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Living Best Actor and Best Actress Oscar Winners
Every year since 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued awards, called Oscars, to recognize excellence in film. The highest honor an actor or actress can receive is the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role or Best Actress in a Leading Role. Only one of each award is presented every year.
This list shows every living recipient of the Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Leading Role awards. The year given in the tables is the year that the award was presented, recognizing films released the previous year.
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| Gene Hackman | 1/30/1930 |
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| Joanne Woodward | 2/27/1930 |
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| Robert Duvall | 1/5/1931 |
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| Ellen Burstyn | 12/7/1932 |
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| Shirley MacLaine | 4/24/1934 |
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| Sophia Loren | 9/20/1934 |
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| Julie Andrews | 10/1/1935 |
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| Jack Nicholson | 4/22/1937 |
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| Dustin Hoffman | 8/8/1937 |
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| Jane Fonda | 12/21/1937 |
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| Anthony Hopkins | 12/31/1937 |
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| Jon Voight | 12/29/1938 |
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| F. Murray Abraham | 10/24/1939 |
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| Al Pacino | 4/25/1940 |
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| Faye Dunaway | 1/14/1941 |
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| Julie Christie | 4/14/1941 |
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| Barbra Streisand | 4/24/1942 |
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| Robert De Niro | 8/17/1943 |
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| Ben Kingsley | 12/31/1943 |
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| Michael Douglas | 9/25/1944 |
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| Helen Mirren | 7/26/1945 |
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| Diane Keaton | 1/5/1946 |
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| Liza Minnelli | 3/12/1946 |
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| Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) | 5/20/1946 |
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| Susan Sarandon | 10/4/1946 |
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| Sally Field | 11/6/1946 |
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| Richard Dreyfuss | 10/29/1947 |
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| Kathy Bates | 6/28/1948 |
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| Jeremy Irons | 9/19/1948 |
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| Jessica Lange | 4/20/1949 |
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| Meryl Streep | 6/22/1949 |
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| Jeff Bridges | 12/4/1949 |
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| Sissy Spacek | 12/25/1949 |
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| Geoffrey Rush | 7/6/1951 |
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| Roberto Benigni | 10/27/1952 |
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| Denzel Washington | 12/28/1954 |
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| Tom Hanks | 7/9/1956 |
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| Daniel Day-Lewis | 4/29/1957 |
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| Frances McDormand | 6/23/1957 |
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| Holly Hunter | 3/20/1958 |
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| Gary Oldman | 3/21/1958 |
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| Emma Thompson | 4/15/1959 |
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| Kevin Spacey | 7/26/1959 |
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| Sean Penn | 8/17/1960 |
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| Colin Firth | 9/10/1960 |
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| Julianne Moore | 12/3/1960 |
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| Forest Whitaker | 7/15/1961 |
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| Michelle Yeoh | 8/6/1962 |
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| Jodie Foster | 11/19/1962 |
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| Helen Hunt | 6/15/1963 |
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| Nicolas Cage | 1/7/1964 |
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| Russell Crowe | 4/7/1964 |
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| Sandra Bullock | 7/26/1964 |
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| Marlee Matlin | 8/24/1965 |
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| Halle Berry | 8/14/1966 |
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| Nicole Kidman | 6/20/1967 |
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| Julia Roberts | 10/28/1967 |
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| Jamie Foxx | 12/13/1967 |
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| Will Smith | 9/25/1968 |
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| Brendan Fraser | 12/3/1968 |
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| Renée Zellweger | 4/25/1969 |
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| Cate Blanchett | 5/14/1969 |
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| Matthew McConaughey | 11/4/1969 |
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| Jean Dujardin | 6/19/1972 |
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| Gwyneth Paltrow | 9/27/1972 |
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| Adrien Brody | 4/14/1973 |
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| Olivia Colman | 1/30/1974 |
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| Hilary Swank | 7/30/1974 |
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| Joaquin Phoenix | 10/28/1974 |
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| Leonardo DiCaprio | 11/11/1974 |
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| Charlize Theron | 8/7/1975 |
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| Casey Affleck | 8/12/1975 |
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| Marion Cotillard | 9/30/1975 |
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| Kate Winslet | 10/5/1975 |
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| Reese Witherspoon | 3/22/1976 |
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| Cillian Murphy | 5/25/1976 |
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| Jessica Chastain | 3/24/1977 |
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| Rami Malek | 5/12/1981 |
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| Natalie Portman | 6/9/1981 |
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| Eddie Redmayne | 1/6/1982 |
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| Emma Stone | 11/6/1988 |
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| Brie Larson | 10/1/1989 |
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| Jennifer Lawrence | 8/15/1990 |
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