Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor
The 2019 recipient: Rami Malek
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded	1929 (for performance in films released during the 1927/1928 film season)
Currently held by	Rami Malek Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Website	oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The award was traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Actress winner.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.^[1] Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.^[2]

In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award.^[3] However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots.^[4] The following year, this system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film.^[3] Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year.^[3]

Since its inception, the award has been given to 80 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2019 ceremony, Rami Malek is the most recent winner in this category for portraying Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Contents

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  1 Winners and nominees
  


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  2 Multiple wins and nominations
  


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  3 Age superlatives
  


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  4 See also
  


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  5 Notes
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 Bibliography
  


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  8 External links
  

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year.^[5] For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31.^[6] For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.^[6] Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.^[6]

Table key

	Indicates the winner
§	Indicates winner who refused the award
^	Indicates posthumous winner
*	Indicates posthumous nominee

Emil Jannings was the first winner in this category for his roles in 1928's The Last Command and 1927's The Way of All Flesh.

Fredric March won twice for his roles in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

Clark Gable won in 1934 for his performance in It Happened One Night.

Paul Muni won for his role as Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), becoming the first Jewish actor to win the award.

Spencer Tracy was the first actor to win this category two consecutive years, having won in both 1937 and 1938 for his roles in Captains Courageous and Boys Town including seven other nominations.

James Stewart won for his role in The Philadelphia Story (1940).

Gary Cooper won twice for his roles in Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952).

James Cagney won for playing as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

Bing Crosby won in 1944 for his performance in Going My Way.

Laurence Olivier won in 1948 for his role as the title character in Hamlet, a film which he himself directed.^[7]

Humphrey Bogart won for his performance in The African Queen (1951).

William Holden won for his performance in Stalag 17 (1953).

Marlon Brando won twice from seven nominations for his roles in 1954's On the Waterfront and 1972's The Godfather.

Burt Lancaster won for his role in Elmer Gantry (1960).

Gregory Peck won in 1962 for his performance in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Sidney Poitier won in 1963 for his performance in Lilies of the Field, thus becoming the first black actor to win in this category.^[8]

John Wayne won for his role in 1969's True Grit.

Jack Nicholson won twice from eight nominations for his performances in 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and 1997's As Good as It Gets.

Dustin Hoffman won twice from seven nominations for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988).

Robert De Niro won once from five nominations for his role as Jake LaMotta in 1980's Raging Bull.

Henry Fonda won for his performance in On Golden Pond (1981).

Ben Kingsley won for his portrayal of the title role in Gandhi (1982).

Paul Newman won for his performance in 1986's The Color of Money.

Daniel Day-Lewis is the first and only actor to win this award three times, in 1989, 2007, and 2012, for his performances in My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln, respectively.

Anthony Hopkins won once from three nominations for his role as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs.

Al Pacino won once from five nominations for his performance in 1992's Scent of a Woman.

Tom Hanks won two consecutive awards in 1993 and 1994 for his roles in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump including three other nominations.

Geoffrey Rush won for his role as David Helfgott in 1996's Shine.

By virtue of his win in 1998 for Life Is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni became the second actor to win for a role in a film he directed himself.^[7]

Russell Crowe won for Gladiator (2000).

Denzel Washington won for his role in 2001's Training Day.

At age 29, Adrien Brody became the youngest winner for Best Actor for his performance in 2002's The Pianist.

Sean Penn won twice from five nominations for his roles in 2003's Mystic River and 2008's Milk.

Philip Seymour Hoffman won for his portrayal of Truman Capote in Capote (2005).

Forest Whitaker won for his performance as Idi Amin in the 2006 film, The Last King of Scotland.

Jeff Bridges won for his performance in 2009's Crazy Heart.

Colin Firth won for his portrayal of King George VI in 2010s The King's Speech.

Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win this award for his performance in the 2011 film The Artist.^[9]

Matthew McConaughey won for his role as Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).

Eddie Redmayne won for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).

Leonardo DiCaprio won for his role as Hugh Glass in The Revenant (2015).

Casey Affleck won for his role in Manchester by the Sea (2016).

Gary Oldman won for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1927/28 (1st)	Emil Jannings [A]	Grand Duke Sergius Alexander August Schilling	The Last Command The Way of All Flesh	[10]
	Richard Barthelmess	Nickie Elkins Patent Leather Kid	The Noose The Patent Leather Kid
1928/29 (2nd) [note 1]	Warner Baxter	The Cisco Kid	In Old Arizona	[11]
	George Bancroft	Thunderbolt Jim Lang	Thunderbolt
	Chester Morris	Chick Williams (No. 1065)	Alibi
	Paul Muni	James Dyke	The Valiant
	Lewis Stone	Count Pahlen	The Patriot
1929/30 (3rd)	George Arliss [B]	Benjamin Disraeli	Disraeli	[12]
	George Arliss[B]	The Raja	The Green Goddess
	Wallace Beery	Butch "Machine Gun" Schmidt	The Big House
	Maurice Chevalier [B]	Pierre Mirande Count Alfred Renard	The Big Pond The Love Parade
	Ronald Colman [B]	Capt. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond Michel	Bulldog Drummond Condemned
	Lawrence Tibbett	Yegor	The Rogue Song
1930/31 (4th)	Lionel Barrymore	Stephen Ashe	A Free Soul	[13]
	Jackie Cooper	Skippy Skinner	Skippy
	Richard Dix	Yancey Cravat	Cimarron
	Fredric March	Tony Cavendish	The Royal Family of Broadway
	Adolphe Menjou	Walter Burns	The Front Page
1931/32 (5th)	Wallace Beery (TIE) [C]	Andy Purcell – The Champ	The Champ	[14]
	Fredric March (TIE) [C]	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
	Alfred Lunt	The Actor	The Guardsman
1932/33 (6th)	Charles Laughton	King Henry VIII of England	The Private Life of Henry VIII	[15]
	Leslie Howard	Peter Standish	Berkeley Square
	Paul Muni	James Allen	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1934 (7th)	Clark Gable	Peter Warne	It Happened One Night	[16]
	Frank Morgan	Alessandro – Duke of Florence	The Affairs of Cellini
	William Powell	Nick Charles	The Thin Man
1935 (8th)	Victor McLaglen	Gypo Nolan	The Informer	[17]
	Clark Gable	Lieutenant Fletcher Christian	Mutiny on the Bounty
	Charles Laughton	Captain William Bligh
	Paul Muni [D]	Joe Radek	Black Fury
	Franchot Tone	Midshipman Roger Byam	Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 (9th)	Paul Muni	Louis Pasteur	The Story of Louis Pasteur	[18]
	Gary Cooper	Longfellow Deeds	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
	Walter Huston	Sam Dodsworth	Dodsworth
	William Powell	Godfrey Park	My Man Godfrey
	Spencer Tracy	Father Tim Mullin	San Francisco
1937 (10th)	Spencer Tracy	Manuel Fidello	Captains Courageous	[19]
	Charles Boyer	Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte	Conquest
	Fredric March	Norman Maine	A Star Is Born
	Robert Montgomery	Danny	Night Must Fall
	Paul Muni	Émile Zola	The Life of Emile Zola
1938 (11th)	Spencer Tracy	Father Flanagan	Boys Town	[20]
	Charles Boyer	Pepe le Moko	Algiers
	James Cagney	Rocky Sullivan	Angels with Dirty Faces
	Robert Donat	Dr. Andrew Manson	The Citadel
	Leslie Howard	Professor Henry Higgins	Pygmalion
1939 (12th)	Robert Donat	Charles Edward Chipping	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	[21]
	Clark Gable	Rhett Butler	Gone with the Wind
	Laurence Olivier	Heathcliff	Wuthering Heights
	Mickey Rooney	Mickey Moran	Babes in Arms
	James Stewart	Jefferson Smith	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940 (13th)	James Stewart	Macaulay "Mike" Connor	The Philadelphia Story	[22]
	Charlie Chaplin	Adenoid Hynkel / The Barber	The Great Dictator
	Henry Fonda	Tom Joad	The Grapes of Wrath
	Raymond Massey	Abraham Lincoln	Abe Lincoln in Illinois
	Laurence Olivier	Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter	Rebecca
1941 (14th)	Gary Cooper	Sgt. Alvin York	Sergeant York	[23]
	Cary Grant	Roger Adams	Penny Serenade
	Walter Huston	Mr. Scratch	The Devil and Daniel Webster
	Robert Montgomery	Joe Pendleton	Here Comes Mr. Jordan
	Orson Welles	Charles Foster Kane	Citizen Kane
1942 (15th)	James Cagney	George M. Cohan	Yankee Doodle Dandy	[24]
	Ronald Colman	Charles Rainier	Random Harvest
	Gary Cooper	Lou Gehrig	The Pride of the Yankees
	Walter Pidgeon	Clem Miniver	Mrs. Miniver
	Monty Woolley	Howard	The Pied Piper
1943 (16th)	Paul Lukas	Kurt Muller	Watch on the Rhine	[25]
	Humphrey Bogart	Rick Blaine	Casablanca
	Gary Cooper	Robert Jordan	For Whom the Bell Tolls
	Walter Pidgeon	Pierre Curie	Madame Curie
	Mickey Rooney	Homer Macauley	The Human Comedy
1944 (17th)	Bing Crosby	Father Chuck O'Malley	Going My Way	[26]
	Charles Boyer	Gregory Anton	Gaslight
	Barry Fitzgerald	Father Fitzgibbon	Going My Way
	Cary Grant	Ernie Mott	None but the Lonely Heart
	Alexander Knox	Woodrow Wilson	Wilson
1945 (18th)	Ray Milland	Don Birnam	The Lost Weekend	[27]
	Bing Crosby	Father Chuck O'Malley	The Bells of St. Mary's
	Gene Kelly	Joseph Brady	Anchors Aweigh
	Gregory Peck	Father Francis	The Keys of the Kingdom
	Cornel Wilde	Frédéric Chopin	A Song to Remember
1946 (19th)	Fredric March	Al Stephenson	The Best Years of Our Lives	[28]
	Laurence Olivier	King Henry V of England	Henry V
	Larry Parks	Al Jolson	The Jolson Story
	Gregory Peck	Ezra "Penny" Baxter	The Yearling
	James Stewart	George Bailey	It's a Wonderful Life
1947 (20th)	Ronald Colman	Anthony John	A Double Life	[29]
	John Garfield	Charlie Davis	Body and Soul
	Gregory Peck	Philip Schuyler Green	Gentleman's Agreement
	William Powell	Clarence Day, Sr.	Life with Father
	Michael Redgrave	Orin Mannon	Mourning Becomes Electra
1948 (21st)	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	Hamlet	[30]
	Lew Ayres	Dr. Robert Richardson	Johnny Belinda
	Montgomery Clift	Ralph "Steve" Stevenson	The Search
	Dan Dailey	"Skid" Johnson	When My Baby Smiles at Me
	Clifton Webb	Lynn Aloysius Belvedere	Sitting Pretty
1949 (22nd)	Broderick Crawford	Willie Stark	All the King's Men	[31]
	Kirk Douglas	Michael "Midge" Kelly	Champion
	Gregory Peck	Brig. General Frank Savage	Twelve O'Clock High
	Richard Todd	Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan	The Hasty Heart
	John Wayne	Sergeant John M. Stryker	Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 (23rd)	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	[32]
	Louis Calhern	Oliver Wendell Holmes	The Magnificent Yankee
	William Holden	Joe Gillis	Sunset Boulevard
	James Stewart	Elwood P. Dowd	Harvey
	Spencer Tracy	Stanley T. Banks	Father of the Bride
1951 (24th)	Humphrey Bogart	Charlie Allnut	The African Queen	[33]
	Marlon Brando	Stanley Kowalski	A Streetcar Named Desire
	Montgomery Clift	George Eastman	A Place in the Sun
	Arthur Kennedy	Larry Nevins	Bright Victory
	Fredric March	Willy Loman	Death of a Salesman
1952 (25th)	Gary Cooper	Marshal Will Kane	High Noon	[34]
	Marlon Brando	Emiliano Zapata	Viva Zapata!
	Kirk Douglas	Jonathan Shields	The Bad and the Beautiful
	José Ferrer	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec	Moulin Rouge
	Alec Guinness	Holland	The Lavender Hill Mob
1953 (26th)	William Holden	Sgt. J.J. Sefton	Stalag 17	[35]
	Marlon Brando	Mark Antony	Julius Caesar
	Richard Burton	Marcellus Gallio	The Robe
	Montgomery Clift	Pvt. Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt	From Here to Eternity
	Burt Lancaster	1st Sgt. Milton Warden
1954 (27th)	Marlon Brando	Terry Malloy	On the Waterfront	[36]
	Humphrey Bogart	Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg	The Caine Mutiny
	Bing Crosby	Frank Elgin	The Country Girl
	James Mason	Norman Maine	A Star Is Born
	Dan O'Herlihy	Robinson Crusoe	Robinson Crusoe
1955 (28th)	Ernest Borgnine	Marty Piletti	Marty	[37]
	James Cagney	Martin Snyder	Love Me or Leave Me
	James Dean *[38]	Cal Trask	East of Eden
	Frank Sinatra	Frankie Machine	The Man with the Golden Arm
	Spencer Tracy	John J. Macreedy	Bad Day at Black Rock
1956 (29th)	Yul Brynner	King Mongkut of Siam	The King and I	[39]
	James Dean *[38]	Jett Rink	Giant
	Kirk Douglas	Vincent van Gogh	Lust for Life
	Rock Hudson	Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr.	Giant
	Laurence Olivier	King Richard III of England	Richard III
1957 (30th)	Alec Guinness	Lt. Colonel L. Nicholson, D.S.O.	The Bridge on the River Kwai	[40]
	Marlon Brando	Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver, USAF	Sayonara
	Anthony Franciosa	Polo Pope	A Hatful of Rain
	Charles Laughton	Sir Wilfrid Robarts	Witness for the Prosecution
	Anthony Quinn	Gino	Wild Is the Wind
1958 (31st)	David Niven	Major Angus Pollock	Separate Tables	[41]
	Tony Curtis	John "Joker" Jackson	The Defiant Ones
	Paul Newman	Brick Pollitt	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
	Sidney Poitier	Noah Cullen	The Defiant Ones
	Spencer Tracy	The Old Man	The Old Man and the Sea
1959 (32nd)	Charlton Heston	Judah Ben-Hur	Ben-Hur	[42]
	Laurence Harvey	Joe Lampton	Room at the Top
	Jack Lemmon	Jerry / Daphne	Some Like It Hot
	Paul Muni	Dr. Sam Abelman	The Last Angry Man
	James Stewart	Paul Biegler	Anatomy of a Murder
1960 (33rd)	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry	Elmer Gantry	[43]
	Trevor Howard	Walter Morel	Sons and Lovers
	Jack Lemmon	C. C. "Bud" Baxter	The Apartment
	Laurence Olivier	Archie Rice	The Entertainer
	Spencer Tracy	Henry Drummond	Inherit the Wind
1961 (34th)	Maximilian Schell	Hans Rolfe	Judgment at Nuremberg	[44]
	Charles Boyer	Cesar	Fanny
	Paul Newman	Eddie Felson	The Hustler
	Spencer Tracy	Chief Judge Dan Haywood	Judgment at Nuremberg
	Stuart Whitman	Jim Fuller	The Mark
1962 (35th)	Gregory Peck	Atticus Finch	To Kill a Mockingbird	[45]
	Burt Lancaster	Robert Franklin Stroud	Birdman of Alcatraz
	Jack Lemmon	Joe Clay	Days of Wine and Roses
	Marcello Mastroianni	Ferdinando Cefalù	Divorce Italian Style
	Peter O'Toole	T. E. Lawrence	Lawrence of Arabia
1963 (36th)	Sidney Poitier	Homer Smith	Lilies of the Field	[46]
	Albert Finney	Tom Jones	Tom Jones
	Richard Harris	Frank Machin	This Sporting Life
	Rex Harrison	Julius Caesar	Cleopatra
	Paul Newman	Hud Bannon	Hud
1964 (37th)	Rex Harrison	Professor Henry Higgins	My Fair Lady	[47]
	Richard Burton	Thomas Becket	Becket
	Peter O'Toole	King Henry II of England
	Anthony Quinn	Alexis Zorba	Zorba the Greek
	Peter Sellers	Group Captain Lionel Mandrake President Merkin Muffley Dr. Strangelove	Dr. Strangelove
1965 (38th)	Lee Marvin	Kid Shelleen Tim Strawn	Cat Ballou	[48]
	Richard Burton	Alec Leamas	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
	Laurence Olivier	Othello	Othello
	Rod Steiger	Sol Nazerman	The Pawnbroker
	Oskar Werner	Willie Schumann	Ship of Fools
1966 (39th)	Paul Scofield	Sir Thomas More	A Man for All Seasons	[49]
	Alan Arkin	Lt. Rozanov	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
	Richard Burton	George	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	Michael Caine	Alfie Elkins	Alfie
	Steve McQueen	Jake Holman	The Sand Pebbles
1967 (40th)	Rod Steiger	Police Chief Bill Gillespie	In the Heat of the Night	[50]
	Warren Beatty	Clyde Barrow	Bonnie and Clyde
	Dustin Hoffman	Benjamin Braddock	The Graduate
	Paul Newman	Lucas "Cool Hand Luke" Jackson	Cool Hand Luke
	Spencer Tracy *[38]	Matt Drayton	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1968 (41st)	Cliff Robertson	Charly Gordon	Charly	[51]
	Alan Arkin	John Singer	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
	Alan Bates	Yakov Bok	The Fixer
	Ron Moody	Fagin	Oliver!
	Peter O'Toole	King Henry II of England	The Lion in Winter
1969 (42nd)	John Wayne	Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn	True Grit	[52]
	Richard Burton	King Henry VIII of England	Anne of the Thousand Days
	Dustin Hoffman	Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" "Rico" Rizzo	Midnight Cowboy
	Peter O'Toole	Arthur Chipping	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
	Jon Voight	Joe Buck	Midnight Cowboy
1970 (43rd)	George C. Scott §[53]	General George S. Patton Jr.	Patton	[54]
	Melvyn Douglas	Tom Garrison	I Never Sang for My Father
	James Earl Jones	Jack Jefferson	The Great White Hope
	Jack Nicholson	Robert Eroica Dupea	Five Easy Pieces
	Ryan O'Neal	Oliver Barrett IV	Love Story
1971 (44th)	Gene Hackman	Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle	The French Connection	[55]
	Peter Finch	Dr. Daniel Hirsh	Sunday Bloody Sunday
	Walter Matthau	Joseph P. Kotcher	Kotch
	George C. Scott	Dr. Herbert Bock	The Hospital
	Topol	Tevye	Fiddler on the Roof
1972 (45th)	Marlon Brando §[53]	Vito Corleone	The Godfather	[56]
	Michael Caine	Milo Tindle	Sleuth
	Laurence Olivier	Andrew Wyke
	Peter O'Toole	Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney	The Ruling Class
	Paul Winfield	Nathan Lee Morgan	Sounder
1973 (46th)	Jack Lemmon	Harry Stoner	Save the Tiger	[57]
	Marlon Brando	Paul	Last Tango in Paris
	Jack Nicholson	Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky	The Last Detail
	Al Pacino	Frank Serpico	Serpico
	Robert Redford	Johnny "Kelly" Hooker	The Sting
1974 (47th)	Art Carney	Harry Coombes	Harry and Tonto	[58]
	Albert Finney	Hercule Poirot	Murder on the Orient Express
	Dustin Hoffman	Lenny Bruce	Lenny
	Jack Nicholson	J. J. "Jake" Gittes	Chinatown
	Al Pacino	Michael Corleone	The Godfather Part II
1975 (48th)	Jack Nicholson	Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	[59]
	Walter Matthau	Willy Clark	The Sunshine Boys
	Al Pacino	Sonny Wortzik	Dog Day Afternoon
	Maximilian Schell	Arthur Goldman	The Man in the Glass Booth
	James Whitmore	Harry S. Truman	Give 'em Hell, Harry!
1976 (49th)	Peter Finch ^[38]	Howard Beale	Network	[60]
	Robert De Niro	Travis Bickle	Taxi Driver
	Giancarlo Giannini	Pasqualino Frafuso	Seven Beauties
	William Holden	Max Schumacher	Network
	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky Balboa	Rocky
1977 (50th)	Richard Dreyfuss	Elliot Garfield	The Goodbye Girl	[61]
	Woody Allen	Alvy Singer	Annie Hall
	Richard Burton	Martin Dysart	Equus
	Marcello Mastroianni	Gabriele	A Special Day
	John Travolta	Anthony "Tony" Manero	Saturday Night Fever
1978 (51st)	Jon Voight	Luke Martin	Coming Home	[62]
	Warren Beatty	Joe Pendleton	Heaven Can Wait
	Gary Busey	Buddy Holly	The Buddy Holly Story
	Robert De Niro	Michael Vronsky	The Deer Hunter
	Laurence Olivier	Ezra Lieberman	The Boys from Brazil
1979 (52nd)	Dustin Hoffman	Ted Kramer	Kramer vs. Kramer	[63]
	Jack Lemmon	Jack Godell	The China Syndrome
	Al Pacino	Arthur Kirkland	...And Justice for All
	Roy Scheider	Joe Gideon	All That Jazz
	Peter Sellers	Chance the Gardener, aka Chauncey Gardiner	Being There
1980 (53rd)	Robert De Niro	Jake LaMotta	Raging Bull	[64]
	Robert Duvall	Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" Meechum	The Great Santini
	John Hurt	John Merrick	The Elephant Man
	Jack Lemmon	Scottie Templeton	Tribute
	Peter O'Toole	Eli Cross	The Stunt Man
1981 (54th)	Henry Fonda	Norman Thayer Jr.	On Golden Pond	[65]
	Warren Beatty	John Silas "Jack" Reed	Reds
	Burt Lancaster	Lou Pascal	Atlantic City
	Dudley Moore	Arthur Bach	Arthur
	Paul Newman	Michael Colin Gallagher	Absence of Malice
1982 (55th)	Ben Kingsley	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Gandhi	[66]
	Dustin Hoffman	Michael Dorsey, aka Dorothy Michaels	Tootsie
	Jack Lemmon	Ed Horman	Missing
	Paul Newman	Frank Galvin	The Verdict
	Peter O'Toole	Alan Swann	My Favorite Year
1983 (56th)	Robert Duvall	Mac Sledge	Tender Mercies	[67]
	Michael Caine	Dr. Frank Bryant	Educating Rita
	Tom Conti	Gowan McGland	Reuben, Reuben
	Tom Courtenay	Norman	The Dresser
	Albert Finney	Sir
1984 (57th)	F. Murray Abraham	Antonio Salieri	Amadeus	[68]
	Jeff Bridges	Starman	Starman
	Albert Finney	Geoffrey Firmin	Under the Volcano
	Tom Hulce	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Amadeus
	Sam Waterston	Sydney Schanberg	The Killing Fields
1985 (58th)	William Hurt	Luis Molina	Kiss of the Spider Woman	[69]
	Harrison Ford	Detective Captain John Book	Witness
	James Garner	Murphy Jones	Murphy's Romance
	Jack Nicholson	Charley Partanna	Prizzi's Honor
	Jon Voight	Oscar "Manny" Manheim	Runaway Train
1986 (59th)	Paul Newman	Fast Eddie Felson	The Color of Money	[70]
	Dexter Gordon	Dale Turner	Round Midnight
	Bob Hoskins	George	Mona Lisa
	William Hurt	James Leeds	Children of a Lesser God
	James Woods	Richard Boyle	Salvador
1987 (60th)	Michael Douglas	Gordon Gekko	Wall Street	[71]
	William Hurt	Tom Grunick	Broadcast News
	Marcello Mastroianni	Romano	Dark Eyes
	Jack Nicholson	Francis Phelan	Ironweed
	Robin Williams	Adrian Cronauer	Good Morning, Vietnam
1988 (61st)	Dustin Hoffman	Raymond Babbitt	Rain Man	[72]
	Gene Hackman	Agent Rupert Anderson	Mississippi Burning
	Tom Hanks	Josh Baskin	Big
	Edward James Olmos	Jaime Escalante	Stand and Deliver
	Max von Sydow	Lassefar	Pelle the Conqueror
1989 (62nd)	Daniel Day-Lewis	Christy Brown	My Left Foot	[73]
	Kenneth Branagh	King Henry V of England	Henry V
	Tom Cruise	Ron Kovic	Born on the Fourth of July
	Morgan Freeman	Hoke Colburn	Driving Miss Daisy
	Robin Williams	John Charles "Keats" Keating	Dead Poets Society
1990 (63rd)	Jeremy Irons	Claus von Bülow	Reversal of Fortune	[74]
	Kevin Costner	Lieutenant John J. Dunbar	Dances with Wolves
	Robert De Niro	Leonard Lowe	Awakenings
	Gérard Depardieu	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Richard Harris	"Bull" McCabe	The Field
1991 (64th)	Anthony Hopkins	Dr. Hannibal Lecter	The Silence of the Lambs	[75]
	Warren Beatty	Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel	Bugsy
	Robert De Niro	Maximilian "Max" Cady	Cape Fear
	Nick Nolte	Tom Wingo	The Prince of Tides
	Robin Williams	Henry "Parry" Sagan	The Fisher King
1992 (65th)	Al Pacino	Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade	Scent of a Woman	[76]
	Robert Downey Jr.	Charlie Chaplin	Chaplin
	Clint Eastwood	William "Will" Munny	Unforgiven
	Stephen Rea	Fergus	The Crying Game
	Denzel Washington	Malcolm X	Malcolm X
1993 (66th)	Tom Hanks	Andrew Beckett	Philadelphia	[77]
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gerry Conlon	In the Name of the Father
	Laurence Fishburne	Ike Turner	What's Love Got to Do with It
	Anthony Hopkins	James Stevens	The Remains of the Day
	Liam Neeson	Oskar Schindler	Schindler's List
1994 (67th)	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump	[78]
	Morgan Freeman	Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding	The Shawshank Redemption
	Nigel Hawthorne	King George III	The Madness of King George
	Paul Newman	Donald "Sully" Sullivan	Nobody's Fool
	John Travolta	Vincent Vega	Pulp Fiction
1995 (68th)	Nicolas Cage	Ben Sanderson	Leaving Las Vegas	[79]
	Richard Dreyfuss	Glenn Holland	Mr. Holland's Opus
	Anthony Hopkins	Richard Nixon	Nixon
	Sean Penn	Matthew Poncelet	Dead Man Walking
	Massimo Troisi *[38]	Mario Ruoppolo	Il Postino: The Postman
1996 (69th)	Geoffrey Rush	David Helfgott	Shine	[80]
	Tom Cruise	Jerry Maguire	Jerry Maguire
	Ralph Fiennes	Count László de Almásy	The English Patient
	Woody Harrelson	Larry Flynt	The People vs. Larry Flynt
	Billy Bob Thornton	Karl Childers	Sling Blade
1997 (70th)	Jack Nicholson	Melvin Udall	As Good as It Gets	[81]
	Matt Damon	Will Hunting	Good Will Hunting
	Robert Duvall	Euliss "Sonny" Dewey	The Apostle
	Peter Fonda	Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson	Ulee's Gold
	Dustin Hoffman	Stanley Motss	Wag the Dog
1998 (71st)	Roberto Benigni	Guido Orefice	Life Is Beautiful	[82]
	Tom Hanks	Captain John Miller	Saving Private Ryan
	Ian McKellen	James Whale	Gods and Monsters
	Nick Nolte	Wade Whitehouse	Affliction
	Edward Norton	Derek Vinyard	American History X
1999 (72nd)	Kevin Spacey	Lester Burnham	American Beauty	[83]
	Russell Crowe	Jeffrey Wigand	The Insider
	Richard Farnsworth	Alvin Straight	The Straight Story
	Sean Penn	Emmet Ray	Sweet and Lowdown
	Denzel Washington	Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter	The Hurricane
2000 (73rd)	Russell Crowe	Maximus Decimus Meridius	Gladiator	[84]
	Javier Bardem	Reinaldo Arenas	Before Night Falls
	Tom Hanks	Chuck Noland	Cast Away
	Ed Harris	Jackson Pollock	Pollock
	Geoffrey Rush	The Marquis de Sade	Quills
2001 (74th)	Denzel Washington	Detective Alonzo Harris	Training Day	[85]
	Russell Crowe	John Forbes Nash Jr.	A Beautiful Mind
	Sean Penn	Sam Dawson	I Am Sam
	Will Smith	Muhammad Ali	Ali
	Tom Wilkinson	Dr. Matt Fowler	In the Bedroom
2002 (75th)	Adrien Brody	Władysław Szpilman	The Pianist	[86]
	Nicolas Cage	Charlie & Donald Kaufman	Adaptation
	Michael Caine	Thomas Fowler	The Quiet American
	Daniel Day-Lewis	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting	Gangs of New York
	Jack Nicholson	Warren R. Schmidt	About Schmidt
2003 (76th)	Sean Penn	Jimmy Markum	Mystic River	[87]
	Johnny Depp	Captain Jack Sparrow	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
	Ben Kingsley	Massoud Amir Behrani	House of Sand and Fog
	Jude Law	W. P. Inman	Cold Mountain
	Bill Murray	Bob Harris	Lost in Translation
2004 (77th)	Jamie Foxx	Ray Charles	Ray	[88]
	Don Cheadle	Paul Rusesabagina	Hotel Rwanda
	Johnny Depp	J. M. Barrie	Finding Neverland
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Howard Hughes	The Aviator
	Clint Eastwood	Frankie Dunn	Million Dollar Baby
2005 (78th)	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Truman Capote	Capote	[89]
	Terrence Howard	Djay	Hustle & Flow
	Heath Ledger	Ennis Del Mar	Brokeback Mountain
	Joaquin Phoenix	Johnny Cash	Walk the Line
	David Strathairn	Edward R. Murrow	Good Night, and Good Luck
2006 (79th)	Forest Whitaker	Idi Amin	The Last King of Scotland	[90]
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Danny Archer	Blood Diamond
	Ryan Gosling	Dan Dunne	Half Nelson
	Peter O'Toole	Maurice Russell	Venus
	Will Smith	Chris Gardner	The Pursuit of Happyness
2007 (80th)	Daniel Day-Lewis	Daniel Plainview	There Will Be Blood	[91]
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	Johnny Depp	Sweeney Todd / Benjamin Barker	Sweeney Todd
	Tommy Lee Jones	Hank Deerfield	In the Valley of Elah
	Viggo Mortensen	Nikolai Luzhin	Eastern Promises
2008 (81st)	Sean Penn	Harvey Milk	Milk	[92]
	Richard Jenkins	Walter Vale	The Visitor
	Frank Langella	Richard Nixon	Frost/Nixon
	Brad Pitt	Benjamin Button	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Mickey Rourke	Randy "The Ram" Robinson	The Wrestler
2009 (82nd)	Jeff Bridges	Otis "Bad" Blake	Crazy Heart	[93]
	George Clooney	Ryan Bingham	Up in the Air
	Colin Firth	George Falconer	A Single Man
	Morgan Freeman	Nelson Mandela	Invictus
	Jeremy Renner	SFC William James	The Hurt Locker
2010 (83rd)	Colin Firth	King George VI	The King's Speech	[94]
	Javier Bardem	Uxbal	Biutiful
	Jeff Bridges	Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn	True Grit
	Jesse Eisenberg	Mark Zuckerberg	The Social Network
	James Franco	Aron Ralston	127 Hours
2011 (84th)	Jean Dujardin	George Valentin	The Artist	[95]
	Demián Bichir	Carlos Galindo	A Better Life
	George Clooney	Matthew King	The Descendants
	Gary Oldman	George Smiley	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
	Brad Pitt	Billy Beane	Moneyball
2012 (85th)	Daniel Day-Lewis	Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln	[96]
	Bradley Cooper	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Jr.	Silver Linings Playbook
	Hugh Jackman	Jean Valjean	Les Misérables
	Joaquin Phoenix	Freddie Quell	The Master
	Denzel Washington	William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr.	Flight
2013 (86th)	Matthew McConaughey	Ron Woodroof	Dallas Buyers Club	[97]
	Christian Bale	Irving Rosenfeld	American Hustle
	Bruce Dern	Woodrow "Woody" Grant	Nebraska
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Jordan Belfort	The Wolf of Wall Street
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Solomon Northup	12 Years a Slave
2014 (87th)	Eddie Redmayne	Stephen Hawking	The Theory of Everything	[98]
	Steve Carell	John du Pont	Foxcatcher
	Bradley Cooper	Chris Kyle	American Sniper
	Benedict Cumberbatch	Alan Turing	The Imitation Game
	Michael Keaton	Riggan Thomson	Birdman
2015 (88th)	Leonardo DiCaprio	Hugh Glass	The Revenant	[99]
	Bryan Cranston	Dalton Trumbo	Trumbo
	Matt Damon	Mark Watney	The Martian
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne	Lili Elbe	The Danish Girl
2016 (89th)	Casey Affleck	Lee Chandler	Manchester by the Sea	[100]
	Andrew Garfield	Desmond Doss	Hacksaw Ridge
	Ryan Gosling	Sebastian Wilder	La La Land
	Viggo Mortensen	Ben Cash	Captain Fantastic
	Denzel Washington	Troy Maxson	Fences
2017 (90th)	Gary Oldman	Winston Churchill	Darkest Hour	[101]
	Timothée Chalamet	Elio Perlman	Call Me by Your Name
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Reynolds Woodcock	Phantom Thread
	Daniel Kaluuya	Chris Washington	Get Out
	Denzel Washington	Roman J. Israel	Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 (91st)	Rami Malek	Freddie Mercury	Bohemian Rhapsody	[102]
	Christian Bale	Dick Cheney	Vice
	Bradley Cooper	Jackson "Jack" Maine	A Star Is Born
	Willem Dafoe	Vincent van Gogh	At Eternity's Gate
	Viggo Mortensen	Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga	Green Book

Multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received two or more Best Actor awards: Wins Actor Nominations 3 Daniel Day-Lewis 6 2 Spencer Tracy 9 Jack Nicholson 8 Marlon Brando 7 Dustin Hoffman Gary Cooper 5 Tom Hanks Fredric March Sean Penn

The following individuals received four or more Best Actor nominations: Nominations Actor 9 Laurence Olivier Spencer Tracy 8 Paul Newman Jack Nicholson Peter O'Toole 7 Marlon Brando Dustin Hoffman Jack Lemmon 6 Richard Burton Daniel Day-Lewis Denzel Washington 5 Gary Cooper Robert De Niro Tom Hanks Fredric March Paul Muni Al Pacino Gregory Peck Sean Penn James Stewart 4 Warren Beatty Charles Boyer Michael Caine Leonardo DiCaprio Albert Finney Burt Lancaster

Age superlatives

Record	Actor	Film	Age (in years)	Ref.
Oldest winner	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond	76	[103]
Oldest nominee	Richard Farnsworth	The Straight Story	79	[103]
Youngest winner	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	29	[103]
Youngest nominee	Jackie Cooper	Skippy	9	[103]

See also

• All Academy Award acting nominees


• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor


• Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead


• BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role


• Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama


• Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy


• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Notes

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A^ : According to longstanding Hollywood legend,^[104] reported by Susan Orlean,^[105]Rin Tin Tin actually received the most Best Actor votes, but the Academy (not wishing to give the first award to a dog) refactored the votes to ensure that Jannings won.^[106]

B^{1 2 3} : Rules at the time of the first three ceremonies allowed for a performer to receive a single nomination which could honor their work in more than one film. George Arliss, Maurice Chevalier, and Ronald Colman were all nominated for two different roles in the same category. Current Academy rules forbid this from happening. No official reason was ever given as to why Arliss won the award for only one of the two films he was listed for.^[107]

C^{1 2} : Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery. Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, so both March and Beery received the award. Under current Academy rules, however, dual awards are given only for exact ties.^[108]

D^ : Paul Muni's performance in Black Fury was not nominated for an Oscar. For two years only, the Academy allowed a write-in vote.^[109][110] Technically, this meant that any performance was eligible for the award. The decision was made the previous year in response to the controversy surrounding Bette Davis's failure to receive a nomination for Of Human Bondage. Muni came 2nd in the vote; however, the Academy does not recognize Davis or Muni as nominees in these years.^[111][112]

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   ^ The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.
   

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v t e Academy Awards
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Awards of Merit	Best Picture Director Actor Actress Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Adapted Screenplay Original Screenplay Animated Feature Documentary Feature Foreign Language Film Animated Short Film Documentary Short Subject Live Action Short Film Cinematography Costume Design Film Editing Makeup and Hairstyling Original Score Original Song Production Design Sound Editing Sound Mixing Visual Effects Proposed awards Popular Film
Special awards	Governors Awards Academy Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Special Achievement Academy Award Academy Scientific and Technical Awards Academy Award of Merit (non-competitive) Scientific and Engineering Award Technical Achievement Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Gordon E. Sawyer Award Student Awards Student Academy Award
Former awards	Merit Awards Assistant Director Dance Direction Story Special Awards Academy Juvenile Award
Ceremonies‡ (List Book)	1927/28 1928/29 1929/30 1930/31 1931/32 1932/33 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Footnote	‡ Dates and years listed for each ceremony were the eligibility period of film release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period was done on a seasonal basis, from August to July. For the 6th ceremony, held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932 to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
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v t e Academy Award for Best Actor
1928–1950	Emil Jannings (1928) Warner Baxter (1929) George Arliss (1930) Lionel Barrymore (1931) Fredric March / Wallace Beery (1932) Charles Laughton (1933) Clark Gable (1934) Victor McLaglen (1935) Paul Muni (1936) Spencer Tracy (1937) Spencer Tracy (1938) Robert Donat (1939) James Stewart (1940) Gary Cooper (1941) James Cagney (1942) Paul Lukas (1943) Bing Crosby (1944) Ray Milland (1945) Fredric March (1946) Ronald Colman (1947) Laurence Olivier (1948) Broderick Crawford (1949) José Ferrer (1950)
1951–1975	Humphrey Bogart (1951) Gary Cooper (1952) William Holden (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Yul Brynner (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) David Niven (1958) Charlton Heston (1959) Burt Lancaster (1960) Maximilian Schell (1961) Gregory Peck (1962) Sidney Poitier (1963) Rex Harrison (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) Cliff Robertson (1968) John Wayne (1969) George C. Scott1 (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Marlon Brando1 (1972) Jack Lemmon (1973) Art Carney (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975)
1976–2000	Peter Finch (1976) Richard Dreyfuss (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall (1983) F. Murray Abraham (1984) William Hurt (1985) Paul Newman (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Dustin Hoffman (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Jeremy Irons (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Al Pacino (1992) Tom Hanks (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Roberto Benigni (1998) Kevin Spacey (1999) Russell Crowe (2000)
2001–present	Denzel Washington (2001) Adrien Brody (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Sean Penn (2008) Jeff Bridges (2009) Colin Firth (2010) Jean Dujardin (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Matthew McConaughey (2013) Eddie Redmayne (2014) Leonardo DiCaprio (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Gary Oldman (2017) Rami Malek (2018)
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