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References: List of Best Actor winners by age at win & Academy Award for Best Actor

#	Age	Name	Film	Annual	Year	Date of Birth	Date of Award	Notes
1	44 years, 297 days	Emil Jannings	The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh	1st	1927 / 1928	July 23, 1884	May 16, 1929
2	41 years, 5 days	Warner Baxter	In Old Arizona	2nd	1928 / 1929	March 29, 1889	April 3, 1930
3	62 years, 209 days	George Arliss	Disraeli	3rd	1929 / 1930	April 10, 1868	November 5, 1930
4	53 years, 196 days	Lionel Barrymore	A Free Soul	4th	1930 / 1931	April 28, 1878	November 10, 1931
5	47 years, 231 days	Wallace Beery	The Champ	5th	1931 / 1932	April 1, 1885	November 18, 1932	Tie
6	35 years, 79 days	Fredric March	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	5th	1931 / 1932	August 31, 1897	November 18, 1932	Tie
7	34 years, 258 days	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII	6th	1932 / 1933	July 1, 1899	March 16, 1934
8	34 years, 26 days	Clark Gable	It Happened One Night	7th	1934	February 1, 1901	February 27, 1935
9	49 years, 86 days	Victor McLaglen	The Informer	8th	1935	December 10, 1886	March 5, 1936
10	41 years, 163 days	Paul Muni	The Story of Louis Pasteur	9th	1936	September 22, 1895	March 4, 1937
11	37 years, 339 days	Spencer Tracy	Captains Courageous	10th	1937	April 5, 1900	March 10, 1938
12	38 years, 324 days	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town	11th	1938	April 5, 1900	February 23, 1939
13	34 years, 348 days	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	12th	1939	March 18, 1905	February 29, 1940
14	32 years, 283 days	James Stewart	The Philadelphia Story	13th	1940	May 20, 1908	February 27, 1941
15	40 years, 295 days	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York	14th	1941	May 7, 1901	February 26, 1942
16	43 years, 230 days	James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy	15th	1942	July 17, 1899	March 4, 1943
17	48 years, 281 days	Paul Lukas	Watch on the Rhine	16th	1943	May 26, 1895	March 2, 1944
18	41 years, 316 days	Bing Crosby	Going My Way	17th	1944	May 3, 1903	March 15, 1945
19	39 years, 63 days	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend	18th	1945	January 3, 1907	March 7, 1946
20	49 years, 194 days	Fredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives	19th	1946	August 31, 1897	March 13, 1947
21	57 years, 40 days	Ronald Colman	A Double Life	20th	1947	February 9, 1891	March 20, 1948
22	41 years, 306 days	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet	21st	1948	May 22, 1907	March 24, 1949
23	38 years, 104 days	Broderick Crawford	All the King's Men	22nd	1949	December 9, 1911	March 23, 1950
24	42 years, 80 days	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	23rd	1950	January 8, 1909	March 29, 1951
25	52 years, 86 days	Humphrey Bogart	The African Queen	24th	1951	December 25, 1899	March 20, 1952
26	51 years, 316 days	Gary Cooper	High Noon	25th	1952	May 7, 1901	March 19, 1953
27	35 years, 342 days	William Holden	Stalag 17	26th	1953	April 17, 1918	March 25, 1954
28	30 years, 361 days	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront	27th	1954	April 3, 1924	March 30, 1955
29	39 years, 57 days	Ernest Borgnine	Marty	28th	1955	January 24, 1917	March 21, 1956
30	36 years, 259 days	Yul Brynner	The King and I	29th	1956	July 11, 1920	March 27, 1957
31	43 years, 358 days	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai	30th	1957	April 2, 1914	March 26, 1958
32	49 years, 36 days	David Niven	Separate Tables	31st	1958	March 1, 1910	April 6, 1959
33	35 years, 183 days	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hur	32nd	1959	October 4, 1924	April 4, 1960
34	47 years, 166 days	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry	33rd	1960	November 2, 1913	April 17, 1961
35	31 years, 122 days	Maximilian Schell	Judgment at Nuremberg	34th	1961	December 8, 1930	April 9, 1962
36	47 years, 3 days	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird	35th	1962	April 5, 1916	April 8, 1963
37	37 years, 53 days	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field	36th	1963	February 20, 1927	April 13, 1964
38	57 years, 31 days	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady	37th	1964	March 5, 1908	April 5, 1965
39	42 years, 58 days	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou	38th	1965	February 19, 1924	April 18, 1966
40	45 years, 79 days	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons	39th	1966	January 21, 1922	April 10, 1967
41	42 years, 362 days	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night	40th	1967	April 14, 1925	April 10, 1968
42	43 years, 217 days	Cliff Robertson	Charly	41st	1968	September 9, 1925	April 14, 1969
43	62 years, 316 days	John Wayne	True Grit	42nd	1969	May 26, 1907	April 7, 1970
44	43 years, 179 days	George C. Scott	Patton	43rd	1970	October 18, 1927	April 15, 1971	Refused
45	42 years, 71 days	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	44th	1971	January 30, 1930	April 10, 1972
46	48 years, 358 days	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	45th	1972	April 3, 1924	March 27, 1973	Refused
47	49 years, 53 days	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger	46th	1973	February 8, 1925	April 2, 1974
48	56 years, 155 days	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto	47th	1974	November 4, 1918	April 8, 1975
49	38 years, 342 days	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	48th	1975	April 22, 1937	March 29, 1976
50	60 years, 181 days	Peter Finch	Network	49th	1976	September 28, 1916	March 28, 1977	Posthumous
51	30 years, 156 days	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl	50th	1977	October 29, 1947	April 3, 1978
52	40 years, 101 days	Jon Voight	Coming Home	51st	1978	December 29, 1938	April 9, 1979
53	42 years, 250 days	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs. Kramer	52nd	1979	August 8, 1937	April 14, 1980
54	37 years, 226 days	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull	53rd	1980	August 17, 1943	March 31, 1981
55	76 years, 317 days	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond	54th	1981	May 16, 1905	March 29, 1982
56	39 years, 101 days	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	55th	1982	December 31, 1943	April 11, 1983
57	53 years, 95 days	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies	56th	1983	January 5, 1931	April 9, 1984
58	45 years, 152 days	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus	57th	1984	October 24, 1939	March 25, 1985
59	36 years, 4 days	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman	58th	1985	March 20, 1950	March 24, 1986
60	62 years, 63 days	Paul Newman	The Color of Money	59th	1986	January 26, 1925	March 30, 1987
61	43 years, 199 days	Michael Douglas	Wall Street	60th	1987	September 25, 1944	April 11, 1988
62	51 years, 233 days	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man	61st	1988	August 8, 1937	March 29, 1989
63	32 years, 331 days	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	62nd	1989	April 29, 1957	March 26, 1990
64	42 years, 187 days	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune	63rd	1990	September 19, 1948	March 25, 1991
65	54 years, 90 days	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs	64th	1991	December 31, 1937	March 30, 1992
66	52 years, 338 days	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman	65th	1992	April 25, 1940	March 29, 1993
67	37 years, 255 days	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia	66th	1993	July 9, 1956	March 21, 1994
68	38 years, 261 days	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	67th	1994	July 9, 1956	March 27, 1995
69	32 years, 78 days	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	68th	1995	January 7, 1964	March 25, 1996
70	45 years, 261 days	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	69th	1996	July 6, 1951	March 24, 1997
71	60 years, 335 days	Jack Nicholson	As Good As It Gets	70th	1997	April 22, 1937	March 23, 1998
72	46 years, 145 days	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful	71st	1998	October 27, 1952	March 21, 1999
73	40 years, 244 days	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	72nd	1999	July 26, 1959	March 26, 2000
74	36 years, 352 days	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	73rd	2000	April 7, 1964	March 25, 2001
75	47 years, 86 days	Denzel Washington	Training Day	74th	2001	December 28, 1954	March 24, 2002
76	29 years, 343 days	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	75th	2002	April 14, 1973	March 23, 2003
77	43 years, 196 days	Sean Penn	Mystic River	76th	2003	August 17, 1960	February 29, 2004
78	37 years, 76 days	Jamie Foxx	Ray	77th	2004	December 13, 1967	February 27, 2005
79	38 years, 225 days	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	78th	2005	July 23, 1967	March 5, 2006
80	45 years, 225 days	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	79th	2006	July 15, 1961	February 25, 2007

References: List of Best Actress winners by age at win & Academy Award for Best Actress

Rank	Age	Name	Film	Annual	Year	Date of Birth	Date of Award	Notes
1	80 years, 292 days	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy	62nd	1989	June 7, 1909	March 26, 1990
2	74 years, 321 days	Katharine Hepburn	On Golden Pond	54th	1981	May 12, 1907	March 29, 1982
3	63 years, 1 day	Marie Dressler	Min and Bill	4th	1930 / 1931	November 9, 1868	November 10, 1931
4	61 years, 337 days	Katharine Hepburn	The Lion in Winter	41st	1968	May 12, 1907	April 14, 1969	Tie
5	61 years, 214 days	Helen Mirren	The Queen	79th	2006	July 26, 1945	February 25, 2007
6	61 years, 122 days	Geraldine Page	The Trip to Bountiful	58th	1985	November 22, 1924	March 24, 1986
7	60 years, 334 days	Katharine Hepburn	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	40th	1967	May 12, 1907	April 10, 1968
8	54 years, 201 days	Shirley Booth	Come Back, Little Sheba	25th	1952	August 30, 1898	March 19, 1953	Debut
9	49 years, 351 days	Shirley MacLaine	Terms of Endearment	56th	1983	April 24, 1934	April 9, 1984
10	49 years, 173 days	Susan Sarandon	Dead Man Walking	68th	1995	October 4, 1946	March 25, 1996
11	48 years, 14 days	Anna Magnani	The Rose Tattoo	28th	1955	March 7, 1908	March 21, 1956
12	45 years, 341 days	Jessica Lange	Blue Sky	67th	1994	April 20, 1949	March 27, 1995
13	42 years, 270 days	Kathy Bates	Misery	63rd	1990	June 28, 1948	March 25, 1991
14	42 years, 122 days	Ellen Burstyn	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	47th	1974	December 7, 1932	April 8, 1975
15	41 years, 327 days	Cher	Moonstruck	60th	1987	May 20, 1946	April 11, 1988
16	41 years, 280 days	Susan Hayward	I Want to Live!	31st	1958	June 30, 1917	April 6, 1959
17	41 years, 251 days	Louise Fletcher	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	48th	1975	July 22, 1934	March 29, 1976
18	41 years, 210 days	Ingrid Bergman	Anastasia	29th	1956	August 29, 1915	March 27, 1957
19	41 years, 109 days	Jane Fonda	Coming Home	51st	1978	December 21, 1937	April 9, 1979
20	40 years, 349 days	Joan Crawford	Mildred Pierce	18th	1945	March 23, 1905	March 7, 1946
21	39 years, 274 days	Frances McDormand	Fargo	69th	1996	June 23, 1957	March 24, 1997
22	39 years, 10 days	Simone Signoret	Room at the Top	32nd	1959	March 25, 1921	April 4, 1960
23	38 years, 156 days	Greer Garson	Mrs. Miniver	15th	1942	September 29, 1904	March 4, 1943
24	38 years, 139 days	Sally Field	Places in the Heart	57th	1984	November 6, 1946	March 25, 1985
25	38 years, 136 days	Vivien Leigh	A Streetcar Named Desire	24th	1951	November 5, 1913	March 20, 1952
26	38 years, 84 days	Patricia Neal	Hud	36th	1963	January 20, 1926	April 13, 1964
27	37 years, 360 days	Mary Pickford	Coquette	2nd	1928 / 1929	April 8, 1892	April 3, 1930
28	37 years, 328 days	Glenda Jackson	A Touch of Class	46th	1973	May 9, 1936	April 2, 1974
29	36 years, 73 days	Faye Dunaway	Network	49th	1976	January 14, 1941	March 28, 1977
30	36 years, 1 day	Holly Hunter	The Piano	66th	1993	March 20, 1958	March 21, 1994
31	35 years, 276 days	Nicole Kidman	The Hours	75th	2002	June 20, 1967	March 23, 2003
32	35 years, 222 days	Halle Berry	Monster's Ball	74th	2001	August 14, 1966	March 24, 2002
33	35 years, 100 days	Maggie Smith	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	42nd	1969	December 28, 1934	April 7, 1970
34	35 years, 74 days	Loretta Young	The Farmer's Daughter	20th	1947	January 6, 1913	March 20, 1948
35	35 years, 42 days	Elizabeth Taylor	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	39th	1966	February 27, 1932	April 10, 1967
36	34 years, 341 days	Glenda Jackson	Women in Love	43rd	1970	May 9, 1936	April 15, 1971
37	34 years, 281 days	Helen Hunt	As Good As It Gets	70th	1997	June 15, 1963	March 23, 1998
38	34 years, 111 days	Jane Fonda	Klute	44th	1971	December 21, 1937	April 10, 1972
39	33 years, 348 days	Emma Thompson	Howards End	65th	1992	April 15, 1959	March 29, 1993
40	33 years, 293 days	Meryl Streep	Sophie's Choice	55th	1982	June 22, 1949	April 11, 1983
41	33 years, 265 days	Olivia de Havilland	The Heiress	22nd	1949	July 1, 1916	March 23, 1950
42	33 years, 160 days	Sally Field	Norma Rae	52nd	1979	November 6, 1946	April 14, 1980
43	33 years, 148 days	Julia Roberts	Erin Brockovich	73rd	2000	October 28, 1967	March 25, 2001
44	32 years, 88 days	Diane Keaton	Annie Hall	50th	1977	January 5, 1946	April 3, 1978
45	32 years, 78 days	Jane Wyman	Johnny Belinda	21st	1948	January 5, 1917	March 24, 1949
46	32 years, 39 days	Helen Hayes	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	5th	1931 / 1932	October 10, 1900	November 18, 1932
47	31 years, 203 days	Anne Bancroft	The Miracle Worker	35th	1962	September 17, 1931	April 8, 1963
48	31 years, 167 days	Claudette Colbert	It Happened One Night	7th	1934	September 13, 1903	February 27, 1935
49	31 years, 96 days	Sissy Spacek	Coal Miner's Daughter	53rd	1980	December 25, 1949	March 31, 1981
50	30 years, 324 days	Bette Davis	Jezebel	11th	1938	April 5, 1908	February 23, 1939
51	30 years, 255 days	Olivia de Havilland	To Each His Own	19th	1946	July 1, 1916	March 13, 1947
52	30 years, 212 days	Hilary Swank	Million Dollar Baby	77th	2004	July 30, 1974	February 27, 2005
53	29 years, 348 days	Reese Witherspoon	Walk the Line	78th	2005	March 22, 1976	March 5, 2006
54	29 years, 281 days	Judy Holliday	Born Yesterday	23rd	1950	June 21, 1921	March 29, 1951
55	29 years, 226 days	Ginger Rogers	Kitty Foyle	13th	1940	July 16, 1911	February 27, 1941
56	29 years, 198 days	Ingrid Bergman	Gaslight	17th	1944	August 29, 1915	March 15, 1945
57	29 years, 186 days	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins	37th	1964	October 1, 1935	April 5, 1965	Debut
58	29 years, 132 days	Jodie Foster	The Silence of the Lambs	64th	1991	November 19, 1962	March 30, 1992
59	29 years, 49 days	Elizabeth Taylor	BUtterfield 8	33rd	1960	February 27, 1932	April 17, 1961
60	28 years, 206 days	Charlize Theron	Monster	76th	2003	August 7, 1975	February 29, 2004
61	28 years, 87 days	Norma Shearer	The Divorcee	3rd	1929 / 1930	August 10, 1902	November 5, 1930
62	28 years, 57 days	Luise Rainer	The Good Earth	10th	1937	January 12, 1910	March 10, 1938
63	28 years, 27 days	Joanne Woodward	The Three Faces of Eve	30th	1957	February 27, 1930	March 26, 1958
64	27 years, 335 days	Bette Davis	Dangerous	8th	1935	April 5, 1908	March 5, 1936
65	27 years, 201 days	Sophia Loren	Two Women	34th	1961	September 20, 1934	April 9, 1962
66	27 years, 51 days	Luise Rainer	The Great Ziegfeld	9th	1936	January 12, 1910	March 4, 1937
67	27 years, 15 days	Liza Minnelli	Cabaret	45th	1972	March 12, 1946	March 27, 1973
68	26 years, 355 days	Barbra Streisand	Funny Girl	41st	1968	April 24, 1942	April 14, 1969	Debut / Tie
69	26 years, 308 days	Katharine Hepburn	Morning Glory	6th	1932 / 1933	May 12, 1907	March 16, 1934
70	26 years, 175 days	Gwyneth Paltrow	Shakespeare in Love	71st	1998	September 27, 1972	March 21, 1999
71	26 years, 130 days	Jodie Foster	The Accused	61st	1988	November 19, 1962	March 29, 1989
72	26 years, 116 days	Vivien Leigh	Gone with the Wind	12th	1939	November 5, 1913	February 29, 1940
73	25 years, 240 days	Hilary Swank	Boys Don't Cry	72nd	1999	July 30, 1974	March 26, 2000
74	25 years, 138 days	Grace Kelly	The Country Girl	27th	1954	November 12, 1929	March 30, 1955
75	25 years, 4 days	Julie Christie	Darling	38th	1965	April 14, 1941	April 18, 1966
76	25 years, 0 days	Jennifer Jones	The Song of Bernadette	16th	1943	March 2, 1919	March 2, 1944
77	24 years, 325 days	Audrey Hepburn	Roman Holiday	26th	1953	May 4, 1929	March 25, 1954
78	24 years, 127 days	Joan Fontaine	Suspicion	14th	1941	October 22, 1917	February 26, 1942
79	22 years, 222 days	Janet Gaynor	7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise	1st	1927 / 1928	October 6, 1906	May 16, 1929
80	21 years, 218 days	Marlee Matlin	Children of a Lesser God	59th	1986	August 24, 1965	March 30, 1987	Debut