Best Actor
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | Charles Chaplin | The Circus | Nominee | The first English-born person to be nominated for an acting Oscar. | |
| 1929 | Ronald Colman | Bulldog Drummond | Nominee | ||
| Ronald Colman | Condemned | Nominee | |||
| George Arliss | Disraeli | Winner | |||
| 1933 | Charles Laughton | The Private Life of Henry VIII | Winner | ||
| Leslie Howard | Berkeley Square | Nominee | |||
| 1935 | Victor McLaglen | The Informer | Winner | ||
| Charles Laughton | Mutiny on the Bounty | Nominee | |||
| 1936 | Walter Huston | Dodsworth | Nominee | ||
| 1938 | Leslie Howard | Pygmalion | Nominee | ||
| 1939 | Robert Donat | Goodbye Mr Chips | Winner | ||
| Laurence Olivier | Wuthering Heights | Nominee | |||
| 1940 | Charles Chaplin | The Great Dictator | Nominee | ||
| Laurence Olivier | Rebecca | Nominee | |||
| Raymond Massey | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Nominee | |||
| 1941 | Walter Huston | The Devil and Daniel Webster | Nominee | ||
| Cary Grant | Penny Serenade | Nominee | |||
| 1942 | Ronald Colman | Random Harvest | Nominee | ||
| Walter Pidgeon | Mrs. Miniver | Nominee | |||
| 1943 | Walter Pidgeon | Madame Curie | Nominee | ||
| 1944 | Cary Grant | None but the Lonely Heart | Nominee | ||
| Alexander Knox | Wilson | Winner | |||
| 1945 | Ray Milland | The Lost Weekend | Winner | The first Welsh-born person to be nominated for an acting Oscar. | |
| 1946 | Laurence Olivier | Henry V | Nominee | ||
| 1947 | Ronald Colman | A Double Life | Winner | ||
| 1948 | Laurence Olivier | Hamlet | Winner | ||
| 1952 | Alec Guinness | The Lavender Hill Mob | Nominee | ||
| 1953 | Richard Burton | The Robe | Nominee | ||
| 1956 | Laurence Olivier | Richard III | Nominee | ||
| 1957 | Alec Guinness | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Winner | ||
| Charles Laughton | Witness for the Prosecution | Nominee | |||
| 1958 | David Niven | Separate Tables | Winner | ||
| 1960 | Laurence Olivier | The Entertainer | Nominee | ||
| Trevor Howard | Sons and Lovers | Nominee | |||
| 1963 | Albert Finney | Tom Jones | Nominee | ||
| Rex Harrison | Cleopatra | Nominee | |||
| 1964 | Richard Burton | Becket | Nominee | ||
| Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | Winner | |||
| Peter Sellers | Dr Strangelove | Nominee | |||
| 1965 | Richard Burton | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Nominee | ||
| Laurence Olivier | Othello | Nominee | |||
| 1966 | Richard Burton | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Nominee | ||
| Michael Caine | Alfie | Nominee | |||
| Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Winner | |||
| 1968 | Ron Moody | Oliver! | Nominee | ||
| 1969 | Richard Burton | Anne of the Thousand Days | Nominee | ||
| 1971 | Peter Finch | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Nominee | Finch was an English-born Australian actor. | |
| 1972 | Michael Caine | Sleuth | Nominee | ||
| Laurence Olivier | Nominee | ||||
| 1974 | Albert Finney | Murder on the Orient Express | Nominee | ||
| 1976 | Peter Finch | Network | Winner | First posthumous winner of an acting award. | |
| 1977 | Richard Burton | Equus | Nominee | ||
| 1979 | Peter Sellers | Being There | Nominee | ||
| 1980 | John Hurt | The Elephant Man | Nominee | ||
| 1981 | Dudley Moore | Arthur | Nominee | ||
| 1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Winner | ||
| 1983 | Michael Caine | Educating Rita | Nominee | ||
| Tom Courtenay | The Dresser | Nominee | |||
| Albert Finney | Nominee | ||||
| Tom Conti | Reuben, Reuben | Nominee | |||
| 1984 | Albert Finney | Under the Volcano | Nominee | ||
| 1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | Nominee | ||
| 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | N. Ireland | Henry V | Nominee | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Winner | Day-Lewis is an English-born Irish actor with joint British/Irish citizenship. | ||
| 1990 | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune | Winner | ||
| 1991 | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | Winner | ||
| 1992 | Stephen Rea | N. Ireland | The Crying Game | Nominee | |
| 1993 | Daniel Day-Lewis | In the Name of the Father | Nominee | ||
| Anthony Hopkins | The Remains of the Day | Nominee | |||
| Liam Neeson | N. Ireland | Schindler's List | Nominee | Neeson is a Northern Ireland-born Irish actor. | |
| 1994 | Nigel Hawthorne | The Madness of King George | Nominee | ||
| 1995 | Anthony Hopkins | Nixon | Nominee | ||
| 1996 | Ralph Fiennes | The English Patient | Nominee | ||
| Geoffrey Rush | Shine | Winner | |||
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | Nominee | ||
| 1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Nominee | Crowe is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. | |
| 2000 | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Winner | ||
| Geoffrey Rush | Quills | Nominee | |||
| 2001 | Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | Nominee | ||
| Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Nominee | |||
| 2002 | Michael Caine | The Quiet American | Nominee | ||
| Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | Nominee | |||
| 2003 | Jude Law | Cold Mountain | Nominee | ||
| Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Nominee | |||
| 2005 | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Nominee | ||
| 2006 | Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Nominee | ||
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Winner | ||
| 2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | Nominee | ||
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | Winner | ||
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Winner | ||
| Hugh Jackman | Les Misérables | Nominee |
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Famous quotes containing the word actor:
“To be a good actor ... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)
“As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
Even so, or with much more contempt, men’s eyes
Did scowl on gentle Richard.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)