Question: How many nominations for the Academy Award of Best Actor did the man who starred in the film British Agent get in his career ?

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Nick Meyer: Nick Meyer is an American film producer and CEO of Sierra/Affinity.  Meyer was the president of Paramount Vantage until December 2008.  In 2007, with Meyer as co-head of Paramount, the Studio received 19 Academy Award nominations.  Four of the Studio's 2007 feature films were honored: "There Will Be Blood", a Paramount Vantage and Miramax co-production, received eight nominations, winning Best Picture among others; "No Country for Old Men", also a Miramax and Paramount Vantage co-production, received eight nominations; "Into the Wild" earned two nominations; "The Kite Runner" garnered one nomination.  At the 80th Academy Awards, Blood and No Country won a combined six awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture for No Country, the Academy Award for Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis in Blood, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem in No Country.

Tom Cruise filmography: Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love".  Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy "Risky Business" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.  In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama "Top Gun" (the highest-grossing film that year), and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama "The Color of Money".  Two years later he played opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama "Rain Man" (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama "Cocktail" (1988).  In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year.  His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989).  For his performance Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Russell Crowe: Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician.  Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia.  He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film "Gladiator", directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and 10 further nominations for best actor.

Jack Lemmon: John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician.  Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins.  He starred in over 60 films, such as "Some Like It Hot", "The Apartment", "Mister Roberts" (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), "Days of Wine and Roses", "The Great Race", "Irma la Douce", "The Odd Couple" and its sequel 30 years later, "The Odd Couple II", (and other frequent collaborations with "Odd Couple" co-star Walter Matthau), "Save the Tiger" (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor), "The Out-of-Towners", "The China Syndrome", "Missing" (for which he won Best Actor at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Tuesdays with Morrie", "Grumpy Old Men", and "Grumpier Old Men".

Leslie Howard (actor): Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director and producer.  Howard also wrote many stories and articles for "The New York Times", "The New Yorker" and "Vanity Fair".  Howard was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s but is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).  Howard had movie roles in many other notable films, including: "Berkeley Square" (1933), "Of Human Bondage" (1934), "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934), "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Pygmalion" (1938), "Intermezzo" (1939), ""Pimpernel" Smith" (1941) and "The First of the Few" (1942), receiving two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Peter Finch: Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-born Australian actor.  He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film "Network", which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes.  He was the first of two persons to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category, and coincidentally also the first of the two Australian actors to have done so, the other being Heath Ledger.

Nick Nolte: Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor and former model.  He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1991 film "The Prince of Tides".  He went on to receive Academy Award nominations for "Affliction" (1998) and "Warrior" (2011).  His other film appearances include "The Deep" (1977), "48 Hrs. " (1982), "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986), "Another 48 Hrs. " (1990), "Everybody Wins" (1990), "Cape Fear" (1991), "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), "The Thin Red Line" (1998), "The Good Thief" (2002), "Hulk" (2003), "Hotel Rwanda" (2004), "Tropic Thunder" (2008), "A Walk in the Woods" (2015) and "The Ridiculous 6" (2015).  He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series "Graves" (2016–present).

British Agent: British Agent is a 1934 espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis.  It is based on "Memoirs of a British Agent", the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who had spent a number of years working for the British Secret Service.  The film was produced by First National, which was then a division of Warner Bros..

Academy Award for Best Film Editing: The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).  Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture.  For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing.  Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible.  The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the Academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012.  The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of their preference; the five films with the largest vote totals are selected as nominees.  The Academy Award itself is selected from the nominated films by a subsequent ballot of all active and life members of the Academy.  This process is essentially the reverse of that of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing are done by a general ballot of Academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.

Beautiful Connection: Beautiful Connection () is a Singaporean Chinese family drama serial.  It was telecast in 2002.  The show earned many nominations for the Star Awards including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best TV Drama, Best Theme Song, Best Director and many more.

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Answer: two