Guest Author - Lisa Shea

Work your way through watching every movie that has won a Best Actor award - and then keep an eye out for the mistakes found in them!

1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command
1930 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
1931 George Arliss - Desraeli
1932 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
1933 Wallace Beery - The Champ
1934 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
1935 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
1936 Victor McLaglen - The Informer
1937 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
1938 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
1939 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town
1940 Robert Donat - Goodbye Mr. Chips
1941 Jimmy Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
1942 Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
1943 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
1944 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
1945 Bing Crosby - Going My Way
1946 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
1947 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
1948 Ronald Colman - A Double Life
1949 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
1950 Broderick Crawford - All The King's Men
1951 Jose Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
1952 Humphrey Bogart - The Africa Queen
1953 Gary Cooper - High Noon
1954 William Holden - Stalag 17
1955 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
1956 Ernest Borgnine - Marty
1957 Yul Brynner - The King and I
1958 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1959 David Niven - Separate Tables
1960 Charlton Heston - Ben-hur
1961 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
1962 Maximilian Schell - Judgement at Nuremberg
1963 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
1964 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
1965 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
1966 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
1967 Paul Scofield - A Man For All Seasons
1968 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
1969 Cliff Robertson - Charly
1970 John Wayne - True Grit
1971 George C. Scott - Patton
1972 Gene Hackman - The French Connection
1973 Marlon Brando - The Godfather
1974 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
1975 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
1976 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977 Peter Finch - Network
1978 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
1979 Jon Voight - Coming Home
1980 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
1981 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
1982 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
1983 Ben Kingsley - Ghandi
1984 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
1985 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
1986 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
1987 Paul Newman - The Color of Money
1988 Michael Douglas - Wall Street
1989 Dustin Hoffman - Rainman
1990 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
1991 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
1992 Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
1993 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
1994 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
1995 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
1996 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
1997 Geoffrey Rush - Shine
1998 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets
1999 Roberto Benigni - Life is Beautiful
2000 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
2001 Russell Crowe - Gladiator
2002 Denzel Washington - Training Day
2003 Adrien Brody - The Pianist
2004 Sean Penn - Mystic River
2005 Jamie Foxx - Ray
2006 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote