Paul Newman's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. The birth-card coordinate for January 26 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1987 Best Actor — The Color of Money win.

Academy Award record

• 1987 Best Actor — The Color of Money

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Paul Newman's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Paul Newman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

Live Ace of Diamonds meaning page

Paul Newman in the public record

He has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars". He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, seven Golden Globe Awards, an Actor Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. Along with his Best Actor Academy Award win, Newman also received the Academy Honorary Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in Shaker Heights, the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage production of Saint George and the Dragon at the Cleveland Play House. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in 1949. After touring with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. His first starring Broadway role was in William Inge's Picnic in 1953 and his final was in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in 2003. Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Color of Money (1986).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Paul Newman (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Ace of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Paul Newman, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

Natural resource building and accumulation

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: entrepreneur.

Also on the record

1. His other Oscar-nominated performances were in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958),The Young Philadelphians (1959), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Absence of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982), Nobody's Fool (1994), and Road to Perdition (2002).
2. He also starred in such films as Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), The Long, Hot Summer (1958), Harper (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), Hombre (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), The Towering Inferno (1974), Slap Shot (1977), and Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981).
3. He also voiced Doc Hudson in Cars (2006).
4. Newman won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing.

Other winners with this card

• Casey Affleck — 2017 Best Actor — Manchester by the Sea
• Colin Firth — 2011 Best Actor — The King's Speech
• Emma Stone — 2017 Best Actress — La La Land; 2024 Best Actress — Poor Things
• Jeff Bridges — 2010 Best Actor — Crazy Heart
• Jessica Lange — 1995 Best Actress — Blue Sky
• Reese Witherspoon — 2006 Best Actress — Walk the Line
• Sally Field — 1980 Best Actress — Norma Rae; 1985 Best Actress — Places in the Heart

FAQ

What is Paul Newman's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. January 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Paul Newman's dates come from?

Birth date 1925-01-26 is the day-precision date on Paul Newman's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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