Academy Award for Best Actor winners
# On the Waterfront
ปี: 1954 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Elia Kazan
นักแสดง: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning
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Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two
# Ben-Hur
ปี: 1959 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: William Wyler
นักแสดง: Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
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In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
# Judgment at Nuremberg
ปี: 1961 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Stanley Kramer
นักแสดง: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell
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In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not
# To Kill a Mockingbird
ปี: 1962 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Robert Mulligan
นักแสดง: Mary Badham, Gregory Peck, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton
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Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
# True Grit
ปี: 2010 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Ethan Coen
นักแสดง: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper
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Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
# The Godfather
ปี: 1972 | ประเทศ: United States of America
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Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his y
# One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
ปี: 1975 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Miloš Forman
นักแสดง: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield
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A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
# Raging Bull
ปี: 1980 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Martin Scorsese
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The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
# Gandhi
ปี: 1982 | ประเทศ: IN
ผู้กำกับ: Richard Attenborough
นักแสดง: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
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In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
# Amadeus
ปี: 1984 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Miloš Forman
นักแสดง: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice
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Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
# Rain Man
ปี: 1988 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Barry Levinson
นักแสดง: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock
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When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
# Scent of a Woman
ปี: 1992 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Martin Brest
นักแสดง: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
# Philadelphia
ปี: 1993 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Jonathan Demme
นักแสดง: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas
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Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
# Forrest Gump
ปี: 1994 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Robert Zemeckis
นักแสดง: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
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A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has
# Leaving Las Vegas
ปี: 1995 | ประเทศ: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Mike Figgis
นักแสดง: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber
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Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-i
# As Good as It Gets
ปี: 1997 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: James L. Brooks
นักแสดง: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich
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Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is hospitalized, Melvin finds his life tu
# Life Is Beautiful
ปี: 1997 | ประเทศ: IT
ผู้กำกับ: Roberto Benigni
นักแสดง: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric
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A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
# American Beauty
ปี: 1999 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Sam Mendes
นักแสดง: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari
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Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
# Gladiator
ปี: 2000 | ประเทศ: United Kingdom, United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Ridley Scott
นักแสดง: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris
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In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Ma
# Training Day
ปี: 2001 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Antoine Fuqua
นักแสดง: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin
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On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
# The Pianist
ปี: 2002 | ประเทศ: FR
ผู้กำกับ: Roman Polanski
นักแสดง: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox
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The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
# Mystic River
ปี: 2003 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Clint Eastwood
นักแสดง: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden
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The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
# Ray
ปี: 2004 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Taylor Hackford
นักแสดง: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Harry Lennix, Clifton Powell
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Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behi
# The Last King of Scotland
ปี: 2006 | ประเทศ: United States of America, United Kingdom
ผู้กำกับ: Kevin Macdonald
นักแสดง: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington
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Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of Presiden
# There Will Be Blood
ปี: 2007 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Paul Thomas Anderson
นักแสดง: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Dillon Freasier
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Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
# Milk
ปี: 2008 | ประเทศ: United States of America
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The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join hi
# The King's Speech
ปี: 2010 | ประเทศ: United Kingdom, United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Tom Hooper
นักแสดง: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall
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The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dr
# The Artist
ปี: 2011 | ประเทศ: BE
ผู้กำกับ: Michel Hazanavicius
นักแสดง: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller
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Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
# Lincoln
ปี: 2012 | ประเทศ: IN
ผู้กำกับ: Steven Spielberg
นักแสดง: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
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The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
# Dallas Buyers Club
ปี: 2013 | ประเทศ: United States of America
ผู้กำกับ: Jean-Marc Vallée
นักแสดง: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn
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Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
# The Theory of Everything
ปี: 2014 | ประเทศ: United Kingdom
ผู้กำกับ: James Marsh
นักแสดง: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney
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The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student J
# The Revenant
ปี: 2015 | ประเทศ: CA
ผู้กำกับ: Alejandro González Iñárritu
นักแสดง: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck
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In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
# Manchester by the Sea
ปี: 2016 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Kenneth Lonergan
นักแสดง: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, C.J. Wilson
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After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
# Darkest Hour
ปี: 2017 | ประเทศ: GB
ผู้กำกับ: Joe Wright
นักแสดง: Gary Oldman, Stephen Dillane, Lily James, Ronald Pickup, Ben Mendelsohn
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In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
# Bohemian Rhapsody
ปี: 2018 | ประเทศ: GB
ผู้กำกับ: Bryan Singer
นักแสดง: Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton
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Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
# Joker
ปี: 2019 | ประเทศ: Canada, United States of America
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During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
# The Father
ปี: 2020 | ประเทศ: FR
ผู้กำกับ: Florian Zeller
นักแสดง: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots
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A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
# King Richard
ปี: 2021 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Reinaldo Marcus Green
นักแสดง: Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Jon Bernthal
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The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.
# The Whale
ปี: 2022 | ประเทศ: US
ผู้กำกับ: Darren Aronofsky
นักแสดง: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton
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A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
# Oppenheimer
ปี: 2023 | ประเทศ: United Kingdom, United States of America
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The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.