In 1995, Tom Hanks became the second male actor to win the top prize two years in a row. The first was Spencer Tracy*, who won best actor of 1937 and 1938 (for Captains Courageous and Boys Town).
*FUN FACT - Katherine Hepburn**, Tracy's...(ahem)...best buddy, was the last female to win two consecutive acting Oscars.
**FUNNER FACT - Hepburn holds the all-time record for acting Oscar wins with four.
Goldie Hawn was not present at the 42nd Academy Awards to accept her Oscar, a fact which she told EW she regrets to this day: "It's something that I look back on now and think, 'It would have been so great to be able to have done that'".