ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor - Winners

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ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES BEST ACTOR* AND BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR* WINNERS (*Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading (Supporting) Role) [Note: Winning Co-Stars - Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the Same Film are indicated by a Shaded-in Year]

Year of Award	Best Actor* Academy Award Winners	Name of Character Role	Best Supporting Actor* Academy Award Winners	Name of Character Role
1927-28	Emil Jannings The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command	August Schilling/Gen. Dolgorucki	N/A	N/A
1928-29	Warner Baxter In Old Arizona	The Cisco Kid	N/A	N/A
1929-30	George Arliss Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	N/A	N/A
1930-31	Lionel Barrymore A Free Soul	Stephen Ashe	N/A	N/A
1931-32	Fredric March; Wallace Beery Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Champ	Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde and The Champ	N/A	N/A
1932-33	Charles Laughton The Private Life of Henry VIII	King Henry VIII	N/A	N/A
1934	Clark Gable It Happened One Night	Peter Warne	N/A	N/A
1935	Victor McLaglen The Informer	Gypo Nolan	N/A	N/A
1936	Paul Muni The Story of Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur	Walter Brennan Come and Get It	Swan Bostrom
1937	Spencer Tracy Captains Courageous	Manuel	Joseph Schildkraut The Life of Emile Zola	Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
1938	Spencer Tracy Boys Town	Father Flanagan	Walter Brennan Kentucky	Peter Goodwin
1939	Robert Donat Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Mr. Charles Chipping (Mr. Chips)	Thomas Mitchell Stagecoach	Doc Boone
1940	James Stewart The Philadelphia Story	Macaulay Connor	Walter Brennan The Westerner	Judge Roy Bean
1941	Gary Cooper Sergeant York	Alvin Cullum York	Donald Crisp How Green Was My Valley	Mr. Morgan
1942	James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy	George M. Cohan	Van Heflin Johnny Eager	Jeff Hartnett
1943	Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine	Kurt Muller	Charles Coburn The More the Merrier	Benjamin Dingle
1944	Bing Crosby Going My Way	Father Chuck O'Malley	Barry Fitzgerald Going My Way	Father Fitzgibbon
1945	Ray Milland The Lost Weekend	Don Birnam	James Dunn A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Johnny Nolan (aka The Brooklyn Thrush)
1946	Fredric March The Best Years of Our Lives	Al Stephenson	Harold Russell The Best Years of Our Lives	Homer Parrish
1947	Ronald Colman A Double Life	Anthony John	Edmund Gwenn Miracle on 34th Street	Kris Kringle
1948	Laurence Olivier Hamlet	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	Walter Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Howard
1949	Broderick Crawford All the King's Men	Willie Stark	Dean Jagger Twelve O'Clock High	Major Stovall
1950	Jose Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	George Sanders All About Eve	Addison DeWitt
1951	Humphrey Bogart The African Queen	Charlie Allnut	Karl Malden A Streetcar Named Desire	Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
1952	Gary Cooper High Noon	Marshal Will Kane	Anthony Quinn Viva Zapata	Eufemio Zapata
1953	William Holden Stalag 17	Sgt. J.J. Sefton	Frank Sinatra From Here to Eternity	Pvt. Angelo Maggio
1954	Marlon Brando On The Waterfront	Terry Malloy	Edmond O'Brien The Barefoot Contessa	Oscar Muldoon
1955	Ernest Borgnine Marty	Marty Piletti	Jack Lemmon Mister Roberts	Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver
1956	Yul Brynner The King and I	King Mongkut of Siam	Anthony Quinn Lust for Life	Paul Gauguin
1957	Alec Guinness The Bridge On The River Kwai	Col. Nicholson	Red Buttons Sayonara	Airman Joe Kelly
1958	David Niven Separate Tables	Major Angus Pollock	Burl Ives The Big Country	Rufus Hannassey
1959	Charlton Heston Ben-Hur	Judah Ben-Hur	Hugh Griffith Ben-Hur	Sheik Ilderim
1960	Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry	Elmer Gantry	Peter Ustinov Spartacus	Lentulus Batiatus
1961	Maximillian Schell Judgment at Nuremburg	Hans Rolfe	George Chakiris West Side Story	Bernardo
1962	Gregory Peck To Kill a Mockingbird	Atticus Finch	Ed Begley Sweet Bird of Youth	Tom 'Boss' Finley
1963	Sidney Poitier Lilies of the Field	Homer Smith	Melvyn Douglas Hud	Homer Bannon
1964	Rex Harrison My Fair Lady	Professor Henry Higgins	Peter Ustinov Topkapi	Arthur Simon Simpson
1965	Lee Marvin Cat Ballou	Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn	Martin Balsam A Thousand Clowns	Arnold Burns
1966	Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons	Sir Thomas More	Walter Matthau The Fortune Cookie	Willie Gingrich
1967	Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night	Police Chief Bill Gillespie	George Kennedy Cool Hand Luke	Dragline
1968	Cliff Robertson Charly	Charly Gordon	Jack Albertson The Subject Was Roses	John Cleary
1969	John Wayne True Grit	Marshal Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn	Gig Young They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Rocky
1970	George C. Scott Patton	Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.	John Mills Ryan's Daughter	Michael
1971	Gene Hackman The French Connection	Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle	Ben Johnson The Last Picture Show	Sam the Lion
1972	Marlon Brando The Godfather	Don Vito Corleone	Joel Gray Cabaret	MC - Master of Ceremonies
1973	Jack Lemmon Save the Tiger	Harry Stoner	John Houseman The Paper Chase	Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr.
1974	Art Carney Harry and Tonto	Harry Coombes	Robert De Niro The Godfather, Part 2	Vito Corleone
1975	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest	Randle Patrick (R. P.) "Mac" McMurphy	George Burns The Sunshine Boys	Al Lewis
1976	Peter Finch Network	Howard Beale	Jason Robards All the President's Men	Ben Bradlee
1977	Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl	Elliot Garfield	Jason Robards Julia	Dashiell Hammett
1978	Jon Voight Coming Home	Luke Martin	Christopher Walken The Deer Hunter	Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich
1979	Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer	Ted Kramer	Melvyn Douglas Being There	Benjamin Turnbull Rand
1980	Robert De Niro Raging Bull	Jake LaMotta	Timothy Hutton Ordinary People	Conrad Jarrett
1981	Henry Fonda On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer	John Gielgud Arthur	Hobson
1982	Ben Kingsley Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Louis Gossett, Jr. An Officer and a Gentleman	Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
1983	Robert Duvall Tender Mercies	Mac Sledge	Jack Nicholson Terms of Endearment	Garrett Breedlove
1984	F. Murray Abraham Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields	Dith Pran
1985	William Hurt Kiss of the Spider Woman	Luis Molina	Don Ameche Cocoon	Arthur Selwyn
1986	Paul Newman The Color of Money	'Fast Eddie' Felson	Michael Caine Hannah and Her Sisters	Elliot
1987	Michael Douglas Wall Street	Gordon Gekko	Sean Connery The Untouchables	Jim Malone
1988	Dustin Hoffman Rain Man	Raymond Babbitt	Kevin Kline A Fish Called Wanda	Otto West
1989	Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot	Christy Brown	Denzel Washington Glory	Pvt. Trip
1990	Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune	Claus von Bulow	Joe Pesci GoodFellas	Tommy DeVito
1991	Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs	Dr. Hannibal Lecter	Jack Palance City Slickers	Curly Washburn
1992	Al Pacino Scent of a Woman	Lieut. Col. Frank Slade	Gene Hackman Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett
1993	Tom Hanks Philadelphia	Andrew Beckett	Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive	Marshall Samuel Gerard
1994	Tom Hanks Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump	Martin Landau Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi
1995	Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas	Ben Sanderson	Kevin Spacey The Usual Suspects	Roger 'Verbal' Kint
1996	Geoffrey Rush Shine	David Helfgott	Cuba Gooding, Jr. Jerry Maguire	Rod Tidwell
1997	Jack Nicholson As Good as It Gets	Melvin Udall	Robin Williams Good Will Hunting	Sean Maguire
1998	Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful	Guido Orefice	James Coburn Affliction	Glen Whitehouse
1999	Kevin Spacey American Beauty	Lester Burnham	Michael Caine The Cider House Rules	Dr. Wilbur Larch
2000	Russell Crowe Gladiator	Maximus Decimus Meridius	Benicio Del Toro Traffic	Javier Rodriguez
2001	Denzel Washington Training Day	Alonzo Harris	Jim Broadbent Iris	John Bayley
2002	Adrien Brody The Pianist	Wladyslaw Szpilman	Chris Cooper Adaptation	John Laroche
2003	Sean Penn Mystic River	Jimmy Markum	Tim Robbins Mystic River	Dave Boyle
2004	Jamie Foxx Ray	Ray Charles	Morgan Freeman Million Dollar Baby	Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote	Truman Capote	George Clooney Syriana	Bob Barnes
2006	Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin	Alan Arkin Little Miss Sunshine	Edwin Hoover
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview	Javier Bardem No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh
2008	Sean Penn Milk	Harvey Milk	Heath Ledger The Dark Knight	The Joker
2009	Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart	Bad Blake	Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds	Hans Landa