1968 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Winner
![In the Heat of the Night Rod Steiger](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-the-heat-of-the-night-norman-jewison-image.jpg)
In the Heat of the Night
Rod Steiger
An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
1968 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
![Bonnie and Clyde Warren Beatty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bonnie-and-clyde-image.jpg)
Bonnie and Clyde
Warren Beatty
![Cool Hand Luke Paul Newman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cool-hand-luke-stuart-rosenberg-image.jpg)
Cool Hand Luke
Paul Newman
![Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Spencer Tracy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-stanley-kramer-image.jpg)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Spencer Tracy
![The Graduate Dustin Hoffman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-graduate-mike-nichols-image.jpg)