Academy Award Best Pictures
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Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor

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Best Picture Winners

ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE
ARTS and SCIENCES


BEST ACTOR* AND
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR*


(*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


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