Question: What American actor who appeared in five films over a period of six years, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, was part of the company  co-founded by David Wheeler and Naomi Thornton in 1963?

Context articles: David Thewlis
Tom Cruise filmography
Damien Chazelle
Nick Meyer
List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
Dustin Hoffman filmography
Theater Company of Boston
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
John Cazale
List of American films of 2004

David Thewlis (born David Wheeler; born 20 March 1963) is an English actor, director, screenwriter, and author.
 His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin in the "Harry Potter" film series.
 Other notable performances include the films "Naked" (for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival), "Dragonheart", "Kingdom of Heaven", "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", "The Theory of Everything", "Black Beauty", "Macbeth" (as King Duncan) and "Wonder Woman".
 He has also done voice work in the films "James and the Giant Peach" (1996), "The Miracle Maker" (2000), and "Anomalisa" (2015).
 Thewlis has combined major motion picture work with prominent television roles, including playing Cyrus Crabb in the television miniseries "Dinotopia" and antagonist V.M. Varga in the third season of "Fargo."
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.
Damien Sayre Chazelle ( ; born January 19, 1985) is an American director, screenwriter and producer.
 Chazelle made his directorial debut with the musical film "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" (2009).
 He rose to prominence for writing and directing his second feature film, "Whiplash" (2014), which received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
 His 2016 film "La La Land" was a critical and commercial success, winning all seven of its Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
 It also received a record-tying fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning six including Best Director, making Chazelle the youngest person in history to win the Oscar for Best Director and to win the Golden Globe for Best Director.
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.
This is a list of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award.
 Each year, the Academy Award for Best Picture is presented by one or more artists on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
 Since 1973, Best Picture is the final award presented during the annual ceremonies, as this award represents a culmination of all factors that contribute to cinematic excellence.
 Past presenters have included noted producers, directors, actors, and actresses.
 In recent ceremonies, presenters of Best Picture have tended to be previous Academy Award winners themselves.
 The individual who has presented the most times is Jack Nicholson (eight times), followed by Audrey Hepburn (four times).
American actor Dustin Hoffman began his career by appearing in an episode of "Naked City" in 1961.
 His first theatrical performance was 1961's "A Cook for Mr. General" as Ridzinski.
 Following several guest appearances on television, he starred in the 1966 play "Eh?
"; his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award.
 Hoffman made his film debut in 1967 when he appeared in the comedy "The Tiger Makes Out".
 In the same year, his breakthrough role as Benjamin "Ben" Braddock, the title character in Mike Nichols' comedy-drama "The Graduate", led to Hoffman achieving star status and his first Academy Award nomination.
 He then acted in the play "Jimmy Shine" as the eponymous character and the comedy film "Madigan's Millions" (both 1968).
 In 1969, he starred alongside Jon Voight in the Academy Award for Best Picture winner "Midnight Cowboy", which Hoffman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor a second time.
Theater Company of Boston (TCB) was co-founded by David Wheeler and Naomi Thornton in 1963.
 Wheeler served as its artistic director until its closure in 1975.
 Actors including Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Stockard Channing, James Woods, Blythe Danner, Larry Bryggman, John Cazale, Hector Elizondo, Spalding Gray, Paul Guilfoyle, Ralph Waite, Charles Siebert and Paul Benedict were part of the company.
 Following Wheeler's death, Pacino described him as "one of the lights of my life".
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.
John Holland Cazale ( ; ] ; August 12, 1935 – March 13, 1978) was an American actor.
 He appeared in five films over a period of six years, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: "The Godfather", "The Conversation", "The Godfather Part II", "Dog Day Afternoon", and "The Deer Hunter."
 He appeared in archival footage in "The Godfather Part III", also nominated for Best Picture, making him the only actor to have this multi-film distinction.
 From his start as a theater actor, he became one of Hollywood's premier character actors, starting with his role as the doomed, weak-minded Fredo Corleone opposite longtime friend Al Pacino in Francis Ford Coppola's film "The Godfather" and its 1974 sequel.
 Cazale chose to continue acting despite being diagnosed with lung cancer.
 He died in New York City on March 13, 1978, shortly after completing his role in "The Deer Hunter".
A list of American films released in 2004. "
Million Dollar Baby" won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Picture and "Crash" won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture. "
The Aviator" won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. "
Sideways" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Satellite Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy. "
Hotel Rwanda" won the Satellite Award for Best Film – Drama.