George Arliss
Won for Playing Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1930)
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Charles Laughton
Won for Playing Henry VII in The Private life of Henry VIII (1933) -
Paul Muni
Won for Playing Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) -
Spencer Tracy
Won for Playing Father Flanagan in Boys Town (1938) -
Gary Cooper
Won for Playing Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) -
James Cagney
Won for Playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) -
José Ferrer
Won for Playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) -
Yul Brynner
Won for Playing King Mongkut in the King and I (1956) -
Paul Scofield
Won for Playing Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons (1966) -
George C. Scott
Won for Playing George Patton in Patton (1970) -
Robert De Niro
Won for Playing Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980) -
Ben Kingsley
Won for Playing Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi (1982) -
F. Murray Abraham
Won for Playing Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1984) -
Daniel Day-Lewis
Won for Playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989) and for Playing Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012) -
Jeremy Irons
Won for Playing Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune (1990) -
Geoffrey Rush
Won for Playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996) -
Adrien Brody
Won for Playing Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist (2002) -
Jamie Foxx
Won for Playing Ray Charles in Ray (2004) -
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Won for Playing Truman Capote in Capote (2005) -
Forest Whitaker
Won for Playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006) -
Sean Penn
Won for Playing Harvey Milk in Milk (2008) -
Colin Firth
Won for Playing King George VI in the King's Speech (2010) -
Matthew McConaughey
Won for Playing Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) -
Eddie Redmayne
Won for Playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) -
Leonardo DiCaprio
Won for Playing Hugh Glass in The Revenant (2015) -
Gary Oldman
Won for Playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017) -
Rami Malek
Won for Playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) -
Will Smith
Won for Playing Richard Williams in "King Richard" (2021)
