# The Best Actor Oscar winners of the 1980s

The actors who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for films from 1980 to 1989, among them William Hurt for the Brazilian-American Kiss of the Spider Woman.

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## Top 10

1. **Robert De Niro — Raging Bull** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — 1980 film. Boxer Jake LaMotta.
2. **Ben Kingsley — Gandhi** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1982 film. Mahatma Gandhi.
3. **Robert Duvall — Tender Mercies** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1983 film. A recovering country singer.
4. **Henry Fonda — On Golden Pond** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — 1981 film. His only competitive Oscar, at 76.
5. **Paul Newman — The Color of Money** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1986 film. 'Fast' Eddie Felson, 25 years on.
6. **Michael Douglas — Wall Street** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1987 film. Gordon Gekko: 'Greed is good'.
7. **F. Murray Abraham — Amadeus** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1984 film. Antonio Salieri.
8. **Dustin Hoffman — Rain Man** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1988 film. Raymond Babbitt, an autistic savant.
9. **William Hurt — Kiss of the Spider Woman** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1985 film by Héctor Babenco. A prisoner in a South American jail.
10. **Daniel Day-Lewis — My Left Foot** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1989 film. Painter Christy Brown.

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