EVERY Oscar Best Actor Winner EVER | 1927-2023

Highlights and clips of every single movie to ever win Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards, from Emil Jannings (1st), to Brendan Fraser (95th). EVERY Oscar Best Picture Winner: EVERY Oscar Best Director Winner: EVERY Oscar Best Actress Winner: EVERY Oscar Best Actor Winner: EVERY Oscar Best Supporting Actress Winner: EVERY Oscar Best Supporting Actor Winner: EVERY Oscar Best Animated Feature Winner: 1927-28 - Emil Jannings (The Last Command, The Way of All Flesh) 1928-29 - Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona) 1929-30 - George Arliss (Disraeli) 1930-31 - Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul) 1931-32 - Wallace Beery and Fredric March (The Champ/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) 1932-33 - 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 - Cary 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) 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) 2012 - Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) 2013 - Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) 2014 - Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) 2015 - Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) 2016 - Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) 2017 - Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) 2018 - Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) 2019 - Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) 2020 - Anthony Hopkins (The Father) 2021 - Will Smith (King Richard) 2022 - Brendan Fraser (The Whale) Subscribe for more videos about the awards race, Oscars, and other film-related content every week! LETTERBOXD Profile: Oscars List: #film #oscars #oscars