Best Actor (Oscars)

1927-1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command
1928-1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
1929-1930 George Arliss - Disraeli
1930-1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
1931-1932 Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1932-1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer
1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town
1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
1941 Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
1942 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way
1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 Ronald Colman - A Double Life
1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
1950 Jose Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon
1953 William Holden - Stalag 17
1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty
1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I
1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 David Niven - Separate Tables
1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
1960 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
1964 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
1966 Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
1968 Cliff Robertson - Charly
1969 John Wayne - True Grit
1970 George C. Scott - Patton
1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection
1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather
1973 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
1975 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 Peter Finch - Network (posthumous win)
1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
1978 Jon Voight - Coming Home
1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money
1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street
1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
1990 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
1991 Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
1994 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine
1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets
1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator
2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day
2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist
2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River
2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
2006 Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
2008 Sean Penn - Milk
2009 Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
2010 Colin Firth - The King's Speech
2011 Jean Dujardin - The Artist