Academy Award Best Actor

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Since the very first Oscar ceremony in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored the year’s most outstanding performance by an actor in a leading role.

Lost film The Way of All Flesh not included on list.

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  1. 25 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 23 -

    All the King's Men

    1949, in 8 top lists Check
  3. 58 -

    Amadeus

    1984, in 23 top lists Check
  4. 73 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  5. 85 -

    The Artist

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
  6. 71 -

    As Good as It Gets

    1997, in 9 top lists Check
  7. 33 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  8. 20 -

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  9. 92 -

    Bohemian Rhapsody

    2018, in 6 top lists Check
  10. 12 -

    Boys Town

    1938, in 2 top lists Check
  11. 31 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  12. 79 -

    Capote

    2005, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 11 -

    Captains Courageous

    1937, in 6 top lists Check
  14. 39 -

    Cat Ballou

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 5 -

    The Champ

    1931, in 3 top lists Check
  16. 42 -

    Charly

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 60 -

    The Color of Money

    1986, in 3 top lists Check
  18. 52 -

    Coming Home

    1978, in 5 top lists Check
  19. 83 -

    Crazy Heart

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 24 -

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    1950, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 87 -

    Dallas Buyers Club

    2013, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 91 -

    Darkest Hour

    2017, in 1 top list
    Check
  23. 3 -

    Disraeli

    1929, in 1 top list Check
  24. 21 -

    A Double Life

    1947, in 1 top list Check
  25. 6 -

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    1931, in 7 top lists Check
  26. 34 -

    Elmer Gantry

    1960, in 6 top lists Check
  27. 94 -

    The Father

    2020, in 6 top lists
    Check
  28. 68 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  29. 4 -

    A Free Soul

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 45 -

    The French Connection

    1971, in 23 top lists Check
  31. 56 -

    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
  32. 74 -

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  33. 46 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  34. 18 -

    Going My Way

    1944, in 6 top lists Check
  35. 51 -

    The Goodbye Girl

    1977, in 4 top lists Check
  36. 13 -

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    1939, in 6 top lists Check
  37. 22 -

    Hamlet

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  38. 48 -

    Harry and Tonto

    1974, in 1 top list Check
  39. 26 -

    High Noon

    1952, in 19 top lists Check
  40. 2 -

    In Old Arizona

    1928, in 1 top list Check
  41. 41 -

    In the Heat of the Night

    1967, in 17 top lists Check
  42. 9 -

    The Informer

    1935, in 7 top lists Check
  43. 8 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  44. 93 -

    Joker

    2019, in 13 top lists
    Check
  45. 35 -

    Judgment at Nuremberg

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 30 -

    The King and I

    1956, in 5 top lists Check
  47. 95 -

    King Richard

    2021, in 3 top lists
    Check
  48. 84 -

    The King's Speech

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  49. 59 -

    Kiss of the Spider Woman

    1985, in 5 top lists Check
  50. 53 -

    Kramer vs. Kramer

    1979, in 8 top lists Check
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