# 1: Who received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Boys Town in 1939?

James Cagney Leslie Howard Spencer Tracy Gary Cooper

The 11th Academy Awards in 1939, Spencer Tracy was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Boys Town. Spencer Tracy became the first lead actor to win two years in a row.

In 1941, MGM made a sequel, Men of Boys Town, with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney reprising their roles from the earlier film.

# 2: In 2007, Forest Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as which brutal Ugandan dictator?

Muammar al-Qaddafi Robert Mugabe Hissene Habre Idi Amin

Forest Whitaker received outstanding critical acclaim for his performance as dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. He won Best Actor at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007.

# 3: In 1961, Peter Ustinov got an Oscar for his role as Batiatus in:

Lawrence of Arabia The Alamo Exodus Spartacus

Spartacus received four academy awards in 1961, including an Oscar to Peter Ustinov for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

# 4: Who received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Color of Money (1986)?

Tom Cruise Paul Newman Tom Hanks Jon Voight

At the 59th Academy Awards in 1987, Paul Newman received the Best Actor Award for his role in The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese (not nominated).

# 5: Who plays the role as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the award winning The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?

Mads Mikkelsen Anthony Hopkins Harrison Ford Robert De Niro

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American film directed by Jonathan Demme. Jodie Foster plays the role as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins the role as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film won five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Demme), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally).

# 6: Humphrey Bogart won his only Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in which movie?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Dark Passage

The Maltese Falcon

The African Queen

The role of Charlie Allnutt in The African Queen won Bogart his only Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951.

# 7: Who won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Hamlet at the 21st Academy Awards in 1949?

Laurence Olivier Leslie Howard Broderick Crawford Spencer Tracy

Hamlet won the award for Best Picture at the 21st Academy Awards in 1949. Laurence Olivier won the award for Best Actor in a leading role. Olivier also directed the film. It was the first time an actor directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance.

# 8: In 2009, Sean Penn won the Best Actor Award for his role in this film:

Milk

The Tree of Life

All the King's Men

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Sean Penn has won the Best Actor Academy Awards for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the biopic Milk (2008).

# 9: Which American actor appeared in most movies before winning an Oscar for Best Actor?

John Wayne Spencer Tracy Denzel Washington Humphrey Bogart

Appearing the first time as an unbilled football player in Brown of Harvard (1926), John Wayne starred in over 170 movies. He had to wait until 1969 (almost 150 films) before receiving an Academy Award for his role in True Grit.

He was only nominated twice for Best Actor.

# 10: Jack Nicholson has been awarded an Oscar for his role in which of these films?

Easy Rider

A Few Good Men

About Schmidt

As Good as It Gets

Jack Nicholson was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Easy Rider and A Few Good Men, but did not win. He was nominated for the Oscar in a leading role with As Good as It Gets and About Schmidt. He won the Oscar for his role as Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets. Helen Hunt, who plays a single mother with a chronically ill son, won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Best Actor Awards

The first Oscar for Best Actor was presented in 1929 to actor Emil Jannings. He got the award for his performances in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927).

Not an easy one to remember, unless you are a real movie buff. But perhaps you remember some of these great actors. All of them have been awarded an Oscar for a leading or supporting role in a memorable movie.

The average score on this Best Actor Quiz is 7 correct answers. Can you do better?