Best Actor winners (in chronological order):

Wallace Beery (“The Champ,” 1932) Fredric March (“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” 1932/“The Best Years of Our Lives,” 1946) Clark Gable (“It Happened One Night,” 1934) Paul Muni (“The Story of Louis Pasteur,” 1936) Gary Cooper (“Sergeant York,” 1941/“High Noon,” 1952) Humphrey Bogart (“The African Queen,” 1951) Gregory Peck (“To Kill a Mockingbird,” 1962) Gene Hackman (“The French Connection,” 1971) Art Carney (“Harry and Tonto,” 1974) Peter Finch (“Network,” 1976) William Hurt (“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” 1985) Jeremy Irons (“Reversal of Fortune,” 1990) Tom Hanks (“Philadelphia,” 1993/“Forrest Gump,” 1994) Nicolas Cage (“Leaving Las Vegas,” 1995) Geoffrey Rush (“Shine,” 1996) Kevin Spacey (“American Beauty,” 1999) Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart,” 2009) Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech,” 2010)