Nicolas Fouquet
Schildkraut received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Alfred Dreyfus in "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937). Additional accolades came for playing the ambitious duc d'Orléans in the historical epic "Marie Antoinette" (1938), and he gave a notable performance as the villainous Nicolas Fouquet in "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939).