Statistics for Oscar Best Actor By Role

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Year	Actor Name	Movie	Role	% Correct
1995	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump	91%
2013	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	89%
2005	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles	79%
1983	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	77%
2015	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking	77%
2006	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote	77%
2009	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk	74%
1949	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet	Hamlet	72%
1992	Anthony Hopkins	Silence of the Lambs	Dr Hannibal Lecter	70%
2011	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI	70%
1973	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	Vito Corleone	70%
1961	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry	Elmer Gantry	60%
1951	Jose Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	57%
1971	George C. Scott	Patton	General George S Patton	57%
1937	Paul Muni	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur	57%
1963	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird	Atticus Finch	53%
2007	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin	53%
1960	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hurr	Judah Ben-Hurr	53%
2001	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	Maximus Decimus Meridius	53%
1988	Michael Douglas	Wall Street	Gordon Gekko	51%
1934	Chalres Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII	King Henry VIII of England	51%
1981	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull	Jake LaMotta	49%
1933	Fredric March	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Edward Hyde	43%
1965	Red Harrison	My Fair Lady	Professor Henry Higgins	36%
1942	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York	Sgt Alvin C York	34%
2008	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview	32%
1972	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle	32%
1970	John Wayne	True Grit	Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn	32%
1967	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Season	Sir Thomas More	32%
1985	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	30%
2000	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham	30%
1989	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man	Raymond Babbitt	30%
1991	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune	Claus von Bulow	26%
1987	Paul Newman	The Color of MOney	Fast Eddie Felson	26%
1931	George Arliss	Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	23%
1997	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	David Helfgott	23%
1990	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	Christy Brown	21%
2016	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass	21%
2002	Denzel Washington	Training Day	Detective Alonzo Harris	19%
1957	Yul Brynner	The King and I	King Mongkut of Siam	19%
1993	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman	Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade	17%
1958	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Lt Colonel L Nicholson	17%
1998	Jack Nicholson	As Good As It Gets	Melvin Udall	17%
1955	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront	Terry Malloy	17%
1994	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia	Andrew Beckett	15%
1952	Humphrey Bogart	The African Queen	Charlie Allnut	15%
1943	James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy	George M Cohan	15%
1953	Gary Cooper	High Noon	Marshal Will Kane	15%
1976	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy	15%
1996	Nicholas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	Ben Sanderson	13%
1945	Bing Crosby	Going My Way	Father Chuck O'Malley	13%
1939	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town	Father Flanagan	13%
1999	Roberto Benigni	Life is Beautiful	Guido Orefice	13%
2004	Sean Penn	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum	13%
1986	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Luis Molina	13%
2010	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart	Otis Blake	13%
2014	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof	13%
1950	Broderick Crawford	All the King's Men	Willie Stark	13%
1947	Feredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives	Al Stephenson	11%
1948	Ronald Colman	A Double LIfe	Anthony John	11%
1969	Cliff RObertson	Charly	Charly Gordon	11%
1946	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend	Don Birnam	11%
2012	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	George Valentine	11%
1962	Maximilian Schell	Judgment at Nuremberg	Hans Rolfe	11%
1977	Peter Finch	Network	Howard Beale	11%
1966	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou	Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn	11%
1944	Paul Lukas	Watch on the Rhine	Kurt Muller	11%
1941	James Stewart	The Philadelphia Story	Macaulay "Mike" Connor	11%
1956	Ernest Borgnine	Marty	Marty Piletti	11%
1968	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night	Police Chief Bill Gillespie	11%
1980	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs Kramer	Ted Kramer	11%
1964	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field	Homer Smith	9%
1979	Jon Voight	Coming Home	Luke Martin	9%
1984	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies	Mac Sledge	9%
1959	David Niven	Separate Tables	Major Angus Pollock	9%
1938	Spencer Tracy	Captains Courageous	Manuel	9%
1982	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer Jr	9%
1954	William Holden	Stalag 17	Sgt JJ Sefton	9%
2003	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	Wladyslaw Szpilman	9%
1940	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Charles Edward Chipping	6%
1978	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl	Elliot Garfield	6%
1933	Wallace Beery	The Champ	Andy "Champ" Purcell	4%
1936	Victor McLaglen	The Informer	Gypo Nolan	4%
1975	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto	Harry Coombes	4%
1974	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger	Harry Stoner	4%
1935	Clark Gable	It Happened One Night	Peter Warne	4%
1929	Emil Jannings	The Last Command / The Way of All Flesh	Grand Duke Sergius/Alexander August Schilling	2%
1932	Lionel Barrymore	A Free Soul	Stephen Ashe	2%
1930	Warner Baxter	In Old Arizona	The Cisco Kid	2%