Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role

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Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (bold face indicates winner):

2007
- George Clooney - Michael Clayton
- Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
- Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
- Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
2006
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
- Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
- Peter O'Toole - Venus
- Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
- Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
2005
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
- Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
- Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
- Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
- David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck
2004
- Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
- [Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
- Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
- Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
- Jamie Foxx - Ray
2003
- Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog
- Jude Law - Cold Mountain
- Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
- Sean Penn - Mystic River
2002
- Adrien Brody - The Pianist
- Nicolas Cage - Adaptation
- Michael Caine - The Quiet American
- Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
- Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt
2001
- Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
- Sean Penn - I Am Sam
- Will Smith - Ali
- Denzel Washington - Training Day
- Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom
2000
- Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
- Russell Crowe - Gladiator
- Tom Hanks - Cast Away
- Ed Harris - Pollock
- Geoffrey Rush- Quills
1999
- Russell Crowe - The Insider
- Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story
- Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
- Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
- Denzel Washington - The Hurricane (1999)
1998
- Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
- Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
- Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
- Nick Nolte - Affliction
- Edward Norton - American History X
1997
- Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
- Robert Duvall - The Apostle
- Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
- Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog
- Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets
1996
- Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
- Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
- Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Geoffrey Rush - Shine
- Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade
1995
- Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
- Richard Dreyfuss - Mr. Holland's Opus
- Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
- Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
- Massimo Troisi - The Postman (Il Postino)
1994
- Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
- Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
- Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of King George
- Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool
- John Travolta - Pulp Fiction
1993
- Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father
- Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It
- Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
- Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day
- Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
1992
- Robert Downey, Jr. - Chaplin
- Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
- Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman (1992)
- Stephen Rea - The Crying Game
- Denzel Washington - Malcolm X (1992)
1991
- Warren Beatty - Bugsy
- Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
- Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
- Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides
- Robin Williams - The Fisher King
1990
- Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves
- Robert De Niro - Awakenings
- Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
- Richard Harris - The Field
- Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
1989
- Kenneth Branagh - Henry V (1989)
- Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
- Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
- Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
- Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
1988
- Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning
- Tom Hanks - Big
- Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
- Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver
- Max Von Sydow - Pelle the Conqueror
1987
- Michael Douglas - Wall Street
- William Hurt - Broadcast News
- Marcello Mastroianni - Dark Eyes
- Jack Nicholson - Ironweed
- Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam
1986
- Dexter Gordon - 'Round Midnight
- Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
- William Hurt - Children of a Lesser God
- Paul Newman - The Color of Money
- James Woods - Salvador
1985
- Harrison Ford - Witness
- James Garner - Murphy's Romance
- William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor
- Jon Voight - Runaway Train
1984
- F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
- Jeff Bridges - Starman
- Albert Finney - Under the Volcano
- Tom Hulce - Amadeus
- Sam Waterston - The Killing Fields
1983
- Tom Courtenay - The Dresser
- Albert Finney - The Dresser
- Michael Caine - Educating Rita
- Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben
- Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
1982
- Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
- Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
- Jack Lemmon - Missing
- Paul Newman - The Verdict
- Peter O'Toole - My Favorite Year
1981
- Warren Beatty - Reds
- Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
- Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
- Dudley Moore - Arthur
- Paul Newman - Absence of Malice
1980
- Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
- Robert Duvall - The Great Santini
- John Hurt - The Elephant Man
- Jack Lemmon - Tribute
- Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man
1979
- Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
- Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
- Al Pacino - ...And Justice for All
- Roy Scheider - All That Jazz
- Peter Sellers - Being There
1978
- Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
- Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story
- Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter
- Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil
- Jon Voight - Coming Home
1977
- Woody Allen - Annie Hall
- Richard Burton - Equus
- Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
- Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day
- John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever
1976
- Peter Finch - Network
- William Holden - Network
- Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
- Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties
- Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
1975
- Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys
- Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Al Pacino Dog Day - Afternoon
- Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth
- James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry!
1974
- Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
- Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express
- Dustin Hoffman - Lenny
- Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
- Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II
1973
- Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris
- Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
- Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail
- Al Pacino - Serpico
- Robert Redford - The Sting
1972
- Michael Caine - Sleuth
- Laurence Olivier - Sleuth
- Marlon Brando - The Godfather
- Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class
- Paul Winfield - Sounder
1971
- Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Gene Hackman - The French Connection
- Walter Matthau - Kotch
- George C. Scott - The Hospital
- Topol - Fiddler on the Roof
1970
- Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father
- James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope
- Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces
- Ryan O'Neal - Love Story
- George C. Scott - Patton
1969
- Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
- Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy
- Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days
- Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
- John Wayne - True Grit
1968
- Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Alan Bates - The Fixer
- Ron Moody - Oliver!
- Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter
- Cliff Robertson - Charly
1967
- Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde
- Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate
- Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke
- Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
- Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1966
- Alan Arkin - The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
- Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Michael Caine - Alfie
- Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles
- Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
1965
- Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
- Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
- Laurence Olivier - Othello
- Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
- Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools
1964
- Richard Burton - Becket
- Peter O'Toole - Becket
- Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
- Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek
- Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963
- Albert Finney - Tom Jones
- Richard Harris - This Sporting Life
- Rex Harrison - Cleopatra (1963)
- Paul Newman - Hud
- Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
1962
- Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz
- Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses
- Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce--Italian Style
- Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
- Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
1961
- Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Charles Boyer - Fanny
- Paul Newman - The Hustler
- Stuart Whitman - The Mark
1960
- Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers
- Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
- Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
- Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer
- Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind
1959
- Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top
- Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
- Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
- Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man
- James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder
1958
- Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones
- Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones
- Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- David Niven - Separate Tables
1957
- Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea
- Marlon Brando - Sayonara
- Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain
- Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution
- Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind
1956
- James Dean - Giant
- Rock Hudson - Giant
- Yul Brynner - The King and I
- Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life
- Sir Laurence Olivier - Richard III (1956)
1955
- Ernest Borgnine - Marty
- James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me
- James Dean - East of Eden
- Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm
- Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock
1954
- Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny
- Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
- Bing Crosby - The Country Girl
- James Mason - A Star Is Born (1954)
- Dan O'Herlihy - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1953
- Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity
- Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity
- Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar
- Richard Burton - The Robe
- William Holden - Stalag 17
1952
- Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!
- Gary Cooper - High Noon
- Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful
- Jos� Ferrer - Moulin Rouge
- Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
- Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
- Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory
- Fredric March - Death of a Salesman
1950
- Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
- Jos� Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
- William Holden - Sunset Blvd.
- James Stewart - Harvey
- Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride
1949
- Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
- Kirk Douglas - Champion
- Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High
- Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart
- John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima
1948
- Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda
- Montgomery Clift - The Search
- Dan Dailey - When My Baby Smiles at Me
- Laurence Olivier - Hamlet (1948)
- Clifton Webb - Sitting Pretty
1947
- Ronald Colman - A Double Life
- John Garfield - Body and Soul
- Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement
- William Powell - Life with Father
- Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra
1946
- Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Laurence Olivier - Henry V (1946)
- Larry Parks - The Jolson Story
- Gregory Peck - The Yearling
- James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life
1945
- Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's
- Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh
- Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
- Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom
- Cornel Wilde - A Song To Remember
1944
- Bing Crosby - Going My Way
- Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
- Charles Boyer - Gaslight
- Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart
- Alexander Knox - Wilson
1943
- Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
- Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
- Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie
- Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy
1942
- James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Ronald Colman - Random Harvest
- Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees
- Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver
- Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper
1941
- Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
- Cary Grant - Penny Serenade
- Walter Huston - All That Money Can Buy
- Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
1940
- Charles Chaplin - The Great Dictator
- Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath
- Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Laurence Olivier - Rebecca
- James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
1939
- Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind
- Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights
- Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms
- James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1938
- Charles Boyer - Algiers
- James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Robert Donat - The Citadel
- Leslie Howard - Pygmalion
- Spencer Tracy - Boys Town
1937
- Charles Boyer - Conquest
- Fredric March - A Star Is Born (1937)
- Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall
- Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola
- Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
1936
- Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Walter Huston - Dodsworth
- Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
- William Powell - My Man Godfrey
- Spencer Tracy - San Francisco
1935
- Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Victor McLaglen - The Informer
- Paul Muni - Black Fury
1934
- Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
- Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini
- William Powell - The Thin Man
1932/1933
- Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square
- Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
- Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1931/1932
- Wallace Beery - The Champ (1931/32)
- Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman
- Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931/32)
1930/1931
- Lionel Barrymore -

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Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role