Academy Awards, Actor in a Leading Role

2021

Steven Yeun / Minari

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Gary Oldman / Mank

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

The Two Popes

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Leonardo DiCaprio / Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

2019

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Christian Bale / Vice

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Timothée Chalamet / Call Me by Your Name

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

Denzel Washington / Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Daniel Day-Lewis / Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya / Get Out

2017

Denzel Washington / Fences

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

Ryan Gosling / La La Land

Casey Affleck / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Michael Fassbender / Steve Jobs

2015

Michael Keaton / Birdman

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

2014

Chiwetel Ejiofor / 12 Years a Slave

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Christian Bale / American Hustle

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

2013

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

Bradley Cooper / Silver Linings Playbook

2012

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Gary Oldman / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

Javier Bardem / Biutiful

2010

Jeff Bridges / Crazy Heart

Colin Firth / A Single Man

2009

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Sean Penn / Milk

2008

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

George Clooney / Michael Clayton

Tommy Lee Jones / In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

2007

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

2006

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

Keira Knightley / Pride & Prejudice

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

Jamie Foxx / Ray

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

2004

Sean Penn / Mystic River

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Johnny Depp / Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2003

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

2002

Denzel Washington / Training Day

Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Russell Crowe / Gladiator

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

Ed Harris / Pollock

2000

Kevin Spacey / American Beauty

1999

Edward Norton / American History X

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

1998

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

1997

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

Massimo Troisi / Il Postino

Richard Dreyfuss / Mr. Holland's Opus

Sean Penn / Dead Man Walking

1995

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

1994

Tom Hanks / Philadelphia

Daniel Day-Lewis / In the Name of the Father

Liam Neeson / Schindler's List

1993

Robert Downey Jr. / Chaplin

Al Pacino / Scent of a Woman

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Robin Williams / The Fisher King

Anthony Hopkins / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Gérard Depardieu / Cyrano de Bergerac

Jeremy Irons / Reversal of Fortune

1990

Robin Williams / Dead Poets Society

Daniel Day-Lewis / My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Tom Cruise / Born on the Fourth of July

1989

Tom Hanks / Big

Dustin Hoffman / Rain Man

Max von Sydow / Pelle the Conqueror

1988

Robin Williams / Good Morning, Vietnam

Marcello Mastroianni / Dark Eyes

Jack Nicholson / Ironweed

Michael Douglas / Wall Street

1987

William Hurt / Children of a Lesser God

Paul Newman / The Color of Money

1986

Harrison Ford / Witness

Jack Nicholson / Prizzi's Honor

1985

Sam Waterston / The Killing Fields

F. Murray Abraham / Amadeus

1984

Tom Courtenay / The Dresser

Albert Finney / The Dresser

Michael Caine / Educating Rita

1983

Ben Kingsley / Gandhi

1982

Henry Fonda / On Golden Pond

Burt Lancaster / Atlantic City

1981

Robert De Niro / Raging Bull

John Hurt / The Elephant Man

1980

Roy Scheider / All That Jazz

Al Pacino / …And Justice for All

Dustin Hoffman / Kramer vs. Kramer

Peter Sellers / Being There

1979

Robert De Niro / The Deer Hunter

Jon Voight / Coming Home

Gary Busey / The Buddy Holly Story

1978

Marcello Mastroianni / A Special Day

Richard Dreyfuss / The Goodbye Girl

1977

William Holden / Network

Peter Finch / Network

Giancarlo Giannini / Seven Beauties

1976

Al Pacino / Dog Day Afternoon

Jack Nicholson / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

Art Carney / Harry and Tonto

Al Pacino / The Godfather: Part II

Jack Nicholson / Chinatown

1974

Jack Lemmon / Save the Tiger

Robert Redford / The Sting

Al Pacino / Serpico

Marlon Brando / Last Tango in Paris

Jack Nicholson / The Last Detail

1973

Marlon Brando / The Godfather

Peter O'Toole / The Ruling Class

1972

Gene Hackman / The French Connection

Peter Finch / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Jack Nicholson / Five Easy Pieces

George C. Scott / Patton

1970

Jon Voight / Midnight Cowboy

Dustin Hoffman / Midnight Cowboy

John Wayne / True Grit

1969

Alan Arkin / The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Cliff Robertson / Charly

1968

Paul Newman / Cool Hand Luke

Rod Steiger / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Michael Caine / Alfie

Alan Arkin / The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

Paul Scofield / A Man for All Seasons

1966

Lee Marvin / Cat Ballou

Julie Christie / Darling

1965

Peter Sellers / Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

Paul Newman / Hud

Sidney Poitier / Lilies of the Field

1963

Burt Lancaster / Birdman of Alcatraz

Gregory Peck / To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Spencer Tracy / Judgment at Nuremberg

Maximilian Schell / Judgment at Nuremberg

Paul Newman / The Hustler

1961

Burt Lancaster / Elmer Gantry

1960

James Stewart / Anatomy of a Murder

Charlton Heston / Ben-Hur

1959

Sidney Poitier / The Defiant Ones

Paul Newman / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tony Curtis / The Defiant Ones

1958

Marlon Brando / Sayonara

Charles Laughton / Witness for the Prosecution

1957

James Dean / Giant

Rock Hudson / Giant

Yul Brynner / The King and I

1956

Frank Sinatra / The Man with the Golden Arm

James Dean / East of Eden

Laurence Olivier / Richard III

Ernest Borgnine / Marty

1955

Marlon Brando / On the Waterfront

1954

William Holden / Stalag 17

Burt Lancaster / From Here to Eternity

Marlon Brando / Julius Caesar

Montgomery Clift / From Here to Eternity

1953

Marlon Brando / Viva Zapata!

Gary Cooper / High Noon

1952

Montgomery Clift / A Place in the Sun

Humphrey Bogart / The African Queen

Marlon Brando / A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

José Ferrer / Cyrano de Bergerac

James Stewart / Harvey

William Holden / Sunset Boulevard

1950

Broderick Crawford / All the King's Men

John Wayne / Sands of Iwo Jima

Gregory Peck / Twelve O'Clock High

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

Lew Ayres / Johnny Belinda

1948

Gregory Peck / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Gregory Peck / The Yearling

Laurence Olivier / Henry V

1946

Gene Kelly / Anchors Aweigh

Gregory Peck / The Keys of the Kingdom

Ray Milland / The Lost Weekend

1945

Walter Pidgeon / Mrs. Parkington

Bing Crosby / Going My Way

1944

Paul Lukas / Watch on the Rhine

Mickey Rooney / The Human Comedy

Humphrey Bogart / Casablanca

Gary Cooper / For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943

Walter Pidgeon / Mrs. Miniver

Gary Cooper / The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

Gary Cooper / Sergeant York

1941

James Stewart / The Philadelphia Story

Laurence Olivier / Rebecca

Henry Fonda / The Grapes of Wrath

Charlie Chaplin / The Great Dictator

1940

Clark Gable / Gone with the Wind

Robert Donat / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Laurence Olivier / Wuthering Heights

James Stewart / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mickey Rooney / Babes in Arms

1937

Gary Cooper / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

Clark Gable / Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Laughton / Mutiny on the Bounty

Franchot Tone / Mutiny on the Bounty

1934

Charles Laughton / The Private Life of Henry VIII

1929

Emil Jannings / The Last Command

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