Entertainment quiz
Best Actor Oscar winners, 1929 to 1989
62 awards from 1929 to 1989, won by 57 people. Each row shows the ceremony and the winning film. Type a name once and it fills every year they won; a surname is enough.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 62 answers
- Limit
- 10:20
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 62
- Time limit
- 10:20
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name every Best Actor winner, 1929 to 1989.
| Ceremony | Film | Best Actor |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh | Not found yet |
| 1930 | In Old Arizona | Not found yet |
| 1931 | Disraeli | Not found yet |
| 1932 | A Free Soul | Not found yet |
| 1933 | The Champ | Not found yet |
| 1933 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Not found yet |
| 1934 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | Not found yet |
| 1935 | It Happened One Night | Not found yet |
| 1936 | The Informer | Not found yet |
| 1937 | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Not found yet |
| 1938 | Captains Courageous | Not found yet |
| 1939 | Boys Town | Not found yet |
| 1940 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Not found yet |
| 1941 | The Philadelphia Story | Not found yet |
| 1942 | Sergeant York | Not found yet |
| 1943 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Not found yet |
| 1944 | Watch on the Rhine | Not found yet |
| 1945 | Going My Way | Not found yet |
| 1946 | The Lost Weekend | Not found yet |
| 1947 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Not found yet |
| 1948 | A Double Life | Not found yet |
| 1949 | Hamlet | Not found yet |
| 1950 | All the King's Men | Not found yet |
| 1951 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Not found yet |
| 1952 | The African Queen | Not found yet |
| 1953 | High Noon | Not found yet |
| 1954 | Stalag 17 | Not found yet |
| 1955 | On the Waterfront | Not found yet |
| 1956 | Marty | Not found yet |
| 1957 | The King and I | Not found yet |
| 1958 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Not found yet |
| Ceremony | Film | Best Actor |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Separate Tables | Not found yet |
| 1960 | Ben-Hur | Not found yet |
| 1961 | Elmer Gantry | Not found yet |
| 1962 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Not found yet |
| 1963 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Not found yet |
| 1964 | Lilies of the Field | Not found yet |
| 1965 | My Fair Lady | Not found yet |
| 1966 | Cat Ballou | Not found yet |
| 1967 | A Man for All Seasons | Not found yet |
| 1968 | In the Heat of the Night | Not found yet |
| 1969 | Charly | Not found yet |
| 1970 | True Grit | Not found yet |
| 1971 | Patton | Not found yet |
| 1972 | The French Connection | Not found yet |
| 1973 | The Godfather | Not found yet |
| 1974 | Save the Tiger | Not found yet |
| 1975 | Harry and Tonto | Not found yet |
| 1976 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | Not found yet |
| 1977 | Network | Not found yet |
| 1978 | The Goodbye Girl | Not found yet |
| 1979 | Coming Home | Not found yet |
| 1980 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Not found yet |
| 1981 | Raging Bull | Not found yet |
| 1982 | On Golden Pond | Not found yet |
| 1983 | Gandhi | Not found yet |
| 1984 | Tender Mercies | Not found yet |
| 1985 | Amadeus | Not found yet |
| 1986 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Not found yet |
| 1987 | The Color of Money | Not found yet |
| 1988 | Wall Street | Not found yet |
| 1989 | Rain Man | Not found yet |
About this quiz
The Academy Award for Actor is given at each ceremony for work in a film of the year before. This list runs from the 1929 ceremony to 1989.
- 5 people won more than once in this period; Fredric March leads with 2 wins.
- 1933 has more than one row: the award was shared, tied or given twice that year, and every winner gets a row.
- A surname alone is enough for every row.
- Years are ceremony years: each ceremony honours films of the year before.
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