Academy Award for best actor, award presented annually by the , located in , California. It honors the male actor in a leading role who delivered the most outstanding performance in a of a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. The prize was presented in 1929 at the first Academy Awards ceremony, and it recognized work in films from 1927–28. It was not until the seventh ceremony, in 1935, that only performances in movies released the previous year were eligible for consideration. The winning actors are given a gold-plated statuette known as an . has won the most Academy Awards for best actor (three), and a number of actors have received two such Oscars, including and , both of whom won in consecutive years. Below is a list of the winning actors and the films for which they won. The year is when the award was presented. 1929 and 1930s 1929: (The Way of All Flesh [1927] and The Last Command [1928])1930: Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona [1928])1931: (Disraeli [1929])1932: (A Free Soul [1931])1933: (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1931]) and (The Champ [1931])(All subsequent films were released the previous year.)1934: (The Private Life of Henry VIII)1935: (It Happened One Night)1936: Victor McLaglen ()1937: (The Story of Louis Pasteur)1938: (Captains Courageous)1939: (Boys Town) 1940s and 1950s 1940: Robert Donat ()1941: ()1942: ()1943: ()1944: Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)1945: (Going My Way)1946: (The Lost Weekend)1947: (The Best Years of Our Lives)1948: ()1949: (Hamlet)1950: Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)1951: (Cyrano de Bergerac)1952: ()1953: ()1954: ()1955: ()1956: (Marty)1957: ()1958: ()1959: (Separate Tables) 1960s and 1970s 1960: ()1961: ()1962: ()1963: ()1964: ()1965: ()1966: (Cat Ballou)1967: (A Man for All Seasons)1968: (In the Heat of the Night)1969: Cliff Robertson ()1970: ()1971: (Patton)1972: ()1973: ()1974: (Save the Tiger)1975: (Harry and Tonto)1976: ()1977: (Network)1978: (The Goodbye Girl)1979: (Coming Home) 1980s and 1990s 1980: ()1981: (Raging Bull)1982: (On Golden Pond)1983: (Gandhi)1984: (Tender Mercies)1985: ()1986: (Kiss of the Spider Woman)1987: (The Color of Money)1988: (Wall Street)1989: ()1990: (My Left Foot)1991: (Reversal of Fortune)1992: ()1993: (Scent of a Woman)1994: (Philadelphia)1995: ()1996: (Leaving Las Vegas)1997: (Shine)1998: (As Good as It Gets)1999: (Life Is Beautiful) 2000s and 2010s 2000: ()2001: ()2002: (Training Day)2003: (The Pianist)2004: (Mystic River)2005: (Ray)2006: (Capote)2007: (The Last King of Scotland)2008: (There Will Be Blood)2009: (Milk)2010: (Crazy Heart)2011: (The King’s Speech)2012: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)2013: (Lincoln)2014: (Dallas Buyers Club)2015: (The Theory of Everything)2016: (The Revenant)2017: (Manchester by the Sea)2018: (Darkest Hour)2019: (Bohemian Rhapsody) 2020s 2020: (Joker)2021: (The Father)2022: (King Richard)2023: (The Whale)2024: ()2025: (The Brutalist) This article was most recently revised and updated by ., The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year., Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most Academy Awards for best actor (three), and a number of actors have received two such Oscars, including Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks, both of whom won in consecutive years..