Top 10 Greatest Academy Award Winning Performances (by category)

Best Actor-
1. Daniel Day-Lewis-My Left Foot and There Will be Blood
2. Geoffrey Rush-Shine
3. Jose Ferrer- Cyrano de Bergerac
4. Laurence Olivier-Hamlet
5. Ernest Borgnine-Marty
6. Peter Finch-Network
7. Colin Firth- The Kings Speech
8. Jack Nicholson- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
9. F. Murray Abraham- Amadeus
10. Robert Donat-Goodbye Mr. Chips

Best Actress-
1. Vivien Leigh-Gone With The Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Elizabeth Taylor- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
3. Shirley Booth- Come Back Little Sheba
4. Holly Hunter-The...