Best Actor Oscars Quiz

Best Actor Oscars Quiz takes you right to the heart of Oscar drama and legacy. In 1973, Marlon Brando made headlines not for winning, but for refusing his Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather. Instead, he sent activist Sacheen Littlefeather to decline it on live TV, in protest against Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. The move stunned the audience and remains one of the boldest moments in Oscar history. Brando wasn’t just a performer, he was a protester with a global stage. If you’re fascinated by these unforgettable moments and iconic roles, this quiz on Oscar Best Actor winners will test your knowledge of the men behind some of cinema’s most powerful performances.

Best Actor Oscars

For which film did Jack Nicholson win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Chinatown

As Good as It Gets

The Shining

Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor posthumously?

Heath Ledger

Peter Finch

James Dean

Philip Seymour Hoffman

For which movie did Leonardo DiCaprio win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?

Titanic

The Wolf of Wall Street

Blood Diamond

The Revenant

For which film did Al Pacino win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?

The Godfather

Dog Day Afternoon

Scent of a Woman

Scarface

Who won Best Actor for the role of “Andrew Beckett” in “Philadelphia”?

Denzel Washington

Morgan Freeman

Tom Hanks

Kevin Spacey

For which of the following three films did Daniel Day-Lewis win the Academy Award for Best Actor?

My Left Foot, Lincoln, There Will Be Blood

Gangs of New York, Phantom Thread, Lincoln

The Boxer, My Left Foot, Gangs of New York

There Will Be Blood, The Last of the Mohicans, Lincoln

Who was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor?

Morgan Freeman

Sidney Poitier

Denzel Washington

James Earl Jones

Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Taron Egerton as Elton John

Christian Bale as Dick Cheney

Austin Butler as Elvis Presley

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury

Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for portraying Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour?

Colin Firth

Gary Oldman

Anthony Hopkins

Michael Caine

Who won the Best Actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything?

Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln

Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking

Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson

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Sample Questions from This Quiz

For which film did Jack Nicholson win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?
Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor posthumously?
For which movie did Leonardo DiCaprio win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?
For which film did Al Pacino win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?
Who won Best Actor for the role of “Andrew Beckett” in “Philadelphia”?

Try the full quiz and see how many of these you can answer!