Academy Award for Best Actor

Winners

2025	Sinners	★☆☆☆☆	Michael B. Jordan
2024	The Brutalist	★★☆☆☆	Adrien Brody
2023	Oppenheimer	★★★★★	Cillian Murphy
2022	The Whale	★	Brendan Fraser
2021	King Richard	★☆☆	Will Smith
2020	The Father	★☆☆☆	Anthony Hopkins
2019	Joker	★★☆☆☆	Joaquin Phoenix
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody	★★☆	Rami Malek
2017	Darkest Hour	★☆☆	Gary Oldman
2016	Manchester by the Sea	★☆☆☆☆	Casey Affleck
2015	The Revenant	★★★★☆	Leonardo DiCaprio
2014	The Theory of Everything	★☆☆☆☆	Eddie Redmayne
2013	Dallas Buyers Club	★☆	Matthew McConaughey
2012	Lincoln	★☆☆☆☆	Daniel Day-Lewis
2011	The Artist	★★★★	Jean Dujardin
2010	The King's Speech	★★★★☆	Colin Firth
2009	Crazy Heart	★	Jeff Bridges
2008	Milk	★☆☆☆	Sean Penn
2007	There Will Be Blood	★☆☆☆	Daniel Day-Lewis
2006	The Last King of Scotland	★☆	Forest Whitaker
2005	Capote	★☆☆☆	Philip Seymour Hoffman
2004	Ray	★☆☆	Jamie Foxx
2003	Mystic River	★☆☆☆	Sean Penn
2002	The Pianist	★★★★☆☆	Adrien Brody
2001	Training Day	★	Denzel Washington
2000	Gladiator	★★★★☆	Russell Crowe
1999	American Beauty	★★★★★☆	Kevin Spacey
1998	Life Is Beautiful	★☆☆	Roberto Benigni
1997	As Good as It Gets	★★☆	Jack Nicholson
1996	Shine	★☆☆☆☆	Geoffrey Rush
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	★☆☆☆	Nicolas Cage
1994	Forrest Gump	★★★★☆	Tom Hanks
1993	Philadelphia	★	Tom Hanks
1992	Scent of a Woman	★★☆☆	Al Pacino
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	★★★★☆	Anthony Hopkins
1990	Reversal of Fortune	★☆☆	Jeremy Irons
1989	My Left Foot	★☆☆☆	Daniel Day-Lewis
1988	Rain Man	★★★★	Dustin Hoffman
1987	Wall Street	★	Michael Douglas
1986	The Color of Money	★	Paul Newman
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	★☆☆☆	William Hurt
1984	Amadeus	★★★★☆	F. Murray Abraham
1983	Tender Mercies	★☆☆☆	Robert Duvall
1982	Gandhi	★★★★	Ben Kingsley
1981	On Golden Pond	★★★☆☆	Henry Fonda
1980	Raging Bull	★☆☆☆	Robert De Niro
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	★★★★☆	Dustin Hoffman
1978	Coming Home	★★☆☆☆	Jon Voight
1977	The Goodbye Girl	★☆☆	Richard Dreyfuss
1976	Network	★★☆☆☆☆	Peter Finch
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	★★★★★★	Jack Nicholson
1974	Harry and Tonto	★	Art Carney
1973	Save the Tiger	★☆	Jack Lemmon
1972	The Godfather	★★★☆	Marlon Brando
1971	The French Connection	★★★★☆	Gene Hackman
1970	Patton	★★★☆	George C. Scott
1969	True Grit	★☆☆☆	John Wayne
1968	CHAЯLY	★☆	Cliff Robertson
1967	In the Heat of the Night	★★★☆	Rod Steiger
1966	A Man for All Seasons	★★★★★	Paul Scofield
1965	Cat Ballou	★	Lee Marvin
1964	My Fair Lady	★★★★	Rex Harrison
1963	Lilies of the Field	★☆☆	Sidney Poitier
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	★☆☆☆☆	Gregory Peck
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	★☆☆☆☆	Maximilian Schell
1960	Elmer Gantry	★☆☆☆	Burt Lancaster
1959	Ben-Hur	★★★★★	Charlton Heston
1958	Separate Tables	★☆☆☆	David Niven
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	★★★★★	Alec Guinness
1956	The King and I	★☆☆☆	Yul Brynner
1955	Marty	★★★★☆	Ernest Borgnine
1954	On the Waterfront	★★★★	Marlon Brando
1953	Stalag 17	★☆	William Holden
1952	High Noon	★☆☆☆	Gary Cooper
1951	The African Queen	★☆☆☆	Humphrey Bogart
1950	Cyrano de Bergerac	★☆☆	José Ferrer
1949	All the King's Men	★★★☆	Broderick Crawford
1948	Hamlet	★★★☆☆	Laurence Olivier
1947	A Double Life	★☆	Ronald Colman
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	★★★★	Fredric March
1945	The Lost Weekend	★★★★★	Ray Milland
1944	Going My Way	★★★★	Bing Crosby
1943	Watch on the Rhine	★☆	Paul Lukas
1942	Yankee Doodle Dandy	★☆☆	James Cagney
1941	Sergeant York	★☆☆	Gary Cooper
1940	The Philadelphia Story	★☆☆☆	James Stewart
1939	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	★☆☆☆☆	Robert Donat
1938	Boys Town	★☆☆	Spencer Tracy
1937	Captains Courageous	★☆	Spencer Tracy
1936	The Story of Louis Pasteur	★☆	Paul Muni
1935	The Informer	★★☆	Victor McLaglen
1934	It Happened One Night	★★★★	Clark Gable
1932	The Private Life of Henry VIII	★☆	Charles Laughton
1931	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	★	Fredric March
1931	The Champ	★☆☆	Wallace Beery
1930	A Free Soul	★☆☆	Lionel Barrymore
1929	Disraeli	★☆	George Arliss
1928	In Old Arizona	★☆☆	Warner Baxter
1927	The Last Command	★	Emil Jannings