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