Statistics for Oscar Best Actor By Role

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Year	Actor Name	Movie	Role	% Correct
1995	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump	92%
2013	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	88%
1983	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	77%
2005	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles	77%
2006	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote	77%
2009	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk	75%
2015	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking	75%
1949	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet	Hamlet	73%
1992	Anthony Hopkins	Silence of the Lambs	Dr Hannibal Lecter	71%
1973	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	Vito Corleone	71%
2011	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI	69%
1961	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry	Elmer Gantry	60%
1951	Jose Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	58%
1937	Paul Muni	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur	58%
1971	George C. Scott	Patton	General George S Patton	56%
1963	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird	Atticus Finch	54%
1960	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hurr	Judah Ben-Hurr	54%
2001	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	Maximus Decimus Meridius	54%
1988	Michael Douglas	Wall Street	Gordon Gekko	52%
2007	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin	52%
1934	Chalres Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII	King Henry VIII of England	52%
1981	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull	Jake LaMotta	50%
1933	Fredric March	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Edward Hyde	44%
1965	Red Harrison	My Fair Lady	Professor Henry Higgins	35%
1942	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York	Sgt Alvin C York	35%
2008	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview	33%
1972	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle	33%
1985	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	31%
1989	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man	Raymond Babbitt	31%
1970	John Wayne	True Grit	Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn	31%
1967	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Season	Sir Thomas More	31%
2000	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham	29%
1991	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune	Claus von Bulow	27%
1987	Paul Newman	The Color of MOney	Fast Eddie Felson	27%
1931	George Arliss	Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	25%
1990	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	Christy Brown	23%
1997	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	David Helfgott	23%
2002	Denzel Washington	Training Day	Detective Alonzo Harris	21%
2016	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass	21%
1957	Yul Brynner	The King and I	King Mongkut of Siam	19%
1993	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman	Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade	19%
1958	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Lt Colonel L Nicholson	19%
1998	Jack Nicholson	As Good As It Gets	Melvin Udall	19%
1955	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront	Terry Malloy	19%
1994	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia	Andrew Beckett	17%
1952	Humphrey Bogart	The African Queen	Charlie Allnut	17%
1943	James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy	George M Cohan	17%
1976	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy	17%
1996	Nicholas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	Ben Sanderson	15%
1945	Bing Crosby	Going My Way	Father Chuck O'Malley	15%
1939	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town	Father Flanagan	15%
1999	Roberto Benigni	Life is Beautiful	Guido Orefice	15%
1986	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Luis Molina	15%
1953	Gary Cooper	High Noon	Marshal Will Kane	15%
1950	Broderick Crawford	All the King's Men	Willie Stark	15%
1947	Feredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives	Al Stephenson	13%
1948	Ronald Colman	A Double LIfe	Anthony John	13%
1946	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend	Don Birnam	13%
1977	Peter Finch	Network	Howard Beale	13%
2004	Sean Penn	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum	13%
1944	Paul Lukas	Watch on the Rhine	Kurt Muller	13%
1941	James Stewart	The Philadelphia Story	Macaulay "Mike" Connor	13%
2010	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart	Otis Blake	13%
2014	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof	13%
1980	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs Kramer	Ted Kramer	13%
1969	Cliff RObertson	Charly	Charly Gordon	10%
2012	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	George Valentine	10%
1962	Maximilian Schell	Judgment at Nuremberg	Hans Rolfe	10%
1966	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou	Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn	10%
1979	Jon Voight	Coming Home	Luke Martin	10%
1984	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies	Mac Sledge	10%
1938	Spencer Tracy	Captains Courageous	Manuel	10%
1956	Ernest Borgnine	Marty	Marty Piletti	10%
1982	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer Jr	10%
1968	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night	Police Chief Bill Gillespie	10%
1940	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Charles Edward Chipping	8%
1978	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl	Elliot Garfield	8%
1964	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field	Homer Smith	8%
1959	David Niven	Separate Tables	Major Angus Pollock	8%
1954	William Holden	Stalag 17	Sgt JJ Sefton	8%
2003	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	Wladyslaw Szpilman	8%
1933	Wallace Beery	The Champ	Andy "Champ" Purcell	6%
1936	Victor McLaglen	The Informer	Gypo Nolan	6%
1975	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto	Harry Coombes	6%
1974	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger	Harry Stoner	6%
1935	Clark Gable	It Happened One Night	Peter Warne	6%
1929	Emil Jannings	The Last Command / The Way of All Flesh	Grand Duke Sergius/Alexander August Schilling	4%
1932	Lionel Barrymore	A Free Soul	Stephen Ashe	4%
1930	Warner Baxter	In Old Arizona	The Cisco Kid	4%