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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
Oct 1, 2024 · Tracy became the first to win two best-actor Oscars in consecutive years, one year after Luise Rainer achieved the same feat in the best-actress category.
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Academy Award for best actor, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honours the male actor in a leading role who delivered the most outstanding performance in a movie of a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. The prize was presented in 1929 at the ...
•1929: Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh [1927] and The Last Command [1928])
•1930: Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona [1928])
•1931: George Arliss (Disraeli [1929])
•1932: Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul [1931])
•1933: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1931]) and Wallace Beery (The Champ [1931])
•(All subsequent films were released the previous year.)
•1940: Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
•1941: James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
•1942: Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
•1943: James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
•1944: Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
•1945: Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
•1960: Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
•1961: Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
•1962: Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
•1963: Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
•1964: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
•1965: Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
•1980: Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
•1981: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
•1982: Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
•1983: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
•1984: Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
•1985: F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
•2000: Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
•2001: Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
•2002: Denzel Washington (Training Day)
•2003: Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
•2004: Sean Penn (Mystic River)
•2005: Jamie Foxx (Ray)
•2020: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
•2021: Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
•2022: Will Smith (King Richard)
•2023: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
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- 2023: Brendan Fraser, The Whale. Following a decades-long break from the industry, Oscar winner Fraser made a triumphant return in The Whale, which follows the story of a reclusive man trying to repair his relationship with his teen daughter.
- 2022: Will Smith, King Richard. Smith won his first Oscar in 2022 for his performance as Richard Williams — Venus and Serena's father — in King Richard.
- 2021: Anthony Hopkins, The Father. Hopkins became the oldest star to win the Best Actor title when he was awarded the prize for his performance in The Father at age 83.
- 2020: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker. Phoenix won the award for his role as the titular villain. The actor is currently filming the movie's sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux.
The First Oscar Presentation and Banquet. Held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Joseph Farnham. Farnham receiving his Oscar from presenter Douglas Fairbanks. Janet Gaynor. Best Actress winner for 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise. View More Memorable Moments.
Unlike later ceremonies, an actor could be awarded for multiple films: Emil Jannings won Best Actor for his work in both The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command, while Best Actress winner Janet Gaynor was honored for three films.
The first winner of the Academy Award. 2. Warner Baxter. Actor. Soundtrack. Penthouse (1933) Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent."
