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Oscar for Best Actor Films

Can you name the films that have resulted in their male lead earning an Oscar for Best Actor?
Year = year that the films were released
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TheodoreE45
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First submittedApril 9, 2020
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Year
Actor
Movie
2025
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners
2024
Adrien Brody
The Brutalist
2023
Cillian Murphy
Oppenheimer
2022
Brendan Fraser
The Whale
2021
Will Smith
King Richard
2020
Anthony Hopkins
The Father
2019
Joaquin Phoenix
Joker
2018
Rami Malek
Bohemian Rhapsody
2017
Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour
2016
Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea
2015
Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant
2014
Eddie Redmayne
The Theory of
Everything
2013
Matthew McConaughey
Dallas Buyers Club
2012
Daniel Day-Lewis
Lincoln
2011
Jean Dujardin
The Artist
2010
Colin Firth
The King's Speech
2009
Jeff Bridges
Crazy Heart
2008
Sean Penn
Milk
2007
Daniel Day-Lewis
There Will Be Blood
2006
Forest Whitaker
The Last King of
Scotland
2005
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Capote
2004
Jamie Foxx
Ray
2003
Sean Penn
Mystic River
2002
Adrian Brody
The Pianist
2001
Denzel Washington
Training Day
2000
Russell Crowe
Gladiator
1999
Kevin Spacey
American Beauty
1998
Roberto Benigni
Life is Beautiful
1997
Jack Nicholson
As Good as it Gets
1996
Geoffrey Rush
Shine
1995
Nicholas Cage
Leaving Las Vegas
1994
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
1993
Tom Hanks
Philadelphia
1992
Al Pacino
Scent of a Woman
1991
Anthony Hopkins
The Silence of
the Lambs
1990
Jeremy Irons
Reversal of Fortune
1989
Daniel Day-Lewis
My Left Foot
1988
Dustin Hoffman
Rain Man
1987
Michael Douglas
Wall Street
1986
Paul Newman
The Color of Money
1985
William Hurt
The Kiss of the
Spider Woman
1984
F. Murray Abraham
Amadeus
1983
Robert Duvall
Tender Mercies
1982
Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
1981
Henry Fonda
On Golden Pond
1980
Robert DeNiro
Raging Bull
1979
Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
1978
Jon Voight
Coming Home
1977
Richard Dreyfuss
The Goodbye Girl
1976
Peter Finch
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Year
Actor
Movie
1975
Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest
1974
Art Carney
Harry and Tonto
1973
Jack Lemmon
Save the Tiger
1972
Marlon Brando
The Godfather
1971
Gene Hackman
The French Connection
1970
George C. Scott
Patton
1969
John Wayne
True Grit
1968
Cliff Robertson
Charly
1967
Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night
1966
Paul Scofield
A Man for All Seasons
1965
Lee Marvin
Cat Ballou
1964
Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady
1963
Sidney Poitier
Lilies of the Field
1962
Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird
1961
Maximillian Schell
Judgment
at Nuremberg
1960
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
1959
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur
1958
David Niven
Separate Tables
1957
Alec Guinness
The Bridge on the
River Kwai
1956
Yul Brynner
The King and I
1955
Ernest Borgnine
Marty
1954
Marlon Brando
On the Waterfront
1953
William Holden
Stalag 17
1952
Gary Cooper
High Noon
1951
Humphrey Bogart
The African Queen
1950
José Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac
1949
Broderick Crawford
All the King's Men
1948
Laurence Olivier
Hamlet
1947
Ronald Colman
A Double Life
1946
Fredric March
The Best Years of
Our Lives
1945
Ray Milland
The Lost Weekend
1944
Bing Crosby
Going My Way
1943
Paul Lukas
Watch on the Rhine
1942
James Cagney
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941
Gary Cooper
Sergeant York
1940
James Stewart
The Philadelphia Story
1939
Robert Donat
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1938
Spencer Tracy
Boys Town
1937
Spencer Tracy
Captains Courageous
1936
Paul Muni
The Story
of Louis Pasteur
1935
Victor McLaglen
The Informer
1934
Clark Gable
It Happened One Night
1933
Charles Laughton
The Private Life of
Henry VIII
1932
Wallace Beery
The Champ
1932
Fredric March
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
Lionel Barrymore
A Free Soul
1930
George Arliss
Disraeli
1929
Warner Baxter
In Old Arizona
1928
Emil Jannings
The Last Command
1927
Emil Jannings
The Way of All Flesh
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18 Comments
AnnikaKim
+2
Level 66
Jun 9, 2021
Surprisingly hard - forgot some movies that I've seen! And I can't believe I noticed only one Tom Hanks - of course I would have known Forrest Gump too!
TheodoreE45
+1
Level 94
Jun 9, 2021
In your defense, when you scroll down it blurs both 'Tom Hanks' boxes together. Glad you enjoyed it and found it challenging!
AnnikaKim
+2
Level 66
Jun 10, 2021
Thanks, that actually makes me feel better! :)
mathandcheese
+2
Level 89
Apr 7, 2026
Great quiz! Just the one annoying comment that Jannings has an extra "n"
TheodoreE45
+1
Level 94
Apr 7, 2026
I will gladly accept any "annoying" comment if I've misspelled anything lol

Happy you enjoyed the quiz!

marquez100
+1
Level 93
Apr 7, 2026
Could you add time?
YamatoFans
+1
Level 73
May 20, 2026
Agreed, this is not enough time. It's barely enough time just to type all the names if you don't think at all
Rade
+1
Level 96
Apr 15, 2026
Emil Jannings won one Oscar for two films.
TheodoreE45
+1
Level 94
Apr 15, 2026
I had his two boxes merged into one before the feature, same with Tracy and Hanks but they're now unmerged and I cannot change it back
Rade
+1
Level 96
Apr 16, 2026
The thing is, he won one Oscar for two movies in one year. This makes it look like he won two Oscars in two different years. Tracy and Hanks won Oscars two years in a row.
TheodoreE45
+1
Level 94
Apr 16, 2026
I understand, and as you can see on my Best Actress films, Janet Gaynor won the inaugural Best Actress award for three films and they're all listed under one ceremony with three answers. Unfortunately with the removal of my 'merge' button I can't format this in a way that gets the actual point across.
YamatoFans
+1
Level 73
May 20, 2026
You could make the answer be The Way of All Flesh / The Last Command and accept either movie as a correct answer for it.
TheodoreE45
+1
Level 94
May 21, 2026
I'll try that out, thanks!
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 95
Apr 24, 2026
Very harsh not to accept the proper English spelling of “Judgement” even if the original film was mis-spelled.

Also, you get a point for Henry VII (when it should be Henry VIII).

Enjoyed the quiz, thanks

TheodoreE45
+1
Level 94
Apr 24, 2026
I have (pending) expanded type-ins for 'judgment,' though the Henry VIII automatically accepts because the JetPunk standard for any answer containing Henry VIII is 'Henry VI+'

Glad you enjoyed the quiz!

4thDuchess
+2
Level 51
May 18, 2026
I'm not a very fast typist. Could have done with extra time for thinking too :-)
YamatoFans
+2
Level 73
May 20, 2026
Very nice quiz.

It would be helpful to be more forgiving on Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. It typed a lot of combinations and never got it accepted. Frankly just taking Dr Jeckyl (1 L) should be enough. Especially since you accept just "One Flew Over"

TheodoreE45
+1
Level 94
May 21, 2026
I'll add some type-ins for that one, thank you for your constructive critiques :D
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