Academy Award Winning Actors
1950 José Ferrer — Cyrano de Bergerac {“Cyrano de Bergerac”}
1951 Humphrey Bogart — The African Queen {“Charlie Allnut”}
1952 Gary Cooper — High Noon {“Will Kane”}
1953 William Holden — Stalag 17 {“Sefton”}
1954 Marlon Brando — On the Waterfront {“Terry Malloy”}
1955 Ernest Borgnine — Marty {“Marty Pilletti”}
1956 Yul Brynner — The King and I {“The King”}
1957 Alec Guinness — The Bridge on the River Kwai {“Colonel Nicholson”}
1958 David Niven — Separate Tables {“Major Pollock”}
1959 Charlton Heston — Ben-Hur {“Judah Ben-Hur”}
1960 Burt Lancaster — Elmer Gantry {“Elmer Gantry”}
1961 Maximilian Schell — Judgment at Nuremberg {“Hans Rolfe”}
1962 Gregory Peck — To Kill a Mockingbird {“Atticus Finch”}
1963 Sidney Poitier — Lilies of the Field {“Homer Smith”}
1964 Rex Harrison — My Fair Lady {“Professor Henry Higgins”}
1965 Lee Marvin — Cat Ballou {“Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn”}
1966 Paul Scofield — A Man for All Seasons {“Sir Thomas More”}
1967 Rod Steiger — In the Heat of the Night {“Police Chief Bill Gillespie”}
1968 Cliff Robertson — Charly {“Charly Gordon”}
1969 John Wayne — True Grit {“Rooster Cogburn”}
1970 George C. Scott — Patton {“General George S. Patton, Jr.”} Mr. Scott refused the award
1971 Gene Hackman — The French Connection {“Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle”}
1972 Marlon Brando — The Godfather {“Don Vito Corleone”} Mr. Brando refused the award
1973 Jack Lemmon — Save the Tiger {“Harry Stoner”}
1974 Art Carney — Harry and Tonto {“Harry”}
1975 Jack Nicholson — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest {“Randle Patrick McMurphy”}
1976 Peter Finch — Network {“Howard Beale”}
1977 Richard Dreyfuss — The Goodbye Girl {“Elliot Garfield”}
1978 Jon Voight — Coming Home {“Luke Martin”}
1979 Dustin Hoffman — Kramer vs. Kramer {“Ted Kramer”}
1980 Robert De Niro — Raging Bull {“Jake LaMotta”}
1981 Henry Fonda — On Golden Pond {“Norman Thayer, Jr.”}
1982 Ben Kingsley — Gandhi {“Mahatma Gandhi”}
1983 Robert Duvall — Tender Mercies {“Mac Sledge”}
1984 F. Murray Abraham — Amadeus {“Antonio Salieri”}
1985 William Hurt — Kiss of the Spider Woman {“Luis Molina”}
1986 Paul Newman — The Color of Money {“Eddie Felson”}
1987 Michael Douglas — Wall Street {“Gordon Gekko”}
1988 Dustin Hoffman — Rain Man {“Raymond Babbitt”}
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis — My Left Foot {“Christy Brown”}
1990 Jeremy Irons — Reversal of Fortune {“Claus Von Bulow”}
1991 Anthony Hopkins — The Silence of the Lambs {“Dr. Hannibal Lecter”}
1992 Al Pacino — Scent of a Woman {“Lt. Col. Frank Slade”}
1993 Tom Hanks — Philadelphia {“Andrew Beckett”}
1994 Tom Hanks — Forrest Gump {“Forrest Gump”}
1995 Nicolas Cage — Leaving Las Vegas {“Ben Sanderson”}
1996 Geoffrey Rush — Shine {“David Helfgott”}
1997 Jack Nicholson — As Good As It Gets {“Melvin Udall”}
1998 Roberto Benigni — Life Is Beautiful {“Guido”}
1999 Kevin Spacey — American Beauty {“Lester Burnham”}
2000 Russell Crowe — Gladiator {“Maximus Decimus Meridius”}
2001 Denzel Washington — Training Day {“Alonzo”}
2002 Adrien Brody — The Pianist {“Wladyslaw Szpilman”}
Academy Award Winning Actresses
1950 Judy Holliday — Born Yesterday {“Billie Dawn”}
1951 Vivien Leigh — A Streetcar Named Desire {“Blanche DuBois”}
1952 Shirley Booth — Come Back, Little Sheba {“Lola Delaney”}
1953 Audrey Hepburn — Roman Holiday {“Princess Anne”}
1954 Grace Kelly — The Country Girl {“Georgie Elgin”}
1955 Anna Magnani — The Rose Tattoo {“Serafina Della Rose”}
1956 Ingrid Bergman — Anastasia {“The Woman”}
1957 Joanne Woodward — The Three Faces of Eve {“Eve White/Eve Black/Jane”}
1958 Susan Hayward — I Want To Live! {“Barbara Graham”}
1959 Simone Signoret — Room at the Top {“Alice Aisgill”}
1960 Elizabeth Taylor — Butterfield 8 {“Gloria Wandrous”}
1961 Sophia Loren — Two Women {“Cesira”}
1962 Anne Bancroft — The Miracle Worker {“Annie Sullivan”}
1963 Patricia Neal — Hud {“Alma”}
1964 Julie Andrews — Mary Poppins {“Mary Poppins”}
1965 Julie Christie — Darling {“Diana Scott”}
1966 Elizabeth Taylor — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? {“Martha”}
1967 Katharine Hepburn — Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner {“Christina Drayton”}
1968 Katharine Hepburn — The Lion in Winter {“Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine”} Barbara Streisand – Funny Girl
1969 Maggie Smith — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie {“Miss Jean Brodie”}
1970 Glenda Jackson — Women in Love {“Gudrun Brangwen”}
1971 Jane Fonda — Klute {“Bree Daniels”}
1972 Liza Minnelli — Cabaret {“Sally Bowles”}
1973 Glenda Jackson — A Touch of Class {“Vicki Allessio”}
1974 Ellen Burstyn — Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore {“Alice Hyatt”}
1975 Louise Fletcher — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest {“Nurse Mildred Ratched”}
1976 Faye Dunaway — Network {“Diana Christensen”}
1977 Diane Keaton — Annie Hall {“Annie Hall”}
1978 Jane Fonda — Coming Home {“Sally Hyde”}
1979 Sally Field — Norma Rae {“Norma Rae”}
1980 Sissy Spacek — Coal Miner’s Daughter {“Loretta Lynn”}
1981 Katharine Hepburn — On Golden Pond {“Ethel Thayer”}
1982 Meryl Streep — Sophie’s Choice {“Sophie”}
1983 Shirley MacLaine — Terms of Endearment {“Aurora Greenway”}
1984 Sally Field — Places in the Heart {“Edna Spalding”}
1985 Geraldine Page — The Trip to Bountiful {“Mrs. Watts”}
1986 Marlee Matlin — Children of a Lesser God {“Sarah”}
1987 Cher — Moonstruck {“Loretta Castorini”}
1988 Jodie Foster — The Accused {“Sarah Tobias”}
1989 Jessica Tandy — Driving Miss Daisy {“Daisy Werthan”}
1990 Kathy Bates — Misery {“Annie Wilkes”}
1991 Jodie Foster — The Silence of the Lambs {“Clarice Starling”}
1992 Emma Thompson — Howards End {“Margaret Schlegel”}
1993 Holly Hunter — The Piano {“Ada”}
1994 Jessica Lange — Blue Sky {“Carly Marshall”}
1995 Susan Sarandon — Dead Man Walking {“Sister Helen Prejean”}
1996 Frances McDormand — Fargo {“Marge Gunderson”}
1997 Helen Hunt — As Good As It Gets {“Carol Connelly”}
1998 Gwyneth Paltrow — Shakespeare in Love {“Viola De Lesseps”}
1999 Hilary Swank — Boys Don’t Cry {“Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon”}
2000 Julia Roberts — Erin Brockovich {“Erin Brockovich”}
2001 Halle Berry — Monster’s Ball {“Leticia Musgrove”}
2002 Nicole Kidman — The Hours {“Virginia Woolf”}