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Academy Award for Best Actor
These are the Academy Awards for Best Actor. The films are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best actor in 1999.
- 1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh
- 1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
- 1930 George Arliss - Disraeli
- 1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
- 1932 Wallace Beery - The Champ and Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- 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 José 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 (declined)
- 1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection
- 1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather (declined)
- 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
- Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
- Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)
- William Holden - Network
- Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
- 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
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