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Rami Malek, winner 2018
The Academy Award for Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Prior to the 49th Academy Awards ceremony (1976), this award was simply known as the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actor. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar for Best Actor. While actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.
History
In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year. At the ceremony held in 2013 for films of 2012, Daniel Day-Lewis became the first actor to win in this category three times, surpassing Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn and Spencer Tracy who all have two wins. Tracy and Laurence Olivier have been nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor.
| Best Actor By Decade |
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1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s |
1st Academy Awards (1927/28)
- Winner
- Emil Jannings — The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh
- Nominees
- Richard Barthelmess — The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid
- Winner (Special Award)
- Charles Chaplin, for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus[1]
2nd Academy Awards (1928/29)
- Winner
- Warner Baxter — In Old Arizona[2]
- Nominees
- George Bancroft — Thunderbolt[2]
- Chester Morris — Alibi[2]
- Paul Muni — The Valiant[2]
- Lewis Stone — The Patriot[2]
3rd Academy Awards (1929/30)
- Winner
- George Arliss — Disraeli[3]
- Nominees
- George Arliss — The Green Goddess[3]
- Wallace Beery — The Big House
- Maurice Chevalier — The Big Pond and The Love Parade
- Ronald Colman — Bulldog Drummond and Condemned
- Lawrence Tibbett — The Rogue Song
1930s
4th Academy Awards (1930/31)
- Winner
- Lionel Barrymore — A Free Soul
- Nominees
- Jackie Cooper — Skippy
- Richard Dix — Cimarron
- Fredric March — The Royal Family of Broadway
- Adolphe Menjou — The Front Page
5th Academy Awards (1931/32)
- Winner
- Wallace Beery — The Champ[4] and
Fredric March — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Nominees
- Alfred Lunt — The Guardsman
6th Academy Awards (1932/33)
- Winner
- Charles Laughton — The Private Life of Henry VIII
- Nominees
- Leslie Howard — Berkeley Square(came in 3rd)
- Paul Muni — I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang(came in 2nd)
7th Academy Awards (1934)
- Winner
- Clark Gable — It Happened One Night
- Nominees
- Frank Morgan — The Affairs of Cellini(came in 2nd)
- William Powell — The Thin Man(came in 3rd)
8th Academy Awards (1935)
- Winner
- Victor McLaglen — The Informer
- Nominees
- Clark Gable — Mutiny on the Bounty
- Charles Laughton — Mutiny on the Bounty(came in 3rd)
- Paul Muni — Black Fury(came in 2nd)[5]
- Franchot Tone — Mutiny on the Bounty
9th Academy Awards (1936)
- Winner
- Paul Muni — The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Nominees
- Gary Cooper — Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Walter Huston — Dodsworth
- William Powell — My Man Godfrey
- Spencer Tracy — San Francisco
10th Academy Awards (1937)
- Winner
- Spencer Tracy — Captains Courageous
- Nominees
- Charles Boyer — Conquest
- Fredric March — A Star Is Born
- Robert Montgomery — Night Must Fall
- Paul Muni — The Life of Emile Zola
11th Academy Awards (1938)
- Winner
- Spencer Tracy — Boys Town
- Nominees
- Charles Boyer — Algiers
- James Cagney — Angels with Dirty Faces
- Robert Donat — The Citadel
- Leslie Howard — Pygmalion
12th Academy Awards (1939)
- Winner
- Robert Donat — Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Nominees
- Clark Gable — Gone with the Wind
- Laurence Olivier — Wuthering Heights
- Mickey Rooney — Babes in Arms
- James Stewart — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940s
13th Academy Awards (1940)
- Winner
- James Stewart — The Philadelphia Story
- Nominees
- Charles Chaplin — The Great Dictator
- Henry Fonda — The Grapes of Wrath
- Raymond Massey — Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Laurence Olivier — Rebecca
14th Academy Awards (1941)
- Winner
- Gary Cooper — Sergeant York
- Nominees
- Cary Grant — Penny Serenade
- Walter Huston — All That Money Can Buy
- Robert Montgomery — Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- Orson Welles — Citizen Kane
15th Academy Awards (1942)
- Winner
- James Cagney — Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Nominees
- Ronald Colman — Random Harvest
- Gary Cooper — The Pride of the Yankees
- Walter Pidgeon — Mrs. Miniver
- Monty Woolley — The Pied Piper
16th Academy Awards (1943)
- Winner
- Paul Lukas — Watch on the Rhine
- Nominees
- Humphrey Bogart — Casablanca
- Gary Cooper — For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Walter Pidgeon — Madame Curie
- Mickey Rooney — The Human Comedy
17th Academy Awards (1944)
- Winner
- Bing Crosby — Going My Way
- Nominees
- Charles Boyer — Gaslight
- Barry Fitzgerald — Going My Way
- Cary Grant — None but the Lonely Heart
- Alexander Knox — Wilson
18th Academy Awards (1945)
- Winner
- Ray Milland — The Lost Weekend
- Nominees
- Bing Crosby — The Bells of St. Mary's
- Gene Kelly — Anchors Aweigh
- Gregory Peck — The Keys of the Kingdom
- Cornel Wilde — A Song to Remember
19th Academy Awards (1946)
- Winner
- Fredric March — The Best Years of Our Lives
- Nominees
- Laurence Olivier — Henry V
- Larry Parks — The Jolson Story
- Gregory Peck — The Yearling
- James Stewart — It's a Wonderful Life
20th Academy Awards (1947)
- Winner
- Ronald Colman — A Double Life
- Nominees
- John Garfield — Body and Soul
- Gregory Peck — Gentleman's Agreement
- William Powell — Life with Father
- Michael Redgrave — Mourning Becomes Electra
21st Academy Awards (1948)
- Winner
- Laurence Olivier — Hamlet
- Nominees
- Lew Ayres — Johnny Belinda
- Montgomery Clift — The Search
- Dan Dailey — When My Baby Smiles at Me
- Clifton Webb — Sitting Pretty
22nd Academy Awards (1949)
- Winner
- Broderick Crawford — All the King's Men
- Nominees
- Kirk Douglas — Champion
- Gregory Peck — Twelve O'Clock High
- Richard Todd — The Hasty Heart
- John Wayne — Sands of Iwo Jima
1950s
23rd Academy Awards (1950)
- Winner
- José Ferrer — Cyrano de Bergerac
- Nominees
- Louis Calhern — The Magnificent Yankee
- William Holden — Sunset Blvd.
- James Stewart — Harvey
- Spencer Tracy — Father of the Bride
24th Academy Awards (1951)
- Winner
- Humphrey Bogart — The African Queen
- Nominees
- Marlon Brando — A Streetcar Named Desire
- Montgomery Clift — A Place in the Sun
- Arthur Kennedy — Bright Victory
- Fredric March — Death of a Salesman
25th Academy Awards (1952)
- Winner
- Gary Cooper — High Noon
- Nominees
- Marlon Brando — Viva Zapata!
- Kirk Douglas — The Bad and the Beautiful
- José Ferrer — Moulin Rouge
- Alec Guinness — The Lavender Hill Mob
26th Academy Awards (1953)
- Winner
- William Holden — Stalag 17
- Nominees
- Marlon Brando — Julius Caesar
- Richard Burton — The Robe
- Montgomery Clift — From Here to Eternity
- Burt Lancaster — From Here to Eternity
27th Academy Awards (1954)
- Winner
- Marlon Brando — On the Waterfront
- Nominees
- Humphrey Bogart — The Caine Mutiny
- Bing Crosby — The Country Girl
- James Mason — A Star Is Born
- Dan O'Herlihy — Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
28th Academy Awards (1955)
- Winner
- Ernest Borgnine — Marty
- Nominees
- James Cagney — Love Me or Leave Me
- James Dean — East of Eden
- Frank Sinatra — The Man with the Golden Arm
- Spencer Tracy — Bad Day at Black Rock
29th Academy Awards (1956)
- Winner
- Yul Brynner — The King and I
- Nominees
- James Dean — Giant
- Kirk Douglas — Lust for Life
- Rock Hudson — Giant
- Laurence Olivier — Richard III
30th Academy Awards (1957)
- Winner
- Alec Guinness — The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Nominees
- Marlon Brando — Sayonara
- Anthony Franciosa — A Hatful of Rain
- Charles Laughton — Witness for the Prosecution
- Anthony Quinn — Wild Is the Wind
31st Academy Awards (1958)
- Winner
- David Niven — Separate Tables
- Nominees
- Tony Curtis — The Defiant Ones
- Paul Newman — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Sidney Poitier — The Defiant Ones
- Spencer Tracy — The Old Man and the Sea
32nd Academy Awards (1959)
- Winner
- Charlton Heston — Ben-Hur
- Nominees
- Laurence Harvey — Room at the Top
- Jack Lemmon — Some Like It Hot
- Paul Muni — The Last Angry Man
- James Stewart — Anatomy of a Murder
1960s
33rd Academy Awards (1960)
- Winner
- Burt Lancaster — Elmer Gantry
- Nominees
- Trevor Howard — Sons and Lovers
- Jack Lemmon — The Apartment
- Laurence Olivier — The Entertainer
- Spencer Tracy — Inherit the Wind
34th Academy Awards (1961)
- Winner
- Maximilian Schell — Judgment at Nuremberg
- Nominees
- Charles Boyer — Fanny
- Paul Newman — The Hustler
- Spencer Tracy — Judgment at Nuremberg
- Stuart Whitman — The Mark
35th Academy Awards (1962)
- Winner
- Gregory Peck — To Kill a Mockingbird
- Nominees
- Burt Lancaster — Birdman of Alcatraz
- Jack Lemmon — Days of Wine and Roses
- Marcello Mastroianni — Divorce--Italian Style
- Peter O'Toole — Lawrence of Arabia
36th Academy Awards (1963)
- Winner
- Sidney Poitier — Lilies of the Field
- Nominees
- Albert Finney — Tom Jones
- Richard Harris — This Sporting Life
- Rex Harrison — Cleopatra
- Paul Newman — Hud
37th Academy Awards (1964)
- Winner
- Rex Harrison — My Fair Lady
- Nominees
- Richard Burton — Becket
- Peter O'Toole — Becket
- Anthony Quinn — Zorba the Greek
- Peter Sellers — Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
38th Academy Awards (1965)
- Winner
- Lee Marvin — Cat Ballou
- Nominees
- Richard Burton — The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
- Laurence Olivier — Othello
- Rod Steiger — The Pawnbroker
- Oskar Werner — Ship of Fools
39th Academy Awards (1966)
- Winner
- Paul Scofield — A Man for All Seasons
- Nominees
- Alan Arkin — The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
- Richard Burton — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Michael Caine — Alfie
- Steve McQueen — The Sand Pebbles
40th Academy Awards (1967)
- Winner
- Rod Steiger — In the Heat of the Night
- Nominees
- Warren Beatty — Bonnie and Clyde
- Dustin Hoffman — The Graduate
- Paul Newman — Cool Hand Luke
- Spencer Tracy — Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
41st Academy Awards (1968)
- Winner
- Cliff Robertson — Charly
- Nominees
- Alan Arkin — The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Alan Bates — The Fixer
- Ron Moody — Oliver!
- Peter O'Toole — The Lion in Winter
42nd Academy Awards (1969)
- Winner
- John Wayne — True Grit
- Nominees
- Richard Burton — Anne of the Thousand Days
- Dustin Hoffman — Midnight Cowboy
- Peter O'Toole — Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Jon Voight — Midnight Cowboy
1970s
43rd Academy Awards (1970)
- Winner
- George C. Scott — Patton[6]
- Nominees
- Melvyn Douglas — I Never Sang for My Father
- James Earl Jones — The Great White Hope
- Jack Nicholson — Five Easy Pieces
- Ryan O'Neal — Love Story
44th Academy Awards (1971)
- Winner
- Gene Hackman — The French Connection
- Nominees
- Peter Finch — Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Walter Matthau — Kotch
- George C. Scott — The Hospital
- Topol — Fiddler on the Roof
45th Academy Awards (1972)
- Winner
- Marlon Brando — The Godfather[7]
- Nominees
- Michael Caine — Sleuth
- Laurence Olivier — Sleuth
- Peter O'Toole — The Ruling Class
- Paul Winfield — Sounder
46th Academy Awards (1973)
- Winner
- Jack Lemmon — Save the Tiger
- Nominees
- Marlon Brando — Last Tango in Paris
- Jack Nicholson — The Last Detail
- Al Pacino — Serpico
- Robert Redford — The Sting
47th Academy Awards (1974)
- Winner
- Art Carney — Harry and Tonto
- Nominees
- Albert Finney — Murder on the Orient Express
- Dustin Hoffman — Lenny
- Jack Nicholson — Chinatown
- Al Pacino — The Godfather Part II
48th Academy Awards (1975)
- Winner
- Jack Nicholson — One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Nominees
- Walter Matthau — The Sunshine Boys
- Al Pacino — Dog Day Afternoon
- Maximilian Schell — The Man in the Glass Booth
- James Whitmore — Give 'em Hell, Harry!
49th Academy Awards (1976)
- Winner
- Peter Finch — Network
- Nominees
- Robert De Niro — Taxi Driver
- Giancarlo Giannini — Seven Beauties
- William Holden — Network
- Sylvester Stallone — Rocky
50th Academy Awards (1977)
- Winner
- Richard Dreyfuss — The Goodbye Girl
- Nominees
- Woody Allen — Annie Hall
- Richard Burton — Equus
- Marcello Mastroianni — A Special Day
- John Travolta — Saturday Night Fever
51st Academy Awards (1978)
- Winner
- Jon Voight — Coming Home
- Nominees
- Warren Beatty — Heaven Can Wait
- Gary Busey — The Buddy Holly Story
- Robert De Niro — The Deer Hunter
- Laurence Olivier — The Boys from Brazil
52nd Academy Awards (1979)
- Winner
- Dustin Hoffman — Kramer vs. Kramer
- Nominees
- Jack Lemmon — The China Syndrome
- Al Pacino — ...And Justice for All
- Roy Scheider — All That Jazz
- Peter Sellers — Being There
1980s
53rd Academy Awards (1980)
- Winner
- Robert De Niro — Raging Bull
- Nominees
- Robert Duvall — The Great Santini
- John Hurt — The Elephant Man
- Jack Lemmon — Tribute
- Peter O'Toole — The Stunt Man
54th Academy Awards (1981)
- Winner
- Henry Fonda — On Golden Pond
- Nominees
- Warren Beatty — Reds
- Burt Lancaster — Atlantic City
- Dudley Moore — Arthur
- Paul Newman — Absence of Malice
55th Academy Awards (1982)
- Winner
- Ben Kingsley — Gandhi
- Nominees
- Dustin Hoffman — Tootsie
- Jack Lemmon — Missing
- Paul Newman — The Verdict
- Peter O'Toole — My Favorite Year
56th Academy Awards (1983)
- Winner
- Robert Duvall — Tender Mercies
- Nominees
- Michael Caine — Educating Rita
- Tom Conti — Reuben, Reuben
- Tom Courtenay — The Dresser
- Albert Finney — The Dresser
57th Academy Awards (1984)
- Winner
- F. Murray Abraham — Amadeus
- Nominees
- Jeff Bridges — Starman
- Albert Finney — Under the Volcano
- Tom Hulce — Amadeus
- Sam Waterston — The Killing Fields
58th Academy Awards (1985)
- Winner
- William Hurt — Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Nominees
- Harrison Ford — Witness
- James Garner — Murphy's Romance
- Jack Nicholson — Prizzi's Honor
- Jon Voight — Runaway Train
59th Academy Awards (1986)
- Winner
- Paul Newman — The Color of Money
- Nominees
- Dexter Gordon — 'Round Midnight
- Bob Hoskins — Mona Lisa
- William Hurt — Children of a Lesser God
- James Woods — Salvador
60th Academy Awards (1987)
- Winner
- Michael Douglas — Wall Street
- Nominees
- William Hurt — Broadcast News
- Marcello Mastroianni — Dark Eyes
- Jack Nicholson — Ironweed
- Robin Williams — Good Morning, Vietnam
61st Academy Awards (1988)
- Winner
- Dustin Hoffman — Rain Man
- Nominees
- Gene Hackman — Mississippi Burning
- Tom Hanks — Big
- Edward James Olmos — Stand and Deliver
- Max von Sydow — Pelle the Conqueror
62nd Academy Awards (1989)
- Winner
- Daniel Day Lewis — My Left Foot
- Nominees
- Kenneth Branagh — Henry V
- Tom Cruise — Born on the Fourth of July
- Morgan Freeman — Driving Miss Daisy
- Robin Williams — Dead Poets Society
1990s
63rd Academy Awards (1990)
- Winner
- Jeremy Irons — Reversal of Fortune
- Nominees
- Kevin Costner — Dances With Wolves
- Robert De Niro — Awakenings
- Gerard Depardieu — Cyrano de Bergerac
- Richard Harris — The Field
64th Academy Awards (1991)
- Winner
- Anthony Hopkins — The Silence of the Lambs
- Nominees
- Warren Beatty — Bugsy
- Robert De Niro — Cape Fear
- Nick Nolte — The Prince of Tides
- Robin Williams — The Fisher King
65th Academy Awards (1992)
- Winner
- Al Pacino — Scent of a Woman
- Nominees
- Robert Downey, Jr. — Chaplin
- Clint Eastwood — Unforgiven
- Stephen Rea — The Crying Game
- Denzel Washington — Malcolm X
66th Academy Awards (1993)
- Winner
- Tom Hanks — Philadelphia
- Nominees
- Daniel Day-Lewis — In the Name of the Father
- Laurence Fishburne — What's Love Got to Do with It
- Anthony Hopkins — The Remains of the Day
- Liam Neeson — Schindler's List
67th Academy Awards (1994)
- Winner
- Tom Hanks — Forrest Gump
- Nominees
- Morgan Freeman — The Shawshank Redemption
- Nigel Hawthorne — The Madness of King George
- Paul Newman — Nobody's Fool
- John Travolta — Pulp Fiction
68th Academy Awards (1995)
- Winner
- Nicolas Cage — Leaving Las Vegas
- Nominees
- Richard Dreyfuss — Mr. Holland's Opus
- Anthony Hopkins — Nixon
- Sean Penn — Dead Man Walking
- Massimo Troisi — The Postman (Il Postino)
69th Academy Awards (1996)
- Winner
- Geoffrey Rush — Shine
- Nominees
- Tom Cruise — Jerry Maguire
- Ralph Fiennes — The English Patient
- Woody Harrelson — The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Billy Bob Thornton — Sling Blade
70th Academy Awards (1997)
- Winner
- Jack Nicholson — As Good as It Gets
- Nominees
- Matt Damon — Good Will Hunting
- Robert Duvall — The Apostle
- Peter Fonda — Ulee's Gold
- Dustin Hoffman — Wag the Dog
71st Academy Awards (1998)
- Winner
- Roberto Benigni — Life Is Beautiful
- Nominees
- Tom Hanks — Saving Private Ryan
- Ian McKellen — Gods and Monsters
- Nick Nolte — Affliction
- Edward Norton — American History X
72nd Academy Awards (1999)
- Winner
- Kevin Spacey — American Beauty
- Nominees
- Russell Crowe — The Insider
- Richard Farnsworth — The Straight Story
- Sean Penn — Sweet and Lowdown
- Denzel Washington — The Hurricane
2000s
73rd Academy Awards (2000)
- Winner
- Russell Crowe — Gladiator
- Nominees
- Javier Bardem — Before Night Falls
- Tom Hanks — Cast Away
- Ed Harris — Pollock
- Geoffrey Rush — Quills
74th Academy Awards (2001)
- Winner
- Denzel Washington — Training Day
- Nominees
- Russell Crowe — A Beautiful Mind
- Sean Penn — I Am Sam
- Will Smith — Ali
- Tom Wilkinson — In the Bedroom
75th Academy Awards (2002)
- Winner
- Adrien Brody — The Pianist
- Nominees
- Nicolas Cage — Adaptation
- Michael Caine — The Quiet American
- Daniel Day-Lewis — Gangs of New York
- Jack Nicholson — About Schmidt
76th Academy Awards (2003)
- Winner
- Sean Penn — Mystic River
- Nominees
- Johnny Depp — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Ben Kingsley — House of Sand and Fog
- Jude Law — Cold Mountain
- Bill Murray — Lost in Translation
77th Academy Awards (2004)
- Winner
- Jamie Foxx — Ray
- Nominees
- Don Cheadle — Hotel Rwanda
- Johnny Depp — Finding Neverland
- Leonardo DiCaprio — The Aviator
- Clint Eastwood — Million Dollar Baby
78th Academy Awards (2005)
- Winner
- Philip Seymour Hoffman — Capote
- Nominees
- Terrence Howard — Hustle & Flow
- Heath Ledger — Brokeback Mountain
- Joaquin Phoenix — Walk the Line
- David Strathairn — Good Night, and Good Luck.
79th Academy Awards (2006)
- Winner
- Forest Whitaker — The Last King of Scotland
- Nominees
- Leonardo DiCaprio — Blood Diamond
- Ryan Gosling — Half Nelson
- Peter O'Toole — Venus
- Will Smith — The Pursuit of Happyness
80th Academy Awards (2007)
- Winner
- Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood
- Nominees
- George Clooney — Michael Clayton
- Johnny Depp — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Tommy Lee Jones — In the Valley of Elah
- Viggo Mortensen — Eastern Promises
81st Academy Awards (2008)
- Winner
- Sean Penn — Milk
- Nominees
- Richard Jenkins — The Visitor
- Frank Langella — Frost/Nixon
- Brad Pitt — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Mickey Rourke — The Wrestler
82nd Academy Awards (2009)
- Winner
- Jeff Bridges — Crazy Heart
- Nominees
- George Clooney — Up in the Air
- Colin Firth — A Single Man
- Morgan Freeman — Invictus
- Jeremy Renner — The Hurt Locker
2010s
83rd Academy Awards (2010)
- Winner
- Colin Firth — The King's Speech
- Nominees
- Javier Bardem — Biutiful
- Jeff Bridges — True Grit
- Jesse Eisenberg — The Social Network
- James Franco — 127 Hours
84th Academy Awards (2011)
- Winner
- Jean Dujardin — The Artist
- Nominees
- Demián Bichir — A Better Life
- George Clooney — The Descendants
- Gary Oldman — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Brad Pitt — Moneyball
85th Academy Awards (2012)
- Winner
- Daniel Day-Lewis — Lincoln
- Nominees
- Bradley Cooper — Silver Linings Playbook
- Hugh Jackman — Les Misérables
- Joaquin Phoenix — The Master
- Denzel Washington — Flight
86th Academy Awards (2013)
- Winner
- Matthew McConaughey — Dallas Buyers Club
- Nominees
- Christian Bale — American Hustle
- Bruce Dern — Nebraska
- Leonardo DiCaprio — The Wolf of Wall Street
- Chiwetel Ejiofor — 12 Years a Slave
87th Academy Awards (2014)
- Winner
- Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of Everything
- Nominees
- Steve Carell — Foxcatcher
- Bradley Cooper — American Sniper
- Benedict Cumberbatch — The Imitation Game
- Michael Keaton — Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
88th Academy Awards (2015)
- Winner
- Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant
- Nominees
- Bryan Cranston — Trumbo
- Matt Damon — The Martian
- Michael Fassbender — Steve Jobs
- Eddie Redmayne — The Danish Girl
89th Academy Awards (2016)
- Winner
- Casey Affleck — Manchester by the Sea
- Nominees
- Andrew Garfield — Hacksaw Ridge
- Ryan Gosling — La La Land
- Viggo Mortensen — Captain Fantastic
- Denzel Washington — Fences
90th Academy Awards (2017)
- Winner
- Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour
- Nominees
- Timothee Chalamet — Call Me By Your Name
- Daniel Day-Lewis — Phantom Thread
- Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out
- Denzel Washington — Roman J. Israel, Esq.
91st Academy Awards (2018)
- Winner
- Rami Malek — Bohemian Rhapsody
- Nominees
- Christian Bale — Vice
- Bradley Cooper — A Star is Born
- Willem Dafoe — At Eternity's Gate
- Viggo Mortensen — Green Book
92nd Academy Awards (2019)
- Winner
- Joaquin Phoenix — Joker
- Nominees
- Antonio Banderas — Pain and Glory
- Leonardo DiCaprio — Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Adam Driver — Marriage Story
- Jonathan Pryce — The Two Popes
Notes
- ↑ "The Academy Board of Judges on merit awards for individual achievements in motion picture arts during the year ending August 1, 1928, unanimously decided that your name should be removed from the competitive classes, and that a special first award be conferred upon you for writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus. The collective accomplishments thus displayed place you in a class by yourself." (Letter from the Academy to Mr. Chaplin, dated February 19, 1929.)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 This is not an official nomination. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930. Though not official nominations, the additional names in each category, according to in-house records, were under consideration by the various boards of judges.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot listed both Disraeli and The Green Goddess in his nomination, the award was announced for only the Disraeli performance. It has never been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges only listed the Disraeli performance in the results of the nominations voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots, the voters had indicated the Disraeli performance over the other.
- ↑ A tie. Wallace Beery (The Champ) had one vote less than Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), and rules at the time stated that if any achievement came within three votes of the First Award, it would be considered a tie.
- ↑ THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
- ↑ Mr. Scott refused the award.
- ↑ Mr. Brando refused the award.