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Actors who have Won Awards for Portraying Alcoholic Characters  
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Oscar victories for Best Actor haven't always been for the stars' best work either, but have often been an effort to right past injustices, or retroactively for an entire body of work:

	Lionel Barrymore won the Best Actor Oscar for A Free Soul (1930/31)
	Van Heflin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Johnny Eager (1942)
	Ray Milland won the Best Actor Oscar for The Lost Weekend (1945)
	Lee Marvin won the Best Actor Oscar for Cat Ballou (1965)
	Nicolas Cage won the Best Actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
	James Coburn won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Affliction (1998

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