Browse Namesakes
This is a list of namesakes in which the category is Oscar Award Winners; and the gender is male
| Name | Year | Category | Movie | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Howard | 2002 | director | A Beautiful Mind | (Ronald) |  |
| Ronald Colman | 1948 | actor | A Double Life | | |
| Sebastián Lelio | 2018 | director | A Fantastic Woman | | |
| Kevin Kline | 1989 | actor | A Fish Called Wanda | (Delaney) | |
| Lionel Barrymore | 1932 | actor | A Free Soul | | |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 | director | A Letter to Three Wives | (Leo) | |
| Fred Zinnemann | 1967 | director | A Man for All Seasons | (Alfred) | |
| Paul Scofield | 1967 | actor | A Man for All Seasons | (David) | |
| George Stevens | 1952 | director | A Place in the Sun | | |
| Kieran Culkin | 2025 | actor | A Real Pain | (Kyle) | |
| Asghar Farhadi | 2013 | director | A Separation | | |
| Karl Malden | 1952 | actor | A Streetcar Named Desire | | |
| Martin Balsam | 1966 | actor | A Thousand Clowns | (Henry) | |
| James Dunn | 1946 | actor | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | | |
| Chris Cooper | 2003 | actor | Adaptation | (Christopher) | |
| James Coburn | 1999 | actor | Affliction | | |
| George Sanders | 1951 | actor | All About Eve | | |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1951 | director | All About Eve | (Leo) | |
| Lewis Milestone | 1931 | director | All Quiet on the Western Front | | |
| Broderick Crawford | 1950 | actor | All the King's Men | | |
| Jason Robards | 1977 | actor | All the President's Men | (Nelson) | |
| F. Murray Abraham | 1985 | actor | Amadeus | (Fahrid) | |
| Miloš Forman | 1985 | director | Amadeus | (Jan, Tomáš) | |
| Kevin Spacey | 2000 | actor | American Beauty | | |
| Sam Mendes | 2000 | director | American Beauty | (Samuel) | |
| Louis Gossett, Jr. | 1983 | actor | An Officer and a Gentleman | (Cameron) | |
| Woody Allen | 1978 | director | Annie Hall | (Allan, Heywood, Stewart) | |
| Sean Baker | 2025 | director | Anora | | |
| John Gielgud | 1982 | actor | Arthur | (Arthur) | |
| Jack Nicholson | 1998 | actor | As Good As It Gets | (John, Joseph) | |
| Frank Borzage | 1933 | director | Bad Girl | | |
| Christopher Plummer | 2012 | actor | Beginners | (Arthur, Orme) | |
| Melvyn Douglas | 1980 | actor | Being There | (Edouard) | |
| Charlton Heston | 1960 | actor | Ben-Hur | | |
| Hugh Griffith | 1960 | actor | Ben-Hur | (Emrys) | |
| William Wyler | 1960 | director | Ben-Hur | | |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 2015 | director | Birdman | | |
| Rami Malek | 2019 | actor | Bohemian Rhapsody | (Said) | |
| Oliver Stone | 1990 | director | Born on the Fourth of July | | |
| Spencer Tracy | 1939 | actor | Boys Town | (Bonaventure) | |
| Mel Gibson | 1996 | director | Braveheart | | |
| Mark Rylance | 2016 | actor | Bridge of Spies | (David) | |
| Ang Lee | 2006 | director | Brokeback Mountain | | |
| Bob Fosse | 1973 | director | Cabaret | (Robert) | |
| Joel Grey | 1973 | actor | Cabaret | | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | 2006 | actor | Capote | | |
| Spencer Tracy | 1938 | actor | Captains Courageous | (Bonaventure) | |
| Michael Curtiz | 1944 | director | Casablanca | | |
| Lee Marvin | 1966 | actor | Cat Ballou | | |
| Frank Lloyd | 1934 | director | Cavalcade | | |
| Cliff Robertson | 1969 | actor | Charly | (Clifford) | |
| Jack Palance | 1992 | actor | City Slickers | | |
| Don Ameche | 1986 | actor | Cocoon | | |
| Troy Kotsur | 2022 | actor | CODA | | |
| Walter Brennan | 1937 | actor | Come and Get It | | |
| Jon Voight | 1979 | actor | Coming Home | (Jonathan) | |
| George Kennedy | 1968 | actor | Cool Hand Luke | | |
| Jeff Bridges | 2010 | actor | Crazy Heart | (Jeffrey, Leon) | |
| José Ferrer | 1951 | actor | Cyrano de Bergerac | (Vicente) | |
| Jared Leto | 2014 | actor | Dallas Buyers Club | | |
| Matthew McConaughey | 2014 | actor | Dallas Buyers Club | | |
| Kevin Costner | 1991 | director | Dances with Wolves | | |
| Gary Oldman | 2018 | actor | Darkest Hour | | |
| George Arliss | 1931 | actor | Disraeli | | |
| Christoph Waltz | 2013 | actor | Django Unchained | | |
| Fredric March | 1933 | actor | Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde | (Ernest, Frederick, McIntyre) | |
| Martin Landau | 1995 | actor | Ed Wood | | |
| Burt Lancaster | 1961 | actor | Elmer Gantry | (Burton) | |
| Daniel Kwan | 2023 | director | Everything Everywhere All at Once | | |
| Daniel Scheinert | 2023 | director | Everything Everywhere All at Once | | |
| Ke Huy Quan | 2023 | actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once | (Jonathan) | |
| Robert Zemeckis | 1995 | director | Forrest Gump | | |
| Tom Hanks | 1995 | actor | Forrest Gump | (Thomas, Jeffrey) | |
| Walter Matthau | 1967 | actor | Fortune Cookie | (John) | |
| Frank Sinatra | 1954 | actor | From Here to Eternity | (Francis) | |
| Fred Zinnemann | 1954 | director | From Here to Eternity | (Alfred) | |
| Ben Kingsley | 1983 | actor | Gandhi | (Krishna, Pandit) | |
| Richard Attenborough | 1983 | director | Gandhi | | |
| Elia Kazan | 1948 | director | Gentleman's Agreement | | |
| George Stevens | 1957 | director | Giant | | |
| Vincente Minnelli | 1959 | director | Gigi | | |
| Russell Crowe | 2001 | actor | Gladiator | | |
| Denzel Washington | 1990 | actor | Glory | (Hayes) | |
| Barry Fitzgerald | 1945 | actor | Going My Way | | |
| Harry "Bing" Crosby | 1945 | actor | Going My Way | (Bing) | |
| Leo McCarey | 1945 | director | Going My Way | | |
| Victor Fleming | 1940 | director | Gone with the Wind | | |
| Robin Williams | 1998 | actor | Good Will Hunting | | |
| Robert Donat | 1940 | actor | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | | |
| Joe Pesci | 1991 | actor | GoodFellas | (Joseph, Frank) | |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 2014 | director | Gravity | | |
| Mahershala Ali | 2019 | actor | Green Book | (Mahershalalhashbaz) | |
| Laurence Olivier | 1949 | actor | Hamlet | | |
| Michael Caine | 1987 | actor | Hannah and Her Sisters | | |
| Art Carney | 1975 | actor | Harry and Tonto | (Arthur) | |
| Gary Cooper | 1953 | actor | High Noon | (Frank, James) | |
| Donald Crisp | 1942 | actor | How Green Was My Valley | | |
| John Ford | 1942 | director | How Green Was My Valley | | |
| Melvyn Douglas | 1964 | actor | Hud | (Edouard) | |
| Warner Baxter | 1930 | actor | In Old Arizona | | |
| Rod Steiger | 1968 | actor | In the Heat of the Night | (Rodney) | |
| Christoph Waltz | 2010 | actor | Inglourious Basterds | | |
| Jim Broadbent | 2002 | actor | Iris | (James) | |
| Clark Gable | 1935 | actor | It Happened One Night | (William) | |
| Frank Capra | 1935 | director | It Happened One Night | | |
| Cuba Gooding, Jr. | 1997 | actor | Jerry Maguire | | |
| Van Heflin | 1943 | actor | Johnny Eager | | |
| Joaquin Phoenix | 2020 | actor | Joker | (Rafael) | |
| Daniel Kaluuya | 2021 | actor | Judas and the Black Messiah | | |
| Maximilian Schell | 1962 | actor | Judgment at Nuremberg | | |
| Jason Robards | 1978 | actor | Julia | (Nelson) | |
| Walter Brennan | 1939 | actor | Kentucky | | |
| Will Smith | 2022 | actor | King Richard | (Willard, Carroll) | |
| William Hurt | 1986 | actor | Kiss of the Spider Woman | (McChord) | |
| Dustin Hoffman | 1980 | actor | Kramer vs. Kramer | | |
| Robert Benton | 1980 | director | Kramer vs. Kramer | | |
| Damien Chazelle | 2017 | director | La La Land | | |
| David Lean | 1963 | director | Lawrence of Arabia | | |
| Nicolas Cage | 1996 | actor | Leaving Las Vegas | | |
| Roberto Benigni | 1999 | actor | Life is Beautiful | | |
| Ang Lee | 2013 | director | Life of Pi | | |
| Sidney Poitier | 1964 | actor | Lilies of the Field | | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | 2013 | actor | Lincoln | | |
| Alan Arkin | 2007 | actor | Little Miss Sunshine | (Wolf) | |
| Anthony Quinn | 1957 | actor | Lust for Life | | |
| Casey Affleck | 2017 | actor | Manchester by the Sea | | |
| Delbert Mann | 1956 | director | Marty | | |
| Ernest Borgnine | 1956 | actor | Marty | | |
| John Schlesinger | 1970 | director | Midnight Cowboy | | |
| Sean Penn | 2009 | actor | Milk | | |
| Clint Eastwood | 2005 | director | Million Dollar Baby | (Clinton) | |
| Morgan Freeman | 2005 | actor | Million Dollar Baby | | |
| Edmund Gwenn | 1948 | actor | Miracle on 34th Street | | |
| Jack Lemmon | 1956 | actor | Mister Roberts | (John, Uhler) | |
| Mahershala Ali | 2017 | actor | Moonlight | (Mahershalalhashbaz) | |
| Frank Capra | 1937 | director | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | | |
| William Wyler | 1943 | director | Mrs. Miniver | | |
| George Cukor | 1965 | director | My Fair Lady | | |
| Rex Harrison | 1965 | actor | My Fair Lady | (Reginald, Carey) | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | 1990 | actor | My Left Foot | | |
| Sean Penn | 2004 | actor | Mystic River | | |
| Tim Robbins | 2004 | actor | Mystic River | (Timothy, Francis) | |
| Peter Finch | 1977 | actor | Network | | |
| Ethan Coen | 2008 | director | No Country for Old Men | | |
| Javier Bardem | 2008 | actor | No Country for Old Men | | |
| Joel Coen | 2008 | director | No Country for Old Men | | |
| Henry Fonda | 1982 | actor | On Golden Pond | (Jaynes) | |
| Elia Kazan | 1955 | director | On the Waterfront | | |
| Marlon Brando | 1955 | actor | On the Waterfront | | |
| Brad Pitt | 2020 | actor | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | (William, Bradley) | |
| Jack Nicholson | 1976 | actor | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | (John, Joseph) | |
| Miloš Forman | 1976 | director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | (Jan, Tomáš) | |
| Christopher Nolan | 2024 | director | Oppenheimer | (Edward) | |
| Cillian Murphy | 2024 | actor | Oppenheimer | | |
| Robert Downey Jr. | 2024 | actor | Oppenheimer | (John) | |
| Robert Redford | 1981 | director | Ordinary People | | |
| Timothy Hutton | 1981 | actor | Ordinary People | | |
| Sydney Pollack | 1986 | director | Out of Africa | | |
| Bong Joon-ho | 2020 | director | Parasite | | |
| Franklin J. Schaffner | 1971 | director | Patton | (James) | |
| George C. Scott | 1971 | actor | Patton | (Campbell) | |
| Tom Hanks | 1994 | actor | Philadelphia | (Thomas, Jeffrey) | |
| Oliver Stone | 1987 | director | Platoon | | |
| Robert De Niro | 1981 | actor | Raging Bull | | |
| Barry Levinson | 1989 | director | Rain Man | | |
| Dustin Hoffman | 1989 | actor | Rain Man | | |
| Jamie Foxx | 2005 | actor | Ray | (Eric, Marlon) | |
| Warren Beatty | 1982 | director | Reds | | |
| Jeremy Irons | 1991 | actor | Reversal of Fortune | (John) | |
| John G. Avildsen | 1977 | director | Rocky | (Guilbert) | |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 2019 | director | Roma | | |
| John Mills | 1971 | actor | Ryan's Daughter | | |
| Jack Lemmon | 1974 | actor | Save the Tiger | (John, Uhler) | |
| Steven Spielberg | 1999 | director | Saving Private Ryan | | |
| Red Buttons | 1958 | actor | Sayonara | (Aaron) | |
| Al Pacino | 1993 | actor | Scent of a Woman | (Alfredo, James) | |
| Steven Spielberg | 1994 | director | Schindler's List | | |
| David Niven | 1959 | actor | Separate Tables | | |
| Gary Cooper | 1942 | actor | Sergeant York | (Frank, James) | |
| Frank Borzage | 1929 | director | Seventh Heaven | | |
| Geoffrey Rush | 1997 | actor | Shine | (Roy) | |
| Norman Taurog | 1932 | director | Skippy | | |
| Danny Boyle | 2009 | director | Slumdog Millionaire | (Daniel) | |
| Peter Ustinov | 1961 | actor | Spartacus | | |
| Thomas Mitchell | 1940 | actor | Stagecoach | | |
| William Holden | 1954 | actor | Stalag 17 | | |
| Ed Begley | 1963 | actor | Sweet Bird of Youth | (Edward) | |
| George Clooney | 2006 | actor | Syriana | | |
| Robert Duvall | 1984 | actor | Tender Mercies | | |
| Jack Nicholson | 1984 | actor | Terms of Endearment | (John, Joseph) | |
| James L. Brooks | 1984 | director | Terms of Endearment | (Lawrence) | |
| Humphrey Bogart | 1952 | actor | The African Queen | (DeForest) | |
| Billy Wilder | 1961 | director | The Apartment | (Samuel) | |
| Jean Dujardin | 2012 | actor | The Artist | | |
| Michel Hazanavicius | 2012 | director | The Artist | | |
| Leo McCarey | 1938 | director | The Awful Truth | | |
| Denys Arcand | 2004 | director | The Barbarian Invasions | (Georges, Henri) | |
| Edmond O'Brien | 1955 | actor | The Barefoot Contessa | | |
| Fredric March | 1947 | actor | The Best Years of Our Lives | (Ernest, Frederick, McIntyre) | |
| Harold Russell | 1947 | actor | The Best Years of Our Lives | | |
| William Wyler | 1947 | director | The Best Years of Our Lives | | |
| Burl Ives | 1959 | actor | The Big Country | | |
| Alec Guinness | 1958 | actor | The Bridge on the River Kwai | | |
| David Lean | 1958 | director | The Bridge on the River Kwai | | |
| Adrien Brody | 2025 | actor | The Brutalist | (Nicholas) | |
| Wallace Beery | 1933 | actor | The Champ | | |
| Michael Caine | 2000 | actor | The Cider House Rules | | |
| Paul Newman | 1987 | actor | The Color of Money | | |
| Heath Ledger | 2009 | actor | The Dark Knight | | |
| Christopher Walken | 1979 | actor | The Deer Hunter | | |
| Michael Cimino | 1979 | director | The Deer Hunter | | |
| Martin Scorsese | 2007 | director | The Departed | | |
| Frank Lloyd | 1930 | director | The Divine Lady | | |
| Anthony Minghella | 1997 | director | The English Patient | | |
| Anthony Hopkins | 2021 | actor | The Father | | |
| Christian Bale | 2011 | actor | The Fighter | | |
| Gene Hackman | 1972 | actor | The French Connection | (Eugene, Allen) | |
| William Friedkin | 1972 | director | The French Connection | (David) | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | 1994 | actor | The Fugitive | | |
| Marlon Brando | 1973 | actor | The Godfather | | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | 1975 | director | The Godfather Part II | | |
| Robert De Niro | 1975 | actor | The Godfather Part II | | |
| Richard Dreyfuss | 1978 | actor | The Goodbye Girl | | |
| Mike Nichols | 1968 | director | The Graduate | (Michael, Igor) | |
| John Ford | 1941 | director | The Grapes of Wrath | | |
| John Ford | 1936 | director | The Informer | | |
| Victor McLaglen | 1936 | actor | The Informer | | |
| Haing S. Ngor | 1985 | actor | The Killing Fields | (Somnang) | |
| Yul Brynner | 1957 | actor | The King and I | | |
| Colin Firth | 2011 | actor | The King's Speech | | |
| Tom Hooper | 2011 | director | The King's Speech | (Thomas) | |
| Emil Jannings | 1929 | actor | The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh | | |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | 1988 | director | The Last Emperor | | |
| Forest Whitaker | 2007 | actor | The Last King of Scotland | | |
| Ben Johnson | 1972 | actor | The Last Picture Show | (Francis, Benjamin) | |
| Joseph Schildkraut | 1938 | actor | The Life of Émile Zola | | |
| Peter Jackson | 2004 | director | The Lord of Rings: The Return of King | | |
| Billy Wilder | 1946 | director | The Lost Weekend | (Samuel) | |
| Ray Milland | 1946 | actor | The Lost Weekend | | |
| Charles Coburn | 1944 | actor | The More the Merrier | | |
| John Houseman | 1974 | actor | The Paper Chase | | |
| James Stewart | 1941 | actor | The Philadelphia Story | (Jimmy, Maitland) | |
| Adrien Brody | 2003 | actor | The Pianist | (Nicholas) | |
| Roman Polanski | 2003 | director | The Pianist | | |
| Charles Laughton | 1934 | actor | The Private Life of Henry VIII | | |
| John Ford | 1953 | director | The Quiet Man | | |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 2016 | director | The Revenant | | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | 2016 | actor | The Revenant | | |
| Guillermo del Toro | 2018 | director | The Shape of Water | | |
| Anthony Hopkins | 1992 | actor | The Silence of the Lambs | | |
| Jonathan Demme | 1992 | director | The Silence of the Lambs | | |
| Robert Wise | 1966 | director | The Sound of Music | | |
| George Roy Hill | 1974 | director | The Sting | | |
| Paul Muni | 1937 | actor | The Story of Louis Pasteur | (Frederich, Meshilem, Meier) | |
| Jack Albertson | 1969 | actor | The Subject Was Roses | | |
| George Burns | 1976 | actor | The Sunshine Boys | | |
| Eddie Redmayne | 2015 | actor | The Theory of Everything | (Edward) | |
| John Huston | 1949 | director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | | |
| Walter Huston | 1949 | actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | | |
| Sean Connery | 1988 | actor | The Untouchables | (Thomas) | |
| Kevin Spacey | 1996 | actor | The Usual Suspects | | |
| Walter Brennan | 1941 | actor | The Westerner | | |
| Brendan Fraser | 2023 | actor | The Whale | (James) | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | 2008 | actor | There Will Be Blood | | |
| Gig Young | 1970 | actor | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | | |
| Sam Rockwell | 2018 | actor | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | | |
| James Cameron | 1998 | director | Titanic | | |
| Gregory Peck | 1963 | actor | To Kill a Mockingbird | (Eldred) | |
| Tony Richardson | 1964 | director | Tom Jones | (Cecil, Antonio) | |
| Peter Ustinov | 1965 | actor | Topkapi | | |
| Benicio del Toro | 2001 | actor | Traffic | (Monserrate, Rafael) | |
| Steven Soderbergh | 2001 | director | Traffic | | |
| Denzel Washington | 2002 | actor | Training Day | (Hayes) | |
| John Wayne | 1970 | actor | True Grit | (Marion) | |
| Dean Jagger | 1950 | actor | Twelve O'Clock High | | |
| Lewis Milestone | 1929 | director | Two Arabian Nights | | |
| Clint Eastwood | 1993 | director | Unforgiven | (Clinton) | |
| Gene Hackman | 1993 | actor | Unforgiven | (Eugene, Allen) | |
| Anthony Quinn | 1953 | actor | Viva Zapata! | | |
| Michael Douglas | 1988 | actor | Wall Street | | |
| Paul Lukas | 1944 | actor | Watch on the Rhine | | |
| George Chakiris | 1962 | actor | West Side Story | | |
| Jerome Robbins | 1962 | director | West Side Story | | |
| Robert Wise | 1962 | director | West Side Story | | |
| J. K. Simmons | 2015 | actor | Whiplash | (Jonathan, Kimble) | |
| James Cagney | 1943 | actor | Yankee Doodle Dandy | (Francis) | |
| Frank Capra | 1939 | director | You Can't Take It with You | |