Best Actor Oscar Winners

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 9:21 am

The following list of Best Actor Oscar winners includes every recipient of the industry’s highest award up to 2009. And in addition to this handy resource, I’ve also included a few interesting tidbits of information to help you get your Oscar fix.

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List of Best Actor Oscar Winners from 1927 to 2009

1927-1928 Emil Jannings – The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander

1928-1929 Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid

1929-1930 George Arliss – Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli

1930-1931 Lionel Barrymore – A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe

1931-1932 Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

1932-1933 Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII of England

1934 Clark Gable – It Happened One Night as Peter Warne

1935 Victor McLaglen – The Informer as Gypo Nolan

1936 Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur as Louis Pasteur

1937 Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous as Manuel

1938 Spencer Tracy – Boys Town as Father Flanagan

1939 Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Mr. Chips

1940 James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay Connor

1941 Gary Cooper – Sergeant York as Alvin C. York

1942 James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan

1943 Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller

1944 Bing Crosby – Going My Way as Father Chuck O’Malley

1945 Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend as Don Birnam

1946 Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson

1947 Ronald Colman – A Double Life as Anthony John

1948 Laurence Olivier – Hamlet as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

1949 Broderick Crawford – All the King’s Men as Willie Stark

1950 José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac

1951 Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen as Charlie Allnut

1952 Gary Cooper – High Noon as Marshal Will Kane

1953 William Holden – Stalag 17 as Sgt. J.J. Sefton

1954 Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy

1955 Ernest Borgnine – Marty as Marty Piletti

1956 Yul Brynner – The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam

1957 Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Nicholson

1958 David Niven – Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock

1959 Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur

1960 Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry

1961 Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe

1962 Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch

1963 Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith

1964 Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins

1965 Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou as Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn

1966 Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More

1967 Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie

1968 Cliff Robertson – Charly as Charly Gordon

1969 John Wayne – True Grit as Marshal Reuben J. ‘Rooster’ Cogburn

1970 George C. Scott – Patton as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. (declined)

1971 Gene Hackman – The French Connection as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle

1972 Marlon Brando – The Godfather as Don Vito Corleone (declined)

1973 Jack Lemmon – Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner

1974 Art Carney – Harry and Tonto as Harry Coombes

1975 Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as R.P. McMurphy

1976 Peter Finch – Network as Howard Beale (posthumous win)

1977 Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield

1978 Jon Voight – Coming Home as Luke Martin

1979 Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer

1980 Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta

1981 Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer

1982 Ben Kingsley – Gandhi as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1983 Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge

1984 F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus as Antonio Salieri

1985 William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina

1986 Paul Newman – The Color of Money as Fast Eddie Felson

1987 Michael Douglas – Wall Street as Gordon Gekko

1988 Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt

1989 Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot as Christy Brown

1990 Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow

1991 Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs as Hannibal Lecter

1992 Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade

1993 Tom Hanks – Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett

1994 Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump

1995 Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson

1996 Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David Helfgott

1997 Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall

1998 Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful as Guido Orefice

1999 Kevin Spacey – American Beauty as Lester Burnham

2000 Russell Crowe – Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius

2001 Denzel Washington – Training Day as Alonzo Harris

2002 Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman

2003 Sean Penn – Mystic River as Jimmy Markum

2004 Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles

2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

2006 Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin

2007 Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview

2008 Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk

Best Actor Factoids

The only performer to win a Best Actor Oscar after his death was Peter Finch (Network).

Several people have been nominated for Best Actor and Best Director in the same year (Kevin Costner, for example), but they’ve never won both awards.

Peter O’Toole has been nominated for Best Actor a record eight times without a win.

Adrien Brody became the youngest Best Actor winner at the age of 29 (The Pianist).

Henry Fonda became the oldest Best Actor winner at the age of 76 (On Golden Pond).

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