Academy Award Best Actor Flashcards
1
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1927/28
(1st)?
A
Emil Jannings (playing Grand Duke Sergius Alexander August Schilling in The Last Command The Way of All Flesh)
2
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1928/29
(2nd)?
A
Warner Baxter (playing The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona)
3
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929/30
(3rd)?
A
George Arliss (playing Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli)
4
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1930/31
(4th)?
A
Lionel Barrymore (playing Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul)
5
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1931/32
(5th)?
A
Wallace Beery (playing Andy “Champ” Purcell in The Champ)
6
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1931/32
(5th)?
A
Fredric March (playing Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Edward Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
7
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1932/33
(6th)?
A
Charles Laughton (playing King Henry VIII of England in The Private Life of Henry VIII)
8
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1934
(7th)?
A
Clark Gable (playing Peter Warne in It Happened One Night)
9
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1935
(8th)?
A
Victor McLaglen (playing Gypo Nolan in The Informer)
10
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1936
(9th)?
A
Paul Muni (playing Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur)
11
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1937
(10th)?
A
Spencer Tracy (playing Manuel in Captains Courageous)
12
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1938
(11th)?
A
Spencer Tracy (playing Father Flanagan in Boys Town)
13
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1939
(12th)?
A
Robert Donat (playing Charles Edward Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
14
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1940
(13th)?
A
James Stewart (playing Macaulay “Mike” Connor in The Philadelphia Story)
15
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1941
(14th)?
A
Gary Cooper (playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York)
16
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942
(15th)?
A
James Cagney (playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy)
17
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1943
(16th)?
A
Paul Lukas (playing Kurt Muller in Watch on the Rhine)
18
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1944
(17th)?
A
Bing Crosby (playing Father Chuck O’Malley in Going My Way)
19
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1945
(18th)?
A
Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend)
20
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1946
(19th)?
A
Fredric March (playing Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives)
21
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1947
(20th)?
A
Ronald Colman (playing Anthony John in A Double Life)
22
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1948
(21st)?
A
Laurence Olivier (playing Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Hamlet)
23
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1949
(22nd)?
A
Broderick Crawford (playing Willie Stark in All the King’s Men)
24
Q
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1950
(23rd)?
A
José Ferrer (playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac)
25
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1951
| (24th)?
Humphrey Bogart (playing Charlie Allnut in The African Queen)
26
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1952
| (25th)?
Gary Cooper (playing Marshal Will Kane in High Noon)
27
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1953
| (26th)?
William Holden (playing Sgt. J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17)
28
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1954
| (27th)?
Marlon Brando (playing Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront)
29
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1955
| (28th)?
Ernest Borgnine (playing Marty Piletti in Marty)
30
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1956
| (29th)?
Yul Brynner (playing King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I)
31
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1957
| (30th)?
Alec Guinness (playing Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai)
32
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1958
| (31st)?
David Niven (playing Major Angus Pollock in Separate Tables)
33
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1959
| (32nd)?
Charlton Heston (playing Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur)
34
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1960
| (33rd)?
Burt Lancaster (playing Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry)
35
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1961
| (34th)?
Maximilian Schell (playing Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg)
36
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1962
| (35th)?
Gregory Peck (playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird)
37
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1963
| (36th)?
Sidney Poitier (playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field)
38
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1964
| (37th)?
Rex Harrison (playing Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady)
39
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1965
| (38th)?
Lee Marvin (playing Kid Shelleen Tim Strawn in Cat Ballou)
40
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1966
| (39th)?
Paul Scofield (playing Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons)
41
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1967
| (40th)?
Rod Steiger (playing Police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night)
42
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1968
| (41st)?
Cliff Robertson (playing Charly Gordon in Charly)
43
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1969
| (42nd)?
John Wayne (playing Rooster Cogburn in True Grit)
44
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1970
| (43rd)?
George C. Scott (playing General George S. Patton, Jr. in Patton)
45
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1971
| (44th)?
Gene Hackman (playing Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection)
46
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1972
| (45th)?
Marlon Brando (playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather)
47
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1973
| (46th)?
Jack Lemmon (playing Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger)
48
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1974
| (47th)?
Art Carney (playing Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto)
49
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1975
| (48th)?
Jack Nicholson (playing Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
50
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1976
| (49th)?
Peter Finch (posthumous win) (playing Howard Beale in Network)
51
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1977
| (50th)?
Richard Dreyfuss (playing Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl)
52
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1978
| (51st)?
Jon Voight (playing Luke Martin in Coming Home)
53
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1979
| (52nd)?
Dustin Hoffman (playing Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer)
54
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1980
| (53rd)?
Robert De Niro (playing Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull)
55
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1981
| (54th)?
Henry Fonda (playing Norman Thayer, Jr. in On Golden Pond)
56
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1982
| (55th)?
Ben Kingsley (playing Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi)
57
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1983
| (56th)?
Robert Duvall (playing Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies)
58
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1984
| (57th)?
F. Murray Abraham (playing Antonio Salieri in Amadeus)
59
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1985
| (58th)?
William Hurt (playing Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman)
60
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1986
| (59th)?
Paul Newman (playing Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money)
61
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1987
| (60th)?
Michael Douglas (playing Gordon Gekko in Wall Street)
62
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1988
| (61st)?
Dustin Hoffman (playing Raymond Babbitt, aka Rain Man in Rain Man)
63
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1989
| (62nd)?
Daniel Day-Lewis (playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot)
64
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1990
| (63rd)?
Jeremy Irons (playing Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune)
65
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1991
| (64th)?
Anthony Hopkins (playing Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs)
66
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992
| (65th)?
Al Pacino (playing Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman)
67
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1993
| (66th)?
Tom Hanks (playing Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia)
68
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1994
| (67th)?
Tom Hanks (playing Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump)
69
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1995
| (68th)?
Nicolas Cage (playing Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas)
70
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1996
| (69th)?
Geoffrey Rush (playing David Helfgott in Shine)
71
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1997
| (70th)?
Jack Nicholson (playing Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets)
72
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1998
| (71st)?
Roberto Benigni (playing Guido Orefice in Life Is Beautiful)
73
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1999
| (72nd)?
Kevin Spacey (playing Lester Burnham in American Beauty)
74
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2000
| (73rd)?
Russell Crowe (playing Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator)
75
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2001
| (74th)?
Denzel Washington (playing Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day)
76
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2002
| (75th)?
Adrien Brody (playing Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist)
77
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2003
| (76th)?
Sean Penn (playing Jimmy Markum in Mystic River)
78
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2004
| (77th)?
Jamie Foxx (playing Ray Charles in Ray)
79
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2005
| (78th)?
Philip Seymour Hoffman (playing Truman Capote in Capote)
80
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2006
| (79th)?
Forest Whitaker (playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland)
81
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2007
| (80th)?
Daniel Day-Lewis (playing Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood)
82
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2008
| (81st)?
Sean Penn (playing Harvey Milk in Milk)
83
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2009
| (82nd)?
Jeff Bridges (playing Otis "Bad" Blake in Crazy Heart)
84
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2010
| (83rd)?
Colin Firth (playing King George VI in The King's Speech)
85
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2011
| (84th)?
Jean Dujardin (playing George Valentin in The Artist)
86
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2012
| (85th)?
Daniel Day-Lewis (playing Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln)
87
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2013 (86th)?
Matthew McConaughey (playing Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club)
88
For what role did Emil Jannings win Best Actor in 1927/28
| (1st)?
Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
August Schilling in The Last Command
The Way of All Flesh
89
For what role did Warner Baxter win Best Actor in 1928/29
| (2nd)?
The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona
90
For what role did George Arliss win Best Actor in 1929/30
| (3rd)?
Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli
91
For what role did Lionel Barrymore win Best Actor in 1930/31
| (4th)?
Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul
92
For what role did Wallace Beery win Best Actor in 1931/32
| (5th)?
Andy "Champ" Purcell in The Champ
93
For what role did Fredric March win Best Actor in 1931/32
| (5th)?
Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Edward Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
94
For what role did Charles Laughton win Best Actor in 1932/33
| (6th)?
King Henry VIII of England in The Private Life of Henry VIII
95
For what role did Clark Gable win Best Actor in 1934
| (7th)?
Peter Warne in It Happened One Night
96
For what role did Victor McLaglen win Best Actor in 1935
| (8th)?
Gypo Nolan in The Informer
97
For what role did Paul Muni win Best Actor in 1936
| (9th)?
Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur
98
For what role did Spencer Tracy win Best Actor in 1937
| (10th)?
Manuel in Captains Courageous
99
For what role did Spencer Tracy win Best Actor in 1938
| (11th)?
Father Flanagan in Boys Town
100
For what role did Robert Donat win Best Actor in 1939
| (12th)?
Charles Edward Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips
101
For what role did James Stewart win Best Actor in 1940
| (13th)?
Macaulay "Mike" Connor in The Philadelphia Story
102
For what role did Gary Cooper win Best Actor in 1941
| (14th)?
Alvin C. York in Sergeant York
103
For what role did James Cagney win Best Actor in 1942
| (15th)?
George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
104
For what role did Paul Lukas win Best Actor in 1943
| (16th)?
Kurt Muller in Watch on the Rhine
105
For what role did Bing Crosby win Best Actor in 1944
| (17th)?
Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way
106
For what role did Ray Milland win Best Actor in 1945
| (18th)?
Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend
107
For what role did Fredric March win Best Actor in 1946
| (19th)?
Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives
108
For what role did Ronald Colman win Best Actor in 1947
| (20th)?
Anthony John in A Double Life
109
For what role did Laurence Olivier win Best Actor in 1948
| (21st)?
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Hamlet
110
For what role did Broderick Crawford win Best Actor in 1949
| (22nd)?
Willie Stark in All the King's Men
111
For what role did José Ferrer win Best Actor in 1950
| (23rd)?
Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac
112
For what role did Humphrey Bogart win Best Actor in 1951
| (24th)?
Charlie Allnut in The African Queen
113
For what role did Gary Cooper win Best Actor in 1952
| (25th)?
Marshal Will Kane in High Noon
114
For what role did William Holden win Best Actor in 1953
| (26th)?
Sgt. J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17
115
For what role did Marlon Brando win Best Actor in 1954
| (27th)?
Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront
116
For what role did Ernest Borgnine win Best Actor in 1955
| (28th)?
Marty Piletti in Marty
117
For what role did Yul Brynner win Best Actor in 1956
| (29th)?
King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I
118
For what role did Alec Guinness win Best Actor in 1957
| (30th)?
Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai
119
For what role did David Niven win Best Actor in 1958
| (31st)?
Major Angus Pollock in Separate Tables
120
For what role did Charlton Heston win Best Actor in 1959
| (32nd)?
Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur
121
For what role did Burt Lancaster win Best Actor in 1960
| (33rd)?
Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry
122
For what role did Maximilian Schell win Best Actor in 1961
| (34th)?
Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg
123
For what role did Gregory Peck win Best Actor in 1962
| (35th)?
Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
124
For what role did Sidney Poitier win Best Actor in 1963
| (36th)?
Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field
125
For what role did Rex Harrison win Best Actor in 1964
| (37th)?
Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
126
For what role did Lee Marvin win Best Actor in 1965
| (38th)?
Kid Shelleen
| Tim Strawn in Cat Ballou
127
For what role did Paul Scofield win Best Actor in 1966
| (39th)?
Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons
128
For what role did Rod Steiger win Best Actor in 1967
| (40th)?
Police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night
129
For what role did Cliff Robertson win Best Actor in 1968
| (41st)?
Charly Gordon in Charly
130
For what role did John Wayne win Best Actor in 1969
| (42nd)?
Rooster Cogburn in True Grit
131
For what role did George C. Scott win Best Actor in 1970
| (43rd)?
General George S. Patton, Jr. in Patton
132
For what role did Gene Hackman win Best Actor in 1971
| (44th)?
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection
133
For what role did Marlon Brando win Best Actor in 1972
| (45th)?
Vito Corleone in The Godfather
134
For what role did Jack Lemmon win Best Actor in 1973
| (46th)?
Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger
135
For what role did Art Carney win Best Actor in 1974
| (47th)?
Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto
136
For what role did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor in 1975
| (48th)?
Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
137
For what role did Peter Finch (posthumous win) win Best Actor in 1976
(49th)?
Howard Beale in Network
138
For what role did Richard Dreyfuss win Best Actor in 1977
| (50th)?
Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl
139
For what role did Jon Voight win Best Actor in 1978
| (51st)?
Luke Martin in Coming Home
140
For what role did Dustin Hoffman win Best Actor in 1979
| (52nd)?
Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
141
For what role did Robert De Niro win Best Actor in 1980
| (53rd)?
Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull
142
For what role did Henry Fonda win Best Actor in 1981
| (54th)?
Norman Thayer, Jr. in On Golden Pond
143
For what role did Ben Kingsley win Best Actor in 1982
| (55th)?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi
144
For what role did Robert Duvall win Best Actor in 1983
| (56th)?
Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies
145
For what role did F. Murray Abraham win Best Actor in 1984
| (57th)?
Antonio Salieri in Amadeus
146
For what role did William Hurt win Best Actor in 1985
| (58th)?
Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman
147
For what role did Paul Newman win Best Actor in 1986
| (59th)?
Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money
148
For what role did Michael Douglas win Best Actor in 1987
| (60th)?
Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
149
For what role did Dustin Hoffman win Best Actor in 1988
| (61st)?
Raymond Babbitt, aka Rain Man in Rain Man
150
For what role did Daniel Day-Lewis win Best Actor in 1989
| (62nd)?
Christy Brown in My Left Foot
151
For what role did Jeremy Irons win Best Actor in 1990
| (63rd)?
Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune
152
For what role did Anthony Hopkins win Best Actor in 1991
| (64th)?
Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs
153
For what role did Al Pacino win Best Actor in 1992
| (65th)?
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman
154
For what role did Tom Hanks win Best Actor in 1993
| (66th)?
Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia
155
For what role did Tom Hanks win Best Actor in 1994
| (67th)?
Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump
156
For what role did Nicolas Cage win Best Actor in 1995
| (68th)?
Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas
157
For what role did Geoffrey Rush win Best Actor in 1996
| (69th)?
David Helfgott in Shine
158
For what role did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor in 1997
| (70th)?
Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets
159
For what role did Roberto Benigni win Best Actor in 1998
| (71st)?
Guido Orefice in Life Is Beautiful
160
For what role did Kevin Spacey win Best Actor in 1999
| (72nd)?
Lester Burnham in American Beauty
161
For what role did Russell Crowe win Best Actor in 2000
| (73rd)?
Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator
162
For what role did Denzel Washington win Best Actor in 2001
| (74th)?
Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day
163
For what role did Adrien Brody win Best Actor in 2002
| (75th)?
Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist
164
For what role did Sean Penn win Best Actor in 2003
| (76th)?
Jimmy Markum in Mystic River
165
For what role did Jamie Foxx win Best Actor in 2004
| (77th)?
Ray Charles in Ray
166
For what role did Philip Seymour Hoffman win Best Actor in 2005
(78th)?
Truman Capote in Capote
167
For what role did Forest Whitaker win Best Actor in 2006
| (79th)?
Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
168
For what role did Daniel Day-Lewis win Best Actor in 2007
| (80th)?
Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
169
For what role did Sean Penn win Best Actor in 2008
| (81st)?
Harvey Milk in Milk
170
For what role did Jeff Bridges win Best Actor in 2009
| (82nd)?
Otis "Bad" Blake in Crazy Heart
171
For what role did Colin Firth win Best Actor in 2010
| (83rd)?
King George VI in The King's Speech
172
For what role did Jean Dujardin win Best Actor in 2011
| (84th)?
George Valentin in The Artist
173
For what role did Daniel Day-Lewis win Best Actor in 2012
| (85th)?
Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln
174
For what role did Matthew McConaughey win Best Actor in 2013 (86th)?
Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club
