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As we approach the 96th Academy Awards, Deadline takes a photo-heavy look back at every Best Actor winner since 1927.
Scroll through the images below to see them all.
And if you’re interested in seeing photos of the Best Actress winners, click here.
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Cillian Murphy – 2024
‘Oppenheimer’ (2023)
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Brendan Fraser – 2023
Image Credit: A24 ‘The Whale’ (2022)
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2022 — Will Smith
Image Credit: Chiabella James /Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection ‘King Richard’ (2021)
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2021 — Anthony Hopkins
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Classics/Courtesy Everett Collection ‘The Father’ (2020)
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2020 — Joaquin Phoenix
Image Credit: Warner Bros./Everett Collection ‘Joker’ (2019)
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2019 — Rami Malek
Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (2018)
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2018 — Gary Oldman
Image Credit: Focus Features/Everett Collection ‘Darkest Hour’ (2017)
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2017 — Casey Affleck
Image Credit: Claire Folger/Roadside Attractions/Everett Collection ‘Manchester By the Sea’ (2016)
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2016 — Leonardo DiCaprio
Image Credit: Kimberley French/20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘The Revenant’ (2015)
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2015 — Eddie Redmayne
Image Credit: Focus Features/Everett Collection “The Theory of Everything’ (2014)
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2014 — Matthew McConaughey
Image Credit: Anne Marie Fox/Focus Features/Everett Collection “Dallas Buyers Club’ (2013)
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2013 — Daniel Day-Lewis
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘Lincoln’ (2012)
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2012 — Jean Dujardin
Image Credit: Peter Iovino/The Weinstein Company/Everett Collection ‘The Artist’ (2011)
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2011 — Colin Firth
Image Credit: Laurie Sparham/The Weinstein Company/Everett Collection ‘The King’s Speech’ (2010)
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2010 — Jeff Bridges
Image Credit: Lorey Sebastian/Fox Searchlight Pictures/Everett Collection ‘Crazy Heart’ (2009)
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2009 — Sean Penn
Image Credit: Focus Features/Everett Collection ‘Milk’ (2008)
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2008 — Daniel Day-Lewis
Image Credit: Paramount Vantage/Everett Collection ‘There Will Be Blood’ (2007)
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2007 — Forest Whitaker
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight/Everett Collection ‘The Last King of Scotland’ (2006)
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2006 — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Classics/Everett Collection ‘Capote’ (2005)
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2005 — Jamie Foxx
Image Credit: Universal/Everett Collection ‘Ray’ (2004)
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2004 — Sean Penn
Image Credit: Warner Brothers/Everett Collection ‘Mystic River’ (2003)
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2003 — Adrien Brody
Image Credit: Focus Features/Everett Collection ‘The Pianist’ (2002)
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2002 — Denzel Washington
Image Credit: Warner Bros./Everett Collection ‘Training Day’ (2001)
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2001 — Russell Crowe
Image Credit: DreamWorks/Everett Collection ‘Gladiator’ (2000)
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2000 — Kevin Spacey
Image Credit: DreamWorks/Everett Collection ‘American Beauty’ (1999)
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1999 — Roberto Benigni
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Life Is Beautiful’ (1998)
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1998 — Jack Nicholson
Image Credit: Sony Pictures/Everett Collection ‘As Good As It Gets’ (1997)
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1997 — Geoffrey Rush
Image Credit: Fine Line Features/Everett Collection ‘Shine’ (1996)
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1996 — Nicholas Cage
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ (1995)
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1995 — Tom Hanks
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection ‘Forrest Gump’ (1994)
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1994 — Tom Hanks
Image Credit: TriStar Pictures/Everett Collection ‘Philadelphia’ (1993)
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1993 — Al Pacino
Image Credit: Universal/Everett Collection ‘Scent of a Woman’ (1992)
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1992 — Anthony Hopkins
Image Credit: Orion Pictures Corp./Everett Collection ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991)
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1991 — Jeremy Irons
Image Credit: Warner Bros./Everett Collection ‘Reversal of Fortune’ (1990)
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1990 — Daniel Day-Lewis
Image Credit: Miramax/Everett Collection ‘My Left Foot’ (1989)
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1989 — Dustin Hoffman
Image Credit: United Artists/Everett Collection ‘Rain Man’ (1988)
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1988 — Michael Douglas
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘Wall Street’ (1987)
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1987 — Paul Newman
Image Credit: Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection ‘The Color of Money’ (1986)
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1986 — William Hurt
Image Credit: Island Alive/Everett Collection ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ (1985)
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1985 — F. Murray Abraham
Image Credit: Warner Bros./Everett Collection ‘Amadeus’ (1984)
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1984 — Robert Duvall
Image Credit: Universal/Everett Collection ‘Tender Mercies’ (1983)
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1983 — Ben Kingsley
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures/Everett Collection ‘Gandhi’ (1982)
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1982 — Henry Fonda
Image Credit: Everett Collection “On Golden Pond’ (1981)
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1981 — Robert DeNiro
Image Credit: United Artists/Everett Collection ‘Raging Bull’ (1980)
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1980 — Dustin Hoffman
Image Credit: Columbia/Everett Collection ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ (1979)
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1979 — Jon Voight
Image Credit: United Artists/Everett Collection ‘Coming Home’ (1978)
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1978 — Richard Dreyfuss
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Goodbye Girl’ (1977)
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1977 — Peter Finch
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Network’ (1976)
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1976 — Jack Nicholson
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1975)
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1975 — Art Carney
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘Harry and Tonto’ (1974)
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1974 — Jack Lemmon
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Save the Tiger’ (1973)
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1973 — Marlon Brando
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Godfather’ (1972)
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1972 — Gene Hackman
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘The French Connection’ (1971)
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1971 — George C. Scott
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘Patton’ (1970)
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1970 — John Wayne
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘True Grit’ (1969)
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1969 — Cliff Robertson
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Charly’ (1968)
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1968 — Rod Steiger
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘In the Heat of the Night’ (1967)
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1967 — Paul Scofield
Image Credit: Everett Collection “A Man For All Seasons’ (1966)
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1966 — Lee Marvin
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Cat Ballou’ (1965)
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1965 — Rex Harrison
Image Credit: Everett Collection “My Fair Lady’ (1964)
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1964 — Sidney Poitier
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Lilies of the Field’ (1963)
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1963 — Gregory Peck
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ (1962)
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1962 — Maximilian Schell
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ (1961)
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1961 — Burt Lancaster
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Elmer Gantry’ (1960)
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1960 — Charlton Heston
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Ben-Hur’ (1959)
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1959 — David Niven
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Separate Tables’ (1958)
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1958 — Alec Guinness
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Bridge On the River Kwai’ (1957)
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1957 — Yul Brynner
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘The King And I’ (1956)
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1956 — Ernest Borgnine
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Marty’ (1955)
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1955 — Marlon Brando
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘On the Waterfront’ (1954)
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1954 — William Holden
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Stalag 17’ (1953)
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1953 — Gary Cooper
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘High Noon’ (1952)
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1952 — Humphrey Bogart
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The African Queen’ (1951)
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1951 — José Ferrer
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Cyrano De Bergerac’ (1950)
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1950 — Broderick Crawford
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘All the King’s Men’ (1949)
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1949 — Laurence Olivier
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Hamlet’ (1948)
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1948 — Ronald Colman
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘A Double Life’ (1947)
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1947 — Fredric March
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ (1946)
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1946 — Ray Milland
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Lost Weekend’ (1945)
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1945 — Bing Crosby
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Going My Way’ (1944)
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1944 — Paul Lukas
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Watch on the Rhine’ (1943)
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1943 — James Cagney
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ (1942)
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1942 — Gary Cooper
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Sergeant York’ (1941)
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1941 — James Stewart
Image Credit: Jerry Tavin/Everett Collection ‘The Philadelphia Story’ (1940)
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1940 — Robert Donat
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’ (1939)
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1939 — Spencer Tracy
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Boys Town’ (1938)
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1938 — Spencer Tracy
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Captains Courageous’ (1937)
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1937 — Paul Muni
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Story of Louis Pasteur’ (1936)
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1936 — Victor McLaglen
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Informer’ (1935)
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1935 — Clark Gable
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘It Happened One Night’ (1934)
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1933/34 — Charles Laughton
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Private Life of Henry VIII’ (1933)
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1931/32 — Wallace Beery
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Champ’ (1931)
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1931/32 — Fredric March
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (1931)
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1930/31 — Lionel Barrymore
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘A Free Soul’ (1931)
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1929/30 — George Arliss
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Disraeli’ (1929)
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1928/29 — Warner Baxter
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘In Old Arizona’ (1928)
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1927/28 — Emil Jannings
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Last Command’ (1928)
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