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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; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first. The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar awarded in 2000 went to the Best Actor in 1999.

1920's

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's

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
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's

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's

1950 José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
- William Holden - Sunset Blvd.
- James Stewart - Harvey
- Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride
1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
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's

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
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
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
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's

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
1976 Peter Finch - Network
- 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's

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's

1990 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
- Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
- Robert De Niro - Awakenings
- Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Richard Harris (actor) - 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
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 - The Postman
1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine
- Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
- Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
- Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade
- Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt
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
- Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
- Nick Nolte - Affliction
- Edward Norton - American History X
- Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
- Denzel Washington - The Hurricane
- Russell Crowe - The Insider
- Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story
- Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown

2000's

2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator
- Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
- Tom Hanks - Cast Away
- Ed Harris - Pollock
- Geoffrey Rush - Quills
2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day
- Will Smith - Ali
- Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
- Sean Penn - I Am Sam
- Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom
2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist
- Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt
- Nicolas Cage - Adaptation
- Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
- Michael Caine - The Quiet American
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See also: Best Picture - Best Actor - Best Actress - Best Supporting Actor - Best Supporting Actress - Best Director

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