Oscar: Best Actor from 1927 to Present

2008: Milk (2008/I) - Sean Penn (I)

2007: There Will Be Blood (2007) - Daniel Day-Lewis

2006: Last King of Scotland, The (2006) - Forest Whitaker

2005: Capote (2005) - Philip Seymour Hoffman

2004: Jamie Foxx - Ray

2003: Sean Penn - Mystic River

2002: Adrien Brody - The Pianist

2001: Denzel Washington - Training Day

2000: Russell Crowe - Gladiator




1999: Kevin Spacey - American Beauty

1998: Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful

1997: Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets

1996: Geoffrey Rush - Shine

1995: Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas

1994: Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

1993: Tom Hanks - Philadelphia

1992: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman

1991: Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs

1990: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune

1989: Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot

1988: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man

1987: Michael Douglas - Wall Street

1986: Paul Newman - The Color of Money

1985: William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman

1984: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus

1983: Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies

1982: Ben Kingsley - Gandhi

1981: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond

1980: Robert De Niro - Raging Bull

1979: Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer

1978: Jon Voight - Coming Home

1977: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl

1976: Peter Finch - Network

1975: Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1974: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto

1973: Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger

1972: Marlon Brando - The Godfather

1971: Gene Hackman - The French Connection

1970: George C. Scott - Patton

1969: John Wayne - True Grit

1968: Cliff Robertson - Charly

1967: Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night

1966: Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons

1965: Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou

1964: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady

1963: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field

1962: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

1961: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg

1960: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry

1959: Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur

1958: David Niven - Separate Tables

1957: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai

1956: Yul Brynner - The King and I

1955: Ernest Borgnine - Marty

1954: Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront

1953: William Holden - Stalag 17

1952: Gary Cooper - High Noon

1951: Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen

1950: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac

1949: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men

1948: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet

1947: Ronald Colman - A Double Life

1946: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives

1945: Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend

1944: Bing Crosby - Going My Way

1943: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine

1942: James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy

1941: Gary Cooper - Sergeant York

1940: James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story

1939: Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1938: Spencer Tracy - Boys' Town

1937: Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous

1936: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur

1935: Victor McLaglen - The Informer

1934: Clark Gable - It Happened One Night

1932/33: Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII

1931/32: Wallace Beery - The Champ/Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1930/31: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul

1929/30: George Arliss - Disraeli

1928/29: Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona

1927/28: Emil Jannings - The Way of All Flesh (1927)