Best Actor in a Leading Role (my picks)

1928:emil jannings-the last command
1929:Chester Morris-Alibi
1930:George Arliss-Disraeli
1931:Lionel Barrymore-A Free Soul
1932:Frederic March-Dr. Jeckyll
1933:Charles Laughton-The Private Lives of Henry VIII
1934:Clark Gable-It Happened One Night
1935:Victor McLaglen-The Informer
1936:William Powell-My Man Godfrey
1937:Spencer Tracy-Captain's Courageous
1938:Spencer Tracy-Boy's Town
1939:James Stewart-Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940:Henry Fonda-The Grapes of Wrath
1941:Orson Welles-Citizen Kane
1942:Gary Cooper-The Pride of the Yankees
1943:Humphrey Bogert-Casablanca
1944:Charles Boyer-Gaslight
1945:Ray Milland-The Lost Weekend
1946:James Stewart-It's a Wonderful Life
1947:Ronald Coleman-A Double Life
1948:Lawrence Olivier-Hamlet
1949:Broderick Crawford-All the King's Men
1950:William Holden-Sunset Blvd.
1951:Marlon Brando-A Streetcar Named Desire
1952:Gary Cooper-High Noon
1953:Montgomery Clift-From Here to Eternity
1954:Marlon Brando-On the Waterfront
1955:Ernest Borgnine-Marty
1956:Rock Hudson-Giant
1957:Alec Guiness-Bridge on the River Kwai
1958:David Niven-Seperate Tables
1959:Lawrence Harvey-A Room at the Top
1960:Jack Lemmon-The Apartment
1961:Maximilian Schell-Judgement at Nuremburg
1962:Gregory Peck-To Kill a Mockingbird
1963:Sidney Poitier-Lillies of the Field
1964:Anthony Quinn-Zorba the Greek
1965:Rod Steiger-The Pawnbroker
1966:Richard Burton-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967:Paul Newman-Cool Hand Luke
1968:Peter O'Toole-The Lion in Winter
1969:John Voigt-Midnight Cowboy
1970:George C. Scott-Patton
1971:Gene Hackman-the French Connection
1972:Paul Winfield-Sounder
1973:Jack Lemmon-Save the Tiger
1974:Dustin Hoffman-Lenny
1975:Jack Nicholson-One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
1976:Peter Finch-Network
1977:Marcello Mastroianni-A special day
1978:Robert De Niro-The Deer Hunter
1979:Peter Sellers-Being There
1980:Robert De Niro-Raging Bull
1981:Henry Fonda-On Golden Pond
1982:Ben Kingsley-Ghandi
1983:Robert Duvall-Tender Mercies
1984:F.Murray Abraham-Amadeus
1985:William Hurt-Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986:Bob Hoskins-Mona Lisa
1987:William Hurt-Broadcast News
1988:Max von Syndow-Pelle the Conquerer
1989:Daniel Day Lewis-My Left Foot
1990:Jeremy Irons-A reversal of fortune
1991:Anthony Hopkins-The Silence of the Lambs
1992:Clint Eastwood-Unforgiven
1993:Liam Neeson-Schindler's List
1994:Tom Hanks-Forest Gump
1995:Nicolas Cage-Leaving Las Vegas
1996:Geoffrey Rush-Shine
1997:Jack Nicolson-As good as it gets
1998:Edward Norton-American History X
1999:Kevin Spacey-American Beauty
2000:Ed Harris-Pollack
2001:Tom Wilkinson-In the Bedroom
2002:Adrian Brody-The Pianist
2003:Bill Murray-Lost in Translation
2004:Don Cheadle-Hotel Rwanda
2005:Phillip Seymour Hoffman-Capote
2006:Forest Whitaker-The Last King of Scottland
2007:George Clooney-Michael Clayton
2008:Mickey Rourke-the Wrestler
2009:Colin Firth-A Single Man
2010:Colin Firth-The King's Speech