Academy Award Best Actor Winners
Actor Film Date of Age at award
award
1 Emil Jannings 2 roles; see note[1] 5/16/1929 44 years, 297 days 1
2 Warner Baxter In Old Arizona 4/3/1930 41 years, 5 days 2
3 George Arliss Disraeli 11/5/1930 62 years, 209 days 3
4 Lionel Barrymore A Free Soul 11/10/1931 53 years, 212 days 4
5 Wallace Beery The Champ 11/18/1932 47 years, 231 days 5
6 Fredric March Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 11/18/1932 35 years, 79 days 6
7 Charles Laughton The Private Life of Henry VIII 3/16/1934 34 years, 258 days 7
8 Clark Gable It Happened One Night 2/27/1935 34 years, 26 days 8
9 Victor McLaglen The Informer 3/5/1936 49 years, 86 days 9
10 Paul Muni The Story of Louis Pasteur 3/4/1937 41 years, 163 days 10
11 Spencer Tracy Captains Courageous 3/10/1938 37 years, 339 days 11
12 Spencer Tracy Boys Town 2/23/1939 38 years, 324 days 12
13 Robert Donat Goodbye, Mr. Chips 2/29/1940 34 years, 348 days 13
14 James Stewart The Philadelphia Story 2/27/1941 32 years, 283 days 14
15 Gary Cooper Sergeant York 2/26/1942 40 years, 295 days 15
16 James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy 3/4/1943 43 years, 230 days 16
17 Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine 3/2/1944 48 years, 281 days 17
18 Bing Crosby Going My Way 3/15/1945 41 years, 316 days 18
19 Ray Milland The Lost Weekend 3/7/1946 39 years, 63 days 19
20 Fredric March The Best Years of Our Lives 3/13/1947 49 years, 194 days 20
21 Ronald Colman A Double Life 3/20/1948 57 years, 40 days 21
22 Laurence Olivier Hamlet 3/24/1949 41 years, 306 days 22
23 Broderick CrawfordAll the King's Men 3/23/1950 38 years, 104 days 23
24 José Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac 3/29/1951 39 years, 80 days 24
25 Humphrey Bogart The African Queen 3/30/1952 52 years, 96 days 25
26 Gary Cooper High Noon 3/19/1953 51 years, 316 days 26
27 William Holden Stalag 17 3/25/1954 35 years, 342 days 27
28 Marlon Brando On the Waterfront 3/30/1955 30 years, 361 days 28
29 Ernest Borgnine Marty 3/21/1956 39 years, 57 days 29
30 Yul Brynner The King and I 3/27/1957 36 years, 259 days 30
31 Alec Guinness The Bridge on the River Kwai 3/26/1958 43 years, 358 days 31
32 David Niven Separate Tables 4/6/1959 49 years, 36 days 32
33 Charlton Heston Ben-Hur 4/4/1960 36 years, 183 days 33
34 Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry 4/17/1961 47 years, 166 days 34
35 Maximilian Schell Judgment at Nuremberg 4/9/1962 31 years, 122 days 35
36 Gregory Peck To Kill a Mockingbird 4/8/1963 47 years, 3 days 36
37 Sidney Poitier Lilies of the Field 4/13/1964 37 years, 53 days 37
38 Rex Harrison My Fair Lady 4/5/1965 57 years, 31 days 38
39 Lee Marvin Cat Ballou 4/18/1966 42 years, 58 days 39
40 Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons 4/10/1967 45 years, 79 days 40
41 Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night 4/10/1968 42 years, 362 days 41
42 Cliff Robertson Charly 4/14/1969 45 years, 217 days 42
43 John Wayne True Grit 4/7/1970 62 years, 316 days 43
44 George C. Scott Patton 4/15/1971 43 years, 179 days 44
45 Gene Hackman The French Connection 4/10/1972 42 years, 71 days 45
46 Marlon Brando The Godfather 3/27/1973 48 years, 358 days 46
Academy Award Best Actor Winners
47 Jack Lemmon Save the Tiger 4/2/1974 49 years, 53 days 47
48 Art Carney Harry and Tonto 4/8/1975 56 years, 155 days 48
49 Jack Nicholson 3/29/1976
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 38 years, 342 days 49
50 Peter Finch Network 3/28/1977 60 years 50
51 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl 4/3/1978 30 years, 156 days 51
52 Jon Voight Coming Home 4/9/1979 40 years, 101 days 52
53 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer 4/14/1980 42 years, 250 days 53
54 Robert De Niro Raging Bull 3/31/1981 37 years, 226 days 54
55 Henry Fonda On Golden Pond 3/29/1982 76 years, 317 days 55
56 Ben Kingsley Gandhi 4/11/1983 39 years, 101 days 56
57 Robert Duvall Tender Mercies 4/9/1984 53 years, 95 days 57
58 F. Murray AbrahamAmadeus 3/25/1985 45 years, 152 days 58
59 William Hurt Kiss of the Spider Woman 3/24/1986 36 years, 4 days 59
60 Paul Newman The Color of Money 3/30/1987 62 years, 63 days 60
61 Michael Douglas Wall Street 4/11/1988 43 years, 199 days 61
62 Dustin Hoffman Rain Man 3/27/1989 51 years, 231 days 62
63 Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot 3/26/1990 32 years, 331 days 63
64 Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune 3/25/1991 42 years, 187 days 64
65 Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs 3/30/1992 54 years, 90 days 65
66 Al Pacino Scent of a Woman 3/29/1993 52 years, 338 days 66
67 Tom Hanks Philadelphia 3/21/1994 37 years, 255 days 67
68 Tom Hanks Forrest Gump 3/27/1995 38 years, 261 days 68
69 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas 3/25/1996 32 years, 78 days 69
70 Geoffrey Rush Shine 3/24/1997 45 years, 261 days 70
71 Jack Nicholson As Good as It Gets 3/23/1998 60 years, 335 days 71
72 Roberto Benigni Life Is Beautiful 3/21/1999 46 years, 145 days 72
73 Kevin Spacey American Beauty 3/26/2000 40 years, 244 days 73
74 Russell Crowe Gladiator 3/25/2001 36 years, 352 days 74
75 Denzel WashingtonTraining Day 3/24/2002 47 years, 86 days 75
76 Adrien Brody The Pianist 3/23/2003 29 years, 343 days 76
77 Sean Penn Mystic River 2/29/2004 43 years, 196 days 77
78 Jamie Foxx Ray 2/27/2005 37 years, 76 days 78
79 Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman 3/5/2006 38 years, 225 days 79
80 Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland 2/25/2007 45 years, 225 days 80
81 Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood 2/24/2008 50 years, 301 days 81
82 Sean Penn Milk 2/22/2009 48 years, 189 days 82
83 Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart 3/7/2010 60 years, 93 days 83
Academy Award Best Actress Winners
Film Date of Age at award
Actress
award
Janet Gaynor 3 roles; see note[1] 5/16/1929 22 years, 222 days
Mary Pickford Coquette 4/3/1930 37 years, 360 days
Norma Shearer The Divorcee 11/5/1930 28 years, 87 days
Marie Dressler Min and Bill 11/10/1931 63 years, 1 day
Helen Hayes 11/18/1932
The Sin of Madelon Claudet 32 years, 39 days
Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory 3/16/1934 26 years, 308 days
Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night 2/27/1935 31 years, 167 days
Bette Davis Dangerous 3/5/1936 27 years, 335 days
Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld 3/4/1937 27 years, 51 days
Luise Rainer The Good Earth 3/10/1938 28 years, 57 days
Bette Davis Jezebel 2/23/1939 30 years, 324 days
Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 2/29/1940 26 years, 116 days
Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle 2/27/1941 29 years, 226 days
Joan Fontaine Suspicion 2/26/1942 24 years, 127 days
Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver 3/4/1943 38 years, 156 days
Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette 3/2/1944 25 years, 0 days
Ingrid Bergman Gaslight 3/15/1945 29 years, 198 days
Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce 3/7/1946 40 years, 349 days
Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own 3/13/1947 30 years, 255 days
Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter 3/20/1948 35 years, 74 days
Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda 3/24/1949 32 years, 78 days
Olivia de Havilland The Heiress 3/23/1950 33 years, 265 days
Judy Holliday Born Yesterday 3/29/1951 29 years, 281 days
Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire3/20/1952 38 years, 136 days
Shirley Booth 3
Come Back, Little Sheba /19/1953 54 years, 201 days
Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday 3/25/1954 24 years, 325 days
Grace Kelly The Country Girl 3/30/1955 25 years, 138 days
Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo 3/21/1956 48 years, 14 days
Ingrid Bergman Anastasia 3/27/1957 41 years, 210 days
Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve3/26/1958 28 years, 27 days
Susan Hayward I Want to Live! 4/6/1959 41 years, 280 days
Simone Signoret Room at the Top 4/4/1960 39 years, 10 days
Elizabeth Taylor BUtterfield 8 4/17/1961 29 years, 49 days
Sophia Loren Two Women 4/9/1962 27 years, 201 days
Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker 4/8/1963 31 years, 203 days
Patricia Neal Hud 4/13/1964 38 years, 84 days
Julie Andrews Mary Poppins 4/5/1965 29 years, 186 days
Julie Christie Darling 4/18/1966 25 years, 4 days
Elizabeth Taylor Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia4/10/1967 35 years, 42 days
Dinner
Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to4/10/1968 60 years, 334 days
Katharine Hepburn The Lion in Winter 4/14/1969 61 years, 337 days
Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 4/14/1969 26 years, 355 days
Maggie Smith 4/7/1970
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 35 years, 100 days
Glenda Jackson Women in Love 4/15/1971 34 years, 341 days
Jane Fonda Klute 4/10/1972 34 years, 111 days
Liza Minnelli Cabaret 3/27/1973 27 years, 15 days
Academy Award Best Actress Winners
Glenda Jackson A Touch of Class 4/2/1974 37 years, 328 days
Ellen Burstyn 4/8/1975
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 42 years, 122 days
Louise Fletcher 3/29/1976
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 41 years, 251 days
Faye Dunaway Network 3/28/1977 36 years, 73 days
Diane Keaton Annie Hall 4/3/1978 32 years, 88 days
Jane Fonda Coming Home 4/9/1979 41 years, 109 days
Sally Field Norma Rae 4/14/1980 33 years, 160 days
Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter 3/31/1981 31 years, 96 days
Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond 3/29/1982 74 years, 321 days
Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice 4/11/1983 33 years, 293 days
Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment 4/9/1984 49 years, 351 days
Sally Field Places in the Heart 3/25/1985 38 years, 139 days
Geraldine Page The Trip to Bountiful 3/24/1986 61 years, 122 days
Marlee Matlin 3
Children of a Lesser God /30/1987 21 years, 218 days
Cher Moonstruck 4/11/1988 41 years, 327 days
Jodie Foster The Accused 3/27/1989 26 years, 128 days
Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy 3/26/1990 80 years, 292 days
Kathy Bates Misery 3/25/1991 42 years, 270 days
Jodie Foster 3/30/1992
The Silence of the Lambs 29 years, 132 days
Emma Thompson Howards End 3/29/1993 33 years, 348 days
Holly Hunter The Piano 3/21/1994 36 years, 1 day
Jessica Lange Blue Sky 3/27/1995 45 years, 341 days
Susan Sarandon Dead Man Walking 3/25/1996 49 years, 173 days
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Frances McDormand argo 3/24/1997 39 years, 274 days
Helen Hunt As Good as It Gets 3/23/1998 34 years, 281 days
Gwyneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love 3/21/1999 26 years, 175 days
Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry 3/26/2000 25 years, 240 days
Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich 3/25/2001 33 years, 148 days
Halle Berry Monster's Ball 3/24/2002 35 years, 222 days
Nicole Kidman The Hours 3/23/2003 35 years, 276 days
Charlize Theron Monster 2/29/2004 28 years, 206 days
Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby 2/27/2005 30 years, 212 days
Reese WitherspoonWalk the Line 3/5/2006 29 years, 348 days
Helen Mirren The Queen 2/25/2007 61 years, 214 days
Marion Cotillard La Vie en rose 2/24/2008 32 years, 147 days
Kate Winslet The Reader 2/22/2009 33 years, 140 days
Sandra Bullock The Blind Side 3/7/2010 45 years, 224 days