Birthplaces of winners of Academy Award for Best Actor
1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command as "Gen.
Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander" and The Way of All Flesh as "August
Schilling"
July 23, 1884
Rorschach, Switzerland
1929
Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona as "The Cisco Kid"
March
29, 1889
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
1930 George Arliss - Disraeli as Benjamin
Disraeli
April 10, 1868(
London, England
1931
Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as "Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney"
April
28, 1878
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1932 (tie) Fredric
March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as "Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde"
August
31, 1897
Racine, Wisconsin, United States
Wallace Beery - The Champ as "Champ"
April 1, 1885
Kansas
City, Missouri, U.S.
1933 Charles Laughton - The Private
Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII
July 1, 1899(1899-07-01)
Scarborough,
Yorkshire, England
1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night as "Peter Warne"
February 1, 1901
Cadiz, Ohio,
United States
1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer as
"Gypo Nolan"
December 10, 1886
Tunbridge Wells,
Kent, England
1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Louis Pasteur
September 22, 1895
Lviv, Ukraine
1937
Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as "Manuel"
April
5, 1900
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town as Father Edward
J. Flanigan
April 5, 1900
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1939
Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as "Charles E. Chipping"
March
18, 1905
Withington, Manchester, England
1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia
Story as "Macaulay Connor"
20 May 1908
Indiana,
Pennsylvania, United States
1941 Gary Cooper - Sergeant
York as Sergeant Alvin York
May 7, 1901
Helena, Montana,
U.S.
1942 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
July
17, 1899
New York
1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as "Kurt Muller"
May 26, 1895
Budapest, Hungary
1944 Bing Crosby -
Going My Way as "Father Chuck O'Malley"
May 3,
1903
Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend as "Don
Birnam"
January 3, 1907
Neath, Glamorgan, Wales,
UK
1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as "Al Stephenson"
August 31, 1897
Racine, Wisconsin, United States
1947
Ronald Colman - A Double Life as "Anthony John"
August
31, 1897
Racine, Wisconsin, United States
1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
as "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"
22 May 1907
Dorking,
Surrey, England
1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men as "Willie
Stark"
December 9, 1911 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1950 José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
January
8, 1909
Santurce, Puerto Rico
1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen as
"Charlie Allnut"
December 25, 1899
New York
City, New York, US
1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon as "Will
Kane"
May 7, 1901
Helena, Montana, US.
1953 William
Holden - Stalag 17 as "Sergeant J.J. Sefton"
April
17, 1918
O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.
1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
as "Terry Malloy"
April 3, 1924(1924-04-03)
Omaha,
Nebraska
1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty as "Marty
Piletti"
January 24, 1917
Hamden, Connecticut,
USA
1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I as "King Mongkut of Siam"
July
11, 1920
Vladivostok, Russian SFSR
1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the
River Kwai as "Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson"
2
April 1914
Paddington, London, England
1958 David Niven - Separate Tables
as "Major Angus Pollock"
March 1, 1910
London,
England
1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur as "Judah
Ben-Hur"
October 4, 1924
Evanston, Illinois
1960
Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry as "Elmer Gantry"
November
2, 1913
New York City, New York
1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
as "Hans Rolfe"
December 8, 1930
Vienna, Austria
1962
Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird as "Atticus Finch"
April
5, 1916
La Jolla, California, United States
1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies
of the Field as "Homer Smith"
February 20, 1927
at sea, recorded in Miami, Florida, but possibly born in the Bahamas
1964
Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady as "Henry Higgins"
5
March 1908
Huyton, Knowsley, Lancashire, England
1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
as "Kid Sheleen" and "Tim Strawn"
February
19, 1924
New York, New York
1966 Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons as
Thomas More
January 21, 1922
Hurstpierpoint, Sussex,
UK
1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as "Bill Gillespie"
April 14, 1925
Westhampton, New York, U.S.
1968 Cliff
Robertson - Charly as "Charly Gordon"
September
9, 1925
La Jolla, California,
United States
1969 John Wayne - True Grit
as "Rooster Cogburn"
May 26, 1907
Winterset,
Iowa, U.S.A.
1970 George C. Scott - Patton (declined) as George S. Patton
October
18, 1927
Wise, Virginia
1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection as "Detective
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle"
January 30, 1930
San Bernardino,
California, U.S.
1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather (declined) as "Vito
Corleone"
April 3, 1924
Omaha, Nebraska
1973
Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger as "Harry Stoner"
February
8, 1925
Newton, Massachusetts
1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto as "Harry
Coombes"
November 4, 1918
Mount Vernon, New York
US
1975 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest as "Randle Patrick McMurphy"
April 22, 1937
Neptune, New Jersey
1976 Peter Finch - Network (posthumous) as "Howard
Beale"
September 28, 1916
South Kensington, London,
England
1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl as "Elliot Garfield"
October 29, 1947
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
1978 Jon
Voight - Coming Home as "Luke Martin"
December
29, 1938
Yonkers, New York
1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer as "Ted
Kramer"
August 8, 1937
Los Angeles, California,
U.S.
1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta
August
17, 1943
New York City, New York, U.S.
1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
as "Norman Thayer, Jr."
May 16, 1905
Grand
Island, Nebraska, U.S.
1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi
December
31, 1943
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
as "Mac Sledge"
January 5, 1931
San Diego,
California
1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus as "Antonio Salieri"
October 24, 1939
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1985
William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman as "Luis Molina"
March
20, 1950
Washington, D.C
1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money as "Fast
Eddie Felson"
January 26, 1925
Shaker Heights,
Ohio
United States
1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street as "Gordon Gekko"
September 25, 1944
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United
States
1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man as "Raymond Babbitt"
August 8, 1937
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My
Left Foot as Christy Brown
April 29, 1957
London, England
1990
Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow
September
19, 1948
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
1991 Anthony Hopkins - The Silence
of the Lambs as "Dr. Hannibal Lecter"
December
31, 1937
Port Talbot, Wales
1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman as "Lt.
Col. Frank Slade"
April 25, 1940
East Harlem, Manhattan,
New York City, New York, USA
1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as "Andrew
Beckett"
July 9, 1956
Concord, California
1994
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as "Forrest Gump"
July
9, 1956
Concord, California
1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as "Ben
Sanderson"
January 7, 1964
Long Beach, California,
U.S.
1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott
6 July
1951
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It
Gets as "Melvin Udall"
April 22, 1937
Neptune,
New Jersey
1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful as "Guido Orefice"
October 27, 1952
Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy
1999
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as "Lester Burnham"
Denzel Washington
-The Hurricane as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator
as "Maximus Decimus Meridius"
7 April 1964
Wellington,
New Zealand
2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day as "Alonzo Harris"
December 28, 1954
Mt. Vernon, New York
2002 Adrien
Brody - The Pianist as Wladyslaw Szpilman
April 14, 1973
Woodhaven, Queens, New York, U.S.
2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River as
"Jimmy Markum"
August 17, 1960
Santa Monica,
California
2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles
December
13, 1967
Terrell, Texas, United States
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Capote as Truman Capote
July 23, 1967
Fairport, New
York, U.S.
2006 Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
July 15, 1961
Longview, Texas, U.S.
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