Winning an Oscar is perhaps the greatest honor an actor can earn within the film industry.

This family drama is profoundly uplifting and emotionally stirring.

It was, however, a Best Actor award for what some call his greatest performance.

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His chemistry with Hepburn is incredible, making for one of the best acting duos cinema has ever seen.

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Grandpa talking to someone off-camera in Little Miss Sunshine

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A man with a knife in City Slickers

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Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja looking at a person offscreen and smiling in Minari

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Josephine Hull, scared, in ‘Harvey’

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Ethel Thayer (Katharine Hepburn) talking to Norman Thayer Jr. (Henry Fonda) in On Golden Pond.

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Norman Thayer Jr. (Henry Fonda) hugging Ethel Thayer (Katharine Hepburn) in On Golden Pond

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a passage to india, Peggy Ashcroft in sunglasses wearing explorers hat, Oldest Oscar Winning Performances

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A Passage To India (1984)

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John Gielgud as an old man with glasses sitting on his bed, holding a book in Arthur

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