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Leading Actor

1st Academy Awards - 1927/1928 ​

  • Emil Jannings (The Last Command) - 44:15 / 49.98%

  • Richard Barthelmess (The Patent Leather Kid) - 1:06:27 / 52.29%

  • Richard Barthelmess (The Noose) - unknown (unavailable film)

  • Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh) - unknown (lost film)

2nd Academy Awards - 1928/1929 ​

  • Paul Muni (The Valiant) - 28:07 / 46.49%

  • Chester Morris (Alibi) - 29:13 / 35.22%

  • Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona) - 47:38 / 48.20%

  • George Bancroft (Thunderbolt) - 47:45 / 54.90%

  • Lewis Stone (The Patriot) - unknown (lost film)

3rd Academy Awards - 1929/1930 ​

  • Wallace Beery (The Big House) - 33:02 / 37.90%

  • George Arliss (The Green Goddess) - 40:18 / 55.27%

  • Ronald Colman (Condemned) - 40:42 / 47.55%

  • Ronald Colman (Bulldog Drummond) - 47:40 / 53.68%

  • Maurice Chevalier (The Big Pond) - 51:53 / 66.79%

  • Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade) - 52:25 / 48.11%

  • George Arliss (Disraeli) - 1:07:13 / 77.51%

  • Lawrence Tibbett (The Rogue Song) - unknown (lost film)

4th Academy Awards - 1930/1931 ​

  • Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway) - 21:45 / 28.20%

  • Adolphe Menjou (The Front Page) - 33:05 / 32.84%

  • Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul) - 43:20 / 46.35%

  • Richard Dix (Cimarron) - 1:06:24 / 53.79%

  • Jackie Cooper (Skippy) - 1:10:57 / 83.01%

5th Academy Awards - 1931/1932 ​

  • Wallace Beery (The Champ) - 55:49 / 64.71%

  • Alfred Lunt (The Guardsman) - 1:01:49 / 75.63%

  • Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) - 1:14:53 / 78.11%

6th Academy Awards - 1932/1933 ​

  • Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII) - 51:23 / 54.98%

  • Leslie Howard (Berkeley Square) - 58:59 / 67.15%

  • Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) - 1:01:17 / 66.25%

7th Academy Awards - 1934 ​

  • Frank Morgan (The Affairs of Cellini) - 33:19 / 42.16%

  • William Powell (The Thin Man) - 54:04 / 59.48%

  • Clark Gable (It Happened One Night) - 1:00:29 / 57.61%

8th Academy Awards - 1935

  • Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty) - 40:09/ 30.29%

  • Franchot Tone (Mutiny on the Bounty) - 44:42 / 33.72%

  • Paul Muni (Black Fury) - 48:59 / 52.15% (write-in nomination)

  • Clark Gable (Mutiny on the Bounty) - 51:00 / 38.47%

  • Victor McLaglen (The Informer) - 59:45 / 65.32%

9th Academy Awards - 1936

  • Spencer Tracy (San Francisco) - 14:58 / 12.99%

  • Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur) - 50:33 / 58.86%

  • William Powell (My Man Godfrey) - 1:01:24 / 66.08%

  • Walter Huston (Dodsworth) - 1:03:56 / 63.21%

  • Gary Cooper (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) - 1:06:21 / 57.35%

10th Academy Awards - 1937

  • Fredric March (A Star Is Born) - 47:34 / 42.97%

  • Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous) - 50:06 / 42.97%

  • Paul Muni (The Life of Emile Zola) - 59:09 / 50.99%

  • Charles Boyer (Conquest) - 1:02:27 / 55.97%

  • Robert Montgomery (Night Must Fall) - 1:07:56 / 58.43%

11th Academy Awards - 1938

  • James Cagney (Angels with Dirty Faces) - 49:47 / 51.21%

  • Spencer Tracy (Boys Town) - 54:13 / 58.49%

  • Charles Boyer (Algiers) - 54:40 / 55.23%

  • Leslie Howard (Pygmalion) - 55:38 / 58.13%

  • Robert Donat (The Citadel) - 1:35:46 / 84.95%

12th Academy Awards - 1939

  • Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights) - 42:56 / 41.26%

  • Mickey Rooney (Babes in Arms) - 59:23 / 61.92%

  • James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) - 1:04:38 / 49.90%

  • Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind) - 1:11:07 / 30.52%

  • Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) - 1:25:53/ 75.29%

13th Academy Awards - 1940

  • James Stewart (The Philadephia Story) - 48:37 / 43.25%

  • Laurence Olivier (Rebecca) - 58:22 / 44.70%

  • Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath) - 1:06:20 / 51.43%

  • Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln in Illinois) - 1:10:27 / 64.26%

  • Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator) - 1:27:35 / 73.19%

14th Academy Awards - 1941

  • Walter Huston (The Devil and Daniel Webster) - 20:41 / 19.50%

  • Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) - 1:01:02 / 51.15%

  • Robert Montgomery (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) - 1:09:26 / 73.84%

  • Cary Grant (Penny Serenade) - 1:14:04 / 63.43%

  • Gary Cooper (Sergeant York) - 1:30:55 / 67.88%

15th Academy Awards - 1942

  • Walter Pidgeon (Mrs. Miniver) - 57:39 / 43.19%

  • Monty Woolley (The Pied Piper) - 1:05:41 / 76.33%

  • Gary Cooper (The Pride of the Yankees) - 1:16:51 / 59.84%

  • James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy) - 1:21:10 / 64.67%

  • Ronald Colman (Random Harvest) - 1:30:07 / 71.32%

16th Academy Awards - 1943

  • Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine) - 51:50 / 46.38%

  • Mickey Rooney (The Human Comedy) - 53:14 / 45.65%

  • Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca) - 53:36 / 52.27%

  • Walter Pidgeon (Madame Curie) - 1:19:40 / 64.47%

  • Gary Cooper (For Whom the Bell Tolls) - 1:35:16 / 57.71%

17th Academy Awards - 1944

  • Barry Fitzgerald (Going My Way) - 50:23 / 39.97%

  • Charles Boyer (Gaslight) - 1:01:30/ 54.11%

  • Bing Crosby (Going My Way) - 1:20:07 / 63.55%

  • Alexander Knox (Wilson) - 1:28:21 / 57.41%

  • Cary Grant (None but the Lonely Heart) - 1:34:34 / 83.63%

18th Academy Awards - 1945

  • Cornel Wilde (A Song to Remember) - 49:13 / 43.85%

  • Bing Crosby (The Bells of St. Mary's) - 1:06:26 / 52.81%

  • Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend) - 1:20:12 / 79.95%

  • Gene Kelly (Anchors Aweigh) - 1:25:05 / 61.13%

  • Gregory Peck (The Keys of the Kingdom) - 1:49:25 / 79.94%

19th Academy Awards - 1946

  • Laurence Olivier (Henry V) - 47:29 / 34.73%

  • Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives) - 1:03:19 / 37.29%

  • Gregory Peck (The Yearling) - 1:10:42 / 55.28%

  • Larry Parks (The Jolson Story) - 1:19:18 / 61.26%

  • James Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life) - 1:36:06 / 73.65%

20th Academy Awards - 1947

  • Michael Redgrave (Mourning Becomes Electra) - 57:01 / 35.93%

  • William Powell (Life with Father) - 1:07:53 / 57.85%

  • Ronald Colman (A Double Life) - 1:13:36 / 70.30%

  • John Garfield (Body and Soul) - 1:21:33 / 77.36%

  • Gregory Peck (Gentleman's Agreement) - 1:42:34 / 86.80%

21st Academy Awards - 1948

  • Clifton Webb (Sitting Pretty) - 27:26 / 32.63%

  • Montgomery Clift (The Search) - 39:23 / 38.00%

  • Lew Ayres (Johnny Belinda) - 46:33 / 45.56%

  • Dan Dailey (When My Baby Smiles At Me) - 48:36 / 52.25%

  • Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) - 1:27:56 / 57.24%

22nd Academy Awards - 1949

  • John Wayne (Sands of Iwo Jima) - 50:44 / 46.39%

  • Broderick Crawford (All the King's Men) - 1:02:21 / 56.85%

  • Richard Todd (The Hasty Heart) - 1:04:03 / 62.85%

  • Kirk Douglas (Champion) - 1:14:23 / 75.08%

  • Gregory Peck (Twelve O'Clock High) - 1:22:21 / 62.23%

23rd Academy Awards - 1950

  • James Stewart (Harvey) - 51:10 / 49.12%

  • Louis Calhern (The Magnificent Yankee) - 1:16:24 / 86.36%

  • William Holden (Sunset Boulevard) - 1:20:47 / 73.31%

  • Spencer Tracy (Father of the Bride) - 1:21:24 / 87.84%

  • Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac) - 1:25:35 / 75.80%

24th Academy Awards - 1951

  • Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire) - 43:53 / 35.18%

  • Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen) - 1:10:23 / 66.89%

  • Arthur Kennedy (Bright Victory) - 1:15:07 / 77.39%

  • Fredric March (Death of a Salesman) - 1:17:31 / 70.14%

  • Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun) - 1:37:22 / 79.92%

25th Academy Awards - 1952

  • Gary Cooper (High Noon) - 40:57 / 48.35%

  • Alec Guinness (The Lavender Hill Mob) - 50:13 / 61.77%

  • Kirk Douglas (The Bad and the Beautiful) - 1:08:29 / 58.18%

  • Marlon Brando (Viva Zapata!) - 1:12:20 / 63.93%

  • Jose Ferrer (Moulin Rouge) - 1:16:32 / 64.16%

26th Academy Awards - 1953

  • Marlon Brando (Julius Caesar) - 26:10 / 21.60%

  • William Holden (Stalag 17) - 37:38 / 31.26%

  • Burt Lancaster (From Here to Eternity) - 43:27 / 36.85%

  • Montgomery Clift (From Here to Eternity) - 1:02:10 / 52.73%

  • Richard Burton (The Robe) - 1:29:23 / 67.00%

27th Academy Awards - 1954

  • Humphrey Bogart (The Caine Mutiny) - 28:22 / 22.79%

  • Bing Crosby (The Country Girl) - 58:34 / 56.31%

  • Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront) - 1:05:58 / 60.54%

  • Dan O'Herlihy (Robinson Crusoe) - 1:14:41 / 83.77%

  • James Mason (A Star Is Born) - 1:21:17 / 46.10%

28th Academy Awards - 1955

  • Spencer Tracy (Bad Day at Black Rock) - 51:37 / 63.36%

  • Ernest Borgnine (Marty) - 1:04:12 / 71.71%

  • James Cagney (Love Me or Leave Me) - 1:06:48 / 54.84%

  • James Dean (East of Eden) - 1:26:20 / 73.43%

  • Frank Sinatra (The Man with the Golden Arm) - 1:33:06 / 78.28%

29th Academy Awards - 1956

  • James Dean (Giant) - 44:07 / 21.92%

  • Yul Brynner (The King and I) - 1:01:23 / 42.49%

  • Laurence Olivier (Richard III) - 1:28:54 / 56.25%

  • Kirk Douglas (Lust for Life) - 1:33:43 / 76.74%

  • Rock Hudson (Giant) - 1:41:05 / 50.22%

30th Academy Awards - 1957

  • Anthony Franciosa (A Hatful of Rain) - 50:37 / 46.60%

  • Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai) - 58:56 / 36.40%

  • Anthony Quinn (Wild Is the Wind) - 1:01:08 / 55.50%

  • Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution) - 1:04:42 / 55.65%

  • Marlon Brando (Sayonara) - 1:44:54 / 71.31%

31st Academy Awards - 1958

  • David Niven (Separate Tables) - 23:39 / 23.67%

  • Sidney Poitier (The Defiant Ones) - 56:55 / 59.10%

  • Paul Newman (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) - 1:00:04 / 55.66%

  • Tony Curtis (The Defiant Ones) - 1:07:02 / 69.61%

  • Spencer Tracy (The Old Man and the Sea) - 1:12:43 / 84.02%

32nd Academy Awards - 1959

  • Paul Muni (The Last Angry Man) - 50:16 / 50.40%

  • Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot) - 58:20 / 48.03%

  • Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top) - 1:33:50 / 80.12%

  • James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder) - 1:44:15 / 65.00%

  • Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur) - 2:01:23 / 54.54%

33rd Academy Awards - 1960

  • Trevor Howard (Sons and Lovers) - 20:14 / 19.71%

  • Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer) - 1:04:22 / 62.12%

  • Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind) - 1:07:23 / 52.64%

  • Jack Lemmon (The Apartment) - 1:26:08 / 68.86%

  • Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry) - 1:29:26 / 60.97%

34th Academy Awards - 1961

  • Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg) - 39:20 / 21.95%

  • Charles Boyer (Fanny) - 50:00 / 37.37%

  • Spencer Tracy (Judgment at Nuremberg) - 1:08:05 / 38.00%

  • Paul Newman (The Hustler) - 1:46:21 / 79.02%

  • Stuart Whitman (The Mark) - 1:51:08 / 87.51%

35th Academy Awards - 1962

  • Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) - 1:00:08 / 46.58%

  • Marcello Mastroianni (Divorce Italian Style) - 1:14:32 / 71.19%

  • Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses) - 1:40:25 / 85.70%

  • Burt Lancaster (Birdman of Alcatraz) - 1:44:27 / 70.38%

  • Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia) - 2:13:13 / 58.72%

36th Academy Awards - 1963

  • Albert Finney (Tom Jones) - 59:41 / 46.38%

  • Rex Harrison (Cleopatra) - 1:00:44 / 24.16%

  • Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field) - 1:06:35 / 70.42%

  • Paul Newman (Hud) - 1:11:52 / 64.40%

  • Richard Harris (This Sporting Life) - 1:48:44 / 80.96%

37th Academy Awards - 1964

  • Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove) - 43:01 / 45.46%

  • Peter O'Toole (Becket) - 1:14:12 / 50.08%

  • Anthony Quinn (Zorba the Greek) - 1:24:36 / 59.58%

  • Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) - 1:24:37 / 48.95%

  • Richard Burton (Becket) - 1:31:30 / 61.75%

38th Academy Awards - 1965

  • Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou) - 31:06 / 32.40%

  • Oskar Werner (Ship of Fools) - 38:04 / 25.49%

  • Rod Steiger (The Pawnbroker) - 1:13:21 / 63.64%

  • Richard Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) - 1:21:03 / 72.33%

  • Laurence Olivier (Othello) - 1:33:42 / 56.58%

39th Academy Awards - 1966

  • Alan Arkin (The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming) - 37:39 / 29.93%

  • Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) - 1:14:10 / 61.62%

  • Michael Caine (Alfie) - 1:30:59 / 80.06%

  • Richard Burton (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) - 1:37:21 / 74.45%

  • Steve McQueen (The Sand Pebbles) - 1:43:47 / 56.90%

40th Academy Awards - 1967

  • Spencer Tracy (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) - 46:23 / 42.93%

  • Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) - 48:21 / 44.05%

  • Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde) - 1:09:10 / 62.10%

  • Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke) - 1:21:27 / 64.44%

  • Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate) - 1:32:28 / 87.65%

41st Academy Awards - 1968

  • Ron Moody (Oliver!) - 45:01 / 29.32%

  • Alan Arkin (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) - 1:01:54 / 50.03%

  • Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter) - 1:12:02 / 53.60%

  • Cliff Robertson (Charly) - 1:14:30 / 71.97%

  • Alan Bates (The Fixer) - 1:30:12 / 71.18%

42nd Academy Awards - 1969

  • Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy) - 45:08 / 39.92%

  • John Wayne (True Grit) - 1:10:47 / 55.34%

  • Richard Burton (Anne of the Thousand Days) - 1:13:27 / 50.60%

  • Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy) - 1:26:55 / 76.88%

  • Peter O'Toole (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) - 1:51:40 / 72.26%

43rd Academy Awards - 1970

  • Melvyn Douglas (I Never Sang for My Father) - 44:09 / 47.96%

  • James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) - 1:03:12 / 61.50%

  • Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces) - 1:17:45 / 79.24%

  • Ryan O'Neal (Love Story) - 1:24:01 / 83.86%

  • George C. Scott (Patton) - 1:48:48 / 63.53%

44th Academy Awards - 1971

  • Peter Finch (Sunday Bloody Sunday) - 36:32 / 33.14%

  • Gene Hackman (The French Connection) - 48:00 / 46.29%

  • George C. Scott (The Hospital) - 57:46 / 56.14%

  • Walter Matthau (Kotch) - 1:31:20 / 80.13%

  • Topol (Fiddler on the Roof) - 1:47:48 / 59.65%

45th Academy Awards - 1972

  • Paul Winfield (Sounder) - 35:33 / 33.74%

  • Marlon Brando (The Godfather) - 40:10 / 22.91%

  • Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class) - 1:20:58 / 52.55%

  • Michael Caine (Sleuth) - 1:36:19 / 69.79%

  • Laurence Olivier (Sleuth) - 1:43:02 / 74.66%

46th Academy Awards - 1973

  • Robert Redford (The Sting) - 1:01:08 / 47.30%

  • Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail) - 1:19:24 / 76.42%

  • Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger) - 1:22:54 / 82.60%

  • Marlon Brando (Last Tango in Paris) - 1:23:40 / 64.69%

  • Al Pacino (Serpico) - 1:47:32 / 82.73%

47th Academy Awards - 1974

  • Dustin Hoffman (Lenny) - 1:11:51 / 64.60%

  • Albert Finney (Murder on the Orient Express) - 1:16:07 / 59.55%

  • Al Pacino (The Godfather Part II) - 1:16:17 / 38.07%

  • Art Carney (Harry and Tonto) - 1:40:26 / 87.13%

  • Jack Nicholson (Chinatown) - 1:47:46 / 82.63%

48th Academy Awards - 1975

  • Walter Matthau (The Sunshine Boys) - 1:14:16 / 66.98%

  • Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) - 1:14:33 / 55.89%

  • Al Pacino (Dog Day Afternoon) - 1:23:28 / 67.11%

  • Maximilian Schell (The Man in the Glass Booth) - 1:27:58 / 75.66%

  • James Whitmore (Give 'em Hell, Harry!) - 1:34:22 / 96.52%

49th Academy Awards - 1976

  • Peter Finch (Network) - 33:20 / 27.47%

  • William Holden (Network) - 41:39 / 34.37%

  • Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties) - 1:23:24 / 71.72%

  • Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver) - 1:24:58 / 74.75%

  • Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) - 1:39:00 / 82.90%

50th Academy Awards - 1977

  • Marcello Mastroianni (A Special Day) - 55:43 / 52.68%

  • Woody Allen (Annie Hall) - 1:13:31 / 79.02%

  • Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl) - 1:13:43 / 66.72%

  • Richard Burton (Equus) - 1:14:31 / 54.15%

  • John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever) - 1:31:11 / 76.73%

51st Academy Awards - 1978

  • Laurence Olivier (The Boys from Brazil) - 43:44 / 35.03%

  • Jon Voight (Coming Home) - 53:40 / 42.00%

  • Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait) - 1:07:36 / 66.92%

  • Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story) - 1:31:09 / 79.96%

  • Robert De Niro (The Deer Hunter) - 1:45:30 / 57.53%

52nd Academy Awards - 1979

  • Jack Lemmon (The China Syndrome) - 45:26 / 37.17%

  • Roy Scheider (All That Jazz) - 1:12:08 / 58.80%

  • Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer) - 1:15:36 / 72.19%

  • Al Pacino (...And Justice for All) - 1:27:05 / 73.20%

  • Peter Sellers (Being There) - 1:31:21 / 70.50%

53rd Academy Awards - 1980

  • Peter O'Toole (The Stunt Man) - 36:26 / 27.91%

  • John Hurt (The Elephant Man) - 53:39 / 43.50%

  • Robert Duvall (The Great Santini) - 55:33 / 48.19%

  • Jack Lemmon (Tribute) - 1:24:43 / 68.08%

  • Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) - 1:36:09 / 74.58%

54th Academy Awards - 1981

  • Paul Newman (Absence of Malice) - 45:25 / 39.12%

  • Burt Lancaster (Atlantic City) - 56:32 / 54.58%

  • Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond) - 1:07:40 / 62.14%

  • Dudley Moore (Arthur) - 1:16:35 / 78.84%

  • Warren Beatty (Reds) - 1:42:33 / 52.58%

55th Academy Awards - 1982

  • Peter O'Toole (My Favorite Year) - 41:32 / 45.01%

  • Jack Lemmon (Missing) - 1:07:28 / 55.06%

  • Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) - 1:28:16 / 75.94%

  • Paul Newman (The Verdict) - 1:32:32 / 71.83%

  • Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) - 1:34:52 / 49.66%

56th Academy Awards - 1983

  • Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies) - 55:41 / 60.57%

  • Michael Caine (Educating Rita) - 57:06 / 51.50%

  • Tom Courtenay (The Dresser) - 1:12:01 / 60.83%

  • Tom Conti (Reuben, Reuben) - 1:20:01 / 79.94%

  • Albert Finney (The Dresser) - 1:20:04 / 67.63%

57th Academy Awards - 1984

  • Jeff Bridges (Starman) - 56:37 / 49.30%

  • Sam Waterston (The Killing Fields) - 57:23 / 40.48%

  • F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) - 1:08:00 / 42.51%

  • Tom Hulce (Amadeus) - 1:08:46 / 42.99%

  • Albert Finney (Under the Volcano) - 1:18:41 / 70.04%

58th Academy Awards - 1985

  • Jon Voight (Runaway Train) - 44:32 / 40.04%

  • James Garner (Murphy's Romance) - 48:50 / 45.34%

  • Harrison Ford (Witness) - 50:46 / 45.21%

  • Jack Nicholson (Prizzi's Honor) - 1:06:15 / 51.42%

  • William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman) - 1:18:13 / 65.02%

59th Academy Awards - 1986

  • James Woods (Salvador) - 1:18:05 / 63.71%

  • Paul Newman (The Color of Money) - 1:22:39 / 69.14%

  • William Hurt (Children of a Lesser God) - 1:23:06 / 69.94%

  • Dexter Gordon ('Round Midnight) - 1:26:21 / 65.81%

  • Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa) - 1:26:54 / 83.57%

60th Academy Awards - 1987

  • Michael Douglas (Wall Street) - 40:25 / 32.18%

  • William Hurt (Broadcast News) - 52:41 / 39.86%

  • Marcello Mastroianni (Dark Eyes) - 1:15:53 / 64.43%

  • Robin Williams (Good Morning, Vietnam) - 1:16:08 / 62.95%

  • Jack Nicholson (Ironweed) - 1:31:10 / 63.73%

61st Academy Awards - 1988

  • Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver) - 53:17 / 51.66%

  • Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning) - 53:46 / 42.43%

  • Max von Sydow (Pelle the Conqueror) - 54:00 / 36.03%

  • Tom Hanks (Big) - 1:06:19 / 63.70%

  • Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) - 1:17:56 / 58.30%

62nd Academy Awards - 1989

  • Robin Williams (Dead Poets Society) - 33:39 / 26.16%

  • Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot) - 50:10 / 48.56%

  • Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy) - 55:34 / 56.20%

  • Kenneth Branagh (Henry V) - 1:0o:25 / 43.89%

  • Tom Cruise (Born on the Fourth of July) - 1:34:09 / 65.34%

63rd Academy Awards - 1990

  • Robert De Niro (Awakenings) - 44:56 / 37.23%

  • Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune) - 45:00 / 40.32%

  • Richard Harris (The Field) - 1:03:53 / 57.94%

  • Gerard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac) - 1:12:35 / 52.50%

  • Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) - 1:41:44 / 56.25%

64th Academy Awards - 1991

  • Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) - 24:52 / 21.00%

  • Robert De Niro (Cape Fear) - 48:22 / 37.90%

  • Robin Williams (The Fisher King) - 57:55 / 42.11%

  • Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides) - 1:40:49 / 76.54%

  • Warren Beatty (Bugsy) - 1:41:31 / 74.64%

65th Academy Awards - 1992

  • Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven) - 57:25 / 43.97%

  • Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) - 1:21:05 / 72.47%

  • Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin) - 1:28:40 / 61.54%

  • Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) - 1:35:48 / 61.31%

  • Denzel Washington (Malcolm X) - 2:21:58 / 70.49%

66th Academy Awards - 1993

  • Tom Hanks (Philadelphia) - 54:55 / 43.83%

  • Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It) - 58:07 / 49.50%

  • Liam Neeson (Schindler's List) - 1:17:32/ 39.75%

  • Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father) - 1:18:03 / 58.79%

  • Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day) - 1:21:07 / 60.47%

67th Academy Awards - 1994

  • John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) - 51:27 / 33.36%

  • Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George) - 57:59 / 52.58%

  • Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption) - 1:01:53 / 43.53%

  • Paul Newman (Nobody's Fool) - 1:12:46 / 66.07%

  • Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) - 1:45:28 / 74.31%

68th Academy Awards - 1995

  • Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking) - 49:00 / 40.12%

  • Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) - 1:06:27 / 59.40%

  • Massimo Troisi (The Postman) - 1:10:26 / 65.10%

  • Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland's Opus) - 1:45:32 / 73.85%

  • Anthony Hopkins (Nixon) - 2:04:10 / 64.90%

69th Academy Awards - 1996

  • Geoffrey Rush (Shine) - 31:27 / 29.80%

  • Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt) - 1:10:44 / 54.51%

  • Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient) - 1:22:17 / 50.92%

  • Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire) - 1:31:12 / 65.75%

  • Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade) - 1:46:22 / 79.05%

70th Academy Awards - 1997

  • Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog) - 45:24 / 46.88%

  • Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold) - 1:16:22 / 67.71%

  • Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets) - 1:16:55 / 55.53%

  • Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) - 1:20:36 / 63.72%

  • Robert Duvall (The Apostle) - 1:45:15 / 78.82%

71st Academy Awards - 1998

  • Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters) - 1:06:40 / 63.30%

  • Edward Norton (American History X) - 1:09:24 / 58.46%

  • Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful) - 1:17:20 / 65.51%

  • Nick Nolte (Affliction) - 1:25:14 / 74.64%

  • Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan) - 1:26:41 / 51.20%

72nd Academy Awards - 1999

  • Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) - 48:34 / 39.98%

  • Sean Penn (Sweet and Lowdown) - 1:02:51 / 66.02%

  • Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story) - 1:05:42 / 58.69%

  • Russell Crowe (The Insider) - 1:09:54 / 44.35%

  • Denzel Washington (The Hurricane) - 1:15:41 / 51.94%

73rd Academy Awards - 2000

  • Geoffrey Rush (Quills) - 37:25 / 30.18%

  • Russell Crowe (Gladiator) - 1:12:00 / 46.51%

  • Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) - 1:29:51 / 67.50%

  • Ed Harris (Pollock) - 1:36:12 / 77.96%

  • Tom Hanks (Cast Away) - 1:58:15 / 82.29%

74th Academy Awards - 2001

  • Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom) - 1:10:43 / 54.02%

  • Denzel Washington (Training Day) - 1:13:16 / 60.08%

  • Sean Penn (I Am Sam) - 1:27:57 / 66.54%

  • Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) - 1:36:43 / 71.55%

  • Will Smith (Ali) - 1:57:22 / 74.97%

75th Academy Awards - 2002

  • Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) - 47:58 / 28.82%

  • Nicolas Cage (Adaptation) - 1:03:38 / 55.42%

  • Michael Caine (The Quiet American) - 1:04:33 / 64.10%

  • Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt) - 1:35:57 / 76.64%

  • Adrien Brody (The Pianist) - 1:37:27 / 65.38%

76th Academy Awards - 2003

  • Sean Penn (Mystic River) - 47:50 / 34.73%

  • Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) - 49:32 / 34.63%

  • Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog) - 52:24 / 41.56%

  • Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) - 1:00:41 / 59.70%

  • Jude Law (Cold Mountain) - 1:06:02 / 42.82%

77th Academy Awards - 2004

  • Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland) - 1:02:04 / 61.47%

  • Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) - 1:16:16 / 57.61%

  • Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) - 1:21:15 / 66.75%

  • Jamie Foxx (Ray) - 1:39:35 / 65.39%

  • Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator) - 1:57:46 / 69.29%

78th Academy Awards - 2005

  • David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) - 44:10 / 47.59%

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) - 1:22:46 / 72.26%

  • Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) - 1:23:22 / 62.06%

  • Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) - 1:25:15 / 73.35%

  • Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line) - 1:39:32 / 73.33%

79th Academy Awards - 2006

  • Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) - 42:34 / 34.63%

  • Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) - 1:07:54 / 63.70%

  • Peter O'Toole (Venus) - 1:09:05 / 72.96%

  • Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond) - 1:23:05 / 58.03%

  • Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness) - 1:42:19 / 87.15%

80th Academy Awards - 2007

  • Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) - 44:58 / 44.76%

  • Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) - 1:03:09 / 54.32%

  • Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah) - 1:06:12 / 54.65%

  • George Clooney (Michael Clayton) - 1:11:43 / 59.88%

  • Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) - 1:57:00 / 73.93%

81st Academy Awards - 2008

  • Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) - 57:16 / 47.00%

  • Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) - 1:18:09 / 75.31%

  • Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) - 1:25:40 / 51.61%

  • Sean Penn (Milk) - 1:27:25 / 68.20%

  • Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) - 1:28:18 / 80.68%

82nd Academy Awards - 2009

  • Morgan Freeman (Invictus) - 46:24 / 34.77%

  • George Clooney (Up in the Air) - 1:13:56 / 67.63%

  • Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) - 1:17:15 / 59.17%

  • Colin Firth (A Single Man) - 1:21:18 / 80.96%

  • Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) - 1:36:52 / 86.85%

83rd Academy Awards - 2010

  • Jeff Bridges (True Grit) - 49:43 / 45.11%

  • Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) - 1:02:15 / 51.73%

  • Colin Firth (The King's Speech) - 1:14:24 / 62.86%

  • James Franco (127 Hours) - 1:20:25 / 85.90%

  • Javier Bardem (Biutiful) - 1:41:55 / 68.87%

84th Academy Awards - 2011

  • Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) - 53:07 / 41.64%

  • Jean Dujardin (The Artist) - 58:15 / 57.96%

  • Demian Bichir (A Better Life) - 1:02:49 / 64.48%

  • Brad Pitt (Moneyball) - 1:22:36 / 62.07%

  • George Clooney (The Descendants) - 1:23:47 / 72.92%

85th Academy Awards - 2012

  • Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables) - 58:18 / 36.95%

  • Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) - 1:17:06 / 51.47%

  • Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) - 1:30:23 / 74.09%

  • Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) - 1:31:44 / 66.78%

  • Denzel Washington (Flight) - 1:40:37 / 72.66%

86th Academy Awards - 2013

  • Christian Bale (American Hustle) - 1:07:34 / 48.99%

  • Bruce Dern (Nebraska) - 1:07:58 / 59.29%

  • Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) - 1:30:40 / 77.59%

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) - 1:37:18 / 72.59%

  • Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) - 2:21:07 / 78.54%

87th Academy Awards - 2014

  • Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) - 52:37 / 39.18%

  • Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) - 1:11:41 / 63.02%

  • Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) - 1:17:13 / 62.63%

  • Michael Keaton (Birdman) - 1:19:44 / 66.91%

  • Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) - 1:24:29 / 63.74%

88th Academy Awards - 2015

  • Matt Damon (The Martian) - 1:02:01 / 43.85%

  • Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) - 1:18:42 / 65.85%

  • Bryan Cranston (Trumbo) - 1:19:22 / 63.73%

  • Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) - 1:32:28 / 59.21%

  • Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs) - 1:39:34 / 81.46%

89th Academy Awards - 2016

  • Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic) - 1:08:59 / 57.79%

  • Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) - 1:13:25 / 52.74%

  • Ryan Gosling (La La Land) - 1:14:56 / 58.69%

  • Denzel Washington (Fences) - 1:33:35 / 67.47%

  • Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) - 1:40:02 / 72.80%

90th Academy Awards - 2017

  • Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) - 1:06:23 / 63.84%

  • Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) - 1:22:47 / 66.34%

  • Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread) - 1:26:42 / 66.69%

  • Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) - 1:35:00 / 77.73%

  • Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) - 1:49:34 / 83.09%

91st Academy Awards - 2018

  • Christian Bale (Vice) - 1:06:27 / 50.21%

  • Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate) - 1:13:02 / 65.69%

  • Viggo Mortensen (Green Book) - 1:30:44 / 69.82%

  • Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) - 1:31:58 / 68.39%

  • Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born) - 1:35:13 / 70.22%

92nd Academy Awards - 2019

  • Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) - 59:31 / 52.49%

  • Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) - 1:01:12 / 37.93%

  • Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) - 1:12:42 / 57.71%

  • Adam Driver (Marriage Story) - 1:25:03 / 62.10%

  • Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) - 1:43:44 / 85.25%

93rd Academy Awards - 2020/2021

  • Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) - 44:07 / 46.89%

  • Steven Yeun (Minari) - 48:28 / 42.07%

  • Anthony Hopkins (The Father) - 1:05:14 / 67.29%

  • Gary Oldman (Mank) - 1:30:09 / 67.94%

  • Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) - 1:34:22 / 78.14%

94th Academy Awards - 2021

  • Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth) - 43:36 / 41.48%

  • Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos) - 55:38 / 42.11%

  • Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) - 58:37 / 45.55%

  • Will Smith (King Richard) - 1:30:10 / 62.33%

  • Andrew Garfield (tick, tick... BOOM!) - 1:32:13 / 75.84%

95th Academy Awards - 2022

  • Bill Nighy (Living) - 48:25 / 47.36%

  • Paul Mescal (Aftersun) - 58:14 / 57.26%

  • Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) - 1:09:26 / 60.96%

  • Brendan Fraser (The Whale) - 1:21:57 / 70.15%

  • Austin Butler (Elvis) - 1:35:34 / 60.01%

96th Academy Awards - 2023

  • Colman Domingo (Rustin) - 1:06:43 / 61.63%

  • Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) - 1:13:47 / 55.30%

  • Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) - 1:22:55 / 71.06%

  • Bradley Cooper (Maestro) - 1:32:57 / 70.83%

  • Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) - 1:53:10 / 62.75%

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