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	Best Supporting Actor* Academy Award Winners
1927-28	Emil Jannings The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command	N/A
1928-29	Warner Baxter In Old Arizona	N/A
1929-30	George Arliss Disraeli	N/A
1930-31	Lionel Barrymore A Free Soul	N/A
1931-32	Fredric March; Wallace Beery Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Champ	N/A
1932-33	Charles Laughton The Private Life of Henry VIII	N/A
1934	Clark Gable It Happened One Night	N/A
1935	Victor McLaglen The Informer	N/A
1936	Paul Muni The Story of Louis Pasteur	Walter Brennan Come and Get It
1937	Spencer Tracy Captains Courageous	Joseph Schildkraut The Life of Emile Zola
1938	Spencer Tracy Boys Town	Walter Brennan Kentucky
1939	Robert Donat Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Thomas Mitchell Stagecoach
1940	James Stewart The Philadelphia Story	Walter Brennan The Westerner
1941	Gary Cooper Sergeant York	Donald Crisp How Green Was My Valley
1942	James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy	Van Heflin Johnny Eager
1943	Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine	Charles Coburn The More the Merrier
1944	Bing Crosby Going My Way	Barry Fitzgerald Going My Way
1945	Ray Milland The Lost Weekend	James Dunn A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1946	Fredric March The Best Years of Our Lives	Harold Russell The Best Years of Our Lives
1947	Ronald Colman A Double Life	Edmund Gwenn Miracle on 34th Street
1948	Laurence Olivier Hamlet	Walter Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949	Broderick Crawford All the King's Men	Dean Jagger Twelve O'Clock High
1950	Jose Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac	George Sanders All About Eve
1951	Humphrey Bogart The African Queen	Karl Malden A Streetcar Named Desire
1952	Gary Cooper High Noon	Anthony Quinn Viva Zapata
1953	William Holden Stalag 17	Frank Sinatra From Here to Eternity
1954	Marlon Brando On The Waterfront	Edmond O'Brien The Barefoot Contessa
1955	Ernest Borgnine Marty	Jack Lemmon Mister Roberts
1956	Yul Brynner The King and I	Anthony Quinn Lust for Life
1957	Alec Guinness The Bridge On The River Kwai	Red Buttons Sayonara
1958	David Niven Separate Tables	Burl Ives The Big Country
1959	Charlton Heston Ben-Hur	Hugh Griffith Ben-Hur
1960	Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry	Peter Ustinov Spartacus
1961	Maximillian Schell Judgment at Nuremburg	George Chakiris West Side Story
1962	Gregory Peck To Kill a Mockingbird	Ed Begley Sweet Bird of Youth
1963	Sidney Poitier Lilies of the Field	Melvyn Douglas Hud
1964	Rex Harrison My Fair Lady	Peter Ustinov Topkapi
1965	Lee Marvin Cat Ballou	Martin Balsam A Thousand Clowns
1966	Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons	Walter Matthau The Fortune Cookie
1967	Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night	George Kennedy Cool Hand Luke
1968	Cliff Robertson Charly	Jack Albertson The Subject Was Roses
1969	John Wayne True Grit	Gig Young They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970	George C. Scott Patton	John Mills Ryan's Daughter
1971	Gene Hackman The French Connection	Ben Johnson The Last Picture Show
1972	Marlon Brando The Godfather	Joel Gray Cabaret
1973	Jack Lemmon Save the Tiger	John Houseman The Paper Chase
1974	Art Carney Harry and Tonto	Robert De Niro The Godfather, Part 2
1975	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest	George Burns The Sunshine Boys
1976	Peter Finch Network	Jason Robards All the President's Men
1977	Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl	Jason Robards Julia
1978	Jon Voight Coming Home	Christopher Walken The Deer Hunter
1979	Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer	Melvyn Douglas Being There
1980	Robert De Niro Raging Bull	Timothy Hutton Ordinary People
1981	Henry Fonda On Golden Pond	John Gielgud Arthur
1982	Ben Kingsley Gandhi	Louis Gossett, Jr. An Officer and a Gentleman
1983	Robert Duvall Tender Mercies	Jack Nicholson Terms of Endearment
1984	F. Murray Abraham Amadeus	Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields
1985	William Hurt Kiss of the Spider Woman	Don Ameche Cocoon
1986	Paul Newman The Color of Money	Michael Caine Hannah and Her Sisters
1987	Michael Douglas Wall Street	Sean Connery The Untouchables
1988	Dustin Hoffman Rain Man	Kevin Kline A Fish Called Wanda
1989	Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot	Denzel Washington Glory
1990	Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune	Joe Pesci GoodFellas
1991	Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs	Jack Palance City Slickers
1992	Al Pacino Scent of a Woman	Gene Hackman Unforgiven
1993	Tom Hanks Philadelphia	Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive
1994	Tom Hanks Forrest Gump	Martin Landau Ed Wood
1995	Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas	Kevin Spacey The Usual Suspects
1996	Geoffrey Rush Shine	Cuba Gooding, Jr. Jerry Maguire
1997	Jack Nicholson As Good as It Gets	Robin Williams Good Will Hunting
1998	Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful	James Coburn Affliction
1999	Kevin Spacey American Beauty	Michael Caine The Cider House Rules
2000	Russell Crowe Gladiator	Benicio Del Toro Traffic
2001	Denzel Washington Training Day	Jim Broadbent Iris
2002	Adrien Brody The Pianist	Chris Cooper Adaptation
2003	Sean Penn Mystic River	Tim Robbins Mystic River
2004	Jamie Foxx Ray	Morgan Freeman Million Dollar Baby
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote	George Clooney Syriana
2006	Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland	Alan Arkin Little Miss Sunshine
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood	Javier Bardem No Country for Old Men
2008	Sean Penn Milk	Heath Ledger The Dark Knight