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My Preferential Rankings of The Best Actor Winners Jul '08: I have seen 71 of the 82 winners, a ratio of 87%. Jul '08: Most recent addition: Wallace Beery (1932) For the Ages 1946 Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives 1954 Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront 1928 Emil Jannings, The Last Command 1989 Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot 1942 James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy 1991 Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs 1980 Robert De Niro, Raging Bull 1940 James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story 1971 Gene Hackman, The French Connection 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood Fantastic 1970 George C. Scott, Patton 2006 Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland 1966 Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons 1995 Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas 1972 Marlon Brando, The Godfather 1976 Peter Finch, Network 1935 Victor McLaglen, The Informer 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote Fetching 2002 Adrien Brody, The Pianist 2001 Denzel Washington, Training Day 1961 Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg 2003 Sean Penn, Mystic River 1962 Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird 1999 Kevin Spacey, American Beauty 1985 William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman  2000 Russell Crowe, Gladiator 1975 Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1977 Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl 1957 Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai 1978 Jon Voight, Coming Home Fair 1990 Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune 1981 Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond 1960 Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry 1932 Wallace Beery, The Champ 2004 Jamie Foxx, Ray 1955 Ernest Borgnine, Marty 1979 Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer 1986 Paul Newman, The Color of Money 1973 Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger 1952 Gary Cooper, High Noon 1951 Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen 1949 Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men 1963 Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field 1984 F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus Feh 1934 Clark Gable, It Happened One Night 1947 Ronald Colman, A Double Life 1983 Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies 1956 Yul Brynner, The King and I 1988 Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man 1948 Laurence Olivier, Hamlet 1964 Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady 1987 Michael Douglas, Wall Street 1967 Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night 1939 Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1994 Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump 1974 Art Carney, Harry and Tonto 1996 Geoffrey Rush, Shine 1968 Cliff Robertson, Charly 1992 Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman 1998 Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful 1931 Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul Flotsam 1993 Tom Hanks, Philadelphia 1953 William Holden, Stalag 17 1938 Spencer Tracy, Boys Town 1945 Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend 1930 George Arliss, Disraeli 1959 Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur 1997 Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets 1958 David Niven, Separate Tables 1944 Bing Crosby, Going My Way 1929 Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona Unseen (In Chronological Order) 1928 Emil Jannings, The Way of All Flesh (lost print) 1932 Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1933 Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII 1936 Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur 1937 Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous 1941 Gary Cooper, Sergeant York 1943 Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine 1950 José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac 1965 Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou 1969 John Wayne, True Grit 1982 Ben Kingsley, Gandhi |
The Best of the Rest: My Favorites of the Losing Nominees Jul '08: I have seen 287 of the 395 nominees, a ratio of 73%. Jul '08: Most recent addition: Paul Muni (1933) 1920s 1930s 1930 Wallace Beery, The Big House 1931 Jackie Cooper, Skippy 1933 Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1934 William Powell, The Thin Man 1935 Charles Laughton, Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Franchot Tone, Mutiny on the Bounty 1936 Walter Huston, Dodsworth 1937 Paul Muni, The Life of Émile Zola 1939 James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1940s 1940 Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Laurence Olivier, Rebecca 1941 Cary Grant, Penny Serenade 1941 Orson Welles, Citizen Kane 1942 Ronald Colman, Random Harvest 1943 Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca 1946 James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life 1947 Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra 1948 Montgomery Clift, The Search 1950s 1950 William Holden, Sunset Boulevard 1951 Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun 1952 Alec Guinness, The Lavender Hill Mob 1953 Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity 1953 Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity 1955 James Dean, East of Eden 1956 James Dean, Giant 1959 Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot 1959 James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder 1960s 1961 Paul Newman, The Hustler 1961 Stuart Whitman, The Mark 1961 Spencer Tracy, Judgment at Nuremberg 1962 Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia 1963 Paul Newman, Hud 1964 Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove 1966 Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967 Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate 1967 Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke 1967 Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1968 Alan Bates, The Fixer 1968 Peter O'Toole, The Lion in Winter 1970s 1970 James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope 1970 Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces 1973 Marlon Brando, Last Tango in Paris 1974 Jack Nicholson, Chinatown 1975 Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon 1976 Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver 1976 Giancarlo Giannini, Seven Beauties 1976 William Holden, Network 1977 Woody Allen, Annie Hall 1978 Robert De Niro, The Deer Hunter 1979 Jack Lemmon, The China Syndrome 1980s 1980 John Hurt, The Elephant Man 1980 Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man 1981 Burt Lancaster, Atlantic City 1982 Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie 1982 Jack Lemmon, Missing 1982 Paul Newman, The Verdict 1985 Jon Voight, Runaway Train 1986 Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa 1987 William Hurt, Broadcast News 1988 Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning 1988 Tom Hanks, Big 1988 Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver 1988 Max von Sydow, Pelle the Conqueror 1989 Kenneth Branagh, Henry V 1989 Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy 1990s 1991 Robert De Niro, Cape Fear 1992 Stephen Rea, The Crying Game 1992 Denzel Washington, Malcolm X 1993 Laurence Fishburne, What's Love Got to Do With It? 1993 Anthony Hopkins, The Remains of the Day 1994 Paul Newman, Nobody's Fool 1994 John Travolta, Pulp Fiction 1995 Anthony Hopkins, Nixon 1995 Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking 1996 Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire 1996 Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient 1997 Robert Duvall, The Apostle 1998 Nick Nolte, Affliction 1998 Edward Norton, American History X 1999 Russell Crowe, The Insider 1999 Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story 1999 Sean Penn, Sweet and Lowdown 2000s 2000 Javier Bardem, Before Night Falls 2000 Ed Harris, Pollock 2001 Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom 2002 Nicolas Cage, Adaptation 2002 Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York 2003 Jude Law, Cold Mountain 2003 Bill Murray, Lost in Translation 2004 Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda 2005 Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow 2005 Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain 2006 Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson |