With award season in full swing, the 97th Academy Awards are just weeks away and the 2025 Oscar race has already been dubbed as ‘pure chaos’, with a surprising number of controversies plaguing the nominees this year.1
With Conan O’Brien set to host and rumours swirling that Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are set to perform a surprise Wicked medley, the experts at Pinnacle were keen to uncover the most popular ‘Best Actor’ and ‘Best Actress’ Oscar winning speeches of the last 25 years.
The Most Popular ‘Best Actor and Actress’ Oscar Winning Speeches
| # | Actor | Character | Film | Views |
| 1. | Leonardo DiCaprio | Hugh Glass | The Revenant | 56,000,000 |
| 2. | Matthew McConaughey | Ron Woodroof | Dallas Buyers Club | 32,700,000 |
| 3. | Kate Winslet | Hanna Schmitz | The Reader | 20,000,000 |
| =4. | Jennifer Lawrence | Tiffany Maxwell | Silver Linings Playbook | 16,000,000 |
| =4. | Joaquin Phoenix | Arthur Fleck / Joker | Joker | 16,000,000 |
| 5. | Eddie Redmayne | Stephen Hawking | The Theory of Everything | 15,000,000 |
| =6. | Natalie Portman | Nina Sayers | Black Swan | 14,000,000 |
| =6. | Sandra Bullock | Leigh Anne Tuohy | The Blind Side | 14,000,000 |
| =7. | Emma Stone | Mia Dolan | La La Land | 11,000,000 |
| =7. | Rami Malek | Freddie Mercury | Bohemian Rhapsody | 11,000,000 |
| =7. | Russell Crowe | Maximus Decimus Meridius | Gladiator | 11,000,000 |
| 8. | Olivia Colman | Queen Anne | The Favourite | 8,800,000 |
| 9. | Daniel Day-Lewis | Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln | 8,100,000 |
| 10. | Brendan Fraser | Charlie | The Whale | 7,800,000 |
Pinnacle can reveal that Leonardo DiCaprio has the most popular Oscar winning speech of all time. The winning speech occurred when DiCaprio finally won Best Actor in 2016 for his leading role as Hugh Glass in The Revenant, with the speech racking up more than 56 million views on YouTube. DiCaprio received a standing ovation as he picked up his award, after five acting nominations, and was keen to use his moment to speak about climate change saying: “Climate change is real – it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.”
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