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George Arliss
Won for Playing Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1930)
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Charles Laughton
Won for Playing Henry VII in The Private life of Henry VIII (1933)
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Paul Muni
Won for Playing Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
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Spencer Tracy
Won for Playing Father Flanagan in Boys Town (1938)
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Gary Cooper
Won for Playing Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941)
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James Cagney
Won for Playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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José Ferrer
Won for Playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
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Yul Brynner
Won for Playing King Mongkut in the King and I (1956)
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Paul Scofield
Won for Playing Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons (1966)
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George C. Scott
Won for Playing George Patton in Patton (1970)
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Robert De Niro
Won for Playing Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980)
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Ben Kingsley
Won for Playing Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)
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F. Murray Abraham
Won for Playing Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1984)
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Won for Playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989) and for Playing Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012)
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Jeremy Irons
Won for Playing Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
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Geoffrey Rush
Won for Playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996)
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Adrien Brody
Won for Playing Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist (2002)
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Jamie Foxx
Won for Playing Ray Charles in Ray (2004)
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Won for Playing Truman Capote in Capote (2005)
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Forest Whitaker
Won for Playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
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Sean Penn
Won for Playing Harvey Milk in Milk (2008)
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Colin Firth
Won for Playing King George VI in the King's Speech (2010)
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Matthew McConaughey
Won for Playing Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
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Eddie Redmayne
Won for Playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014)
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Won for Playing Hugh Glass in The Revenant (2015)
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Gary Oldman
Won for Playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017)
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Rami Malek
Won for Playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
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Will Smith
Won for Playing Richard Williams in "King Richard" (2021)
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