Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Despite the Academy's love of historical epics and biopics, they have given eight Oscar nominations to actors who played real-life presidents. Getting cast as a president is a massive responsibility for any actor. Most of the audience comes into the movie with a preconceived notion of how Richard Nixon should be portrayed, yet the actor has to find a way to make the president feel like a real person and not a caricature.
7 Alexander Knox - Woodrow Wilson The 1944 biopic Wilson was meant to be an epic historical film and a huge awards contender. However, despite getting 10 Oscar nominations and winning five, the film was a financial disaster and quickly forgotten. Along with being nominated for Best Picture, Alexander Knox was nominated for playing Woodrow Wilson. Knox lost to Bing Crosby, who won for Going My Way.
5 Anthony Hopkins - Richard Nixon For a period in Hollywood, no one could make American historical dramas quite like Oliver Stone. From Platoon to JFK, Stone was cranking out lengthy epics about events and people known to the entire world. For his over three-hour biopic about disgraced president Richard Nixon, Stone cast Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins. While an actor as iconic as Hopkins playing Nixon seems like a recipe for disaster, Hopkins completely loses himself in the role.
2 Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is notable in many ways, not least of which is that Daniel Day-Lewis is the only actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life president. Day-Lewis won his third and, if his retirement is to be believed, final Oscar for his role in this 2012 drama about the passing of the 13th amendment.
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