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'Captains Courageous' earned this actor the 1938 Academy Award for Best Actor.

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For 'Stalag 17', this actor took home the 1954 Best Actor Oscar.

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This actor won the 1967 Best Actor Oscar for 'A Man for All Seasons'.

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Playing a Jewish prince seeking revenge in ancient Rome, this actor won the 1960 Best Actor Oscar for Ben-Hur.

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Playing physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, this actor won the 2024 Best Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer.

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The 1986 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'.

HURT

The 1974 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Save the Tiger'.

LEMMON

Playing frontiersman Hugh Glass, mauled by a bear and left for dead, this actor won the 2016 Best Actor Oscar for The Revenant.

DICAPRIO

For 'The Informer', this actor took home the 1936 Best Actor Oscar.

MCLAGLEN

This actor won the 2015 Best Actor Oscar for 'The Theory of Everything'.

REDMAYNE

'My Left Foot' earned this actor the 1990 Academy Award for Best Actor.

DAYLEWIS

This actor won the 1946 Best Actor Oscar for 'The Lost Weekend'.

MILLAND

The 1931 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Disraeli'.

ARLISS

His surname is McConaughey; he won the 2014 Best Actor Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club. His first name is _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

MATTHEW

The 1952 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'The African Queen'.

BOGART

The 1969 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Charly'.

ROBERTSON

For 'Judgment at Nuremberg', this actor took home the 1962 Best Actor Oscar.

SCHELL

The 2017 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Manchester by the Sea'.

AFFLECK

For 'Cat Ballou', this actor took home the 1966 Best Actor Oscar.

MARVIN

'The King's Speech' earned this actor the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor.

FIRTH

For 'Gandhi', this actor took home the 1983 Best Actor Oscar.

KINGSLEY

The 1935 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'It Happened One Night'.

GABLE

For 'A Free Soul', this actor took home the 1932 Best Actor Oscar.

BARRYMORE

For 'Going My Way', this actor took home the 1945 Best Actor Oscar.

CROSBY

For 'Coming Home', this actor took home the 1979 Best Actor Oscar.

VOIGHT

This actor won the 2004 Best Actor Oscar for 'Mystic River'.

PENN

Playing hard-nosed detective 'Popeye' Doyle, this actor won the 1972 Best Actor Oscar for The French Connection.

HACKMAN

This actor won the 1980 Best Actor Oscar for 'Kramer vs. Kramer'.

HOFFMAN

'The Private Life of Henry VIII' earned this actor the 1934 Academy Award for Best Actor.

LAUGHTON

For 'Hamlet', this actor took home the 1949 Best Actor Oscar.

OLIVIER

The 1944 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Watch on the Rhine'.

LUKAS

This actor won the 1988 Best Actor Oscar for 'Wall Street'.

DOUGLAS

The 1996 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Leaving Las Vegas'.

CAGE

This actor won the 1942 Best Actor Oscar for 'Sergeant York'.

COOPER

The 1982 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'On Golden Pond'.

FONDA

The 1991 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Reversal of Fortune'.

IRONS

'In Old Arizona' earned this actor the 1930 Academy Award for Best Actor.

BAXTER

The 1961 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Elmer Gantry'.

LANCASTER

This actor won the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

PECK

Playing the Roman general Maximus, this actor won the 2001 Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator.

CROWE

This actor won the 2019 Best Actor Oscar for 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.

MALEK

'Yankee Doodle Dandy' earned this actor the 1943 Academy Award for Best Actor.

CAGNEY

For 'King Richard', this actor took home the 2022 Best Actor Oscar.

SMITH

The 2012 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'The Artist'.

DUJARDIN

Playing a Polish-Jewish pianist who survived the Holocaust in hiding, this actor won the 2003 Best Actor Oscar for The Pianist.

BRODY

Playing twin brothers in a Prohibition-era vampire horror film, this actor won the 2026 Best Actor Oscar for Sinners.

JORDAN

The 1940 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips'.

DONAT

Playing Winston Churchill during the early days of WWII, this actor won the 2018 Best Actor Oscar for Darkest Hour.

OLDMAN

For 'The Last King of Scotland', this actor took home the 2007 Best Actor Oscar.

WHITAKER

This actor won the 1959 Best Actor Oscar for 'Separate Tables'.

NIVEN

For 'Shine', this actor took home the 1997 Best Actor Oscar.

RUSH

'Marty' earned this actor the 1956 Academy Award for Best Actor.

BORGNINE

'American Beauty' earned this actor the 2000 Academy Award for Best Actor.

SPACEY

For 'Harry and Tonto', this actor took home the 1975 Best Actor Oscar.

CARNEY

'Raging Bull' earned this actor the 1981 Academy Award for Best Actor.

DENIRO

'In the Heat of the Night' earned this actor the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor.

STEIGER

The 1978 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'The Goodbye Girl'.

DREYFUSS

For 'The Bridge on the River Kwai', this actor took home the 1958 Best Actor Oscar.

GUINNESS

This actor won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for 'Tender Mercies'.

DUVALL

'Network' earned this actor the 1977 Academy Award for Best Actor.

FINCH

Playing failed stand-up comedian Arthur Fleck, this actor won the 2020 Best Actor Oscar for Joker.

PHOENIX

'Ray' earned this actor the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor.

FOXX

This actor won the 1929 Best Actor Oscar for 'The Last Command'.

JANNINGS

This actor's surname is Hoffman; he won the 2006 Best Actor Oscar playing writer Truman Capote. His middle name is _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

SEYMOUR

Uttering the line 'I coulda been a contender,' this actor won the 1955 Best Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront.

BRANDO

This actor won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for 'Patton'.

SCOTT

This actor won the 1950 Best Actor Oscar for 'All the King's Men'.

CRAWFORD

Playing a lawyer fighting AIDS discrimination, this actor won the 1994 Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia.

HANKS

In the only tie in this category's history, this actor shared the 1933 prize for The Champ.

BEERY

This actor won the 2010 Best Actor Oscar for 'Crazy Heart'.

BRIDGES

'Amadeus' earned this actor the 1985 Academy Award for Best Actor.

ABRAHAM

Playing the cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, this actor won the 1992 Best Actor Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs.

HOPKINS

For 'The Philadelphia Story', this actor took home the 1941 Best Actor Oscar.

STEWART

Playing one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, this actor won his only Best Actor Oscar in 1970 for True Grit.

WAYNE

This actor won the 1993 Best Actor Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman'.

PACINO

'The Best Years of Our Lives' earned this actor the 1947 Academy Award for Best Actor.

MARCH

This actor won the 1937 Best Actor Oscar for 'The Story of Louis Pasteur'.

MUNI

The first Black actor to win in this category, he took the 1964 Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field.

POITIER

This actor won the 1999 Best Actor Oscar for 'Life Is Beautiful'.

BENIGNI

'Cyrano de Bergerac' earned this actor the 1951 Academy Award for Best Actor.

FERRER

The 1957 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'The King and I'.

BRYNNER

His surname is Washington; this actor won the 2002 Best Actor Oscar as a corrupt cop in Training Day. His first name is _ _ _ _ _ _.

DENZEL

Playing rebellious mental patient Randle McMurphy, this actor won the 1976 Best Actor Oscar for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

NICHOLSON

For 'The Color of Money', this actor took home the 1987 Best Actor Oscar.

NEWMAN

This actor won the 2023 Best Actor Oscar for 'The Whale'.

FRASER

The 1965 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'My Fair Lady'.

HARRISON

The 1948 Best Actor Oscar went to the star of 'A Double Life'.

COLMAN

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