Oscar Winning Actors
A list of past academy award winning actors, and the film they starred in for which they won their Oscar. The year listed below refers to the year the film was released rather than the year the oscar was awarded because oscars are awarded to films released during the past year. For example the best actor of 2004 (Jamie Foxx) was awarded an oscar on 27th February 2005.
The 79th Academy Awards are to be held on the 25th of February 2007, where the oscars for the best films of 2006 are awarded. The nominations for the best actor in a leading role Oscar 2006 were:
- Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
- Peter O'Toole - Venus
- Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
- Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
| Year | Best Actor | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | ?? | ?? |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River |
| 2002 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist |
| 2001 | Denzel Washington | Training Day |
| 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 |
| 1971 | Gene Hackman | The French Connection |
| 1970 | George C. Scott | Patton |
| 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 | Lillies Of The Field |
| 1962 | Gregory Peck | To Kill A Mocking Bird |
| 1961 | Maximilian Schell | Judgment At Nuremburg |
| 1960 | Burt Lancaster | Elmer Gantry |
| 1959 | Charlton Heston | Ben |
| 1958 | David Niven | Separate Tables |
| 1957 | Alec Guinness | The Bridge Over 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 | José 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 Happened One Night |
| 1933 | Charles Laughton | The Private Life Of Henry Viii |
| 1932 | Wallace Beery | The Champ |
| 1931 | Fredric March | Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde |
| 1930 | Lionel Barrymore | A Free Soul |
| 1929 | George Arliss | Disraeli |
| 1928 | Warner Baxter | In Old Arizona |
| 1927 | Emil Jannings | The Last Command |
| 1927 | Emil Jannings | The Way Of All Flesh |