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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
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- 1940s and 1950s
- 1960s and 1970s
- 1980s and 1990s
- 2000s and 2010s
- 2020s
Academy Award for best actor, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honours the male actor in a leading role who delivered the most outstanding performance in a movie of a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. The prize was presented in 1929 at the ...
•1929: Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh [1927] and The Last Command [1928])
•1930: Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona [1928])
•1931: George Arliss (Disraeli [1929])
•1932: Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul [1931])
•1933: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1931]) and Wallace Beery (The Champ [1931])
•(All subsequent films were released the previous year.)
•1940: Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
•1941: James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
•1942: Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
•1943: James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
•1944: Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
•1945: Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
•1960: Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
•1961: Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
•1962: Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
•1963: Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
•1964: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
•1965: Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
•1980: Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
•1981: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
•1982: Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
•1983: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
•1984: Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
•1985: F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
•2000: Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
•2001: Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
•2002: Denzel Washington (Training Day)
•2003: Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
•2004: Sean Penn (Mystic River)
•2005: Jamie Foxx (Ray)
•2020: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
•2021: Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
•2022: Will Smith (King Richard)
•2023: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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