Academy Award winner for Best Actor from 1929 to 2025

Oscar Best Actor Winners (1929–2025) – Complete List

Academy Award (Oscar) Winners for Best Actor (1929–2025)

Note: The Academy Awards began in 1929. The year listed refers to the ceremony year.

Complete List (Descending Order)

Ceremony Year Actor Winning Film
2025Cillian MurphyOppenheimer
2024Brendan FraserThe Whale
2023Austin ButlerElvis
2022Will SmithKing Richard
2021Anthony HopkinsThe Father
2020Joaquin PhoenixJoker
2019Rami MalekBohemian Rhapsody
2018Gary OldmanDarkest Hour
2017Casey AffleckManchester by the Sea
2016Leonardo DiCaprioThe Revenant
2015Eddie RedmayneThe Theory of Everything
2014Matthew McConaugheyDallas Buyers Club
2013Daniel Day-LewisLincoln
2012Jean DujardinThe Artist
2011Colin FirthThe King’s Speech
2010Jeff BridgesCrazy Heart
2009Sean PennMilk
2008Daniel Day-LewisThere Will Be Blood
2007Forest WhitakerThe Last King of Scotland
2006Philip Seymour HoffmanCapote
2005Jamie FoxxRay
2004Sean PennMystic River
2003Adrien BrodyThe Pianist
2002Denzel WashingtonTraining Day
2001Russell CroweGladiator
2000Kevin SpaceyAmerican Beauty
1999Roberto BenigniLife Is Beautiful
1998Jack NicholsonAs Good as It Gets
1997Geoffrey RushShine
1996Nicolas CageLeaving Las Vegas
1995Tom HanksForrest Gump
1994Tom HanksPhiladelphia
1993Al PacinoScent of a Woman
1992Anthony HopkinsThe Silence of the Lambs
1991Jeremy IronsReversal of Fortune
1990Dustin HoffmanRain Man
1989Michael DouglasWall Street
1988Paul NewmanThe Color of Money
1987Bob HoskinsMona Lisa
1986William HurtKiss of the Spider Woman
1985F. Murray AbrahamAmadeus
1984Robert DuvallTender Mercies
1983Ben KingsleyGandhi
1982Henry FondaOn Golden Pond
1981Robert De NiroRaging Bull
1980Dustin HoffmanKramer vs. Kramer
1979Jon VoightComing Home
1978Richard DreyfussThe Goodbye Girl
1977Peter FinchNetwork
1976Jack NicholsonOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1975Art CarneyHarry and Tonto
1974Jack LemmonSave the Tiger
1973Marlon BrandoThe Godfather
1972Gene HackmanThe French Connection
1971George C. ScottPatton
1970John WayneTrue Grit
1969Cliff RobertsonCharly
1968Rod SteigerIn the Heat of the Night
1967Paul ScofieldA Man for All Seasons
1966Lee MarvinCat Ballou
1965Rex HarrisonMy Fair Lady
1964Sidney PoitierLilies of the Field
1963Gregory PeckTo Kill a Mockingbird
1962Maximilian SchellJudgment at Nuremberg
1961Burt LancasterElmer Gantry
1960Charlton HestonBen-Hur
1959David NivenSeparate Tables
1958Alec GuinnessThe Bridge on the River Kwai
1957Yul BrynnerThe King and I
1956Ernest BorgnineMarty
1955Marlon BrandoOn the Waterfront
1954William HoldenStalag 17
1953Gary CooperHigh Noon
1952Humphrey BogartThe African Queen
1951José FerrerCyrano de Bergerac
1950Broderick CrawfordAll the King’s Men
1949Laurence OlivierHamlet
1948Ronald ColmanA Double Life
1947Fredric MarchThe Best Years of Our Lives
1946Ray MillandThe Lost Weekend
1945Bing CrosbyGoing My Way
1944Paul LukasWatch on the Rhine
1943James CagneyYankee Doodle Dandy
1942Gary CooperSergeant York
1941James StewartThe Philadelphia Story
1940Robert DonatGoodbye, Mr. Chips
1939Spencer TracyBoys Town
1938Spencer TracyCaptains Courageous
1937Paul MuniThe Story of Louis Pasteur
1936Victor McLaglenThe Informer
1935Clark GableIt Happened One Night
1934Charles LaughtonThe Private Life of Henry VIII
1933Fredric MarchDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1932Lionel BarrymoreA Free Soul
1931George ArlissDisraeli
1930Warner BaxterIn Old Arizona
1929Emil JanningsThe Last Command / The Way of All Flesh

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