This Sunday, the likes of Casey Affleck, Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Andrew Garfield, and Viggo Mortensen will compete for the highest honor a performer can receive – the Academy Award for Best Actor. This ceremony will mark the 90th actor (due to a tie in 1932) to take home the statuette. In honor of the impending event (and to help you impress all your friends at Oscar parties with your history knowledge), we’ve put together a list of where to stream every Oscar for Best Actor-winning performance.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to the ever-changing availabilities of movies on various streaming platforms, we have not typed out which services are currently carrying these movies next to each entry. Instead, simply click on the orange hyperlink for each movie you are curious about, at which point you will be redirected to a page which displays the current, up-to-the-minute availabilities across hundreds of different streaming services.)
ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING PERFORMANCES FOR BEST ACTOR: 1927-PRESENT
- Emil Jannings in The Last Command; The Way of All Flesh (1927/1928)
*awarded for two roles - Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1928/1929)
- George Arliss in Disreali (1929/1930)
- Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1930/1931)
- Wallace Beery in The Champ; Fredric March as in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931/1932)
*tie awarded - Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII of England in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932/1933)
- Clark Gable as Peter Warne in It Happened One Night (1934)
- Victor McLaglen as Gypo Nolan in The Informer (1935)
- Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) [Currently unavailable to stream]
- Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous (1937)
- Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
- Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
- James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
- Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
- Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947)
- Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
- Broderick Crawford in All The King’s Men (1949)
- Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
- Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
- Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
- William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953) [Currently unavailable to stream]
- Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
- Ernest Borgnine in Marty (1955)
- Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956) [Currently unavailable to stream]
- Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
- Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
- Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
- Maximillian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
- Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
- Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964) [Currently unavailable to stream]
- Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
- Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968) [Currently unavailable to stream]
- John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
- George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
- Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
- Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
- Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973)
- Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
- Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- Peter Finch in Network (1976)
- Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
- Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
- Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
- Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981)
- Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
- Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
- F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
- William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
- Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
- Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
- Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
- Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989)
- Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
- Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992)
- Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993)
- Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
- Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
- Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets (1997)
- Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful (1998)
- Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
- Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000)
- Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
- Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)
- Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
- Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005)
- Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
- Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
- Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (2009)
- Colin Firth in The King’s Speech (2010)
- Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)
- Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
- Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
- Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything (2014)
- Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant (2015)