Michael Caine

Acting

Born 1933-03-14 Rotherhithe, London, England, UK 262 credits Academy Awards 2 Golden Globe Awards 3 BAFTA Awards 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 European Film Award for Best Actor 1 European Film Academy Honorary Award 1 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 Donostia Award 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 4 nominated

2003 Best Actor Nominated The Quiet American
2000 Best Supporting Actor Won The Cider House Rules
1987 Best Supporting Actor Won Hannah and Her Sisters
1984 Best Actor Nominated Educating Rita
1973 Best Actor Nominated Sleuth
1967 Best Actor Nominated Alfie

Golden Globe Awards 3 won

1999 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Won Little Voice
1989 Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Won Jack the Ripper
1983 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Won Educating Rita

BAFTA Awards 2 won

2000 BAFTA Fellowship Won
1983 Best Actor in a Leading Role Won Educating Rita

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

— Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Won

European Film Award for Best Actor 1 won · 1 nominated

2015 Best Actor Won Youth
2001 Best Actor Nominated Last Orders

European Film Academy Honorary Award 1 won

2015 European Film Academy Honorary Award Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won

2011 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won

Donostia Award 1 won

2000 Donostia Award Won

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Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive South London accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades, and is considered a British film icon. As of February 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Often playing a Cockney, Caine made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films such as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), Alfie (1966), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Alfie. His roles in the 1970s included Get Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), Sleuth (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He earned his second Academy Award nomination for Sleuth and achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita (1983) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) earning him his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Caine is also known for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and for his comedic roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Miss Congeniality (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Secondhand Lions (2003). He received his second Golden Globe Award for Little Voice (1998). In 1999, he received his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a sympathetic doctor in The Cider House Rules. He portrayed a British journalist in Vietnam in The Quiet American (2002), earning his sixth Oscar nomination, and appeared in Alfonso Cuaron's dystopian drama film Children of Men (2006). Caine portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). He appeared in several other of Nolan's films including The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014) and Tenet (2020). He also appeared in the heist thriller film Now You See Me (2013), the action comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), the Italian drama Youth (2015) and the crime film King of Thieves (2018). Caine officially confirmed his retirement from acting on 13 October 2023 after The Great Escaper (2023).