1973 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Winner
![The Godfather Marlon Brando](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-godfather-francis-ford-coppola-image.jpg)
The Godfather
Marlon Brando
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
1973 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
![Sleuth Laurence Olivier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sleuth-joseph-l.-mankiewicz-image.jpg)
Sleuth
Laurence Olivier
![Sleuth Michael Caine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sleuth-joseph-l.-mankiewicz-image.jpg)
Sleuth
Michael Caine
![Sounder Paul Winfield](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sounder-martin-ritt-image.jpg)
Sounder
Paul Winfield
![The Ruling Class Peter O'Toole](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-ruling-class-peter-medak-image.jpg)