71.   Instead of looking for impersonators, the producers chose the best actors for the parts.

72.   It also brought a best actor nomination to Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener, in what turned out to be his penultimate role.

73.   Is it speciesist of the Academy Awards not to have nominated the piglet who played Babe for best actor?

74.   It was the first time ever that an actor or actress still starring in a television series was nominated for an Oscar for best actor or actress.

75.   It won him the best actor honors that year at the Cannes Film Festival.

76.   Its lead actor, Alan Rickman, won best actor honors.

77.   Jack Nicholson has two best actor and one supporting actor awards.

78.   Jamie Foxx plays a rising quarterback and emerges the best actor in the large cast.

79.   Jonathan Pryce was named best actor at the Cannes International Film Festival for his performance as Lytton Strachey.

80.   Jack Nicholson went home with the best actor statuette but suddenly Hollywood was paying attention to the former black sheep of the Fonda family.