Actor — Every Winner and Nominee

Every film recognised in the Oscars Actor category in CineRoll's records: 226 films across 48 years, 50 of them winners.

The most recent winner is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976); the earliest on record is The Way of All Flesh (1929).

The last three winners were One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976), Harry and Tonto (1975) and Save the Tiger (1974).

The list is newest first. Each year shows the winner at the top, then the other nominees; a year with enough nominees links to its own page.

Last updated August 12, 2026

1976

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)
Jack Nicholson
Winner
Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
Al Pacino
Give 'em Hell, Harry!(1975)
James Whitmore
The Man in the Glass Booth(1975)
Maximilian Schell
The Sunshine Boys(1975)
Walter Matthau

1975

Harry and Tonto(1974)
Art Carney
Winner
Chinatown(1974)
Jack Nicholson
Lenny(1974)
Dustin Hoffman
Murder on the Orient Express(1974)
Albert Finney
The Godfather Part II(1974)
Al Pacino

1974

Save the Tiger(1973)
Jack Lemmon
Winner
Last Tango in Paris(1972)
Marlon Brando
Serpico(1973)
Al Pacino
The Last Detail(1973)
Jack Nicholson
The Sting(1973)
Robert Redford

1973

The Godfather(1972)
Marlon Brando
Winner
Sleuth(1972)
Michael Caine
Sleuth(1972)
Laurence Olivier
Sounder(1972)
Paul Winfield
The Ruling Class(1972)
Peter O'Toole

1972

The French Connection(1971)
Gene Hackman
Winner
Fiddler on the Roof(1971)
Topol
Kotch(1971)
Walter Matthau
Sunday Bloody Sunday(1971)
Peter Finch
The Hospital(1971)
George C. Scott

1971

Patton(1970)
George C. Scott
Winner
Five Easy Pieces(1970)
Jack Nicholson
I Never Sang for My Father(1970)
Melvyn Douglas
Love Story(1970)
Ryan O'Neal
The Great White Hope(1970)
James Earl Jones

1970

True Grit(1969)
John Wayne
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Richard Burton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)
Peter O'Toole
Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Dustin Hoffman
Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Jon Voight

1969

Charly(1968)
Cliff Robertson
Winner
Oliver!(1968)
Ron Moody
The Fixer(1968)
Alan Bates
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968)
Alan Arkin
The Lion in Winter(1968)
Peter O'Toole

1968

In the Heat of the Night(1967)
Rod Steiger
Winner
Bonnie and Clyde(1967)
Warren Beatty
Cool Hand Luke(1967)
Paul Newman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)
Spencer Tracy
The Graduate(1967)
Dustin Hoffman

1967

A Man for All Seasons(1966)
Paul Scofield
Winner
Alfie(1966)
Michael Caine
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!(1966)
Alan Arkin
The Sand Pebbles(1966)
Steve McQueen
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)
Richard Burton

1966

Cat Ballou(1965)
Lee Marvin
Winner
Othello(1965)
Laurence Olivier
Ship of Fools(1965)
Oskar Werner
The Pawnbroker(1964)
Rod Steiger
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold(1965)
Richard Burton

1965

My Fair Lady(1964)
Rex Harrison
Winner
Becket(1964)
Richard Burton
Becket(1964)
Peter O'Toole
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964)
Peter Sellers
Zorba the Greek(1964)
Anthony Quinn

1964

Lilies of the Field(1963)
Sidney Poitier
Winner
Cleopatra(1963)
Rex Harrison
Hud(1963)
Paul Newman
This Sporting Life(1963)
Richard Harris
Tom Jones(1963)
Albert Finney

1963

To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Gregory Peck
Winner
Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)
Burt Lancaster
Days of Wine and Roses(1962)
Jack Lemmon
Divorce Italian Style(1961)
Marcello Mastroianni
Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Peter O'Toole

1962

Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)
Maximilian Schell
Winner
Fanny(1961)
Charles Boyer
Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)
Spencer Tracy
The Hustler(1961)
Paul Newman
The Mark(1961)
Stuart Whitman

1961

Elmer Gantry(1960)
Burt Lancaster
Winner
Inherit the Wind(1960)
Spencer Tracy
Sons and Lovers(1960)
Trevor Howard
The Apartment(1960)
Jack Lemmon
The Entertainer(1960)
Laurence Olivier

1960

Ben-Hur(1959)
Charlton Heston
Winner
Anatomy of a Murder(1959)
James Stewart
Room at the Top(1958)
Laurence Harvey
Some Like It Hot(1959)
Jack Lemmon
The Last Angry Man(1959)
Paul Muni

1959

Separate Tables(1958)
David Niven
Winner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958)
Paul Newman
The Defiant Ones(1958)
Tony Curtis
The Defiant Ones(1958)
Sidney Poitier
The Old Man and the Sea(1958)
Spencer Tracy

1958

The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)
Alec Guinness
Winner
A Hatful of Rain(1957)
Anthony Franciosa
Sayonara(1957)
Marlon Brando
Wild Is the Wind(1957)
Anthony Quinn
Witness for the Prosecution(1957)
Charles Laughton

1957

The King and I(1956)
Yul Brynner
Winner
Giant(1956)
James Dean
Giant(1956)
Rock Hudson
Lust for Life(1956)
Kirk Douglas
Richard III(1955)
Sir Laurence Olivier

1956

Marty(1955)
Ernest Borgnine
Winner
Bad Day at Black Rock(1955)
Spencer Tracy
East of Eden(1955)
James Dean
Love Me or Leave Me(1955)
James Cagney
The Man with the Golden Arm(1955)
Frank Sinatra

1955

On the Waterfront(1954)
Marlon Brando
Winner
A Star Is Born(1954)
James Mason
Robinson Crusoe (Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)(1954)
Dan O'Herlihy
Robinson Crusoe (Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)(1954)
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Caine Mutiny(1954)
Humphrey Bogart
The Country Girl(1954)
Bing Crosby

1954

Stalag 17(1953)
William Holden
Winner
From Here to Eternity(1953)
Montgomery Clift
From Here to Eternity(1953)
Burt Lancaster
Julius Caesar(1953)
Marlon Brando
The Robe(1953)
Richard Burton

1953

High Noon(1952)
Gary Cooper
Winner
Moulin Rouge(1952)
José Ferrer
The Bad and the Beautiful(1952)
Kirk Douglas
The Lavender Hill Mob(1951)
Alec Guinness
Viva Zapata!(1952)
Marlon Brando

1952

The African Queen(1951)
Humphrey Bogart
Winner
A Place in the Sun(1951)
Montgomery Clift
A Streetcar Named Desire(1951)
Marlon Brando
Bright Victory(1951)
Arthur Kennedy
Death of a Salesman(1951)
Fredric March

1951

Cyrano de Bergerac(1950)
José Ferrer
Winner
Father of the Bride(1950)
Spencer Tracy
Harvey(1950)
James Stewart
Sunset Boulevard(1950)
William Holden
The Magnificent Yankee(1950)
Louis Calhern

1950

All the King's Men(1949)
Broderick Crawford
Winner
Champion(1949)
Kirk Douglas
Sands of Iwo Jima(1949)
John Wayne
The Hasty Heart(1949)
Richard Todd
Twelve O'Clock High(1949)
Gregory Peck

1949

Hamlet(1948)
Laurence Olivier
Winner
Johnny Belinda(1948)
Lew Ayres
Sitting Pretty(1948)
Clifton Webb
The Search(1948)
Montgomery Clift
When My Baby Smiles at Me(1948)
Dan Dailey

1948

A Double Life(1947)
Ronald Colman
Winner
Body and Soul(1947)
John Garfield
Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Gregory Peck
Life with Father(1947)
William Powell
Mourning Becomes Electra(1947)
Michael Redgrave

1947

The Best Years of Our Lives(1946)
Fredric March
Winner
Henry V(1944)
Laurence Olivier
It's a Wonderful Life(1946)
James Stewart
The Jolson Story(1946)
Larry Parks
The Yearling(1946)
Gregory Peck

1946

The Lost Weekend(1945)
Ray Milland
Winner
A Song to Remember(1945)
Cornel Wilde
Anchors Aweigh(1945)
Gene Kelly
The Bells of St. Mary's(1945)
Bing Crosby
The Keys of the Kingdom(1944)
Gregory Peck

1945

Going My Way(1944)
Bing Crosby
Winner
Gaslight(1944)
Charles Boyer
Going My Way(1944)
Barry Fitzgerald
None But the Lonely Heart(1944)
Cary Grant
Wilson(1944)
Alexander Knox

1944

Watch on the Rhine(1943)
Paul Lukas
Winner
Casablanca(1942)
Humphrey Bogart
For Whom the Bell Tolls(1943)
Gary Cooper
Madame Curie(1943)
Walter Pidgeon
The Human Comedy(1943)
Mickey Rooney

1943

Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)
James Cagney
Winner
Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Walter Pidgeon
Random Harvest(1942)
Ronald Colman
The Pied Piper(1942)
Monty Woolley
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Gary Cooper

1942

Sergeant York(1941)
Gary Cooper
Winner
All That Money Can Buy(1941)
Walter Huston
Citizen Kane(1941)
Orson Welles
Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941)
Robert Montgomery
Penny Serenade(1941)
Cary Grant

1941

The Philadelphia Story(1940)
James Stewart
Winner
Abe Lincoln in Illinois(1940)
Raymond Massey
Rebecca(1940)
Laurence Olivier
The Grapes of Wrath(1940)
Henry Fonda
The Great Dictator(1940)
Charles Chaplin

1940

Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1939)
Robert Donat
Winner
Babes in Arms(1939)
Mickey Rooney
Gone with the Wind(1939)
Clark Gable
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939)
James Stewart
Wuthering Heights(1939)
Laurence Olivier

1939

Boys Town(1938)
Spencer Tracy
Winner
Algiers(1938)
Charles Boyer
Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)
James Cagney
Pygmalion(1938)
Leslie Howard
The Citadel(1938)
Robert Donat

1938

Captains Courageous(1937)
Spencer Tracy
Winner
A Star Is Born(1937)
Fredric March
Conquest(1937)
Charles Boyer
Night Must Fall(1937)
Robert Montgomery
The Life of Emile Zola(1937)
Paul Muni

1937

The Story of Louis Pasteur(1936)
Paul Muni
Winner
Dodsworth(1936)
Walter Huston
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town(1936)
Gary Cooper
My Man Godfrey(1936)
William Powell
San Francisco(1936)
Spencer Tracy

1936

The Informer(1935)
Victor McLaglen
Winner
Black Fury(1935)
Paul Muni
Mutiny on the Bounty(1935)
Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone

1935

It Happened One Night(1934)
Clark Gable
Winner
The Affairs of Cellini(1934)
Frank Morgan
The Thin Man(1934)
William Powell

1934

The Private Life of Henry VIII(1933)
Charles Laughton
Winner
Berkeley Square(1933)
Leslie Howard
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang(1932)
Paul Muni

1933

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931)
Fredric March
Winner
The Champ(1931)
Wallace Beery
Winner
The Guardsman(1931)
Alfred Lunt

1932

A Free Soul(1931)
Lionel Barrymore
Winner
Cimarron(1931)
Richard Dix
Skippy(1931)
Jackie Cooper
The Front Page(1931)
Adolphe Menjou
The Royal Family of Broadway(1930)
Fredric March

1931

Disraeli(1929)
George Arliss
Winner
Bulldog Drummond(1929)
Ronald Colman
Condemned!(1929)
Ronald Colman
The Big House(1930)
Wallace Beery
The Big Pond(1930)
Maurice Chevalier
The Green Goddess(1930)
George Arliss
The Love Parade(1929)
Maurice Chevalier
The Rogue Song(1930)
Lawrence Tibbett

1930

In Old Arizona(1928)
Warner Baxter
Winner
Alibi(1929)
Chester Morris
The Patriot(1928)
Lewis Stone
The Valiant(1929)
Paul Muni
Thunderbolt(1929)
George Bancroft

1929

The Last Command(1928)
Emil Jannings
Winner
The Way of All Flesh(1927)
Emil Jannings
Winner
The Noose(1928)
Richard Barthelmess
The Patent Leather Kid(1927)
Richard Barthelmess

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