Oscars – Actor in a Leading Role

List of winners and nominees for the Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role!

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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

The Last Command

Emil Jannings