Research in Progress: April 21, 2022
151 nominees (including Ahmed, Youn and Chadwick Boseman)
2021: Hopkins and Gary Oldman have been nominated for and won the Best Actor before.
2022: Xavier Bardem Andrew Garfield, Will Smith, Denzel Washington have been nominated or won before.
Number of Nominations:
1 Nomination: 73 Actors
(In 94 years, 73 of the 151 best Actor nominees have been nominated only once for Best Actor)
In Chronological Order:
Barthelmes, Richard
Bancroft. George
Morris, Chester
Stone, Lewis
Chevalier, Maurice
Tibbett, Lawrence
Cooper, Jackie
Dix, Richard
Menjou, Adolphe
Lunt, Alfred
Tone, Franchot
Massey, Raymond
Welles, Orson
Kelly, Gene
Knox, Alexander
Wilde, Cornell
Parks, Larry
Redgrave, Michael
Ayres, Lew
Dailey, Dan
Todd, Richard
Calhern, Lewis
O’Herlihy, Dan
Hudson, Rock
Franciosa, Tony
Curtis, Tony
Harvey, Lawrence
Howard, Trevor
Whitman, Stuart
Werner, Oskar
McQueen, Steve
Bates, Alan
Moody, Ron
Jones, James Earl
O’Neal, Ryan
Topol
Winfield, Paul
Redford, Robert
Allen, Woody
Busey, Gary
Moore, Dudley
Conti, Tom
Waterston, Sam
Hulce, Tom
Ford, Harrison
Garner, James
Dexter, Gordon
Hoskins, Bob
Olmos, Edward
Costner, Kevin
Depardieu, Gerard
Rea, Stephen
Fishburne, Lawrence
Neeson, Liam
Hawthorne, Nigel
Troisi, Massimo
Fonda, Peter
Murray, Bill
Cheadle, Don
Howard, Terrence
Strathairn, David
Langella, Frank
Rourke, Mickey
Chiwetel, Ejiofor
Carell, Steve
Cranston, Bryan
Chalamet, Timothee
Kaluuya, Daniel
Banderas, Antonio
Driver, Adam
Pryce, Jonathan
Ahmed, Riz
Boseman, Chadwick
A (4)
Ahmed, Ritz
Allen, Woody
Arkin, Alan (winner of Supp. Actor)
Ayres, Lew
B (12)
Bale, Christian (winner of Supp. Actor)
Bancroft, George
Banderas, Antonio
Barthelmess, Richard
Bates, Alan
Beatty, Warren
Boseman, Chadwick, posthumous
Boyer, Charles
Branagh, Kenneth (also nom Supp)
Burton, Richard (also nom Supp)
Busey, Gary
C (18)
Caine, Michael (winner of 2 Supp. Actor)
Calhern, Lewis
Carell, Steve
Chalamet, Timothee
Chaplin, Charlie
Cheadle, Don
Chevalier, Maurice
Clift, Montgomery (also nom Supp)
Clooney, George (winner of Supp. Actor)
Conti, Tom
Cooper, Bradley (also nom Supp)
Cooper, Jackie
Costner, Kevin
Courtnay, Tom
Cranston, Bryan
Cruise, Tom (also nom Supp)
Cumberbatch, Benedict
Curtis, Tony
D (13)
Dafoe, Willem (3 nom Supp)
Dailey, Dan
Damon, Matt (also nom Supp)
Dean, James
Depardieu, Gerard
Depp, Johnny
Dern, Bruce (also nom Supp)
Dexter, Gordon
Dix, Richard
Douglas, Kirk
Douglas, Melvyn (winner of 2 Supp. Actor)
Downey, Robert Jr.
Driver, Adam (also nom Supp)
E (2)
Eastwood, Clint
Ejiofor, Chiwetel
F (10)
Farnsworth, Richard
Fassbender, Michael
Fiennes, Ralph
Finney, Albert
Fishburne, Laurence
Fitzgerald, Barry (winner of Supp. Actor)
Fonda, Peter
Ford, Harrison
Franciosa, Anthony
Freeman, Morgan (winner of Supp. Actor)
G (6)
Garfield, Andrew
Garfield, John, working class; father clothes presser and part-time cantor
Garner, James
Giannini, Giancarlo
Gosling, Ryan
Grant, Cary
H (12)
Harrelson, Woody
Harris, Ed
Harris, Richard
Harvey, Laurence
Hawthorne, Nigel
Hoskins, Bob
Howard, Terrence
Howard, Trevor
Hudson, Rock
Hulce, Tom
Hurt, John
Huston, Walter (winner of Supp. Actor)
J (3)
Jenkins, Richard
Jones, James Earl
Jones, Tommy Lee (winner of Supp. Actor)
K (5)
Kaluuya, Daniel
Keaton, Michael
Kelly, Gene
Kennedy, Arthur
Knox, Alexander
L (3)
Langella, Frank
Ledger, Heath (winner of Supp. Actor)
Lunt, Alfred
M (14)
McKellen, Ian
McQueen, Steve
Mason, James
Massey, Raymond
Mastroianni, Marcello
Matthau, Walter (winner of Supp. Actor)
Menjou, Adolph
Montgomery, Robert
Moody, Ron
Moore, Dudley
Morgan, Frank
Morris, Chester
Mortensen, Vigo
Murray, Bill
N (3)
Neeson, Liam
Nolte, Nick
Norton, Edward
O (4)
O’Herlihy, Dan
Olmos, Edward James
O’Neal, Ryan
O’Toole, Peter
P (5)
Parks, Larry
Pidgeon, Walter
Pitt, Brad (winner of Supp. Actor)
Powell, William
Pryce, Jonathan
Q (1)
Quinn, Anthony (winner of 2 Supp. Actor)
R (6)
Rea, Stephen
Redford, Robert
Redgrave, Michael
Renner, Jeremy
Rooney, Mickey
Rourke, Mickey
S (7)
Scheider, Roy
Sellers, Peter
Sinatra, Frank
Smith, Will
Stallone, Sylvester
Stone, Lewis
Strathairn, David
T (7)
Thornton, Billy Bob
Tibbett, Lawrence
Todd, Richard
Tone, Franchot
Topol
Travolta, John
Troisi, Massimo
V (1)
Von Sydow, Max
W (12)
Waterston, Sam
Webb, Clifton
Welles, Orson
Werner, Oskar
Whitman, Stuart
Whitmore, James
Wilde, Cornell
Wilkinson, Tom
Williams, Robin (winner of Supp. Actor)
Winfield, Paul
Wood, James
Woolley, Monty
Y (1)
Yuen, Steven, Minari (2021)
April 21, 2022:
Deleted from List: Please add them to Best Actors nominated twice or more
Bardem, Javier (2000, 2021)
Cumberbatch, Benedict, 2014, 2021
Garfield, Andrew, 2010, 2021