Best Actor Oscar Winners Since 2000

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Best nominated performances:
Russell Crowe = A Beautiful Mind
Daniel Day-Lewis = Gangs of New York
Nicolas Cage = Adaptation
Leonardo DiCaprio = The Aviator
Leonardo DiCaprio = Wolf of Wall Street
Leonardo DiCaprio = Hollywood
Don Cheadle = Hotel Rwanda
Viggo Mortensen = Eastern Promises
Viggo Mortensen = Green Book
Mickey Rourke = The Wrestler
Frank Langella = Frost/Nixon
Bradley Cooper = Silver Linings Playbook
Christian Bale = American Hustle / Vice
Bruce Dern = Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor = 12 Years A Slave
Michael Keaton = Birdman
Matt Damon = The Martian
Bryan Cranston = Trumbo
Daniel Kaluuya = Get Out
Adam Driver = Marriage Story
Riz Ahmed = Sound of Metal
Steven Yeun = Minari

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Russell Crowe should've won another one too for "A Beautiful Mind" (2001)

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1977: John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever 🕺
2010: Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

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2021: Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick… Boom)/ Will Smith (King Richard) tied

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2021: The nominees
Anthony Ramos (In The Heights)
Matt Damon (The Last Duel)
Who else?

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1994: Laurence Fisburne, What’s Love Got To Do With It?/ Tom Hanks, Philadelphia (Tied)

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The nominees of 2021:
Anthony Ramos (In The Heights)
Matt Damon (The Last Duel)
Bradley Cooper (Nightmare Alley or Soggy Bottom)
Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen)

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Here are the real winners for Best Actor:
1996: Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire
1997: Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting
2003: Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2005: Joaquin Phoenix, Walk The Line
2013: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club/ Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street (Tied)
2016: Ryan Gosling, La La Land/ Denzel Washington, Fences (Tied)
2020: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Posthumously 🙏🏽😇🙅🏽‍♂️❤️)