The Valley Record. A cozy little archive for all my random by-year stuff.
and yes, the shorts noted don't count for the totals.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Best Actor in a Leading Role

237 nominated performances in total seen.
52 winning performances seen.

In chronological order of me having seen them.

Pre-2004
• Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind (2001)

2005
• Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland (2004)
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator (2004)
• Jamie Foxx, Ray (2004)
• Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line (2005)

2006
• Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow (2005)
• David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (2005)
• Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Kevin Spacey, American Beauty (1999)
• Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

February, 2007
• Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
• Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson (2006)
• Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind (1939)

March, 2007
• Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

April, 2007
• Bill Murray, Lost in Translation (2003)
• Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland (2006)

July, 2007
• Edward Norton, American History X (1998)

November, 2007
• Laurence Olivier, Rebecca (1940)

December, 2007
• Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate (1967)
• Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

January, 2008
• Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises (2007)

February, 2008
• Charles Boyer, Gaslight (1944)
• Clark Gable, It Happened One Night (1934)
• Peter O'Toole, The Lion in Winter (1968)
• Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights (1939)
• George Clooney, Michael Clayton (2007)
• Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons (1966)

April, 2008
• Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
• Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah (2007)

May, 2008
• James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

June, 2008
• Peter Finch, Network (1976)
• William Holden, Network (1976)

July, 2008
• Charles Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

August, 2008
• James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story (1940)

September, 2008
• Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977)

October, 2008
• Paul Newman, Hud (1963)
• Richard Harris, This Sporting Life (1963)
• James Stewart, Harvey (1950)
• William Holden, Sunset Boulevard (1950)

November, 2008
• Laurence Olivier, Hamlet (1948)

December, 2008
• Gary Cooper, High Noon (1952)
• Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• Richard Jenkins, The Visitor (2008)
• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (1943)
• Sean Penn, Milk (2008)

January, 2009
• Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom (2001)
• Robert De Niro, Raging Bull (1980)
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (2008)
• Jack Lemmon, The China Syndrome (1979)

February, 2009
• Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry (1960)
• Jack Lemmon, The Apartment (1960)
• Laurence Harvey, Room at the Top (1959)
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon (2008)
• Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931/1932)
• James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• Adrien Brody, The Pianist (2002)
• Jack Nicholson, Chinatown (1974)

March, 2009
• Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient (1996)

April, 2009
• Leslie Howard, Pygmalion (1938)
• Gary Cooper, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

May, 2009
• Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride (1950)

June, 2009
• Anthony Franciosca, A Hatful of Rain (1957)
• Albert Finney, Tom Jones (1963)
• Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

July, 2009
• William Powell, The Thin Man (1934)
• Jack Lemmon, Missing (1982)

August, 2009
• James Mason, A Star Is Born (1954)
• Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine (1943)
• Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

September, 2009
• Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker (2009)

October, 2009
• William Powell, My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen (1951)
• Wallace Beery, The Champ (1931/1932)
• Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932-1933)
• Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces (1970)

November, 2009
• Robert Montgomery, Night Must Fall (1937)

December, 2009
• Bing Crosby, The Country Girl (1954)
• George Clooney, Up in the Air (2009)
• Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (1941)

January, 2010
• Peter O'Toole, My Favorite Year (1982)
• Warren Beatty, Reds (1981)
• Colin Firth, A Single Man (2009)
• Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart (2009)

February, 2010
• Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun (1951)
• Robert Donat, The Citadel (1938)
• Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul (1930/1931)
• Marlon Brando, Julius Caesar (1953)
• Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur (1959)

March, 2010
• Daniel Day-Lewis, In the Name of the Father (1993)
• Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932/1933)
• Marcello Mastroianni, Divorce, Italian Style (1962)
• Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront (1954)
• Lew Ayres, Johnny Belinda (1948)

April, 2010
• Spencer Tracy, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• Fredric March, A Star Is Born (1937)

July, 2010
• Walter Huston, Dodsworth (1936)
• Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl (1977)
• William Powell, Life with Father (1947)
• Spencer Tracy, Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

August, 2010
• Robert Redford, The Sting (1973)
• Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
• Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class (1972)
• Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man (1980)

September, 2010
• Spencer Tracy, The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
• Ronald Colman, Random Harvest (1942)
• Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity (1953)

October, 2010
• Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network (2010)
• Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

November, 2010
• Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Peter O'Toole, Becket (1964)
• Richard Burton, Becket (1964)

December, 2010
• Michael Douglas, Wall Street (1987)
• Ben Kingsley, Gandhi (1982)
• Kirk Douglas, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
• Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator (1940)
• Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning (1988)
• Mickey Rooney, Babes in Arms (1939)
• Harrison Ford, Witness (1985)
• Jack Lemmon, Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
• Colin Firth, The King's Speech (2010)
• Marlon Brando, The Godfather (1972)

January, 2011
• Jeff Bridges, True Grit (2010)
• Jack Nicholson, Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• James Franco, 127 Hours (2010)

February, 2011
• Laurence Olivier, Richard III (1956)
• Maurice Chevalier, The Love Parade (1929/1930)
• Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Gregory Peck, The Yearling (1946)
• Spencer Tracy, Inherit the Wind (1960)
• Robert Montgomery, Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
• Javier Bardem, Biutiful (2010)
• F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus (1984)
• Tom Hulce, Amadeus (1984)
• Richard Burton, Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
• Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next (1975)
• Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Dudley Moore, Arthur (1981)

March, 2011
• José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

April, 2011
• Alexander Knox, Wilson (1944)
• Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Paul Newman, The Verdict (1982)

May, 2011
• Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady (1964)
• Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou (1965)

June, 2011
• James Dean, East of Eden (1955)
• Nicolas Cage, Adaptation. (2002)
• Humphrey Bogart, The Caine Mutiny (1954)
• Sam Waterston, The Killing Fields (1984)

July, 2011
• Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

August, 2011
• Clifton Webb, Sitting Pretty (1948)
• William Hurt, Broadcast News (1987)

September, 2011
• Rock Hudson, Giant (1956)
• James Dean, Giant (1956)
• Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire (1996)
• William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
• Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune (1990)

October, 2011
• Paul Newman, Absence of Malice (1981)

November, 2011
• Peter O'Toole, Venus (2006)
• Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York (2002)
• Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989)
• Albert Finney, Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

December, 2011
• Dustin Hoffman, Lenny (1974)
• George C. Scott, The Hospital (1971)
• Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field (1963)
• Gene Kelly, Anchors Aweigh (1945)
• Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie (1982)

January, 2012
• George Clooney, The Descendants (2011)
• Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
• Brad Pitt, Moneyball (2011)
• Jean Dujardin, The Artist (2011)
• Gregory Peck, Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
• Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society (1989)

February, 2012
• Walter Pidgeon, Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Montgomery Clift, The Search (1948)
• Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver (1976)
• Gary Cooper, The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
• Albert Finney, Under the Volcano (1984)

March, 2012
• Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men (1949)
• Jack Nicholson, The Last Detail (1973)
• Laurence Olivier, The Entertainer (1960)
• Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life (1956)
• Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Ed Harris, Pollock (2000)
• Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot (1989)

April, 2012
• James Cagney, Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
• Warren Beatty, Bugsy (1991)

May, 2012
• Nick Nolte, The Prince of Tides (1991)
• Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• Alec Guinness, The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
• Al Pacino, The Godfather Part II (1974)
• James Garner, Murphy's Romance (1985)
• Marlon Brando, Sayonara (1957)

June, 2012
• Al Pacino, Serpico (1973)

July, 2012
• James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Rex Harrison, Cleopatra (1963)

August, 2012
• John Travolta, Pulp Fiction (1994)

December, 2012
• Tom Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• Paul Newman, The Hustler (1961)
• Alan Arkin, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)

January, 2013
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln (2012)

February, 2013
• Dustin Hoffman, Wag the Dog (1997)
• Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

April, 2013
• Paul Newman, Nobody's Fool (1994)
• Peter Finch, Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

May, 2013
• Denzel Washington, Flight (2012)
• Warren Beatty, Heaven Can Wait (1978)

June, 2013
• Michael Caine, Alfie (1966)
• Burt Lancaster, Atlantic City (1981)
• Michael Caine, Sleuth (1972)
• Laurence Olivier, Sleuth (1972)

July, 2013
• Walter Matthau, The Sunshine Boys (1975)

August, 2013
• Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Ernest Borgnine, Marty (1955)

September, 2013
• John Garfield, Body and Soul (1947)
• Robert De Niro, The Deer Hunter (1978)

November, 2013
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave (2013)

December, 2013
• Christian Bale, American Hustle (2013)

February, 2014
• Nigel Hawthorne, The Madness of King George (1994)

March, 2014
• Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
• Bruce Dern, Nebraska (2013)

April, 2014
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Alfred Lunt, The Guardsman (1931/1932)
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All Nominees Seen in:
1931/1932 • 1939 • 1963 • 1967 • 1982 • 2005 • 2007 • 2008 • 2010 • 2013

At least 75% of Nominees Seen in:
1940 • 1942 • 1947 • 1948 • 1950 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1959 • 1960 • 1962 • 1964 • 1966 • 1972 • 1974 • 1981 • 1984 • 1985 • 1989 • 1994 • 2004 • 2006 • 2009 • 2011

At least 50% of Nominees Seen in:
1932/1933 • 1934 • 1936 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1961 • 1971 • 1973 • 1975 • 1976 • 1991 • 2002 • 2012

Percent Seen by Decade
'20s/'30s: 35%
(20/56)
'40s: 56%
(28/50)
'50s: 70%
(35/50)
'60s: 64%
(32/50)
'70s: 52%
(26/50)
'80s: 52%
(26/50)
'90s: 32%
(16/50)
'00s: 70%
(35/50)
'10s: 85%
(17/20)

55% of nominees seen, of 426.
59% of winners seen, of 88.

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