2005
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Capote
2003
Sean Penn
Mystic River
2002
Adrien Brody
The Pianist
2001
Denzel Washington
Training Day
2000
Russell Crowe
Gladiator
1999
Kevin Spacey
American Beauty
1998
Roberto Benigni
Vita è bella, La
1997
Jack Nicholson
As Good As It Gets
1996
Geoffrey Rush
Shine
1995
Nicolas Cage
Leaving Las Vegas
1994
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
1993
Philadelphia
1992
Al Pacino
Scent of a Woman
1991
Anthony Hopkins
Silence of the Lambs, The
1990
Jeremy Irons
Reversal of Fortune
1989
Daniel Day-Lewis
My Left Foot
1988
Dustin Hoffman
Rain Man
1987
Michael Douglas
Wall Street
1986
Paul Newman
Color of Money, The
1985
William Hurt
Kiss of the Spider Woman
1984
F. Murray Abraham
Amadeus
1983
Robert Duvall
Tender Mercies
1982
Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
1981
Henry Fonda
On Golden Pond
1980
Robert De Niro
Raging Bull
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer
1978
Jon Voight
Coming Home
1977
Richard Dreyfuss
Goodbye Girl, The
1976
Peter Finch
Network
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974
Art Carney
Harry and Tonto
1973
Jack Lemmon
Save the Tiger
1972
Marlon Brando
Godfather, The
1971
Gene Hackman
French Connection, The
1970
George C. Scott
Patton
1960
John Wayne
True Grit
1968
Cliff Robertson
Charly
1967
Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night
1966
Paul Scofield
Man for All Seasons, A
1965
Lee Marvin
Cat Ballou
1964
Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady
1963
Sidney Poitier
Lilies of the Field
1962
Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird
1961
Maximilian Schell
Judgment at Nuremberg
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
1950
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur
1958
David Niven
Separate Tables
1957
Alec Guinness
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
1956
Yul Brynner
King and I, The
1955
Ernest Borgnine
Marty
1954
On the Waterfront
1953
William Holden
Stalag 17
1952
Gary Cooper
High Noon
1951
Humphrey Bogart
African Queen, The
José Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac
1949
Broderick Crawford
All the King's Men
1948
Laurence Olivier
Hamlet
1947
Ronald Colman
Double Life, A
1946
Fredric March
Best Years of Our Lives, The
1945
Ray Milland
Lost Weekend, The
1944
Bing Crosby
Going My Way
1943
Paul Lukas
Watch on the Rhine
1942
James Cagney
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941
Sergeant York
1940
James Stewart
Philadelphia Story, The
1939
Robert Donat
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1938
Spencer Tracy
Boys Town
1937
Captains Courageous
1936
Paul Muni
Story of Louis Pasteur, The
1935
Victor McLaglen
Informer, The
1934
Clark Gable
It Happened One Night
1933
Charles Laughton
Private Life of Henry VIII, The
1931
Lionel Barrymore
Free Soul, A
1930
George Arliss
Disraeli
1928
Emil Jannings
Last Command, The