A sub for redditors interested in following and predicting the Oscar race throughout the year.
Keep in mind that the ones who didn’t go to Acting School still took classes or had private coaching, it’s rare to find an actor who hasn’t received any kind of training. And everyone’s needs and wants are different when it comes to acting education, so if you feel pressured to major in acting in college or spend many years in a program just know that you don’t have to do that. Lastly, there is probably more actors who deserve to be in either list but I don’t want to make them very long.
Went to Acting School
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Denzel Washington - American Conservatory Theater
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Tom Hanks - Chabot College and California State University
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Robert De Niro - HB Studio, Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio, and Stella Adler Conservatory
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Al Pacino - HB Studio and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio
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Daniel Day Lewis - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
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Marlon Brando - American Theatre Wing Professional School
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Cate Blanchett - National Institute of Dramatic Art
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Gene Hackman - Pasadena Playhouse
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Dustin Hoffman - Pasadena Playhouse
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Viola Davis - Rhode Island College and Juilliard School
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Alec Guinness - Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art and the London Theatre Studio
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Michael Caine - Westminster Repertory Company
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Greta Garbo - Royal Dramatic Training Academy
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Meryl Streep - Vassar College and Yale School of Drama
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Philip Hoffman - NYU
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Anthony Hopkins - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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Frances McDormand - Bethany College and Yale School of Drama
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Ingrid Bergman - Royal Dramatic Theatre School
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Morgan Freeman - Pasadena Playhouse
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Paul Newman - Kenyon College, Yale School of Drama, and the Actors Studio
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Charles Laughton - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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Laurence Oliver - Birmingham Repertory Company
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Mahershala Ali - NYU’s Graduate Acting Program
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Christoph Waltz - Max Reinhardt Seminar
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Kevin Spacey - Juilliard School
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Helen Hayes - Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent
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Jack Lemmon - HB Studio
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Jane Fonda - Actors Studio
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Jessica Lange - HB Studio
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Maggie Smith - Oxford Playhouse
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Sally Field - Actors Studio
Did not go to Acting School
• Bette Davis
• Natalie Portman
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Joaquin Phoenix
• Heath Ledger
• Katharine Hepburn
• Tilda Swinton
• Toshiro Mifune
• Humphrey Bogart
• Jack Nicholson
• Christian Bale
• James Stewart
• Brad Pitt
• Sean Penn
• Russel Crowe
• Jean Gabin
• Sidney Poitier
• Jodie Foster
• Renee Zellweger
• Anthony Quinn
• Hilary Swank
• Amy Adams
• Julia Roberts
• Tommy Lee Jones
• Javier Bardem
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Johnny Depp
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Brendan Fraser, Cornish College of the Arts
You would put brendan fraser on that list? Damn
He just won the Best Actor Oscar. He has formal training. I don’t make the rules.
Yeah but this is a list of the best actors in history. You gotta build some reputation for that and his just started in a way. If I took ur advice that means I would also have to include folks like Casey Affleck, Will Smith, Rami Malek… Basically whoever won an oscar and thats way too many people
How did he just start? He just won an Oscar, but he’s been acting since the 80s…
I personally interpreted what the title to mean people who won Best Actor, given that this is an Oscar race subreddit
Both lists are just too big, too arbitrary, and each filled with enough cretins and creep for me to pick either as a whole.
I'll just pick Meryl Streep and only Meryl Streep instead.
If we are picking the most overrated performer of all time then sure.
Someone has never seen Sophie’s Choice or Adaptation, and if you have you clearly are too dense to know a good performance when you see one.
Lol I have seen them. She’s still overrated as fuck.
Yeah then you’re too dense to tell a good performance when you see one, sorry haha