Academy Award for Best Actor

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The **Academy Award for Best Actor** is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Actress winner.

The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in *The Last Command* (1928) and *The Way of All Flesh* (1927). Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.

In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots. The following year, this system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year.

Since its inception, the award has been given to 83 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category, with three wins. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. Peter O'Toole is the most nominated actor in this category without a single win. James Dean remains the only actor to have been posthumously nominated in this category on more than one occasion. Peter Finch is the only actor to have received the award posthumously, for *Network* (1976). Italian actor Roberto Benigni was the first non-English performance winner for *Life Is Beautiful* (1997). At age 29, Adrien Brody became the youngest actor to win this award for *The Pianist* (2002), while Anthony Hopkins, at age 83, became the oldest winner for *The Father* (2020); he is also the first and only openly autistic actor to win an Oscar, having previously won for *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991). As of the 93rd Academy Awards, Hopkins is the most recent winner in this category for his portrayal of Anthony in *The Father*.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

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### 1930s

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### 1940s

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 File:Gary Cooper 1936.jpg
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### 1950s

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### 1960s

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### 1970s

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 File:Gene Hackman - 1972.jpg
 File:Jack Lemmon - 1968 (cropped).jpg
 File:Jack Nicholson - 1976 (new).jpg
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 File:Dustin Hoffman - 1968.jpg

### 1980s

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 File:Henry Fonda in Warlock.jpg
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### 1990s

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 File:Geoffrey Rush Cannes 2011.jpg
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### 2000s

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### 2010s

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## Nominated and/or winning portrayals of the same role across different movies

### Overlaps between Leading and Supporting Actor

Portrayals of the same role that spanned over leading and supporting performances.

## Nominations for portraying multiple characters in the same film

* Charles Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel and "The Barber" in *The Great Dictator*
* Jose Ferrer as Toulouse Lautrec and his father in *Moulin Rouge*
* Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and the title character in *Dr. Strangelove*
* Lee Marvin (winner) as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn in *Cat Ballou*
* Nicolas Cage as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in *Adaptation*

## Diversity of nominees/winners

### Asian nominees/winners

Seven actors of Asian descent and/or nationality have been nominated a total of eight times in this category, and three actors have won this award.

* **1956** – Template:Country data Far Eastern Republic**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data Switzerland**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Yul Brynner** for ***The King and I*** as **King Mongkut of Siam**
* 1971 – Template:Country data Israel**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Topol for *Fiddler on the Roof* as Tevye
* **1982** – Template:Country data India**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data United Kingdom**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Ben Kingsley** for ***Gandhi*** as **Mahatma Gandhi**
* **1984** – Template:Country data Syria**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **F. Murray Abraham** for ***Amadeus*** as **Antonio Salieri**
* 2003 – Template:Country data India**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data United Kingdom**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Ben Kingsley for *House of Sand and Fog* as Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani (1 of **2**)
* 2011 – Template:Country data Lebanon**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of Mexico.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Demián Bichir for *A Better Life* as Carlos Galindo
* 2020 – Template:Country data Pakistan**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data United Kingdom**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Riz Ahmed for *Sound of Metal* as Ruben Stone
* 2020 – Template:Country data South Korea**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Steven Yeun for *Minari* as Jacob Yi

### Black nominees/winners

Fifteen black actors have been nominated a total of twenty-four times in this category, and four actors have won this award.

* 1958 – Template:Country data Bahamas**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Sidney Poitier for *The Defiant Ones* as Noah Cullen
* **1963** – Template:Country data Bahamas**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Sidney Poitier** for ***Lilies of the Field*** as **Homer Smith** (**1** of **2**)
* 1970 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** James Earl Jones for *The Great White Hope* as Jack Jefferson
* 1972 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Paul Winfield for *Sounder* as Nathan Lee Morgan
* 1986 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Dexter Gordon for *Round Midnight* as Dale Turner
* 1989 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Morgan Freeman for *Driving Miss Daisy* as Hoke Colburn
* 1992 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Denzel Washington for *Malcolm X* as Malcolm X
* 1993 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Laurence Fishburne for *What's Love Got to Do with It* as Ike Turner
* 1994 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Morgan Freeman for *The Shawshank Redemption* as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding (0 of **2**)
* 1999 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Denzel Washington for *The Hurricane* as Rubin Carter (0 of **2**)
* **2001** – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Denzel Washington** for ***Training Day*** as **Alonzo Harris** (**1** of **3**)
* 2001 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Will Smith for *Ali* as Muhammad Ali
* **2004** – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Jamie Foxx** for ***Ray*** as **Ray Charles**
* 2004 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Don Cheadle for *Hotel Rwanda* as Paul Rusesabagina
* 2005 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Terrence Howard for *Hustle & Flow* as DJay
* **2006** – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Forest Whitaker** for ***The Last King of Scotland*** as **Idi Amin**
* 2006 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Will Smith for *The Pursuit of Happyness* as Chris Gardner (0 of **2**)
* 2009 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Morgan Freeman for *Invictus* as Nelson Mandela (0 of **3**)
* 2012 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Denzel Washington for *Flight* as William "Whip" Whitaker (1 of **4**)
* 2013 – Template:Country data Nigeria**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data United Kingdom**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Chiwetel Ejiofor for *12 Years a Slave* as Solomon Northup
* 2016 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Denzel Washington for *Fences* as Troy Maxson (1 of **5**)
* 2017 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Denzel Washington for *Roman J. Israel, Esq.* as Roman J. Israel (1 of **6**)
* 2017 – Template:Country data Uganda**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data United Kingdom**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Daniel Kaluuya for *Get Out* as Chris Washington
* 2020 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Chadwick Boseman for *Ma Rainey's Black Bottom* as Levee Green †

### Hispanic/Latin American nominees/winners

Seven actors of Hispanic/Latin American descent and/or nationality have been nominated a total of twelve times in this category, and two actors have won this award.

* **1950** – Template:Country data Puerto Rico**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **José Ferrer** for ***Cyrano de Bergerac*** as **Cyrano de Bergerac**
* 1952 – Template:Country data Puerto Rico**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** José Ferrer for *Moulin Rouge* as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec (1 of **2**)
* 1957 – File:Flag of Mexico.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Anthony Quinn for *Wild Is the Wind* as Gino
* 1964 – File:Flag of Mexico.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Anthony Quinn for *Zorba the Greek* as Alexis Zorba (0 of **2**)
* 1988 – File:Flag of Mexico.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Edward James Olmos for *Stand and Deliver* as Jaime Escalante
* 2000 – Template:Country data Spain**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Javier Bardem for *Before Night Falls* as Reinaldo Arenas
* 2005 – Template:Country data Puerto Rico**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Joaquin Phoenix for *Walk the Line* as John R. "Johnny" Cash
* 2010 – Template:Country data Spain**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Javier Bardem for *Biutiful* as Uxbal (0 of **2**)
* 2011 – File:Flag of Mexico.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data Lebanon**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Demián Bichir for *A Better Life* as Carlos Galindo
* 2012 – Template:Country data Puerto Rico**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Joaquin Phoenix for *The Master* as Freddie Quell (0 of **2**)
* **2019** – Template:Country data Puerto Rico**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Joaquin Phoenix** for ***Joker*** as **Arthur Fleck / Joker** (**1** of **3**)
* 2019 – Template:Country data Spain**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Antonio Banderas for *Pain and Glory* as Salvador Mallo

### Oceanic nominees/winners

Five Oceanic actors have been nominated a total of nine times in this category, and three actors have won this award.

* 1971 – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Peter Finch for *Sunday Bloody Sunday* as Dr. Daniel Hirsh
* **1976** – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Peter Finch** for ***Network*** as **Howard Beale** **†** (**1** of **2**)
* **1996** – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Geoffrey Rush** for ***Shine*** as **David Helfgott**
* 1999 – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data New Zealand**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Russell Crowe for *The Insider* as Dr. Jeffrey Wigand
* **2000** – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data New Zealand**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** **Russell Crowe** for ***Gladiator*** as **Maximus Decimus Meridius** (**1** of **2**)
* 2000 – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Geoffrey Rush for *Quills* as Marquis de Sade (1 of **2**)
* 2001 – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data New Zealand**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Russell Crowe for *A Beautiful Mind* as John Nash (1 of **3**)
* 2005 – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Heath Ledger for *Brokeback Mountain* as Ennis Del Mar
* 2012 – Template:Country data Australia**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** Hugh Jackman for *Les Misérables* as Jean Valjean

### LGBTQ nominees/winners

Seven LGBTQ actors have been nominated a total of thirteen times in this category, and two actors have won this award (with Marlon Brando winning twice but refusing one).

* 1951 – Marlon Brando (Bisexual) for *A Streetcar Named Desire* as Stanley Kowalski
* 1952 – Marlon Brando (Bisexual) for *Viva Zapata!* as Emiliano Zapata (0 of **2**)
* 1953 – Marlon Brando (Bisexual) for *Julius Caesar* as Mark Antony (0 of **3**)
* **1954** – **Marlon Brando** (**Bisexual**) for ***On the Waterfront*** as **Terry Malloy** (**1** of **4**)
* 1957 – Marlon Brando (Bisexual) for *Sayonara* as Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver, USAF (1 of **5**)
* 1968 – Alan Bates (Bisexual) for *The Fixer* as Yakov Bok
* **1972** – **Marlon Brando** (**Bisexual**) for ***The Godfather*** as **Vito Corleone** (**2** of **6, *Refused***)
* 1972 – Paul Winfield (Gay) for *Sounder* as Nathan Lee Morgan
* 1973 – Marlon Brando (Bisexual) for *Last Tango in Paris* as Paul (2 of **7**)
* 1984 – Tom Hulce (Gay) for *Amadeus* as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* 1994 – Nigel Hawthorne (Gay) for *The Madness of King George* as King George III
* 1998 – Ian McKellen (Gay) for *Gods and Monsters* as James Whale
* **1999** – **Kevin Spacey** (**Gay**) for ***American Beauty*** as **Lester Burnham**

### Disabled nominees/winners

Four disabled actors have been nominated a total of twelve times in this category, and four actors have won this award (with Anthony Hopkins winning twice)

* **1977** – **Richard Dreyfuss** (**Bipolar disorder**) for ***The Goodbye Girl*** as **Elliot Garfield**
* **1991** – **Anthony Hopkins** (**Autism**) for ***The Silence of the Lambs*** as **Dr. Hannibal Lecter**
* 1993 – Anthony Hopkins (Autism) for *The Remains of the Day* as James Stevens (1 of **2**)
* 1995 – Richard Dreyfuss (Bipolar disorder) for *Mr. Holland's Opus* as Glenn Holland (1 of **2**)
* 1995 – Anthony Hopkins (Autism) for *Nixon* as Richard Nixon (1 of **3**)
* 2004 – Leonardo DiCaprio (OCD) for *The Aviator* as Howard Hughes
* **2006** – **Forest Whitaker** (**Visual impairment due to ptosis**) for ***The Last King of Scotland*** as **Idi Amin**
* 2006 – Leonardo DiCaprio (OCD) for *Blood Diamond* as Danny Archer (0 of **2**)
* 2013 – Leonardo DiCaprio (OCD) for *The Wolf of Wall Street* as Jordan Belfort (0 of **3**)
* **2015** – **Leonardo DiCaprio** (**OCD**) for ***The Revenant*** as **Hugh Glass** (**1** of **4**)
* 2019 – Leonardo DiCaprio (OCD) for *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* as Rick Dalton (1 of **5**)
* **2020** – **Anthony Hopkins** (**Autism**) for ***The Father*** as **Anthony** (**2** of **4**)

### Non-English language nominees/winners

Thirteen actors with non-English performances have been nominated a total of sixteen times in this category, and one actor has won this award.

* 1962 – Template:Country data Italy**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Italian) Marcello Mastroianni for *Divorce Italian Style* as Ferdinando Cefalù
* 1968 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (American Sign Language) Alan Arkin for *The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter* as John Singer
* 1976 – Template:Country data Italy**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Italian) Giancarlo Giannini for *Seven Beauties* as Pasqualino "Settebellezze" Frafuso
* 1977 – Template:Country data Italy**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Italian) Marcello Mastroianni for *A Special Day* as Gabriele (0 of **2**)
* 1987 – Template:Country data Italy**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Italian) Marcello Mastroianni for *Dark Eyes* as Romano Patroni (0 of **3**)
* 1988 – File:Flag of Sweden.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Swedish) Max von Sydow for *Pelle the Conqueror* as Lassefar "Lasse" Karlsson
* 1990 – File:Flag of France.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (French) Gérard Depardieu for *Cyrano de Bergerac* as Cyrano de Bergerac
* 1995 – Template:Country data Italy**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Italian) Massimo Troisi for *Il Postino: The Postman* as Mario Ruoppolo
* **1998** – Template:Country data Italy**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (**Italian**) **Roberto Benigni** for ***Life Is Beautiful*** as **Guido Orefice**
* 2000 – Template:Country data Spain**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Spanish) Javier Bardem for *Before Night Falls* as Reinaldo Arenas
* 2010 – Template:Country data Spain**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Spanish) Javier Bardem for *Biutiful* as Uxbal (0 of **2**)
* 2011 – File:Flag of Mexico.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Mexican Spanish) Demián Bichir for *A Better Life* as Carlos Galindo
* 2017 – File:Flag of France.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**/Template:Country data Italy**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (French/Italian) Timothée Chalamet for *Call Me by Your Name* as Elio Perlman
* 2019 – Template:Country data Spain**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Spanish) Antonio Banderas for *Pain and Glory* as Salvador Mallo
* 2020 – Template:Country data South Korea**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (Korean) Steven Yeun for *Minari* as Jacob Yi
* 2020 – File:Flag of the United States.svg**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** (American Sign Language) Riz Ahmed for *Sound of Metal* as Ruben Stone

## See also

* All Academy Award acting nominees
* BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead
* Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

## Notes

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**C**Template:Note labelTemplate:Note label: Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery. Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, so both March and Beery received the award. Under current Academy rules, however, dual awards are given only for exact ties.

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## Bibliography

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## External links

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* Oscars.org (official Academy site)
* The Academy Awards Database (official site)
* Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)

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