Best Actor Winners

Best Actor Winners

Movies of the Best Actors from the Academy Awards
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92

Items on this list

74%

Average Rating

188h 54m

Total Runtime

$9.3B

Total Revenue
  1. The Last Command

    January 21, 1928

    Emil Jannings
  2. In Old Arizona

    December 25, 1928

    Warner Baxter
  3. Disraeli

    November 1, 1929

    George Arliss
  4. A Free Soul

    June 2, 1931

    Lionel Barrymore
  5. The Champ

    November 21, 1931

    Wallace Beery - Tie
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    December 24, 1931

    Fredric March - Tie
  7. The Private Life of Henry VIII

    September 21, 1933

    Charles Laughton
  8. The Informer

    May 9, 1935

    Victor McLaglen
  9. The Story of Louis Pasteur

    February 22, 1936

    Paul Muni
  10. Captains Courageous

    June 25, 1937

    Spencer Tracy
  11. Boys Town

    September 8, 1938

    Spencer Tracy
  12. Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    July 28, 1939

    Robert Donat
  13. The Philadelphia Story

    December 5, 1940

    James Stewart
  14. Sergeant York

    September 27, 1941

    Gary Cooper
  15. Yankee Doodle Dandy

    May 29, 1942

    James Cagney
  16. Watch on the Rhine

    August 27, 1943

    Paul Lukas
  17. Going My Way

    August 16, 1944

    Bing Crosby
  18. The Lost Weekend

    November 29, 1945

    Ray Milland
  19. The Best Years of Our Lives

    December 25, 1946

    Fredric March
  20. A Double Life

    December 25, 1947

    Ronald Colman
  21. Hamlet

    September 29, 1948

    Laurence Olivier
  22. All the King's Men

    November 16, 1949

    Broderick Crawford
  23. Cyrano de Bergerac

    November 16, 1950

  24. The African Queen

    February 20, 1952

    Humphrey Bogart
  25. High Noon

    July 30, 1952

    Gary Cooper
  26. Stalag 17

    May 29, 1953

    William Holden
  27. On the Waterfront

    July 28, 1954

    Marlon Brando
  28. Marty

    April 11, 1955

    Ernest Borgnine
  29. The King and I

    June 29, 1956

    Yul Brynner
  30. The Bridge on the River Kwai

    December 14, 1957

    Alec Guinness
  31. Separate Tables

    December 18, 1958

    David Niven
  32. Ben-Hur

    November 24, 1959

    Charlton Heston
  33. Elmer Gantry

    July 7, 1960

    Burt Lancaster
  34. Judgment at Nuremberg

    December 19, 1961

    Maximilian Schell
  35. To Kill a Mockingbird

    December 25, 1962

    Gregory Peck
  36. Lilies of the Field

    October 1, 1963

    Sidney Poitier
  37. My Fair Lady

    October 21, 1964

    Rex Harrison
  38. Cat Ballou

    June 24, 1965

    Lee Marvin
  39. A Man for All Seasons

    December 16, 1966

    Paul Scofield
  40. In the Heat of the Night

    August 2, 1967

    Rod Steiger
  41. Charly

    September 23, 1968

    Cliff Robertson
  42. True Grit

    June 11, 1969

    John Wayne
  43. Patton

    January 25, 1970

    George C. Scott
  44. The French Connection

    October 9, 1971

    Gene Hackman
  45. The Godfather

    March 24, 1972

    Marlon Brando
  46. Save the Tiger

    February 14, 1973

    Jack Lemmon
  47. Harry and Tonto

    August 12, 1974

    Art Carney
  48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    November 19, 1975

    Jack Nicholson
  49. Network

    November 14, 1976

    Peter Finch
  50. The Goodbye Girl

    November 27, 1977

    Richard Dreyfuss

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