Academy Award for Best Actors

#	Actor	Film	Date of birth	Date of award	Age upon receiving award	Date of death	Notes
1	Emil Jannings	The Last Command, The Way of All Flesh	July 23, 1884	May 16, 1929	44 years, 297 days	January 2, 1950	Held record as oldest winner for 2 award ceremonies (from the 1st to the 3rd, May 1929–November 1930 [1 year, 6 months])
2	Warner Baxter	In Old Arizona	March 29, 1889	April 3, 1930	41 years, 5 days	May 7, 1951	Held record as youngest winner for 3 award ceremonies (from the 2nd to the 5th, April 1930–November 1932 [2 years, 7 months])
3	George Arliss	Disraeli	April 10, 1868	November 5, 1930	62 years, 209 days	February 5, 1946	Held record as oldest winner for 39 award ceremonies (from the 3rd to the 42nd, November 1930–April 1970 [39 years, 5 months])
4	Lionel Barrymore	A Free Soul	April 28, 1878	November 10, 1931	53 years, 196 days	20043
5	Wallace Beery	The Champ	April 1, 1885	November 18, 1932	47 years, 231 days	April 15, 1949	Tie
6	Fredric March	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	August 31, 1897	November 18, 1932	35 years, 79 days	April 14, 1975	Tie; 1st of 2, Held record as youngest winner for 1 award ceremony (from the 5th to the 6th, November 1932–March 1934 [1 year, 4 months])
7	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII	July 1, 1899	March 16, 1934	34 years, 258 days	22995	Held record as youngest winner for 1 award ceremony (from the 6th to the 7th, March 1934–February 1935)
8	Clark Gable	It Happened One Night	February 1, 1901	February 27, 1935	34 years, 26 days	22236	Held record as youngest winner for 6 award ceremonies (from the 7th to the 13th, February 1935–February 1941)
9	Victor McLaglen	The Informer	December 10, 1886	March 5, 1936	49 years, 86 days	21861
10	Paul Muni	The Story of Louis Pasteur	September 22, 1895	March 4, 1937	41 years, 163 days	August 25, 1967
11	Spencer Tracy	Captains Courageous	April 5, 1900	March 10, 1938	37 years, 339 days	June 10, 1967	1st of 2
12	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town	April 5, 1900	February 23, 1939	38 years, 324 days	June 10, 1967	2nd of 2
13	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	March 18, 1905	February 29, 1940	34 years, 348 days	June 9, 1958
14	James Stewart	The Philadelphia Story	May 20, 1908	February 27, 1941	32 years, 283 days	July 2, 1997	Held record as youngest winner for 14 award ceremonies (from the 13th to the 27th, February 1941–March 1955)
15	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York	May 7, 1901	February 26, 1942	40 years, 295 days	May 13, 1961	1st of 2
16	James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy	July 17, 1899	March 4, 1943	43 years, 230 days	March 30, 1986
17	Paul Lukas	Watch on the Rhine	May 26, 1895	March 2, 1944	48 years, 281 days	August 15, 1971
18	Bing Crosby	Going My Way	May 3, 1903	March 15, 1945	41 years, 316 days	October 14, 1977
19	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend	January 3, 1907	March 7, 1946	39 years, 63 days	March 10, 1986
20	Fredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives	August 31, 1897	March 13, 1947	49 years, 194 days	April 14, 1975	2nd of 2
21	Ronald Colman	A Double Life	February 9, 1891	March 20, 1948	57 years, 40 days	May 19, 1958
22	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet	May 22, 1907	March 24, 1949	41 years, 306 days	July 11, 1989
23	Broderick Crawford	All the King's Men	4361	March 23, 1950	38 years, 104 days	April 26, 1986
24	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	January 8, 1912	March 29, 1951	39 years, 80 days	January 26, 1992
25	Humphrey Bogart	The African Queen	December 25, 1899	March 30, 1952	52 years, 96 days	January 14, 1957
26	Gary Cooper	High Noon	May 7, 1901	March 19, 1953	51 years, 316 days	May 13, 1961	2nd of 2
27	William Holden	Stalag 17	April 17, 1918	March 25, 1954	35 years, 342 days	29902
28	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront	April 3, 1924	March 30, 1955	30 years, 361 days	July 1, 2004	1st of 2, Held record as youngest winner for 23 award ceremonies (from the 27th to the 50th, March 1955–April 1978)
29	Ernest Borgnine	Marty	January 24, 1917	March 21, 1956	39 years, 57 days	July 8, 2012
30	Yul Brynner	The King and I	July 11, 1920	March 27, 1957	36 years, 259 days	October 10, 1985
31	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai	April 2, 1914	March 26, 1958	43 years, 358 days	August 5, 2000
32	David Niven	Separate Tables	March 1, 1910	April 6, 1959	49 years, 36 days	July 29, 1983
33	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hur	October 4, 1923	April 4, 1960	36 years, 183 days	April 5, 2008
34	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry	5055	April 17, 1961	47 years, 166 days	October 20, 1994
35	Maximilian Schell	Judgment at Nuremberg	11300	April 9, 1962	31 years, 122 days	February 1, 2014
36	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird	April 5, 1916	April 8, 1963	47 years, 3 days	June 12, 2003
37	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field	February 20, 1927	April 13, 1964	37 years, 53 days
38	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady	March 5, 1908	April 5, 1965	57 years, 31 days	June 2, 1990
39	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou	February 19, 1924	April 18, 1966	42 years, 58 days	August 29, 1987
40	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons	January 21, 1922	April 10, 1967	45 years, 79 days	March 19, 2008
41	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night	April 14, 1925	April 10, 1968	42 years, 362 days	July 9, 2002
42	Cliff Robertson	Charly	September 9, 1923	April 14, 1969	45 years, 217 days	September 10, 2011
43	John Wayne	True Grit	May 26, 1907	April 7, 1970	62 years, 316 days	June 11, 1979	Held record as oldest winner for 12 award ceremonies (from the 42nd to the 54th, April 1970–March 1982)
44	George C. Scott	Patton	October 18, 1927	April 15, 1971	43 years, 179 days	September 22, 1999	Refused
45	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	January 30, 1930	April 10, 1972	42 years, 71 days
46	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	April 3, 1924	March 27, 1973	48 years, 358 days	July 1, 2004	Refused; 2nd of 2
47	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger	February 8, 1925	April 2, 1974	49 years, 53 days	June 27, 2001
48	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto	6883	April 8, 1975	56 years, 155 days	37934
49	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	April 22, 1937	March 29, 1976	38 years, 342 days		1st of 2
50	Peter Finch	Network	September 28, 1916	March 28, 1977	60 years, 181 days	January 14, 1977	Posthumous (Finch died two months and two weeks before the ceremony)
51	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl	October 29, 1947	April 3, 1978	30 years, 156 days		Held record as youngest winner for 25 award ceremonies (from the 50th to the 75th, April 1978–March 2003)
52	Jon Voight	Coming Home	14243	April 9, 1979	40 years, 101 days
53	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs. Kramer	August 8, 1937	April 14, 1980	42 years, 250 days		1st of 2
54	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull	August 17, 1943	March 31, 1981	37 years, 226 days
55	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond	May 16, 1905	March 29, 1982	76 years, 317 days	August 12, 1982	Has held record as oldest winner for 33 award ceremonies (from the 54th through the 87th, March 1982-February 2015)
56	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	16071	April 11, 1983	39 years, 101 days
57	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies	January 5, 1931	April 9, 1984	53 years, 95 days
58	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus	October 24, 1939	March 25, 1985	45 years, 152 days
59	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman	March 20, 1950	March 24, 1986	36 years, 4 days
60	Paul Newman	The Color of Money	January 26, 1925	March 30, 1987	62 years, 63 days	September 26, 2008
61	Michael Douglas	Wall Street	September 25, 1944	April 11, 1988	43 years, 199 days
62	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man	August 8, 1937	March 27, 1989	51 years, 231 days		2nd of 2
63	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	April 29, 1957	March 26, 1990	32 years, 331 days		1st of 3
64	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune	September 19, 1948	March 25, 1991	42 years, 187 days
65	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs	13880	March 30, 1992	54 years, 90 days
66	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman	April 25, 1940	March 29, 1993	52 years, 338 days
67	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia	July 9, 1956	March 21, 1994	37 years, 255 days		1st of 2
68	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	July 9, 1956	March 27, 1995	38 years, 261 days		2nd of 2
69	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	January 7, 1964	March 25, 1996	32 years, 78 days
70	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	July 6, 1951	March 24, 1997	45 years, 261 days
71	Jack Nicholson	As Good as It Gets	April 22, 1937	March 23, 1998	60 years, 335 days		2nd of 2
72	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful	October 27, 1952	March 21, 1999	46 years, 145 days
73	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	July 26, 1959	March 26, 2000	40 years, 244 days
74	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	April 7, 1964	March 25, 2001	36 years, 352 days
75	Denzel Washington	Training Day	20086	March 24, 2002	47 years, 86 days
76	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	April 14, 1973	March 23, 2003	29 years, 343 days		Has held record as youngest winner for 12 award ceremonies (from the 75th through the 87th, March 2003–February 2015)
77	Sean Penn	Mystic River	August 17, 1960	February 29, 2004	43 years, 196 days		1st of 2
78	Jamie Foxx	Ray	24819	February 27, 2005	37 years, 76 days
79	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	July 23, 1967	March 5, 2006	38 years, 225 days	February 2, 2014
80	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	July 15, 1961	February 25, 2007	45 years, 225 days
81	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	April 29, 1957	February 24, 2008	50 years, 301 days		2nd of 3
82	Sean Penn	Milk	August 17, 1960	February 22, 2009	48 years, 189 days		2nd of 2
83	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart	18236	March 7, 2010	60 years, 93 days
84	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	September 10, 1960	February 27, 2011	50 years, 170 days
85	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	June 19, 1972	February 26, 2012	39 years, 252 days
86	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	April 29, 1957	February 24, 2013	55 years, 301 days		3rd of 3
87	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	25511	March 2, 2014	44 years, 118 days
88	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	January 6, 1982	February 22, 2015	33 years, 47 days
89	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	27344	February 28, 2016	41 years, 109 days
90	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	August 12, 1975	February 26, 2017	41 years, 198 days
91	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	March 21, 1958	March 4, 2018	59 years, 348 days
92	Rami Malek	Bohemian Rhapsody	May 12, 1981	February 24, 2019	37 years, 288 days
93	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	Oct 28, 1974	February 9, 2020	45 years, 104 days