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Youngest Best Actor Winners
This list features the youngest actors to win Best Actor at the Academy Awards.
RANK | ACTOR | AGE | FILM | YEAR |
1 | Adrien Brody | 29 years, 343 days | The Pianist | 2002 |
2 | Richard Dreyfuss | 30 years, 156 days | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 |
3 | Marlon Brando | 30 years, 361 days | On the Waterfront | 1954 |
4 | Maximilian Schell | 31 years, 122 days | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 |
5 | Nicolas Cage | 32 years, 78 days | Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 |
6 | James Stewart | 32 years, 283 days | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 |
7 | Daniel Day-Lewis | 32 years, 331 days | My Left Foot | 1989 |
8 | Eddie Redmayne | 33 years, 47 days | The Theory of Everything | 2014 |
9 | Clark Gable | 34 years, 26 days | It Happened One Night | 1934 |
10 | Charles Laughton | 34 years, 258 days | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1932/33 |
References
Wikipedia (n.d.) List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest winners, Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_and_youngest_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees#Youngest_winners_2 (Accessed: 1 December 2025).
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