Here is a complete list of all Oscar winners for Best Actor from 1928 to Today:

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And The Academy Award winners are:

2022 – Best Actor: Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”

2021 – Will Smith, “King Richard”
2020 – Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
2019 – Joaquin Phoenix, “The Joker”
2018 – Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
2017 – Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
2016 – Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
2015 – Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”

2014 – Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”
2013 – Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
2012 – Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
2011 – Jean Duhardin, “The Artist”
2010 – Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech”
2009 – Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
2008 – Sean Penn, “Milk”
2007 – Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood”
2006 – Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”

More Oscar Winners for Best Actor

2005 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Capote”
2004 – Jamie Foxx, “Ray”
2003 – Sean Penn, “Mystic River”
2002 – Adrien Brody, “The Pianist”
2001 – Denzel Washington, “Training Day”
2000 – Russell Crowe, “Gladiator”

1999 – Kevin Spacey, “American Beauty”
1998 – Roberto Benigni, “Life Is Beautiful”
1997 – Jack Nicholson, “As Good as It Gets”
1996 – Geoffrey Rush, “Shine”
1995 – Nicolas Cage, “Leaving Las Vegas”
1994 – Tom Hanks, “Forrest Gump”
1993 – Tom Hanks, “Philadelphia”
1992 – Al Pacino, “Scent of a Woman”
1991 – Anthony Hopkins, “The Silence of the Lambs”

More Oscar Winners for Best Actor

1990 – Jeremy Irons, “Reversal of Fortune”
1989 – Daniel Day-Lewis, “My Left Foot”
1988 – Dustin Hoffman, “Rain Man”
1987 – Michael Douglas, “Wall Street”
1986 – Paul Newman, “The Color of Money”
1985 – William Hurt, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
1984 – F. Murray Abraham, “Amadeus”

1983 – Robert Duvall, “Tender Mercies”
1982 – Ben Kingsley, “Gandhi”
1981 – Henry Fonda, “On Golden Pond”
1980 – Robert De Niro, “Raging Bull”
1979 – Dustin Hoffman, “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1978 – Jon Voight, “Coming Home”
1977 – Richard Dreyfuss, “The Goodbye Girl”
1976 – Peter Finch, “Network”
1975 – Jack Nicholson, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

1974 – Art Carnet, “Harry and Tonto”
1973 – Jack Lemmon, “Save the Tiger”
1972 – Marlon Brando, “The Godfather”
1971 – Gene Hackman, “The French Connection”
1970 – George C. Scott, “Patton”
1969 – John Wayne, “True Grit”
1968 – Cliff Robertson, “Charly”
1967 – Rod Steiger, “In the Heat of the Night”
1966 – Paul Scofield, “A Man for All Seasons”
1965 – Lee Marvin, “Cat Ballou”

1964 – Rex Harrison, “My Fair Lady”
1963 – Sidney Poitier, “Lilies of the Field”
1962 – Gregory Peck, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
1961 – Maximilian Schell, “Judgment at Nuremberg”
1960 – Burt Lancaster, “Elmer Gantry”
1959 – Charlton Heston, “Ben-Hur”
1958 – David Niven, “Separate Tables”
1957 – Alec Guinness, “The Bridge on the River Kwai”

1956 – Yul Brynner, “The King and I”
1955 – Ernest Borgnine, “Marty Pilletti”
1954 – Marlon Brando, “On the Waterfront”
1953 – William Holden, “Stalag 17”
1952 – Gary Cooper, “High Noon”
1951 – Humphrey Bogart, “The African Queen”
1950 – Jose Ferrer, “Cyrano de Bergerac”
1949 – Broderick Crawford, “All the King’s Men”
1948 – Laurence Olivier, “Hamlet”

More Academy Award Winners

1947 – Ronald Colman, “A Double Life”
1946 – Fredric March, “The Best Years of Our Lives”
1945 – Ray Milland, “The Lost Weekend”
1944 – Bing Crosby, “Going My Way”
1943 – Paul Lukas, “Watch on the Rhine”
1942 – James Cagney, “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
1941 – Gary Cooper, “Sergeant York”
1940 – James Stewart, “The Philadelphia Story”
1939 – Robert Donat, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
1938 – Spencer Tracy, “Boys Town”

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1937 – Spencer Tracy, “Captains Courageous”
1936 – Paul Muni, “The Story of Louis Pasteur”
1935 – Victor McLaglen, “The Informer”
1934 – Clark Gable, “It Happened One Night”
1932/1933 – Charles Laughton, “The Private Life of Henry VIII”
1931/1932 – Wallace Beery, “The Champ” and Fredric March, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (a technical tie, per rules at the time)
1930/1931 – Lionel Barrymore, “A Free Soul”
1929/1930 – George Arliss, “Disraeli”
1927/28 – Emil Jannings, “The Last Command”, “The Way of All Flesh.”

The Academy Awards for Best Actor