List of Actors Who Won the Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor – The award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor.

	Year	Actor	Film
1	1927/28	Emil Jannings	The Last Command, The Way of All Flesh
2	1928/29	Warner Baxter	In Old Arizona
3	1929/30	George Arliss	Disraeli
4	1930/31	Lionel Barrymore	A Free Soul
5	1931/32	Wallace Beery	The Champ
5	1931/32	Fredric March	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6	1932/33	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII
7	1934	Clark Gable	It Happened One Night
8	1935	Victor McLaglen	The Informer
9	1936	Paul Muni	The Story of Louis Pasteur
10	1937	Spencer Tracy	Captains Courageous
11	1938	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town
12	1939	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
13	1940	James Stewart	The Philadelphia Story
14	1941	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York
15	1942	James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy
16	1943	Paul Lukas	Watch on the Rhine
17	1944	Bing Crosby	Going My Way
18	1945	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend
19	1946	Fredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives
20	1947	Ronald Colman	A Double Life
21	1948	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet
22	1949	Broderick Crawford	All the King’s Men
23	1950	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac
24	1951	Humphrey Bogart	The African Queen
25	1952	Gary Cooper	High Noon
26	1953	William Holden	Stalag 17
27	1954	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront
28	1955	Ernest Borgnine	Marty
29	1956	Yul Brynner	The King and I
30	1957	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai
31	1958	David Niven	Separate Tables
32	1959	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hur
33	1960	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry
34	1961	Maximilian Schell	Judgment at Nuremberg
35	1962	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird
36	1963	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field
37	1964	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady
38	1965	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou
39	1966	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons
40	1967	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night
41	1968	Cliff Robertson	Charly
42	1969	John Wayne	True Grit
43	1970	George C. Scott	Patton
44	1971	Gene Hackman	The French Connection
45	1972	Marlon Brando	The Godfather
46	1973	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger
47	1974	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto
48	1975	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
49	1976	Peter Finch	Network
50	1977	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl
51	1978	Jon Voight	Coming Home
52	1979	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs. Kramer
53	1980	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull
54	1981	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond
55	1982	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi
56	1983	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies
57	1984	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus
58	1985	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman
59	1986	Paul Newman	The Color of Money
60	1987	Michael Douglas	Wall Street
61	1988	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man
62	1989	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot
63	1990	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune
64	1991	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs
65	1992	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman
66	1993	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia
67	1994	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump
68	1995	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas
69	1996	Geoffrey Rush	Shine
70	1997	Jack Nicholson	As Good as It Gets
71	1998	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful
72	1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty
73	2000	Russell Crowe	Gladiator
74	2001	Denzel Washington	Training Day
75	2002	Adrien Brody	The Pianist
76	2003	Sean Penn	Mystic River
77	2004	Jamie Foxx	Ray
78	2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote
79	2006	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland
80	2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood
81	2008	Sean Penn	Milk
82	2009	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart
83	2010	Colin Firth	The King’s Speech
84	2011	Jean Dujardin	The Artist
85	2012	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln
86	2013	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club
87	2014	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything
88	2015	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant