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"Oscar Trivia: Day 10"
"Youngest Acting Oscar Nominees And Winners"
by Tim Nasson
January 12, 2008

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The following statistics are based on the most reliable birthdate information available to us at the time of publishing. We welcome any information from primary sources that might indicate a different birthdate for an individual. Such sources might be birth or death certificates or databases based on such records, published interviews with the individual or published documents that cite their sources. This would NOT include the Internet Movie Database or other web sites that do not cite primary sources for their information.


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ACTOR [in a Leading Role]
(* indicates the Oscar win)

Youngest Nominees [from date of birth to date of nominations announcement]

9 years, 20 days. Jackie Cooper, Skippy (1930/31)

19 years, 142 days. Mickey Rooney, Babes in Arms (1939)

23 years, 137 days. Mickey Rooney, The Human Comedy (1943)

24 years, 3 days. John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever (1977)

25 years, 10 days. James Dean, East of Eden (1955)

26 years, 10 days. James Dean, Giant (1956)"

26 years, 72 days. Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson (2006)

26 years, 279 days. Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (1941)

26 years, 302 days. Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (2005)

27 years, 125 days. Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting (1997)

Youngest Winners [from date of birth to date of awards ceremony]

29 years, 343 days. *Adrien Brody, The Pianist (2002)

30 years, 156 days. *Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl (1977)

30 years, 361 days. *Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront (1954)

31 years, 122 days. *Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

32 years, 78 days. *Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

32 years, 283 days. *James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story (1940)

32 years, 331 days. *Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot (1989)

34 years, 26 days. *Clark Gable, It Happened One Night (1934)

34 years, 258 days. *Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932/33)

34 years, 348 days. *Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

ACTOR in a Supporting Role

Youngest Nominees [from date of birth to date of nominations announcement]

8 years, 276 days. Justin Henry, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

11 years, 311 days. Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense (1999)

11 years, 312 days. Brandon De Wilde, Shane (1953)

16 years, 147 days. Jack Wild, Oliver! (1968)

17 years, 39 days. Sal Mineo, Rebel without a Cause (1955)

18 years, 176 days. River Phoenix, Running on Empty (1988)

19 years, 90 days. Leonardo DiCaprio, What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

20 years, 185 days. *Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People (1980)

22 years, 48 days. Sal Mineo, Exodus (1960)

22 years, 80 days. Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show (1971)

Youngest Winners [from date of birth to date of awards ceremony]

20 years, 227 days. *Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People (1980)

28 years, 203 days. *Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jerry Maguire (1996)

28 years, 205 days. *George Chakiris, West Side Story (1961)

31 years, 42 days. *Jack Lemmon, Mister Roberts (1955)

31 years, 234 days. *Robert De Niro, The Godfather Part II (1974)

32 years, 81 days. *Van Heflin, Johnny Eager (1942)

33 years, 58 days. *Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

34 years, 34 days. *Benicio Del Toro, Traffic (2000)

35 years, 88 days. *Denzel Washington, Glory (1989)

36 years, 9 days. *Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter (1978)



 

ACTRESS [in a Leading Role]
(* indicates the Oscar win)

Youngest Nominees [from date of birth to date of nominations announcement]

13 years, 309 days. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider (2003)

20 years, 235 days. Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H. (1975)

20 years, 311 days. Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice (2005)

21 years, 171 days. *Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God (1986)

22 years, 60 days. Elizabeth Hartman, A Patch of Blue (1965)


22 years, 128 days. Kate Winslet, Titanic (1997)

22 years, 134 days. *Janet Gaynor, 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise (1927/28)

22 years, 229 days. Leslie Caron, Lili (1953)

23 years, 108 days. Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman (1990)

23 years, 108 days. Winona Ryder, Little Women (1994)

Youngest Winners [from date of birth to date of awards ceremony]

21 years, 218 days. *Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God (1986)

22 years, 222 days. *Janet Gaynor, 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise (1927/28)

24 years, 127 days. *Joan Fontaine, Suspicion (1941)

24 years, 325 days. *Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday (1953)

25 years exactly. *Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette (1943)

25 years, 4 days. *Julie Christie, Darling (1965)

25 years, 138 days. *Grace Kelly, The Country Girl (1954)

25 years, 240 days. *Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry (1999)

26 years, 116 days. *Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind (1939)

26 years, 130 days. *Jodie Foster, The Accused (1988)



ACTRESS in a Supporting Role
(* indicates the Oscar win)

Youngest Nominees [from date of birth to date of nominations announcement]

10 years, 106 days. *Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1973)

10 years, 141 days. Mary Badham, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

10 years, 192 days. Quinn Cummings, The Goodbye Girl (1977)

10 years, 284 days. Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine (2006)


11 years, 181 days. Patty McCormack, The Bad Seed (1956)

11 years, 200 days. *Anna Paquin, The Piano (1993)

14 years, 5 days. Bonita Granville, These Three (1936)

14 years, 83 days. Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver (1976)

15 years, 28 days. Linda Blair, The Exorcist (1973)

16 years, 73 days. *Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker (1962)


Youngest Winners [from date of birth to date of awards ceremony]

10 years, 148 days. *Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1973)

11 years, 240 days. *Anna Paquin, The Piano (1993)

16 years, 115 days. *Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker (1962)

23 years, 310 days. *Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge (1946)

24 years, 128 days. *Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver (1942)

24 years, 137 days. *Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower (1969)

24 years, 296 days. *Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted (1999)

25 years, 166 days. *Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls (2006)

27 years, 17 days. *Shirley Jones, Elmer Gantry (1960)

27 years, 111 days. *Gloria Grahame, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

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