Hume Cronyn
Every year they give out academy awards. Sometimes they go to deserving people, sometimes not.
Now, I would like to you imagine a "plantinum" academy award, that would go, not to one of the nominees for one particular year, but to the best director/actor/writer/whatever ever.
My contention is that the platinum academy award for "best supporting actor" would have a lot of good nominees, from, say Sydney Greenstreet in "The Maltese Falcon" through to William H Macey in "Seabiscuit."
But the winner would be Hume Cronyn for "The Postman Always Rings Twice"