Want to know the best Best Actor Oscar Winners? How about the worst Best Actor Oscar Winners? Curious about Best Actor Oscar Winners box office grosses or which Best Actor Oscar Winners picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Best Actor Oscar Winners Movies got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which one got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information.
Since 1927, there have been 97 Best Actor Oscar Winners. This page will rank all 97 movies from Best to Worst in five different sortable columns of information. If you use the sort and search buttons the massive table becomes very interactive.
Table Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In The Table Below
The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by the winners
- Sort by actual domestic box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort by critic reviews and audiences voting. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins
- Sort Best Actor Oscar Winners by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score. The ceiling to earn points for box office is $200 million…once a movie passes that mark it stops earning points in that category.
Some possibly interesting stats from the above table:
- These movies combined for 570 Oscar® nominations and 264 Oscar® wins.
- 63 of these movies earned more than $100 million in adjusted box office gross.
- The combined average when looking at critic/audience rating was 71.59%
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Hey Cogerson – WOW SUCH IMPRESSIVE NUMBERS ON MOVIES AND THEIR TAKE ON BOX OFFICE, ETC. NO, AS YOUR MOM I HAVE NOT DISCUSSED CANADIAN HISTORY MUCH – I HAVE SEEN MORE OF THE USA THAN CANADA. AS YOU KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS THE ONES WITH HISTORY FACTS AT HIS FINGERTIPS. I BECAME A US CITIZEN IN 1974. REMEMBER I TOOK YOU AND BOBBY OUT OF SCHOOL FOR THE SWEARING IN CEREMONY AND ONE OF YOUR TEACHERS SAID IT WAS NOT A GOOD REASON TO MISS SCHOOL BUT YOUR FATHER AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD EDUCATIONAL EXERIENCE. I STILL THINK OF MONTREAL AS HOME THOUGH…YES, IF THE USA AND CANADA WAS AT WAR I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT HAVE MET YOUR FATHER IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND YOU WOULD NOT BE HERE BUT AS YOUR FATHER ALWAYS SAID WE WOULD HAVE MET SOMEWHERE. I ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR FACTS ON YOUR HUBS. GREAT HUB AS USUAL…BY THE WAY ON ONE OF YOUR FATHERS TRIPS TO MONTREAL BEFORE WE GOT MARRIED WE WENT UP TO OTTAWA AND HE ENJOYED THAT AS WELL AS MYSELF.
Hey BERN1960….wow…I remember going to see you be sworn in as a US citizen….I was only 7 back then. I am glad you like my hub and all the facts I put into the hubs.
Maybe dad would have been correct…that you would have met somewhere else ..if not on that beach at that time. Thanks for all the information about dad and yourself..so I guess I can forgive you for not covering lots of Canadian history.
YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME COGERSON. I REMEMBER MEETING ERNEST BORGNINE TOO – I WAS GLAD TO SEE HIM IN RED WITH BRUCE WILLIS – HE HAD A SMALL ROLE AND I KNOW HE IS IN HIS NINETIES NOW. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Hey BERN1960…..when was our encounter with Borgnine?….I am thinking it was in the late 1970s…but then again I thought you became a USA citizen in the late 70s and it turned out to be in 1974. Do you remember the ladies in the full length mink coats? Or am I making stuff up.
Hi Cogerson, There are some great actors, some surprise winners and an awful lot of great actors not on the list. I loved Yankee Doodle Dandy, which showed off James Cagney’s amasing dancing skills. I read his Autobiography, brilliant of course.
The African Queen was another blockbuster along with the mighty Ben Hur. I hated Forrest Gump Or gumph, more like it. Loved ‘Sir’ (Don’t forget next time please) Alec Guinness. My favourite Alec Guinness movie is Tunes Of Glory, a brilliant movie also starring David Niven. I still haven’t seen On Golden Pond, a movie I’m sure I would love. Gladiator with rough tough Russell Crowe is one of my favourites too. I could go on, but I have to go to bed. Goodnight my friend, loved this page. Cheers
Hey attemted humour…thanks for stopping by….you name some great performances in your comment…I am still surprised so many people do not care much for Forrest Gump….I loved back when it first came out….I watched it a few years ago, and maybe I did not like it as much…but I still thought it was ok.
I will make sure I refer to Sir Alec Guinness as Sir Alec Guinness from now on. Not only have I not see Sir Alec’s Tunes of Glory and I have even heard of it…I will try and locate and watch that movie…thanks for the suggestion…and for the comments…thanks for checking in from down under.
Hi cogerson….you had me at the Godfather, after that the others listed movies were just a blur. Back in the day I used to wish Marlon Brando was my godfather! I never had one so Sunshine used her imagination and choose her own. My parents weren’t too happy when I asked Santa for a machine gun for christmas! LOL
The photo of Ernest Borgnine caught my attention, he was so young! An amazing actor…one of my favorites! Poseidon Adventure when his wife fell in the fiery fire….that still makes me sad, I didn’t care that she was a former prostitute…he LOVED his Lovely Linda!
Superb page Rogers! Keep ’em coming! 🙂
Hey Sunshine625….thanks for stopping by and checking out this movie list. So I assume you are not arguing with the Brando as The Godfather as the number one pick….I think his performance is outstanding as well.
As for Ernest Borgnine….yep he was younger back then but he was still pushing 40….and now 56 years later he is still around and still making movies….he was in the latest Bruce Willis movie Red….which could have a sequel and that want Ernest to return as well.
I actually have met Mr. Borgnine….he was touring Fort Sumter in South Carolina the same time my family was back in the late 70s….I went up to him and asked if he was the guy from McHale’s Navy…he patted me on the head and said “Yes son I am…and thanked me for asking”. I actually have met two of the actors on the list…the other was Richard Dreyfuss….who I got to sign my DVD copy of Tin Men when he was at ODU giving a lecture. Thanks for the comments and the compliment…they are greatly appreciated Bilyeu.
I could so picture Ernest patting your head! Awwww! I still haven’t seen RED, one day I will. Brando as #1 is a perfect pick! My Godfather rocks! Thanks again for a fab page Rogers! 🙂
Oh, I love Ernest Borgnine and I am envious of you meeting him. I’ve never met any of my favourites, though I have met Christian Slater…
Hey Flora ….I think meeting Christian Slater would be very cool as well…as for my memory of Borgnine…he was with two very beautiful women and they were wearing identical full length mink coats…which was strange seeing them in such nice coats walking around a old Civil War fort. I am sure my mom has a much better memory of the incident that I do. I do know my grandmother met Walter Pidgeon walking alone on a beach once….for some reason I think about that fact numerous times….which is weird since I was probably not even born yet.
It was in a Vancouver restaurant. I was with a group of people at a table in the middle of the restaurant and he was three feet from me in a booth-same side as I was. I could hear him talk but not loud enough to distinguish what he was saying. He was with someone I think was his agent or another behind the scenes artist /non-actor. I sat near him for two hours and said something when I was leaving. I didn’t want to disturb him. By not saying anything you get to spend more time with the person.
Hey Flora…that is cool about your meeting with Christian Slater….he has a very distinctive voice….I thought he was going to have a much longer successful career….but I think he has moved to voice over for commercials…along with many failed television shows….but he had a very nice run for awhile….I love his roles in True Romance and Heathers. I agree that by playing it cool you did not chase him away…thus you got more time around him. I think Vancouver is a pretty popular place to make movies….around my area it is Wilmington South Carolina.
I think 1939 has been done quite a lot already since it is so popular a year. Between 1946-1959, huh but not 1954? 1954 was the year Grace Kelly made two films with Hitchcock that year… also the beginning of the end for RKO period. Interesting that year won’t work…
1946 was likely dominated by vets home from the war films, a lot of the same themes in Warner bros, I imagine. Everyone was happy about the war ending the year before, all studios. Usually Warner Bros only made social commentary . I imagine 1946 films would reflect that, so I think this would be a good year to look at what US wanted to see at the movies after WWII. Otherwise any specific year in this period is any year as the studio systm didn’t end completely until the 1960s.
oh, and you are right. The Sandler rule is indeed an actual rule. And that one does not get broken.
I agree with you on that one Flora. I never break my anti-Sandler rule either.
Hey Flora and Rob….well I think I have joined this club of not watching Adam Sandler movies….when my older boys were growing up…they thought Sandler was the best actor and his movies were the best….so being the cool dad I would take them to his latest movies.
I vividly remembering sitting in the theater and watching Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights and then Little Nicky and thinking they were the worst movies ever…and then looking over at my kids who were laughing and having the time of their lives….and realizing that I was getting older.
Now that they are both gone from the house I have not seen an Adam Sandler movie at the theater in years….plus I noticed as they both moved away…they left their Adam Sandler DVDs here…what does that tell you? With his latest movie coming out in a few weeks…I am so glad that I will not be seeing Jack and Jill….where we get not one but two Adam Sandlers.
Hey Flora….1939 is a great year for movies..but on the financial side of things almost all lists say….Gone With The Wind number one….and all the rest are tied for 2nd place with 1.50 million in rentals….it is so hard to believe that with all those great movies nobody kept track how much money they were making at the box office.
As for why 1954 can not be included….my awesome wife purchased a subscription to Variety online archives for me…and we were able to find their annual box office charts for almost every year from 1942 to 1982 when Box Office Mojo picks up the ball. For some reason the one page in the Variety Year in Review addition that lists box office for the year is missing….the magazine has almost 200 pages in that edition…and it is only missing the one page that I want…what are the odds? So 1954 is my missing year. So when I am doing my classic hubs I always hope the actor/actress took a break in the 1954 year.
Thank you for picking a year….1946 it will be….I am updating/facelifting my Johnny Depp hub and then I will be headed back to 1946.
So many great actors on the list. I’ve always thought Brando was a bit over-rated but I know he’s considered screen royalty so I’m not surprised to see how highly ranked he is. I think Gene Hackman is the greatest living male actor. As for the all-time best, that’s a harder pick. I’d narrow it down to Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Gregory Peck and Spencer Tracey…That’d be my Mount Rushmore of the greats.
It’s too bad there are so many great actors who never won an Oscar. Some of my favorites like Edward G. Robinson or Boris Karloff or Harrison Ford never got the gold statue.
Another fun page.
Rob
Hey Rob…I agree with you about Brando…..he is excellent in The Godfather, but I find many of his movies and especially his performances almost unwatchable. Especially A Streetcar Named Desire which I have seen two times and both times I felt like I was being punished while watching the movie…I will not ever watch it a third time.
I know what you mean about Hackman….I miss seeing new Gene Hackman movies…in my youth Hackman and Michael Caine seemed to be in almost every movie….we have not seen a new Hackman movie since 2004’s Welcome to Mooseport.
Nice Mount Rushmore of actors…if it is classic actors I would go with Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, and two of your picks in James Stewart and Spencer Tracy.
Good points on Harrison Ford, Boris Karloff and Edward G. Robinson….I think one day they will give Ford an honorary Oscar….while Karloff and Robinson never even got a nomination….which all the great roles they had….and Robinson did awesome supporting roles for almost 30 years…where was the love? As always I greatly appreciate you checking out my movie pages.