Who will take home the Oscar for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" at Sunday's 90th Academy Awards?
This year's nominees are Timothée Chalamet, "Call Me by Your Name"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "Phantom Thread"; Daniel Kaluuya, "Get Out"; Gary Oldman, "Darkest Hour"; and Denzel Washington, "Roman J. Israel, Esq."
See who wins Sunday, March 4, at 6 p.m. on ABC15.
In honor of the Oscars, we used the Academy Award's database to compile every best actor winner since the first ceremony in 1929.
- 2016 - Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
- 2015 - Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
- 2014 - Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”
- 2013 - Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
- 2012 - Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
- 2011 - Jean Duhardin, “The Artist”
- 2010 - Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech”
- 2009 - Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
- 2008 - Sean Penn, “Milk”
- 2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood”
- 2006 - Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”
- 2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Capote”
- 2004 - Jamie Foxx, “Ray”
- 2003 - Sean Penn, “Mystic River”
- 2002 - Adrien Brody, “The Pianist”
- 2001 - Denzel Washington, “Training Day”
- 2000 - Russell Crowe, “Gladiator”
- 1999 - Kevin Spacey, “American Beauty”
- 1998 - Roberto Benigni, “Life Is Beautiful”
- 1997 - Jack Nicholson, “As Good as It Gets”
- 1996 - Geoffrey Rush, “Shine”
- 1995 - Nicolas Cage, “Leaving Las Vegas”
- 1994 - Tom Hanks, “Forrest Gump”
- 1993 - Tom Hanks, “Philadelphia”
- 1992 - Al Pacino, “Scent of a Woman”
- 1991 - Anthony Hopkins, “The Silence of the Lambs”
- 1990 - Jeremy Irons, “Reversal of Fortune”
- 1989 - Daniel Day-Lewis, “My Left Foot”
- 1988 - Dustin Hoffman, “Rain Man”
- 1987 - Michael Douglas, “Wall Street”
- 1986 - Paul Newman, “The Color of Money”
- 1985 - William Hurt, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
- 1984 - F. Murray Abraham, “Amadeus”
- 1983 - Robert Duvall, “Tender Mercies”
- 1982 - Ben Kingsley, “Gandhi”
- 1981 - Hendry Fonda, “On Golden Pond”
- 1980 - Robert De Niro, “Raging Bull”
- 1979 - Dustin Hoffman, “Kramer vs. Kramer”
- 1978 - Jon Voight, “Coming Home”
- 1977 - Richard Dreyfuss, “The Goodbye Girl”
- 1976 - Peter Finch, “Network”
- 1975 - Jack Nicholson, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
- 1974 - Art Carnet, “Harry and Tonto”
- 1973 - Jack Lemmon, “Save the Tiger”
- 1972 - Marlon Brando, “The Godfather” (He refused the award)
- 1971 - Gene Hackman, “The French Connection”
- 1970 - George C. Scott, “Patton” (He refused the award)
- 1969 - John Wayne, “True Grit”
- 1968 - Cliff Robertson, “Charly”
- 1967 - Rod Steiger, “In the Heat of the Night”
- 1966 - Paul Scofield, “A Man for All Seasons”
- 1965 - Lee Marvin, “Cat Ballou”
- 1964 - Rex Harrison, “My Fair Lady”
- 1963 - Sidney Poitier, “Lilies of the Field”
- 1962 - Gregory Peck, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
- 1961 - Maximilian Schell, “Judgment at Nuremberg”
- 1960 - Burt Lancaster, “Elmer Gantry”
- 1959 - Charlton Heston, “Ben-Hur”
- 1958 - David Niven, “Separate Tables”
- 1957 - Alec Guinness, “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
- 1956 - Yul Brynner, “The King and I”
- 1955 - Ernest Borgnine, “Marty Pilletti”
- 1954 - Marlon Brando, “On the Waterfront”
- 1953 - William Holden, “Stalag 17”
- 1952 - Gary Cooper, “High Noon”
- 1951 - Humphrey Bogart, “The African Queen”
- 1950 - Jose Ferrer, “Cyrano de Bergerac”
- 1949 - Broderick Crawford, “All the King’s Men”
- 1948 - Laurence Olivier, “Hamlet”
- 1947 - Ronald Colman, “A Double Life”
- 1946 - Fredric March, “The Best Years of Our Lives”
- 1945 - Ray Milland, “The Lost Weekend”
- 1944 - Bing Crosby, “Going My Way”
- 1943 - Paul Lukas, “Watch on the Rhine”
- 1942 - James Cagney, “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
- 1941 - Gary Cooper, “Sergeant York”
- 1940 - James Stewart, “The Philadelphia Story”
- 1939 - Robert Donat, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
- 1938 - Spencer Tracy, “Boys Town”
- 1937 - Spencer Tracy, “Captains Courageous”
- 1936 - Paul Muni, “The Story of Louis Pasteur”
- 1935 - Victor McLaglen, “The Informer”
- 1934 - Clarke Gable, “It Happened One Night”
- 1932/1933 - Charles Laughton, “The Private Life of Henry VIII”
- 1931/1932 - Wallace Beery, “The Champ” and Fredric March, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (a technical tie, per rules at the time)
- 1930/1931 - Lionel Barrymore, “A Free Soul”
- 1929/1930 - George Arliss, “Disraeli”
- 1928/1929 - Warner Baxter, “In Old Arizona”
During the 1927/1928 ceremony, Charlie Chaplin was honored with a special award for acting, writing, directing and producing "The Circle."