supporting Actress

Mo'Nique

"Precious"

Best Supporting Actress

2011

Javier Bardem

"Biutiful"

Best Actor

2012

Demian Bichir

"A Better Life"

Best Actor

Viola Davis

"The Help"

Best Actress

Berenice Bejo

"The Artist"

Best Supporting Actress

Octavia Spencer

"The Help"

Best Supporting Actress


2013

Denzel Washington
"Flight"
Best Actor

Quvenzhane Wallis
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Best Actress


2014

Chiwetel Ejiofor
"12 Years a Slave"
Best Actor

Barkhad Abdi
"Captain Phillips"
Best Supporting Actor

Lupita Nyong'o 
"12 Years a Slave"
Best Supporting Actress

2015 - No Nominations

2016 - No Nominations