Academy Award for Best Actor

2008 - Sean Penn - Milk
2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
2006 - Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
2004 - Jamie Foxx - Ray
2003 - Sean Penn - Mystic River
2002 - Adrien Brody - The Pianist
2001 - Denzel Washington - Training Day
2000 - Russell Crowe - Gladiator
1999 - Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
1998 - Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
1997 - Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets
1996 - Geoffrey Rush - Shine
1995 - Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
1994 - Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
1993 - Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
1992 - Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
1991 - Anthony Hopkins - The Silence Of The Lambs
1990 - Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
1989 - Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
1988 - Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
1987 - Michael Douglas - Wall Street
1986 - Paul Newman - The Color Of Money
1985 - William Hurt - Kiss Of The Spider Woman
1984 - F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
1983 - Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
1982 - Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
1981 - Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
1980 - Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
1979 - Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
1978 - Jon Voight - Coming Home
1977 - Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
1976 - Peter Finch - Network
1975 - Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1974 - Art Carney - Harry And Tonto
1973 - Jack Lemmon - Save The Tiger
1972 - Marlon Brando - The Godfather
1971 - Gene Hackman - The French Connection
1970 - George C. Scott - Patton
1969 - John Wayne - True Grit
1968 - Cliff Robertson - Charly
1967 - Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
1966 - Paul Scofield - A Man for all Seasons
1965 - Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
1964 - Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
1963 - Sidney Poitier - Lillies Of The Field
1962 - Gregory Peck - To Kill A Mocking Bird
1961 - Maximilian Schell - Judgment At Nuremburg
1960 - Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
1959 - Charlton Heston - Ben
1958 - David Niven - Separate Tables
1957 - Alec Guinness - The Bridge Over The River Kwai
1956 - Yul Brynner - The King And I
1955 - Ernest Borgnine - Marty
1954 - Marlon Brando - On The Waterfront
1953 - William Holden - Stalag 17
1952 - Gary Cooper - High Noon
1951 - Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
1950 - José Ferrer - Cyrano De Bergerac
1949 - Broderick Crawford - All The King'S Men
1948 - Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
1947 - Ronald Colman - A Double Life
1946 - Fredric March - The Best Years Of Our Lives
1945 - Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
1944 - Bing Crosby - Going My Way
1943 - Paul Lukas - Watch On The Rhine
1942 - James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941 - Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
1940 - James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
1939 - Robert Donat - Goodbye Mr Chips
1938 - Spencer Tracy - Boys Town
1937 - Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
1936 - Paul Muni - The Story Of Louis Pasteur
1935 - Victor McLaglen - The Informer
1934 - Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
1933 - Charles Laughton - The Private Life Of Henry Viii
1932 - Wallace Beery - The Champ
1931 - Fredric March - Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
1930 - Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
1929 - George Arliss - Disraeli
1928 - Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
1927 - Emil Jannings - The Last Command
1927 - Emil Jannings - The Way Of All Flesh