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can you name the movie for which these actors/actresses won their best actor/actress in a leading role Oscars?
grouping as actor/actress is based on the award, not the gender of the recipient, as they may not align in all cases
The Best Actor/Actress award goes to actors/actresses in leading roles; this quiz does not include Oscars for supporting roles
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Best Actor
actor
year
movie
F. Murray Abraham
1984
Amadeus
Casey Affleck
2016
Manchester by the Sea
George Arliss
1930
Disraeli
Warner Bancroft
1929
In Old Arizona
Lionel Barrymore
1931
A Free Soul
Wallace Beery
1932
The Champ
Roberto Benigni
1998
Life is Beautiful
Humphrey Bogart
1951
The African Queen
Ernest Borgnine
1955
Marty
Marlon Brando
1954 / 1972
On the Waterfront / The Godfather
Jeff Bridges
2009
Crazy Heart
Adrien Brody
2002, 2024
The Pianist / The Brutalist
Yul Brynner
1956
The King and I
Nicholas Cage
1995
Leaving Las Vegas
James Cagney
1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Art Carney
1974
Harry and Tonto
Ronald Colman
1947
A Double Life
Gary Cooper
1941 / 1952
Sergeant York / High Noon
Broderick Crawford
1949
All the King's Men
Bing Crosby
1944
Going My Way
Russell Crowe
2000
Gladiator
Daniel Day-Lewis
1989 / 2007 / 2012
My Left Foot / There Will Be Blood / Lincoln
Robert De Niro
1980
Raging Bull
Leonardo DiCaprio
2015
The Revenant
Robert Donat
1939
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Michael Douglas
1987
Wall Street
Richard Dreyfuss
1977
The Goodbye Girl
Jean Dujardin
2011
The Artist
Robert Duvall
1983
Tender Mercies
José Ferrer
1950
Cyrano de Bergerac
Peter Finch
1976
Network
Colin Firth
2010
The King's Speech
Henry Fonda
1981
On Golden Pond
Jamie Foxx
2004
Ray
Brendan Fraser
2022
The Whale
Clark Gable
1934
It Happened One Night
Alec Guinness
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Gene Hackman
1971
The French Connection
Tom Hanks
1993 / 1994
Philadelphia / Forrest Gump
Rex Harrison
1964
My Fair Lady
Charlton Heston
1959
Ben-Hur
Dustin Hoffman
1979 / 1988
Kramer vs. Kramer / Rain Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2005
Capote
William Holden
1953
Stalag 17
Anthony Hopkins
2020, 1991
The Father / Silence of the Lambs
William Hurt
1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Jeremy Irons
1990
Reversal of Fortune
Emil Jannings
1928
The Last Command / The Way of All Flesh
Ben Kingsley
1982
Gandhi
Burt Lancaster
1960
Elmer Gantry
Jack Lemmon
1973
Save the Tiger
Charles Laughton
1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Paul Lukas
1943
Watch on the Rhine
Rami Malek
2018
Bohemian Rhapsody
Frederic March
1932 / 1946
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Best Years of Our Lives
Lee Marvin
1965
Cat Ballou
Matthew McConaughey
2013
Dallas Buyer's Club
Victor McLaglen
1935
The Informer
Ray Milland
1945
The Lost Weekend
Paul Muni
1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Cillian Murphy
2023
Oppenheimer
Paul Newman
1986
The Color of Money
Jack Nicholson
1976 / 1997
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / As Good as It Gets
David Niven
1958
Separate Tables
Gary Oldman
2017
Darkest Hour
Laurence Olivier
1948
Hamlet
Al Pacino
1992
Scent of a Woman
Gregory Peck
1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
Sean Penn
2003 / 2008
Mystic River / Milk
Joaquin Phoenix
2019
Joker
Sidney Poitier
1963
Lilies of the Field
Eddie Redmayne
2014
The Theory of Everything
Cliff Robertson
1968
Charly
Geoffrey Rush
1996
Shine
Maximilian Schell
1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Paul Scofield
1966
A Man for All Seasons
George C. Scott
1970
Patton
Will Smith
2021
King Richard
Kevin Spacey
1999
American Beauty
Rod Steiger
1967
In the Heat of the Night
James Stewart
1940
The Philadelphia Story
Spencer Tracy
1937, 1938
Captain Courageous / Boys Town
Jon Voight
1978
Coming Home
Denzel Washington
2001
Training Day
John Wayne
1969
True Grit
Forest Whitaker
2006
The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
actor
year
movie
Julie Andrews
1964
Mary Poppins
Sandra Bullock
2009
The Blind Side
Anne Bancroft
1962
The Miracle Worker
Kathy Bates
1990
Misery
Ingrid Bergman
1944 / 1956
Gaslight / Anastasia
Halle Berry
2001
Monster's Ball
Cate Blanchette
2013
Blue Jasmine
Shirley Booth
1952
Come Back, Little Sheba
Ellen Burstyn
1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Jessica Chastain
2021
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Cher
1987
Moonstruck
Julie Christie
1965
Darling
Claudette Colbert
1934
It Happened One Night
Olivia Colman
2018
The Favourite
Marion Cotillard
2007
La Vie en Rose
Joan Crawford
1945
Mildred Pierce
Bette Davis
1935 / 1938
Dangerous / Jezebel
Olivia de Havilland
1946 / 1949
To Each His Own / The Heiress
Faye Dunaway
1976
Network
Marie Dressler
1931
Min and Bill
Sally Field
1979 / 1984
Norma Rae / Places in the Heart
Louise Fletcher
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jane Fonda
1971 / 1978
Klute / Coming Home
Joan Fontaine
1941
Suspicion
Jodie Foster
1988 / 1991
The Accused / The Silence of the Lambs
Greer Garson
1942
Mrs. Miniver
Janet Gaynor
1929
7th Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Helen Hayes
1932
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Susan Hayward
1958
I Want to Live!
Audrey Hepburn
1953
Roman Holiday
Katharine Hepburn
1933 / 1967 / 1968 / 1981
Morning Glory / Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / The Lion in Winter / On Golden Pond
Judy Holliday
1950
Born Yesterday
Helen Hunt
1997
As Good as It Gets
Holly Hunter
1993
The Piano
Glenda Jackson
1970 / 1973
Women in Love / A Touch of Class
Jennifer Jones
1943
The Song of Bernadette
Diane Keaton
1977
Annie Hall
Grace Kelly
1954
The Country Girl
Nicole Kidman
2002
The Hours
Jessica Lange
1994
Blue Sky
Brie Larson
2015
Room
Jennifer Lawrence
2012
Silver Linings Playbook
Vivien Leigh
1939 / 1951
Gone With the Wind / A Streetcar Named Desire
Sophia Loren
1961
Two Women
Shirley MacLaine
1983
Terms of Endearment
Mikey Madison
2024
Anora
Anna Magnani
1955
The Rose Tattoo
Marlee Matlin
1986
Children of a Lesser God
Frances McDormand
1996 / 2017 / 2020
Fargo / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri / Nomadland
Liza Minnelli
1972
Cabaret
Helen Mirren
2006
The Queen
Julianne Moore
2014
Still Alice
Patricia Neal
1963
Hud
Geraldine Page
1985
The Trip to Bountiful
Gwyneth Paltrow
1998
Shakespeare in Love
Mary Pickford
1929
Coquette
Natalie Portman
2010
Black Swan
Luise Rainer
1936 / 1937
The Great Ziegfeld /The Good Earth
Julia Roberts
2000
Erin Brockovich
Ginger Rogers
1940
Kitty Foyle
Susan Sarandon
1995
Dead Man Walking
Norma Shearer
1930
The Divorcee
Simone Signoret
1959
Room at the Top
Maggie Smith
1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sissy Spacek
1980
Coal Miner's Daughter
Emma Stone
2016 / 2023
La La Land / Poor Things
Meryl Streep
1982 / 2011
Sophie's Choice / The Iron Lady
Barbra Streisand
1968
Funny Girl
Hilary Swank
1999 / 2004
Boys Don't Cry / Million Dollar Baby
Jessica Tandy
1989
Driving Miss Daisy
Elizabeth Taylor
1960 / 1966
BUtterfield 8 / Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Charlize Theron
2003
Monster
Emma Thompson
1992
Howards End
Jane Wayman
1948
Johnny Belinda
Reese Witherspoon
2005
Walk the Line
Kate Winslet
2008
The Reader
Joanne Woodward
1957
The Three Faces of Eve
Michelle Yeoh
2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Loretta Young
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
Renée Zellweger
2019
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