Academy Awards—best actor in a leading role

The Oscars

Here you see the Academy Awards for Best Actor.

The haunting song you're hearing is called As Time Goes By, (words and music by Herman Hupfeld). You may remember it as the theme song from the 1942 movie Casablanca (Best Picture—1943). This version is sung by Jimmy Durante, one of the many recording artists who have performed it brilliantly.

Award winners—Best Actor

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award winners

The Muse is pleased to present the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress. You can find lists of award winners in two places:

the Combined Table Of Academy Awards

This table includes all Best film, Best Actor, and Best Actress awards from the inception of the Oscars in 1929 to the present. The table, which is searchable and sortable, allows you to use your computer to easily and quickly find, sort, print, and otherwise arrange items in the table, with or without searching.

• Visit the Academy Awards Table now: click here.

pages for Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Actress

The Muse Of Film offers you a separate page dedicated to each award category. The page for a category lists all award winners for its category and provides additional information about its category.

• Visit the page for Best Film: click here.
• Visit the page for Best Actor: click here.
• Visit the page for Best Actress: click here.

more about The Song as time goes by

The haunting song you heard when this page opened is called As Time Goes By, (words and music by Herman Hupfeld). You may remember it as the theme song from the 1942 movie Casablanca (Best Picture—1943). This version is sung by Jimmy Durante, one of the many recording artists who have performed it.

Hear different renditions of As Time Goes By as you see an all-time list of awards for:

• Best Film
• Best Actor
• Best Actress

Notice how different this version is from the others played by The Muse of Film. (To play this song again, refresh page.)

• Hear Dooley Wilson's interpretation: click here.
• Hear Carley Simon's version: click here.
• Hear Tony Bennett's version: click here.

Jimmy's interpretation is slow, graceful, almost charming, unlike many of his interpretations of other songs and a little surprising coming from an entertainer with his comic style and personal background. Perhaps this surprise intensifies the enchantment he invokes by his novel point of view.

Even though unexpected and different, Durante's interpretation is just as valid, just as rewarding, as the others chosen by The Muse Of Music. It demonstrates how As Time Goes By endures by speaking with many different voices that resonate with many different audiences, and by having so many different things to say, a hallmark of greatness.

Make these Visits to related Web Sites

• Visit the Academy's web site: click here.
• Explore the Academy's database. See winners in other categories, nominees for film, actor, actress who didn't receive the awards in their category, and lots more: click here.
• See the story of the Awards as told by Filmsite: click here.
• Investigate some of the films, actors, and actresses associated with Casablanca. Visit the Internet Movie Database web site: click here.

ETAF Recommends

• Publications about the Academy Awards: click here.
• Buy the music CDs and the movies played and displayed on these pages on DVD or video.