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.
The prize is for an actor's performance in a particular film, not for the actor's performance in all films he or she has played in in the relevant year.
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; in chronological order, they are: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson.
The actors with the most nominations in this category are Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier with nine each. Jack Nicholson (who was nominated an additional four times in the Supporting Actor category) and Paul Newman tie for second place with eight nominations each.
There was only one tie in the history of this category, and that was in 1931/1932 when both Wallace Beery and Fredric March won.
The youngest person to win this award is Adrien Brody in 2003, when he was 29 years and 343 days old. The oldest was Henry Fonda, who was 76 years and 317 days old.
The youngest nominee is Jackie Cooper in 1931, when he was 9 years and 20 days old. The oldest nominee was Richard Farnsworth in 1999, who was 79 years and 167 days old.
Peter Finch is the only posthumous winner, and James Dean and Massimo Troisi are the only posthumously nominated performers in this category.
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[edit] 1920s
- 1928
- Emil Jannings - The Last Command as "Gen. Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander" and The Way of All Flesh as "August Schilling"
- Richard Barthelmess - The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid
- Charlie Chaplin - The Circus
[edit] 1930s
- 1931
- Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as "Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney"
- Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page
- Jackie Cooper - Skippy
- Richard Dix - Cimarron
- Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway
- 1932
- Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as "Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde"
- Wallace Beery - The Champ as "Champ"
- Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman
- 1934
- Clark Gable - It Happened One Night as "Peter Warne"
- Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini
- William Powell - The Thin Man
- 1937
- Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as "Manuel Fidello"
- Charles Boyer - Conquest
- Fredric March - A Star Is Born
- Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall
- Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola
- 1939
- Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as "Charles E. Chipping"
- Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind
- Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights
- Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms
- James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
[edit] 1940s
- 1940
- James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story as "Macaulay Connor"
- Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator
- Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath
- Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Laurence Olivier - Rebecca as "Maxim de Winter"
- 1943
- Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as "Kurt Muller"
- 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 as "Father Chuck O'Malley"
- Charles Boyer - Gaslight
- Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
- Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart
- Alexander Knox - Wilson
- 1946
- Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as "Al Stephenson"
- Laurence Olivier - Henry V
- Larry Parks - The Jolson Story
- Gregory Peck - The Yearling
- James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life
[edit] 1950s
- 1955
- Ernest Borgnine - Marty as "Marty Piletti"
- 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
- 1958
- David Niven - Separate Tables as "Major Angus Pollock"
- 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
[edit] 1960s
- 1960
- Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry as "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 as "Hans Rolfe"
- Charles Boyer - Fanny
- Paul Newman - The Hustler
- Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Stuart Whitman - The Mark
- 1963
- Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field as "Homer Smith"
- Albert Finney - Tom Jones
- Richard Harris - This Sporting Life
- Rex Harrison - Cleopatra
- Paul Newman - Hud
- 1965
- Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou as "Kid Sheleen" and "Tim Strawn"
- Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Laurence Olivier - Othello
- Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
- Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools
- 1967
- Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as "Bill Gillespie"
- 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 as "Charly Gordon"
- Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Alan Bates - The Fixer
- Ron Moody - Oliver!
- Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter
[edit] 1970s
- 1971
- Gene Hackman - The French Connection as "Detective Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle"
- Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Walter Matthau - Kotch
- George C. Scott - The Hospital
- Topol - Fiddler on the Roof
- 1972
- Marlon Brando - The Godfather (declined) as "Vito Corleone"
- Michael Caine - Sleuth
- Laurence Olivier - Sleuth
- Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class
- Paul Winfield - Sounder
- 1973
- Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger as "Harry Stoner"
- Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris
- Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail
- Al Pacino - Serpico
- Robert Redford - The Sting
- 1974
- Art Carney - Harry and Tonto as "Harry Coombes"
- Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express
- Dustin Hoffman - Lenny
- Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
- Al Pacino - The Godfather, Part II
- 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"
- Woody Allen - Annie Hall
- Richard Burton - Equus
- Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day
- John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever
- 1979
- Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer as "Ted Kramer"
- Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
- Roy Scheider - All That Jazz
- Peter Sellers - Being There
- Al Pacino - ...And Justice for All
[edit] 1980s
- 1981
- Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond as "Norman Thayer Jr."
- Warren Beatty - Reds
- Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
- Dudley Moore - Arthur
- Paul Newman - Absence of Malice
- 1983
- Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies as "Mac Sledge"
- Michael Caine - Educating Rita
- Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben
- Tom Courtenay - The Dresser
- Albert Finney - The Dresser
- 1985
- William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman as "Luis Molina"
- Harrison Ford - Witness
- James Garner - Murphy's Romance
- Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor
- Jon Voight - Runaway Train
- 1986
- Paul Newman - The Color of Money as "Fast Eddie Felson"
- Dexter Gordon - 'Round Midnight
- Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
- William Hurt - Children of a Lesser God
- James Woods - Salvador
[edit] 1990s
- 1990
- Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow
- Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves as "Lieutenant Dunbar"
- Robert De Niro - Awakenings as "Leonard Lowe"
- Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- Richard Harris - The Field as "Bull McCabe"
- 1991
- Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs as "Hannibal Lecter"
- Warren Beatty - Bugsy as Bugsy Siegel
- Robert De Niro - Cape Fear as "Max Cady"
- Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides as "Tom Wingo"
- Robin Williams - The Fisher King as "Parry"
- 1992
- Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman as "Lt. Col. Frank Slade"
- Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin as Charlie Chaplin
- Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven as "William 'Bill' Munny"
- Stephen Rea - The Crying Game as "Fergus"
- Denzel Washington - Malcolm X as Malcolm X
- 1993
- Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as "Andy Beckett"
- Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It? as Ike Turner
- Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day as "James Stevens"
- Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon
- Liam Neeson - Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
- 1994
- Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as "Forrest Gump"
- Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption as "Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding"
- Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of King George as George III
- Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool as "Sully Sullivan"
- John Travolta - Pulp Fiction as "Vincent Vega"
- 1995
- Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as "Ben Sanderson"
- Richard Dreyfuss - Mr. Holland's Opus as "Glenn Holland"
- Anthony Hopkins - Nixon as Richard Nixon
- Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking as "Matthew Poncelet"
- Massimo Troisi - Il Postino as "Mario Ruoppolo
- 1996
- Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott
- Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire as "Jerry Maguire"
- Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient as "Count Laszlo de Almasy"
- Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
- Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade as "Karl Childers"
- 1997
- Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets as "Melvin Udall"
- Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting as "Will Hunting"
- Robert Duvall - The Apostle as "Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey - The Apostle E.F."
- Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold as "Ulysses 'Ulee' Jackson"
- Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog as "Stanley Motss"
- 1998
- Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful as "Guido Orefice"
- Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan as "Captain John H. Miller"
- Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters as James Whale
- Nick Nolte - Affliction as "Wade Whitehouse"
- Edward Norton - American History X as "Derek Vinyard"
- 1999
- Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as "Lester Burnham"
- Russell Crowe - The Insider as Dr. Jeffrey Wigand
- Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story as Alvin Straight
- Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown as "Emmet Ray"
- Denzel Washington -The Hurricane as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
[edit] 2000s
- 2000
- Russell Crowe - Gladiator as "Maximus Decimus Meridius"
- Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
- Tom Hanks - Cast Away as "Chuck Noland"
- Ed Harris - Pollock as Jackson Pollock
- Geoffrey Rush - Quills as The Marquis de Sade
- 2001
- Denzel Washington - Training Day as "Alonzo Harris"
- Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind as John Nash
- Sean Penn - I Am Sam as "Sam Dawson"
- Will Smith - Ali as Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali
- Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom as "Matt Fowler"
- 2002
- Adrien Brody - The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
- Nicolas Cage - Adaptation. as Charlie Kaufman/"Donald Kaufman"
- Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York as "William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting"
- Michael Caine - The Quiet American as "Thomas Fowler"
- Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt as "Warren Schmidt"
- 2003
- Sean Penn - Mystic River as "Jimmy Markum"
- Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as "Captain Jack Sparrow"
- Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog as "Behrani"
- Jude Law - Cold Mountain as "Inman"
- Bill Murray - Lost in Translation as "Bob Harris"
- 2004
- Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles
- Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
- Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland as Sir James Matthew Barrie
- Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator as Howard Hughes
- Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby as "Frankie Dunn"
- 2005
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote as Truman Capote
- Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow as "Djay"
- Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain as "Ennis Del Mar"
- Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
- David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow
[edit] See also
- List of Academy Awards ceremonies
- 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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