Oscar Winning Actors

The Academy Awards for best acting covers 4 categories, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. Try and name every actor/actress who has won an Oscar for Acting from 1929 to the present day.

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Year	Movie	Actor/Actress
2024	Oppenheimer	Cillian Murphy
	Poor Things	Emma Stone
	Oppenheimer	Robert Downey Jr.
	The Holdovers	Da'Vine Joy Randolph
2023	The Whale	Brendan Fraser
	Everything Everywhere All At Once	Michelle Yeoh
	Everything Everywhere All At Once	Ke Huy Quan
	Everything Everywhere All At Once	Jamie Lee Curtis
2022	King Richard	Will Smith
	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Jessica Chastain
	CODA	Troy Kotsur
	West Side Story	Ariana DeBose
2021	The Father	Anthony Hopkins
	Nomadland	Frances McDormand
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Daniel Kaluuya
	Minari	Youn Yuh-Jung
2020	Joker	Joaquin Phoenix
	Judy	Renee Zellweger
	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood	Brad Pitt
	Marriage Story	Laura Dern
2019	Bohemian Rhapsody	Rami Malek
	The Favourite	Olivia Colman
	Green Book	Mahershala Ali
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Regina King
2018	The Darkest Hour	Gary Oldman
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri	Frances McDormand
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri	Sam Rockwell
	I,Tonya	Allison Janney
2017	Manchester by the Sea	Casey Affleck
	La La Land	Emma Stone
	Moonlight	Mahershala Ali
	Fences	Viola Davis
2016	The Revenant	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Room	Brie Larson
	Bridge of Spies	Mark Rylance
	The Danish Girl	Alicia Vikander
2015	The Theory of Everything	Eddie Redmayne
	Still Alice	Julianne Moore
	Whiplash	J.K. Simmons
	Boyhood	Patricia Arquette
2014	Dallas Buyers Club	Matthew McConaughey
	Blue Jasmine	Cate Blanchett
	Dallas Buyers Club	Jared Leto
	12 Years a Slave	Lupita Nyong'o
2013	Lincoln	Daniel Day Lewis
	Silver Linings Playbook	Jennifer Lawrence
	Django Unchained	Christoph Waltz
	Les Miserables	Anne Hathaway
2012	The Artist	Jean Dujardin
	The Iron lady	Meryl Streep
	Beginners	Christopher Plummer
	The Help	Octavia Spencer
2011	The King's Speech	Colin Firth
	Black Swan	Natalie Portman
	The Fighter	Christian Bale
	The Fighter	Melissa Leo
2010	Crazy Heart	Jeff Bridges
	The Blind Side	Sandra Bullock
	Inglorious Bastards	Christoph Waltz
	Precious	Mo'nique
2009	Milk	Sean Penn
	The Reader	Kate Winslet
	The Dark Knight	Heath Ledger
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Penelope Cruz
2008	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Day Lewis
	La Vie En Rose	Marion Cotillard
	No Country for Old Men	Javier Bardem
	Michael Clayton	Tilda Swinton
2007	The Last King of Scotland	Forest Whitaker
	The Queen	Helen Mirren
	Little Miss Sunshine	Alan Arkin
	Dreamgirls	Jennifer Hudson
2006	Capote	Philip Seymour Hoffman
	Walk the line	Reese Witherspoon
	Syriana	George Clooney
	The Constant Gardener	Rachel Weisz
2005	Ray	Jamie Foxx
	Million Dollar Baby	Hilary Swank
	Million Dollar Baby	Morgan Freeman
	The Aviator	Cate Blanchett
2004	Mystic River	Sean Penn
	Monster	Charlize Theron
	Mystic River	Tim Robbins
	Cold Mountain	Renee Zellweger
2003	The Pianist	Adrien Brody
	The Hours	Nicole Kidman
	Adaptation	Chris Cooper
	Chicago	Catherine Zeta Jones
2002	Training Day	Denzel Washington
	Monsters Ball	Halle Berry
	Iris	Jim Broadbent
	A Beautiful Mind	Jennifer Connelly
2001	Gladiator	Russell Crowe
	Erin Brockovich	Julia Roberts
	Traffic	Benicio Del Toro
	Pollock	Marcia Gay Harden
2000	American Beauty	Kevin Spacey
	Boys Don't Cry	Hilary Swank
	The Cider House Rules	Michael Caine
	Girl, Interrupted	Angelina Jolie
1999	Life is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
	Shakespeare in Love	Gwyneth Paltrow
	Affliction	James Coburn
	Shakespeare in Love	Judi Dench
1998	As Good as it Gets	Jack Nicholson
	As Good as it Gets	Helen hunt
	Good Will Hunting	Robin Williams
	L.A. Confidential	Kim Basinger
1997	Shine	Geoffrey Rush
	Fargo	Frances McDormand
	Jerry Maguire	Cuba Gooding Jr.
	The English Patient	Juliette Binoche
1996	Leaving Las Vegas	Nicolas Cage
	Dead Man Walking	Susan Sarandon
	The Usual Suspects	Kevin Spacey
	Mighty Aphrodite	Mira Sorvino
1995	Forrest Gump	Tom Hanks
	Blue Sky	Jessica Lange
	Ed Wood	Martin Landau
	Bullets over Broadway	Dianne Wiest
1994	Philadelphia	Tom Hanks
	The Piano	Holly Hunter
	The Fugitive	Tommy Lee Jones
	The Piano	Anna Paquin
1993	Scent of a Woman	Al Pacino
	Howard's End	Emma Thompson
	Unforgiven	Gene Hackman
	My Cousin Vinny	Marisa Tomei
1992	The Silence of the Lambs	Anthony Hopkins
	The Silence of the Lambs	Jodie Foster
	City Slickers	Jack Palance
	The Fisher King	Mercedes Ruehl
1991	Reversal of Fortune	Jeremy Irons
	Misery	Kathy Bates
	Goodfellas	Joe Pesci
	Ghost	Whoopi Goldberg
1990	My Left Foot	Daniel Day Lewis
	Driving Miss Daisy	Jessica Tandy
	Glory	Denzel Washington
	My Left Foot	Brenda Fricker
1989	Rain Man	Dustin Hoffman
	The Accused	Jodie Foster
	A Fish Called Wanda	Kevin Kline
	The Accidental Tourist	Geena Davis
1988	Wall Street	Michael Douglas
	Moonstruck	Cher
	The Untouchables	Sean Connery
	Moonstruck	Olympia Dukakis
1987	The Colour of Money	Paul Newman
	Children of a Lesser God	Marlee Matlin
	Hannah and Her Sisters	Michael Caine
	Hannah and Her Sisters	Dianne Wiest
1986	Kiss of the Spider Woman	William Hurt
	The Trip to Bountiful	Geraldine Page
	Cocoon	Don Ameche
	Prizzi's Honor	Anjelica Huston
1985	Amadeus	F. Murray Abraham
	Places in the Heart	Sally Field
	The Killing Fields	Haing S. Ngor
	A Passage to India	Peggy Ashcroft
1984	Tender Mercies	Robert Duvall
	Terms of Endearment	Shirley Maclaine
	Terms of Endearment	Jack Nicholson
	The Year of Living Dangerously	Linda Hunt
1983	Gandhi	Ben Kingsley
	Sophie's Choice	Meryl Streep
	An Officer and a Gentlemen	Louis Gossett Jr.
	Tootsie	Jessica Lange
1982	On Golden Pond	Henry Fonda
	On Golden Pond	Katharine Hepburn
	Arthur	John Gielgud
	Reds	Maureen Stapleton
1981	Raging Bull	Robert De Niro
	Coal Miners Daughter	Sissy Spacek
	Ordinary People	Timothy Hutton
	Melvin and Howard	Mary Steenburgen
1980	Kramer vs Kramer	Dustin Hoffman
	Norma Rae	Sally Field
	Being There	Melvyn Douglas
	Kramer vs Kramer	Meryl Streep
1979	Coming Home	Jon Voight
	Coming Home	Jane Fonda
	The Deer Hunter	Christopher Walken
	California Suite	Maggie Smith
1978	The Goodbye Girl	Richard Dreyfuss
	Annie Hall	Diane Keaton

Year	Movie	Actor/Actress
	Julia	Jason Robards
	Julia	Vanessa Redgrave
1977	Network	Peter Finch
	Network	Faye Dunaway
	All the Presidents Men	Jason Robards
	Network	Beatrice Straight
1976	One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest	Jack Nicholson
	One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest	Louise Fletcher
	The Sunshine Boys	George Burns
	Shampoo	Lee Grant
1975	Harry and Tonto	Art Carney
	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Ellen Burstyn
	The Godfather Part II	Robert De Niro
	Murder on the Orient Express	Ingrid Bergman
1974	Save the Tiger	Jack Lemmon
	A Touch of Class	Glenda Jackson
	The Paper Chase	John Houseman
	Paper Moon	Tatum O'Neal
1973	The Godfather	Marlon Brando
	Cabaret	Liza Minnelli
	Cabaret	Joel Grey
	Butterflies are free	Eileen Heckart
1972	The French Connection	Gene Hackman
	Klute	Jane Fonda
	The Last Picture Show	Ben Johnson
	The Last Picture Show	Cloris Leachman
1971	Patton	George C. Scott
	Women in love	Glenda Jackson
	Ryan's Daughter	John Mills
	Airport	Helen Hayes
1970	True Grit	John Wayne
	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Maggie Smith
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Gig Young
	Cactus Flower	Goldie Hawn
1969	Charly	Cliff Robertson
	The Lion in the Winter	Katharine Hepburn
	Funny Girl	Barbra Streisand
	The Subject was Roses	Jack Albertson
	Rosemary's Baby	Ruth Gordon
1968	In the Heat of the Night	Rod Steiger
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?	Katharine Hepburn
	Cool Hand Luke	George Kennedy
	Bonnie and Clyde	Estelle Parsons
1967	A Man for all Seasons	Paul Scofield
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Elizabeth Taylor
	The Fortune Cookie	Walter Matthau
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Sandy Dennis
1966	Cat Ballou	Lee Marvin
	Darling	Julie Christie
	A Thousand Clowns	Martin Balsam
	A Patch of Blue	Shelley Winters
1965	My Fair lady	Rex Harrison
	Mary Poppins	Julie Andrews
	Topkapi	Peter Ustinov
	Zorba the Greek	Lila Kedrova
1964	Lillies of the Field	Sidney Poitier
	Hud	Patricia Neal
	Hud	Melvyn Douglas
	The V.I.P.s	Margaret Rutherford
1963	To Kill a Mockingbird	Gregory Peck
	The Miracle Worker	Anne Bancroft
	Sweet Bird of Youth	Ed Begley
	The Miracle Worker	Patty Duke
1962	Judgement at Nuremberg	Maximilian Schell
	Two women	Sophia Loren
	West Side Story	George Chakiris
	West Side Story	Rita Moreno
1961	Elmer Gantry	Burt Lancaster
	Butterfield 8	Elizabeth Taylor
	Spartacus	Peter Ustinov
	Elmer Gantry	Shirley Jones
1960	Ben-Hur	Charlton Heston
	Room at the top	Simone Signoret
	Ben-Hur	Hugh Griffith
	The Diary of Anne Frank	Shelley Winters
1959	Separate Tables	David Niven
	I Want to Live!	Susan Hayward
	The Big Country	Burl Ives
	Separate Tables	Wendy Hiller
1958	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Alec Guinness
	The Three Faces of Eve	Joanne Woodward
	Sayonara	Red Buttons
	Sayonara	Miyoshi Umeki
1957	The King and I	Yul Brynner
	Anastasia	Ingrid Bergman
	Lust for life	Anthony Quinn
	Written on the wind	Dorothy Malone
1956	Marty	Ernest Borgnine
	The Rose Tattoo	Anna Magnani
	Mister Roberts	Jack Lemmon
	East of eden	Jo Van Fleet
1955	On the Waterfront	Marlon Brando
	The Country Girl	Grace Kelly
	The Barefoot Contessa	Edmond O'Brien
	On the Waterfront	Eva Marie Saint
1954	Stalag 17	William Holden
	Roman Holiday	Audrey Hepburn
	From Here to Eternity	Frank Sinatra
	From Here to Eternity	Donna Reed
1953	High Noon	Gary Cooper
	Come back, Little Sheba	Shirley Booth
	Viva Zapata!	Anthony Quinn
	The Bad and the Beautiful	Gloria Grahame
1952	The African Queen	Humphrey Bogart
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Vivien Leigh
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Karl Malden
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Kim Hunter
1951	Cyrano De Bergerac	Jose Ferrer
	Born Yesterday	Judy Holliday
	All About Eve	George Sanders
	Harvey	Josephine Hull
1950	All the Kings Men	Broderick Crawford
	The Heiress	Olivia de Havilland
	Twelve O'Clock high	Dean Jagger
	All the Kings Men	Mercedes McCambridge
1949	Hamlet	Laurence Olivier
	Johnny Belinda	Jane Wyman
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Walter Huston
	Key Largo	Claire Trevor
1948	A Double Life	Ronald Colman
	The Farmer's Daughter	Loretta Young
	Miracle on 34th Street	Edmund Gwenn
	Gentlemen's Agreement	Celeste Holm
1947	The Best Years of our Lives	Fredric March
	To Each His Own	Olivia de Havilland
	The Best Years of Our Lives	Harold Russell
	Razor's Edge	Anne Baxter
1946	The Lost Weekend	Ray Milland
	Mildred Pierce	Joan Crawford
	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	James Dunn
	National Velvet	Anne Revere
1945	Going my way	Bing Crosby
	Gaslight	Ingrid Bergman
	Going my way	Barry Fitzgerald
	None but the Lonely Heart	Ethel Barrymore
1944	Watch on the Rhine	Paul Lukas
	The Song of Bernadette	Jennifer Jones
	The More in the Merrier	Charles Coburn
	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Katina Paxinou
1943	Yankee Doodle Dandy	James Cagney
	Mrs Miniver	Greer Garson
	Johnny Eager	Van Heflin
	Mrs Miniver	Teresa Wright
1942	Sergeant York	Gary Cooper
	Suspicion	Joan Fontaine
	How Green was my Valley	Donald Crisp
	The Great Lie	Mary Astor
1941	The Philadelphia Story	James Stewart
	Kitty Foyle	Ginger Rogers
	The Westerner	Walter Brennan
	The Grapes of Wrath	Jane Darwell
1940	Goodbye, Mr Chips	Robert Donat
	Gone with the Wind	Vivien Leigh
	Stagecoach	Thomas Mitchell
	Gone with the Wind	Hattie McDaniel
1939	Boys Town	Spencer Tracy
	Jezebel	Bette Davis
	Kentucky	Walter Brennan
	Jezebel	Fay Bainter
1938	Captain Courageous	Spencer Tracy
	The Good Earth	Luise Rainer
	The Life of Emile Zola	Joseph Schildkraut
	In Old Chicago	Alice Brady
1937	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Paul Muni
	The Great Ziegfeld	Luise Rainer
	Anthony Adverse	Gale Sondergaard
	Come and Get It	Walter Brennan
1936	The Informer	Victor McLaglen
	Dangerous	Bette Davis
1935	It Happened One Night	Clark Gable
	It Happened One Night	Claudette Colbert
1934	The Private Life of Henry VIII	Charles Laughton
	Morning Glory	Katharine Hepburn
1933	The Champ	Wallace Beery
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Fredric March
	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Helen Hayes
1932	A Free Soul	Lionel Barrymore
	Min and Bill	Marie Dressler
1931	Disraeli	George Arliss
	The Divorcee	Norma Shearer
1930	In Old Arizona	Warner Baxter
	Coquette	Mary Pickford
1929	The Last Command	Emil Jannings
	The Way of All Flesh	Emil Jannings
	Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise	Janet Gaynor

Level 46

Jun 2, 2020

it is Olivia De Havilland, please fix.

Level 32

Jun 11, 2020

that's fixed

Level 70

Feb 24, 2022

It's Norma Shearer, not Normer Shearer, and typing "Shearer" does not work.

Also it's Wallace Beery, not Berry, and neither spelling works.

Level 32

Feb 24, 2022

Ok those three things should be fixed

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