Oscar Awards for Best Actor 1928-2016

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FILM

ACTOR

ROLE

1927/28

Emil Jannings

The Way of All Flesh (1927) The Last Command (1928)

(August Schilling - 1927) (Grand Duke Sergius Alexander - 1928)

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1928/29

Warner Baxter

In Old Arizona

(The Cisco Kid)

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1929/30

George Arliss

Disraeli

(Benjamin Disraeli)

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1930/31

Lionel Barrymore

A Free Soul

(Stephen Ashe)

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1931/32

Fredric March / Wallace Beery

Jekyll & Hyde / The Champ

(Jekyll/Hyde) / (Andy "Champ" Purcell)

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1932/33

Charles Laughton

The Private Life of Henry VIII

(Henry VII)

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1934

Clark Gable

It Happened One Night

(Peter Warne)

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1935

Victor McLaglen

The Informer

(Gypo Nolan)

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1936

Paul Muni

The Story of Louis Pasteur

(Louis Pasteur)

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(1937

Spencer Tracy

Captains Courageous

(Manuel)

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1938

Spencer Tracy

Boys Town

(Father Flanagan)

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1939

Robert Donat

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

(Charles Edward Chipping - "Mr. Chips")

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1940

James Stewart

The Philadelphia Story

(Macaulay "Mike" Connor)

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1941

Gary Cooper

Sergeant York

(Sgt. Alvin C. York)

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1942

James Cagney

Yankee Doodle Dandy

(George M. Cohan)

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1943

Paul Lukas

Watch on the Rhine

(Kurt Muller)

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1944

Bing Crosby

Going My Way

(Father Chuck O'Malley)

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1945

Ray Milland

The Lost Weekend

(Don Birnam)

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1946

Fredric March

The Best Years of our Lives

(Al Stephenson)

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1947

Ronald Colman

A Double Life

(Anthony John)

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1948

Laurence Olivier

Hamlet

(Hamlet)

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1949

Broderick Crawford

All the King's Men

(Willie Stark)

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1950

José Ferrer

Cyrano de Bergerac

(Cyrano de Bergerac)

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1951

Humphrey Bogart

The African Queen

(Charlie Allnut)

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1952

Gary Cooper

High Noon

(Marshal Will Kane)

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1953

William Holden

Stalag 17

(Sgt. J.J. Sefton)

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1954

Marlon Brando

On the Waterfront

(Terry Malloy)

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1955

Ernest Borgnine

Marty

(Marty Piletti)

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1956

Yul Brynner

The King and I

(King Mongkut of Siam)

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1957

Alec Guinness

The Bridge on the River Kwai

(Lt. Colonel L. Nicholson)

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1958

David Niven

Separate Tables

(Major Angus Pollock)

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1959

Charlton Heston

Ben-Hur

(Judah Ben-Hur)

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1960

Burt Lancaster

Elmer Gantry

(Elmer Gantry)

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1961

Maximilian Schell

Judgment at Nuremberg

(Elm)er Gantry

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1962

Gregory Peck

To Kill a Mockingbird

(Atticus Finch)

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1963

Sidney Poitier

Lilies of the Field

(Homer Smith)

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1964

Rex Harrison

My Fair Lady

(Professor Henry Higgins)

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1965

Lee Marvin

Cat Ballou

(Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn)

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1966

Paul Scofield

A Man for All Seasons

(Sir Thomas More)

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1967

Rod Steiger

In the Heat of the Night

(Police Chief Bill Gillespie)

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1968

Cliff Robertson

Charly

(Charly Gordon)

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1969

John Wayne

True Grit

(Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn)

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1970

George C. Scott (refused)

Patton

(Genl. George Patton)

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1971

Gene Hackman

The French Connection

(Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle)

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1972

Marlon Brando (refused)

Godfather

(Vito Corleone)

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1973

Jack Lemmon

Save the Tiger

(Harry Stoner)

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1974

Art Carney

Harry and Tonto

(Harry Coombes)

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1975

Jack Nicholson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

(Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy)

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1976

Peter Finch (posthumous)

Network

(Howard Beale)

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1977

Richard Dreyfuss

The Goodbye Girl

(Elliot Garfield)

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1978

Jon Voight

Coming Home

(Luke Martin)

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1979

Dustin Hoffman

Kramer vs. Kramer

(Ted Kramer)

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1980

Robert De Niro

Raging Bull

(Jake LaMotta)

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1981

Henry Fonda

On Golden Pond

(Norman Thayer)

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1982

Ben Kingsley

Gandhi

M(ohandas Gandhi)

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1983

Robert Duvall

Tender Mercies

(Mac Sledge)

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1984

F. Murray Abraham

Amadeus

(Antonio Salieri)

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1985

William Hurt

Kiss of the Spider Woman

(Luis Molina)

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1986

Paul Newman

The Color of Money

(Fast Eddie Felson)

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1987

Michael Douglas

Wall Street

(Gordon Gekko)

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1988

Dustin Hoffman

Rain Man

(Raymond Babbitt)

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1989

Daniel Day-Lewis

My Left Foot

(Christy Brown)

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1990

Jeremy Irons

Reversal of Fortune

(Claus von Bülow)

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1991

Anthony Hopkins

The Silence of the Lambs

(Dr. Hannibal Lecter)

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1992

Al Pacino

Scent of a Woman

(Lt Col Frank Slade)

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1993

Tom Hanks

Philadelphia

(Andrew Beckett)

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1994

Tom Hanks

Forrest Gump

(Forrest Gump)

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1995

Nicolas Cage

Leaving Las Vegas

(Ben Sanderson)

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1996

Geoffrey Rush

Shine

(David Helfgott)

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1997

Jack Nicholson

As Good As It Gets

(Melvin Udall)

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1998

Roberto Benigni

La Vita e Bella

(Guido Orefice)

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1999

Kevin Spacey

American Beauty

(Lester Burnham)

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2000

Russell Crowe

Gladiator

(Maximus Decimus Meridius)

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2001

Denzel Washington

Training Day

(Det. Alonzo Harris)

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2002

Adrien Brody

The Pianist

(Wladyslaw Szpilman)

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2003

Sean Penn

Mystic River

(Jimmy Markum)

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2004

Jamie Foxx

Ray

(Ray Charles)

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2005

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Capote

(Truman Capote)

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2006

Forest Whitaker

The Last King of Scotland

(Idi Amin)

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2007

Daniel Day-Lewis

There Will Be Blood

(Daniel Plainview)

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2008

Sean Penn

Milk

(Harvey Milk)

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2009

Jeff Bridges

Crazy Heart

(Otis "Bad" Blake)

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2010

Colin Firth

The King's Speech

(King George VI)

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2011

Jean Dujardin

The Artist

(George Valentin)

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2012

Daniel Day-Lewis

Lincoln

(Abraham Lincoln)

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2013

Matthew McConaughey

Dallas Buyers Club

(Ron Woodroof)

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2014

Eddie Redmayne

The Theory of Everything

(Stephen Hawking)

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2015

Leonardo DiCaprio

The Revenant

(Hugh Glass)

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2016

Casey Affleck

Manchester by the Sea

(Lee Chandler)

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