The Best Actors to Ever Win Best Actor in a Leading Role
Vote up the best actors who have won an Oscar for a leading role.
Every year the Academy evaluates a year's worth of brilliant performances and picks what they believe to be the best of the best, nominating these for the most prestigious acting awards in cinema: the Oscars. This in itself is an honor - just to be nominated for an Academy Award. But only one person can win each year, and the men listed here have all taken home Oscar gold for Best Actor in a Leading Role - so which Best Actor Oscar winners are the best?
Of the leading men who have won Best Actor, who is the best Best Actor?! Do you think it's a classic choice like Marlon Brando? Clark Gable? Humphrey Bogart? Is it a more recent recipient like Philip Seymour Hoffman? Sean Penn? Jack Nicholson?
With so many options choosing the best is hard, but that's where you come in. Vote up the very best actors of all the Best Actor Academy Award winners below!
- 1Age: 64
- Credits (Film): The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
- Birthplace: London, England
The Darkest Hour (2017)
- 2Age: 85
- Credits (Film): The Silence of the Lambs, Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Legends of the Fall
- Birthplace: Margam, United Kingdom
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Father (2020) - 3Age: 65
- Credits (Film): Gangs of New York, The Last of the Mohicans, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln, Gandhi
- Birthplace: England, London
My Left Foot (1989)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Lincoln (2012) - 4Age: 85
- Credits (Film): The Shining, Batman, The Departed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown
- Birthplace: Neptune City, New Jersey, United States of America
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
As Good as It Gets (1997) - 5Age: 66
- Credits (Film): Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Toy Story, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 2
- Birthplace: Concord, California, USA
Philadelphia (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994) - 6Age: 79
- Credits (Film): Goodfellas, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter
- Birthplace: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, United States of America
Raging Bull (1980)
