Best Actor - Nominees & Winners
First awarded in 1929--given out 96 times to 86 actors.
Daniel Day-Lewis leads with 3 wins (while 9 actors have 2)
Spencer Tracy & Laurence Oliver lead with 9 nominations
Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, & Peter O'Toole have 8
Marlon Brando, Denzel Washington, Dustin Hoffman, & Jack Lemmon with 7 and Daniel Day-Lewis & Richard Burton have 6
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Daniel Day-Lewis leads with 3 wins (while 9 actors have 2)
Spencer Tracy & Laurence Oliver lead with 9 nominations
Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, & Peter O'Toole have 8
Marlon Brando, Denzel Washington, Dustin Hoffman, & Jack Lemmon with 7 and Daniel Day-Lewis & Richard Burton have 6
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- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsRichard BarthelmessMolly O'DayLawford DavidsonA boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessMontagu LoveRobert Emmett O'ConnorA crook blackmails a governor because he knows of the governor's wife's dark past.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsEmil JanningsBelle BennettPhyllis HaverA happy bank clerk loses his identity after a robbery and is then presumed dead.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam PowellA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsEmil JanningsLewis StoneFlorence VidorPaul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsPaul MuniMarguerite ChurchillJohnny Mack BrownAfter killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law under a false name, intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his conviction breaks, the drifter's sister considers the possibility that the man is her long-lost brother.
- DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisHarry StubbsMae BuschChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGeorge BancroftFay WrayRichard ArlenA criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
- DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreHal RoachStarsLawrence TibbettCatherine Dale OwenNance O'NeilIn tsarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRonald ColmanAnn HardingLouis WolheimSuave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
- DirectorF. Richard JonesStarsRonald ColmanClaud AllisterLawrence GrantA bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldLupino LaneThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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- DirectorGeorge W. HillWard WingStarsChester MorrisWallace BeeryLewis StoneA convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
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- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGeorge ArlissDoris LloydDavid TorrencePrime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsAdolphe MenjouPat O'BrienMary BrianA crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
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- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
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- DirectorClarence BrownStarsNorma ShearerLeslie HowardLionel BarrymoreAn alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsAlfred LuntLynn FontanneRoland YoungA jealous stage actor disguises himself as a Russian guardsman in order to test his actress wife's loyalty.
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