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Rarest Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor — All 87 Answers Ranked by Rarity

87 answers are accepted for “Name a winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor”. Warner Baxter is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in this ranking, with 49,004 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). George Arliss is the second-rarest with 57,975 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.18× the figure for Warner Baxter. Robert Duvall is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in this ranking, with 5,508,284 monthly Wikipedia views, 112.4× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 87 answers: 123,788,458. Warner Baxter is under 0.1% of that total. 18 answers are Epic or Legendary: Warner Baxter (Legendary), George Arliss (Legendary), Paul Lukas (Legendary), and 15 more.

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Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

87 answers to “Name a winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views
1 Warner Baxter on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 49,004
2 George Arliss on Wikipedia Legendary 0.988 57,975
3 Paul Lukas on Wikipedia Legendary 0.977 63,586
4 Emil Jannings on Wikipedia Legendary 0.965 64,314
5 Victor McLaglen on Wikipedia Legendary 0.953 112,184
6 Paul Muni on Wikipedia Legendary 0.942 124,729
7 Ronald Colman on Wikipedia Legendary 0.930 139,520
8 Robert Donat on Wikipedia Epic 0.919 144,470
9 Wallace Beery on Wikipedia Epic 0.907 154,582
10 Paul Scofield on Wikipedia Epic 0.895 157,750
11 Broderick Crawford on Wikipedia Epic 0.884 168,256
12 Fredric March on Wikipedia Epic 0.872 182,987
13 Jean Dujardin on Wikipedia Epic 0.860 183,041
14 Ray Milland on Wikipedia Epic 0.849 242,965
15 Art Carney on Wikipedia Epic 0.837 266,331
16 Maximilian Schell on Wikipedia Epic 0.826 267,187
17 Roberto Benigni on Wikipedia Epic 0.814 275,234
18 Peter Finch on Wikipedia Epic 0.802 289,013
19 José Ferrer on Wikipedia Rare 0.791 371,144
20 Charles Laughton on Wikipedia Rare 0.779 380,304
21 Rod Steiger on Wikipedia Rare 0.767 421,813
22 Rex Harrison on Wikipedia Rare 0.756 423,240
23 Cliff Robertson on Wikipedia Rare 0.744 425,509
24 Lionel Barrymore on Wikipedia Rare 0.733 433,889
25 James Cagney on Wikipedia Rare 0.721 549,199
26 George C. Scott on Wikipedia Rare 0.709 649,743
27 Geoffrey Rush on Wikipedia Rare 0.698 677,247
28 Spencer Tracy on Wikipedia Rare 0.686 689,337
29 Ernest Borgnine on Wikipedia Rare 0.674 707,301
30 Lee Marvin on Wikipedia Rare 0.663 754,359
31 Gary Cooper on Wikipedia Rare 0.651 754,545
32 William Holden on Wikipedia Rare 0.640 779,350
33 Burt Lancaster on Wikipedia Rare 0.628 800,900
34 Jack Lemmon on Wikipedia Rare 0.616 817,580
35 David Niven on Wikipedia Rare 0.605 828,135
36 F. Murray Abraham on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.593 846,094
37 Alec Guinness on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.581 890,962
38 Sidney Poitier on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.570 893,149
39 Forest Whitaker on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.558 949,672
40 Charlton Heston on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.547 1,022,267
41 Eddie Redmayne on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.535 1,049,663
42 Richard Dreyfuss on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.523 1,065,212
43 Laurence Olivier on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.512 1,103,586
44 Henry Fonda on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.500 1,112,018
45 Yul Brynner on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.488 1,117,139
46 William Hurt on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.477 1,141,464
47 Jamie Foxx on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.465 1,209,157
48 Clark Gable on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.453 1,274,910
49 Humphrey Bogart on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.442 1,319,387
50 Casey Affleck on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.430 1,325,120
51 Gregory Peck on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.419 1,344,345
52 Bing Crosby on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.407 1,371,397
53 Jeremy Irons on Wikipedia Familiar 0.395 1,468,783
54 Jeff Bridges on Wikipedia Familiar 0.384 1,478,804
55 Colin Firth on Wikipedia Familiar 0.372 1,658,689
56 Dustin Hoffman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.360 1,721,448
57 Adrien Brody on Wikipedia Familiar 0.349 1,739,938
58 Gene Hackman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.337 1,789,305
59 Ben Kingsley on Wikipedia Familiar 0.326 1,852,825
60 John Wayne on Wikipedia Familiar 0.314 1,929,095
61 Jon Voight on Wikipedia Familiar 0.302 1,957,623
62 Paul Newman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.291 1,991,877
63 James Stewart on Wikipedia Familiar 0.279 2,029,291
64 Kevin Spacey on Wikipedia Familiar 0.267 2,069,004
65 Russell Crowe on Wikipedia Familiar 0.256 2,083,440
66 Anthony Hopkins on Wikipedia Familiar 0.244 2,156,326
67 Daniel Day-Lewis on Wikipedia Familiar 0.233 2,174,420
68 Joaquin Phoenix on Wikipedia Familiar 0.221 2,195,217
69 Michael Douglas on Wikipedia Familiar 0.209 2,214,784
70 Will Smith on Wikipedia Common 0.198 2,256,319
71 Philip Seymour Hoffman on Wikipedia Common 0.186 2,419,494
72 Rami Malek on Wikipedia Common 0.174 2,505,170
73 Denzel Washington on Wikipedia Common 0.163 2,564,227
74 Marlon Brando on Wikipedia Common 0.151 2,566,962
75 Gary Oldman on Wikipedia Common 0.140 2,768,291
76 Jack Nicholson on Wikipedia Common 0.128 2,802,784
77 Brendan Fraser on Wikipedia Common 0.116 2,908,645
78 Al Pacino on Wikipedia Common 0.105 3,067,358
79 Cillian Murphy on Wikipedia Common 0.093 3,172,945
80 Tom Hanks on Wikipedia Common 0.081 3,295,032
81 Robert De Niro on Wikipedia Common 0.070 3,339,203
82 Nicolas Cage on Wikipedia Common 0.058 3,389,713
83 Matthew McConaughey on Wikipedia Common 0.047 3,598,798
84 Sean Penn on Wikipedia Common 0.035 3,625,335
85 Michael B. Jordan on Wikipedia Common 0.023 4,301,167
86 Leonardo DiCaprio on Wikipedia Common 0.012 4,745,597
87 Robert Duvall on Wikipedia Common 0.000 5,508,284

FAQ

What is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor?

Warner Baxter is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in this ranking, with 49,004 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many winner of the Academy Award for Best Actors are there?

There are 87 winner of the Academy Award for Best Actors in this ranking, from Warner Baxter (rarest) to Robert Duvall (most common).

What is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor?

Robert Duvall is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in this ranking, with 5,508,284 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.