Paul Newman, Academy Award-Winning Hollywood Legend, Dies at 83

Paul Newman, Academy Award-winning actor and world-renowned philanthropist, died Friday night after a succumbing to cancer. Newman was 83.

The Hollywood legend picked up his only Academy Award for best actor for his role as a pool-playing hustler in “The Color of Money” but was nominated for a total of ten Oscars for films including “Cool Hand Luke,” “Hud,” “The Hustler,” “The Verdict,” and “Road to Perdition.”

In 1986 he was presented an Honorary Award for his contribution to the silver screen and in 1994 The Academy presented him with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Newman left acting in 2007 after declaring “You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me.”

Off screen Newman became a professional racing driver and claimed second place at Le Mans in 1979. He remained a strong figure in the sport and partnered with several ventures and eventually became the oldest driver to be part of a winning team in a major sanctioned race when, at 70, he captured the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1995.

Newman was also a respected philanthropist who started his own line of food products, “Newman’s Own,” with A.E. Hotchner with all proceeds going to charities. By 2006 the line had donated more than $200 million to various causes.

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