Academy Award for Best Actor
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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.
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1920s
- 1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command as "Gen.Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander" and The Way of All Flesh as "August Schilling"
- 1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona as "The Cisco Kid"
1930s
- 1930 George Arliss - Disraeli as "Benjamin Disraeli"
- 1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as "Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney"
- 1932 Wallace Beery - The Champ as "Andy 'Champ' Purcell" and Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as "Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde"
- 1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII as "King Henry VIII"
- 1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night as "Peter Warne"
- 1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer as "Gypo Nolan"
- 1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur as "Dr. Louis Pasteur"
- 1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as "Manuel Fidello"
- 1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town as "Father Edward J. Flanigan"
- 1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as "Charles E. Chipping"
1940s
- 1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story as "Macaulay Connor"
- 1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as "Kurt Muller"
- 1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way as "Father Chuck O'Malley"
- 1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend as "Don Birnam"
- 1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as "Al Stephenson"
- 1947 Ronald Colman - A Double Life as "Anthony John"
- 1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet as "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"
- 1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men as "Willie Stark"
1950s
- 1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen as "Charlie Allnut"
- 1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon as "Will Kane"
- 1953 William Holden - Stalag 17 as "Sergeant J.J. Sefton"
- 1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront as "Terry Malloy"
- 1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty as "Marty Piletti"
- 1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I as "King Mongkut of Siam"
- 1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai as "Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson"
- 1958 David Niven - Separate Tables as "Major Angus Pollock"
- 1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur as "Judah Ben-Hur"
1960s
- 1960 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry as "Elmer Gantry"
- 1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg as "Hans Rolfe"
- 1962 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird as "Atticus Finch"
- 1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field as "Homer Smith"
- 1964 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady as "Henry Higgins"
- 1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou as "Kid Sheleen" and "Tim Strawn"
- 1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as "Bill Gillespie"
- 1968 Cliff Robertson - Charly as "Charly Gordon"
- 1969 John Wayne - True Grit as "Rooster Cogburn"
1970s
- 1970 George C. Scott - Patton (declined) as "George S. Patton"
- 1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection as "Detective Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle"
- 1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather (declined) as "Vito Corleone"
- 1973 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger as "Harry Stoner"
- 1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto as "Harry Coombes"
- 1976 Peter Finch - Network (posthumous) as "Howard Beale"
- Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
- Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)
- William Holden - Network
- Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
- 1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl as "Elliot Garfield"
- 1978 Jon Voight - Coming Home as "Luke Martin"
- 1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer as "Ted Kramer"
1980s
- 1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond as "Norman Thayer Jr."
- 1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi as "Mahatma Gandhi"
- 1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies as "Mac Sledge"
- 1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman as "Luis Molina"
- 1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money as "Fast Eddie Felson"
- 1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street as "Gordon Gecko"
- 1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man as "Raymond Babbitt"
1990s
- 1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman as "Lt. Col. Frank Slade"
- 1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as "Andy Beckett"
- 1994 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as "Forrest Gump"
- 1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as "Ben Sanderson"
- 1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine as "David Helfgott"
- 1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets as "Melvin Udall"
- 1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful as "Guido Orefice"
- 1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as "Lester Burnham"
2000s
- 2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator as "Maximus"
- 2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day as "Alonzo Harris"
- 2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River as "Jimmy Markum"
- 2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray as "Ray Charles"
See also
- List of Academy Awards ceremonies
- List of Best Actor winners by longevity
- List of Best Actor winners by age at win
- List of movies
- List of actors
- List of directors
- List of documentaries
- List of Hollywood movie studios
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