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Academy Award Best Actor Flashcards

1
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1927/28

(1st)?

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Emil Jannings (playing Grand Duke Sergius Alexander August Schilling in The Last Command
The Way of All Flesh)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1928/29

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Warner Baxter (playing The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929/30

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George Arliss (playing Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1930/31

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Lionel Barrymore (playing Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1931/32

(5th)?

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Wallace Beery (playing Andy “Champ” Purcell in The Champ)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1931/32

(5th)?

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Fredric March (playing Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Edward Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1932/33

(6th)?

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Charles Laughton (playing King Henry VIII of England in The Private Life of Henry VIII)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1934

(7th)?

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Clark Gable (playing Peter Warne in It Happened One Night)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1935

(8th)?

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Victor McLaglen (playing Gypo Nolan in The Informer)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1936

(9th)?

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Paul Muni (playing Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1937

(10th)?

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Spencer Tracy (playing Manuel in Captains Courageous)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1938

(11th)?

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Spencer Tracy (playing Father Flanagan in Boys Town)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1939

(12th)?

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Robert Donat (playing Charles Edward Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1940

(13th)?

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James Stewart (playing Macaulay “Mike” Connor in The Philadelphia Story)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1941

(14th)?

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Gary Cooper (playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942

(15th)?

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James Cagney (playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1943

(16th)?

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Paul Lukas (playing Kurt Muller in Watch on the Rhine)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1944

(17th)?

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Bing Crosby (playing Father Chuck O’Malley in Going My Way)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1945

(18th)?

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Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1946

(19th)?

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Fredric March (playing Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1947

(20th)?

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Ronald Colman (playing Anthony John in A Double Life)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1948

(21st)?

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Laurence Olivier (playing Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Hamlet)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1949

(22nd)?

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Broderick Crawford (playing Willie Stark in All the King’s Men)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1950

(23rd)?

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José Ferrer (playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1951

(24th)?

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Humphrey Bogart (playing Charlie Allnut in The African Queen)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1952

(25th)?

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Gary Cooper (playing Marshal Will Kane in High Noon)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1953

(26th)?

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William Holden (playing Sgt. J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1954

(27th)?

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Marlon Brando (playing Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1955

(28th)?

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Ernest Borgnine (playing Marty Piletti in Marty)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1956

(29th)?

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Yul Brynner (playing King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1957

(30th)?

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Alec Guinness (playing Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1958

(31st)?

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David Niven (playing Major Angus Pollock in Separate Tables)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1959

(32nd)?

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Charlton Heston (playing Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1960

(33rd)?

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Burt Lancaster (playing Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1961

(34th)?

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Maximilian Schell (playing Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1962

(35th)?

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Gregory Peck (playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1963

(36th)?

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Sidney Poitier (playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1964

(37th)?

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Rex Harrison (playing Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1965

(38th)?

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Lee Marvin (playing Kid Shelleen Tim Strawn in Cat Ballou)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1966

(39th)?

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Paul Scofield (playing Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1967

(40th)?

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Rod Steiger (playing Police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1968

(41st)?

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Cliff Robertson (playing Charly Gordon in Charly)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1969

(42nd)?

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John Wayne (playing Rooster Cogburn in True Grit)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1970

(43rd)?

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George C. Scott (playing General George S. Patton, Jr. in Patton)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1971

(44th)?

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Gene Hackman (playing Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1972

(45th)?

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Marlon Brando (playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1973

(46th)?

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Jack Lemmon (playing Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1974

(47th)?

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Art Carney (playing Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1975

(48th)?

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Jack Nicholson (playing Randle Patrick “Mac” McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1976

(49th)?

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Peter Finch (posthumous win) (playing Howard Beale in Network)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1977

(50th)?

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Richard Dreyfuss (playing Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1978

(51st)?

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Jon Voight (playing Luke Martin in Coming Home)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1979

(52nd)?

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Dustin Hoffman (playing Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1980

(53rd)?

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Robert De Niro (playing Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1981

(54th)?

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Henry Fonda (playing Norman Thayer, Jr. in On Golden Pond)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1982

(55th)?

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Ben Kingsley (playing Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1983

(56th)?

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Robert Duvall (playing Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1984

(57th)?

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F. Murray Abraham (playing Antonio Salieri in Amadeus)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1985

(58th)?

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William Hurt (playing Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1986

(59th)?

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Paul Newman (playing Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1987

(60th)?

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Michael Douglas (playing Gordon Gekko in Wall Street)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1988

(61st)?

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Dustin Hoffman (playing Raymond Babbitt, aka Rain Man in Rain Man)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1989

(62nd)?

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Daniel Day-Lewis (playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1990

(63rd)?

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Jeremy Irons (playing Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1991

(64th)?

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Anthony Hopkins (playing Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992

(65th)?

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Al Pacino (playing Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1993

(66th)?

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Tom Hanks (playing Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1994

(67th)?

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Tom Hanks (playing Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1995

(68th)?

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Nicolas Cage (playing Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas)

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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1996

(69th)?

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Geoffrey Rush (playing David Helfgott in Shine)

71
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1997

(70th)?

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Jack Nicholson (playing Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets)

72
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1998

(71st)?

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Roberto Benigni (playing Guido Orefice in Life Is Beautiful)

73
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1999

(72nd)?

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Kevin Spacey (playing Lester Burnham in American Beauty)

74
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2000

(73rd)?

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Russell Crowe (playing Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator)

75
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2001

(74th)?

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Denzel Washington (playing Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day)

76
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2002

(75th)?

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Adrien Brody (playing Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist)

77
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2003

(76th)?

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Sean Penn (playing Jimmy Markum in Mystic River)

78
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2004

(77th)?

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Jamie Foxx (playing Ray Charles in Ray)

79
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2005

(78th)?

A

Philip Seymour Hoffman (playing Truman Capote in Capote)

80
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2006

(79th)?

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Forest Whitaker (playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland)

81
Q

Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2007

(80th)?

A

Daniel Day-Lewis (playing Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood)

82
Q

Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2008

(81st)?

A

Sean Penn (playing Harvey Milk in Milk)

83
Q

Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2009

(82nd)?

A

Jeff Bridges (playing Otis “Bad” Blake in Crazy Heart)

84
Q

Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2010

(83rd)?

A

Colin Firth (playing King George VI in The King’s Speech)

85
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2011

(84th)?

A

Jean Dujardin (playing George Valentin in The Artist)

86
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2012

(85th)?

A

Daniel Day-Lewis (playing Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln)

87
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2013 (86th)?

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Matthew McConaughey (playing Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club)

88
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For what role did Emil Jannings win Best Actor in 1927/28

(1st)?

A

Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
August Schilling in The Last Command
The Way of All Flesh

89
Q

For what role did Warner Baxter win Best Actor in 1928/29

(2nd)?

A

The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona

90
Q

For what role did George Arliss win Best Actor in 1929/30

(3rd)?

A

Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli

91
Q

For what role did Lionel Barrymore win Best Actor in 1930/31

(4th)?

A

Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul

92
Q

For what role did Wallace Beery win Best Actor in 1931/32

(5th)?

A

Andy “Champ” Purcell in The Champ

93
Q

For what role did Fredric March win Best Actor in 1931/32

(5th)?

A

Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Edward Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

94
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For what role did Charles Laughton win Best Actor in 1932/33

(6th)?

A

King Henry VIII of England in The Private Life of Henry VIII

95
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For what role did Clark Gable win Best Actor in 1934

(7th)?

A

Peter Warne in It Happened One Night

96
Q

For what role did Victor McLaglen win Best Actor in 1935

(8th)?

A

Gypo Nolan in The Informer

97
Q

For what role did Paul Muni win Best Actor in 1936

(9th)?

A

Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur

98
Q

For what role did Spencer Tracy win Best Actor in 1937

(10th)?

A

Manuel in Captains Courageous

99
Q

For what role did Spencer Tracy win Best Actor in 1938

(11th)?

A

Father Flanagan in Boys Town

100
Q

For what role did Robert Donat win Best Actor in 1939

(12th)?

A

Charles Edward Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips

101
Q

For what role did James Stewart win Best Actor in 1940

(13th)?

A

Macaulay “Mike” Connor in The Philadelphia Story

102
Q

For what role did Gary Cooper win Best Actor in 1941

(14th)?

A

Alvin C. York in Sergeant York

103
Q

For what role did James Cagney win Best Actor in 1942

(15th)?

A

George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy

104
Q

For what role did Paul Lukas win Best Actor in 1943

(16th)?

A

Kurt Muller in Watch on the Rhine

105
Q

For what role did Bing Crosby win Best Actor in 1944

(17th)?

A

Father Chuck O’Malley in Going My Way

106
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For what role did Ray Milland win Best Actor in 1945

(18th)?

A

Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend

107
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For what role did Fredric March win Best Actor in 1946

(19th)?

A

Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives

108
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For what role did Ronald Colman win Best Actor in 1947

(20th)?

A

Anthony John in A Double Life

109
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For what role did Laurence Olivier win Best Actor in 1948

(21st)?

A

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Hamlet

110
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For what role did Broderick Crawford win Best Actor in 1949

(22nd)?

A

Willie Stark in All the King’s Men

111
Q

For what role did José Ferrer win Best Actor in 1950

(23rd)?

A

Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac

112
Q

For what role did Humphrey Bogart win Best Actor in 1951

(24th)?

A

Charlie Allnut in The African Queen

113
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For what role did Gary Cooper win Best Actor in 1952

(25th)?

A

Marshal Will Kane in High Noon

114
Q

For what role did William Holden win Best Actor in 1953

(26th)?

A

Sgt. J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17

115
Q

For what role did Marlon Brando win Best Actor in 1954

(27th)?

A

Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront

116
Q

For what role did Ernest Borgnine win Best Actor in 1955

(28th)?

A

Marty Piletti in Marty

117
Q

For what role did Yul Brynner win Best Actor in 1956

(29th)?

A

King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I

118
Q

For what role did Alec Guinness win Best Actor in 1957

(30th)?

A

Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

119
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For what role did David Niven win Best Actor in 1958

(31st)?

A

Major Angus Pollock in Separate Tables

120
Q

For what role did Charlton Heston win Best Actor in 1959

(32nd)?

A

Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur

121
Q

For what role did Burt Lancaster win Best Actor in 1960

(33rd)?

A

Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry

122
Q

For what role did Maximilian Schell win Best Actor in 1961

(34th)?

A

Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg

123
Q

For what role did Gregory Peck win Best Actor in 1962

(35th)?

A

Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

124
Q

For what role did Sidney Poitier win Best Actor in 1963

(36th)?

A

Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field

125
Q

For what role did Rex Harrison win Best Actor in 1964

(37th)?

A

Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

126
Q

For what role did Lee Marvin win Best Actor in 1965

(38th)?

A

Kid Shelleen

Tim Strawn in Cat Ballou

127
Q

For what role did Paul Scofield win Best Actor in 1966

(39th)?

A

Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons

128
Q

For what role did Rod Steiger win Best Actor in 1967

(40th)?

A

Police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night

129
Q

For what role did Cliff Robertson win Best Actor in 1968

(41st)?

A

Charly Gordon in Charly

130
Q

For what role did John Wayne win Best Actor in 1969

(42nd)?

A

Rooster Cogburn in True Grit

131
Q

For what role did George C. Scott win Best Actor in 1970

(43rd)?

A

General George S. Patton, Jr. in Patton

132
Q

For what role did Gene Hackman win Best Actor in 1971

(44th)?

A

Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection

133
Q

For what role did Marlon Brando win Best Actor in 1972

(45th)?

A

Vito Corleone in The Godfather

134
Q

For what role did Jack Lemmon win Best Actor in 1973

(46th)?

A

Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger

135
Q

For what role did Art Carney win Best Actor in 1974

(47th)?

A

Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto

136
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For what role did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor in 1975

(48th)?

A

Randle Patrick “Mac” McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

137
Q

For what role did Peter Finch (posthumous win) win Best Actor in 1976
(49th)?

A

Howard Beale in Network

138
Q

For what role did Richard Dreyfuss win Best Actor in 1977

(50th)?

A

Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl

139
Q

For what role did Jon Voight win Best Actor in 1978

(51st)?

A

Luke Martin in Coming Home

140
Q

For what role did Dustin Hoffman win Best Actor in 1979

(52nd)?

A

Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer

141
Q

For what role did Robert De Niro win Best Actor in 1980

(53rd)?

A

Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull

142
Q

For what role did Henry Fonda win Best Actor in 1981

(54th)?

A

Norman Thayer, Jr. in On Golden Pond

143
Q

For what role did Ben Kingsley win Best Actor in 1982

(55th)?

A

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi

144
Q

For what role did Robert Duvall win Best Actor in 1983

(56th)?

A

Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies

145
Q

For what role did F. Murray Abraham win Best Actor in 1984

(57th)?

A

Antonio Salieri in Amadeus

146
Q

For what role did William Hurt win Best Actor in 1985

(58th)?

A

Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman

147
Q

For what role did Paul Newman win Best Actor in 1986

(59th)?

A

Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money

148
Q

For what role did Michael Douglas win Best Actor in 1987

(60th)?

A

Gordon Gekko in Wall Street

149
Q

For what role did Dustin Hoffman win Best Actor in 1988

(61st)?

A

Raymond Babbitt, aka Rain Man in Rain Man

150
Q

For what role did Daniel Day-Lewis win Best Actor in 1989

(62nd)?

A

Christy Brown in My Left Foot

151
Q

For what role did Jeremy Irons win Best Actor in 1990

(63rd)?

A

Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune

152
Q

For what role did Anthony Hopkins win Best Actor in 1991

(64th)?

A

Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

153
Q

For what role did Al Pacino win Best Actor in 1992

(65th)?

A

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman

154
Q

For what role did Tom Hanks win Best Actor in 1993

(66th)?

A

Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia

155
Q

For what role did Tom Hanks win Best Actor in 1994

(67th)?

A

Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump

156
Q

For what role did Nicolas Cage win Best Actor in 1995

(68th)?

A

Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas

157
Q

For what role did Geoffrey Rush win Best Actor in 1996

(69th)?

A

David Helfgott in Shine

158
Q

For what role did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor in 1997

(70th)?

A

Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets

159
Q

For what role did Roberto Benigni win Best Actor in 1998

(71st)?

A

Guido Orefice in Life Is Beautiful

160
Q

For what role did Kevin Spacey win Best Actor in 1999

(72nd)?

A

Lester Burnham in American Beauty

161
Q

For what role did Russell Crowe win Best Actor in 2000

(73rd)?

A

Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator

162
Q

For what role did Denzel Washington win Best Actor in 2001

(74th)?

A

Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day

163
Q

For what role did Adrien Brody win Best Actor in 2002

(75th)?

A

Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist

164
Q

For what role did Sean Penn win Best Actor in 2003

(76th)?

A

Jimmy Markum in Mystic River

165
Q

For what role did Jamie Foxx win Best Actor in 2004

(77th)?

A

Ray Charles in Ray

166
Q

For what role did Philip Seymour Hoffman win Best Actor in 2005
(78th)?

A

Truman Capote in Capote

167
Q

For what role did Forest Whitaker win Best Actor in 2006

(79th)?

A

Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland

168
Q

For what role did Daniel Day-Lewis win Best Actor in 2007

(80th)?

A

Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood

169
Q

For what role did Sean Penn win Best Actor in 2008

(81st)?

A

Harvey Milk in Milk

170
Q

For what role did Jeff Bridges win Best Actor in 2009

(82nd)?

A

Otis “Bad” Blake in Crazy Heart

171
Q

For what role did Colin Firth win Best Actor in 2010

(83rd)?

A

King George VI in The King’s Speech

172
Q

For what role did Jean Dujardin win Best Actor in 2011

(84th)?

A

George Valentin in The Artist

173
Q

For what role did Daniel Day-Lewis win Best Actor in 2012

(85th)?

A

Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln

174
Q

For what role did Matthew McConaughey win Best Actor in 2013 (86th)?

A

Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club

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