Which actor won an Oscar for playing Atticus Finch in the film adaptation?

Gregory Peck won an Oscar for playing Atticus Finch in the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 35th Academy Awards in 1963.

Directed by Robert Mulligan and adapted by Horton Foote, the film presents Peck’s Atticus as a principled Alabama lawyer defending Tom Robinson. Peck’s restrained performance helped make Atticus one of American cinema’s most enduring moral figures.

The film won three Oscars in total: Best Actor for Peck, Best Adapted Screenplay for Horton Foote, and Best Art Direction–Set Decoration, Black-and-White. Brock Peters played Tom Robinson, Robert Duvall made his film debut as Boo Radley, and John Megna played Dill Harris, so none of those actors won for portraying Atticus.