A table showing every Best Actor Oscar winner since 1929.
Brendan Fraser wins Best Actor
Every Academy Award nominee and winner for Best Actor at the Oscars
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Nomination
Oscar win (name in bold = multiple wins)
1930
’40
’60
’70
2000
’10
’20
’50
’80
’90
Brendan Fraser
Will Smith
Anthony Hopkins
Joaquin Phoenix
Rami Malek
Gary Oldman
Casey Affleck
Leonardo DiCaprio
Eddie Redmayne
Matthew McConaughey
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jean Dujardin
Colin Firth
Jeff Bridges
Sean Penn
Forest Whitaker
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jamie Foxx
Adrien Brody
Denzel Washington
Russell Crowe
Kevin Spacey
Roberto Benigni
Jack Nicholson
Geoffrey Rush
Nicolas Cage
Tom Hanks
Al Pacino
Jeremy Irons
Dustin Hoffman
Michael Douglas
Paul Newman
William Hurt
F. Murray Abraham
Robert Duvall
Ben Kingsley
Henry Fonda
Robert De Niro
Jon Voight
Richard Dreyfuss
Peter Finch
Art Carney
Jack Lemmon
Marlon Brando
Gene Hackman
George C. Scott
John Wayne
Cliff Robertson
Rod Steiger
Paul Scofield
Lee Marvin
Rex Harrison
Sidney Poitier
Gregory Peck
Maximilian Schell
Burt Lancaster
Charlton Heston
David Niven
Alec Guinness
Yul Brynner
Ernest Borgnine
William Holden
Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart
Jose Ferrer
Broderick Crawford
Laurence Olivier
Ronald Colman
Fredric March
Ray Milland
Bing Crosby
Paul Lukas
James Cagney
James Stewart
Robert Donat
Spencer Tracy
Paul Muni
Victor McLaglen
Clark Gable
Charles Laughton
Wallace Beery
Lionel Barrymore
George Arliss
Warner Baxter
Emil Jannings
Sources: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Reuters Staff | March 12, 2023
Brendan Fraser wins Best Actor
Every Academy Award nominee and winner for Best Actor at the Oscars
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Nomination
Oscar win (name in bold = multiple wins)
WINNER
1930
’40
’50
’60
’70
’80
’90
2000
’10
’20
Brendan Fraser
Will Smith
Anthony Hopkins
Joaquin Phoenix
Rami Malek
Gary Oldman
Casey Affleck
Leonardo DiCaprio
Eddie Redmayne
Matthew McConaughey
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jean Dujardin
Colin Firth
Jeff Bridges
Sean Penn
Forest Whitaker
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jamie Foxx
Adrien Brody
Denzel Washington
Russell Crowe
Kevin Spacey
Roberto Benigni
Jack Nicholson
Geoffrey Rush
Nicolas Cage
Tom Hanks
Al Pacino
Jeremy Irons
Dustin Hoffman
Michael Douglas
Paul Newman
William Hurt
F. Murray Abraham
Robert Duvall
Ben Kingsley
Henry Fonda
Robert De Niro
Jon Voight
Richard Dreyfuss
Peter Finch
Art Carney
Jack Lemmon
Marlon Brando
Gene Hackman
George C. Scott
John Wayne
Cliff Robertson
Rod Steiger
Paul Scofield
Lee Marvin
Rex Harrison
Sidney Poitier
Gregory Peck
Maximilian Schell
Burt Lancaster
Charlton Heston
David Niven
Alec Guinness
Yul Brynner
Ernest Borgnine
William Holden
Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart
Jose Ferrer
Broderick Crawford
Laurence Olivier
Ronald Colman
Fredric March
Ray Milland
Bing Crosby
Paul Lukas
James Cagney
James Stewart
Robert Donat
Spencer Tracy
Paul Muni
Victor McLaglen
Clark Gable
Charles Laughton
Wallace Beery
Lionel Barrymore
George Arliss
Warner Baxter
Emil Jannings
Oldest winner: 83 years
First man to be awarded three Best Actor Oscars in the history of the Academy Awards
Youngest winner: 29 years
First Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar
Most Best Actor nominations
Nominated twice in the same year
Sources: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Reuters Staff | March 12, 2023