Ryan Gosling has now tied Christopher Plummer as the third most nominated Canadian actor in Oscar history.
We break down the 96-year history of Canucks going for gold — including this year's bid by Ryan Gosling, who was born in the Canadian epicentre for Oscar nominees: London, Ontario.
If you go back further, however, Canadians more than make up for that discrepancy. In fact, we dominated the first few decades of acting Oscars. From 1929 to 1949, thespian Canucks received 18 nominations and took home 5 statuettes. Over the same time period, only two Aussies actors — Judith Anderson and May Robson — were nominated, and neither of them won.!), let's take a quick look back at the 20 other Canadian actors that have also gone for gold with Oscar.
Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore pose with their Oscar statuettes at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards in Los Angeles, Ca. on Nov. 13, 1931. In Canada's greatest non-hockey hat trick, Marie Dressler became our third straight winner in the best actress Oscar category in 1931. The Cobourg, Ont.-born Dressler's work as an innkeeper in, marking the first and only time two Canadian actors have competed against one another in the same category.
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