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Academy Award
for Best Actor
The Academy Award for Best
Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture
industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are
made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by
the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films
below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actor in
1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed
first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
Seven men have won the Best Actor Award twice: Marlon
Brando, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson,
and Spencer Tracy.
1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command and
The Way of All Flesh
Richard Barthelmess - The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid
Charlie Chaplin - The Circus
1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
George Bancroft - Thunderbolt
Chester Morris - Alibi
Paul Muni - The Valiant
Lewis Stone - The Patriot
1930 George Arliss - Disraeli
George Arliss - The Green Goddess
Wallace Beery - The Big House
Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond and The Love Parade
Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond and Condemned
Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song
1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page
Jackie Cooper - Skippy
Richard Dix - Cimarron
Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway
1932 Wallace Beery - The Champ and Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman
1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square
Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini
William Powell - The Thin Man
1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer
Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty
Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Walter Huston - Dodsworth
William Powell - My Man Godfrey
Spencer Tracy - San Francisco
1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
Charles Boyer - Conquest
Fredric March - A Star Is Born
Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall
Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola
1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town
Charles Boyer - Algiers
James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces
Robert Donat - The Citadel
Leslie Howard - Pygmalion
1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind
Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights
Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms
James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath
Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Laurence Olivier - Rebecca
1941 Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
Cary Grant - Penny Serenade
Walter Huston - The Devil and Daniel Webster
Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
1942 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ronald Colman - Random Harvest
Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees
Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver
Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper
1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie
Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy
1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way
Charles Boyer - Gaslight
Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart
Alexander Knox - Wilson
1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's
Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh
Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom
Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember
1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
Laurence Olivier - Henry V
Larry Parks - The Jolson Story
Gregory Peck - The Yearling
James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life
1947 Ronald Colman - A Double Life
John Garfield - Body and Soul
Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement
Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra
William Powell - Life with Father
1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda
Montgomery Clift - The Search
Dan Dailey - When My Baby Smiles at Me
Clifton Webb - Sitting Pretty
1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
Kirk Douglas - Champion
Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High
Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart
John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
William Holden - Sunset Boulevard
James Stewart - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride
1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire
Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun
Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory
Fredric March - Death of a Salesman
1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon
Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!
Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful
José Ferrer - Moulin Rouge
Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob
1953 William Holden - Stalag 17
Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar
Richard Burton - The Robe
Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity
1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny
Bing Crosby - The Country Girl
James Mason - A Star Is Born
Dan O'Herlihy - The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty
James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me
James Dean - East of Eden
Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm
Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock
1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I
James Dean - Giant
Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life
Rock Hudson - Giant
Laurence Olivier - Richard III
1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Marlon Brando - Sayonara
Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain
Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution
Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind
1958 David Niven - Separate Tables
Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones
Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones
Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea
1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top
Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man
James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder
1960 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers
Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer
Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind
1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
Charles Boyer - Fanny
Paul Newman - The Hustler
Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg
Stuart Whitman - The Mark
1962 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz
Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses
Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style
Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
Albert Finney - Tom Jones
Richard Harris - This Sporting Life
Rex Harrison - Cleopatra
Paul Newman - Hud
1964 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
Richard Burton - Becket
Peter O'Toole - Becket
Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb
1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Laurence Olivier - Othello
Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools
1966 Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
Alan Arkin - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Caine - Alfie
Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles
1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde
Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate
Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke
Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1968 Cliff Robertson - Charly
Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Alan Bates - The Fixer
Ron Moody - Oliver!
Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter
1969 John Wayne - True Grit
Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days
Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy
1970 George C. Scott - Patton (declined)
Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father
James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces
Ryan O'Neal - Love Story
1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection
Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Walter Matthau - Kotch
George C. Scott - The Hospital
Topol - Fiddler on the Roof
1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather (declined)
Michael Caine - Sleuth
Laurence Olivier - Sleuth
Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class
Paul Winfield - Sounder
1973 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris
Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail
Al Pacino - Serpico
Robert Redford - The Sting
1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express
Dustin Hoffman - Lenny
Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
Al Pacino - The Godfather, Part II
1975 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys
Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth
James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry!
1976 Peter Finch - Network (posthumous)
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)
William Holden - Network
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Richard Burton - Equus
Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day
John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever
1978 Jon Voight - Coming Home
Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait
Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story
Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter
Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil
1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
Roy Scheider - All That Jazz
Peter Sellers - Being There
Al Pacino - ...And Justice for All
1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
Robert Duvall - The Great Santini
John Hurt - The Elephant Man
Jack Lemmon - Tribute
Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man
1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
Warren Beatty - Reds
Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
Dudley Moore - Arthur
Paul Newman - Absence of Malice
1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
Jack Lemmon - Missing
Paul Newman - The Verdict
Peter O'Toole - My Favorite Year
1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
Michael Caine - Educating Rita
Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben
Tom Courtenay - The Dresser
Albert Finney - The Dresser
1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
Jeff Bridges - Starman
Albert Finney - Under the Volcano
Tom Hulce - Amadeus
Sam Waterston - The Killing Fields
1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
Harrison Ford - Witness
James Garner - Murphy's Romance
Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor
Jon Voight - Runaway Train
1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money
Dexter Gordon - 'Round Midnight
Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
William Hurt - Children of a Lesser God
James Woods - Salvador
1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street
William Hurt - Broadcast News
Marcello Mastroianni - Dark Eyes
Jack Nicholson - Ironweed
Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam
1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning
Tom Hanks - Big
Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver
Max von Sydow - Pelle the Conqueror
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
1990 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Robert De Niro - Awakenings
Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Harris - The Field
1991 Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Warren Beatty - Bugsy
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides
Robin Williams - The Fisher King
1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Stephen Rea - The Crying Game
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It?
Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day
Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father
Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
1994 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of King George
Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool
John Travolta - Pulp Fiction
1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
Richard Dreyfuss - Mr. Holland's Opus
Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
Massimo Troisi - Il Postino
1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine
Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt
Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade
1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
Robert Duvall - The Apostle
Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog
1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
Nick Nolte - Affliction
Edward Norton - American History X
1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
Russell Crowe - The Insider
Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story
Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown
Denzel Washington -The Hurricane
2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator
Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
Tom Hanks - Cast Away
Ed Harris - Pollock
Geoffrey Rush - Quills
2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
Sean Penn - I Am Sam
Will Smith - Ali
Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom
2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation.
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
Michael Caine - The Quiet American
Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt
2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog
Jude Law - Cold Mountain
Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck.