The Academy Award For… Best Actor
April 15th, 2010
A video of every best actor winner at the Academy Awards, from 1928 to 2007. The winners are…
1928 Emil Jannings – The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander AND The Way of All Flesh as August Schilling
1929 Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid
1930 George Arliss – Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
1931 Lionel Barrymore – A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney
1932 Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde AND Wallace Beery – The Champ as Champ
1933 Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII
1934 Clark Gable – It Happened One Night as Peter Warne
1935 Victor McLaglen – The Informer as Gypo Nolan
1936 Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur as Dr. Louis Pasteur
1937 Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous as Manuel
1938 Spencer Tracy – Boys Town as Father Edward J. Flanigan
1939 Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Charles E. Chipping
1940 James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay Connor
1941 Gary Cooper – Sergeant York as Sergeant Alvin York
1942 James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
1943 Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller
1944 Bing Crosby – Going My Way as Father Chuck O’Malley
1945 Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend as Don Birnam
1946 Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson
1947 Ronald Colman – A Double Life as Anthony John
1948 Laurence Olivier – Hamlet as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1949 Broderick Crawford – All the King’s Men as Willie Stark
1950 José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
1951 Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen as Charlie Allnut
1952 Gary Cooper – High Noon as Will Kane
1953 William Holden – Stalag 17 as Sergeant J.J. Sefton
1954 Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy
1955 Ernest Borgnine – Marty as Marty Piletti
1956 Yul Brynner – The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam
1957 Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai as Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson
1958 David Niven – Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock
1959 Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur
1960 Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
1961 Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe
1962 Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch
1963 Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith
1964 Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady as Henry Higgins
1965 Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou as Kid Sheleen and Tim Strawn
1966 Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons as Thomas More
1967 Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night as Bill Gillespie
1968 Cliff Robertson – Charly as Charly Gordon
1969 John Wayne – True Grit as Rooster Cogburn
1970 George C. Scott – Patton as George S. Patton
1971 Gene Hackman – The French Connection as Detective Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle
1972 Marlon Brando – The Godfather as Vito Corleone
1973 Jack Lemmon – Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner
1974 Art Carney – Harry and Tonto as Harry Coombes
1975 Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy
1976 Peter Finch – Network as Howard Beale
1977 Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
1978 Jon Voight – Coming Home as Luke Martin
1979 Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer
1980 Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta
1981 Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer, Jr.
1982 Ben Kingsley – Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi
1983 Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge
1984 F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
1985 William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina
1986 Paul Newman – The Color of Money as Fast Eddie Felson
1987 Michael Douglas – Wall Street as Gordon Gekko
1988 Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot as Christy Brown
1990 Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow
1991 Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
1992 Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman as Lt. Col. Frank Slade
1993 Tom Hanks – Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett
1994 Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump
1995 Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson
1996 Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David Helfgott
1997 Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall
1998 Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful as Guido Orefice
1999 Kevin Spacey – American Beauty as Lester Burnham
2000 Russell Crowe – Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius
2001 Denzel Washington – Training Day as Alonzo Harris
2002 Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
2003 Sean Penn – Mystic River as Jimmy Markum
2004 Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote
2006 Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
MUSIC: “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” by Pink Floyd.
Duration : 0:7:13
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
good montage, but …
good montage, but this is NOT Pink Floyd
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
whats with the …
whats with the freaky demonic music? it dosent make sense!
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
uninformative slide …
uninformative slide show of screenshots
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Photos sind gut, …
Photos sind gut, aber die Musik ist einfach nur Scheiße!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Woops! I didn’t …
Woops! I didn’t read the preamble all the way through!
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
The photo of My …
The photo of My Fair Lady is the stage production with Julie Andrews.
Is that music Careful With That Axe Eugene by Pink Floyd?
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
you did say that, …
you did say that, my bad on the mix up.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
That’s what I said, …
That’s what I said, DUMBASS.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
they may win FOR …
they may win FOR the year the movie came out, but the win AT the following year’s oscars.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
They win for the …
They win for the YEAR the movie came out, and the awards are given the following year.
I think i’m not retarded.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
i know he won for …
i know he won for the year 1974, but the oscars for that year was held in 1975. Milk came out in 2008, but Penn won his oscar in 2009. There will be blood came out in 2007 but DDL won his award in 2008. You check your facts.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Uh, you need to …
Uh, you need to check your facts. He won for the year of 1974.
And Jack Lemmon deserved his Oscar for 1973.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
donnie brasco and …
donnie brasco and the insider had his best roles of the 90s.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
for his career or …
for his career or for his performance? The person that truly deserved it that year wasn’t even nominated. The years I put down below were for the year the oscars were held not the year the movie came out, Carney won in 75.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Uh, Art Carney …
Uh, Art Carney deserved his Oscar in 1974.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
does anyone think …
does anyone think the wrong last name may have been called when more than one nominee has the same first name, like Jack in 74 and Richard in 78.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
“Careful With That …
“Careful With That Axe, Eugene” by Pink Floyd.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Anyone know what …
Anyone know what this song is? It’s quite mysterious. I like it, more if it didn’t have screams in it.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Your missing afew …
Your missing afew you cunt
and why didnt you add some text so people knew who the the actors were and what the movies were
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Music to slit your …
Music to slit your wrists by.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Huh… who do you …
Huh… who do you suppose all of those people were?
It’s not like the video poster could have posted names… dates… movie titles… I know that they are in the video description… but only too late. I don’t feel like reading it now. Total waste of my time.
Stupid idiot.
I wish there was such a thing as negative 50 stars. I’ll suffice for 1.
Stupid moron.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
I love how he …
I love how he defied the whole glitz and glamour thing with the disturbing music.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
COULD have been …
COULD have been good…really it was just awful…1/5stars….What i would have imagined was names at the bottom of the screen….sound of the academy awards, not this…”music”……you don’t feel like you are looking through history, you just getting depressed…
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Ill be on that list …
Ill be on that list one day
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
the music is …
the music is disturbing in this montage