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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.

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NameDOBAwardYearFilm
Luise Rainer1/12/1910
Best Actress1937The Great Ziegfeld
Best Actress1938The Good Earth
Olivia De Havilland7/1/1916
Best Actress1947To Each His Own
Best Actress1950The Heiress
Ernest Borgnine1/24/1917
Best Actor1956Marty
Joan Fontaine10/22/1917
Best Actress1942Suspicion
Sidney Poitier2/20/1927
Best Actor1964Lilies of the Field
Gene Hackman1/30/1930
Best Actor1972The French Connection
Joanne Woodward2/27/1930
Best Actress1958The Three Faces of Eve
Maximillian Schell12/8/1930
Best Actor1962Judgment at Nuremberg
Robert Duvall1/5/1931
Best Actor1984Tender Mercies
Ellen Burstyn12/7/1932
Best Actress1975Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Shirley MacLaine4/24/1934
Best Actress1984Terms of Endearment
Louise Fletcher7/22/1934
Best Actress1976One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sophia Loren9/20/1934
Best Actress1962Two Women
Maggie Smith12/28/1934
Best Actress1970The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Julie Andrews10/1/1935
Best Actress1965Mary Poppins
Glenda Jackson5/9/1936
Best Actress1971Women in Love
Best Actress1974A Touch of Class
Jack Nicholson4/22/1937
Best Actor1976One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor1998As Good as It Gets
Dustin Hoffman8/8/1937
Best Actor1980Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actor1989Rain Man
Jane Fonda12/21/1937
Best Actress1972Klute
Best Actress1979Coming Home
Anthony Hopkins12/31/1937
Best Actor1992The Silence of the Lambs
Jon Voight12/29/1938
Best Actor1979Coming Home
F. Murray Abraham10/24/1939
Best Actor1985Amadeus
Al Pacino4/25/1940
Best Actor1993Scent of a Woman
Faye Dunaway1/14/1941
Best Actress1977Network
Julie Christie4/14/1941
Best Actress1966Darling
Barbra Streisand4/24/1942
Best Actress1969Funny Girl
Robert De Niro8/17/1943
Best Actor1981Raging Bull
Ben Kingsley12/31/1943
Best Actor1983Gandhi
Michael Douglas9/25/1944
Best Actor1988Wall Street
Helen Mirren7/26/1945
Best Actress2007The Queen
Diane Keaton1/5/1946
Best Actress1978Annie Hall
Liza Minnelli3/12/1946
Best Actress1973Cabaret
Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian)5/20/1946
Best Actress1988Moonstruck
Susan Sarandon10/4/1946
Best Actress1996Dead Man Walking
Sally Field11/6/1946
Best Actress1980Norma Rae
Best Actress1985Places in the Heart
Richard Dreyfuss10/29/1947
Best Actor1978The Goodbye Girl
Kathy Bates6/28/1948
Best Actress1991Misery
Jeremy Irons9/19/1948
Best Actor1991Reversal of Fortune
Jessica Lange4/20/1949
Best Actress1995Blue Sky
Meryl Streep6/22/1949
Best Actress1983Sophie's Choice
Jeff Bridges12/4/1949
Best Actor2010Crazy Heart
Sissy Spacek12/25/1949
Best Actress1981Coal Miner's Daughter
William Hurt3/20/1950
Best Actor1986Kiss of the Spider Woman
Geoffrey Rush7/6/1951
Best Actor1997Shine
Roberto Benigni10/27/1952
Best Actor1999Life is Beautiful
Denzel Washington12/28/1954
Best Actor2002Training Day
Tom Hanks7/9/1956
Best Actor1994Philadelphia
Best Actor1995Forrest Gump
Daniel Day-Lewis4/29/1957
Best Actor1990My Left Foot
Best Actor2008There Will Be Blood
Frances McDormand6/23/1957
Best Actress1997Fargo
Holly Hunter3/20/1958
Best Actress1994The Piano
Emma Thompson4/15/1959
Best Actress1993Howard's End
Kevin Spacey7/26/1959
Best Actor2000American Beauty
Sean Penn8/17/1960
Best Actor2004Mystic River
Best Actor2009Milk
Colin Firth9/10/1960
Best Actor2011The King's Speech
Forest Whitaker7/15/1961
Best Actor2007The Last King of Scotland
Jodie Foster11/19/1962
Best Actress1989The Accused
Best Actress1992The Silence of the Lambs
Helen Hunt6/15/1963
Best Actress1998As Good as it Gets
Nicolas Cage1/7/1964
Best Actor1996Leaving Las Vegas
Russell Crowe4/7/1964
Best Actor2001Gladiator
Sandra Bullock7/26/1964
Best Actress2010The Blind Side
Marlee Matlin8/24/1965
Best Actress1987Children of a Lesser God
Halle Berry8/14/1966
Best Actress2002Monster's Ball
Nicole Kidman6/20/1967
Best Actress2003The Hours
Philip Seymour Hoffman7/23/1967
Best Actor2006Capote
Julia Roberts10/28/1967
Best Actress2001Erin Brockovich
Jamie Foxx12/13/1967
Best Actor2005Ray
Gwyneth Paltrow9/27/1972
Best Actress1999Shakespeare in Love
Adrien Brody4/14/1973
Best Actor2003The Pianist
Hilary Swank7/30/1974
Best Actress2000Boys Don't Cry
Best Actress2005Million Dollar Baby
Charlize Theron8/7/1975
Best Actress2004Monster
Marion Cotillard9/30/1975
Best Actress2008La môme
Kate Winslet10/5/1975
Best Actress2009The Reader
Reese Witherspoon3/22/1976
Best Actress2006Walk the Line
Natalie Portman6/9/1981
Best Actress2011Black Swan

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