Academy Awards/Best Actor

This page should also list nominees for each year, instead of just listing the winners...

The films are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best actor in 1999.

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