{"id":163136,"date":"2026-09-17T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/17\/oscar-winning-lawyering\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:04:04","slug":"oscar-winning-lawyering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/17\/oscar-winning-lawyering\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Winning Lawyering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Many actors have won Academy Awards for portraying lawyers over the years including Tom Hanks and Tilda Swinton. But in the early days of Hollywood, attorney roles struggled to gain recognition. Who was the first actor to win an Oscar for portraying a lawyer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hint: It kicked off a little run, with the Best Actor Oscar going to a lawyer role the next year as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/oscar-winning-lawyering\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar-Winning Lawyering<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/Oscar-300x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Many actors have won Academy Awards for portraying lawyers over the years including Tom Hanks and Tilda Swinton. But in the early days of Hollywood, attorney roles struggled to gain recognition. Who was the first actor to win an Oscar for portraying a lawyer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hint: It kicked off a little run, with the Best Actor Oscar going to a lawyer role the next year as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/oscar-winning-lawyering\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/oscar-winning-lawyering\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many actors have won Academy Awards for portraying lawyers over the years including Tom Hanks and Tilda Swinton. But in the early days of Hollywood, attorney roles struggled to gain recognition. Who was the first actor to win an Oscar for portraying a lawyer? Hint: It kicked off a little run, with the Best Actor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}