All winners of Best Lead Actor in the history of the Oscars
All the winners of the Oscar for Best Actor
Over the course of 96 galas, 85 actors have won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. This means that only nine actors managed to win the Oscar twice, and one person is the reigning King of the Academy with three Oscars in his filmography. Can you guess who that is?
King of the Academy
Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for Best Actor three times: first, in 1990, for 'My Left Foot;' then, in 2008, for 'There Will Be Blood;' and finally, in 2013, for 'Lincoln.' But competition has been fierce. Click further to see who else won an Academy Award (or two) for Best Actor over the years.
2024 - Cillian Murphy
Oppenheimer
2023 - Brendan Fraser
The Whale
2022 - Will Smith
King Richard
2021 - Anthony Hopkins
The Father
2020 - Joaquin Phoenix
Joker
2019 - Rami Malek
Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 - Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour
2017 - Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea
2016 - Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant
2015 - Eddie Redmayne
The Theory of Everything
2014 - Matthew McConaughey
Dallas Buyers Club
2013 - Daniel Day-Lewis
Lincoln
2012 - Jean Dujardin
The Artist
2011 - Colin Firth
The King's Speech
2010 - Jeff Bridges
Crazy Heart
2009 - Sean Penn
Milk
2008 - Daniel Day-Lewis
There Will Be Blood
2007 - Forest Whitaker
The Last King of Scotland
2006 - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Capote
2005 - Jamie Foxx
Ray
2004 - Sean Penn
Mystic River
2003 - Adrien Brody
The Pianist
2002 - Denzel Washington
Training Day
2001 - Russell Crowe
Gladiator
2000 - Kevin Spacey
American Beauty
1999 - Roberto Benigni
La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful)
1998 - Jack Nicholson
As Good As It Gets
1997 - Geoffrey Rush
Shine
1996 - Nicolas Cage
Leaving Las Vegas
1995 - Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
1994 - Tom Hanks
Philadelphia
1993 - Al Pacino
Scent of a Woman
1992 - Anthony Hopkins
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 - Jeremy Irons
Reversal of Fortune
1990 - Daniel Day-Lewis
My Left Foot (the story of Christy Brown)
1989 - Dustin Hoffman
Rain Man
1988 - Michael Douglas
Wall Street
1987 - Paul Newman
The Color of Money
1986 - William Hurt
Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 - F. Murray Abraham
Amadeus
1984 - Robert Duvall
Tender Mercies
1983 - Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
1982 - Henry Fonda
On Golden Pond
1981 - Robert De Niro
Raging Bull
1980 - Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 - Jon Voight
Coming Home
1978 - Richard Dreyfuss
Goodbye Girl
1977 - Peter Finch
Network
1976 - Jack Nicholson
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 - Art Carney
Harry and Tonto
1974 - Jack Lemmon
Save the Tiger
1973 - Marlon Brando
The Godfather
1972 - Gene Hackman
The French Connection
1971 - George C. Scott
Patton
1970 - John Wayne
True Grit
1969 - Cliff Robertson
Charly
1968 - Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night
1967 - Paul Scofield
A Man for all Seasons
1966 - Lee Marvin
Cat Ballou
1965 - Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady
1964 - Sidney Poitier
Lilies of the Field
1963 - Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 - Maximilian Schell
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 - Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
1960 - Charlton Heston
Ben Hur
1959 - David Niven
Separate Tables
1958 - Alec Guinness
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 - Yul Brynner
The King and I
1956 - Ernest Borgnine
Marty
1955 - Marlon Brando
On the Waterfront
1954 - William Holden
Stalag 17
1953 - Gary Cooper
High Noon
1952 - Humphrey Bogart
The African Queen
1951 - Jose Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 - Broderick Crawford
All the King's Men
1949 - Laurence Olivier
Hamlet
1948 - Ronald Colman
A Double Life
1947 - Fredric March
The Best Years of our Lives
1946 - Ray Milland
The Lost Weekend
1945 - Bing Crosby
Going My Way
1944 - Paul Lukas
Watch on the Rhine
1943 - James Cagney
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 - Gary Cooper
Sergeant York
1941 - James Stewart
The Philadelphia Story
1940 - Robert Donat
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 - Spencer Tracy
Boys Town
1938 - Spencer Tracy
Captains Courageous
1937 - Paul Muni
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936 - Victor McLaglen
The Informer
1935 - Clark Gable
It Happened One Night
1934 - Charles Laughton
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933 - Fredric March and Wallace Beery
Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wallace Beery - The Champ (photo)
1932 - Lionel Barrymore
A Free Soul
1931 - George Arliss
The Green Goddess
1930 - Warner Baxter
In Old Arizona
1929 - Emil Jannings
The Last Command
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