Talk:Academy Award for Best Actor
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Non-fictional roles
editWinners are in Bold
- Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty as Fletcher Christian
- Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty as William Bligh
- Charles Boyer - Conquest as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
- Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola as Émile Zola
- James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
- Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
- José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata
- José Ferrer - Moulin Rouge as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / The Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Yul Brynner - The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam
- Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life as Vincent van Gogh
- Laurence Olivier - Richard III as Richard III of England
- Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz as Robert Stroud
- Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence
List of films with more than one nomination
edit| Year | Film | Nominees |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty Best Picture |
Clark Gable Charles Laughton Franchot Tone |
| 1944 | Going My Way Best Picture |
Bing Crosby Barry Fitzgerald |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity Best Picture |
Montgomery Clift Burt Lancaster |
| 1956 | Giant | James Dean Rock Hudson |
| 1958 | The Defiant Ones | Tony Curtis Sidney Poitier |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Maximilian Schell Spencer Tracy |
| 1964 | Becket | Richard Burton Peter O'Toole |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy Best Picture |
Dustin Hoffman Jon Voight |
| 1972 | Sleuth | Michael Caine Laurence Olivier |
| 1976 | Network | Peter Finch William Holden |
| 1983 | The Dresser | Tom Courtenay Albert Finney |
| 1984 | Amadeus Best Picture |
F. Murray Abraham Tom Hulce |
On the list only Franchot Tone, Barry Fitzgerald, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney and Tom Hulce never won the Best Actor. Caine and Fitzgerald have won Best Supporting Actor and O'Toole won the Honorary Award in 2003.
Best Actor winners on the list are Clark Gable (1934), Charles Laughton (1933), Bing Crosby (1944), Burt Lancaster (1960), Sidney Poitier (1963), Maximilian Schell (1961), Spencer Tracy (1937 and 1938), Dustin Hoffman (1979 and 1988), Jon Voight (1978), Laurence Olivier (1948), Peter Finch (1976), William Holden (1953), F. Murray Abraham (1984)
Awards by Genre
editBackup data for Number of awards by genre of the film - ties count equal
| Actor | Role | Film | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Tracy | Manuel Fidello | Captains Courageous | Adventure |
| Humphrey Bogart | Charlie Allnut | The African Queen | Adventure |
| Rami Malek | Freddie Mercury | Bohemian Rhapsody | Biography |
| Spencer Tracy | Father Flanagan | Boys Town | Biography |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Truman Capote | Capote | Biography |
| Gary Oldman | Winston Churchill | Darkest Hour | Biography |
| George Arliss | Benjamin Disraeli | Disraeli | Biography |
| Ben Kingsley | Mahatma Gandhi | Gandhi | Biography |
| Will Smith | Richard Williams | King Richard | Biography |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln | Biography |
| Sean Penn | Harvey Milk | Milk | Biography |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | Christy Brown | My Left Foot | Biography |
| George C. Scott | General George S. Patton Jr. | Patton | Biography |
| Robert De Niro | Jake LaMotta | Raging Bull | Biography |
| Jamie Foxx | Ray Charles | Ray | Biography |
| Gary Cooper | Sgt. Alvin York | Sergeant York | Biography |
| Geoffrey Rush | David Helfgott | Shine | Biography |
| Colin Firth | King George VI | The King's Speech | Biography |
| Charles Laughton | King Henry VIII | The Private Life of Henry VIII | Biography |
| Paul Muni | Louis Pasteur | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Biography |
| Eddie Redmayne | Stephen Hawking | The Theory of Everything | Biography |
| James Cagney | George M. Cohan | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Biography |
| Lee Marvin | Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn | Cat Ballou | Comedy |
| Bing Crosby | Father Chuck O'Malley | Going My Way | Comedy |
| Kevin Spacey | Lester Burnham | American Beauty | Comedy-Drama |
| Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump | Comedy-Drama |
| Roberto Benigni | Guido Orefice | Life Is Beautiful | Comedy-Drama |
| Sidney Poitier | Homer Smith | Lilies of the Field | Comedy-Drama |
| Peter Finch † | Howard Beale | Network | Comedy-Drama |
| Henry Fonda | Norman Thayer Jr. | On Golden Pond | Comedy-Drama |
| Jack Nicholson | Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Comedy-Drama |
| Jean Dujardin | George Valentin | The Artist | Comedy-Drama |
| Ronald Colman | Anthony John | A Double Life | Drama |
| Lionel Barrymore | Stephen Ashe | A Free Soul | Drama |
| Paul Scofield | Sir Thomas More | A Man for All Seasons | Drama |
| Broderick Crawford | Willie Stark | All the King's Men | Drama |
| F. Murray Abraham | Antonio Salieri | Amadeus | Drama |
| Jon Voight | Luke Martin | Coming Home | Drama |
| Jeff Bridges | Otis "Bad" Blake | Crazy Heart | Drama |
| José Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Drama |
| Matthew McConaughey | Ron Woodroof | Dallas Buyers Club | Drama |
| Burt Lancaster | Elmer Gantry | Elmer Gantry | Drama |
| Robert Donat | Charles Edward Chipping | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Drama |
| Laurence Olivier | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Hamlet | Drama |
| Rod Steiger | Police Chief Bill Gillespie | In the Heat of the Night | Drama |
| Maximilian Schell | Hans Rolfe | Judgment at Nuremberg | Drama |
| William Hurt | Luis Molina | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Drama |
| Dustin Hoffman | Ted Kramer | Kramer vs. Kramer | Drama |
| Nicolas Cage | Ben Sanderson | Leaving Las Vegas | Drama |
| Casey Affleck | Lee Chandler | Manchester by the Sea | Drama |
| Ernest Borgnine | Marty Piletti | Marty | Drama |
| Marlon Brando | Terry Malloy | On the Waterfront | Drama |
| Tom Hanks | Andrew "Andy" Beckett | Philadelphia | Drama |
| Dustin Hoffman | Raymond Babbitt | Rain Man | Drama |
| Jeremy Irons | Claus von Bülow | Reversal of Fortune | Drama |
| Jack Lemmon | Harry Stoner | Save the Tiger | Drama |
| Al Pacino | Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade | Scent of a Woman | Drama |
| David Niven | Major Angus Pollock | Separate Tables | Drama |
| Robert Duvall | Mac Sledge | Tender Mercies | Drama |
| Fredric March | Platoon Sergeant Al Stephenson | The Best Years of Our Lives | Drama |
| Paul Newman | Fast Eddie Felson | The Color of Money | Drama |
| Anthony Hopkins | Anthony | The Father | Drama |
| Marlon Brando | Vito Corleone | The Godfather | Drama |
| Victor McLaglen | Gypo Nolan | The Informer | Drama |
| Emil Jannings | Grand Duke Sergius Alexander | The Last Command | Drama |
| Forest Whitaker | Idi Amin | The Last King of Scotland | Drama |
| Ray Milland | Don Birnam | The Lost Weekend | Drama |
| Adrien Brody | Wladyslaw Szpilman | The Pianist | Drama |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | Daniel Plainview | There Will Be Blood | Drama |
| Gregory Peck | Atticus Finch | To Kill a Mockingbird | Drama |
| Denzel Washington | Det. Sgt. Alonzo Harris | Training Day | Drama |
| Michael Douglas | Gordon Gekko | Wall Street | Drama |
| Paul Lukas | Kurt Muller | Watch on the Rhine | Drama |
| Charlton Heston | Judah Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur | Epic |
| Russell Crowe | Maximus Decimus Meridius | Gladiator | Epic |
| Fredric March | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Horror |
| Anthony Hopkins | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | The Silence of the Lambs | Horror |
| Rex Harrison | Professor Henry Higgins | My Fair Lady | Musical |
| Yul Brynner | King Mongkut of Siam | The King and I | Musical |
| Art Carney | Harry Coombes | Harry and Tonto | Road Movie |
| Jack Nicholson | Melvin Udall | As Good as It Gets | Romantic Comedy |
| Clark Gable | Peter Warne | It Happened One Night | Romantic Comedy |
| Richard Dreyfuss | Elliot Garfield | The Goodbye Girl | Romantic Comedy |
| James Stewart | Macaulay "Mike" Connor | The Philadelphia Story | Romantic Comedy |
| Cliff Robertson | Charly Gordon | Charly | Science Fiction |
| Wallace Beery | Andy "Champ" Purcell | The Champ | Sports |
| Joaquin Phoenix | Arthur Fleck / Joker | Joker | Superhero |
| Sean Penn | Jimmy Markum | Mystic River | Thriller |
| Gene Hackman | Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | The French Connection | Thriller |
| William Holden | Sgt. J.J. Sefton | Stalag 17 | War |
| Alec Guinness | Lt. Colonel Nicholson | The Bridge on the River Kwai | War |
| Gary Cooper | Marshal Will Kane | High Noon | Western |
| Warner Baxter | The Cisco Kid | In Old Arizona | Western |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Hugh Glass | The Revenant | Western |
| John Wayne | Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn | True Grit | Western |
Best male actor
editConsidering "actor" can often now refer to actors of either gender, should the fact that this is specifically for male actors and separate from Best Actress be emphasised more in the lead? 202.36.244.199 (talk) 17:45, 2 October 2024 (UTC)