Ranking Best Actor Oscar Winning Performances

[Snick's Guy]

My Top Five:

1) Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
2) Marlon Brando - The Godfather
3) Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
4) Sean Penn - Milk
5) Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot

My Bottom Five:

1) Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
2) Frederic March - The Best Years Of Our Lives
3) Yul Brynner - The King And I
4) John Wayne - True Grit
5) Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man

[Reza]

My top 5:

Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night
Paul Scofield, A Man For All Seasons
Sean Penn, Milk
Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune
Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl

The Bottom 5:

Dustin Hoffman, Rainman
Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
Geoffrey Rush, Shine
Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

[Big Magilla]

And here they are...

1 Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939
2 James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
3 Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
4 Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons 1966
5 Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1932
6 Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
7 Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
8 Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
9 Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront 1954
10 Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry 1960
11 Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933
12 Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond 1981
13 Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field 1963
14 Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
15 George C. Scott, Patton 1970
16 Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot 1989
17 Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936
18 Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night 1967
19 Jon Voight, Coming Home 1978
20 Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend 1945
21 Tom Hanks, Philadelphia 1993
22 Robert De Niro, Raging Bull 1980
23 Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies 1983
24 Sean Penn, Milk 2008
25 Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
26 Ernest Borgnine, Marty 1955
27 Laurence Olivier, Hamlet 1948
28 Tom Hanks, Forest Gump 1994
29 Spencer Tracy, Boys Town 1938
30 Paul Newman, The Color Money 1986
31 William Holden, Stalag 17 1953
32 William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985
33 Wallace Beery, The Champ 1932
34 Yul Brynner, The King and I 1956
35 Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady 1964
36 Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood 2007
37 Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man 1988
38 Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman 1992
39 Adrien Brody, The Pianist 2002
40 Art Carney, Harry and Tonto 1974
41 Ben Kingsley, Gandhi 1982
42 Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland 2006
43 Gary Cooper, Sergeant York 1941
44 Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen 1951
45 Michael Douglas, Wall Street 1987
46 James Steart, The Philadelphia Story 1940
47 Gary Cooper, High Noon 1952
48 Sean Penn, Mystic River 2003
49 Jeremy Irons, Reveral of Fortune 1990
50 John Wayne, True Grit 1969
51 Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs 1991
52 Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart 2009
53 Bing Crosby, Going My Way 1944
54 David Niven, Separate Tables 1958
55 Ronald Colman, A Double Life 1947
56 Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine 1943
57 Peter Finch, Betwork 1976
58 Jose Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac 1950
59 George Arliss, Disraeli 1930
60 Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets 1997
61 Jamie Foxx, Ray 2004
62 Emil Jannings, The Last Command 1928
63 F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus 1984
64 Gene Hackman, The French Connection 1971
65 Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men 1949
66 Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur 1959
67 Clark Gable, It Happened One Night 1934
68 Victor McLaglen, The Informer 1935
69 Denzel Washington, Training Day 2001
70 Marlon Brando, The Godfather 1972
71 Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful 1998
72 Cliff Robertson, Charly 1968
73 Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas 1995
74 Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou 1965
75 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote 2005
76 Kevin Spacey, American Beauty 1999
77 Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl 1977
78 Russell Crowe, Gladiator 2000
79 Geoffrey Rush, Shine 1996
80 Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous 1937
81 Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul 1931
82 Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona 1929
83 Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger 1973