The Best Actor Oscar winners of the 1980s
The top 3 according to 53 votes from people: Robert De Niro — Raging Bull · Ben Kingsley — Gandhi · Robert Duvall — Tender Mercies. (Updated Mar 22, 2026.)
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
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Robert De Niro — Raging Bull
1980 film. Boxer Jake LaMotta.
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Ben Kingsley — Gandhi
1982 film. Mahatma Gandhi.
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Robert Duvall — Tender Mercies
1983 film. A recovering country singer.
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Henry Fonda — On Golden Pond
1981 film. His only competitive Oscar, at 76.
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Paul Newman — The Color of Money
1986 film. 'Fast' Eddie Felson, 25 years on.
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Michael Douglas — Wall Street
1987 film. Gordon Gekko: 'Greed is good'.
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F. Murray Abraham — Amadeus
1984 film. Antonio Salieri.
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Dustin Hoffman — Rain Man
1988 film. Raymond Babbitt, an autistic savant.
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William Hurt — Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 film by Héctor Babenco. A prisoner in a South American jail.
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Daniel Day-Lewis — My Left Foot
1989 film. Painter Christy Brown.
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Comments (5)
Dustin Hoffman em Rain Man, inesquecível.
Daniel Day-Lewis em Meu Pé Esquerdo, o primeiro dos três.
Henry Fonda ganhou no fim da vida, emocionante.
F. Murray Abraham como Salieri, inesquecível.
De Niro em Touro Indomável, engordou 27 quilos pro papel.