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