Best Actor (Oscars)

1927-1928 Emil Jannings – The Last Command
1928-1929 Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona
1929-1930 George Arliss – Disraeli
1930-1931 Lionel Barrymore – A Free Soul
1931-1932 Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1932-1933 Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII
1934 Clark Gable – It Happened One Night
1935 Victor McLaglen – The Informer
1936 Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur
1937 Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous
1938 Spencer Tracy – Boys Town
1939 Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1940 James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story
1941 Gary Cooper – Sergeant York
1942 James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943 Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine
1944 Bing Crosby – Going My Way
1945 Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend
1946 Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 Ronald Colman – A Double Life
1948 Laurence Olivier – Hamlet
1949 Broderick Crawford – All the King’s Men
1950 José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac
1951 Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen
1952 Gary Cooper – High Noon
1953 William Holden – Stalag 17
1954 Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront
1955 Ernest Borgnine – Marty
1956 Yul Brynner – The King and I
1957 Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 David Niven – Separate Tables
1959 Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur
1960 Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry
1961 Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field
1964 Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady
1965 Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou
1966 Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
1967 Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night
1968 Cliff Robertson – Charly
1969 John Wayne – True Grit
1970 George C. Scott – Patton
1971 Gene Hackman – The French Connection
1972 Marlon Brando – The Godfather
1973 Jack Lemmon – Save the Tiger
1974 Art Carney – Harry and Tonto
1975 Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 Peter Finch – Network (posthumous win)
1977 Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl
1978 Jon Voight – Coming Home
1979 Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
1981 Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
1982 Ben Kingsley – Gandhi
1983 Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies
1984 F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
1985 William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986 Paul Newman – The Color of Money
1987 Michael Douglas – Wall Street
1988 Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
1990 Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune
1991 Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman
1993 Tom Hanks – Philadelphia
1994 Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump
1995 Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas
1996 Geoffrey Rush – Shine
1997 Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets
1998 Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful
1999 Kevin Spacey – American Beauty
2000 Russell Crowe – Gladiator
2001 Denzel Washington – Training Day
2002 Adrien Brody – The Pianist
2003 Sean Penn – Mystic River
2004 Jamie Foxx – Ray
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
2006 Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
2008 Sean Penn – Milk
2009 Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
2010 Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
2011 Jean Dujardin – The Artist