Best Actor Oscar Nominees

Can you name every single actor that has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor?

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Year	Actor
2023	Paul Giamatti
2023	Cillian Murphy
2023	Colman Domingo
2023	Jeffrey Wright
2022	Brendan Fraser
2022	Colin Farrell
2022	Austin Butler
2022	Bill Nighy
2022	Paul Mescal
2020	Riz Ahmed
2020	Chadwick Boseman
2020	Steven Yeun
2019	Adam Driver
2019	Jonathan Pryce
2019	Antonio Banderas
2018	Willem Dafoe
2018	Rami Malek
2017	Timothée Chalamet
2017	Daniel Kaluuya
2016	Casey Affleck
2016	Andrew Garfield
2015	Michael Fassbender
2015	Bryan Cranston
2014	Benedict Cumberbatch
2014	Michael Keaton
2014	Steve Carell
2014	Eddie Redmayne
2013	Chiwetel Ejiofor
2013	Matthew McConaughey
2013	Christian Bale
2013	Bruce Dern
2012	Bradley Cooper
2012	Hugh Jackman
2011	Jean Dujardin
2011	Gary Oldman
2011	Demian Bichir
2010	Jesse Eisenberg
2010	James Franco
2009	Colin Firth
2009	Jeremy Renner
2008	Mickey Rourke
2008	Brad Pitt
2008	Frank Langella
2008	Richard Jenkins
2007	Viggo Mortensen
2007	George Clooney
2007	Tommy Lee Jones
2006	Forest Whitaker
2006	Ryan Gosling
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman
2005	Heath Ledger
2005	Joaquin Phoenix
2005	Terrence Howard
2005	David Strathairn
2004	Jamie Foxx
2004	Leonardo DiCaprio
2004	Don Cheadle
2003	Johnny Depp
2003	Bill Murray
2003	Jude Law
2002	Adrien Brody
2001	Will Smith

Year	Actor
2001	Tom Wilkinson
2000	Ed Harris
2000	Javier Bardem
1999	Kevin Spacey
1999	Russell Crowe
1999	Richard Farnsworth
1998	Roberto Benigni
1998	Edward Norton
1998	Ian McKellen
1997	Matt Damon
1997	Peter Fonda
1996	Geoffrey Rush
1996	Ralph Fiennes
1996	Woody Harrelson
1996	Billy Bob Thornton
1995	Nicolas Cage
1995	Sean Penn
1995	Massimo Troisi
1994	Nigel Hawthorne
1993	Laurence Fishburne
1993	Liam Neeson
1992	Clint Eastwood
1992	Denzel Washington
1992	Robert Downey Jr.
1992	Stephen Rea
1991	Anthony Hopkins
1991	Nick Nolte
1990	Jeremy Irons
1990	Kevin Costner
1990	Gerard Depardieu
1989	Daniel Day-Lewis
1989	Tom Cruise
1989	Morgan Freeman
1989	Kenneth Branagh
1988	Tom Hanks
1988	Max Von Sydow
1988	Edward James Olmos
1987	Michael Douglas
1987	Robin Williams
1986	James Woods
1986	Bob Hoskins
1986	Dexter Gordon
1985	William Hurt
1985	Harrison Ford
1985	James Garner
1984	F. Murray Abraham
1984	Tom Hulce
1984	Jeff Bridges
1984	Sam Waterston
1983	Tom Conti
1983	Tom Courtenay
1982	Ben Kingsley
1981	Dudley Moore
1980	Robert Duvall
1980	John Hurt
1979	Roy Scheider
1978	Gary Busey
1977	Richard Dreyfuss
1977	John Travolta
1977	Woody Allen
1976	Robert De Niro
1976	Sylvester Stallone

Year	Actor
1976	Giancarlo Giannini
1975	James Whitmore
1974	Art Carney
1973	Al Pacino
1973	Robert Redford
1972	Paul Winfield
1971	Gene Hackman
1971	Peter Finch
1971	Walter Matthau
1971	Chaim Topol
1970	George C. Scott
1970	Jack Nicholson
1970	Ryan O'Neal
1970	James Earl Jones
1970	Melvyn Douglas
1969	Jon Voight
1968	Cliff Robertson
1968	Ron Moody
1968	Alan Bates
1967	Dustin Hoffman
1967	Warren Beatty
1966	Paul Scofield
1966	Steve McQueen
1966	Michael Caine
1966	Alan Arkin
1965	Lee Marvin
1965	Rod Steiger
1965	Oskar Werner
1964	Peter Sellers
1963	Rex Harrison
1963	Richard Harris
1963	Albert Finney
1962	Peter O'Toole
1962	Marcello Mastroianni
1961	Maximilian Schell
1961	Stuart Whitman
1960	Trevor Howard
1959	Charlton Heston
1959	Jack Lemmon
1959	Laurence Harvey
1958	David Niven
1958	Paul Newman
1958	Sidney Poitier
1958	Tony Curtis
1957	Anthony Quinn
1957	Anthony Franciosa
1956	Yul Brynner
1956	Rock Hudson
1955	Ernest Borgnine
1955	James Dean
1955	Frank Sinatra
1954	James Mason
1954	Dan O'Herlihy
1953	Richard Burton
1953	Burt Lancaster
1952	Alec Guinness
1951	Marlon Brando
1951	Arthur Kennedy
1950	Jose Ferrer
1950	William Holden
1950	Louis Calhern
1949	Broderick Crawford

Year	Actor
1949	John Wayne
1949	Kirk Douglas
1949	Richard Todd
1948	Montgomery Clift
1948	Lew Ayres
1948	Dan Dailey
1948	Clifton Webb
1947	John Garfield
1947	Michael Redgrave
1946	Larry Parks
1945	Ray Milland
1945	Gregory Peck
1945	Gene Kelly
1945	Cornel Wilde
1944	Bing Crosby
1944	Alexander Knox
1944	Barry Fitzgerald
1943	Paul Lukas
1943	Humphrey Bogart
1942	Walter Pidgeon
1942	Monty Woolley
1941	Cary Grant
1941	Orson Welles
1940	Henry Fonda
1940	Charlie Chaplin
1940	Raymond Massey
1939	James Stewart
1939	Laurence Olivier
1939	Mickey Rooney
1938	James Cagney
1938	Robert Donat
1938	Leslie Howard
1937	Charles Boyer
1937	Robert Montgomery
1936	Spencer Tracy
1936	Gary Cooper
1936	Walter Huston
1935	Victor McLaglen
1935	Franchot Tone
1934	Clark Gable
1934	Frank Morgan
1934	William Powell
1933	Charles Laughton
1932	Alfred Lunt
1931	Lionel Barrymore
1931	Fredric March
1931	Jackie Cooper
1931	Richard Dix
1931	Adolphe Menjou
1930	George Arliss
1930	Ronald Colman
1930	Wallace Beery
1930	Lawrence Tibbett
1930	Maurice Chevalier
1929	Warner Baxter
1929	Paul Muni
1929	George Bancroft
1929	Chester Morris
1929	Lewis Stone
1928	Emil Jannings
1928	Richard Barthelmess

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