Brendan Fraser Wins Best Actor Oscar For ‘The Whale’: Plus, All The Winners Since 2000

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Jimmy Kimmel
95th Annual Academy Awards, Show, Los Angeles, California, USA - 12 Mar 2023

Brendan Fraser is officially an Oscar winner! The 54-year-old prima won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his relation successful The Whale at the 95th Academy Awards connected March 12. He bushed chap nominees Austin Butler (Elvis), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Paul Mescal (Aftersun), and Bill Nighy (Living).

So galore talented actors person won large astatine past Academy Awards. Emil Jannings was the archetypal to triumph Best Actor astatine the 1929 Oscars. Since then, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Sean Penn, and much person taken location the golden for their revered performances. Take a locomotion down representation lane by revisiting the Academy Award for Best Actor winners astatine the Oscars since 2000 below.

Will Smith (2022)

Will played Richard Williams, begetter and tennis manager of Serena and Venus Williams, successful his Oscar-winning performance. He got precise affectional erstwhile accepting his grant for King Richard, astir apt due to the fact that it happened aft his incidental with Chris Rock. “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” Will said. “In this clip of my life, successful this moment, I americium overwhelmed by what God is calling connected maine to bash and beryllium successful this world. I’m being called connected successful my beingness to emotion radical and to support radical and to beryllium a stream to my people. I cognize to bash what we bash you got to beryllium capable to instrumentality abuse. You got to person radical speech brainsick astir you. In this concern you got to beryllium capable to person radical disrespecting you. You gotta grin and unreal similar that’s okay. I wanna beryllium a vas for love.”

Will went on, “I want to apologize to the academy, I privation to apologize to each my chap nominees.” He added, “Art imitates life. I look similar the brainsick begetter conscionable similar they said astir Richard Williams. Love volition marque you bash brainsick things.” He concluded his code by joking that helium hopes the Academy invites him back.

Will Smith: "I privation to apologize to the Academy and I privation to apologize to each my chap nominees — this is simply a beauteous infinitesimal and I'm not crying astir winning an award…it's astir being capable to radiance light."#Oscars https://t.co/EViXaQY1NZ pic.twitter.com/NhyqzDtkf0

— Good Morning America (@GMA) March 28, 2022

Will was nominated for Best Actor astatine the Oscars doubly before. The archetypal clip was astatine the 2022 Academy Awards for his show in Ali. He mislaid to Denzel Washington for Training Day. Will was nominated 5 years aboriginal for The Pursuit of Happyness, but helium got bushed by chap nominee Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland.

Anthony Hopkins (2021)

Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for his relation successful Florian Zeller‘s drama The Father. He played Anthony, an aging antheral who struggles with progressing dementia. Olivia Colman plays his caring daughter, Anne. Anthony won the class over Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Gary Oldman (Mank), and Steven Yeun (Minari). Anthony became the oldest recipient for Best Actor astatine property 83. It was his 2nd Best Actor triumph after The Silence of the Lambs in 1992.

Joaquin Phoenix (2020)

Joaquin Phoenix deservedly got his Best Actor Oscar for playing Batman’s astir iconic villain in Joker. His show was universally praised by viewers and critics and assistance catapult Todd Phillips‘ movie to immense container bureau numbers. He took location the golden over Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time successful Hollywood), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes). Joaquin hadn’t won an Oscar before Joker.

Rami Malek (2019)

Rami Malek had an unforgettable show arsenic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Rami flawless portrayed Freddie from erstwhile helium formed the iconic set successful 1975 to their 1985 Live Aid performance. He besides covered Freddie’s AIDS diagnosis and narration with Mary Austin, played by Rami’s real-life partner Lucy Boynton. The different Best Actor nominees astatine the 2019 Oscars were Christian Bale (Vice), Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born), Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate), and Viggo Mortensen (Green Book). Rami became a first-time Oscar victor that night.

Gary Oldman (2018)

Gary Oldman was victorious over Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), and Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq) for Best Actor astatine the 2018 Oscars. The Academy rewarded Gary for his epic portrayal of Winston Churchill successful the warfare film Darkest Hour. The movie covered Winston’s clip arsenic U.K. Prime Minister during World War II. Gary besides won astatine the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the BAFTA Awards for Darkest Hour. It was his archetypal Best Actor Oscar.

Casey Affleck (2017)

Casey Affleck played a depressed antheral who has to attraction for his precocious brother’s lad in Manchester by the Sea. The member of Ben Affleck swept awards play that twelvemonth and beat Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge), Ryan Gosling (La La Land), Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic), and Denzel Washington (Fences) for the Oscar. Casey was antecedently nominated for an Academy Award successful the Best Supporting Actor class for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but Manchester by the Sea was his archetypal triumph and successful the coveted Best Actor category.

Leonardo DiCaprio (2016)

Leonardo DiCaprio FINALLY won an Oscar acknowledgment to the endurance play flick The Revenant. He was awarded Best Actor for playing frontiersman Hugh Glass, who seeks revenge aft being abandoned during a terrifying carnivore attack. Leonardo’s Best Actor opponents that twelvemonth were Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Matt Damon (The Martian), Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs), and Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl). He was a four-time histrion nominee before The Revenant won him the iconic statue.

Eddie Redmayne (2015)

Eddie Redmayne stole the amusement arsenic Stephen Hawking successful the biopic The Theory of Everything. He was joined connected the surface by Felicity Jones arsenic Stephen’s woman Jane, and Charlie Cox arsenic Jane’s 2nd husband, Jonathan Jones. It was Eddie’s archetypal information and archetypal triumph successful the Best Actor category. Fellow nominees included Steve Carell (Foxcatcher), Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game), and Michael Keaton (Birdman).

Matthew McConaughey (2014)

The Academy perfectly loved Matthew McConaughey in the widely-popular Dallas Buyers Club. The Texas autochthonal played homophobe Ron Woodrof, who contracts AIDS successful the 1980s. Matthew’s Best Actor triumph was his first, and truthful acold his lone astatine the Oscars. He faced stiff contention from Christian Bale (American Hustle), Bruce Dean (Nebraska), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave).

Daniel Day-Lewis (2013)

Daniel Day-Lewis won his 3rd Best Actor Oscar for playing President Abraham Lincoln successful Steven Spielberg‘s critically acclaimed film, Lincoln. Daniel’s relation covered the last 4 months of Lincoln’s life, during which helium was dedicated to passing the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery. Lincoln was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won for Best Actor and Best Production Design. Daniel walked distant with the Oscar over Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables), Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) and Denzel Washington (Flight).

Jean Dujardin (2012)

The black-and-white soundless film The Artist got Jean Dujardin his archetypal Oscar. Jean, who became the archetypal French histrion to triumph the Academy Award for Best Actor, was celebrated for his show arsenic struggling movie prima George Valentin. He shared the surface with chap French histrion Berenice Bejo, who played Peppy Miller. Jean’s chap nominees were Demian Bichir (A Better Life), George Clooney (The Descendants), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Brad Pitt (Moneyball).

Colin Firth (2011)

Colin Firth wowed audiences arsenic King George VI successful the British humanities drama The King’s Speech. Colin’s royal quality forms a adjacent relationship with Australian code and connection therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) and they enactment unneurotic to make the archetypal wartime vigor broadcast aft the U.K. declares warfare connected Germany astatine the commencement of WW2. The King’s Speech earned 12 Oscar nominations and won four, including Best Actor and Best Picture. In the Best Actor category, Colin — who was antecedently nominated for 2010’s A Single Man — bushed retired Javier Bardem (Biutiful), Jeff Bridges (True Grit), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), and James Franco (127 Hours).

Jeff Bridges (2010)

Jeff Bridges couldn’t beryllium bushed astatine the 2010 Academy Awards acknowledgment to his relation successful Scott Cooper‘s Crazy Heart. Jeff starred arsenic as state singer-songwriter who is struggling successful his vocation and starts up a narration with a young writer played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Jeff was the fortunate victor implicit George Clooney (Up successful the Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker). Jeff was nominated for 4 Oscars before Crazy Heart.

Sean Penn (2009)

Sean Penn won his 2nd Oscar for playing cheery rights activistic and person Harvey Milk successful the biopic Milk. The groundbreaking movie was a precise antithetic relation for Sean, and helium perfectly nailed it. His show was bully capable to bushed Best Actor nominees Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler). Milk was besides nominated for Best Picture and won a 2nd Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Daniel Day-Lewis (2008)

Five years earlier Daniel Day-Lewis won his Oscar for Lincoln, helium took location his 2nd Academy Award successful the Best Actor class for the play drama There Will Be Blood. He starred arsenic Daniel Plainview, an oilman hellhole bent for wealthiness during Southern California’s lipid roar successful the precocious 19th/early 20th centuries. Daniel’s show received wide acclaim and catapulted to his large triumph against George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah), and Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises). Daniel’s archetypal Oscar was for playing Christy Brown successful 1989’s My Left Foot.

Forest Whitaker (2007)

Forest Whitaker‘s vocation boomed acknowledgment to his Oscar-winning show arsenic Ugandan subject serviceman Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. The humanities dram movie was told done the position of a Scottish doc played by James McAvoy. Forest was named Best Actor by The Academy implicit Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Peter O’Toole (Venus) and Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness). He hasn’t been recognized astatine the Oscars since, but helium has won awards for different roles astatine the Emmys, SAGs, and more.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman (2006)

The late Phillip Seymour Hoffman won for playing American novelist Truman Capote successful Bennett Miller’s biopic Capote. Phillip covered Truman’s travel penning his 1965 nonfiction book In Cold Blood. The movie was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Catherine Keener. Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow), Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain), Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line), and David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) rounded retired Phillip’s chap nominees. He was nominated for 3 much Oscars successful the Best Supporting Actor class earlier he passed away connected February 2, 2014 astatine the property of 46 from cause overdose.

Jamie Foxx (2005)

Jamie Foxx had a phenomenal show arsenic influential instrumentalist Ray Charles successful the biopic Ray. Jamie shined connected the surface alongside his co-stars Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Aunjanue Ellis, and Harry Lennix. It was his first, and truthful far, his lone Oscar win. Fellow nominees Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda), Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator), and Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) besides performed large successful their respective films. But nary were bully capable to instrumentality the Oscar from Jamie.

Sean Penn (2004)

Sean Penn acted his butt disconnected successful the neo-noir intelligence movie Mystic River. He played Jimmy Markum, a antheral struggling aft his girl is murdered. Clint Eastwood directed the movie and Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney, and Emmy Rossum besides star. Mystic River was Sean’s first-ever Oscar win. He bested Best Actor nominees Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean), Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Frog), Jude Law (Cold Mountain), and Bill Murray (Lost successful Translation).

Adrien Brody (2003)

Adrien Brody was the youngest Best Actor victor ever astatine 29 years old. He pulled disconnected a large upset implicit Nicolas Cage (Adaptation), Michael Caine (The Quiet American), Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) and Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt) acknowledgment to his enactment in The Pianist. The warfare movie was based connected Polish-Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman’s 1964 Holocaust memoir. Adrien’s show was acold and distant 1 of the champion parts of the critically acclaimed project.

Denzel Washington (2002)

Denzel Washington won his 2nd Oscar astatine the 2002 Academy Awards for playing Detective Sgt. Alonzo Harris in Training Day. He and Ethan Hawke‘s characters are LAPD narcotics officers (and corrupt cops) stationed successful unsafe neighbors successful Los Angeles. Denzel bushed Best Actor nominees Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), Sean Penn (I Am Sam), Will Smith (Ali), and Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom). Meanwhile, Ethan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor but mislaid to Jim Broadbent (Iris).

Russell Crowe (2001)

Russell Crowe‘s show in Gladiator was specified a assemblage pleaser. The Ridley Scott-directed movie followed Russell’s Roman wide Maximus Decimus Meridius becoming a gladiator to avenge the murders of his household and emperor. The classical movie earned Russell the Best Actor Oscar implicit Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls), Tom Hanks (Cast Away), Ed Harris (Pollock), and Geoffrey Rush (Quills). Russell is inactive a one-time Academy Award winner.

Kevin Spacey (2000)

Kevin Spacey has won 2 Oscars, the archetypal for the acheronian comedy-drama flick American Beauty. He starred arsenic Lester Burnham, an adverting enforcement who becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter’s BFF, played by Mena Suvari. HIs chap nominees were Russell Crowe (The Insider), Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story), Sean Penn (Sweet and Lowdown), and Denzel Washington (The Hurricane). Kevin’s archetypal Oscar was for Best Supporting Actor successful 1995’s The Usual Suspects. It’s improbable he’ll triumph again pursuing the sexual battle allegations that person kept him from working.