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Oscar-winning films: Actor in a Leading Role

All the films that have won the Academy Award for Best Lead Actor. Read Notes to see the actor who won from each film.

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  • Sinners
  • The Brutalist
  • Oppenheimer
  • The Whale
  • King Richard
  • The Father
  • Joker
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Darkest Hour
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • The Revenant
  • The Theory of Everything
  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • Lincoln
  • The Artist
  • The King's Speech
  • Crazy Heart
  • Milk
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Last King of Scotland
  • Capote
  • Ray
  • Mystic River
  • The Pianist
  • Training Day
  • Gladiator
  • American Beauty
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • As Good as It Gets
  • Shine
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Forrest Gump
  • Philadelphia
  • Scent of a Woman
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Reversal of Fortune
  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
  • Rain Man
  • Wall Street
  • The Color of Money
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Amadeus
  • Tender Mercies
  • Gandhi
  • On Golden Pond
  • Raging Bull
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Coming Home
  • The Goodbye Girl
  • Network
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Harry and Tonto
  • Save the Tiger
  • The Godfather
  • The French Connection
  • Patton
  • True Grit
  • Charly
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Cat Ballou
  • My Fair Lady
  • Lilies of the Field
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Elmer Gantry
  • Ben-Hur
  • Separate Tables
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • The King and I
  • Marty
  • On the Waterfront
  • Stalag 17
  • High Noon
  • The African Queen
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • All the King's Men
  • Hamlet
  • A Double Life
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • The Lost Weekend
  • Going My Way
  • Watch on the Rhine
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Sergeant York
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Boys Town
  • Captains Courageous
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • The Informer
  • It Happened One Night
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • The Champ
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • A Free Soul
  • Disraeli
  • In Old Arizona
  • The Last Command
  • The Way of All Flesh