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Also Known As Oscar for best actor
Notable Honorees Paul Newman • Sidney Poitier • Jack Nicholson • John Wayne • Humphrey Bogart • Laurence Olivier • Robert De Niro • Clark Gable • James Cagney • Al Pacino • Dustin Hoffman • James Stewart • Marlon Brando • Leonardo DiCaprio • Anthony Hopkins • Michael Douglas • Russell Crowe • Burt Lancaster • Tom Hanks • Alec Guinness • Spencer Tracy • Matthew McConaughey • Jamie Foxx • Charlton Heston • Kevin Spacey • Fredric March • Richard Dreyfuss • Paul Muni • Jeff Bridges • Henry Fonda • Gregory Peck • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Denzel Washington • Sean Penn • Colin Firth • Will Smith • Jack Lemmon • Roberto Benigni • Ronald Colman • Robert Duvall • Geoffrey Rush • George C. Scott • Nicolas Cage • Ernest Borgnine • Charles Laughton • Ben Kingsley • Gary Oldman • William Holden • Forest Whitaker • Jon Voight • Rex Harrison • Bing Crosby • Gary Cooper • Emil Jannings • Eddie Redmayne • Gene Hackman • Lee Marvin • Rod Steiger • Casey Affleck • Jeremy Irons • Adrien Brody • Paul Scofield • Lionel Barrymore • Cliff Robertson • José Ferrer • Yul Brynner • David Niven • William Hurt • Peter Finch • Art Carney • Wallace Beery • George Arliss • Ray Milland • Brendan Fraser • Robert Donat • Joaquin Phoenix • Cillian Murphy • Victor McLaglen • Rami Malek • F. Murray Abraham

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