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Best Actor
The Academy Awards is one of the most celebrated awards in the US. Millions of viewers from around the world watch and cheer for their favorites.
The award for Best Actor is given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses and the winners are chosen by the entire Academy membership.
Here is a list of Oscar winners in the Best Actor category. For a list of the Best Picture, Actor and Actress categories combined, click on the following; Academy Award Winners: Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - Part 1 (1927 - 1949) , Part 2 (1950 - 1979), and Part 3 (1980 - 2009) .
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Academy Award - Best Actor
Academy Award Winners: Best Actor
2010
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
2009
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
2008
Sean Penn (Milk)
2007
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
2006
Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
2005
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
2004
Jamie Foxx (Ray)
2003
Sean Penn (Mystic River)
2002
Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
2001
Denzel Washington (Training Day)
2000
Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
1999
Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
1998
Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful)
1997
Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets)
1996
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
1995
Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)
1994
Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
1993
Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
1992
Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
1991
Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
1990
Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)
1989
Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
1988
Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
1987
Michael Douglas (Wall Street)
1986
Paul Newman (The Color of Money)
1985
William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1984
F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
1983
Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
1982
Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
1981
Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
1980
Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
1979
Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1978
Jon Voight (Coming Home)
1977
Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)
1976
Peter Finch (Network)
1975
Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1974
Art Carney (Harry and Tonto)
1973
Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger)
1972
Marlon Brando (The Godfather) (Award not accepted)
1971
Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
1970
George C. Scott (Patton) (Award not accepted)
1969
John Wayne (True Grit)
1968
Cliff Robertson (Charly)
1967
Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night)
1966
Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)
1965
Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
1964
Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
1963
Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
1962
Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1961
Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremburg)
1960
Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
1959
Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
1958
David Niven (Separate Tables)
1957
Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1956
Yul Brynner (The King and I)
1955
Ernest Borgnine (Marty)
1954
Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
1953
William Holden (Stalag 17)
1952
Gary Cooper (High Noon)
1951
Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
1950
José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1949
Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)
1948
Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
1947
Ronald Colman (A Double Life)
1946
Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
1945
Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
1944
Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
1943
Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
1942
James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1941
Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
1940
James Steward (The Philadelphia Story)
1939
Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
1938
Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)
1937
Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
1936
Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
1935
Victor McLaglen (The Informer)
1934
Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
1932/33
Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
1931/32
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1930/31
Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
1929/30
George Arliss (Disraeli)
1928/29
Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)
1927/28
Emil Jannings (The Last Command)
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Best Picture and Best Actress
To see a list of the best picture or actress categories, click on the following:
Academy Award Winners: Best Picture
Academy Award Winners: Best Actress
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