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Best Actor Winners Quiz
Every actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, each shown with one of the films he won for.
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| Year & Film | Actor |
|---|---|
| 1994 · Forrest Gump | — |
| 1954 · On the Waterfront | — |
| 1992 · Scent of a Woman | — |
| 1975 · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | — |
| 2012 · Lincoln | — |
| 2001 · Training Day | — |
| 2015 · The Revenant | — |
| 1991 · The Silence of the Lambs | — |
| 1979 · Kramer vs. Kramer | — |
| 1980 · Raging Bull | — |
| 2019 · Joker | — |
| 2000 · Gladiator | — |
| 2018 · Bohemian Rhapsody | — |
| 2008 · Milk | — |
| 2004 · Ray | — |
| 2013 · Dallas Buyers Club | — |
| 2014 · The Theory of Everything | — |
| 2017 · Darkest Hour | — |
| 2010 · The King's Speech | — |
| 2024 · The Brutalist | — |
| 2023 · Oppenheimer | — |
| 2021 · King Richard | — |
| 2022 · The Whale | — |
| 2006 · The Last King of Scotland | — |
| 2009 · Crazy Heart | — |
| 1962 · To Kill a Mockingbird | — |
| 1981 · On Golden Pond | — |
| 1973 · Save the Tiger | — |
| 1952 · High Noon | — |
| 1938 · Boys Town | — |
| 1940 · The Philadelphia Story | — |
| 1951 · The African Queen | — |
| 1963 · Lilies of the Field | — |
| 1959 · Ben-Hur | — |
| 1956 · The King and I | — |
| 1971 · The French Connection | — |
| 1983 · Tender Mercies | — |
| 1986 · The Color of Money | — |
| 1987 · Wall Street | — |
| 1982 · Gandhi | — |
| 1995 · Leaving Las Vegas | — |
| 1999 · American Beauty | — |
| 1998 · Life Is Beautiful | — |
| 1996 · Shine | — |
| 2005 · Capote | — |
| 1928 · The Way of All Flesh | — |
| 1929 · Disraeli | — |
| 1929 · In Old Arizona | — |
| 1930 · A Free Soul | — |
| 1931 · The Champ | — |
| 1933 · The Private Life of Henry VIII | — |
| 1934 · It Happened One Night | — |
| 1935 · The Informer | — |
| 1936 · The Story of Louis Pasteur | — |
| 1939 · Goodbye, Mr. Chips | — |
| 1942 · Yankee Doodle Dandy | — |
| 1943 · Watch on the Rhine | — |
| 1944 · Going My Way | — |
| 1945 · The Lost Weekend | — |
| 1946 · The Best Years of Our Lives | — |
| 1947 · A Double Life | — |
| 1948 · Hamlet | — |
| 1949 · All the King's Men | — |
| 1950 · Cyrano de Bergerac | — |
| 1953 · Stalag 17 | — |
| 1955 · Marty | — |
| 1957 · The Bridge on the River Kwai | — |
| 1958 · Separate Tables | — |
| 1960 · Elmer Gantry | — |
| 1961 · Judgment at Nuremberg | — |
| 1964 · My Fair Lady | — |
| 1965 · Cat Ballou | — |
| 1966 · A Man for All Seasons | — |
| 1967 · In the Heat of the Night | — |
| 1968 · Charly | — |
| 1969 · True Grit | — |
| 1970 · Patton | — |
| 1974 · Harry and Tonto | — |
| 1976 · Network | — |
| 1977 · The Goodbye Girl | — |
| 1978 · Coming Home | — |
| 1984 · Amadeus | — |
| 1985 · Kiss of the Spider Woman | — |
| 1990 · Reversal of Fortune | — |
| 2011 · The Artist | — |
| 2016 · Manchester by the Sea | — |
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Every actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, each shown with one of the films he won for. Name the winners, answer real trivia about the roles, match the stars to the characters that earned them the Oscar — Hannibal Lecter, Vito Corleone, Forrest Gump — and drag a span of famous winners into the order they first won.
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