Academy Awards (Oscars)

Organizer: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Why it counts: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual awards for film achievement, presented since 1929
Held: annual, late February to mid-March, evening PT

Reigning winners

Year	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Director
2026	Michael B. Jordan — Sinners	Jessie Buckley — Hamnet	Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
2025	Adrien Brody — The Brutalist	Mikey Madison — Anora	Sean Baker — Anora
2024	Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer		Christopher Nolan — Oppenheimer
2023	Brendan Fraser — The Whale	Michelle Yeoh — Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022	Will Smith — King Richard	Jessica Chastain — The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Jane Campion — The Power of the Dog
2021	Anthony Hopkins — The Father	Frances McDormand — Nomadland	Chloé Zhao — Nomadland
2020	Joaquin Phoenix — Joker	Renée Zellweger — Judy	Bong Joon-ho — Parasite
2019	Rami Malek — Bohemian Rhapsody	Olivia Colman — The Favourite	Alfonso Cuarón — Roma
2018	Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour	Frances McDormand — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Guillermo del Toro — The Shape of Water
2017	Casey Affleck — Manchester by the Sea		Damien Chazelle — Q20856802
2016	Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant	Brie Larson — Room
2015	Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of Everything	Julianne Moore — Still Alice
2014	Matthew McConaughey — Dallas Buyers Club	Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine	Alfonso Cuarón — Gravity
2013	Daniel Day-Lewis — Lincoln	Jennifer Lawrence — Silver Linings Playbook	Ang Lee — Life of Pi
2012	Jean Dujardin — The Artist		Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist
2011	Colin Firth — The King's Speech	Natalie Portman — Black Swan	Tom Hooper — The King's Speech
2010	Jeff Bridges — Crazy Heart	Sandra Bullock — The Blind Side	Kathryn Bigelow — The Hurt Locker
2009	Sean Penn — Milk	Kate Winslet — The Reader	Danny Boyle — Slumdog Millionaire
2008	Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood	Marion Cotillard — La Vie en Rose
2007	Forest Whitaker — The Last King of Scotland	Helen Mirren — The Queen	Martin Scorsese — The Departed
2006	Philip Seymour Hoffman — Capote	Reese Witherspoon — Walk the Line	Ang Lee — Brokeback Mountain
2005	Jamie Foxx — Ray	Hilary Swank — Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood — Million Dollar Baby
2004	Sean Penn — Mystic River	Charlize Theron — Monster	Peter Jackson — The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003	Adrien Brody — The Pianist	Nicole Kidman — The Hours	Roman Polanski — The Pianist
2002		Halle Berry — Monster's Ball	Ron Howard — A Beautiful Mind
2001	Russell Crowe — Gladiator	Julia Roberts — Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh — Traffic
2000	Kevin Spacey — American Beauty	Hilary Swank — Boys Don't Cry	Sam Mendes — American Beauty
1999	Roberto Benigni — Life Is Beautiful	Gwyneth Paltrow — Shakespeare in Love	Steven Spielberg — Saving Private Ryan
1998	Jack Nicholson — As Good as It Gets	Helen Hunt — As Good as It Gets	James Cameron — Titanic
1997	Geoffrey Rush — Shine	Frances McDormand — Fargo	Anthony Minghella — The English Patient
1996	Nicolas Cage — Leaving Las Vegas	Susan Sarandon — Dead Man Walking	Mel Gibson — Braveheart
1995	Tom Hanks — Q134773	Jessica Lange — Blue Sky	Robert Zemeckis — Q134773
1994	Tom Hanks — Philadelphia	Holly Hunter — The Piano	Steven Spielberg — Schindler's List
1993	Al Pacino — Scent of a Woman	Emma Thompson — Howards End	Clint Eastwood — Unforgiven
1992	Anthony Hopkins — The Silence of the Lambs	Jodie Foster — The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme — The Silence of the Lambs
1991	Jeremy Irons — Reversal of Fortune	Kathy Bates — Misery	Kevin Costner — Dances with Wolves
1990	Daniel Day-Lewis — My Left Foot	Jessica Tandy — Driving Miss Daisy	Oliver Stone — Born on the Fourth of July
1989		Jodie Foster — The Accused	Barry Levinson — Rain Man
1988	Michael Douglas — Wall Street	Cher — Moonstruck	Bernardo Bertolucci — The Last Emperor
1987	Paul Newman — The Color of Money	Marlee Matlin — Children of a Lesser God	Oliver Stone — Platoon
1986	William Hurt — Kiss of the Spider Woman	Geraldine Page — The Trip to Bountiful	Sydney Pollack — Out of Africa
1985	F. Murray Abraham — Amadeus	Sally Field — Places in the Heart	Miloš Forman — Amadeus
1984	Robert Duvall — Tender Mercies	Shirley MacLaine — Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks — Terms of Endearment
1983	Ben Kingsley — Gandhi		Richard Attenborough — Gandhi
1982	Henry Fonda — On Golden Pond	Katharine Hepburn — On Golden Pond	Warren Beatty — Reds
1981	Robert De Niro — Raging Bull	Sissy Spacek — Coal Miner's Daughter	Robert Redford — Ordinary People
1980		Sally Field — Norma Rae	Robert Benton — Kramer vs. Kramer
1979	Jon Voight — Coming Home	Jane Fonda — Coming Home	Michael Cimino — The Deer Hunter
1978	Richard Dreyfuss — The Goodbye Girl	Diane Keaton — Annie Hall	Woody Allen — Annie Hall
1977	Peter Finch — Network	Faye Dunaway — Network	John G. Avildsen — Rocky
1976	Jack Nicholson — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Louise Fletcher — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975	Art Carney — Harry and Tonto	Ellen Burstyn — Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Francis Ford Coppola — The Godfather Part II
1974	Jack Lemmon — Save the Tiger	Glenda Jackson — A Touch of Class	George Roy Hill — The Sting
1973	Marlon Brando — The Godfather	Liza Minnelli — Cabaret	Bob Fosse — Cabaret
1972	Gene Hackman — The French Connection	Jane Fonda — Klute	William Friedkin — The French Connection
1971	George C. Scott — Patton	Glenda Jackson — Women in Love	Franklin J. Schaffner — Patton
1970	John Wayne — True Grit		John Schlesinger — Midnight Cowboy
1969	Cliff Robertson — Charly	Barbra Streisand — Funny Girl Katharine Hepburn — The Lion in Winter	Carol Reed — Oliver!
1968	Rod Steiger — In the Heat of the Night	Katharine Hepburn — Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Mike Nichols — The Graduate
1967	Paul Scofield — A Man for All Seasons	Elizabeth Taylor — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Fred Zinnemann — A Man for All Seasons
1966	Lee Marvin — Cat Ballou	Julie Christie — Q1166360	Robert Wise — The Sound of Music
1965	Rex Harrison — My Fair Lady	Julie Andrews — Mary Poppins	George Cukor — My Fair Lady
1964	Sidney Poitier — Lilies of the Field	Patricia Neal — Hud	Tony Richardson — Tom Jones
1963	Gregory Peck — To Kill a Mockingbird	Anne Bancroft — The Miracle Worker	David Lean — Lawrence of Arabia
1962	Maximilian Schell — Judgment at Nuremberg	Sophia Loren — Two Women	Jerome Robbins — West Side Story Robert Wise — West Side Story
1961	Burt Lancaster — Elmer Gantry	Elizabeth Taylor — BUtterfield 8	Billy Wilder — The Apartment
1960	Charlton Heston — Ben-Hur	Simone Signoret — Room at the Top	William Wyler — Ben-Hur
1959	David Niven — Separate Tables	Susan Hayward — I Want to Live!	Vincente Minnelli — Gigi
1958	Alec Guinness — The Bridge on the River Kwai	Joanne Woodward — The Three Faces of Eve	David Lean — The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957	Yul Brynner — The King and I	Ingrid Bergman — Anastasia	George Stevens — Giant
1956	Ernest Borgnine — Marty	Anna Magnani — The Rose Tattoo	Delbert Mann — Marty
1955	Marlon Brando — On the Waterfront	Grace Kelly — The Country Girl	Elia Kazan — On the Waterfront
1954	William Holden — Stalag 17	Audrey Hepburn — Roman Holiday	Fred Zinnemann — From Here to Eternity
1953	Gary Cooper — High Noon	Shirley Booth — Come Back, Little Sheba	John Ford — The Quiet Man
1952	Humphrey Bogart — The African Queen	Vivien Leigh — A Streetcar Named Desire	George Stevens — A Place in the Sun
1951	José Ferrer — Cyrano de Bergerac	Judy Holliday — Born Yesterday	Joseph L. Mankiewicz — All About Eve
1950	Broderick Crawford — All the King's Men	Olivia de Havilland — The Heiress	Joseph L. Mankiewicz — A Letter to Three Wives
1949	Laurence Olivier — Hamlet	Jane Wyman — Johnny Belinda	John Huston — The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948	Ronald Colman — A Double Life	Loretta Young — The Farmer's Daughter	Elia Kazan — Gentleman's Agreement
1947	Fredric March — The Best Years of Our Lives	Olivia de Havilland — To Each His Own	William Wyler — The Best Years of Our Lives
1946	Ray Milland — The Lost Weekend	Joan Crawford — Mildred Pierce	Billy Wilder — The Lost Weekend
1945	Bing Crosby — Going My Way	Ingrid Bergman — Gaslight	Leo McCarey — Going My Way
1944	Paul Lukas — Watch on the Rhine	Jennifer Jones — The Song of Bernadette	Michael Curtiz — Casablanca
1943	James Cagney — Yankee Doodle Dandy	Greer Garson — Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler — Mrs. Miniver
1942	Gary Cooper — Sergeant York	Joan Fontaine — Suspicion	John Ford — How Green Was My Valley
1941	James Stewart — The Philadelphia Story	Ginger Rogers — Kitty Foyle	John Ford — The Grapes of Wrath
1940	Robert Donat — Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Vivien Leigh — Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming — Gone with the Wind
1939	Spencer Tracy — Boys Town	Bette Davis — Jezebel	Frank Capra — You Can't Take It With You
1938	Spencer Tracy — Captains Courageous	Luise Rainer — The Good Earth	Leo McCarey — The Awful Truth
1937	Paul Muni — The Story of Louis Pasteur	Luise Rainer — The Great Ziegfeld	Frank Capra — Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936	Victor McLaglen — The Informer	Bette Davis — Dangerous	John Ford — The Informer
1935	Clark Gable — It Happened One Night	Claudette Colbert — It Happened One Night	Frank Capra — It Happened One Night
1932	Fredric March — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Wallace Beery — The Champ	Helen Hayes — The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Frank Borzage — Bad Girl
1931	Lionel Barrymore — A Free Soul	Marie Dressler — Min and Bill	Norman Taurog — Skippy

Academy Awards (Oscars)

Reigning winners

Best Actor · 2026

Best Actress · 2026

Best Director · 2026