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