Top ten Irish-American Oscar winners of all time - SEE PHOTOS

What!!!!! John Wayne doesn't make this list? Sure, he's of Scotch-Irish descent, so not of pure Irish descent. But so what? Neither are a number of stars on that list, like James Cagney and Sean Penn. But Wayne starred in what is arguably the finest film ever made about an Irish-American, "The Quiet Man." BTW, the film also starred Maureen O'Hara and Victor McGlaglen, two fine actors who also, incredibly, didn't make that list.

I would like to add one more thing to my previous comment. It is with a sad heart that Maureen O'Hara never won an Oscar. What a beautiful and beautifully talented woman. She is one of a kind and was great in each and every role she ever played. "Quiet Man" and "The Rare Breed," come to mind immediately.

Love each and every one of these great actors. What talent!

Sean Penn????? Please remove his anti-American ass from my presence.

James Cagney, to me, is the greatest American actor of the 20th Century. Cagney could play gangsters, song-and-dance men and comedy. He had a range one normally finds only in the best Irish and British actors, such as Liam Neeson and Peter O'Toole. But I have no faults with the list as a whole, only with Oscar for not giving an award to Maureen O'Hara.

Approve. I've seen 8 out of 10.

It's an absolute FARCE to list Gregory Peck over Spencer Tracy as an 'Irish-American' oscar winner. I adore Peck in "To Kill A Mockingbird" "Twelve O'Clock High" and "The Big Country." But he was not the actor Tracy was and he was not nearly so closely associated with his Irish ancestry as Tracy was.