The Best Oscar-Winning Actor Performances, Ranked
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- The GodfatherMarlon Brando - Best Actor (1972).More Vito Corleone
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- #33 of 548 onThe Greatest Movie Villains Of All Time
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- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestJack Nicholson - Best Actor (1975).More Randle McMurphy
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- To Kill a MockingbirdGregory Peck - Best Actor (1962).More Atticus Finch
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- Good Will HuntingRobin Williams - Best Supporting Actor (1997).
- The Silence of the LambsAnthony Hopkins - Best Actor (1991).
- The Dark KnightHeath Ledger - Best Supporting Actor (2008).More The Joker
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- Inglourious BasterdsChristoph Waltz - Best Supporting Actor (2009).More Hans Landa
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- GoodfellasJoe Pesci - Best Supporting Actor (1990).More Tommy DeVito
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- Forrest GumpTom Hanks - Best Actor (1994).More Forrest Gump
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Jake LaMotta
Raging BullRobert De Niro - Best Actor (1980). - No Country for Old MenJavier Bardem - Best Supporting Actor (2007).More Anton Chigurh
- #19 of 548 onThe Greatest Movie Villains Of All Time
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- There Will Be BloodDaniel Day-Lewis - Best Actor (2007).More Daniel Plainview
- #464 of 548 onThe Greatest Movie Villains Of All Time
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- GladiatorRussell Crowe - Best Actor (2000).
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Abraham Lincoln
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- Rain ManDustin Hoffman - Best Actor (1988).
- CapotePhilip Seymour Hoffman - Best Actor (2005).
- George C. Scott - Best Actor (1970).
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Mahatma Gandhi
GhandiBen Kingsley-Best Actor (1982) - RayJamie Foxx - Best Actor (2004).More Ray Charles
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- The PianistAdrien Brody - Best Actor (2002).
- PhiladelphiaTom Hanks - Best Actor (1993).
- The Usual SuspectsKevin Spacey - Best Supporting Actor (1995).More Roger 'Verbal' Kint
- #274 of 548 onThe Greatest Movie Villains Of All Time
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- #676 of 1,218 onThe Best Movie Characters Of All Time
- The King's SpeechColin Firth - Best Actor (2010).
- WhiplashJ. K. Simmons - Best Supporting Actor (2014).
- Django UnchainedChristoph Waltz - Best Supporting Actor (2012).More Dr. King Schultz
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Nick Chevotarevich
The Deer HunterChristopher Walken - Best Supporting Actor (1978). - The FugitiveTommy Lee Jones - Best Supporting Actor (1993).
- AmadeusF. Murray Abraham - Best Actor (1984).
- Training DayDenzel Washington - Best Actor (2001).More Alonzo Harris
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- The Theory of EverythingEddie Redmayne - Best Actor (2014).