These are who I think should have won the Oscars for Best Actor. Some of them did win in their respective years too. It is just my opinion, a video made with love :) Music used: Cloud Atlas, Chevaliers de Sangreal, The Untouchables, Dragonheart, A Single Man, Kill Bill, Slumdog Millionaire. Winners: 1927 | George O'Brien | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1928 | Conrad Veidt | The Man Who Laughs 1929 | Warner Baxter | In Old Arizona 1930 | Lew Ayres | All Quiet On the Western Front 1931 | Peter Lorre | M 1932 | Fredric March | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1933 | Charles Laughton | The Private Life of Henry VIII 1934 | Clark Gable | It Happened One Night 1935 | Victor McLaglen | The Informer 1936 | Walter Huston | Dodsworth 1937 | Spencer Tracey | Captains Courageous 1938 | Errol Flynn | Robin Hood 1939 | Clark Gable | Gone With the Wind 1940 | Charlie Chaplin | The Great Dictator 1941 | Orson Welles | Citizen Kane 1942 | Humphrey Bogart | Casablanca 1943 | Joseph Cotton | Shadow of a Doubt 1944 | Fred MacMurray | Double Indemnity 1945 | Ray Milland | The Lost Weekend 1946 | James Stewart | It's a Wonderful Life 1947 | Richard Attenborough | Brighton Rock 1948 | Humphrey Bogart | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949 | James Cagney | White Heat 1950 | Toshiro Mifune | Rashomon 1951 (TIE) | Marlon Brando | A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 (TIE) | Humphrey Bogart | The African Queen 1952 (TIE) | Takashi Shimura | Ikiru 1952 (TIE) | Gary Cooper | High Noon 1953 | Montgomery Clift | From Here to Eternity 1954 | Marlon Brando | On the Waterfront 1955 (TIE) | Ernest Borgnine | Marty 1955 (TIE) | Robert Mitchum | The Night of the Hunter 1956 | Laurence Olivier | Richard III 1957 | Alec Guiness | The Bridge on the River Kwai 1958 | James Stewart | Vertigo 1959 | Jack Lemmon | Some Like it Hot 1960 | Anthony Perkins | Psycho 1961 | Maximilian Schell | Judgment at Nuremberg 1962 | Peter O'Toole | Lawrence of Arabia 1963 | Richard Harris | This Sporting Life 1964 | Peter Sellers | Dr. Strangelove 1965 | Omar Sharif | Dr. Zhivago 1966 | Richard Burton | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1967 | Rod Steiger | In the Heat of the Night 1968 | Peter O'Toole | The Lion in Winter 1969 | Dustin Hoffman | Midnight Cowboy 1970 | George C. Scott | Patton 1971 | Gary Bond | Wake in Fright 1972 | Klaus Kinski | Aguirre, Wrath of God 1973 | Steve McQueen | Papillon 1974 | Gene Hackman | The Conversation 1975 (TIE) | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 (TIE) | Al Pacino | Dog Day Afternoon 1976 (TIE) | Peter Finch | Network 1976 (TIE) | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver 1977 | Richard Burton | Equus 1978 | Robert De Niro | The Deer Hunter 1979 | Peter Sellers | Being THere 1980 (TIE) | John Hurt | The Elephant Man 1980 (TIE) | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull 1981 | Jurgen Prochnow | Das Boot 1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi 1983 | Albert Finney | The Dresser 1984 (TIE) | F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus 1984 (TIE) | Jeff Bridges | Starman 1985 (TIE) | William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 (TIE) | Aleksey Kravchenko | Come and See 1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa 1987 | John Lone | The Last Emperor 1988 | Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot 1990 | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune 1991 | Anthony Hopkins | The SIlence of the Lambs 1992 | Harvey Keitel | The Bad Lieutenant 1993 (TIE) | Liam Neeson | Schindler's List 1993 (TIE) | Leslie Cheung | Farewell My Concubine 1994 | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart 1996 | Ralph Fiennes | The English Patient 1997 | Robert Carlyle | The Full Monty 1998 (TIE) | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters 1998 (TIE) | Roberto Benigni | Life is Beautiful 1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty 2000 | Tom Hanks | Castaway 2001 | Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind 2002 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation 2004 | Don Cheadle | Hotel Rwanda 2005 (TIE) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote 2005 (TIE) | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain 2006 | Ulrich Muhe | The Lives of Others 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk 2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech 2011 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist 2012 (TIE) | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master 2012 (TIE) | Hugh Jackman | Les Miserables 2013 | Mads Mikkelsen | The Hunt