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James Stewart (Best Actor)

Ginger Rogers (Best Actress)

Jane Darwell (Best Supporting Actress)

Walter Brennan (Best Supporting Actor)

1941

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Comedy Oscar Winners

The Academy has long preferred dramatic performances. Sometimes, however, an actor squeezes by with a comedic role. Here's a look at the most notable Oscar Winners who've nabbed a statue for a funny performance.

Jean Dujardin

"The Artist"

Best Actor

2012

Penelope Cruz

"Vicki Cristina Barcelona"

Best Supporting Actress

2009

Alan Arkin
"Little Miss Sunshine"
Best Supporting Actor
2007

Roberto Benigni

"Life is Beautiful"

Best Actor

1999

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

"Jerry Maguire"

Best Supporting Actor

1997

Mira Sorvino

"Mighty Aphrodite"

Best Supporting Actress

1996

Dianne Wiest
"Bullets Over Broadway:
Best Supporting Actor
1995

Marisa Tomei

"My Cousin Vinny"

Best Supporting Actress

1993

Whoopi Goldberg
"Ghost"
Best Supporting Actress"
1991

Kevin Kline
"A Fish Called Wanda"
Best Supporting Actor
1989

Diane Keaton

"Annie Hall"

Best Actress

1978

Richard Dreyfuss

"The Goodbye Girl"

Best Actor
1978

Tatum O'Neal
"Paper Moon"
Best Supporting Actor
1974

Lee Marvin

"Cat Ballou"
Best Actor
1966

James Stewart

"The Philadelphia Story"
Best Actor
1941

Claudette Colbert
"It Happened One Night"
Best Actress
1935 

Clark Gable

"It Happened One Night"
Best Actor
1935

25 Best Christmas Films

22) IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Director: Frank Capra

Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, 

Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell

Year: 1946

This film, which has inspired tons of sitcom Christmas episodes, stars James Stewart as a compassionate man who contemplates suicide (after a business debacle) on Christmas eve. While standing on the town bridge preparing to jump, an angel stops him and helps him see what life would be if he had never been born. It's inspiring and thought-provoking and will give you that warm, Christmas feeling (and maybe even a tear or two). The most memorable part of the movie: George runs home wishing everyone and everything he sees a 'Merry Christmas'.

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."

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25 Most Attractive Actors

James Stewart (1908)

James (or Jimmy) Stewart was attractive for playing that sensitive, fun-loving guy with the distinct voice in films like, "The Philadelphia Story" (with Cary Grant), "It's a Wonderful Life", "Rear Window" and "Vertigo".

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Fun Shoots

Vanity Fair did a tribute spread

of the films of Alfred Hitchcock

Part 2

Tang Wei, Josh Brolin, Casey Affleck, Eva Marie Saint,

Ben Foster, Omar Metwally, and Julie Christie

try to survive in "Lifeboat"

Renee Zellweger channels Kim Novak in "Vertigo"

Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem play

Grace Kelly and James Stewart in "Rear Window"

Keira Knightley and Jennifer Jason Leigh look great

as Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in "Rebecca"

Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey, Jr. are

Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief"

Reincarnations

Hugh Grant is the modern day James Stewart. They both possess that goofy charm and they sure look a lot alike.

***Grant is most known for his roles in "Nine Months", "Two Weeks Notice", "Love Actually", and "About a Boy". Stewart was most famous for his roles in "It's a Wonderful Life", "Harvey", "The Philadelphia Story", and "Rear Window".

Performance of the Day

Actor: JAMES STEWART

Film: "The Philadelphia Story"

Character: Macaulay Connor

Year: 1940

In one of the best films of 1940, Jimmy Stewart almost stole the show (from Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant) as tabloid reporter 'Mike'. When heiress Tracy (Hepburn) decides to marry, she has to deal with her ex-husband (Grant), who seems willing to do anything to stop her. Mike shows up to get a story of the heiress and her new 'love' for his magazine. The funniest scene in the film has to be drunk Stewart trying to help drunk Hepburn back to her house.