Name an actor who has won the Oscar for Best Actor: rare answers
We accept 87 answers to “Name an actor who has won the Oscar for Best Actor” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and Will Smith, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Broderick Crawford, Emil Jannings and Paul Muni score up to 100 points.
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- Accepted answers
- 87
- Category
- Movies
- Deep answers (85–100 pts)
- 31 (36%)
- Alternate spellings accepted
- None needed
- First letters
- 20 different; J is the most common (12)
The rarest answers
11 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Broderick Crawford, Emil Jannings, Paul Muni and Ronald Colman. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.
🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)
Broderick Crawford, Emil Jannings, Paul Muni, Ronald Colman, Wallace Beery, Paul Scofield, Robert Donat, Warner Baxter, Victor McLaglen, George Arliss, Paul Lukas
🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Geoffrey Rush, Roberto Benigni, David Niven, F. Murray Abraham, Lee Marvin, George C. Scott, Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Charles Laughton, Lionel Barrymore, Rex Harrison, Jean Dujardin, José Ferrer, Peter Finch, Cliff Robertson, Art Carney, Fredric March, Ray Milland
🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)
Robert Duvall, James Stewart, Gene Hackman, Jamie Foxx, Sidney Poitier, Michael B. Jordan, Gregory Peck, Jeff Bridges, Henry Fonda, Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Adrien Brody, Jeremy Irons, Charlton Heston, Eddie Redmayne, Casey Affleck, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt, Alec Guinness, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, Richard Dreyfuss, Yul Brynner
🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)
Nicolas Cage, Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson, Matthew McConaughey, Joaquin Phoenix, John Wayne, Gary Oldman, Paul Newman, Cillian Murphy, Russell Crowe, Michael Douglas, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin Spacey, Rami Malek, Bing Crosby, Jon Voight, Brendan Fraser, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Humphrey Bogart, Dustin Hoffman, Clark Gable
🌊 Surface answers (10 points)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino
Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.
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