All Best Actor Oscar Winners in Academy Award History
1927/28: Emil Jannings, 1928/29: Warner Baxter, 1929/30: George Arliss, 1930/31: Lionel Barrymore, 1931/32: Fredric March, 1932/33: Charles Laughton, 1934: Clark Gable, 1935: Victor McLaglen, 1936: Paul Muni, 1937: Spencer Tracy, 1938: Spencer Tracy, 1939: Robert Donat, 1940: James Stewart, 1941: Gary Cooper, 1942: James Cagney, 1943: Paul Lukas, 1944: Bing Crosby, 1945: Ray Milland, 1946: Fredric March, 1947: Ronald Colman, 1948: Laurence Olivier, 1949: Broderick Crawford, 1950: José Ferrer, 1951: Humphrey Bogart, 1952: Gary Cooper, 1953: William Holden, 1954: Marlon Brando, 1955: Ernest Borgnine, 1956: Yul Brynner, 1957: Alec Guinness, 1958: David Niven, 1959: Charlton Heston, 1960: Burt Lancaster, 1961: Maximilian Schell, 1962: Gregory Peck, 1963: Sidney Poitier, 1964: Rex Harrison, 1965: Lee Marvin, 1966: Paul Scofield, 1967: Rod Steiger, 1968: Cliff Robertson, 1969: John Wayne, 1970: George C. Scott, 1971: Gene Hackman, 1972: Marlon Brando, 1973: Jack Lemmon, 1974: Art Carney, 1975: Jack Nicholson, 1976: Peter Finch, 1977: Richard Dreyfuss, 1978: Jon Voight, 1979: Dustin Hoffman, 1980: Robert De Niro, 1981: Henry Fonda, 1982: Ben Kingsley, 1983: Robert Duvall, 1984: F. Murray Abraham, 1985: William Hurt, 1986: Paul Newman, 1987: Michael Douglas, 1988: Dustin Hoffman, 1989: Daniel DayLewis, 1990: Jeremy Irons, 1991: Anthony Hopkins, 1992: Al Pacino, 1993: Tom Hanks, 1994: Tom Hanks, 1995: Nicolas Cage, 1996: Geoffrey Rush, 1997: Jack Nicholson, 1998: Roberto Benigni, 1999: Kevin Spacey, 2000: Russell Crowe, 2001: Denzel Washington, 2002: Adrien Brody, 2003: Sean Penn, 2004: Jamie Foxx, 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2006: Forest Whitaker, 2007: Daniel DayLewis, 2008: Sean Penn, 2009: Jeff Bridges, 2010: Colin Firth, 2011: Jean Dujardin, 2012: Daniel DayLewis, 2013: Matthew McConaughey, 2014: Eddie Redmayne, 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio, 2016: Casey Affleck, 2017: Gary Oldman, 2018: Rami Malek, 2019: Joaquin Phoenix, 2020: Anthony Hopkins, 2021: Will Smith, 2022: Brendan Fraser, 2023: Cillian Murphy​