Academy Award Winning Actors
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José Ferrer -- Cyrano de Bergerac {"Cyrano de Bergerac"}
Humphrey Bogart -- The African Queen {"Charlie Allnut"}
Gary Cooper -- High Noon {"Will Kane"}
William Holden -- Stalag 17 {"Sefton"}
Marlon Brando -- On the Waterfront {"Terry Malloy"}
Ernest Borgnine -- Marty {"Marty Pilletti"}
Yul Brynner -- The King and I {"The King"}
Alec Guinness -- The Bridge on the River Kwai {"Colonel Nicholson"}
David Niven -- Separate Tables {"Major Pollock"}
Charlton Heston -- Ben-Hur {"Judah Ben-Hur"}
Burt Lancaster -- Elmer Gantry {"Elmer Gantry"}
Maximilian Schell -- Judgment at Nuremberg {"Hans Rolfe"}
Gregory Peck -- To Kill a Mockingbird {"Atticus Finch"}
Sidney Poitier -- Lilies of the Field {"Homer Smith"}
Rex Harrison -- My Fair Lady {"Professor Henry Higgins"}
Lee Marvin -- Cat Ballou {"Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn"}
Paul Scofield -- A Man for All Seasons {"Sir Thomas More"}
Rod Steiger -- In the Heat of the Night {"Police Chief Bill Gillespie"}
Cliff Robertson -- Charly {"Charly Gordon"}
John Wayne -- True Grit {"Rooster Cogburn"}
George C. Scott -- Patton {"General George S. Patton, Jr."} Mr. Scott refused the award
Gene Hackman -- The French Connection {"Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle"}
Marlon Brando -- The Godfather {"Don Vito Corleone"} Mr. Brando refused the award
Jack Lemmon -- Save the Tiger {"Harry Stoner"}
Art Carney -- Harry and Tonto {"Harry"}
Jack Nicholson -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest {"Randle Patrick McMurphy"}
Peter Finch -- Network {"Howard Beale"}
Richard Dreyfuss -- The Goodbye Girl {"Elliot Garfield"}
Jon Voight -- Coming Home {"Luke Martin"}
Dustin Hoffman -- Kramer vs. Kramer {"Ted Kramer"}
Robert De Niro -- Raging Bull {"Jake LaMotta"}
Henry Fonda -- On Golden Pond {"Norman Thayer, Jr."}
Ben Kingsley -- Gandhi {"Mahatma Gandhi"}
Robert Duvall -- Tender Mercies {"Mac Sledge"}
F. Murray Abraham -- Amadeus {"Antonio Salieri"}
William Hurt -- Kiss of the Spider Woman {"Luis Molina"}
Paul Newman -- The Color of Money {"Eddie Felson"}
Michael Douglas -- Wall Street {"Gordon Gekko"}
Dustin Hoffman -- Rain Man {"Raymond Babbitt"}
Daniel Day-Lewis -- My Left Foot {"Christy Brown"}
Jeremy Irons -- Reversal of Fortune {"Claus Von Bulow"}
Anthony Hopkins -- The Silence of the Lambs {"Dr. Hannibal Lecter"}
Al Pacino -- Scent of a Woman {"Lt. Col. Frank Slade"}
Tom Hanks -- Philadelphia {"Andrew Beckett"}
Tom Hanks -- Forrest Gump {"Forrest Gump"}
Nicolas Cage -- Leaving Las Vegas {"Ben Sanderson"}
Geoffrey Rush -- Shine {"David Helfgott"}
Jack Nicholson -- As Good As It Gets {"Melvin Udall"}
Roberto Benigni -- Life Is Beautiful {"Guido"}
Kevin Spacey -- American Beauty {"Lester Burnham"}
Russell Crowe -- Gladiator {"Maximus Decimus Meridius"}
Denzel Washington -- Training Day {"Alonzo"}
Adrien Brody -- The Pianist {"Wladyslaw Szpilman"}
Academy Award Winning Actresses
1950 Judy Holliday -- Born Yesterday {"Billie Dawn"}
1951 Vivien Leigh -- A Streetcar Named Desire {"Blanche DuBois"}
1952 Shirley Booth -- Come Back, Little Sheba {"Lola Delaney"}
1953 Audrey Hepburn -- Roman Holiday {"Princess Anne"}
1954 Grace Kelly -- The Country Girl {"Georgie Elgin"}
1955
Anna Magnani -- The Rose Tattoo {"Serafina Della Rose"}
1956 Ingrid Bergman -- Anastasia {"The Woman"}
1957
Joanne Woodward -- The Three Faces of Eve {"Eve White/Eve Black/Jane"}
1958
Susan Hayward -- I Want To Live! {"Barbara Graham"}
1959
Simone Signoret -- Room at the Top {"Alice Aisgill"}
1960
Elizabeth Taylor -- Butterfield 8 {"Gloria Wandrous"}
1961
Sophia Loren -- Two Women {"Cesira"}
1962
Anne Bancroft -- The Miracle Worker {"Annie Sullivan"}
1963
Patricia Neal -- Hud {"Alma"}
1964
Julie Andrews -- Mary Poppins {"Mary Poppins"}
1965
Julie Christie -- Darling {"Diana Scott"}
1966
Elizabeth Taylor -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? {"Martha"}
1967 Katharine Hepburn -- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner {"Christina Drayton"}
1968 Katharine Hepburn -- The Lion in Winter {"Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine"} Barbara
Streisand - Funny Girl
1969
Maggie Smith -- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie {"Miss Jean Brodie"}
1970
Glenda Jackson -- Women in Love {"Gudrun Brangwen"}
1971
Jane Fonda -- Klute {"Bree Daniels"}
1972
Liza Minnelli -- Cabaret {"Sally Bowles"}
1973
Glenda Jackson -- A Touch of Class {"Vicki Allessio"}
1974
Ellen Burstyn -- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore {"Alice Hyatt"}
1975
Louise Fletcher -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest {"Nurse Mildred Ratched"}
1976
Faye Dunaway -- Network {"Diana Christensen"}
1977
Diane Keaton -- Annie Hall {"Annie Hall"}
1978
Jane Fonda -- Coming Home {"Sally Hyde"}
1979
Sally Field -- Norma Rae {"Norma Rae"}
1980
Sissy Spacek -- Coal Miner's Daughter {"Loretta Lynn"}
1981
Katharine Hepburn -- On Golden Pond {"Ethel Thayer"}
1982
Meryl Streep -- Sophie's Choice {"Sophie"}
1983
Shirley MacLaine -- Terms of Endearment {"Aurora Greenway"}
1984
Sally Field -- Places in the Heart {"Edna Spalding"}
1985
Geraldine Page -- The Trip to Bountiful {"Mrs. Watts"}
1986
Marlee Matlin -- Children of a Lesser God {"Sarah"}
1987
Cher -- Moonstruck {"Loretta Castorini"}
1988
Jodie Foster -- The Accused {"Sarah Tobias"}
1989
Jessica Tandy -- Driving Miss Daisy {"Daisy Werthan"}
1990
Kathy Bates -- Misery {"Annie Wilkes"}
1991
Jodie Foster -- The Silence of the Lambs {"Clarice Starling"}
1992
Emma Thompson -- Howards End {"Margaret Schlegel"}
1993
Holly Hunter -- The Piano {"Ada"}
1994
Jessica Lange -- Blue Sky {"Carly Marshall"}
1995
Susan Sarandon -- Dead Man Walking {"Sister Helen Prejean"}
1996
Frances McDormand -- Fargo {"Marge Gunderson"}
1997
Helen Hunt -- As Good As It Gets {"Carol Connelly"}
1998
Gwyneth Paltrow -- Shakespeare in Love {"Viola De Lesseps"}
1999
Hilary Swank -- Boys Don't Cry {"Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon"}
2000
Julia Roberts -- Erin Brockovich {"Erin Brockovich"}
2001
Halle Berry -- Monster's Ball {"Leticia Musgrove"}
2002
Nicole Kidman -- The Hours {"Virginia Woolf"}