The Guardian named Bacon one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Danica McKellar (Winnie from The Wonder Years and bona-fide mathematician) and Natalie Portman (wrote a psychology paper at Harvard with an Erdős link) each have Erdős-Bacon numbers of 6. (This ties them with Richard Feynman.)
Kevin Bacon's Big Mistake with His Walk of Fame Star
What is Johnny Depp Bacon number?
For instance, if you google “Bacon number Johnny Depp” you'll be told that “Johnny Depp's Bacon number is 2.” That's because Depp and Helena Bonham Carter appeared in Dark Shadows. And Carter appeared with Bacon in Novocaine.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, Bacon number is 2. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Paxton appeared in True Lies. Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13.
Queries containing an actor's name and "Bacon number" will show users the precise number of degrees between said actor and Kevin Bacon. Playing with the new feature today, we found numbers for Leonardo DiCaprio (2), Humphrey Bogart (3) and Steve Jobs (2).
Bacon's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture – 6356 Hollywood, Blvd. 2003, September 30: Inducted into Hollywood Walk of Fame with a star for his contribution to Motion Picture presented to him by the Chamber of Commerce.
As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
There are, of course, multiple different types of award on offer at the Oscars, but the youngest person to win any of them at all is Tatum O'Neal. She won Best Supporting Actress at the 1974 Oscars at the age of 10.
Kevin Bacon's wealth comes from decades of work in the filmmaking business. He has starred in multiple commercially successful film projects such as Footloose and Apollo 13 among others. As a result, his net worth is considered to be approximately $45 million according to celebritynetworth.com.
Turns out that being a decent human being is in the actor's nature. In 2007 the actor, who is currently starring in Cop Car, even set up a charity called SixDegrees.org, a reference to the game where you try to connect every actor in the industry to the other via a connection with Kevin Bacon.
Some of the most famous and impactful actors in American film history, including Al Pacino, Julia Roberts, and Denzel Washington, shockingly do not have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Dean starred with Dennis Hopper in “Rebel Without a Cause.” Hopper starred with Chris Penn in “True Romance.” Penn starred with Bacon in “Footloose.” Then I tried sports-stars-turned-actors: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a 2.
Note that if George Clooney acts in a movie with Julia Roberts, who has acted with Kevin Bacon in a different film, George has a Bacon number of 2 through this relationship.
Al Pacino is a two: Pacino and Robert Duvall were in “The Godfather.” Duvall and Bacon were in “Jayne Mansfield's Car.” Denzel Washington — also a two.
Kevin Bacon himself has a Bacon number of 0. Those actors who have worked directly with Kevin Bacon have a Bacon number of 1. If the lowest Bacon number of any actor with whom X has appeared in any movie is N, X's Bacon number is N+1.
For example, Tom Cruise's Bacon Number is one, because the two co-starred in A Few Good Men, but Chris Pratt's Bacon Number is two, because he was in Jennifer's Body with Amanda Seyfried, who was in You Should Have Left with Bacon.
For example, Angelina Jolie's Bacon number is 2 -- while she has not acted in a movie with Bacon, she starred in Wanted with James McAvoy, who acted beside Bacon in X-Men.
The “Bacon Number” then, is how many actors it takes to get from a starting name to Bacon, connected by films. For example, Kevin Spacey has a Bacon Number of 2 because he was in Working Girl with Oliver Pratt who was in X-Men: First Class with Kevin Bacon.
