Academy Awards For Best Actor Deservers

1927/28!

Winner: Emil Jannings (And for The Way of All Flesh)!

Nominees:
Richard Barthelmess - The Noose/The Patent Leather Kid

1928/29!

Winner: Warner Baxter!

Nominees:
George Bancroft - Thunderbolt as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
Chester Morris - Alibi as Chick Williams
Paul Muni - The Valiant as James Dyke
Lewis Stone - The Patriot as Count Pahlen

1929/30!

Winner: Lew Ayres!

Nominees:
George Arliss - Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
Wallace Beery - The Big House as "Machine Gun" Butch Schmidt
Maurice Chavalier - The Big Pond as Pierre Mirande
Ronald Colman - Condemned as Michel

1930/31!

Winner: Peter Lorre!

Nominees:
Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe
Charlie Chaplin - City Lights as The Tramp
Jackie Cooper - Skippy as Skippy
Richard Dix - Cimarron as Yancey Cravat

1931/32!

Winner: Fredric March!

Nominees:
Wallace Beery - The Champ as Andy "Champ" Purcell
Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman as The Actor

1932/33!

Winner: Charles Laughton!

Nominees:
Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square as Peter Standish
Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as James Allen

1934!

Winner: Clark Gable!

Nominees:
John Barrymore - Twentieth Century as Oscar Jaffe
Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini as Alessandro, Duke of Florence
Victor McLaglen - The Lost Patrol as The Sergeant
William Powell - The Thin Man as Nick Charles

1935!

Winner: Victor McLaglen!

Nominees:
Fred Astaire - Top Hat as Jerry Travers
Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty as Fletcher Christian Master's Mate
Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty as Captain William Bligh
Paul Muni - Black Fury as Joe Radek

1936!

Winner: Gary Cooper!

Nominees:
Walter Huston - Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth
Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur as Louis Pasteur
William Powell - My Man Godfrey as Godfrey Park
Spencer Tracy - San Francisco as Father Mullin

1937!

Winner: Cary Grant!

Nominees:
Charles Boyer - Conquest as Napoleon Bonaparte
Fredric March - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola as Emile Zola
Spencer Tracy - Captain Courageous as Manuel Fidello

1938!

Winner: Errol Flynn!

Nominees:
Charles Boyer - Algiers as Pepe le Moko
James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces as Rocky Sullivan
Robert Donat - The Citadel as Andrew Mason
Leslie Howard - Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins

1939!

Winner: Clark Gable!

Nominees:
Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping
Henry Fonda - Young Mr. Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith

1940!

Winner: Henry Fonda!

Nominees:
Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel/The Barber
Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln
Laurence Olivier - Rebecca as 'Maxim' de Winter
James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay "Mike" Connor

1941!

Winner: Orson Welles!

Nominees:
Gary Cooper - Sergeant York as Sgt. Alvin C. York
Cary Grant - Penny Serenade as Roger Adams
Walter Huston - All That Money Can Buy as Mr. Scratch
Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe Pendleton

1942!

Winner: Humphrey Bogart!

Nominees:
James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig
Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver
Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper as Howard

1943!

Winner: Joseph Cotten!

Nominees:
Gary Cooper - From Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller
Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie as Pierre Curie
Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley

1944!

Winner: Fred MacMurray!

Nominees:
Charles Boyer - Gaslight as Gregory Anton
Bing Crosby - Going My Way as Father Chuck O'Malley
Cary Grant - None But the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott
Alexander Knox - Wilson as Woodrow Wilson

1945!

Winner: Ray Milland!

Nominees:
Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's as Father O'Malley
Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh as Joseph Brady
Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom as Father Francis
Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember as Frederic Chopin

1946!

Winner: James Stewart!

Nominees:
Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson
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

1947!

Winner: Richard Attenborough!

Nominees:
Ronald Colman - A Double Life as Anthony John
John Garfield - Body and Soul as Charlie Davis
Robert Mitchum - Out of the Past as Jeff Bailey
Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green

1948!

Winner: Humphrey Bogart!

Nominees:
Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda as Dr. Robert Richardson
Montgomery Clift - The Search as Ralph "Steve" Stevenson
Laurence Olivier - Hamlet as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Clifton Webb - Sitting Pretty as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere

1949!

Winner: James Cagney!

Nominees:
Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men as Willie Stark
Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High as Brig. General Frank Savage
Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan, the Scot
John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima as Sergeant John M. Stryker

1950!

Winner: James Stewart!

Nominees:
Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jose Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
William Holden - Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks

1951!

Winner: Marlon Brando!

Nominees:
Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen as Charlie Allnut
Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun as George Eastman
Aalastair Sim - Scrooge as Ebenezer Scrooge
Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train as Bruno Antony

1952!

Winner: Gary Cooper!

Nominees:
Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata
Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful as Jonathan Shields
Jose Ferrer - Moulin Rouge as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Alec Guinness - The Lavender Mob as Holland

1953!

Winner: Montgomery Clift!

Nominees:
Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
Richard Burton - The Robe as Marcellus Gallio
William Holden - Stalag 17 as Sgt. J. J. Sefton
Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden

1954!

Winner: Marlon Brando!

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 - Robinson Crusoe as Robinson Crusoe

1955!

Winner: Robert Mitchum!

Nominees:
Ernest Borgnine - Marty as Marty Piletti
James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder
James Dean - East of Eden as Cal Trask
Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie Machine

1956!

Winner: John Wayne!

Nominees:
Yul Brynner - The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam
Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life as Vincent van Gogh
Rock Hudson - Giant as Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr.
Laurence Olivier - Richard III as King Richard III of England

1957!

Winner: Alec Guinness!

Nominees:
Marlon Brando - Sayonara as Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver, USAF
Antony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain as Polo Pope
Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution as Sir Wilfrid Robarts
Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind as Gino

1958!

Winner: James Stewart!

Nominees:
Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones as John "Joker" Jackson
David Niven - Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock
Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt
Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen

1959!

Winner: Jack Lemmon!

Nominees:
Cary Grant - North by Northwest as Roger Thornhill
Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top as Joe Lampton
Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur
James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder as Paul Biegler

1960!

Winner: Anthony Perkins!

Nominees:
Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
Jack Lemmon - The Apartment as C. C. "Bud" Baxter
Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer as Archie Rice
Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond

1961!

Winner: Paul Newman!

Nominees:
Charles Boyer - Fanny as Cesar
Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe
Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg as Chief Judge Dan Haywood
Stuart Whitman - The Mark as Jim Fuller

1962!

Winner: Gregory Peck!

Nominees:
Sean Connery - Dr. No as James Bond
Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses as Joe Clay
Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence
Frank Sinatra - The Manchurian Candidate as Ben Marco

1963!

Winner: Richard Harris!

Nominees:
Albert Finney - Tom Jones as Tom Jones
Rex Harrison - Cleopatra as Julius Caesar
Paul Newman - Hud as Hud Bannon
Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith

1964!

Winner: Peter Sellers!

Nominees:
Richard Burton - Becket as Thomas Becket
Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins
Peter O'Toole - Becket as King Henry II of England
Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba

1965!

Winner: Omar Sharif!

Nominees:
Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as Alec Leamas
Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou as Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn
Laurence Olivier - Othello as Othello
Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker as Sol Nazerman

1966!

Winner: Richard Burton!

Nominees:
Alan Arkin - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming as Lt. Yuri Rozanov
Michael Caine - Alfie as Alfie Elkins
Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles as Jake Holman
Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More

1967!

Winner: Paul Newman!

Nominees:
Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow
Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock
Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie
Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton

1968!

Winner: Peter O'Toole!

Nominees:
Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses as John Cleary
Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as John Singer
Henry Fonda - Once Upon a Time in the West as Frank
Ron Moody - Oliver! as Fagin

1969!

Winner: Dustin Hoffman!

Nominees:
Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days as King Henry VIII of England
Michael Caine - The Italian Job as Charlie Croker
William Holden - The Wild Bunch as Pike Bishop
Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck

1970!

Winner: George C. Scott

Nominees:
Albert Finney - Scrooge as Ebenezer Scrooge
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea
Ryan O'Neal - Love Story as Oliver Barrett IV
Donald Sutherland - MASH as Hawkeye Pierce

1971!

Winner: Gene Hackman!

Nominees:
Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry as Harry Callahan
Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange as Alex DeLarge
George C. Scott - The Hospital as Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock
Chaim Topol - Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye

1972!

Winner: Marlon Brando!

Nominees:
Michael Caine - Sleuth as Milo Tindle
Laurence Olivier - Sleuth as Andrew Wyke
Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class as Jack Gurney
Paul Winfield - Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan

1973!

Winner: Jack Lemmon!

Nominees:
Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris as Paul
Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail as Billy "Badass" Buddusky
Al Pacino - Serpico as Frank Serpico
Robert Redford - The Sting as Johnny Hooker

1974!

Winner: Al Pacino!

Nominees:
Gene Hackman - The Conversation as Harry Caul
Dustin Hoffman - Lenny as Lenny Bruce
Jack Nicholson - Chinatown as J. J. "Jake" Gittes
Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

1975!

Winner: Jack Nicholson!

Nominees:
Michael Caine - The Man Who Would Be King as Peachy Carnehan
Sean Connery - The Man Who Would Be King as Daniel Dravot
Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman

1976!

Winner: Peter Finch!

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

1977!

Winner: John Travolta!

Nominees:
Woody Allen - Annie Hall as Alvy Singer
Richard Burton - Equus as Martin Dysart
Richard Dreyfuss - Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
Peter Firth - Equus as Alan Strang