Michael Caine

Maurice Joseph Micklewhite broke through in the 1960s wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses and playing Cockneys in Zulu, The Ipcress File, and The Italian Job - a style icon with a laconic drawl. He held that stardom through Get Carter, The Man Who Would Be King, and A Bridge Too Far, then won his first Oscar as Elliot in Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986. A second came thirteen years later for The Cider House Rules, along with four other Best Actor nominations scattered across Alfie, Sleuth, Educating Rita, and The Quiet American. He spent his last two decades steady in Christopher Nolan's stable - Alfred in the Batman trilogy, then five more films ending with Tenet - and slipped in Scrooge opposite Muppets, a con man opposite Steve Martin, and Michael Caine opposite Michael Caine in Austin Powers. He announced his retirement in 2023 after The Great Escaper, one of only five men ever nominated for an Oscar in five separate decades.