Oscars for Best Actor 1990-2023

Can you name Academy Award winners for Best Actor since 1990?

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1. 1990

Robert De Niro (Awakenings) ✓

Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune) ✓

Gérard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac) ✓

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) ✓

2. 1991

Robert De Niro (Cape Fear) ✓

Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides) ✓

Warren Beatty (Bugsy) ✓

Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) ✓

3. 1992

Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) ✓

Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) ✓

Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin) ✓

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven) ✓

4. 1993

Tom Hanks (Philadelphia) ✓

Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father) ✓

Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day) ✓

Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It) ✓

5. 1994

Paul Newman (Nobody's Fool) ✓

Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George) ✓

Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption) ✓

Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) ✓

6. 1995

Anthony Hopkins (Nixon) ✓

Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland's Opus) ✓

Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking) ✓

Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) ✓

7. 1996

Geoffrey Rush (Shine) ✓

Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire) ✓

Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt) ✓

Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient) ✓

8. 1997

Robert Duvall (The Apostle) ✓

Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets) ✓

Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) ✓

Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold) ✓

9. 1998

Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) ✓

Nick Nolte (Affliction) ✓

Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters) ✓

Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan) ✓

10. 1999

Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story) ✓

Sean Penn (Sweet and Lowdown) ✓

Russell Crowe (The Insider) ✓

Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) ✓

11. 2000

Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) ✓

Russell Crowe (Gladiator) ✓

Tom Hanks (Cast Away) ✓

Ed Harris (Pollock) ✓

12. 2001

Denzel Washington (Training Day) ✓

Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) ✓

Sean Penn (I Am Sam) ✓

Will Smith (Ali) ✓

13. 2002

Adrien Brody (The Pianist) ✓

Michael Caine (The Quiet American) ✓

Nicolas Cage (Adaptation) ✓

Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) ✓

14. 2003

Sean Penn (Mystic River) ✓

Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog) ✓

Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) ✓

Jude Law (Cold Mountain) ✓

15. 2004

Jamie Foxx (Ray) ✓

Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland) ✓

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator) ✓

Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) ✓

16. 2005

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) ✓

Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) ✓

Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line) ✓

Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) ✓

17. 2006

Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) ✓

Peter O'Toole (Venus) ✓

Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond) ✓

Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) ✓

18. 2007

Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) ✓

Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) ✓

Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah) ✓

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

Colin Firth (A Single Man) ✓

Morgan Freeman (Invictus) ✓

George Clooney (Up in the Air) ✓

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) ✓

21. 2010

Colin Firth (The King's Speech) ✓

Javier Bardem (Biutiful) ✓

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) ✓

Jeff Bridges (True Grit) ✓

22. 2011

Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) ✓

Demián Bichir (A Better Life) ✓

George Clooney (The Descendants) ✓

Jean Dujardin (The Artist) ✓

23. 2012

Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) ✓

Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables) ✓

Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) ✓

Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) ✓

24. 2013

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) ✓

Bruce Dern (Nebraska) ✓

Christian Bale (American Hustle) ✓

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) ✓

25. 2014

Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) ✓

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) ✓

Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) ✓

Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) ✓

26. 2015

Bryan Cranston (Trumbo) ✓

Matt Damon (The Martian) ✓

Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs) ✓

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) ✓

Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name) ✓

Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread) ✓

29. 2018

Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate) ✓

Christian Bale (Vice) ✓

Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) ✓

Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born) ✓

30. 2019

Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) ✓

Adam Driver (Marriage Story) ✓

Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) ✓

Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) ✓

31. 2020

Anthony Hopkins (The Father) ✓

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) ✓

Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) ✓

Gary Oldman (Mank) ✓

32. 2021

Will Smith (King Richard) ✓

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) ✓

Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos) ✓

Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick... Boom!) ✓

33. 2022

Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) ✓

Brendan Fraser (The Whale) ✓

Bill Nighy (Living) ✓

Austin Butler (Elvis) ✓

34. 2023

Bradley Cooper (Maestro) ✓

Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) ✓

Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) ✓

Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) ✓

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