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Can you name the Best Actor Oscar Nominations from 1970-2012?

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1970
Patton* 
I Never Sang for My Father 
The Great White Hope 
Five Easy Pieces 
Love Story 
1971
The French Connection* 
Sunday Bloody Sunday 
Kotch 
The Hospital 
Fiddler on the Roof 
1972
The Godfather* 
Sleuth 
Sleuth 
The Ruling Class 
Sounder 
1973
Save the Tiger* 
The Last Tango in Paris 
The Last Detail 
Serpico 
The Sting 
1974
Harry and Tonto* 
Murder on the Orient Express 
Lenny 
Chinatown 
The Godfather Part II 
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* 
The Sunshine Boys 
Dog Day Afternoon 
The Man in the Glass Booth 
Give 'em Hell, Harry! 
1976
Network* 
Taxi Driver 
Seven Beauties 
Network 
Rocky 
1977
The Goodbye Girl* 
Annie Hall 
Equus 
A Special Day 
Saturday Night Fever 
1978
Coming Home* 
Heaven Can Wait 
The Buddy Holly Story 
The Deer Hunter 
The Boys from Brazil 
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer* 
The China Syndrome 
...And Justice for All 
All That Jazz 
Being There 
1980
Raging Bull* 
The Great Santini 
The Elephant Man 
Tribute 
The Stunt Man 
1981
On Golden Pond* 
Reds 
Atlantic City 
Arthur 
Absence of Malice 
1982
Gandhi* 
Tootsie 
Missing 
The Verdict 
My Favorite Year 
1983
Tender Mercies* 
Educating Rita 
Reuben, Reuben 
The Dresser 
The Dresser 
1984
Amadeus* 
Starman 
Under the Volcano 
Amadeus 
The Killing Fields 
1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman* 
Witness 
Murphy's Romance 
Prizzi's Honor 
Runaway Train 
1986
The Color of Money* 
Round Midnight 
Mona Lisa 
Children of a Lesser God 
Salvador 
1987
Wall Street* 
Broadcast News 
Dark Eyes 
Ironweed 
Good Morning, Vietnam 
1988
Rain Man* 
Mississippi Burning 
Big 
Stand and Deliver 
Pelle the Conqueror 
1989
My Left Foot* 
Henry V 
Born on the Fourth of July 
Driving Miss Daisy 
Dead Poets Society 
1990
Reversal of Fortune* 
Dances with Wolves 
Awakenings 
Cyrano de Bergerac 
The Field 
1991
The Silence of the Lambs* 
Bugsy 
Cape Fear 
The Prince of Tides 
The Fisher King 
1992
Scent of a Woman* 
Chaplin 
Unforgiven 
The Crying Game 
Malcolm X 
1993
Philadelphia* 
In the Name of the Father 
What's Love Got to Do with It 
The Remains of the Day 
Schindler's List 
1994
Forrest Gump* 
The Shawshank Redemption 
The Madness of King George 
Nobody's Fool 
Pulp Fiction 
1995
Leaving Las Vegas* 
Mr. Holland's Opus 
Nixon 
Dead Man Walking 
Il Postino 
1996
Shine* 
Jerry Maguire 
The English Patient 
The People vs. Larry Flynt 
Sling Blade 
1997
As Good as It Gets* 
Good Will Hunting 
The Apostle 
Ulee's Gold 
Wag the Dog 
1998
Life is Beautiful* 
Saving Private Ryan 
Gods and Monsters 
Affliction 
American History X 
1999
American Beauty* 
The Insider 
The Straight Story 
Sweet and Lowdown 
The Hurricane 
2000
Gladiator* 
Before Night Falls 
Cast Away 
Pollock 
Quills 
2001
Training Day* 
A Beautiful Mind 
I Am Sam 
Ali 
In the Bedroom 
2002
The Pianist* 
Adaptation 
The Quiet American 
Gangs of New York 
About Schmidt 
2003
Mystic River* 
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 
House of Sand and Fog 
Cold Mountain 
Lost in Translation 
2004
Ray* 
Hotel Rwanda 
Finding Neverland 
The Aviator 
Million Dollar Baby 
2005
Capote* 
Hustle & Flow 
Brokeback Mountain 
Walk the Line 
Good Night, and Good Luck 
2006
The Last King of Scotland* 
Blood Diamond 
Half Nelson 
Venus 
The Pursuit of Happyness 
2007
There Will Be Blood* 
Michael Clayton 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 
In the Valley of Elah 
Eastern Promises 
2008
Milk* 
The Visitor 
Frost/Nixon 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
The Wrestler 
2009
Crazy Heart* 
Up in the Air 
A Single Man 
Invictus 
The Hurt Locker 
2010
The King's Speech* 
Biutiful 
True Grit 
The Social Network 
127 Hours 
2011
The Artist* 
A Better Life 
The Descendants 
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
Moneyball 
2012
Lincoln* 
Silver Linings Playbook 
Les Miserables 
The Master 
Flight 
2013
Dallas Buyers Club* 
American Hustle 
Nebraska 
The Wolf of Wall Street 
12 Years a Slave 
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