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List added by AFIoscar on 3 February 2009 10:09
ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR - OSCARS |
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 12  8.5  7.9 1927/1928 ~ Emil Jannings as Gen. Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander and "The Way of All Flesh" as August Schilling
(2 wins, but back then, actors received one Oscar for multiple films) Nominees: Richard Barthelmess - The Noose as Nickie Elkins The Patent Leather Kid as Patent Leather Kid 
6 7 6.2 1928/1929 ~ Warner Baxter as The Cisco Kid
Nominees: George Bancroft - Thunderbolt as Thunderbolt Jim Lang Chester Morris - Alibi as Chick Williams (No. 1065) Paul Muni - The Valiant as James Dyke Lewis Stone - The Patriot as Count Pahlen 
5 5.5 6.7 1929/1930 ~ George Arliss as Benjamin Disraeli
Nominees: George Arliss - The Green Goddess as The Raja of Rukh Wallace Beery - The Big House as 'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond as Pierre Mirande and The Love Parade as Count Alfred Renard Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond as Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond and Condemned as Michel Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song as Yegor 
7 6.5 6.5 1930/1931 ~ Lionel Barrymore as Stephen Ashe
Nominees: Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page as Walter Burns Jackie Cooper - Skippy as Skippy Skinner Richard Dix - Cimarron as Yancey Cravat Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway as Tony Cavendish 
53 7.7 7.8 1931/1932 ~ Fredric March as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
Nominees: Wallace Beery - The Champ as Champ (tie) Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman as The Actor 
12 6.3 7.5 1932/1933 ~ Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII
Nominees: Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square as Peter Standish Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as James Allen 
167 8.4 8.3 1934 ~ Clark Gable as Peter Warne
Nominees: Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini as Alessandro - Duke of Florence William Powell - The Thin Man as Nick Charles 
24 6.6 7.6 1935 ~ Victor McLaglen as Gypo Nolan
Nominees: Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty as Christian Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty as Bligh Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty as Byam 
7 6.7 7.4 1936 ~ Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur
Nominees: Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds Walter Huston - Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth William Powell - My Man Godfrey as Godfrey Spencer Tracy - San Francisco as Father Mullin 
30 6.1 7.9 1937 ~ Spencer Tracy as Manuel
Nominees: Charles Boyer - Conquest as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Fredric March - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall as Danny Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola as Emile Zola 
23 6.6 7.3 1938 ~ Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan
Nominees: Charles Boyer - Algiers as Pepe le Moko James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces as Rocky Sullivan Robert Donat - The Citadel as Andrew Leslie Howard - Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins 
22 7.1 7.7 1939 ~ Robert Donat as Mr. Chips
Nominees: Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind as Rhett Butler - a Visitor from Charleston Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith 
237 8.1 8.1 1940 ~ James Stewart as Macaulay Connor
Nominees: Charles Chaplin - The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania)/A Jewish Barber Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln Laurence Olivier - Rebecca as 'Maxim' de Winter 
37 6.9 8 1941 ~ Gary Cooper as Alvin Cullum York
Nominees: Cary Grant - Penny Serenade as Roger Adams Walter Huston - The Devil and Daniel Webster as Mr. Scratch Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe Pendleton Orson Welles - Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane 
35 7.3 7.8 1942 ~ James Cagney as George M. Cohan
Nominees: Ronald Colman - Random Harvest as Charles Rainier Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper as Howard 
9 5 7.4 1943 ~ Paul Lukas as Kurt Muller
Nominees: Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca as Rick Blaine Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie as Pierre Curie Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley 
25 6.8 7.5 1944 ~ Bing Crosby as Father Chuck O'Malley
Nominees: Charles Boyer - Gaslight as Gregory Anton Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott Alexander Knox - Wilson as Woodrow Wilson 
106 7.7 8.2 1945 ~ Ray Milland as Don Birnam
Nominees: Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's as Father Chuck O'Malley Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh as Joseph Brady Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom as Father Francis Chisholm Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember as Frédéric Chopin 
91 8 8.2 1946 ~ Fredric March as Al Stephenson
Nominees: Laurence Olivier - Henry V as King Henry V of England Larry Parks - The Jolson Story as Al Jolson Gregory Peck - The Yearling as Ezra 'Penny' Baxter James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life as George Bailey AFIoscar's rating:
 
12 5.7 7.2 1947 ~ Ronald Colman as Anthony John
Nominees: John Garfield - Body and Soul as Charlie Davis Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green aka Greenberg Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra as Orin Mannon William Powell - Life with Father as Clarence Day, Sr. 
56 6.7 8 1948 ~ Laurence Olivier as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Nominees: Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda as Dr. Robert Richardson Montgomery Clift - The Search as Ralph 'Steve' Stevenson Dan Dailey - When My Baby Smiles at Me as 'Skid' Johnson Clifton Webb - Sitting Pretty as Lynn Belvedere 
24 7.6 7.7 1949 ~ Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark
Nominees: Kirk Douglas - Champion as Michael 'Midge' Kelly Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High as General Savage Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima as Sgt. John M. Stryker 
13 7.3 7.5 1950 ~ José Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac
Nominees: Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes William Holden - Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis James Stewart - Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks 
199 7.5 8.1 1951 ~ Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut
Nominees: Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun as George Eastman Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory as Larry Nevins Fredric March - Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman AFIoscar's rating:
 
160 7.9 8.3 1952 ~ Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane
Nominees: Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful as Jonathan José Ferrer - Moulin Rouge as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / The Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry Holland 
109 8 8.2 1953 ~ William Holden as Sgt. J.J. Sefton
Nominees: Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar as Mark Antony Richard Burton - The Robe as Marcellus Gallio Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden 
229 8.1 8.4 1954 ~ Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy
Nominees: Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg Bing Crosby - The Country Girl as Frank Elgin James Mason - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine Dan O'Herlihy - The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe as Robinson Crusoe 
38 7.2 7.8 1955 ~ Ernest Borgnine as Marty Piletti
Nominees: James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder James Dean - East of Eden as Cal Trask (posthumous nomination) Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie Machine Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock as John J. Macreedy 
94 7.1 7.4 1956 ~ Yul Brynner as King Mongkut of Siam
Nominees: James Dean - Giant as Jett Rink (posthumous nomination) Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life as Vincent Van Gogh Rock Hudson - Giant as "Bick Benedict" Laurence Olivier - Richard III as Richard III 
290 7.8 8.5 1957 ~ Alec Guinness as Col. Nicholson
Nominees: Marlon Brando - Sayonara as Maj. Lloyd 'Ace' Gruver - USAF Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain as Polo Pope Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, lawyer Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind as Gino 
10 6.4 7.7 1958 ~ David Niven as Major Angus Pollock
Nominees: Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones as John 'Joker' Jackson Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea as The Old Man / Narrator 
374 7.2 8.2 1959 ~ Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur
Nominees: Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top as Joe Lampton Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot as Jerry - 'Daphne' Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man as Dr. Sam Abelman James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder as Paul Biegler 
13 7 7.8 1960 ~ Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry
Nominees: Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers as Walter Morel Jack Lemmon - The Apartment as C. C. 'Bud' Baxter Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer as Archie Rice Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond 
82 7.3 8.3 1961 ~ Maximilian Schell as Hans Rolfe
Nominees: Charles Boyer - Fanny as Cesar Paul Newman - The Hustler as Eddie Felson Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg as Chief Judge Dan Haywood Stuart Whitman - The Mark as Jim Fuller 
478 7.9 8.5 1962 ~ Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
Nominees: Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz as Robert Stroud Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses as Joe Clay Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style as Ferdinando Cefalù Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence 
20 8 7.6 1963 ~ Sidney Poitier as Homer Smith
Nominees: Albert Finney - Tom Jones as Tom Jones Richard Harris - This Sporting Life as Frank Machin Rex Harrison - Cleopatra as Caesar Paul Newman - Hud as Hud Bannon 
418 7.3 7.9 1964 ~ Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins
Nominees: Richard Burton - Becket as Thomas à Becket Peter O'Toole - Becket as King Henry II Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove 
34 6.4 6.9 1965 ~ Lee Marvin as Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn
Nominees: Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as Alec Leamas Laurence Olivier - Othello as Othello Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker as Sol Nazerman Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools as Willie Schumann 
52 7.4 8.1 1966 ~ Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More
Nominees: Alan Arkin - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming as Lt. Rozanov Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George Michael Caine - Alfie as Alfie Elkins Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles as Holman 
101 7.7 8.1 1967 ~ Rod Steiger as Police Chief Bill Gillespie
Nominees: Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke as Luke Jackson Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton (posthumous nomination) 
19 6.8 7.2 1968 ~ Cliff Robertson as Charly Gordon
Nominees: Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as John Singer Alan Bates - The Fixer as Yakov Bok Ron Moody - Oliver! as Fagin Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter as Henry II 
39 7.1 7.3 1969 ~ John Wayne as Marshal Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Nominees: Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days as King Henry VIII Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck 
161 7.3 8.1 1970 ~ George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. (declined)
Nominees: Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea Ryan O'Neal - Love Story as Oliver Barrett IV 
270 7.6 7.9 1971 ~ Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
Nominees: Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday as Dr. Daniel Hirsh Walter Matthau - Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher George C. Scott - The Hospital as Dr. Herbert Bock Topol - Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye 
1745 8.6 9.2 1972 ~ Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone (declined)
Nominees: Michael Caine - Sleuth as Milo Tindle Laurence Olivier - Sleuth as Andrew Wyke Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class as Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney Paul Winfield - Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan AFIoscar's rating:
 
11 5.9 6.9 1973 ~ Jack Lemmon as Harry Stoner
Nominees: Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris as Paul Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail as SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky Al Pacino - Serpico as Frank Serpico Robert Redford - The Sting as Johnny Hooker 
7 6.8 7.3 1974 ~ Art Carney as Harry Coombes
Nominees: Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot Dustin Hoffman - Lenny as Lenny Bruce Jack Nicholson - Chinatown as Jake 'J.J.' Gittes Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II as Don Michael Corleone 
1184 8.4 8.9 1975 ~ Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy
Nominees: Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry Truman AFIoscar's rating:
213 7.9 8.1 1976 ~ Peter Finch as Howard Beale (posthumous win)
Nominees: Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver as Travis Bickle Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties as Pasqualino Frafuso William Holden - Network as Max Schumacher Sylvester Stallone - Rocky as Rocky Balboa 
28 7.6 7.1 1977 ~ Richard Dreyfuss as Elliot Garfield
Nominees: Woody Allen - Annie Hall as Alvy Singer Richard Burton - Equus as Martin Dysart Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day as Gabriele John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever as Tony Manero
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Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Prior to the 49th Academy Awards ceremony (1977), this award was simply known as the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actor. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar for Best Actor. While actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole. ACTOR WITH MOST AWARDS (2 EACH): Spencer Tracy Fredric March Gary Cooper Marlon Brando Dustin Hoffman Tom Hanks Jack Nicholson Daniel Day-Lewis MOST NOMINATED ACTORS: Jack Nicholson (12) Laurence Olivier (10) Spencer Tracy (9) ACTOR WITH MOST NOMINATIONS WITHOUT WINNING: Peter O'Toole (8): OLDEST WINNER: Henry Fonda - 76 OLDEST NOMINEE: Richard Farnsworth - 79 YOUNGEST WINNER: Adrien Brody - 29 YOUNGEST NOMINEE: Jackie Cooper - 9 Source: Wikipedia
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