Ranking the Winners of the Best Actor Oscar Apr '09: I have seen 75 of 83 winners, or 90%. Most recent addition: John Wayne (69) For the Ages 54 Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront 46 Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives 42 James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy 89 Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot 91 Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs 08 Sean Penn, Milk 40 James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story 80 Robert De Niro, Raging Bull Fantastic 28 Emil Jannings, The Last Command 07 Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood 71 Gene Hackman, The French Connection 70 George C. Scott, Patton 05 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote 95 Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas 02 Adrien Brody, The Pianist 33 Charles Laughton, The Private Life on Henry VIII 72 Marlon Brando, The Godfather 66 Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons 01 Denzel Washington, Training Day 06 Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland 61 Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg Fetching 78 Jon Voight, Coming Home 99 Kevin Spacey, American Beauty 00 Russell Crowe, Gladiator ★ 76 Peter Finch, Network 03 Sean Penn, Mystic River 32 Wallace Beery, The Champ 90 Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune 79 Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer 39 Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips 75 Jack Nicholson, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 60 Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry 77 Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl 57 Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai ★ 57 William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman ★ 04 Jamie Foxx, Ray ★ 81 Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond 38 Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird Fair 41 Gary Cooper, Sergeant York 35 Victor McLaglen, The Informer 34 Clark Gable, It Happened One Night 49 Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men 86 Paul Newman, The Color of Money 47 Ronald Colman, A Double Life 84 F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus 48 Laurence Olivier, Hamlet 52 Gary Cooper, High Noon 56 Yul Brynner, The King and I 55 Ernest Borgnine, Marty 51 Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen 63 Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field 64 Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady Feh 73 Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger 55 Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man 96 Geoffrey Rush, Shine 67 Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night ★ 74 Art Carney, Harry and Tonto 87 Michael Douglas, Wall Street 92 Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman 83 Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies ★ 31 Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul 68 Cliff Robertson, Charly 94 Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump 45 Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend 98 Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful ★ 93 Tom Hanks, Philadelphia Flotsam 30 George Arliss, Disraeli 38 Charlton Heston, Ben Hur 53 William Holden, Stalag 17 38 Spencer Tracy, Boys Town 97 Jack Nicholson, As Good as It Gets ★ 58 David Niven, Separate Tables 38 Bing Crosby, Going My Way 29 Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona 69 John Wayne, True Grit Unseen (In Chronological Order) 28 Emil Jannings, The Way of All Flesh 32 Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 36 Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur 37 Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous 43 Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine 50 Jose Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac 65 Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou 82 Ben Kingsley, Gandhi |
Great Losers: Nominees Who Rate a "Fantastic" or Higher I have seen 305 of 400 nominees, or 76%. Most recent addition: Paul Muni (59) 1930s 30 Wallace Beery, The Big House 31 Jackie Cooper, Skippy 33 Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 34 William Powell, The Thin Man 35 Charles Laughton, Mutiny on the Bounty 36 Walter Huston, Dodsworth 37 Fredric March, A Star Is Born 37 Paul Muni, The Life of Émile Zola ★ 39 James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1940s 40 Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath 40 Raymond Massey, Abe Lincoln in Illinois 41 Orson Welles, Citizen Kane 42 Ronald Colman, Random Harvest 43 Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca 46 James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life 47 Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra 48 Montgomery Clift, The Search ★ 1950s 51 Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire 51 Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun 53 Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity 53 Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity 55 James Dean, East of Eden 56 James Dean, Giant 59 Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot 59 James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder 1960s 61 Paul Newman, The Hustler 61 Spencer Tracy, Judgment at Nuremberg 62 Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia 63 Paul Newman, Hud 64 Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove 66 Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 67 Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde 67 Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate 67 Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke 67 Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 68 Peter O'Toole, The Lion in Winter 1970s 70 James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope 70 Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces 73 Marlon Brando, Last Tango in Paris 74 Jack Nicholson, Chinatown 75 Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon 76 Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver 76 Giancarlo Giannini, Seven Beauties 77 Woody Allen, Annie Hall 79 Jack Lemmon, The China Syndrome 79 Roy Scheider, All That Jazz 1980s 80 John Hurt, The Elephant Man 80 Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man 81 Warren Beatty, Reds 81 Burt Lancaster, Atlantic City 82 Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie 82 Jack Lemmon, Missing ★ 82 Paul Newman, The Verdict 85 Jon Voight, Runaway Train 86 Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa 88 Tom Hanks, Big 88 Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver 88 Max von Sydow, Pelle the Conqueror 89 Kenneth Branagh, Henry V 89 Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy 1990s 92 Stephen Rea, The Crying Game 92 Denzel Washington, Malcolm X 93 Laurence Fishburne, What's Love Got to Do with It? 93 Anthony Hopkins, The Remains of the Day 94 Paul Newman, Nobody's Fool 94 John Travolta, Pulp Fiction 95 Anthony Hopkins, Nixon 95 Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking 96 Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire 98 Nick Nolte, Affliction ★ 98 Edward Norton, American History X 99 Russell Crowe, The Insider 99 Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story 2000s 00 Javier Bardem, Before Night Falls 00 Ed Harris, Pollock 01 Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom ★ 02 Nicolas Cage, Adaptation 02 Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York ★ 03 Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 03 Jude Law, Cold Mountain 03 Bill Murray, Lost in Translation ★ 04 Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda 04 Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby ★ 05 Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow 05 Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain 06 Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson 07 Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah 07 Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises 08 Richard Jenkins, The Visitor 08 Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler |
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