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8 decades of Oscars' best leading men

POSTED: 11:35 AM PST Feb 09, 2012 UPDATED: 06:33 AM PST Feb 21, 2013

Before a new Best Actor is crowned at the Academy Awards, take a look back at all of the other winners since 1929.

Dujardin gets award — 1 / 85

2011: Jean Dujardin - "The Artist"

Dujardin gets award

Colin Firth, Oscar

Jeff Bridges In 'Crazy Heart'

Sean Penn in 'Milk'

Daniel Day-Lewis in 'There Will Be Blood'

Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland

Philip Seymour Hoffman in 'Capote'

Jamie Foxx, Ray

Sean Penn, Mystic River

Adrien Brody, The Pianist

Denzel Washington, Training Day

Russell Crowe - "Gladiator"

Kevin Spacey - "American Beauty"

Roberto Benigni, Life is Beautiful

Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets

Geoffrey Rush, Shine

Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas

Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks, Philadelphia

Al Pacino, Scent Of A Woman

Anthony Hopkins in "Silence Of The Lambs"

Jeremy Irons, Reversal Of F

Daniel Day Lewis, My Left Foot

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in 'Rain Man'

Michael Douglas, Wall Street

Paul Newman, Color Of Money

William Hurt, Kiss Of The Spider Woman

Murray Abraham, Amadeus

Robert Duvall

Ben Kingsley

Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond

Robert De Niro - "Raging Bull"

Kramer Vs Kramer, Dustin Hoffman

Jon Voight, Coming Home

Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl

Peter Finch

Jack Nicholson

Art Carney

Jack Lemmon, Save The Tiger

Godfather 1972 Marlon Brando

Gene Hackman, French Connection

George C Scott

John Wayne

Cliff Robertson

Rod Steiger

Paul Scofield

Lee Marvin

Rex Harrison

Sidney Poitier

Gregory Peck

Maximilian Schell

Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry

Charlton Heston

David Niven, Separate Tables

Alec Guinness

Yul Brynner

Ernest Borgnine

Marlon Brando, On The Waterfront

William Holden

Gary Cooper, High Noon

Humphrey Bogart - National Archives of Canada

Jose Ferrer

Broderick Crawford

Laurence Olivier

Ronald Coleman

Fredric March, 1946

Ray Milland

Bing Crosby

Paul Lukas

James Cagney Loc

Gary Cooper

James Stewart, Philadelphia Story

Robert Donat

Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy

Paul Muni

Victor McLaglen

Clark Gable, It Happened One Night

Charles Laughton

Fredric March

Wallace Beery

Lionel Barrymore

George Arliss

Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona

Emil Jannings, The Last Command

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