Academy Award Best Actor Flashcards
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1927/28
(1st)?
Emil Jannings (playing Grand Duke Sergius Alexander August Schilling in The Last Command The Way of All Flesh)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1928/29
(2nd)?
Warner Baxter (playing The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929/30
(3rd)?
George Arliss (playing Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1930/31
(4th)?
Lionel Barrymore (playing Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1931/32
(5th)?
Wallace Beery (playing Andy “Champ” Purcell in The Champ)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1931/32
(5th)?
Fredric March (playing Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Edward Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1932/33
(6th)?
Charles Laughton (playing King Henry VIII of England in The Private Life of Henry VIII)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1934
(7th)?
Clark Gable (playing Peter Warne in It Happened One Night)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1935
(8th)?
Victor McLaglen (playing Gypo Nolan in The Informer)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1936
(9th)?
Paul Muni (playing Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1937
(10th)?
Spencer Tracy (playing Manuel in Captains Courageous)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1938
(11th)?
Spencer Tracy (playing Father Flanagan in Boys Town)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1939
(12th)?
Robert Donat (playing Charles Edward Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1940
(13th)?
James Stewart (playing Macaulay “Mike” Connor in The Philadelphia Story)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1941
(14th)?
Gary Cooper (playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942
(15th)?
James Cagney (playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1943
(16th)?
Paul Lukas (playing Kurt Muller in Watch on the Rhine)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1944
(17th)?
Bing Crosby (playing Father Chuck O’Malley in Going My Way)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1945
(18th)?
Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1946
(19th)?
Fredric March (playing Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1947
(20th)?
Ronald Colman (playing Anthony John in A Double Life)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1948
(21st)?
Laurence Olivier (playing Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Hamlet)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1949
(22nd)?
Broderick Crawford (playing Willie Stark in All the King’s Men)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1950
(23rd)?
José Ferrer (playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1951
(24th)?
Humphrey Bogart (playing Charlie Allnut in The African Queen)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1952
(25th)?
Gary Cooper (playing Marshal Will Kane in High Noon)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1953
(26th)?
William Holden (playing Sgt. J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1954
(27th)?
Marlon Brando (playing Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1955
(28th)?
Ernest Borgnine (playing Marty Piletti in Marty)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1956
(29th)?
Yul Brynner (playing King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1957
(30th)?
Alec Guinness (playing Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1958
(31st)?
David Niven (playing Major Angus Pollock in Separate Tables)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1959
(32nd)?
Charlton Heston (playing Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1960
(33rd)?
Burt Lancaster (playing Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1961
(34th)?
Maximilian Schell (playing Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1962
(35th)?
Gregory Peck (playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1963
(36th)?
Sidney Poitier (playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1964
(37th)?
Rex Harrison (playing Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1965
(38th)?
Lee Marvin (playing Kid Shelleen Tim Strawn in Cat Ballou)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1966
(39th)?
Paul Scofield (playing Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1967
(40th)?
Rod Steiger (playing Police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1968
(41st)?
Cliff Robertson (playing Charly Gordon in Charly)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1969
(42nd)?
John Wayne (playing Rooster Cogburn in True Grit)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1970
(43rd)?
George C. Scott (playing General George S. Patton, Jr. in Patton)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1971
(44th)?
Gene Hackman (playing Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1972
(45th)?
Marlon Brando (playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1973
(46th)?
Jack Lemmon (playing Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1974
(47th)?
Art Carney (playing Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto)
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)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1976
(49th)?
Peter Finch (posthumous win) (playing Howard Beale in Network)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1977
(50th)?
Richard Dreyfuss (playing Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1978
(51st)?
Jon Voight (playing Luke Martin in Coming Home)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1979
(52nd)?
Dustin Hoffman (playing Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1980
(53rd)?
Robert De Niro (playing Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1981
(54th)?
Henry Fonda (playing Norman Thayer, Jr. in On Golden Pond)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1982
(55th)?
Ben Kingsley (playing Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1983
(56th)?
Robert Duvall (playing Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1984
(57th)?
F. Murray Abraham (playing Antonio Salieri in Amadeus)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1985
(58th)?
William Hurt (playing Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1986
(59th)?
Paul Newman (playing Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1987
(60th)?
Michael Douglas (playing Gordon Gekko in Wall Street)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1988
(61st)?
Dustin Hoffman (playing Raymond Babbitt, aka Rain Man in Rain Man)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1989
(62nd)?
Daniel Day-Lewis (playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1990
(63rd)?
Jeremy Irons (playing Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1991
(64th)?
Anthony Hopkins (playing Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992
(65th)?
Al Pacino (playing Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1993
(66th)?
Tom Hanks (playing Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1994
(67th)?
Tom Hanks (playing Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1995
(68th)?
Nicolas Cage (playing Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas)