Oscars: Best Actor winners through the years (15 images)

By Wade Sheridan

The Academy Award for Best Actor is handed out each year at the Oscars. This year the nominees include Adrien Brody, Timothee Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Ralph Fiennes and Sebastian Stan. The Oscars are set to take place on Sunday. Here's a look back at Best Actor winners through the years.

Cillian Murphy celebrates backstage with his Best Actor Oscar for "Oppenheimer," one of the film's seven wins, which also included Best Picture, at the 96th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024. Photo by Pat Benic/UPI

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Brendan Fraser holds up the Best Actor Oscar he earned for "The Whale" as he arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 12, 2023. Photo by Chris Chew/UPI

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Will Smith holds his Oscar for Best Actor he earned for "King Richard" as he arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 27, 2022. Photo by Chris Chew/UPI

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Anthony Hopkins arrives on the red carpet at the premiere of "Transformers: The Last Knight" in Chicago on June 20, 2017. Hopkins won Best Actor in 2021 for his role in "The Father" after previously winning the award in 1991 for "The Silence of the Lambs." Photo by John Gress/UPI

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