Question: What American actor received an Academy Award for his role in "The Usual Suspects" and starred in the short film "Envelope"?

Context articles: Empire Award for Best Newcomer
Kevin Spacey filmography
Society of Texas Film Critics Awards 1995
100 Films and a Funeral
Mark S. Allen
Chazz Palminteri
Stephen Baldwin
Envelope (film)
Kevin Spacey
Bad Hat Harry Productions

The Empire Award for Best Newcomer (formerly known as Best Debut) was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine "Empire" to honor a director with a breakthrough film or an actor who has delivered a breakthrough performance while working within the film industry.
 The Empire Award for Best Newcomer was first introduced at the 1st Empire Awards ceremony in 1996 with Bryan Singer receiving the award for his direction of "The Usual Suspects" and last presented at the 16th Empire Awards ceremony in 2011.
 Winners were voted by the readers of "Empire" magazine.
Kevin Spacey is an American actor, director and producer, who began acting on stage.
 After winning two Academy Awards for "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty".
 He stars in the Netflix television series "House of Cards".
The 2nd Society of Texas Film Critics Awards were given by the Society of Texas Film Critics (STFC) on December 28, 1995.
 The list of winners was announced by STFC president Joe Leydon.
 Founded in 1994, the Society of Texas Film Critics members included 18 film critics working for print and broadcast outlets across the state of Texas. "
The Usual Suspects" received four awards, more than any other film.
100 Films and a Funeral is both a memoir by Michael Kuhn and a 2007 documentary film adaptation by filmmaker Michael McNamara about the rise and fall of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE), the company that produced "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "The Usual Suspects", and "Trainspotting".
 Kuhn headed PFE from 1991 till 1999, when Philips sold it to the Seagram conglomerate.
 The selling of PFE also ended the prominent role of the company in the British film industry revival of the 1990s.
Mark S Allen is a four time Emmy Award winning television producer and host and is a writer/producer of the film APParition starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Horror Story) and Kevin Pollak (Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men).
Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri (born May 15, 1952) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer, best known for his Academy Award-nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in "Bullets over Broadway", the 1993 film "A Bronx Tale", based on his play of the same name, Special Agent David "Dave" Kujan in "The Usual Suspects", Primo Sidone in "Analyze This" and his recurring role as Shorty in "Modern Family".
 Also has a role in [Call of Duty, Black Ops 2] Zombie map Mob of the Dead as "Sal"
Stephen Andrew Baldwin (born May 12, 1966) is an American actor, producer and author.
 He is known for appearing in films, including "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), "Posse" (1993), "Threesome" (1994), "The Usual Suspects" (1995), "Bio-Dome" (1996) and "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" (2000).
 He also starred in the television series "The Young Riders" (1989–92), and as himself in the reality shows "Celebrity Big Brother 7" (UK) and "Celebrity Apprentice".
 In 2004, he directed "Livin' It", a Christian-themed skateboarding DVD.
 He is the youngest of the Baldwin brothers and is a Christian evangelist.
Envelope is a 2012 American short film directed by Aleksy Nuzhny and stars Kevin Spacey.
 It is inspired by true events of Soviet publicist and writer Yevgeny Petrov.
Kevin Spacey Fowler, KBE (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and singer.
 He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television.
 He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller "The Usual Suspects" (1995), and an Academy Award for Best Actor for midlife crisis-themed drama "American Beauty" (1999).
Bad Hat Harry Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1994 by director Bryan Singer.
 It has produced such films as "The Usual Suspects" and the "X-Men" film series, as well as the television series "House".
 The name is a homage to Steven Spielberg and comes from a line uttered by Roy Scheider in the 1975 feature "Jaws".
 Martin Brody says to an elderly swimmer who teases him about not going in the water, "That's some bad hat, Harry" (a "bad hat" is a disreputable person or troublemaker).
 The logo, introduced in 1997, is taken from the police lineup scene of "The Usual Suspects".