1927/28 (1st)
ACTOR
* Emil Jannings -- The Last Command {"General Dolgorucki [Grand
Duke Sergius Alexander]"}; and The Way of All Flesh {"August
Schilling"}
SPECIAL AWARD
* To Charles Chaplin, for acting, writing, directing and producing
'The Circus.'
[NOTE: 'The Academy Board of Judges on merit awards for individual
achievements in motion picture arts during the year ending August 1,
1928, unanimously decided that your name should be removed from the
competitive classes, and that a special first award be conferred upon
you for writing, acting, directing and producing 'The Circus.' The
collective accomplishments thus displayed place you in a class by yourself.'
(Letter from the Academy to Mr. Chaplin, dated February 19, 1929.)]
1928/29 (2nd)
ACTOR
* Warner Baxter -- In Old Arizona {"The Cisco Kid"}
[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements
of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention,
and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on
April 3, 1930.]
1929/30 (3rd)
ACTOR
* George Arliss -- Disraeli {"Benjamin Disraeli"}
[NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination
could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot
listed both 'Disraeli' and 'The Green Goddess' in his nomination, the
award was announced for only the 'Disraeli' performance. It has never
been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been
because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges
only listed the 'Disraeli' performance in the results of the nominations
voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots,
the voters had indicated the 'Disraeli' performance over the other.]
1930/31 (4th)
ACTOR
* Lionel Barrymore -- A Free Soul {"Stephen Ashe"}
1931/32 (5th)
ACTOR
* Wallace Beery -- The Champ {"Champ"}
[NOTE: A tie. Mr. Beery had one vote less than Fredric March ('Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'), and rules at the time stated that if any achievement
came within three votes of the First Award, it would be considered
a tie.]
* Fredric March -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde {"Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr.
Hyde"}
[NOTE: A tie. Wallace Beery ('The Champ') had one vote less than Mr.
March, and rules at the time stated that if any achievement came within
three votes of the First Award, it would be considered a tie.]
1932/33 (6th)
ACTOR
* Charles Laughton -- The Private Life of Henry VIII {"Henry VIII"}
1934 (7th)
ACTOR
* Clark Gable -- It Happened One Night {"Peter Warne"}
1935 (8th)
ACTOR
* Victor McLaglen -- The Informer {"Gypo Nolan"}
1936 (9th)
ACTOR
* Paul Muni -- The Story of Louis Pasteur {"Louis Pasteur"}
1937 (10th)
ACTOR
* Spencer Tracy -- Captains Courageous {"Manuel"}
1938 (11th)
ACTOR
* Spencer Tracy -- Boys Town {"Father Flanagan"}
1939 (12th)
ACTOR
* Robert Donat -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips {"Arthur Chipping"}
1940 (13th)
ACTOR
* James Stewart -- The Philadelphia Story {"Mike Connor"}
1941 (14th)
ACTOR
* Gary Cooper -- Sergeant York {"Alvin C. York"}
1942 (15th)
ACTOR
* James Cagney -- Yankee Doodle Dandy {"George M. Cohan"}
1943 (16th)
ACTOR
* Paul Lukas -- Watch on the Rhine {"Kurt Muller"}
1944 (17th)
ACTOR
* Bing Crosby -- Going My Way {"Father O'Malley"}
1945 (18th)
ACTOR
* Ray Milland -- The Lost Weekend {"Don Birnam"}
1946 (19th)
ACTOR
* Fredric March -- The Best Years of Our Lives {"Al Stephenson"}
1947 (20th)
ACTOR
* Ronald Colman -- A Double Life {"Anthony John"}
1948 (21st)
ACTOR
* Laurence Olivier -- Hamlet {"Hamlet"}
1949 (22nd)
ACTOR
* Broderick Crawford -- All the King's Men {"Willie Stark"}
1950 (23rd)
ACTOR
* Jose Ferrer -- Cyrano de Bergerac {"Cyrano de Bergerac"}
1951 (24th)
ACTOR
* Humphrey Bogart -- The African Queen {"Charlie Allnut"}
1952 (25th)
ACTOR
* Gary Cooper -- High Noon {"Will Kane"}
1953 (26th)
ACTOR
* William Holden -- Stalag 17 {"Sefton"}
1954 (27th)
ACTOR
* Marlon Brando -- On the Waterfront {"Terry Malloy"}
1955 (28th)
ACTOR
* Ernest Borgnine -- Marty {"Marty Pilletti"}
1956 (29th)
ACTOR
* Yul Brynner -- The King and I {"The King"}
1957 (30th)
ACTOR
* Alec Guinness -- The Bridge on the River Kwai {"Colonel Nicholson"}
1958 (31st)
ACTOR
* David Niven -- Separate Tables {"Major Pollock"}
1959 (32nd)
ACTOR
* Charlton Heston -- Ben-Hur {"Judah Ben-Hur"}
1960 (33rd)
ACTOR
* Burt Lancaster -- Elmer Gantry {"Elmer Gantry"}
1961 (34th)
ACTOR
* Maximilian Schell -- Judgment at Nuremberg {"Hans Rolfe"}
1962 (35th)
ACTOR
* Gregory Peck -- To Kill a Mockingbird {"Atticus Finch"}
1963 (36th)
ACTOR
* Sidney Poitier -- Lilies of the Field {"Homer Smith"}
1964 (37th)
ACTOR
* Rex Harrison -- My Fair Lady {"Professor Henry Higgins"}
1965 (38th)
ACTOR
* Lee Marvin -- Cat Ballou {"Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn"}
1966 (39th)
ACTOR
* Paul Scofield -- A Man for All Seasons {"Sir Thomas More"}
1967 (40th)
ACTOR
* Rod Steiger -- In the Heat of the Night {"Police Chief Bill
Gillespie"}
1968 (41st)
ACTOR
* Cliff Robertson -- Charly {"Charly Gordon"}
1969 (42nd)
ACTOR
* John Wayne -- True Grit {"Rooster Cogburn"}
1970 (43rd)
ACTOR
* George C. Scott -- Patton {"General George S. Patton, Jr."}
[NOTE: Mr. Scott refused the award.]
1971 (44th)
ACTOR
* Gene Hackman -- The French Connection {"Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle"}
1972 (45th)
ACTOR
* Marlon Brando -- The Godfather {"Don Vito Corleone"}
[NOTE: Mr. Brando refused the award.]
1973 (46th)
ACTOR
* Jack Lemmon -- Save the Tiger {"Harry Stoner"}
1974 (47th)
ACTOR
* Art Carney -- Harry and Tonto {"Harry"}
1975 (48th)
ACTOR
* Jack Nicholson -- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest {"Randle Patrick
McMurphy"}
1976 (49th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Peter Finch -- Network {"Howard Beale"}
1977 (50th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Richard Dreyfuss -- The Goodbye Girl {"Elliot Garfield"}
1978 (51st)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Jon Voight -- Coming Home {"Luke Martin"}
1979 (52nd)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Dustin Hoffman -- Kramer vs. Kramer {"Ted Kramer"}
1980 (53rd)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Robert De Niro -- Raging Bull {"Jake LaMotta"}
1981 (54th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Henry Fonda -- On Golden Pond {"Norman Thayer, Jr."}
1982 (55th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Ben Kingsley -- Gandhi {"Mahatma Gandhi"}
1983 (56th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Robert Duvall -- Tender Mercies {"Mac Sledge"}
1984 (57th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* F. Murray Abraham -- Amadeus {"Antonio Salieri"}
1985 (58th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* William Hurt -- Kiss of the Spider Woman {"Luis Molina"}
1986 (59th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Paul Newman -- The Color of Money {"Eddie Felson"}
1987 (60th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Michael Douglas -- Wall Street {"Gordon Gekko"}
1988 (61st)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Dustin Hoffman -- Rain Man {"Raymond Babbitt"}
1989 (62nd)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Daniel Day-Lewis -- My Left Foot {"Christy Brown"}
1990 (63rd)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Jeremy Irons -- Reversal of Fortune {"Claus Von Bulow"}
1991 (64th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Anthony Hopkins -- The Silence of the Lambs {"Dr. Hannibal Lecter"}
1992 (65th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Al Pacino -- Scent of a Woman {"Lt. Col. Frank Slade"}
1993 (66th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Tom Hanks -- Philadelphia {"Andrew Beckett"}
1994 (67th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Tom Hanks -- Forrest Gump {"Forrest Gump"}
1995 (68th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Nicolas Cage -- Leaving Las Vegas {"Ben Sanderson"}
1996 (69th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Geoffrey Rush -- Shine {"David Helfgott"}
1997 (70th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Jack Nicholson -- As Good As It Gets {"Melvin Udall"}
1998 (71st)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Roberto Benigni -- Life Is Beautiful {"Guido"}
1999 (72nd)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Kevin Spacey -- American Beauty {"Lester Burnham"}
2000 (73rd)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Russell Crowe -- Gladiator {"Maximus Decimus Meridius"}
2001 (74th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Denzel Washington -- Training Day {"Alonzo"}
2002 (75th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Adrien Brody -- The Pianist {"Wladyslaw Szpilman"}
2003 (76th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Sean Penn -- Mystic River {"Jimmy Markum"}
2004 (77th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Jamie Foxx -- Ray {"Ray Charles"}
2005 (78th)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Philip Seymour Hoffman -- Capote {"Truman Capote"}
