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