In Amadeus, which actor won the Academy Award for playing Antonio Salieri?

In Amadeus, F. Murray Abraham won the Academy Award for playing Antonio Salieri.

Abraham portrays Salieri as an aging court composer who recounts his complicated relationship with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The performance combines admiration, envy, religious doubt, and regret, making Salieri the film’s dramatic narrator and central viewpoint character.

Amadeus was released in 1984 and directed by Miloš Forman. Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 57th Academy Awards, while Tom Hulce was nominated for playing Mozart. The film is adapted from Peter Shaffer’s stage play and uses dramatic invention, so its emotional portrait of Salieri should not be treated as a complete historical biography.