Complex sentence: Best Actor winner Paul Newman was the fourth actor to have been nominated for portraying the same character in two different films, having previously earned a nomination for his role as "Fast Eddie" Felson in 1961's "The Hustler".
Split into simpler sentences: Best Actor winner Paul Newman was the fourth actor to have been nominated for portraying the same character in two different films. He had previously earned a nomination for his role as "Fast Eddie" Felson in 1961's "The Hustler".