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ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLEhas been at the Oscars for 98 years. These are the winners.

YearFilmNominee
2025Sinners IMDB Michael B. Jordan
2024The Brutalist IMDB Adrien Brody
2023Oppenheimer IMDB Cillian Murphy
2022The Whale IMDB Brendan Fraser
2021King Richard IMDB Will Smith
2020The Father IMDB Anthony Hopkins
2019Joker IMDB Joaquin Phoenix
2018Bohemian Rhapsody IMDB Rami Malek
2017Darkest Hour IMDB Gary Oldman
2016Manchester by the Sea IMDB Casey Affleck
2015The Revenant IMDB Leonardo DiCaprio
2014The Theory of Everything IMDB Eddie Redmayne
2013Dallas Buyers Club IMDB Matthew McConaughey
2012Lincoln IMDB Daniel Day-Lewis
2011The Artist IMDB Jean Dujardin
2010The King's Speech IMDB Colin Firth
2009Crazy Heart IMDB Jeff Bridges
2008Milk IMDB Sean Penn
2007There Will Be Blood IMDB Daniel Day-Lewis
2006The Last King of Scotland IMDB Forest Whitaker
2005Capote IMDB Philip Seymour Hoffman
2004Ray IMDB Jamie Foxx
2003Mystic River IMDB Sean Penn
2002The Pianist IMDB Adrien Brody
2001Training Day IMDB Denzel Washington
2000Gladiator IMDB Russell Crowe
1999American Beauty IMDB Kevin Spacey
1998Life Is Beautiful IMDB Roberto Benigni
1997As Good as It Gets IMDB Jack Nicholson
1996Shine IMDB Geoffrey Rush
1995Leaving Las Vegas IMDB Nicolas Cage
1994Forrest Gump IMDB Tom Hanks
1993Philadelphia IMDB Tom Hanks
1992Scent of a Woman IMDB Al Pacino
1991The Silence of the Lambs IMDB Anthony Hopkins
1990Reversal of Fortune IMDB Jeremy Irons
1989My Left Foot IMDB Daniel Day Lewis
1988Rain Man IMDB Dustin Hoffman
1987Wall Street IMDB Michael Douglas
1986The Color of Money IMDB Paul Newman
1985Kiss of the Spider Woman IMDB William Hurt
1984Amadeus IMDB F. Murray Abraham
1983Tender Mercies IMDB Robert Duvall
1982Gandhi IMDB Ben Kingsley
1981On Golden Pond IMDB Henry Fonda
1980Raging Bull IMDB Robert De Niro
1979Kramer vs. Kramer IMDB Dustin Hoffman
1978Coming Home IMDB Jon Voight
1977The Goodbye Girl IMDB Richard Dreyfuss
1976Network IMDB Peter Finch
1975One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest IMDB Jack Nicholson
1974Harry and Tonto IMDB Art Carney
1973Save the Tiger IMDB Jack Lemmon
1972The Godfather IMDB Marlon Brando
1971The French Connection IMDB Gene Hackman
1970Patton IMDB George C. Scott
1969True Grit IMDB John Wayne
1968Charly IMDB Cliff Robertson
1967In the Heat of the Night IMDB Rod Steiger
1966A Man for All Seasons IMDB Paul Scofield
1965Cat Ballou IMDB Lee Marvin
1964My Fair Lady IMDB Rex Harrison
1963Lilies of the Field IMDB Sidney Poitier
1962To Kill a Mockingbird IMDB Gregory Peck
1961Judgment at Nuremberg IMDB Maximilian Schell
1960Elmer Gantry IMDB Burt Lancaster
1959Ben-Hur IMDB Charlton Heston
1958Separate Tables IMDB David Niven
1957The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB Alec Guinness
1956The King and I IMDB Yul Brynner
1955Marty IMDB Ernest Borgnine
1954On the Waterfront IMDB Marlon Brando
1953Stalag 17 IMDB William Holden
1952High Noon IMDB Gary Cooper
1951The African Queen IMDB Humphrey Bogart
1950Cyrano de Bergerac IMDB José Ferrer
1949All the King's Men IMDB Broderick Crawford
1948Hamlet IMDB Laurence Olivier
1947A Double Life IMDB Ronald Colman
1946The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB Fredric March
1945The Lost Weekend IMDB Ray Milland
1944Going My Way IMDB Bing Crosby
1943Watch on the Rhine IMDB Paul Lukas
1942Yankee Doodle Dandy IMDB James Cagney
1941Sergeant York IMDB Gary Cooper
1940The Philadelphia Story IMDB James Stewart
1939Goodbye, Mr. Chips IMDB Robert Donat
1938Boys Town IMDB Spencer Tracy
1937Captains Courageous IMDB Spencer Tracy
1936The Story of Louis Pasteur IMDB Paul Muni
1935The Informer IMDB Victor McLaglen
1934It Happened One Night IMDB Clark Gable
1932/33The Private Life of Henry VIII IMDB Charles Laughton
1931/32Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde IMDB Fredric March
1931/32The Champ IMDB Wallace Beery
1930/31A Free Soul IMDB Lionel Barrymore
1929/30Disraeli IMDB George Arliss
1928/29In Old Arizona IMDB Warner Baxter
1927/28The Last Command IMDB Emil Jannings
1927/28The Way of All Flesh IMDB Emil Jannings

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