Clint Eastwood performs.
The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) . It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry . Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 American action comedy film , starring Clint Eastwood , with Sondra Locke , Geoffrey Lewis , William Smith , and Ruth Gordon in supporting roles . Clint Eastwood . For his work in the Western film Unforgiven ( 1992 ) and the sports drama Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ) , Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture , as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor .