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* 1944[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/AlexanderKnox''' for ''Film/{{Wilson}}'' as President UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson
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* 1943[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/PaulLukas''' '''Paul Lukas''' for ''Film/WatchOnTheRhine'' as Kurt Muller
* 1944[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]:'''Creator/AlexanderKnox''' '''Alexander Knox''' for ''Film/{{Wilson}}'' as President UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson
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* 1949[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/BroderickCrawford''' '''Broderick Crawford''' for ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'' as Willie Stark
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** Creator/BradleyCooper for ''Film/{{Maestro}}'' as Music/LeonardBernstein
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'' as Ernest Burkhart
** Creator/ColmanDomingo for ''Film/{{Rustin}}'' as Bayard Rustin
** Creator/BarryKeoghan for ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'' as Oliver Quick
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* 1944[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Alexander Knox''' for ''Film/{{Wilson}}'' as President UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson
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* 1943[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Paul Lukas''' '''Creator/PaulLukas''' for ''Film/WatchOnTheRhine'' as Kurt Muller
* 1944[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]:'''Alexander Knox''' '''Creator/AlexanderKnox''' for ''Film/{{Wilson}}'' as President UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson
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* 1949[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Broderick Crawford''' '''Creator/BroderickCrawford''' for ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'' as Willie Stark
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* 1977: '''Creator/RichardBurton''' for ''Film/{{Equus}}'' as Dr. Martin Dysart
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A list of actors and films that won and were nominated for the UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama.
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* 1943[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Paul Lukas''' for ''Film/WatchOnTheRhine'' as Kurt Muller
* 1944[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Alexander Knox''' for ''Film/{{Wilson}}'' as President UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson
* 1945[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/RayMilland''' for ''Film/TheLostWeekend'' as Don Birnam
* 1946[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/GregoryPeck''' for ''Literature/TheYearling'' as Ezra "Penny" Baxter
* 1947[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/RonaldColman''' for ''Film/ADoubleLife'' as Anthony "Tony" John
* 1948[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/LaurenceOlivier''' for ''Film/{{Hamlet|1948}}'' as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
* 1949[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Broderick Crawford''' for ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'' as Willie Stark
** Richard Todd for ''Film/TheHastyHeart'' as Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" [=MacLachlan=]
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[[folder:1950s]]
* 1950: '''Creator/JoseFerrer''' for ''Film/{{Cyrano de Bergerac|1950}}'' as Cyrano de Bergerac
** Louis Calhern for ''The Magnificent Yankee'' as Oliver Wendell Holmes
** Creator/JamesStewart for ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'' as Elwood P. Dowd
* 1951: '''Creator/FredricMarch''' for ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' as William "Willy" Loman
** Creator/KirkDouglas for ''Film/DetectiveStory'' as Detective James "Jim" [=McLeod=]
** Arthur Kennedy for 'Bright Victory'' as Larry Nevins
* 1952: '''Creator/GaryCooper''' for ''Film/HighNoon'' as Marshal William "Will" Kane
** Creator/RayMilland for ''The Thief'' as Dr. Allan Fields
** Creator/CharlesBoyer for ''The Happy Time'' as Jacques Bonnard
* 1953: '''Creator/SpencerTracy''' for ''The Actress'' as Clinton Jones
* 1954: '''Creator/MarlonBrando''' for ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' as Terry Malloy
* 1955: '''Creator/ErnestBorgnine''' for ''Film/{{Marty}}'' as Marty Piletti
* 1956: '''Creator/KirkDouglas''' for ''Lust for Life'' as Creator/VincentVanGogh
** Creator/KarlMalden for ''Film/BabyDoll'' as Archie Lee Meighan
** Creator/GaryCooper for ''The Friendly Persuasion'' as Jess Birdwell
** Creator/BurtLancaster for ''The Rainmaker'' as Bill Starbuck
** Creator/CharltonHeston for ''Film/{{The Ten Commandments|1956}}'' as Moses
* 1957: '''Creator/AlecGuinness''' for ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' as Colonel Nicholson
** Creator/MarlonBrando for ''Film/{{Sayonara}}'' as Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver
* 1958: '''Creator/DavidNiven''' for ''Film/SeparateTables'' as Major David Angus Pollock
** Tony Randall for ''Film/TheDefiantOnes'' as John "Joker" Jackson
** Creator/RobertDonat for ''Film/TheInnOfTheSixthHappiness'' as the Mandarin of Yangcheng
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''The Defiant Ones'' as Noah Cullen
** Creator/SpencerTracy for ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'' as Santiago / The Old Man
* 1959: '''Anthony Franciosa''' for ''Career'' as Sam Lawson
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Theatre/LookBackInAnger'' as Jimmy Porter
** Creator/CharltonHeston for ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'' as Judah Ben-Hur
** Creator/FredricMarch for ''Film/MiddleOfTheNight'' as Jerry Kingsley
** Joseph Schildkraut for ''Film/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' as Otto Frank
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[[folder:1960s]]
* 1960: '''Creator/BurtLancaster''' for ''Literature/ElmerGantry'' as Elmer Gantry
** Creator/TrevorHoward for ''Film/SonsAndLovers'' as Walter Morel
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier for ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' as Senator Marcus Linius Crassus
** Creator/DeanStockwell for ''Sons and Lovers'' as Paul Morel
** Creator/SpencerTracy for ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' as Henry Drummond
* 1961: '''Creator/MaximilianSchell''' for ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg'' as Hans Rolfe
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/SplendorInTheGrass'' as Bud Stamper
** Creator/MauriceChevalier for ''Film/{{Fanny}}'' as Pannisse
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/{{The Hustler|1961}}'' as Eddie "Fast Eddie" Felson
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''Theatre/ARaisinInTheSun'' as Walter Lee Younger
* 1962: '''Creator/GregoryPeck''' for ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' as Atticus Finch
** Creator/LaurenceHarvey for ''Film/TheWonderfulWorldOfTheBrothersGrimm'' as [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Wilhelm Grimm]] / The Cobbler
** Creator/BurtLancaster for ''Film/BirdmanOfAlcatraz'' as Robert Franklin Stroud
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses'' as Joe Clay
** Creator/JamesMason for ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' as Humbert Humbert
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' as Chance Wayne
** Creator/PeterOToole for ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' as UsefulNotes/TELawrence
** Creator/AnthonyQuinn for ''Lawrence of Arabia'' as Auda Abu Tayi
* 1963: '''Creator/SidneyPoitier''' for ''Film/LiliesOfTheField'' as Homer Smith
** Creator/MarlonBrando for ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican'' as Harrison Carter [=MacWhite=]
** Stathis Giallelis for ''Film/AmericaAmerica'' as Stavros Topouzoglou
** Creator/RexHarrison for ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' as UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar
** [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve [=McQueen=]]] for ''Film/LoveWithTheProperStranger'' as Rocky Papasano
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/{{Hud}}'' as Hud Bannon
** Creator/GregoryPeck for ''Captain Newman, M.D.'' as Captain Josiah Newman
** Tom Tryon for ''The Cardinal'' as Stephen Fermoyle
* 1964: '''Creator/PeterOToole''' for ''Film/{{Becket}}'' as King [[UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond Henry II of England]]
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Becket'' as Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
** Anthony Franciosa for ''Rio Conchos'' as Juan Luis Rodriguez
** Frederic March for ''Literature/SevenDaysInMay'' as President Jordan Lyman
** Creator/AnthonyQuinn for ''Film/ZorbaTheGreek'' as Alexis Zorba
* 1965: '''Creator/OmarSharif''' for ''Film/DoctorZhivago'' as Dr. Yuri Zhivago
** Creator/RexHarrison for ''Film/TheAgonyAndTheEcstasy'' as UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''Film/APatchOfBlue'' as Gordon Ralfe
** Creator/RodSteiger for ''The Pawnbroker'' as Sol Nazerman
** Creator/OskarWerner for ''Film/ShipOfFools'' as Dr. Willie Schumann
* 1966: '''Creator/PaulScofield''' for ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'' as UsefulNotes/ThomasMore
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' as George
** Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' as Alfie Elkins
** [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve [=McQueen=]]] for ''Film/TheSandPebbles'' as Jake Holman
** Creator/MaxVonSydow for ''Hawaii'' as Abner Hale
* 1967: '''Creator/RodSteiger''' for ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' as Chief William "Bill" Gillespie
** Creator/AlanBates for ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd'' as Gabriel Oak
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'' as Clyde Barrow
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/CoolHandLuke'' as Lucas "Luke" Jackson
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''In the Heat of the Night'' as Detective Virgil Tibbs
** Creator/SpencerTracy for ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' as Matt Drayton
* 1968: '''Creator/PeterOToole''' for ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' as King [[UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond Henry II of England]]
** Creator/AlanArkin for ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' as John Singer
** Creator/AlanBates for ''Literature/TheFixer'' as Yakov Bok
** Creator/TonyCurtis for ''Film/TheBostonStrangler'' as Albert [=DeSalvo=]
** Creator/CliffRobertson for ''[[Literature/FlowersForAlgernon Charly]]'' as Charlie Gordon
* 1969: '''Creator/JohnWayne''' for ''Film/TrueGrit'' as Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
** Creator/AlanArkin for ''Popi'' as Abraham "Popi" Rodriguez
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Theatre/AnneOfTheThousandDays'' as King [[UsefulNotes/HenryVIII Henry VIII of England]]
** Creator/DustinHoffman for ''Film/MidnightCowboy'' as Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
** Creator/JonVoight for ''Midnight Cowboy'' as Joe Buck
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[[folder:1970s]]
* 1970: '''Creator/GeorgeCScott''' for ''Film/{{Patton}}'' as General UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton
** Creator/MelvynDouglas for ''I Never Sang for My Father'' as Tom Garrison
** Creator/JamesEarlJones for ''The Great White Hope'' as Jack Jefferson
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/FiveEasyPieces'' as Robert "Bobby" Dupea
** Creator/RyanONeal for ''Film/LoveStory'' as Oliver Barrett IV
* 1971: '''Creator/GeneHackman''' for ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'' as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
** Peter Finch for ''Film/SundayBloodySunday'' as Dr. Daniel Hirsh
** Creator/MalcolmMcDowell for ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' as Alex [=DeLarge=]
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/CarnalKnowledge'' as Jonathan Fuerst
** Creator/GeorgeCScott for ''Film/TheHospital'' as Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock
* 1972: ''Creator/MarlonBrando''' for ''Film/TheGodfather'' as Vito Corleone
** Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Theatre/{{Sleuth}}'' as Milo Tindle
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier for ''Sleuth'' as Andrew Wyke
** Creator/AlPacino for ''The Godfather'' as Michael Corleone
** Creator/JonVoight for ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' as Ed Gentry
* 1973: '''Creator/AlPacino''' for ''Film/{{Serpico}}'' as Officer Frank Serpico
** Creator/RobertBlake for ''Film/ElectraGlideInBlue'' as John Wintergreen
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Save the Tiger'' as Harry Stoner
** [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve [=McQueen=]]] for ''Film/{{Papillon}}'' as Henri "Papillon" Charrière
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/TheLastDetail'' as Billy "Badass" Buddusky
* 1974: '''Creator/JackNicholson''' for ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' as J.J. "Jake" Gittes
** Creator/JamesCaan for ''Film/TheGambler'' as Axel Freed
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''Film/TheConversation'' as Harry Caul
** Creator/DustinHoffman for ''Film/{{Lenny}}'' as Creator/LennyBruce
** Creator/AlPacino for ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather Part II]]'' as Michael Corleone
* 1975: '''Creator/JackNicholson''' for ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' as Randle Patrick "Mac" [=McMurphy=]
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''[[Film/TheFrenchConnection French Connection II]]'' as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'' as Sonny Wortzik
** Creator/MaximilianSchell for ''Film/TheManInTheGlassBooth'' as Arthur Goldman
** James Whitmore for ''Give 'em Hell, Harry!'' as President UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman
* 1976: '''Peter Finch''' for ''Film/{{Network}}'' as Howard Beale
** Creator/DavidCarradine for ''Film/BoundForGlory'' as Music/WoodyGuthrie
** Creator/RobertDeNiro for ''Film/TaxiDriver'' as Travis Bickle
** Creator/DustinHoffman for ''Film/MarathonMan'' as Thomas "Babe" Levy
** Creator/SylvesterStallone for ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' as Robert "Rocky" Balboa
* 1977: '''Creator/RichardBurton''' for ''Film/{{Equus}}'' as Dr. Martin Dysart
** Creator/MarcelloMastroianni for ''Film/ASpecialDay'' as Gabriele
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Bobby Deerfield'' as Bobby Deerfield
** Creator/GregoryPeck for ''[=MacArthur=] as General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur
** Creator/HenryWinkler for ''Heroes'' as Jack Dunne
* 1978: '''Creator/JonVoight''' for ''Film/ComingHome'' as Luke Martin
** Creator/BradDavis for ''Film/MidnightExpress'' as Billy Hayes
** Creator/RobertDeNiro for ''Film/TheDeerHunter'' as Staff Sergeant Michael "Mike" Vronsky
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Film/{{Magic}}'' as Charles "Corky" Withers / Fats
** Creator/GregoryPeck for ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'' as Dr. Josef Mengele
* 1979: '''Creator/DustinHoffman''' for ''Film/KramerVsKramer'' as Ted Kramer
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Film/TheChinaSyndrome'' as Jack Godell
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/AndJusticeForAll'' as Arthur Kirkland
** Creator/JonVoight for ''Film/TheChamp'' as Billy "Champ" Flynn
** Creator/JamesWoods for ''The Onion Field'' as Gregory "Greg" Powell
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[[folder:1980s]]
* 1980: '''Creator/RobertDeNiro''' for ''Film/RagingBull'' as Jake [=LaMotta=]
** Creator/JohnHurt for ''Film/TheElephantMan'' as John Merrick
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Tribute'' as Scottie Templeton
** Creator/PeterOToole for ''Film/TheStuntMan'' as Eli Cross
** Creator/DonaldSutherland for ''Literature/OrdinaryPeople'' as Calvin Jarrett
* 1981: '''Creator/HenryFonda''' for ''Theatre/OnGoldenPond'' as Norman Thayer
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/{{Reds|1981}}'' as John Reed
** Creator/TimothyHutton for ''Film/{{Taps}}'' as Brian Moreland
** Creator/BurtLancaster for ''Film/AtlanticCity'' as Lou Pascal
** Creator/TreatWilliams for ''Film/PrinceOfTheCity'' as Detective Daniel "Danny" Ciello
* 1982: '''Creator/BenKingsley''' for ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'' as UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi
** Creator/AlbertFinney for ''Shoot the Moon'' as George Dunlap
** Creator/RichardGere for ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' as Zachary "Zack" Mayo
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''[[Film/Missing1982 missing.]]'' as Edmund "Ed" Horman
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/TheVerdict'' as Frank Galvin
* 1983: '''Tie'''
** '''Tom Courtenay''' for ''Film/TheDresser'' as Norman
** '''Creator/RobertDuvall''' for ''Film/TenderMercies'' as Mac Sledge
*** Tom Conti for ''Reuben, Reuben'' as Gowan [=McGland=]
*** Creator/RichardFarnsworth for ''Film/TheGreyFox'' as Bill Miner / George Edwards / the Grey Fox
*** Creator/AlbertFinney for ''The Dresser'' as Sir
*** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' as Antonio "Tony" Montana
*** Creator/EricRoberts for ''Film/Star80'' as Paul Snider
* 1984: '''Creator/FMurrayAbraham''' for ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'' as Antonio Salieri
** Creator/JeffBridges for ''Film/{{Starman}}'' as Starman / Scott Hayden
** Creator/AlbertFinney for ''Literature/UnderTheVolcano'' as Geoffrey Firmin
** Creator/TomHulce for ''Amadeus'' as Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart
** Creator/SamWaterston for ''Film/TheKillingFields'' as Stanley Schanberg
* 1985: '''Creator/JonVoight''' for ''Film/RunawayTrain'' as Oscar "Manny" Manheim
** Creator/HarrisonFord for ''Film/{{Witness}}'' as Detective Sergeant John Book
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''Twice in a Lifetime'' as Harry [=MacKenzie=]
** Creator/WilliamHurt for ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'' as Luis Molina
** Creator/RaulJulia for ''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' as Valentin Arregui
* 1986: '''Creator/BobHoskins''' for ''Film/MonaLisa'' as George
** Creator/HarrisonFord for ''Film/TheMosquitoCoast'' as Allie Fox
** Dexter Gordon for ''Round Midnight'' as Dale Turner
** Creator/WilliamHurt for ''Film/ChildrenOfALesserGod'' as James Leeds
** Creator/JeremyIrons for ''Film/TheMission'' as Father Gabriel
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'' as Eddie "Fast Eddie" Felson
* 1987: '''Creator/MichaelDouglas''' for ''Film/WallStreet'' as Gordon Gekko
** Creator/JohnLone for ''Film/TheLastEmperor'' as Emperor Puyi
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Literature/{{Ironweed}}'' as Francis Phelan
** Creator/NickNolte for ''Weeds'' as Lee Umstetter
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/CryFreedom'' as Steve Biko
* 1988: '''Creator/DustinHoffman''' for ''Film/RainMan'' as Raymond Babbitt
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''Film/MississippiBurning'' as Special Agent Rupert Anderson
** Creator/TomHulce for ''Film/DominickAndEugene'' as Dominick "Nicky" Luciano
** Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos for ''Film/StandAndDeliver'' as Jaime Escalante
** Creator/ForestWhitaker for ''Bird'' as [[Music/CharlieParker Charlie "Bird" Parker]]
* 1989: '''Creator/TomCruise''' for ''Literature/BornOnTheFourthOfJuly'' as Ron Kovic
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/MyLeftFoot'' as Christy Brown
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Dad'' as Jake Tremont
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/SeaOfLove'' as Detective Frank Keller
** Creator/RobinWilliams for ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' as John Keating
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1990s]]
* 1990: '''Creator/JeremyIrons''' for ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' as Claus von Bülow
** Creator/KevinCostner for ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' as Lieutenant John Dunbar / Dances with Wolves
** Creator/RichardHarris for ''Film/TheField'' as Bull [=McCabe=]
** Creator/AlPacino for ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather Part III]]'' as Michael Corleone
** Creator/RobinWilliams for ''Film/{{Awakenings}}'' as Dr. Malcolm Sayers
* 1991: '''Creator/NickNolte''' for ''Film/ThePrinceOfTides'' as Tom Wingo
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/{{Bugsy}}'' as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
** Creator/KevinCostner for ''Film/{{JFK}}'' as Jim Garrison
** Creator/RobertDeNiro for ''Film/CapeFear'' as Maximilian "Max" Cady
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
* 1992: '''Creator/AlPacino''' for ''Film/ScentOfAWoman'' as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
** Creator/TomCruise for ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' as Lieutenant Daniel "Danny" Kaffee
** Creator/RobertDowneyJr for ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' as Creator/CharlieChaplin
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/{{Hoffa}}'' as UsefulNotes/JimmyHoffa
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/MalcolmX'' as UsefulNotes/MalcolmX
* 1993: '''Creator/TomHanks''' for ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'' as Andrew Beckett
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/InTheNameOfTheFather'' as Gerard "Gerry" Conlon
** Creator/HarrisonFord for ''Film/TheFugitive'' as Dr. Richard Kimble
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Literature/TheRemainsOfTheDay'' as James Stevens
** Creator/LiamNeeson for ''Film/SchindlersList'' as Oskar Schindler
* 1994: '''Creator/TomHanks''' for ''Film/ForrestGump'' as Forrest Gump
** Creator/MorganFreeman for ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' as Ellis "Red" Redding
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/NobodysFool'' as Donald "Sully" Sullivan
** Creator/BradPitt for ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'' as Tristan Ludlow
** Creator/JohnTravolta for ''Film/PulpFiction'' as Vincent Vega
* 1995: '''Creator/NicolasCage''' for ''Film/LeavingLasVegas'' as Ben Sanderson
** Creator/RichardDreyfuss for ''Film/MrHollandsOpus'' as Glenn Holland
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Film/{{Nixon}}'' as President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon
** Creator/IanMcKellen for ''Theatre/RichardIII'' as King [[UsefulNotes/RichardIII Richard III of England]]
** Creator/SeanPenn for ''Film/DeadManWalking'' as Matthew Poncelet
* 1996: '''Creator/GeoffreyRush''' for ''Film/{{Shine}}'' as David Helfgott
** Creator/RalphFiennes for ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'' as László de Almásy
** Creator/MelGibson for ''Film/{{Ransom}}'' as Tom Mullen
** Creator/WoodyHarrelson for ''Film/ThePeopleVsLarryFlynt'' as Larry Flynt
** Creator/LiamNeeson for ''Film/MichaelCollins'' as Michael Collins
* 1997: '''Creator/PeterFonda''' for ''Ulee's Gold'' as Ulee Jackson
** Creator/MattDamon for ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' as Will Hunting
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''The Boxer'' as Danny Flynn
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' as Jack Dawson
** Creator/DjimonHounsou for ''Film/{{Amistad}}'' as Joseph Cinqué
* 1998: '''Creator/JimCarrey''' for ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' as Truman Burbank
** Creator/StephenFry for ''Wilde'' as Creator/OscarWilde
** Creator/TomHanks for ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' as Captain John H. Miller
** Creator/IanMcKellen for ''Film/GodsAndMonsters'' as Creator/JamesWhale
** Creator/NickNolte for ''Film/{{Affliction}}'' as Wade Whitehouse
* 1999: '''Creator/DenzelWashington''' for ''Film/TheHurricane'' as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/TheInsider'' as Jeffrey Wigand
** Creator/MattDamon for ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'' as Tom Ripley
** Creator/RichardFarnsworth for ''Film/TheStraightStory'' as Alvin Straight
** Creator/KevinSpacey for ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' as Lester Burnham
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2000s]]
* 2000: '''Creator/TomHanks''' for ''Film/CastAway'' as Chuck Noland
** Creator/JavierBardem for ''Before Night Falls'' as Reinaldo Areinas
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' as Maximus Decimus Meridius
** Creator/MichaelDouglas for ''Film/WonderBoys'' as Grady Tripp
** Creator/GeoffreyRush for ''Film/{{Quills}}'' as the Creator/MarquisDeSade
* 2001: '''Creator/RussellCrowe''' for ''Film/ABeautifulMind'' as John Nash
** Creator/WillSmith for ''Film/{{Ali}}'' as [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali]]
** Creator/KevinSpacey for ''Literature/TheShippingNews'' as Quoyle
** Creator/BillyBobThornton for ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere'' as Ed Crane
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/TrainingDay'' as Detective Alonzo Harris
* 2002: '''Creator/JackNicholson''' for ''Film/AboutSchmidt'' as Warren Schmidt
** Creator/AdrienBrody for ''Film/ThePianist'' as Władysław Szpilman
** Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Literature/TheQuietAmerican'' as Thomas Fowler
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' as Frank Abagnale Jr.
* 2003: '''Creator/SeanPenn''' for ''Film/MysticRiver'' as Jimmy Markum
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/MasterAndCommander'' as Captain Jack Aubrey
** Creator/TomCruise for ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' as Captain Nathan Algren
** Creator/BenKingsley for ''Film/HouseOfSandAndFog'' as Massoud Behrani
** Creator/JudeLaw for ''Film/ColdMountain'' as William "W.P." Inman
* 2004: '''Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio''' for ''Film/TheAviator'' as Creator/HowardHughes
** Creator/JavierBardem for ''Film/TheSeaInside'' as Ramón Sampedro
** Creator/DonCheadle for ''Film/HotelRwanda'' as Paul Rusesabagina
** Creator/JohnnyDepp for ''Film/FindingNeverland'' as James "J.M." Barrie
** Creator/LiamNeeson for ''Film/{{Kinsey}}'' as Alfred Kinsey
* 2005: '''Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman''' for ''Film/{{Capote}}'' as Creator/TrumanCapote
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/CinderellaMan'' as James J. Braddock
** Creator/TerrenceHoward for ''Film/HustleAndFlow'' as [=DJay=]
** Creator/HeathLedger for ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' as Ennis Del Mar
** Creator/DavidStrathairn for ''Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck'' as Edward R. Murrow
* 2006: '''Creator/ForestWhitaker''' for ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' as UsefulNotes/IdiAmin
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/BloodDiamond'' as Danny Archer
** Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] for ''Film/TheDeparted'' as Trooper William "Billy" Costigan Jr.
** Creator/PeterOToole for ''Venus'' as Maurice Russell
** Creator/WillSmith for ''Film/ThePursuitOfHappyness'' as Chris Gardner
* 2007: '''Creator/DanielDayLewis''' for ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' as Daniel Plainview
** Creator/GeorgeClooney for ''Film/MichaelClayton'' as Michael Clayton
** Creator/JamesMcAvoy for ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' as Robbie Turner
** Creator/ViggoMortensen for ''Film/EasternPromises'' as Nikolai Luzhin
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/AmericanGangster'' as Frank Lucas
* 2008: '''Creator/MickeyRourke''' for ''Film/TheWrestler'' as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/RevolutionaryRoad'' as Frank Wheeler
** Creator/FrankLangella for ''Film/FrostNixon'' as UsefulNotes/RichardNixon
** Creator/SeanPenn for ''Film/{{Milk}}'' as Harvey Milk
** Creator/BradPitt for ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' as Benjamin Button
* 2009: '''Creator/JeffBridges''' for ''Film/CrazyHeart'' as Otis "Bad Blake" Blake
** Creator/GeorgeClooney for ''Film/UpInTheAir'' as Ryan Bingham
** Creator/ColinFirth for ''Literature/ASingleMan'' as George Falconer
** Creator/MorganFreeman for ''Film/{{Invictus}}'' as President UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela
** Creator/TobeyMaguire for ''Film/{{Brothers|2009}}'' as Captain Sam Cahill
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2010s]]
* 2010: '''Creator/ColinFirth''' for ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' as King George VI
** Creator/JesseEisenberg for ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' as Mark Zuckerberg
** Creator/JamesFranco for ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'' as Aron Ralston
** Creator/RyanGosling for ''Film/BlueValentine'' as Dean Pereira
** Creator/MarkWahlberg for ''Film/TheFighter'' as Micky Ward
* 2011: '''Creator/GeorgeClooney''' for ''Film/TheDescendants'' as Matthew "Matt" King
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/JEdgar'' as J. Edgar Hoover
** Creator/MichaelFassbender for ''Film/{{Shame}}'' as Brandon Sullivan
** Creator/RyanGosling for ''Film/TheIdesOfMarch'' as Stephen Meyers
** Creator/BradPitt for ''Film/{{Moneyball}}'' as Billy Beane
* 2012: '''Creator/DanielDayLewis''' for ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' as President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln
** Creator/RichardGere for ''Film/{{Arbitrage}}'' as Robert Miller
** Creator/JohnHawkes for ''Film/TheSessions'' as Mark O'Brien
** Creator/JoaquinPhoenix for ''Film/TheMaster'' as Freddie Quell
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/{{Flight}}'' as Captain William "Whip" Whitaker
* 2013: '''Creator/MatthewMcConaughey''' for ''Film/DallasBuyersClub'' as Ron Woodroof
** Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor for ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'' as Solomon Northup
** Creator/IdrisElba for ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' as President UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela
** Creator/TomHanks for ''Film/CaptainPhillips'' as Captain Richard Phillips
** Creator/RobertRedford for ''Film/AllIsLost'' as Our Man
* 2014: '''Creator/EddieRedmayne''' for ''Film/TheTheoryOfEverything'' as Creator/StephenHawking
** Creator/SteveCarell for ''Film/{{Foxcatcher}}'' as John Eleuthère du Pont
** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch for ''Film/TheImitationGame'' as UsefulNotes/AlanTuring
** Creator/JakeGyllenhaal for ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'' as Louis "Lou" Bloom
** Creator/DavidOyelowo for ''Film/{{Selma}}'' as UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr
* 2015: '''Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio''' for ''Film/TheRevenant'' as Hugh Glass
** Creator/BryanCranston for ''Film/{{Trumbo}}'' as Dalton Trumbo
** Creator/MichaelFassbender for ''Film/SteveJobs'' as UsefulNotes/SteveJobs
** Creator/EddieRedmayne for ''Film/TheDanishGirl'' as Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
** Creator/WillSmith for ''Film/{{Concussion}}'' as Dr. Bennet Omalu
* 2016: '''Creator/CaseyAffleck''' for ''Film/ManchesterByTheSea'' as Lee Chandler
** Creator/JoelEdgerton for ''Film/{{Loving}}'' as Richard Loving
** Creator/AndrewGarfield for ''Film/HacksawRidge'' as Desmond Doss
** Creator/ViggoMortensen for ''Film/CaptainFantastic'' as Ben Cash
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Theatre/{{Fences}}'' as Troy Maxson
* 2017: '''Creator/GaryOldman''' for ''Film/{{Darkest Hour|2017}}'' as Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill
** Creator/TimotheeChalamet for ''Film/CallMeByYourName'' as Elio Perlman
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/PhantomThread'' as Reynolds Woodcock
** Creator/TomHanks for ''Film/ThePost'' as Ben Bradlee
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/RomanJIsraelEsq'' as Roman J. Israel
* 2018: '''Creator/RamiMalek''' for ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' as Music/FreddieMercury
** Creator/BradleyCooper for ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|2018}}'' as Jackson Maine
** Creator/WillemDafoe for ''At Eternity's Gate'' as Creator/VincentVanGogh
** Creator/LucasHedges for ''Film/BoyErased'' as Jared Eamons
** Creator/JohnDavidWashington for ''Film/{{BlacKkKlansman}}'' as Ron Stallworth
* 2019: '''Creator/JoaquinPhoenix''' for ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' as [[Characters/Joker2019ArthurFleckJoker Arthur Fleck / Joker]]
** Creator/ChristianBale for ''Film/FordVFerrari'' as Ken Miles
** Creator/AntonioBanderas for ''Film/PainAndGlory'' as Salvador Mallo
** Creator/AdamDriver for ''Film/MarriageStory'' as Charlie Barber
** Creator/JonathanPryce for ''Film/TheTwoPopes'' as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio / Pope Francis
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2020s]]
* 2020: '''Creator/ChadwickBoseman''' for ''Film/MaRaineysBlackBottom'' as Levee Green
** Creator/RizAhmed for ''Film/SoundOfMetal'' as Ruben Stone
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Film/TheFather'' as Anthony
** Creator/GaryOldman for ''Film/{{Mank}}'' as Herman J. Mankiewicz
** Tahar Rahim for ''The Mauritanian'' as Mohamedou Ould Salahi
* 2021: '''Creator/WillSmith''' for ''Film/KingRichard'' as Richard Williams
** Creator/MahershalaAli for ''Swan Song'' as Cameron Turner
** Creator/JavierBardem for ''Film/BeingTheRicardos'' as Creator/DesiArnaz
** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch for ''Film/ThePowerOfTheDog'' as Phil Burbank
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/TheTragedyOfMacbeth'' as Lord Macbeth
* 2022: '''Creator/AustinButler''' for ''Film/{{Elvis|2022}}'' as Music/ElvisPresley
** Creator/BrendanFraser for ''Film/TheWhale'' as Charlie
** Creator/HughJackman for ''The Son'' as Peter Miller
** Creator/BillNighy for ''Living'' as Mr. Rodney Williams
** Creator/JeremyPope for ''The Inspection'' as Ellis French
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:1940s]]
[[index]]
* 1943[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Paul Lukas''' for ''Film/WatchOnTheRhine'' as Kurt Muller
* 1944[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Alexander Knox''' for ''Film/{{Wilson}}'' as President UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson
* 1945[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/RayMilland''' for ''Film/TheLostWeekend'' as Don Birnam
* 1946[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/GregoryPeck''' for ''Literature/TheYearling'' as Ezra "Penny" Baxter
* 1947[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/RonaldColman''' for ''Film/ADoubleLife'' as Anthony "Tony" John
* 1948[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Creator/LaurenceOlivier''' for ''Film/{{Hamlet|1948}}'' as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
* 1949[[note]]as Best Actor in a Leading Role[[/note]]: '''Broderick Crawford''' for ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'' as Willie Stark
** Richard Todd for ''Film/TheHastyHeart'' as Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" [=MacLachlan=]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1950s]]
* 1950: '''Creator/JoseFerrer''' for ''Film/{{Cyrano de Bergerac|1950}}'' as Cyrano de Bergerac
** Louis Calhern for ''The Magnificent Yankee'' as Oliver Wendell Holmes
** Creator/JamesStewart for ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'' as Elwood P. Dowd
* 1951: '''Creator/FredricMarch''' for ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' as William "Willy" Loman
** Creator/KirkDouglas for ''Film/DetectiveStory'' as Detective James "Jim" [=McLeod=]
** Arthur Kennedy for 'Bright Victory'' as Larry Nevins
* 1952: '''Creator/GaryCooper''' for ''Film/HighNoon'' as Marshal William "Will" Kane
** Creator/RayMilland for ''The Thief'' as Dr. Allan Fields
** Creator/CharlesBoyer for ''The Happy Time'' as Jacques Bonnard
* 1953: '''Creator/SpencerTracy''' for ''The Actress'' as Clinton Jones
* 1954: '''Creator/MarlonBrando''' for ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' as Terry Malloy
* 1955: '''Creator/ErnestBorgnine''' for ''Film/{{Marty}}'' as Marty Piletti
* 1956: '''Creator/KirkDouglas''' for ''Lust for Life'' as Creator/VincentVanGogh
** Creator/KarlMalden for ''Film/BabyDoll'' as Archie Lee Meighan
** Creator/GaryCooper for ''The Friendly Persuasion'' as Jess Birdwell
** Creator/BurtLancaster for ''The Rainmaker'' as Bill Starbuck
** Creator/CharltonHeston for ''Film/{{The Ten Commandments|1956}}'' as Moses
* 1957: '''Creator/AlecGuinness''' for ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' as Colonel Nicholson
** Creator/MarlonBrando for ''Film/{{Sayonara}}'' as Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver
* 1958: '''Creator/DavidNiven''' for ''Film/SeparateTables'' as Major David Angus Pollock
** Tony Randall for ''Film/TheDefiantOnes'' as John "Joker" Jackson
** Creator/RobertDonat for ''Film/TheInnOfTheSixthHappiness'' as the Mandarin of Yangcheng
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''The Defiant Ones'' as Noah Cullen
** Creator/SpencerTracy for ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'' as Santiago / The Old Man
* 1959: '''Anthony Franciosa''' for ''Career'' as Sam Lawson
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Theatre/LookBackInAnger'' as Jimmy Porter
** Creator/CharltonHeston for ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'' as Judah Ben-Hur
** Creator/FredricMarch for ''Film/MiddleOfTheNight'' as Jerry Kingsley
** Joseph Schildkraut for ''Film/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' as Otto Frank
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1960s]]
* 1960: '''Creator/BurtLancaster''' for ''Literature/ElmerGantry'' as Elmer Gantry
** Creator/TrevorHoward for ''Film/SonsAndLovers'' as Walter Morel
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier for ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' as Senator Marcus Linius Crassus
** Creator/DeanStockwell for ''Sons and Lovers'' as Paul Morel
** Creator/SpencerTracy for ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' as Henry Drummond
* 1961: '''Creator/MaximilianSchell''' for ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg'' as Hans Rolfe
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/SplendorInTheGrass'' as Bud Stamper
** Creator/MauriceChevalier for ''Film/{{Fanny}}'' as Pannisse
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/{{The Hustler|1961}}'' as Eddie "Fast Eddie" Felson
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''Theatre/ARaisinInTheSun'' as Walter Lee Younger
* 1962: '''Creator/GregoryPeck''' for ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' as Atticus Finch
** Creator/LaurenceHarvey for ''Film/TheWonderfulWorldOfTheBrothersGrimm'' as [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Wilhelm Grimm]] / The Cobbler
** Creator/BurtLancaster for ''Film/BirdmanOfAlcatraz'' as Robert Franklin Stroud
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses'' as Joe Clay
** Creator/JamesMason for ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' as Humbert Humbert
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' as Chance Wayne
** Creator/PeterOToole for ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' as UsefulNotes/TELawrence
** Creator/AnthonyQuinn for ''Lawrence of Arabia'' as Auda Abu Tayi
* 1963: '''Creator/SidneyPoitier''' for ''Film/LiliesOfTheField'' as Homer Smith
** Creator/MarlonBrando for ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican'' as Harrison Carter [=MacWhite=]
** Stathis Giallelis for ''Film/AmericaAmerica'' as Stavros Topouzoglou
** Creator/RexHarrison for ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' as UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar
** [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve [=McQueen=]]] for ''Film/LoveWithTheProperStranger'' as Rocky Papasano
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/{{Hud}}'' as Hud Bannon
** Creator/GregoryPeck for ''Captain Newman, M.D.'' as Captain Josiah Newman
** Tom Tryon for ''The Cardinal'' as Stephen Fermoyle
* 1964: '''Creator/PeterOToole''' for ''Film/{{Becket}}'' as King [[UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond Henry II of England]]
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Becket'' as Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
** Anthony Franciosa for ''Rio Conchos'' as Juan Luis Rodriguez
** Frederic March for ''Literature/SevenDaysInMay'' as President Jordan Lyman
** Creator/AnthonyQuinn for ''Film/ZorbaTheGreek'' as Alexis Zorba
* 1965: '''Creator/OmarSharif''' for ''Film/DoctorZhivago'' as Dr. Yuri Zhivago
** Creator/RexHarrison for ''Film/TheAgonyAndTheEcstasy'' as UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''Film/APatchOfBlue'' as Gordon Ralfe
** Creator/RodSteiger for ''The Pawnbroker'' as Sol Nazerman
** Creator/OskarWerner for ''Film/ShipOfFools'' as Dr. Willie Schumann
* 1966: '''Creator/PaulScofield''' for ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'' as UsefulNotes/ThomasMore
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' as George
** Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' as Alfie Elkins
** [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve [=McQueen=]]] for ''Film/TheSandPebbles'' as Jake Holman
** Creator/MaxVonSydow for ''Hawaii'' as Abner Hale
* 1967: '''Creator/RodSteiger''' for ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' as Chief William "Bill" Gillespie
** Creator/AlanBates for ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd'' as Gabriel Oak
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'' as Clyde Barrow
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/CoolHandLuke'' as Lucas "Luke" Jackson
** Creator/SidneyPoitier for ''In the Heat of the Night'' as Detective Virgil Tibbs
** Creator/SpencerTracy for ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' as Matt Drayton
* 1968: '''Creator/PeterOToole''' for ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' as King [[UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond Henry II of England]]
** Creator/AlanArkin for ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' as John Singer
** Creator/AlanBates for ''Literature/TheFixer'' as Yakov Bok
** Creator/TonyCurtis for ''Film/TheBostonStrangler'' as Albert [=DeSalvo=]
** Creator/CliffRobertson for ''[[Literature/FlowersForAlgernon Charly]]'' as Charlie Gordon
* 1969: '''Creator/JohnWayne''' for ''Film/TrueGrit'' as Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
** Creator/AlanArkin for ''Popi'' as Abraham "Popi" Rodriguez
** Creator/RichardBurton for ''Theatre/AnneOfTheThousandDays'' as King [[UsefulNotes/HenryVIII Henry VIII of England]]
** Creator/DustinHoffman for ''Film/MidnightCowboy'' as Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
** Creator/JonVoight for ''Midnight Cowboy'' as Joe Buck
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1970s]]
* 1970: '''Creator/GeorgeCScott''' for ''Film/{{Patton}}'' as General UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton
** Creator/MelvynDouglas for ''I Never Sang for My Father'' as Tom Garrison
** Creator/JamesEarlJones for ''The Great White Hope'' as Jack Jefferson
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/FiveEasyPieces'' as Robert "Bobby" Dupea
** Creator/RyanONeal for ''Film/LoveStory'' as Oliver Barrett IV
* 1971: '''Creator/GeneHackman''' for ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'' as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
** Peter Finch for ''Film/SundayBloodySunday'' as Dr. Daniel Hirsh
** Creator/MalcolmMcDowell for ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' as Alex [=DeLarge=]
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/CarnalKnowledge'' as Jonathan Fuerst
** Creator/GeorgeCScott for ''Film/TheHospital'' as Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock
* 1972: ''Creator/MarlonBrando''' for ''Film/TheGodfather'' as Vito Corleone
** Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Theatre/{{Sleuth}}'' as Milo Tindle
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier for ''Sleuth'' as Andrew Wyke
** Creator/AlPacino for ''The Godfather'' as Michael Corleone
** Creator/JonVoight for ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' as Ed Gentry
* 1973: '''Creator/AlPacino''' for ''Film/{{Serpico}}'' as Officer Frank Serpico
** Creator/RobertBlake for ''Film/ElectraGlideInBlue'' as John Wintergreen
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Save the Tiger'' as Harry Stoner
** [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve [=McQueen=]]] for ''Film/{{Papillon}}'' as Henri "Papillon" Charrière
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/TheLastDetail'' as Billy "Badass" Buddusky
* 1974: '''Creator/JackNicholson''' for ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' as J.J. "Jake" Gittes
** Creator/JamesCaan for ''Film/TheGambler'' as Axel Freed
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''Film/TheConversation'' as Harry Caul
** Creator/DustinHoffman for ''Film/{{Lenny}}'' as Creator/LennyBruce
** Creator/AlPacino for ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather Part II]]'' as Michael Corleone
* 1975: '''Creator/JackNicholson''' for ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' as Randle Patrick "Mac" [=McMurphy=]
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''[[Film/TheFrenchConnection French Connection II]]'' as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'' as Sonny Wortzik
** Creator/MaximilianSchell for ''Film/TheManInTheGlassBooth'' as Arthur Goldman
** James Whitmore for ''Give 'em Hell, Harry!'' as President UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman
* 1976: '''Peter Finch''' for ''Film/{{Network}}'' as Howard Beale
** Creator/DavidCarradine for ''Film/BoundForGlory'' as Music/WoodyGuthrie
** Creator/RobertDeNiro for ''Film/TaxiDriver'' as Travis Bickle
** Creator/DustinHoffman for ''Film/MarathonMan'' as Thomas "Babe" Levy
** Creator/SylvesterStallone for ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' as Robert "Rocky" Balboa
* 1977: '''Creator/RichardBurton''' for ''Film/{{Equus}}'' as Dr. Martin Dysart
** Creator/MarcelloMastroianni for ''Film/ASpecialDay'' as Gabriele
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Bobby Deerfield'' as Bobby Deerfield
** Creator/GregoryPeck for ''[=MacArthur=] as General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur
** Creator/HenryWinkler for ''Heroes'' as Jack Dunne
* 1978: '''Creator/JonVoight''' for ''Film/ComingHome'' as Luke Martin
** Creator/BradDavis for ''Film/MidnightExpress'' as Billy Hayes
** Creator/RobertDeNiro for ''Film/TheDeerHunter'' as Staff Sergeant Michael "Mike" Vronsky
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Film/{{Magic}}'' as Charles "Corky" Withers / Fats
** Creator/GregoryPeck for ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'' as Dr. Josef Mengele
* 1979: '''Creator/DustinHoffman''' for ''Film/KramerVsKramer'' as Ted Kramer
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Film/TheChinaSyndrome'' as Jack Godell
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/AndJusticeForAll'' as Arthur Kirkland
** Creator/JonVoight for ''Film/TheChamp'' as Billy "Champ" Flynn
** Creator/JamesWoods for ''The Onion Field'' as Gregory "Greg" Powell
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1980s]]
* 1980: '''Creator/RobertDeNiro''' for ''Film/RagingBull'' as Jake [=LaMotta=]
** Creator/JohnHurt for ''Film/TheElephantMan'' as John Merrick
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Tribute'' as Scottie Templeton
** Creator/PeterOToole for ''Film/TheStuntMan'' as Eli Cross
** Creator/DonaldSutherland for ''Literature/OrdinaryPeople'' as Calvin Jarrett
* 1981: '''Creator/HenryFonda''' for ''Theatre/OnGoldenPond'' as Norman Thayer
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/{{Reds|1981}}'' as John Reed
** Creator/TimothyHutton for ''Film/{{Taps}}'' as Brian Moreland
** Creator/BurtLancaster for ''Film/AtlanticCity'' as Lou Pascal
** Creator/TreatWilliams for ''Film/PrinceOfTheCity'' as Detective Daniel "Danny" Ciello
* 1982: '''Creator/BenKingsley''' for ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'' as UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi
** Creator/AlbertFinney for ''Shoot the Moon'' as George Dunlap
** Creator/RichardGere for ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' as Zachary "Zack" Mayo
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''[[Film/Missing1982 missing.]]'' as Edmund "Ed" Horman
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/TheVerdict'' as Frank Galvin
* 1983: '''Tie'''
** '''Tom Courtenay''' for ''Film/TheDresser'' as Norman
** '''Creator/RobertDuvall''' for ''Film/TenderMercies'' as Mac Sledge
*** Tom Conti for ''Reuben, Reuben'' as Gowan [=McGland=]
*** Creator/RichardFarnsworth for ''Film/TheGreyFox'' as Bill Miner / George Edwards / the Grey Fox
*** Creator/AlbertFinney for ''The Dresser'' as Sir
*** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' as Antonio "Tony" Montana
*** Creator/EricRoberts for ''Film/Star80'' as Paul Snider
* 1984: '''Creator/FMurrayAbraham''' for ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'' as Antonio Salieri
** Creator/JeffBridges for ''Film/{{Starman}}'' as Starman / Scott Hayden
** Creator/AlbertFinney for ''Literature/UnderTheVolcano'' as Geoffrey Firmin
** Creator/TomHulce for ''Amadeus'' as Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart
** Creator/SamWaterston for ''Film/TheKillingFields'' as Stanley Schanberg
* 1985: '''Creator/JonVoight''' for ''Film/RunawayTrain'' as Oscar "Manny" Manheim
** Creator/HarrisonFord for ''Film/{{Witness}}'' as Detective Sergeant John Book
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''Twice in a Lifetime'' as Harry [=MacKenzie=]
** Creator/WilliamHurt for ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'' as Luis Molina
** Creator/RaulJulia for ''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' as Valentin Arregui
* 1986: '''Creator/BobHoskins''' for ''Film/MonaLisa'' as George
** Creator/HarrisonFord for ''Film/TheMosquitoCoast'' as Allie Fox
** Dexter Gordon for ''Round Midnight'' as Dale Turner
** Creator/WilliamHurt for ''Film/ChildrenOfALesserGod'' as James Leeds
** Creator/JeremyIrons for ''Film/TheMission'' as Father Gabriel
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'' as Eddie "Fast Eddie" Felson
* 1987: '''Creator/MichaelDouglas''' for ''Film/WallStreet'' as Gordon Gekko
** Creator/JohnLone for ''Film/TheLastEmperor'' as Emperor Puyi
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Literature/{{Ironweed}}'' as Francis Phelan
** Creator/NickNolte for ''Weeds'' as Lee Umstetter
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/CryFreedom'' as Steve Biko
* 1988: '''Creator/DustinHoffman''' for ''Film/RainMan'' as Raymond Babbitt
** Creator/GeneHackman for ''Film/MississippiBurning'' as Special Agent Rupert Anderson
** Creator/TomHulce for ''Film/DominickAndEugene'' as Dominick "Nicky" Luciano
** Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos for ''Film/StandAndDeliver'' as Jaime Escalante
** Creator/ForestWhitaker for ''Bird'' as [[Music/CharlieParker Charlie "Bird" Parker]]
* 1989: '''Creator/TomCruise''' for ''Literature/BornOnTheFourthOfJuly'' as Ron Kovic
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/MyLeftFoot'' as Christy Brown
** Creator/JackLemmon for ''Dad'' as Jake Tremont
** Creator/AlPacino for ''Film/SeaOfLove'' as Detective Frank Keller
** Creator/RobinWilliams for ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' as John Keating
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1990s]]
* 1990: '''Creator/JeremyIrons''' for ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' as Claus von Bülow
** Creator/KevinCostner for ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' as Lieutenant John Dunbar / Dances with Wolves
** Creator/RichardHarris for ''Film/TheField'' as Bull [=McCabe=]
** Creator/AlPacino for ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather Part III]]'' as Michael Corleone
** Creator/RobinWilliams for ''Film/{{Awakenings}}'' as Dr. Malcolm Sayers
* 1991: '''Creator/NickNolte''' for ''Film/ThePrinceOfTides'' as Tom Wingo
** Creator/WarrenBeatty for ''Film/{{Bugsy}}'' as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
** Creator/KevinCostner for ''Film/{{JFK}}'' as Jim Garrison
** Creator/RobertDeNiro for ''Film/CapeFear'' as Maximilian "Max" Cady
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
* 1992: '''Creator/AlPacino''' for ''Film/ScentOfAWoman'' as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
** Creator/TomCruise for ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' as Lieutenant Daniel "Danny" Kaffee
** Creator/RobertDowneyJr for ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' as Creator/CharlieChaplin
** Creator/JackNicholson for ''Film/{{Hoffa}}'' as UsefulNotes/JimmyHoffa
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/MalcolmX'' as UsefulNotes/MalcolmX
* 1993: '''Creator/TomHanks''' for ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'' as Andrew Beckett
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/InTheNameOfTheFather'' as Gerard "Gerry" Conlon
** Creator/HarrisonFord for ''Film/TheFugitive'' as Dr. Richard Kimble
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Literature/TheRemainsOfTheDay'' as James Stevens
** Creator/LiamNeeson for ''Film/SchindlersList'' as Oskar Schindler
* 1994: '''Creator/TomHanks''' for ''Film/ForrestGump'' as Forrest Gump
** Creator/MorganFreeman for ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' as Ellis "Red" Redding
** Creator/PaulNewman for ''Film/NobodysFool'' as Donald "Sully" Sullivan
** Creator/BradPitt for ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'' as Tristan Ludlow
** Creator/JohnTravolta for ''Film/PulpFiction'' as Vincent Vega
* 1995: '''Creator/NicolasCage''' for ''Film/LeavingLasVegas'' as Ben Sanderson
** Creator/RichardDreyfuss for ''Film/MrHollandsOpus'' as Glenn Holland
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Film/{{Nixon}}'' as President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon
** Creator/IanMcKellen for ''Theatre/RichardIII'' as King [[UsefulNotes/RichardIII Richard III of England]]
** Creator/SeanPenn for ''Film/DeadManWalking'' as Matthew Poncelet
* 1996: '''Creator/GeoffreyRush''' for ''Film/{{Shine}}'' as David Helfgott
** Creator/RalphFiennes for ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'' as László de Almásy
** Creator/MelGibson for ''Film/{{Ransom}}'' as Tom Mullen
** Creator/WoodyHarrelson for ''Film/ThePeopleVsLarryFlynt'' as Larry Flynt
** Creator/LiamNeeson for ''Film/MichaelCollins'' as Michael Collins
* 1997: '''Creator/PeterFonda''' for ''Ulee's Gold'' as Ulee Jackson
** Creator/MattDamon for ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' as Will Hunting
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''The Boxer'' as Danny Flynn
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' as Jack Dawson
** Creator/DjimonHounsou for ''Film/{{Amistad}}'' as Joseph Cinqué
* 1998: '''Creator/JimCarrey''' for ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' as Truman Burbank
** Creator/StephenFry for ''Wilde'' as Creator/OscarWilde
** Creator/TomHanks for ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' as Captain John H. Miller
** Creator/IanMcKellen for ''Film/GodsAndMonsters'' as Creator/JamesWhale
** Creator/NickNolte for ''Film/{{Affliction}}'' as Wade Whitehouse
* 1999: '''Creator/DenzelWashington''' for ''Film/TheHurricane'' as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/TheInsider'' as Jeffrey Wigand
** Creator/MattDamon for ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'' as Tom Ripley
** Creator/RichardFarnsworth for ''Film/TheStraightStory'' as Alvin Straight
** Creator/KevinSpacey for ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' as Lester Burnham
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2000s]]
* 2000: '''Creator/TomHanks''' for ''Film/CastAway'' as Chuck Noland
** Creator/JavierBardem for ''Before Night Falls'' as Reinaldo Areinas
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' as Maximus Decimus Meridius
** Creator/MichaelDouglas for ''Film/WonderBoys'' as Grady Tripp
** Creator/GeoffreyRush for ''Film/{{Quills}}'' as the Creator/MarquisDeSade
* 2001: '''Creator/RussellCrowe''' for ''Film/ABeautifulMind'' as John Nash
** Creator/WillSmith for ''Film/{{Ali}}'' as [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali]]
** Creator/KevinSpacey for ''Literature/TheShippingNews'' as Quoyle
** Creator/BillyBobThornton for ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere'' as Ed Crane
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/TrainingDay'' as Detective Alonzo Harris
* 2002: '''Creator/JackNicholson''' for ''Film/AboutSchmidt'' as Warren Schmidt
** Creator/AdrienBrody for ''Film/ThePianist'' as Władysław Szpilman
** Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Literature/TheQuietAmerican'' as Thomas Fowler
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' as Frank Abagnale Jr.
* 2003: '''Creator/SeanPenn''' for ''Film/MysticRiver'' as Jimmy Markum
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/MasterAndCommander'' as Captain Jack Aubrey
** Creator/TomCruise for ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' as Captain Nathan Algren
** Creator/BenKingsley for ''Film/HouseOfSandAndFog'' as Massoud Behrani
** Creator/JudeLaw for ''Film/ColdMountain'' as William "W.P." Inman
* 2004: '''Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio''' for ''Film/TheAviator'' as Creator/HowardHughes
** Creator/JavierBardem for ''Film/TheSeaInside'' as Ramón Sampedro
** Creator/DonCheadle for ''Film/HotelRwanda'' as Paul Rusesabagina
** Creator/JohnnyDepp for ''Film/FindingNeverland'' as James "J.M." Barrie
** Creator/LiamNeeson for ''Film/{{Kinsey}}'' as Alfred Kinsey
* 2005: '''Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman''' for ''Film/{{Capote}}'' as Creator/TrumanCapote
** Creator/RussellCrowe for ''Film/CinderellaMan'' as James J. Braddock
** Creator/TerrenceHoward for ''Film/HustleAndFlow'' as [=DJay=]
** Creator/HeathLedger for ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' as Ennis Del Mar
** Creator/DavidStrathairn for ''Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck'' as Edward R. Murrow
* 2006: '''Creator/ForestWhitaker''' for ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' as UsefulNotes/IdiAmin
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/BloodDiamond'' as Danny Archer
** Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] for ''Film/TheDeparted'' as Trooper William "Billy" Costigan Jr.
** Creator/PeterOToole for ''Venus'' as Maurice Russell
** Creator/WillSmith for ''Film/ThePursuitOfHappyness'' as Chris Gardner
* 2007: '''Creator/DanielDayLewis''' for ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' as Daniel Plainview
** Creator/GeorgeClooney for ''Film/MichaelClayton'' as Michael Clayton
** Creator/JamesMcAvoy for ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' as Robbie Turner
** Creator/ViggoMortensen for ''Film/EasternPromises'' as Nikolai Luzhin
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/AmericanGangster'' as Frank Lucas
* 2008: '''Creator/MickeyRourke''' for ''Film/TheWrestler'' as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/RevolutionaryRoad'' as Frank Wheeler
** Creator/FrankLangella for ''Film/FrostNixon'' as UsefulNotes/RichardNixon
** Creator/SeanPenn for ''Film/{{Milk}}'' as Harvey Milk
** Creator/BradPitt for ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' as Benjamin Button
* 2009: '''Creator/JeffBridges''' for ''Film/CrazyHeart'' as Otis "Bad Blake" Blake
** Creator/GeorgeClooney for ''Film/UpInTheAir'' as Ryan Bingham
** Creator/ColinFirth for ''Literature/ASingleMan'' as George Falconer
** Creator/MorganFreeman for ''Film/{{Invictus}}'' as President UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela
** Creator/TobeyMaguire for ''Film/{{Brothers|2009}}'' as Captain Sam Cahill
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2010s]]
* 2010: '''Creator/ColinFirth''' for ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' as King George VI
** Creator/JesseEisenberg for ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' as Mark Zuckerberg
** Creator/JamesFranco for ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'' as Aron Ralston
** Creator/RyanGosling for ''Film/BlueValentine'' as Dean Pereira
** Creator/MarkWahlberg for ''Film/TheFighter'' as Micky Ward
* 2011: '''Creator/GeorgeClooney''' for ''Film/TheDescendants'' as Matthew "Matt" King
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio for ''Film/JEdgar'' as J. Edgar Hoover
** Creator/MichaelFassbender for ''Film/{{Shame}}'' as Brandon Sullivan
** Creator/RyanGosling for ''Film/TheIdesOfMarch'' as Stephen Meyers
** Creator/BradPitt for ''Film/{{Moneyball}}'' as Billy Beane
* 2012: '''Creator/DanielDayLewis''' for ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' as President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln
** Creator/RichardGere for ''Film/{{Arbitrage}}'' as Robert Miller
** Creator/JohnHawkes for ''Film/TheSessions'' as Mark O'Brien
** Creator/JoaquinPhoenix for ''Film/TheMaster'' as Freddie Quell
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/{{Flight}}'' as Captain William "Whip" Whitaker
* 2013: '''Creator/MatthewMcConaughey''' for ''Film/DallasBuyersClub'' as Ron Woodroof
** Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor for ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'' as Solomon Northup
** Creator/IdrisElba for ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' as President UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela
** Creator/TomHanks for ''Film/CaptainPhillips'' as Captain Richard Phillips
** Creator/RobertRedford for ''Film/AllIsLost'' as Our Man
* 2014: '''Creator/EddieRedmayne''' for ''Film/TheTheoryOfEverything'' as Creator/StephenHawking
** Creator/SteveCarell for ''Film/{{Foxcatcher}}'' as John Eleuthère du Pont
** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch for ''Film/TheImitationGame'' as UsefulNotes/AlanTuring
** Creator/JakeGyllenhaal for ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'' as Louis "Lou" Bloom
** Creator/DavidOyelowo for ''Film/{{Selma}}'' as UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr
* 2015: '''Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio''' for ''Film/TheRevenant'' as Hugh Glass
** Creator/BryanCranston for ''Film/{{Trumbo}}'' as Dalton Trumbo
** Creator/MichaelFassbender for ''Film/SteveJobs'' as UsefulNotes/SteveJobs
** Creator/EddieRedmayne for ''Film/TheDanishGirl'' as Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
** Creator/WillSmith for ''Film/{{Concussion}}'' as Dr. Bennet Omalu
* 2016: '''Creator/CaseyAffleck''' for ''Film/ManchesterByTheSea'' as Lee Chandler
** Creator/JoelEdgerton for ''Film/{{Loving}}'' as Richard Loving
** Creator/AndrewGarfield for ''Film/HacksawRidge'' as Desmond Doss
** Creator/ViggoMortensen for ''Film/CaptainFantastic'' as Ben Cash
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Theatre/{{Fences}}'' as Troy Maxson
* 2017: '''Creator/GaryOldman''' for ''Film/{{Darkest Hour|2017}}'' as Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill
** Creator/TimotheeChalamet for ''Film/CallMeByYourName'' as Elio Perlman
** Creator/DanielDayLewis for ''Film/PhantomThread'' as Reynolds Woodcock
** Creator/TomHanks for ''Film/ThePost'' as Ben Bradlee
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/RomanJIsraelEsq'' as Roman J. Israel
* 2018: '''Creator/RamiMalek''' for ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' as Music/FreddieMercury
** Creator/BradleyCooper for ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|2018}}'' as Jackson Maine
** Creator/WillemDafoe for ''At Eternity's Gate'' as Creator/VincentVanGogh
** Creator/LucasHedges for ''Film/BoyErased'' as Jared Eamons
** Creator/JohnDavidWashington for ''Film/{{BlacKkKlansman}}'' as Ron Stallworth
* 2019: '''Creator/JoaquinPhoenix''' for ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' as [[Characters/Joker2019ArthurFleckJoker Arthur Fleck / Joker]]
** Creator/ChristianBale for ''Film/FordVFerrari'' as Ken Miles
** Creator/AntonioBanderas for ''Film/PainAndGlory'' as Salvador Mallo
** Creator/AdamDriver for ''Film/MarriageStory'' as Charlie Barber
** Creator/JonathanPryce for ''Film/TheTwoPopes'' as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio / Pope Francis
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2020s]]
* 2020: '''Creator/ChadwickBoseman''' for ''Film/MaRaineysBlackBottom'' as Levee Green
** Creator/RizAhmed for ''Film/SoundOfMetal'' as Ruben Stone
** Creator/AnthonyHopkins for ''Film/TheFather'' as Anthony
** Creator/GaryOldman for ''Film/{{Mank}}'' as Herman J. Mankiewicz
** Tahar Rahim for ''The Mauritanian'' as Mohamedou Ould Salahi
* 2021: '''Creator/WillSmith''' for ''Film/KingRichard'' as Richard Williams
** Creator/MahershalaAli for ''Swan Song'' as Cameron Turner
** Creator/JavierBardem for ''Film/BeingTheRicardos'' as Creator/DesiArnaz
** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch for ''Film/ThePowerOfTheDog'' as Phil Burbank
** Creator/DenzelWashington for ''Film/TheTragedyOfMacbeth'' as Lord Macbeth
* 2022: '''Creator/AustinButler''' for ''Film/{{Elvis|2022}}'' as Music/ElvisPresley
** Creator/BrendanFraser for ''Film/TheWhale'' as Charlie
** Creator/HughJackman for ''The Son'' as Peter Miller
** Creator/BillNighy for ''Living'' as Mr. Rodney Williams
** Creator/JeremyPope for ''The Inspection'' as Ellis French
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
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