Golden Globe Awards, Best Actor in a Motion Picture

2025

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Sebastian Stan / The Apprentice

Daniel Craig / Queer

2024

Andrew Scott / All of Us Strangers

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Leonardo DiCaprio / Killers of the Flower Moon

Colman Domingo / Rustin

Barry Keoghan / Saltburn

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

2023

Bill Nighy / Living

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Austin Butler / Elvis

Hugh Jackman / The Son

Jeremy Pope / The Inspection

2022

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Mahershala Ali / Swan Song

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

2021

Tahar Rahim / The Mauritanian

Gary Oldman / Mank

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

The Two Popes

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Christian Bale / Ford v Ferrari

2019

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

Lucas Hedges / Boy Erased

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

John David Washington / BlacKkKlansman

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

Timothée Chalamet / Call Me by Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis / Phantom Thread

Tom Hanks / The Post

Denzel Washington / Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017

Casey Affleck / Manchester by the Sea

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

2016

Michael Fassbender / Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

2015

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

2014

Robert Redford / All Is Lost

Idris Elba / Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Chiwetel Ejiofor / 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

2013

Richard Gere / Arbitrage

John Hawkes / The Sessions

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

2012

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

2011

Mark Wahlberg / The Fighter

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

Jesse Eisenberg / The Social Network

2010

Tobey Maguire / Brothers

Colin Firth / A Single Man

2009

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Leonardo DiCaprio / Revolutionary Road

2008

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

2007

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

Will Smith / The Pursuit of Happyness

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Departed

2006

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Liam Neeson / Kinsey

Javier Bardem / Mar adentro

2004

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

2003

Leonardo DiCaprio / Catch Me If You Can

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

2002

Billy Bob Thornton / The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

2000

Matt Damon / The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999

Stephen Fry / Wilde

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

1998

Djimon Hounsou / Amistad

Daniel Day-Lewis / The Boxer

Leonardo DiCaprio / Titanic

1997

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Liam Neeson / Michael Collins

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

Richard Dreyfuss / Mr. Holland's Opus

Ian McKellen / Richard III

1995

Brad Pitt / Legends of the Fall

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

1994

Harrison Ford / The Fugitive

Daniel Day-Lewis / In the Name of the Father

Tom Hanks / Philadelphia

Liam Neeson / Schindler's List

1993

Jack Nicholson / Hoffa

Tom Cruise / A Few Good Men

Denzel Washington / Malcolm X

Al Pacino / Scent of a Woman

1992

Nick Nolte / The Prince of Tides

1991

Robin Williams / Awakenings

Al Pacino / The Godfather: Part III

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

Forest Whitaker / Bird

1988

Michael Douglas / Wall Street

Jack Nicholson / Ironweed

1987

Harrison Ford / The Mosquito Coast

Jeremy Irons / The Mission

Paul Newman / The Color of Money

1986

Harrison Ford / Witness

1985

Sam Waterston / The Killing Fields

F. Murray Abraham / Amadeus

1984

Albert Finney / The Dresser

Tom Courtenay / The Dresser

1983

Ben Kingsley / Gandhi

Richard Gere / An Officer and a Gentleman

Jack Lemmon / Missing

1982

Timothy Hutton / Taps

Burt Lancaster / Atlantic City

Henry Fonda / On Golden Pond

1981

Robert De Niro / Raging Bull

John Hurt / The Elephant Man

Donald Sutherland / Ordinary People

1980

Al Pacino / …And Justice for All

Dustin Hoffman / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Robert De Niro / The Deer Hunter

1978

Marcello Mastroianni / Una giornata particolare

Henry Winkler / Heroes

1977

David Carradine / Bound for Glory

1976

Jack Nicholson / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Al Pacino / Dog Day Afternoon

1975

Gene Hackman / The Conversation

James Caan / The Gambler

Jack Nicholson / Chinatown

1974

Al Pacino / Serpico

Jack Nicholson / The Last Detail

1973

Marlon Brando / The Godfather

Jon Voight / Deliverance

Al Pacino / The Godfather

1972

Jack Nicholson / Carnal Knowledge

Gene Hackman / The French Connection

Peter Finch / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Jack Nicholson / Five Easy Pieces

George C. Scott / Patton

1970

Dustin Hoffman / Midnight Cowboy

John Wayne / True Grit

Jon Voight / Midnight Cowboy

1969

Alan Arkin / The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Cliff Robertson / Charly

Tony Curtis / The Boston Strangler

1968

Paul Newman / Cool Hand Luke

Sidney Poitier / In the Heat of the Night

Rod Steiger / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Michael Caine / Alfie

Sidney Poitier / A Patch of Blue

1964

Paul Newman / Hud

Sidney Poitier / Lilies of the Field

1963

Burt Lancaster / Birdman of Alcatraz

1962

Sidney Poitier / A Raisin in the Sun

Paul Newman / The Hustler

Maximilian Schell / Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

Burt Lancaster / Elmer Gantry

1960

Joseph Schildkraut / The Diary of Anne Frank

Charlton Heston / Ben-Hur

1959

Sidney Poitier / The Defiant Ones

Tony Curtis / The Defiant Ones

1958

Marlon Brando / Sayonara

Henry Fonda / 12 Angry Men

Charles Laughton / Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Gary Cooper / Friendly Persuasion

Burt Lancaster / The Rainmaker

Karl Malden / Baby Doll

1956

Ernest Borgnine / Marty

1955

Marlon Brando / On the Waterfront

1953

Gary Cooper / High Noon

1951

James Stewart / Harvey

José Ferrer / Cyrano de Bergerac

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

1947

Gregory Peck / The Yearling

1944

Paul Lukas / Watch on the Rhine

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