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:
“When an actor has money, he sends not letters, but telegrams.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)