Academy Awards, Actor in a Leading Role

2022

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick… BOOM!

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

Gary Oldman / Mank

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Steven Yeun / Minari

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

2020

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

The Two Popes

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

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

2019

Christian Bale / Vice

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

2018

Denzel Washington / Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

Daniel Kaluuya / Get Out

Daniel Day-Lewis / Phantom Thread

Timothée Chalamet / Call Me by Your Name

2017

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

Casey Affleck / Manchester by the Sea

Denzel Washington / Fences

Ryan Gosling / La La Land

2016

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Michael Fassbender / Steve Jobs

2015

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Michael Keaton / Birdman

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

2014

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor / 12 Years a Slave

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale / American Hustle

2013

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

Bradley Cooper / Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

2012

Gary Oldman / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

2011

Javier Bardem / Biutiful

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Colin Firth / A Single Man

Jeff Bridges / Crazy Heart

2009

Sean Penn / Milk

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Tommy Lee Jones / In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

George Clooney / Michael Clayton

2007

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

2006

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Keira Knightley / Pride & Prejudice

2005

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Jamie Foxx / Ray

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

Sean Penn / Mystic River

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

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

2003

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

2002

Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind

Denzel Washington / Training Day

2001

Russell Crowe / Gladiator

Ed Harris / Pollock

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

2000

Kevin Spacey / American Beauty

1999

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

Edward Norton / American History X

1998

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

1997

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

Sean Penn / Dead Man Walking

Richard Dreyfuss / Mr. Holland's Opus

Massimo Troisi / Il Postino

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

1994

Daniel Day-Lewis / In the Name of the Father

Tom Hanks / Philadelphia

Liam Neeson / Schindler's List

1993

Al Pacino / Scent of a Woman

Robert Downey Jr. / Chaplin

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Robin Williams / The Fisher King

Anthony Hopkins / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Jeremy Irons / Reversal of Fortune

Gérard Depardieu / Cyrano de Bergerac

1990

Robin Williams / Dead Poets Society

Tom Cruise / Born on the Fourth of July

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

1989

Tom Hanks / Big

Dustin Hoffman / Rain Man

Max von Sydow / Pelle the Conqueror

1988

Michael Douglas / Wall Street

Marcello Mastroianni / Dark Eyes

Robin Williams / Good Morning, Vietnam

Jack Nicholson / Ironweed

1987

Paul Newman / The Color of Money

William Hurt / Children of a Lesser God

1986

Harrison Ford / Witness

Jack Nicholson / Prizzi's Honor

1985

F. Murray Abraham / Amadeus

Sam Waterston / The Killing Fields

1984

Tom Courtenay / The Dresser

Albert Finney / The Dresser

Michael Caine / Educating Rita

1983

Jack Lemmon / Missing

Ben Kingsley / Gandhi

1982

Burt Lancaster / Atlantic City

Henry Fonda / On Golden Pond

1981

John Hurt / The Elephant Man

Robert De Niro / Raging Bull

1980

Al Pacino / …And Justice for All

Roy Scheider / All That Jazz

Peter Sellers / Being There

Dustin Hoffman / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Robert De Niro / The Deer Hunter

Gary Busey / The Buddy Holly Story

Jon Voight / Coming Home

1978

Marcello Mastroianni / A Special Day

Richard Dreyfuss / The Goodbye Girl

1977

Giancarlo Giannini / Seven Beauties

William Holden / Network

Peter Finch / Network

1976

Al Pacino / Dog Day Afternoon

Jack Nicholson / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

Al Pacino / The Godfather: Part II

Art Carney / Harry and Tonto

Jack Nicholson / Chinatown

1974

Robert Redford / The Sting

Jack Nicholson / The Last Detail

Marlon Brando / Last Tango in Paris

Al Pacino / Serpico

Jack Lemmon / Save the Tiger

1973

Peter O'Toole / The Ruling Class

Marlon Brando / The Godfather

1972

Gene Hackman / The French Connection

Peter Finch / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

George C. Scott / Patton

Jack Nicholson / Five Easy Pieces

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

Rod Steiger / In the Heat of the Night

Paul Newman / Cool Hand Luke

1967

Paul Scofield / A Man for All Seasons

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

Michael Caine / Alfie

1966

Julie Christie / Darling

Lee Marvin / Cat Ballou

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

Gregory Peck / To Kill a Mockingbird

Burt Lancaster / Birdman of Alcatraz

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

Paul Newman / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sidney Poitier / The Defiant Ones

Tony Curtis / The Defiant Ones

1958

Charles Laughton / Witness for the Prosecution

Marlon Brando / Sayonara

1957

James Dean / Giant

Yul Brynner / The King and I

Rock Hudson / Giant

1956

Laurence Olivier / Richard III

Ernest Borgnine / Marty

Frank Sinatra / The Man with the Golden Arm

James Dean / East of Eden

1955

Marlon Brando / On the Waterfront

1954

Burt Lancaster / From Here to Eternity

Marlon Brando / Julius Caesar

Montgomery Clift / From Here to Eternity

William Holden / Stalag 17

1953

Gary Cooper / High Noon

Marlon Brando / Viva Zapata!

1952

Montgomery Clift / A Place in the Sun

Marlon Brando / A Streetcar Named Desire

Humphrey Bogart / The African Queen

1951

José Ferrer / Cyrano de Bergerac

James Stewart / Harvey

William Holden / Sunset Boulevard

1950

Gregory Peck / Twelve O'Clock High

John Wayne / Sands of Iwo Jima

Broderick Crawford / All the King's Men

1949

Lew Ayres / Johnny Belinda

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

1948

Gregory Peck / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Laurence Olivier / Henry V

Gregory Peck / The Yearling

1946

Ray Milland / The Lost Weekend

Gene Kelly / Anchors Aweigh

Gregory Peck / The Keys of the Kingdom

1945

Bing Crosby / Going My Way

Walter Pidgeon / Mrs. Parkington

1944

Humphrey Bogart / Casablanca

Gary Cooper / For Whom the Bell Tolls

Mickey Rooney / The Human Comedy

Paul Lukas / Watch on the Rhine

1943

Walter Pidgeon / Mrs. Miniver

Gary Cooper / The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Gary Cooper / Sergeant York

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

1941

Charlie Chaplin / The Great Dictator

Henry Fonda / The Grapes of Wrath

James Stewart / The Philadelphia Story

Laurence Olivier / Rebecca

1940

Laurence Olivier / Wuthering Heights

James Stewart / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Robert Donat / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Clark Gable / Gone with the Wind

Mickey Rooney / Babes in Arms

1937

Gary Cooper / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

Franchot Tone / Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Laughton / Mutiny on the Bounty

Clark Gable / Mutiny on the Bounty

1934

Charles Laughton / The Private Life of Henry VIII

1929

Emil Jannings / The Last Command

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