Highlights and clips of every single movie to ever win Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards, from Emil Jannings (1st), to Brendan Fraser (95th).
1927-28 - Emil Jannings (The Last Command, The Way of All Flesh)
1928-29 - Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)
1929-30 - George Arliss (Disraeli)
1930-31 - Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
1931-32 - Wallace Beery and Fredric March (The Champ/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1932-33 - Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
1934 - Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
1935 - Victor McLaglen (The Informer)
1936 - Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
1937 - Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
1938 - Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)
1939 - Robert Donat (Goodbye Mr. Chips)
1940 - James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
1941 - Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
1942 - James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1943 - Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
1944 - Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
1945 - Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
1946 - Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
1947 - Ronald Colman (A Double Life)
1948 - Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
1949 - Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)
1950 - José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1951 - Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
1952 - Cary Cooper (High Noon)
1953 - William Holden (Stalag 17)
1954 - Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
1955 - Ernest Borgnine (Marty)
1956 - Yul Brynner (The King and I)
1957 - Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1958 - David Niven (Separate Tables)
1959 - Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
1960 - Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
1961 - Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
1962 - Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1963 - Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
1964 - Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
1965 - Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
1966 - Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)
1967 - Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night)
1968 - Cliff Robertson (Charly)
1969 - John Wayne (True Grit)
1970 - George C. Scott (Patton)
1971 - Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
1972 - Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
1973 - Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger)
1974 - Art Carney (Harry and Tonto)
1975 - Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1976 - Peter Finch (Network)
1977 - Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)
1978 - Jon Voight (Coming Home)
1979 - Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1980 - Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
1981 - Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
1982 - Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
1983 - Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
1984 - F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
1985 - William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1986 - Paul Newman (The Color of Money)
1987 - Michael Douglas (Wall Street)
1988 - Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
1989 - Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
1990 - Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)
1991 - Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992 - Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
1993 - Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
1994 - Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
1995 - Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)
1996 - Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
1997 - Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets)
1998 - Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)
1999 - Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
2000 - Russell Crowe Gladiator)
2001 - Denzel Washington - Training Day)
2002 - Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
2003 - Sean Penn (Mystic River)
2004 - Jamie Foxx (Ray)
2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
2006 - Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
2008 - Sean Penn (Milk)
2009 - Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
2010 - Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
2011 - Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
2012 - Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
2013 - Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
2014 - Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
2015 - Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
2016 - Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
2017 - Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
2018 - Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
2019 - Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
2020 - Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
2021 - Will Smith (King Richard)
2022 - Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
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