Oscar Winners
From Wikipedia and Malaysiana1.
Best Actor
1928 Emil Jannings.
1929 Warner Baxter.
1930 George Arliss [first Asian, Finnish-British].
1931 Lionel Barrymore.
1932 Fredric March.
1933 Charles Laughton.
1934 Clark Gable.
1935 Victor McLaglen.
1936 Paul Muni.
1937 Spencer Tracy.
1938 Spencer Tracy.
1939 Robert Donat.
1940 James Stewart.
1941 Gary Cooper.
1942 James Cagney.
1943 Paul Lukas.
1944 Bing Crosby.
1945 Ray Milland.
1946 Fredric March.
1947 Ronald Colman.
1948 Laurence Olivier.
1949 Broderick Crawford.
1950 Jose Ferrer [first Native American].
1951 Humphrey Bogart.
1952 Gary Cooper.
1953 William Holden.
1954 Marlon Brando.
1955 Ernest Borgnine.
1956 Yul Brynner.
1957 Alec Guinness.
1958 David Niven.
1959 Charlton Heston.
1960 Burt Lancaster.
1961 Maximilian Schell.
1962 Gregory Peck.
1963 Sidney Poitier [first African American].
1964 Rex Harrison.
1965 Lee Marvin.
1966 Paul Scofield.
1967 Rod Steiger.
1968 Cliff Robertson.
1969 John Wayne.
1970 George C. Scott.
1971 Gene Hackman.
1972 Marlon Brando.
1973 Jack Lemmon.
1974 Art Carney.
1975 Jack Nicholson.
1976 Peter Finch.
1977 Richard Dreyfuss.
1978 Jon Voight.
1979 Dustin Hoffman.
1980 Robert De Niro.
1981 Henry Fonda.
1982 Ben Kingsley.
1983 Robert Duvall.
1984 F. Murray Abraham.
1985 William Hurt.
1986 Paul Newman.
1987 Michael Douglas.
1988 Dustin Hoffman.
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis.
1990 Jeremy Irons.
1991 Anthony Hopkins.
1992 Al Pacino.
1993 Tom Hanks.
1994 Tom Hanks.
1995 Nicolas Cage.
1996 Geoffrey Rush.
1997 Jack Nicholson.
1998 Roberto Benigni.
1999 Kevin Spacey.
2000 Russell Crowe.
2001 Denzel Washington.
2002 Adrien Brody.
2003 Sean Penn.
2004 Jamie Foxx.
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman.
2006 Forest Whitaker.
Best Actress.
1928 Janet Gaynor.
1929 Mary Pickford.
1930 Norma Shearer.
1931 Marie Dressler.
1932 Helen Hayes [first Asian, Finnish].
1933 Katharine Hepburn.
1934 Claudette Colbert.
1935 Bette Davis.
1936 Luise Rainer.
1937 Luise Rainer.
1938 Bette Davis.
1939 Vivien Leigh.
1940 Ginger Rogers.
1941 Joan Fontaine.
1942 Greer Garson.
1943 Jennifer Jones [first Native American].
1944 Ingrid Bergman.
1945 Joan Crawford.
1946 Olivia De Havilland.
1947 Loretta Young.
1948 Jane Wyman.
1949 Olivia De Havilland.
1950 Judy Holliday.
1951 Vivien Leigh.
1952 Shirley Booth.
1953 Audrey Hepburn.
1954 Grace Kelly.
1955 Anna Magnani.
1956 Ingrid Bergman.
1957 Joanne Woodward.
1958 Susan Hayward.
1959 Simone Signoret.
1960 Elizabeth Taylor.
1961 Sophia Loren.
1962 Anne Bancroft.
1963 Patricia Neal.
1964 Julie Andrews.
1965 Julie Christie.
1966 Elizabeth Taylor.
1967 Katharine Hepburn.
1968 Katharine Hepburn.
1969 Maggie Smith.
1970 Glenda Jackson.
1971 Jane Fonda.
1972 Liza Minnelli.
1973 Glenda Jackson.
1974 Ellen Burstyn.
1975 Louise Fletcher.
1976 Faye Dunaway.
1977 Diane Keaton.
1978 Jane Fonda.
1979 Sally Field.
1980 Sissy Spacek.
1981 Katharine Hepburn.
1982 Meryl Streep.
1983 Shirley MacLaine.
1984 Sally Field.
1985 Geraldine Page.
1986 Marlee Matlin.
1987 Cherilyn Sarkissian.
1988 Jodie Foster.
1989 Jessica Tandy.
1990 Kathy Bates.
1991 Jodie Foster.
1992 Emma Thompson.
1993 Holly Hunter.
1994 Jessica Lange.
1995 Susan Sarandon.
1996 Frances McDormand.
1997 Helen Hunt.
1998 Gwyneth Paltrow.
1999 Hilary Swank.
2000 Julia Roberts.
2001 Halle Berry [first African American].
2002 Nicole Kidman.
2003 Charlize Theron.
2004 Hilary Swank.
2005 Reese Witherspoon.
2006 Helen Mirren.
The first Asian Best Director was Lewis Milestone of Moldova (1929).