Academy Awards; Nominees and Winners - Leading Actor 2000-2009

Academy Awards: Nominees and Winners-Actor in a Leading Role 2000-2009

• 2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius (winner)
o Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
o Tom Hanks - Cast Away as Chuck Noland
o Ed Harris - Pollock as Jackson Pollock
o Geoffrey Rush - Quills as The Marquis de Sade

• 2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day as Alonzo Harris (winner)
o Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind as John Forbes Nash, Jr.
o Sean Penn - I Am Sam as Sam Dawson
o Will Smith - Ali as Muhammad Ali
o Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom as Dr. Matthew Fowler

• 2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman (winner)
o Nicolas Cage - Adaptation. as Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
o Michael Caine - The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
o Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
o Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt as Warren R. Schmidt

• 2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River as Jimmy Markum
o Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Captain Jack Sparrow
o Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog as Behrani
o Jude Law - Cold Mountain as Inman
o Bill Murray - Lost in Translation as Bob Harris

• 2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles (winner)
o Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
o Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland as Sir J.M. Barrie
o Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator as Howard Hughes
o Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby as Frankie Dunn

• 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote as Truman Capote (winner)
o Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow as Djay
o Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
o Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
o David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow

• 2006 Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin (winner)
o Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond as Danny Archer
o Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson as Dan Dunne
o Peter O'Toole - Venus as Maurice
o Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness as Chris Gardner

• 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview (winner)
o George Clooney - Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
o Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Sweeney Todd
o Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield
o Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin

• 2008 Sean Penn - Milk as Harvey Milk (winner)
o Richard Jenkins - The Visitor as Walter Vale
o Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
o Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
o Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson

• 2009 Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart as Otis "Bad" Blake (winner)
o George Clooney - Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
o Colin Firth - A Single Man as George Falconer
o Morgan Freeman - Invictus as Nelson Mandela
o Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker as SFC. William James

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