Actor in a Leading Role

1974 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerSave the TigerJack LemmonA disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.Amazon1974 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesLast Tango in ParisMarlon BrandoAmazonSerpicoAl PacinoAmazonThe Last DetailJack NicholsonAmazonThe StingRobert RedfordAmazon

1973 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerThe GodfatherMarlon BrandoThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Amazon1973 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesSleuthLaurence OlivierAmazonSleuthMichael CaineAmazonSounderPaul WinfieldAmazonThe Ruling ClassPeter O'TooleAmazon

1972 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerThe French ConnectionGene HackmanA pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.Amazon1972 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesFiddler on the RoofTopolAmazonKotchWalter MatthauAmazonSunday Bloody SundayPeter FinchAmazonThe HospitalGeorge C. ScottAmazon

1971 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerPattonGeorge C. ScottThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Amazon1971 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesFive Easy PiecesJack NicholsonAmazonI Never Sang for My FatherMelvyn DouglasAmazonLove StoryRyan O'NealAmazonThe Great White HopeJames Earl JonesAmazon

1970 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerTrue GritJohn WayneA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.Amazon1970 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesAnne of the Thousand DaysRichard BurtonAmazonGoodbye, Mr. ChipsPeter O'TooleAmazonMidnight CowboyDustin HoffmanAmazonMidnight CowboyJon VoightAmazon

1969 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerCharlyCliff RobertsonAn intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.Amazon1969 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesOliver!Ron MoodyAmazonThe FixerAlan BatesAmazonThe Heart Is a Lonely HunterAlan ArkinAmazonThe Lion in WinterPeter O'TooleAmazon

1968 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerIn the Heat of the NightRod SteigerAn African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.Amazon1968 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesBonnie and ClydeWarren BeattyAmazonCool Hand LukePaul NewmanAmazonGuess Who's Coming to DinnerSpencer TracyAmazonThe GraduateDustin HoffmanAmazon

1967 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerA Man for All SeasonsPaul ScofieldThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Amazon1967 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesAlfieMichael CaineAmazonThe Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!Alan ArkinAmazonThe Sand PebblesSteve McQueenAmazonWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Richard BurtonAmazon

1966 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerCat BallouLee MarvinA young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.Amazon1966 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesOthelloLaurence OlivierAmazonShip of FoolsOskar WernerAmazonThe PawnbrokerRod SteigerAmazonThe Spy Who Came in from the ColdRichard BurtonAmazon

1965 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerMy Fair LadyRex HarrisonSnobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society.Amazon1965 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesBecketPeter O'TooleAmazonBecketRichard BurtonAmazonDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombPeter SellersAmazonZorba the GreekAnthony QuinnAmazon