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The Best Actor award has been presented 96 times, to 86 actors. The first winner was German actor Emil Jannings for his roles in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927). [1] The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023), who simultaneously became the first Irish born actor to win this award.
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- Daniel Day-Lewis (3)
- Overview
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- 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)
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Mar 11, 2024 · Thumbnails. 1 of 98. Every Best Actor Oscar Winner. March 11, 2024, 12:43pm. The first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 had 13 categories. Now there are 24, and while the categories have changed...
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- 2023: Brendan Fraser, The Whale. Following a decades-long break from the industry, Oscar winner Fraser made a triumphant return in The Whale, which follows the story of a reclusive man trying to repair his relationship with his teen daughter.
- 2022: Will Smith, King Richard. Smith won his first Oscar in 2022 for his performance as Richard Williams — Venus and Serena's father — in King Richard.
- 2021: Anthony Hopkins, The Father. Hopkins became the oldest star to win the Best Actor title when he was awarded the prize for his performance in The Father at age 83.
- 2020: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker. Phoenix won the award for his role as the titular villain. The actor is currently filming the movie's sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux.
Schell ultimately won two more Oscar nominations for acting, in 1976 for Best Actor for The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) and in 1978 as Best Supporting Actor for Julia (1977) (which also brought him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor). He has twice been nominated for an Emmy for his TV work, and won the 1993 ...
2 days ago · Since then, actors who’ve won the Oscar multiple times include Daniel Day-Lewis ( My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln ), Tom Hanks ( Philadelphia, Forrest Gump ), Jack Nicholson ( One Flew...
Sep 10, 2023 · Academy Award for Best Actor History BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS. 2022 - Brendan Fraser (The Whale) 2021 - Will Smith (King Richard) 2020 - Anthony Hopkins (The Father) 2019 - Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) 2018 - Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) 2017 - Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) 2016 - Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) 2015 - Leonardo DiCaprio (The ...
