8 decades of Oscars' best leading men
Before a new Best Actor is crowned at the Academy Awards, take a look back at all of the other winners since 1929.
2011: Jean Dujardin - "The Artist"
2011: Jean Dujardin - "The Artist"
2010: Colin Firth in "The King's Speech."
2009: Jeff Bridges - "Crazy Heart"
2008: Sean Penn - "Milk"
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis - "There Will Be Blood"
2006: Forest Whitaker - "The Last King of Scotland"
2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote"
2004: Jamie Foxx - "Ray"
2003: Sean Penn - "Mystic River"
2002: Adrien Brody - "The Pianist"
2001: Denzel Washington - "Training Day"
2000: Russell Crowe - "Gladiator"
1999: Kevin Spacey - "American Beauty"
1998: Roberto Benigni - "Life Is Beautiful"
1997: Jack Nicholson - "As Good as It Gets"
1996: Geoffrey Rush - "Shine"
1995: Nicolas Cage - "Leaving Las Vegas"
1994: Tom Hanks - "Forrest Gump"
1993: Tom Hanks - "Philadelphia"
1992: Al Pacino - "Scent of a Woman"
1991: Anthony Hopkins - "The Silence of the Lambs"
1990: Jeremy Irons - "Reversal of Fortune"
1989: Daniel Day-Lewis - "My Left Foot"
1988: Dustin Hoffman - "Rain Man"
1987: Michael Douglas - "Wall Street"
1986: Paul Newman - "The Color of Money"
1985: William Hurt - "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
1984: F. Murray Abraham - "Amadeus"
1983: Robert Duvall - "Tender Mercies"
1982: Ben Kingsley - "Gandhi"
1981: Henry Fonda - "On Golden Pond"
1980: Robert De Niro - "Raging Bull"
1979: Dustin Hoffman - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1978: Jon Voight - "Coming Home"
1977: Richard Dreyfuss - "The Goodbye Girl"
1976: Peter Finch - "Network"
1975: Jack Nicholson - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1974: Art Carney - "Harry and Tonto"
1973: Jack Lemmon - "Save the Tiger"
1972: Marlon Brando - "The Godfather"
1971: Gene Hackman - "The French Connection"
1970: George C. Scott - "Patton"
1969: John Wayne - "True Grit"
1968: Cliff Robertson - "Charly"
1967: Rod Steiger - "In the Heat of the Night"
1966: Paul Scofield - "A Man for All Seasons"
1965: Lee Marvin - "Cat Ballou"
1964: Rex Harrison - "My Fair Lady"
1963: Sidney Poitier - "Lilies of the Field"
1962: Gregory Peck - "To Kill a Mockingbird"
1961: Maximilian Schell (left) - "Judgment at Nuremberg"
1960: Burt Lancaster - "Elmer Gantry"
1959: Charlton Heston - "Ben-Hur"
1958: David Niven - "Separate Tables"
1957: Alec Guinness - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956: Yul Brynner - "The King and I"
1955: Ernest Borgnine - "Marty"
1954: Marlon Brando - "On the Waterfront"
1953: William Holden - "Stalag 17"
1952: Gary Cooper - "High Noon"
1951: Humphrey Bogart - "The African Queen"
1950: José Ferrer - "Cyrano de Bergerac"
1949: Broderick Crawford (center) - "All the King's Men"
1948: Laurence Olivier - "Hamlet"
1947: Ronald Colman - "A Double Life"
1946: Fredric March - "The Best Years of Our Lives"
1945: Ray Milland - "The Lost Weekend"
1944: Bing Crosby - "Going My Way""
1943: Paul Lukas - "Watch on the Rhine"
1942: James Cagney - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
1941: Gary Cooper (far right) - "Sergeant York"
1940: James Stewart - "The Philadelphia Story"
1939: Robert Donat - "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
1938: Spencer Tracy - "Boys Town"
1937: Spencer Tracy (second from right) - "Captains Courageous"
1936: Paul Muni - "The Story of Louis Pasteur"
1935: Victor McLaglen - "The Informer"
1934: Clark Gable - "It Happened One Night"
1932-1933: Charles Laughton - "The Private Life of Henry VIII"
1931-1932 (tie): Fredric March - "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
1931-1932 (tie): Wallace Beery (right) - "The Champ"
1930-1931: Lionel Barrymore - "A Free Soul"
1929-1930: George Arliss - "Disraeli"
1928-1929: Warner Baxter - "In Old Arizona"
1927-1928: Emil Jannings (honored for two different roles) - "The Last Command" and "The Way of All Flesh"
