The Film-Lover's Check List: Academy Awards Nominees for Best Lead and Supporting Actor

Academy Awards Nominees for Best Lead and Supporting Actor

Best Actor

1927-28


Emil Jannings *.	The Last Command (1928)
Emil Jannings *.	The Way of All Flesh (1927)
Richard Barthelmess.	The Noose (1928)
Richard Barthelmess.	The Patent Leather Kid (1927)

1928-29


Warner Baxter *.	In Old Arizona (1928)
George Bancroft.	Thunderbolt (1929)
Chester Morris.	Alibi (1929)
Paul Muni.	The Valiant (1929)
Lewis Stone.	The Patriot (1928)

1929-30


George Arliss.	Disraeli (1929)
George Arliss.	The Green Goddess (1930)
Wallace Beery.	The Big House (1930)
Maurice Chevalier.	The Big Pond (1930)
Maurice Chevalier.	The Love Parade (1929)
Ronald Colman.	Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Ronald Colman.	Condemned To Devil's Island (1929)
Lawrence Tibbett.	The Rogue Song (1930)

1930-31


Lionel Barrymore *.	A Free Soul (1931)
Adolphe Menjou.	The Front Page (1931)
Jackie Cooper.	Skippy (1931)
Richard Dix.	Cimarron (1931)
Fredric March.	The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)

1931-32


Wallace Beery *.	The Champ (1931)
Fredric March *.	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Alfred Lunt.	The Guardsman (1931)

1932-33


Charles Laughton.	The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Leslie Howard.	Berkeley Square (1933)
Paul Muni.	I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

1934


Clark Gable *.	It Happened One Night (1934)
Frank Morgan.	The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
William Powell.	The Thin Man (1934)

1935


Victor McLaglen *.	The Informer (1935)
Clark Gable.	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
Charles Laughton.	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
Paul Muni.	Black Fury (1935)
Franchot Tone.	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)

1936


Paul Muni *.	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Gary Cooper.	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
Walter Huston.	Dodsworth (1936)
William Powell.	Dodsworth (1936)
Spencer Tracy.	San Francisco (1936)

1937


Spencer Tracy *.	Captains Courageous (1937)
Charles Boyer.	Conquest (1937)
Fredric March.	A Star Is Born (1937)
Robert Montgomery.	Night Must Fall (1937)
Paul Muni.	The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

1938


Spencer Tracy *.	Boys Town (1938)
Charles Boyer.	Algiers (1938)
James Cagney.	Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Robert Donat.	The Citadel (1938)
Leslie Howard.	Pygmalion (1938)

1939


Robert Donat *.	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Clark Gable.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
Laurence Olivier.	Wuthering Heights (1939)
Mickey Rooney.	Babes In Arms (1939)
James Stewart.	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)

1940


James Stewart *.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Charlie Chaplin.	The Great Dictator (1940)
Henry Fonda.	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Raymond Massey.	Abe Lincoln In Illinois (1940)
Laurence Olivier.	Rebecca (1940)

1941


Gary Cooper *.	Sergeant York (1941)
Cary Grant.	Penny Serenade (1941)
Walter Huston.	The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Robert Montgomery.	Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Orson Welles.	Citizen Kane (1941)

1942


James Cagney *.	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Ronald Colman.	Random Harvest (1942)
Gary Cooper.	The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Walter Pidgeon.	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Monty Woolley.	The Pied Piper (1942)

1943


Paul Lukas *.	Watch On the Rhine (1943)
Humphrey Bogart.	Casablanca (1942)
Gary Cooper.	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Walter Pidgeon.	Madame Curie (1943)
Mickey Rooney.	The Human Comedy (1943)

1944


Bing Crosby *.	Going My Way (1944)
Charles Boyer.	Gaslight (1944)
Barry Fitzgerald.	Going My Way (1944)
Cary Grant.	None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
Alexander Knox.	Wilson (1944)

1945


Ray Milland *.	The Lost Weekend (1945)
Bing Crosby.	The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Gene Kelly.	Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Gregory Peck.	The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Cornel Wilde.	A Song To Remember (1945)

1946


Fredric March *.	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Laurence Olivier.	Henry V (1944)
Larry Parks.	The Jolson Story (1946)
Gregory Peck.	The Yearling (1946)
James Stewart.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

1947


Ronald Colman *.	A Double Life (1947)
John Garfield.	Body and Soul (1947)
Gregory Peck.	Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
William Powell.	Life With Father (1947)
Michael Redgrave.	Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

1948


Laurence Olivier *.	Hamlet (1948)
Lew Ayres.	Johnny Belinda (1948)
Montgomery Clift.	The Search (1948)
Dan Dailey.	When My Baby Smiles At Me (1948)
Clifton Webb.	Sitting Pretty (1948)

1949


Broderick Crawford *.	All the King's Men (1949)
Kirk Douglas.	Champion (1949)
Gregory Peck.	Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Richard Todd.	Hasty Heart (1949)
John Wayne.	Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

1950


Jose Ferrer *.	Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
Louis Calhern.	The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
William Holden.	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
James Stewart.	Harvey (1950)
Spencer Tracy.	Father of the Bride (1950)

1951


Humphrey Bogart *.	The African Queen (1951)
Marlon Brando.	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Montgomery Clift.	A Place In the Sun (1951)
Arthur Kennedy.	Bright Victory (1951)
Fredric March.	Death of a Salesman (1951)

1952


Gary Cooper *.	High Noon (1952)
Marlon Brando.	Viva Zapata! (1952)
Kirk Douglas.	The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Jose Ferrer.	Moulin Rouge (1952)
Alec Guinness.	The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

1953


William Holden *.	Stalag 17 (1953)
Marlon Brando.	Julius Caesar (1953)
Richard Burton.	The Robe (1953)
Montgomery Clift.	From Here To Eternity (1953)
Burt Lancaster.	From Here To Eternity (1953)

1954


Marlon Brando *.	On the Waterfront (1954)
Humphrey Bogart.	The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Bing Crosby.	The Country Girl (1954)
James Mason.	A Star Is Born (1954)
Dan O'Herlihy.	Robinson Crusoe (1954)

1955


Ernest Borgnine *.	Marty (1955)
James Cagney.	Love Me Or Leave Me (1955)
James Dean.	East of Eden (1955)
Frank Sinatra.	The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
Spencer Tracy.	Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)

1956


Yul Brynner *.	The King and I (1956)
James Dean.	Giant (1956)
Kirk Douglas.	Lust For Life (1956)
Rock Hudson.	Giant (1956)
Laurence Olivier.	Richard III (1955)

1957


Alec Guinness *.	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
Marlon Brando.	Sayonara (1957)
Anthony Franciosa.	A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Charles Laughton.	Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
Anthony Quinn.	Wild Is the Wind (1957)

1958


David Niven *.	Separate Tables (1958)
Tony Curtis.	The Defiant Ones (1958)
Paul Newman.	Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Sidney Poitier.	The Defiant Ones (1958)
Spencer Tracy.	The Old Man and the Sea (1958)

1959


Charlton Heston *.	Ben-Hur (1959)
Laurence Harvey.	Room At the Top (1959)
Jack Lemmon.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
Paul Muni.	The Last Angry Man (1959)
James Stewart.	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

1960


Burt Lancaster *.	Elmer Gantry (1960)
Trevor Howard.	Sons and Lovers (1960)
Jack Lemmon.	The Apartment (1960)
Laurence Olivier.	The Entertainer (1960)
Spencer Tracy.	Inherit the Wind (1960)

1961


Maximilian Schell *.	Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
Charles Boyer.	Fanny (1961)
Paul Newman.	The Hustler (1961)
Spencer Tracy.	Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
Stuart Whitman.	The Mark (1961)

1962


Gregory Peck *.	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Burt Lancaster.	Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Jack Lemmon.	Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Marcello Mastroianni.	Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
Peter O'Toole.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

1963


Sidney Poitier *.	Lilies of the Field (1963)
Albert Finney.	Tom Jones (1963)
Richard Harris.	This Sporting Life (1963)
Rex Harrison.	Cleopatra (1963)
Paul Newman.	Hud (1963)

1964


Rex Harrison *.	My Fair Lady (1964)
Richard Burton.	Becket (1964)
Peter O'Toole.	Becket (1964)
Anthony Quinn.	Zorba the Greek (1964)
Peter Sellers.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)

1965


Lee Marvin *.	Cat Ballou (1965)
Richard Burton.	The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965)
Laurence Olivier.	Othello (1965)
Rod Steiger.	The Pawnbroker (1965)
Oskar Werner.	Ship of Fools (1965)

1966


Paul Scofield *.	A Man For All Seasons (1966)
Alan Arkin.	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Richard Burton.	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Michael Caine.	Alfie (1966)
Steve McQueen.	The Sand Pebbles (1966)

1967


Rod Steiger *.	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Warren Beatty.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Dustin Hoffman.	The Graduate (1967)
Paul Newman.	Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Spencer Tracy.	Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)

1968


Cliff Robertson *.	Charly (1968)
Alan Arkin.	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Alan Bates.	The Fixer (1968)
Ron Moody.	Oliver! (1968)
Peter O'Toole.	The Lion In Winter (1968)

1969


John Wayne *.	True Grit (1969)
Richard Burton.	Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Dustin Hoffman.	Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Peter O'Toole.	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Jon Voight.	Midnight Cowboy (1969)

1970


George C. Scott *.	Patton (1970)
Melvyn Douglas.	I Never Sang For My Father (1970)
James Earl Jones.	The Great White Hope (1970)
Jack Nicholson.	Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Ryan O'Neal.	Love Story (1970)

1971


Gene Hackman *.	The French Connection (1971)
Peter Finch.	Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Walter Matthau.	Kotch (1971)
George C. Scott.	The Hospital (1971)
Chaim Topol.	Fiddler On the Roof (1971)

1972


Marlon Brando *.	The Godfather (1972)
Michael Caine.	Sleuth (1972)
Laurence Olivier.	Sleuth (1972)
Peter O'Toole.	The Ruling Class (1972)
Paul Winfield.	Sounder (1972)

1973


Jack Lemmon *.	Save the Tiger (1973)
Marlon Brando.	Last Tango In Paris (1972)
Jack Nicholson.	The Last Detail (1973)
Al Pacino.	Serpico (1973)
Robert Redford.	The Sting (1973)

1974


Art Carney *.	Harry and Tonto (1974)
Albert Finney.	Murder On the Orient Express (1974)
Dustin Hoffman.	Lenny (1974)
Jack Nicholson.	Chinatown (1974)
Al Pacino.	The Godfather, Part II (1974)

1975


Jack Nicholson *.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Walter Matthau.	The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Al Pacino.	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Maximilian Schell.	The Man In the Glass Booth (1975)
James Whitmore.	Give 'Em Hell, Harry! (1975)

1976


Peter Finch *.	Network (1976)
Robert De Niro.	Taxi Driver (1976)
Giancarlo Giannini.	Seven Beauties (1975)
William Holden.	Network (1976)
Sylvester Stallone.	Rocky (1976)

1977


Richard Dreyfuss *.	The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Woody Allen.	Annie Hall (1977)
Richard Burton.	Equus (1977)
Marcello Mastroianni.	Una Giornata Particolare (1977)
John Travolta.	Saturday Night Fever (1977)

1978


Jon Voight *.	Coming Home (1978)
Warren Beatty.	Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Gary Busey.	The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
Robert De Niro.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
Laurence Olivier.	The Boys From Brazil (1978)

1979


Dustin Hoffman *.	Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
Jack Lemmon.	The China Syndrome (1979)
Al Pacino.	...And Justice For All (1979)
Roy Scheider.	All That Jazz (1979)
Peter Sellers.	Being There (1979)

1980


Robert De Niro *.	Raging Bull (1980)
Robert Duvall.	The Great Santini (1979)
John Hurt.	The Elephant Man (1980)
Jack Lemmon.	Tribute (1980)
Peter O'Toole.	The Stunt Man (1980)

1981


Henry Fonda *.	On Golden Pond (1981)
Warren Beatty.	Reds (1981)
Burt Lancaster.	Atlantic City (1980)
Dudley Moore.	Arthur (1981)
Paul Newman.	Absence of Malice (1981)

1982


Ben Kingsley *.	Gandhi (1982)
Dustin Hoffman.	Tootsie (1982)
Jack Lemmon.	Missing (1982)
Paul Newman.	The Verdict (1982)
Peter O'Toole.	My Favorite Year (1982)

1983


Robert Duvall *.	Tender Mercies (1983)
Michael Caine.	Educating Rita (1983)
Tom Conti.	Reuben, Reuben (1983)
Tom Courtenay.	The Dresser (1983)
Albert Finney.	The Dresser (1983)

1984


F. Murray Abraham *.	Amadeus (1984)
Jeff Bridges.	Starman (1984)
Albert Finney.	Under the Volcano (1984)
Tom Hulce.	Amadeus (1984)
Sam Waterston.	The Killing Fields (1984)

1985


William Hurt *.	Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Harrison Ford.	Witness (1985)
James Garner.	Murphy's Romance (1985)
Jack Nicholson.	Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Jon Voight.	Runaway Train (1985)

1986


Paul Newman *.	The Color of Money (1986)
Dexter Gordon.	'Round Midnight (1986)
Bob Hoskins.	Mona Lisa (1986)
William Hurt.	Children of a Lesser God (1986)
James Woods.	Salvador (1986)

1987


Michael Douglas *.	Wall Street (1987)
William Hurt.	Broadcast News (1987)
Marcello Mastroianni.	Dark Eyes (1987)
Jack Nicholson.	Ironweed (1987)
Robin Williams.	Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

1988


Dustin Hoffman *.	Rain Man (1988)
Gene Hackman.	Mississippi Burning (1988)
Tom Hanks.	Big (1988)
Edward James Olmos.	Stand and Deliver (1988)
Max von Sydow.	Pelle the Conqueror (1987)

1989


Daniel Day-Lewis *.	My Left Foot (1989)
Kenneth Branagh.	Henry V (1989)
Tom Cruise.	Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
Morgan Freeman.	Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Robin Williams.	Dead Poets Society (1989)

1990


Jeremy Irons *.	Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Kevin Costner.	Dances With Wolves (1990)
Robert De Niro.	Awakenings (1990)
Gerard Depardieu.	Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
Richard Harris.	The Field (1990)

1991


Anthony Hopkins *.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Warren Beatty.	Bugsy (1991)
Robert De Niro.	Cape Fear (1991)
Nick Nolte.	The Prince of Tides (1991)
Robin Williams.	The Fisher King (1991)

1992


Al Pacino *.	Scent of a Woman (1992)
Robert Downey Jr..	Chaplin (1992)
Clint Eastwood.	Unforgiven (1992)
Stephen Rea.	The Crying Game (1992)
Denzel Washington.	Malcolm X (1992)

1993


Tom Hanks *.	Philadelphia (1993)
Daniel Day-Lewis.	In the Name of the Father (1993)
Laurence Fishburne.	What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
Anthony Hopkins.	The Remains of the Day (1993)
Liam Neeson.	Schindler's List (1993)

1994


Tom Hanks *.	Forrest Gump (1994)
Morgan Freeman.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Nigel Hawthorne.	The Madness of King George (1994)
Paul Newman.	Nobody's Fool (1994)
John Travolta.	Pulp Fiction (1994)

1995


Nicolas Cage *.	Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Richard Dreyfuss.	Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Anthony Hopkins.	Nixon (1995)
Sean Penn.	Dead Man Walking (1995)
Massimo Troisi.	Il Postino (1994)

1996


Geoffrey Rush *.	Shine (1996)
Tom Cruise.	Jerry Maguire (1996)
Ralph Fiennes.	The English Patient (1996)
Woody Harrelson.	The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Billy Bob Thornton.	Sling Blade (1996)

1997


Jack Nicholson *.	As Good As It Gets (1997)
Matt Damon.	Good Will Hunting (1997)
Robert Duvall.	The Apostle (1997)
Peter Fonda.	Ulee's Gold (1997)
Dustin Hoffman.	Wag the Dog (1997)

1998


Roberto Benigni *.	Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Tom Hanks.	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Ian McKellen.	Gods and Monsters (1998)
Nick Nolte.	Affliction (1998)
Edward Norton.	American History X (1998)

1999


Kevin Spacey *.	American Beauty (1999)
Russell Crowe.	The Insider (1999)
Richard Farnsworth.	The Straight Story (1999)
Sean Penn.	Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Denzel Washington.	The Hurricane (1999)

2000


Russell Crowe *.	Gladiator (2000)
Javier Bardem.	Before Night Falls (2000)
Tom Hanks.	Cast Away (2000)
Ed Harris.	Pollock (2000)
Geoffrey Rush.	Quills (2000)

2001


Denzel Washington *.	Training Day (2001)
Russell Crowe.	A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Sean Penn.	I Am Sam (2001)
Will Smith.	Ali (2001)
Tom Wilkinson.	In the Bedroom (2001)

2002


Adrien Brody *.	The Pianist (2002)
Nicolas Cage.	Adaptation (2002)
Michael Caine.	The Quiet American (2002)
Daniel Day-Lewis.	Gangs of New York (2002)
Jack Nicholson.	About Schmidt (2002)

2003


Sean Penn *.	Mystic River (2003)
Johnny Depp.	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Ben Kingsley.	House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Jude Law.	Cold Mountain (2003)
Bill Murray.	Lost In Translation (2003)

2004


Jamie Foxx *.	Ray (2004)
Don Cheadle.	Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Johnny Depp.	Finding Neverland (2004)
Leonardo DiCaprio.	The Aviator (2004)
Clint Eastwood.	Million Dollar Baby (2004)

2005


Philip Seymour Hoffman *.	Capote (2005)
Terrence Howard.	Hustle & Flow (2005)
Heath Ledger.	Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Joaquin Phoenix.	Walk the Line (2005)
David Strathairn.	Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

2006


Forest Whitaker.	The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Leonardo DiCaprio.	Blood Diamond (2006)
Ryan Gosling.	Half Nelson (2006)
Peter O'Toole.	Venus (2006)
Will Smith.	The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

2007


Daniel Day-Lewis *.	There Will Be Blood (2007)
George Clooney.	Michael Clayton (2007)
Johnny Depp.	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Tommy Lee Jones.	In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Viggo Mortensen.	Eastern Promises (2007)

2008


Sean Penn *.	Milk (2008)
Richard Jenkins.	The Visitor (2008)
Frank Langella.	Frost/Nixon (2008)
Brad Pitt.	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Mickey Rourke.	The Wrestler (2008)

2009


Jeff Bridges *.	Crazy Heart (2009)
George Clooney.	Up In the Air (2009)
Colin Firth.	A Single Man (2009)
Morgan Freeman.	Invictus (2009)
Jeremy Renner.	The Hurt Locker (2009)

2010


Colin Firth *.	The King's Speech (2010)
Javier Bardem.	Biutiful (2010)
Jeff Bridges.	True Grit (2010)
Jesse Eisenberg.	The Social Network (2010)
James Franco.	127 Hours (2010)

2011


Jean Dujardin *.	The Artist (2011)
Demian Bichir.	A Better Life (2011)
George Clooney.	The Descendants (2011)
Gary Oldman.	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
Brad Pitt.	Moneyball (2011)

2012


Daniel Day-Lewis *.	Lincoln (2012)
Bradley Cooper.	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Hugh Jackman.	Les Miserables (2012)
Joaquin Phoenix.	The Master (2012)
Denzel Washington.	Flight (2012)

2013


Matthew McConaughey *.	Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Christian Bale.	American Hustle (2013)
Bruce Dern.	Nebraska (2013)
Leonardo DiCaprio.	The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Chiwetel Ejiofor.	12 Years a Slave (2013)

Best Supporting Actor