Oscar Winners for Best Actor

The Oscars have been awarded annually since 1927 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

• Charles Laughton (born 1899, died 1962)

  English actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1933 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Private Life of Henry VIII
• Clark Gable (born 1901, died 1960)

  American actor. Best known for the role of Rhett Butler in the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind.

  • 1934 Academy Award winner for his performance in It Happened One Night
• Fredric March (born 1897, died 1975)

  American actor. Original name: Frederick Bickel.

  • 1946 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives
• (Eldred) Gregory Peck (born 1916)

  American actor and producer.

  • 1962 Academy Award winner for his performance in To Kill a Mockingbird
• Humphrey Bogart (born 1899, died 1957)

  American actor.

  • 1951 Academy Award winner for his performance in The African Queen
• Rex Harrison (born 1908, died 1990)

  British actor. Original name: Reginald Carey.

  • 1964 Academy Award winner for his performance in My Fair Lady
• Tom Hanks (born 1956)

  American actor, director and comedian.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actor: 1993, for Philadelphia; 1994, for Forrest Gump
• Victor McLaglen (born 1886, died 1959)

  British-born American athlete and actor.

  • 1935 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Informer
• Henry Fonda (born 1905, died 1982)

  American actor. Father of actors Jane and Peter Fonda.

  • 1981 Academy Award winner for his performance in On Golden Pond
• James Cagney (born 1899, died 1986)

  American actor.

  • 1942 Academy Award winner for his performance in Yankee Doodle Dandy
• James Stewart (born 1908, died 1997)

  American actor and WWII bomber pilot.

  • 1940 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Philadelphia Story
• Art Carney (born 1918)

  American actor.

  • 1974 Academy Award winner for his performance in Harry and Tonto
• Ronald Colman (born 1891, died 1958)

  English actor.

  • 1947 Academy Award winner for his performance in A Double Life
• Ray Milland (born 1908, died 1986)

  British-American actor and director. Original name: Reginald Truscott-Jones.

  • 1945 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Lost Weekend
• David Niven (born 1910, died 1983)

  Scottish actor.

  • 1958 Academy Award winner for his performance in Separate Tables
• George Arliss (born 1868, died 1946)

  English actor and writer.

  • 1930 Academy Award winner for his performance in Disraeli
• Warner Baxter (born 1889, died 1951)

  American actor.

  • 1929 Academy Award winner for his performance in In Old Arizona
• Wallace Beery (born 1885, died 1949)

  American actor.

  • 1932 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Champ
• Yul Brynner (born 1920, died 1985)

  Russian-born American actor best known for the role of the King of Siam in The King and I.

  • 1956 Academy Award winner for his performance in The King and I
• Gary Cooper (born 1901, died 1961)

  American actor.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actor: 1941, for Sergeant York; 1952, for High Noon
• Broderick Crawford (born 1911, died 1986)

  American actor.

  • 1949 Academy Award winner for his performance in All the King''s Men
• Bing Crosby (born 1904, died 1977)

  American singer and actor.

  • 1944 Academy Award winner for his performance in Going My Way
• Robert Donat (born 1905, died 1958)

  English actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1939 Academy Award winner for his performance in Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• José Ferrer (born 1912, died 1992)

  American actor.

  • 1950 Academy Award winner for his performance in Cyrano de Bergerac
• William Holden (born 1918, died 1981)

  American actor.

  • 1953 Academy Award winner for his performance in Stalag 17
• Burt Lancaster (born 1913, died 1994)

  American actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1960 Academy Award winner for his performance in Elmer Gantry
• Paul Lukas (born 1895, died 1971)

  Hungarian actor.

  • 1943 Academy Award winner for his performance in Watch on the Rhine
• Paul Muni (born 1895, died 1967)

  American actor. Original name: Muni Weisenfreund.

  • 1936 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Cliff Robertson (born 1925)

  American actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1968 Academy Award winner for his performance in Charly
• John Wayne (born 1907, died 1979)

  American actor and director, known as ''The Duke.'' Original name: Marion Morrison.

  • 1969 Academy Award winner for his performance in True Grit
• Emil Jannings (born 1884, died 1950)

  Swedish actor.

  • 1928 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Way of All Flesh
• Paul Newman (born 1925)

  American actor, director, producer and race-car driver.

  • 1986 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Color of Money
• Jack Nicholson (born 1937)

  American actor.

  • 1975 Academy Award winner for his performance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest; 1997 winner for As Good as It Gets
• Jon Voight (born 1938)

  American actor, writer and director.

  • 1978 Academy Award winner for his performance in Coming Home
• William Hurt (born 1950)

  American actor.

  • 1985 Academy Award winner for his performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Robert Duvall (born 1930)

  American actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1983 Academy Award winner for his performance in Tender Mercies
• Nicolas Cage (born 1964)

  American actor. Original name: Nicholas Coppola.

  • 1995 Academy Award winner for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas
• Ernest Borgnine (born 1917)

  American actor.

  • 1955 Academy Award winner for his performance in Marty
• Jack Lemmon (born 1925)

  American actor and comedian.

  • 1973 Academy Award winner for his performance in Save the Tiger
• Sidney Poitier (born 1924)

  American actor and director. First African American to win an Oscar for Best Actor.

  • 1963 Academy Award winner for his performance in Lilies of the Field
• Marlon Brando (born 1924)

  American actor.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner: 1954, for On the Waterfront; in 1972 he refused the award for The Godfather
• Alec Guinness (born 1914)

  British actor.

  • 1957 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Spencer Tracy (born 1900, died 1967)

  American actor.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actor: 1937, for Captains Courageous; 1938, for Boys Town
• Al Pacino (born 1940)

  American actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1992 Academy Award winner for his performance in Scent of a Woman
• Lionel Blythe Barrymore (born 1878, died 1954)

  American actor.

  • 1931 Academy Award winner for his performance in Free Soul
• Michael Douglas (born 1944)

  American actor and producer.

  • 1987 Academy Award winner for his performance in Wall Street
• Charlton Heston (born 1923)

  American actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1959 Academy Award winner for his performance in Ben-Hur
• George C. Scott (born 1927, died 1999)

  American actor, and the first person to refuse an Academy Award.

  • 1970 Academy Award winner for his performance in Patton (refused)
• Maximilian Schell (born 1930)

  Austrian actor, writer, director and producer.

  • 1961 Academy Award winner for his performance in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Anthony Hopkins (born 1937)

  Welsh actor.

  • 1991 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Silence of the Lambs
• Ben Kingsley (born 1943)

  English actor. Original name: Krishna Bhanji.

  • 1982 Academy Award winner for his performance in Gandhi
• F. Murray Abraham (born 1939)

  American actor.

  • 1984 Academy Award winner for his performance in Amadeus
• Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier of Brighton) (born 1907, died 1989)

  One of the English-speaking world's most revered actors; also a director and co-founder of the British National Theatre Company.

  • 1948 Academy Award winner for his performance in Hamlet
• Lee Marvin (born 1924, died 1987)

  American actor.

  • 1965 Academy Award winner for his performance in Cat Ballou
• Paul Scofield (born 1922)

  English actor and writer.

  • 1966 Academy Award winner for his performance in A Man for All Seasons
• Rod Steiger (born 1925)

  American actor.

  • 1967 Academy Award winner for his performance in In the Heat of the Night
• Gene Hackman (born 1930)

  American actor.

  • 1971 Academy Award winner for his performance in The French Connection
• Robert De Niro (born 1943)

  American actor, director and producer.

  • 1980 Academy Award winner for his performance in Raging Bull
• Peter Finch (born 1916, died 1977)

  English actor. Original name: William Mitchell.

  • 1976 Academy Award winner for his performance in Network
• Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947)

  American actor and producer.

  • 1977 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Goodbye Girl
• Dustin Hoffman (born 1937)

  American actor and producer.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actor: 1979, for Kramer vs. Kramer; 1988, for Rain Main
• Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957)

  English actor.

  • 1989 Academy Award winner for his performance in My Left Foot
• Jeremy Irons (born 1948)

  English actor.

  • 1990 Academy Award winner for his performance in Reversal of Fortune
• Kevin Spacey (born 1959)

  American actor, director and producer.

  • 1999 Academy Award winner for American Beauty
• Geoffrey Rush (born 1951)

  Australian actor.

  • 1996 Academy Award winner for his performance in Shine
• Roberto Benigni (born 1952)

  Italian actor, writer, director and producer

  • 1998 Academy Award winner for Life is Beautiful [Vita è bella, La (1997)]