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!...more
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4,975438Tom Hanks
Age: 64Philadelphia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994)2
422442Henry Fonda
Dec. at 77 (1905-1982)On Golden Road (1981)3
369368James Stewart
Dec. at 89 (1908-1997)The Philadelphia Story (1940)4
419412Gene Hackman
Age: 90The French Connection (1971)5
332377Marlon Brando
Dec. at 80 (1924-2004)On the Waterfront (1954), The Godfather (1972)6
223245Jack Lemmon
Dec. at 76 (1925-2001)Save the Tiger (1973)7
438506Anthony Hopkins
Age: 83The Silence of the Lambs (1991)8
10093James Cagney
Dec. at 87 (1899-1986)9
10172Bing Crosby
Dec. at 74 (1903-1977)10
151168Clark Gable
Dec. at 59 (1901-1960)It Happened One Night (1934)11
133145Alec Guinness
Dec. at 86 (1914-2000)12
6867David Niven
Dec. at 73 (1910-1983)13
175205Laurence Olivier
Dec. at 82 (1907-1989)Hamlet (1948)14
9796Yul Brynner
Dec. at 65 (1920-1985)15
128145Gary Cooper
Dec. at 60 (1901-1961)Sergeant York (1941), High Noon (1952)16
208228Philip Seymour Hoffman
Dec. at 47 (1967-2014)Capote (2005)17
284344Dustin Hoffman
Age: 83Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Rain Man (1988)18
93103William Holden
Dec. at 63 (1918-1981)19
9394Ernest Borgnine
Dec. at 95 (1917-2012)Marty (1955)20
101111George C. Scott
Dec. at 72 (1927-1999)21
695746Gary Oldman
Age: 62The Darkest Hour (2017)
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97104Lee Marvin
Dec. at 63 (1924-1987)23
124118Forest Whitaker
Age: 5924
6354F. Murray Abraham
Age: 8125
444564Robert De Niro
Age: 77Raging Bull (1980)
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