Nicolas Cage

Acting

Born 1964-01-07 Long Beach, California, USA 188 credits Academy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 4 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor 1 Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor 2 MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo 2

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

2003 Best Actor Nominated Adaptation
1996 Best Actor Won Leaving Las Vegas

Golden Globe Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

1996 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Won Leaving Las Vegas
— Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated Dream Scenario

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

1996 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Won Leaving Las Vegas

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 4 won

2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Won The Family Man
1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Won
1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Won
1997 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Won The Rock

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor 1 won · 1 nominated

2010 Best Actor Nominated Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
1996 Best Actor Won Leaving Las Vegas

Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor 2 won

2009 Best Actor Won Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2002 Best Actor Won Adaptation

MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo 2 won

1998 Best On-Screen Duo Won Face/Off
1997 Best On-Screen Duo Won The Rock

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Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. During the early years of his career, Cage starred in a variety of films such as Rumble Fish (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Vampire's Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993). During this period, John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36 listed him as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1984. For his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation (2002). He subsequently appeared in more mainstream films, such as The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), City of Angels (1998), 8mm (1999), Windtalkers (2002), Lord of War (2005), The Wicker Man (2006), Bangkok Dangerous (2008) and Knowing (2009). He also directed the film Sonny (2002), for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival. Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003). In October 1997, Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine's The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list, while the next year, he was placed No. 37 in Premiere's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. In the 2010s, he starred in Kick-Ass (2010), Drive Angry (2011), Joe (2013), The Runner (2015), Dog Eat Dog (2016), Mom and Dad (2017), Mandy (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and Color Out of Space (2019). His participation in various film genres during this time increased his popularity and gained him a cult following.