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Oscars for Best Actor 1990-2025

Can you guess the Academy Award winners for Best Actor since 1990?
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1. 1990
Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)
Robert De Niro (Awakenings)
Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)
Gérard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac)
2. 1991
Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides)
Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
Warren Beatty (Bugsy)
Robert De Niro (Cape Fear)
3. 1992
Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
Stephen Rea (The Crying Game)
Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin)
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
4. 1993
Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It)
Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father)
Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day)
Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
5. 1994
Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George)
Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption)
Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
Paul Newman (Nobody's Fool)
6. 1995
Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking)
Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland's Opus)
Anthony Hopkins (Nixon)
Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)
7. 1996
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt)
Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire)
Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient)
8. 1997
Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting)
Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets)
Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold)
Robert Duvall (The Apostle)
9. 1998
Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters)
Nick Nolte (Affliction)
Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful)
Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan)
10. 1999
Sean Penn (Sweet and Lowdown)
Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story)
Russell Crowe (The Insider)
11. 2000
Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls)
Ed Harris (Pollock)
Tom Hanks (Cast Away)
Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
12. 2001
Sean Penn (I Am Sam)
Will Smith (Ali)
Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)
Denzel Washington (Training Day)
13. 2002
Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York)
Nicolas Cage (Adaptation)
Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
Michael Caine (The Quiet American)
14. 2003
Jude Law (Cold Mountain)
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog)
Sean Penn (Mystic River)
15. 2004
Jamie Foxx (Ray)
Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator)
Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland)
16. 2005
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)
Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line)
Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
17. 2006
Peter O'Toole (Venus)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond)
Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
18. 2007
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
19. 2008
Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Sean Penn (Milk)
Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
20. 2009
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
21. 2010
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
22. 2011
Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
George Clooney (The Descendants)
Demián Bichir (A Better Life)
23. 2012
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
24. 2013
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
25. 2014
Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
26. 2015
Matt Damon (The Martian)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Bryan Cranston (Trumbo)
Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
27. 2016
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
28. 2017
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name)
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
29. 2018
Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Christian Bale (Vice)
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate)
Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
30. 2019
Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
31. 2020
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Gary Oldman (Mank)
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
32. 2021
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick... Boom!)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Will Smith (King Richard)
33. 2022
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Bill Nighy (Living)
34. 2023
Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
35. 2024
Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)
Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)
Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
36. 2025
Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
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