![]() | The Academy Award For... Best Actor A video of every best actor winner at the Academy Awards, from 1928 to 2007. The winners are... 1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander AND The Way of All Flesh as August Schilling 1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid 1930 George Arliss - Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli 1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney 1932 Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde AND Wallace Beery - The Champ as Champ 1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII 1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night as Peter Warne 1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer as Gypo Nolan 1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur as Dr. Louis Pasteur 1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as Manuel 1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town as Father Edward J. Flanigan 1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Charles E. Chipping 1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay Connor 1941 Gary Cooper - Sergeant York as Sergeant Alvin York 1942 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan 1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller 1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way as Father Chuck O'Malley 1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend as Don Birnam 1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson 1947 Ronald Colman - A Double Life as Anthony John 1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men as Willie Stark 1950 José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac 1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen as Charlie Allnut 1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon as Will Kane 1953 William Holden - Stalag 17 as Sergeant J.J. Sefton 1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy 1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty as Marty Piletti 1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam 1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson 1958 David Niven - Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock 1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur 1960 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry 1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe 1962 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch 1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith 1964 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady as Henry Higgins 1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou as Kid Sheleen and Tim Strawn 1966 Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons as Thomas More 1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as Bill Gillespie 1968 Cliff Robertson - Charly as Charly Gordon 1969 John Wayne - True Grit as Rooster Cogburn 1970 George C. Scott - Patton as George S. Patton 1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection as Detective Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle 1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather as Vito Corleone 1973 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner 1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto as Harry Coombes 1975 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy 1976 Peter Finch - Network as Howard Beale 1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield 1978 Jon Voight - Coming Home as Luke Martin 1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer 1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta 1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer, Jr. 1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi 1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge 1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus as Antonio Salieri 1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina 1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money as Fast Eddie Felson 1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street as Gordon Gekko 1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt 1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot as Christy Brown 1990 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow 1991 Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs as Dr. Hannibal Lecter 1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman as Lt. Col. Frank Slade 1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett 1994 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump 1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson 1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott 1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall 1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful as Guido Orefice 1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as Lester Burnham 2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius 2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day as Alonzo Harris 2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman 2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River as Jimmy Markum 2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote as Truman Capote 2006 Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview MUSIC: "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" by Pink Floyd. |
![]() | Baltimore ZombieProof Films presents a supposition on the last days of Edgar Allan Poe. Filmed in November 2005, starring Ian Tuka, Dustin Wilfert, Charles Nelson, George Nelson, Kate Blanchard, and Sara Rumsey as Virginia. Written and directed by Jef Burnham. Featured Music: "I'll Go With Her Blues" by Robert Wilkins; "3" composed by Brian Harrison. Awards: Southwestern Michigan College (SMC) Film Festival thing |