Oscar voor beste mannelijke hoofdrol

De Oscar voor beste mannelijke hoofdrol (ook bekend als de Academy Award voor beste mannelijke hoofdrol, eerder de Oscar/Academy Award voor beste acteur genoemd) is een jaarlijkse prijs van de Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Het is een van de belangrijkste Oscars, voor de beste acteur in een hoofdrol van het voorgaande jaar. Welke acteurs daarvoor in aanmerking komen wordt bepaald door mensen die werkzaam zijn in de filmindustrie. Uiteindelijk worden er maximaal vijf bekendgemaakt die zijn genomineerd voor de prijs. Tijdens de jaarlijkse uitreiking wordt bekendgemaakt welke van deze vijf acteurs de prijs wint.

Winnaars en genomineerden

De winnaars staan bovenaan in vette letters op een gele achtergrond. De overige acteurs en films die werden genomineerd staan eronder vermeld in alfabetische volgorde.

1927-1929

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1927-28 (1ste)
	Emil Jannings	The Last Command en The Way of All Flesh
	Richard Barthelmess	The Noose en The Patent Leather Kid
1928-29 (2de)
	Warner Baxter	In Old Arizona
	George Bancroft	Thunderbolt
	Chester Morris	Alibi
	Paul Muni	The Valiant
	Lewis Stone	The Patriot

1930-1939

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1929-30 (3de)
	George Arliss	Disraeli
	George Arliss	The Green Goddess
	Wallace Beery	The Big House
	Maurice Chevalier	The Big Pond en The Love Parade
	Ronald Colman	Bulldog Drummond en Condemned
	Lawrence Tibbett	The Rogue Song
1930-31 (4de)
	Lionel Barrymore	A Free Soul
	Jackie Cooper	Skippy
	Richard Dix	Cimarron
	Fredric March	The Royal Family of Broadway
	Adolphe Menjou	The Front Page
1931-32 (5de)
	Fredric March	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
	Wallace Beery	The Champ
	Alfred Lunt	The Guardsman
1932-33 (6de)
	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII
	Leslie Howard	Berkeley Square
	Paul Muni	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1934 (7de)
	Clark Gable	It Happened One Night
	Frank Morgan	The Affairs of Cellini
	William Powell	The Thin Man
1935 (8ste)
	Victor McLaglen	The Informer
	Clark Gable	Mutiny on the Bounty
	Charles Laughton	Mutiny on the Bounty
	Paul Muni	Black Fury
	Franchot Tone	Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 (9de)
	Paul Muni	The Story of Louis Pasteur
	Gary Cooper	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
	Walter Huston	Dodsworth
	William Powell	My Man Godfrey
	Spencer Tracy	San Francisco
1937 (10de)
	Spencer Tracy	Captains Courageous
	Charles Boyer	Conquest
	Fredric March	A Star Is Born
	Robert Montgomery	Night Must Fall
	Paul Muni	The Life of Emile Zola
1938 (11de)
	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town
	Charles Boyer	Algiers
	James Cagney	Angels with Dirty Faces
	Robert Donat	The Citadel
	Leslie Howard	Pygmalion
1939 (12de)
	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
	Clark Gable	Gone with the Wind
	Laurence Olivier	Wuthering Heights
	Mickey Rooney	Babes in Arms
	James Stewart	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1940-1949

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1940 (13de)
	James Stewart	The Philadelphia Story
	Charlie Chaplin	The Great Dictator
	Henry Fonda	The Grapes of Wrath
	Raymond Massey	Abe Lincoln in Illinois
	Laurence Olivier	Rebecca
1941 (14de)
	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York
	Cary Grant	Penny Serenade
	Walter Huston	The Devil and Daniel Webster
	Robert Montgomery	Here Comes Mr. Jordan
	Orson Welles	Citizen Kane
1942 (15de)
	James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy
	Ronald Colman	Random Harvest
	Gary Cooper	The Pride of the Yankees
	Walter Pidgeon	Mrs. Miniver
	Monty Woolley	The Pied Piper
1943 (16de)
	Paul Lukas	Watch on the Rhine
	Humphrey Bogart	Casablanca
	Gary Cooper	For Whom the Bell Tolls
	Walter Pidgeon	Madame Curie
	Mickey Rooney	The Human Comedy
1944 (17de)
	Bing Crosby	Going My Way
	Charles Boyer	Gaslight
	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way
	Cary Grant	None But the Lonely Heart
	Alexander Knox	Wilson
1945 (18de)
	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend
	Bing Crosby	The Bells of St. Mary's
	Gene Kelly	Anchors Aweigh
	Gregory Peck	The Keys of the Kingdom
	Cornel Wilde	A Song to Remember
1946 (19de)
	Fredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives
	Laurence Olivier	Henry V
	Larry Parks	The Jolson Story
	Gregory Peck	The Yearling
	James Stewart	It's a Wonderful Life
1947 (20ste)
	Ronald Colman	A Double Life
	John Garfield	Body and Soul
	Gregory Peck	Gentleman's Agreement
	Michael Redgrave	Mourning Becomes Electra
	William Powell	Life with Father
1948 (21ste)
	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet
	Lew Ayres	Johnny Belinda
	Montgomery Clift	The Search
	Dan Dailey	When My Baby Smiles at Me
	Clifton Webb	Sitting Pretty
1949 (22ste)
	Broderick Crawford	All the King's Men
	Kirk Douglas	Champion
	Gregory Peck	Twelve O'Clock High
	Richard Todd	The Hasty Heart
	John Wayne	Sands of Iwo Jima

1950-1959

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1950 (23ste)
	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Louis Calhern	The Magnificent Yankee
	William Holden	Sunset Blvd.
	James Stewart	Harvey
	Spencer Tracy	Father of the Bride
1951 (24ste)
	Humphrey Bogart	The African Queen
	Marlon Brando	A Streetcar Named Desire
	Montgomery Clift	A Place in the Sun
	Arthur Kennedy	Bright Victory
	Fredric March	Death of a Salesman
1952 (25ste)
	Gary Cooper	High Noon
	Marlon Brando	Viva Zapata!
	Kirk Douglas	The Bad and the Beautiful
	José Ferrer	Moulin Rouge
	Alec Guinness	The Lavender Hill Mob
1953 (26ste)
	William Holden	Stalag 17
	Marlon Brando	Julius Caesar
	Richard Burton	The Robe
	Montgomery Clift	From Here to Eternity
	Burt Lancaster	From Here to Eternity
1954 (27ste)
	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront
	Humphrey Bogart	The Caine Mutiny
	Bing Crosby	The Country Girl
	James Mason	A Star Is Born
	Dan O'Herlihy	The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1955 (28ste)
	Ernest Borgnine	Marty
	James Cagney	Love Me or Leave Me
	James Dean	East of Eden
	Frank Sinatra	The Man with the Golden Arm
	Spencer Tracy	Bad Day at Black Rock
1956 (29ste)
	Yul Brynner	The King and I
	James Dean	Giant
	Kirk Douglas	Lust for Life
	Rock Hudson	Giant
	Laurence Olivier	Richard III
1957 (30ste)
	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai
	Marlon Brando	Sayonara
	Anthony Franciosa	A Hatful of Rain
	Charles Laughton	Witness for the Prosecution
	Anthony Quinn	Wild Is the Wind
1958 (31ste)
	David Niven	Separate Tables
	Tony Curtis	The Defiant Ones
	Paul Newman	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
	Sidney Poitier	The Defiant Ones
	Spencer Tracy	The Old Man and the Sea
1959 (32ste)
	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hur
	Laurence Harvey	Room at the Top
	Jack Lemmon	Some Like It Hot
	Paul Muni	The Last Angry Man
	James Stewart	Anatomy of a Murder

1960-1969

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1960 (33ste)
	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry
	Trevor Howard	Sons and Lovers
	Jack Lemmon	The Apartment
	Laurence Olivier	The Entertainer
	Spencer Tracy	Inherit the Wind
1961 (34ste)
	Maximilian Schell	Judgment at Nuremberg
	Charles Boyer	Fanny
	Paul Newman	The Hustler
	Spencer Tracy	Judgment at Nuremberg
	Stuart Whitman	The Mark
1962 (35ste)
	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird
	Burt Lancaster	Birdman of Alcatraz
	Jack Lemmon	Days of Wine and Roses
	Marcello Mastroianni	Divorzio all'italiana
	Peter O'Toole	Lawrence of Arabia
1963 (36ste)
	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field
	Albert Finney	Tom Jones
	Richard Harris	This Sporting Life
	Rex Harrison	Cleopatra
	Paul Newman	Hud
1964 (37ste)
	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady
	Richard Burton	Becket
	Peter O'Toole	Becket
	Anthony Quinn	Zorba the Greek
	Peter Sellers	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965 (38ste)
	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou
	Richard Burton	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
	Laurence Olivier	Othello
	Rod Steiger	The Pawnbroker
	Oskar Werner	Ship of Fools
1966 (39ste)
	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons
	Alan Arkin	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
	Richard Burton	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	Michael Caine	Alfie
	Steve McQueen	The Sand Pebbles
1967 (40ste)
	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night
	Warren Beatty	Bonnie and Clyde
	Dustin Hoffman	The Graduate
	Paul Newman	Cool Hand Luke
	Spencer Tracy	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1968 (41ste)
	Cliff Robertson	Charly
	Alan Arkin	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
	Alan Bates	The Fixer
	Ron Moody	Oliver!
	Peter O'Toole	The Lion in Winter
1969 (42ste)
	John Wayne	True Grit
	Richard Burton	Anne of the Thousand Days
	Dustin Hoffman	Midnight Cowboy
	Peter O'Toole	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
	Jon Voight	Midnight Cowboy

1970-1979

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1970 (43ste)
	George C. Scott	Patton
	Melvyn Douglas	I Never Sang for My Father
	James Earl Jones	The Great White Hope
	Jack Nicholson	Five Easy Pieces
	Ryan O'Neal	Love Story
1971 (44ste)
	Gene Hackman	The French Connection
	Peter Finch	Sunday Bloody Sunday
	Walter Matthau	Kotch
	George C. Scott	The Hospital
	Topol	Fiddler on the Roof
1972 (45ste)
	Marlon Brando	The Godfather
	Michael Caine	Sleuth
	Laurence Olivier	Sleuth
	Peter O'Toole	The Ruling Class
	Paul Winfield	Sounder
1973 (46ste)
	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger
	Marlon Brando	Last Tango in Paris
	Jack Nicholson	The Last Detail
	Al Pacino	Serpico
	Robert Redford	The Sting
1974 (47ste)
	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto
	Albert Finney	Murder on the Orient Express
	Dustin Hoffman	Lenny
	Jack Nicholson	Chinatown
	Al Pacino	The Godfather Part II
1975 (48ste)
	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
	Walter Matthau	The Sunshine Boys
	Al Pacino	Dog Day Afternoon
	Maximilian Schell	The Man in the Glass Booth
	James Whitmore	Give 'em Hell, Harry!
1976 (49ste)
	Peter Finch	Network
	Robert De Niro	Taxi Driver
	Giancarlo Giannini	Seven Beauties
	William Holden	Network
	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky
1977 (50ste)
	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl
	Woody Allen	Annie Hall
	Richard Burton	Equus
	Marcello Mastroianni	A Special Day
	John Travolta	Saturday Night Fever
1978 (51ste)
	Jon Voight	Coming Home
	Warren Beatty	Heaven Can Wait
	Gary Busey	The Buddy Holly Story
	Robert De Niro	The Deer Hunter
	Laurence Olivier	The Boys from Brazil
1979 (52ste)
	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs. Kramer
	Jack Lemmon	The China Syndrome
	Roy Scheider	All That Jazz
	Peter Sellers	Being There
	Al Pacino	...And Justice for All

1980-1989

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1980 (53ste)
	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull
	Robert Duvall	The Great Santini
	John Hurt	The Elephant Man
	Jack Lemmon	Tribute
	Peter O'Toole	The Stunt Man
1981 (54ste)
	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond
	Warren Beatty	Reds
	Burt Lancaster	Atlantic City
	Dudley Moore	Arthur
	Paul Newman	Absence of Malice
1982 (55ste)
	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi
	Dustin Hoffman	Tootsie
	Jack Lemmon	Missing
	Paul Newman	The Verdict
	Peter O'Toole	My Favorite Year
1983 (56ste)
	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies
	Michael Caine	Educating Rita
	Tom Conti	Reuben, Reuben
	Tom Courtenay	The Dresser
	Albert Finney	The Dresser
1984 (57ste)
	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus
	Jeff Bridges	Starman
	Albert Finney	Under the Volcano
	Tom Hulce	Amadeus
	Sam Waterston	The Killing Fields
1985 (58ste)
	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman
	Harrison Ford	Witness
	James Garner	Murphy's Romance
	Jack Nicholson	Prizzi's Honor
	Jon Voight	Runaway Train
1986 (59ste)
	Paul Newman	The Color of Money
	Dexter Gordon	'Round Midnight
	Bob Hoskins	Mona Lisa
	William Hurt	Children of a Lesser God
	James Woods	Salvador
1987 (60ste)
	Michael Douglas	Wall Street
	William Hurt	Broadcast News
	Marcello Mastroianni	Dark Eyes
	Jack Nicholson	Ironweed
	Robin Williams	Good Morning, Vietnam
1988 (61ste)
	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man
	Gene Hackman	Mississippi Burning
	Tom Hanks	Big
	Edward James Olmos	Stand and Deliver
	Max von Sydow	Pelle the Conqueror
1989 (62ste)
	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot
	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V
	Tom Cruise	Born on the Fourth of July
	Morgan Freeman	Driving Miss Daisy
	Robin Williams	Dead Poets Society

1990-1999

Jaar	Acteur	Film
1990 (63ste)
	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune
	Kevin Costner	Dances with Wolves
	Robert De Niro	Awakenings
	Gérard Depardieu	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Richard Harris	The Field
1991 (64ste)
	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs
	Warren Beatty	Bugsy
	Robert De Niro	Cape Fear
	Nick Nolte	The Prince of Tides
	Robin Williams	The Fisher King
1992 (65ste)
	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman
	Robert Downey jr.	Chaplin
	Clint Eastwood	Unforgiven
	Stephen Rea	The Crying Game
	Denzel Washington	Malcolm X
1993 (66ste)
	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia
	Daniel Day-Lewis	In the Name of the Father
	Laurence Fishburne	What's Love Got to Do with It
	Anthony Hopkins	The Remains of the Day
	Liam Neeson	Schindler's List
1994 (67ste)
	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump
	Morgan Freeman	The Shawshank Redemption
	Nigel Hawthorne	The Madness of King George
	Paul Newman	Nobody's Fool
	John Travolta	Pulp Fiction
1995 (68ste)
	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas
	Richard Dreyfuss	Mr. Holland's Opus
	Anthony Hopkins	Nixon
	Sean Penn	Dead Man Walking
	Massimo Troisi	The Postman (Il Postino)
1996 (69ste)
	Geoffrey Rush	Shine
	Tom Cruise	Jerry Maguire
	Ralph Fiennes	The English Patient
	Woody Harrelson	The People vs. Larry Flynt
	Billy Bob Thornton	Sling Blade
1997 (70ste)
	Jack Nicholson	As Good as It Gets
	Matt Damon	Good Will Hunting
	Robert Duvall	The Apostle
	Peter Fonda	Ulee's Gold
	Dustin Hoffman	Wag the Dog
1998 (71ste)
	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful
	Tom Hanks	Saving Private Ryan
	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters
	Nick Nolte	Affliction
	Edward Norton	American History X
1999 (72ste)
	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty
	Russell Crowe	The Insider
	Richard Farnsworth	The Straight Story
	Sean Penn	Sweet and Lowdown
	Denzel Washington	The Hurricane

2000-2009

Jaar	Acteur	Film
2000 (73ste)
	Russell Crowe	Gladiator
	Javier Bardem	Before Night Falls
	Tom Hanks	Cast Away
	Ed Harris	Pollock
	Geoffrey Rush	Quills
2001 (74ste)
	Denzel Washington	Training Day
	Russell Crowe	A Beautiful Mind
	Sean Penn	I Am Sam
	Will Smith	Ali
	Tom Wilkinson	In the Bedroom
2002 (75ste)
	Adrien Brody	The Pianist
	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation.
	Michael Caine	The Quiet American
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York
	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt
2003 (76ste)
	Sean Penn	Mystic River
	Johnny Depp	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog
	Jude Law	Cold Mountain
	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation
2004 (77ste)
	Jamie Foxx	Ray
	Don Cheadle	Hotel Rwanda
	Johnny Depp	Finding Neverland
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Aviator
	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
2005 (78ste)
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote
	Terrence Howard	Hustle & Flow
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain
	Joaquin Phoenix	Walk the Line
	David Strathairn	Good Night, and Good Luck
2006 (79ste)
	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Blood Diamond
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson
	Peter O'Toole	Venus
	Will Smith	The Pursuit of Happyness
2007 (80ste)
	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton
	Johnny Depp	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Tommy Lee Jones	In the Valley of Elah
	Viggo Mortensen	Eastern Promises
2008 (81ste)
	Sean Penn	Milk
	Richard Jenkins	The Visitor
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon
	Brad Pitt	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler
2009 (82ste)
	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart
	George Clooney	Up in the Air
	Colin Firth	A Single Man
	Morgan Freeman	Invictus
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker

2010-2019

Jaar	Acteur	Film
2010 (83ste)
	Colin Firth	The King's Speech
	Javier Bardem	Biutiful
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network
	James Franco	127 Hours
2011 (84ste)
	Jean Dujardin	The Artist
	Demián Bichir	A Better Life
	George Clooney	The Descendants
	Gary Oldman	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
	Brad Pitt	Moneyball
2012 (85ste)
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln
	Bradley Cooper	Silver Linings Playbook
	Hugh Jackman	Les Misérables
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master
	Denzel Washington	Flight
2013 (86ste)
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club
	Christian Bale	American Hustle
	Bruce Dern	Nebraska
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Wolf of Wall Street
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave
2014 (87ste)
	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything
	Steve Carell	Foxcatcher
	Bradley Cooper	American Sniper
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game
	Michael Keaton	Birdman
2015 (88ste)
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant
	Bryan Cranston	Trumbo
	Matt Damon	The Martian
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne	The Danish Girl
2016 (89ste)
	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea
	Andrew Garfield	Hacksaw Ridge
	Ryan Gosling	La La Land
	Viggo Mortensen	Captain Fantastic
	Denzel Washington	Fences
2017 (90ste)
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out
	Denzel Washington	Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 (91ste)
	Rami Malek	Bohemian Rhapsody
	Christian Bale	Vice
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born
	Willem Dafoe	At Eternity's Gate
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book
2019 (92ste)
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker
	Antonio Banderas	Pain and Glory
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Adam Driver	Marriage Story
	Jonathan Pryce	The Two Popes

2020-2029

Jaar	Acteur	Film
2020 (93ste)
	Anthony Hopkins	The Father
	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal
	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Gary Oldman	Mank
	Steven Yeun	Minari
2021 (94ste)
	Will Smith	King Richard
	Javier Bardem	Being the Ricardos
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Power of the Dog
	Andrew Garfield	Tick, Tick... Boom!
	Denzel Washington	The Tragedy of Macbeth
2022 (95ste)
	Brendan Fraser	The Whale
	Austin Butler	Elvis
	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun
	Bill Nighy	Living
2023 (96ste)
	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer
	Bradley Cooper	Maestro
	Colman Domingo	Rustin
	Paul Giamatti	The Holdovers
	Jeffrey Wright	American Fiction
2024 (97ste)
	Adrien Brody	The Brutalist
	Timothée Chalamet	A Complete Unknown
	Colman Domingo	Sing Sing
	Ralph Fiennes	Conclave
	Sebastian Stan	The Apprentice

Recordhouders

In de geschiedenis van de Academy Awards won alleen Daniel Day-Lewis drie keer de trofee voor beste acteur. Spencer Tracy was de eerste acteur die de trofee meer dan één keer won.

Drie trofeeën voor beste acteur:

• Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2007, 2012)

De onderstaande acteurs wonnen de prijs twee keer (alfabetisch):

• Adrien Brody (2002, 2024)
• Marlon Brando (1954, 1972)
• Gary Cooper (1941, 1952)
• Tom Hanks (1993, 1994)
• Dustin Hoffman (1979, 1988)
• Anthony Hopkins (1991, 2020)
• Fredric March (1932, 1946)
• Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997)
• Sean Penn (2003, 2008)
• Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938)

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