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2020 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Joker
Joaquin Phoenix
2019 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Bohemian Rhapsody
Rami Malek
2018 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Darkest Hour
Gary Oldman
2017 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Manchester by the Sea
Casey Affleck
2016 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Revenant
Leonardo DiCaprio
2015 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne
2014 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey
2013 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis
2012 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Artist
Jean Dujardin
2011 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The King’s Speech
Colin Firth
2010 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges
2009 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Milk
Sean Penn
2008 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis
2007 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker
2006 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2005 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Ray
Jamie Foxx
2004 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Mystic River
Sean Penn
2003 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Pianist
Adrien Brody
2002 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Training Day
Denzel Washington
2001 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Gladiator
Russell Crowe
2000 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

American Beauty
Kevin Spacey
1999 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Life Is Beautiful
Roberto Benigni
1998 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

As Good as It Gets
Jack Nicholson
1997 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Shine
Geoffrey Rush
1996 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage
1995 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks
1994 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Philadelphia
Tom Hanks
1993 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Scent of a Woman
Al Pacino
1992 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins
1991 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Reversal of Fortune
Jeremy Irons
1990 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

My Left Foot
Daniel Day-Lewis
1989 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Rain Man
Dustin Hoffman
1988 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Wall Street
Michael Douglas
1987 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Color of Money
Paul Newman
1986 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Kiss of the Spider Woman
William Hurt
1985 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Amadeus
F. Murray Abraham
1984 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Tender Mercies
Robert Duvall
1983 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
1982 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

On Golden Pond
Henry Fonda
1981 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Raging Bull
Robert De Niro
1980 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Kramer vs. Kramer
Dustin Hoffman
1979 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Coming Home
Jon Voight
1978 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Goodbye Girl
Richard Dreyfuss
1977 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Network
Peter Finch
1976 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Jack Nicholson
1975 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Harry and Tonto
Art Carney
1974 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Save the Tiger
Jack Lemmon
1973 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Godfather
Marlon Brando
1972 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The French Connection
Gene Hackman
1971 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Patton
George C. Scott
1970 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

True Grit
John Wayne
1969 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Charly
Cliff Robertson
1968 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

In the Heat of the Night
Rod Steiger
1967 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

A Man for All Seasons
Paul Scofield
1966 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Cat Ballou
Lee Marvin
1965 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
1964 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier
1963 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck
1962 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Judgment at Nuremberg
Maximilian Schell
1961 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Elmer Gantry
Burt Lancaster
1960 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Ben-Hur
Charlton Heston
1959 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Separate Tables
David Niven
1958 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness
1957 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The King and I
Yul Brynner
1956 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Marty
Ernest Borgnine
1955 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando
1954 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Stalag 17
William Holden
1953 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

High Noon
Gary Cooper
1952 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The African Queen
Humphrey Bogart
1951 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Cyrano de Bergerac
José Ferrer
1950 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

All the King’s Men
Broderick Crawford
1949 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
1948 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

A Double Life
Ronald Colman
1947 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Best Years of Our Lives
Fredric March
1946 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Lost Weekend
Ray Milland
1945 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Going My Way
Bing Crosby
1944 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Watch on the Rhine
Paul Lukas
1943 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Yankee Doodle Dandy
James Cagney
1942 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Sergeant York
Gary Cooper
1941 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Philadelphia Story
James Stewart
1940 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Robert Donat
1939 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Boys Town
Spencer Tracy
1938 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Captains Courageous
Spencer Tracy
1937 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Story of Louis Pasteur
Paul Muni
1936 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Informer
Victor McLaglen
1935 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

It Happened One Night
Clark Gable
1934 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Charles Laughton
1932 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fredric March
1932 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

The Champ
Wallace Beery
1931 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

A Free Soul
Lionel Barrymore
1930s Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

Disraeli
George Arliss
1930 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role

In Old Arizona
Warner Baxter
1929 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role
