BEST ACTOR
1927 / 28 : Emil Jannings in "THE LAST COMMAND" and "THE WAY OF ALL FLESH"
1928 / 29 : Warner Baxter in "IN OLD ARIZONA"
1929/30 : George Arliss in "DISRAELI"
1930 / 31 : Lionel Barrymore in "A FREE SOUL"
1931 / 32 : (tie) Wallace Beery in "THE CHAMP" and Fredric March in "DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE"
1932 / 33 : Charles Laughton in "THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII"
1934 : Clark Gable in "IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT"
1935 : Victor McLaglen in "THE INFORMER"
1936 : Paul Muni in "THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR"
1937 : Spencer Tracy in "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS"
1938 : Spencer Tracy in "BOYS TOWN"
1939 : Robert Donat in "GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS"
1940 : James Stewart in "THE PHILADELPHIA STORY"
1941 : Gary Cooper in "SERGEANT YORK"
1942 : James Cagney in "YANKEE DOODLE DANDY"
1943 : Paul Lukas in "WATCH ON THE RHINE"
1944 : Bing Crosby in "GOING MY WAY"
1945 : Ray Milland in "THE LOST WEEKEND"
1946 : Fredric March in "THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES"
1947 : Ronald Colman in "A DOUBLE LIFE"
1948 : Laurence Olivier in "HAMLET"
1949 : Broderick Crawford in "ALL THE KING'S MEN"
1950 : Jose Ferrer in "CYRANO DE BERGERAC"
1951 : Humphrey Bogart in "THE AFRICAN QUEEN"
1952 : Gary Cooper in "HIGH NOON"
1953 : William Holden in "STALAG 17"
1954 : Marlon Brando in "ON THE WATERFRONT"
1955 : Ernest Borgnine in "MARTY"
1956 : Yul Brynner in "THE KING AND I"
1957 : Alec Guinness in "THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI"
1958 : David Niven in "SEPARATE TABLES"
1959 : Charlton Heston in "BEN-HUR"
1960 : Burt Lancaster in "ELMER GANTRY"
1961 : Maxmilian Schell in "JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG"
1962 : Gregory Peck in "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD"
1963 : Sidney Poitier in "LILIES OF THE FIELD"
1964 : Rex Harrison in "MY FAIR LADY"
1965 : Lee Marvin in "CAT BALLOU"
1966 : Paul Scofield in "A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS"
1967 : Rod Steiger in "IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT"
1968 : Cliff Robertson in "CHARLY"
1969 : John Wayne in "TRUE GRIT"
1970 : George C. Scott in "PATTON"
1971 : Gene Hackman in "THE FRENCH CONNECTION"
1972 : Marlon Brando in "THE GODFATHER"
1973 : Jack Lemmon in "SAVE THE TIGER"
1974 : Art Carney in "HARRY AND TONTO"
1975 : Jack Nicholson in "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST"
1976 : Peter Finch in "NETWORK"
1977 : Richard Dreyfuss in "THE GOODBYE GIRL"
1978 : Jon Voight in "COMING HOME"
1979 : Dustin Hoffman in "KRAMER VS. KRAMER"
1980 : Robert De Niro in "RAGING BULL"
1981 : Henry Fonda in "ON GOLDEN POND"
1982 : Ben Kingsley in "GANDHI"
1983 : Robert Duvall in "TENDER MERCIES"
1984 : F. Murray Abraham in "AMADEUS"
1985 : William Hurt in "KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN"
1986 : Paul Newman in "THE COLOR OF MONEY"
1987 : Michael Douglas in "WALL STREET"
1988 : Dustin Hoffman in "RAIN MAN"
1989 : Daniel Day-Lewis in "MY LEFT FOOT"
1990 : Jeremy Irons in "REVERSAL OF FORTUNE"
1991 : Anthony Hopkins in "THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS"
1992 : Al Pacino in "SCENT OF A WOMAN"
1993 : Tom Hanks in "PHILADELPHIA"
1994 : Tom Hanks in "FORREST GUMP"
1995 : Nicolas Cage in "LEAVING LAS VEGAS"
1996 : Geoffrey Rush in "SHINE"
1997 : Jack Nicholson in "AS GOOD AS IT GETS"
1998 : Roberto Benigni in "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL"
1999 : Kevin Spacey in "American Beauty"
2000 : Russell Crowe in "Gladiator"
2001 : Denzil Washington in "Training Day"
2002 : Adrien Brody in "The Pianist"
2003 : Sean Penn in "Mystic River" ""
2004 : Jamie Fox in "Ray" ""
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