| Year |
Winner |
Role |
| 2022 |
Brendan Fraser |
Charlie in The Whale |
| 2021 |
Will Smith |
Richard Williams in King Richard |
| 2020 |
Anthony Hopkins |
Anthony in The Father |
| 2019 |
Joaquin Phoenix |
Arthur Fleck in Joker |
| 2018 |
Rami Malek |
Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody |
| 2017 |
Gary Oldman |
Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour |
| 2016 |
Casey Affleck |
Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea |
| 2015 |
Leonardo DiCaprio |
Hugh Glass in The Revenant |
| 2014 |
Eddie Redmayne |
Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything |
| 2013 |
Matthew McConaughey |
Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club |
| 2012 |
Daniel Day-Lewis |
Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln |
| 2011 |
Jean Dujardin |
George Valentin in The Artist |
| 2010 |
Colin Firth |
King George VI in The King's Speech |
| 2009 |
Jeff Bridges |
Otis 'Bad' Blake in Crazy Heart |
| 2008 |
Sean Penn |
Harvey Milk in Milk |
| 2007 |
Daniel Day-Lewis |
Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood |
| 2006 |
Forest Whitaker |
Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland |
| 2005 |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Truman Capote in Capote |
| 2004 |
Jamie Foxx |
Ray Charles in Ray |
| 2003 |
Sean Penn |
Jimmy Markum in Mystic River |
| 2002 |
Adrien Brody |
W?adys?aw Szpilman in The Pianist |
| 2001 |
Denzel Washington |
Alonzo Harris in Training Day |
| 2000 |
Russell Crowe |
Maximum Decimus Meridius in Gladiator |
| 1999 |
Kevin Spacey |
Lester Burnham in American Beauty |
| 1998 |
Roberto Benigni |
Guido Orefice in Life is Beautiful |
| 1997 |
Jack Nicholson |
Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets |
| 1996 |
Geoffrey Rush |
David Helfgott in Shine |
| 1995 |
Nicolas Cage |
Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas |
| 1994 |
Tom Hanks |
Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump |
| 1993 |
Tom Hanks |
Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia |
| 1992 |
Al Pacino |
Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman |
| 1991 |
Anthony Hopkins |
Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs |
| 1990 |
Jeremy Irons |
Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune |
| 1989 |
Daniel Day-Lewis |
Christy Brown in My Left Foot |
| 1988 |
Dustin Hoffman |
Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man |
| 1987 |
Michael Douglas |
Gordon Gekko in Wall Street |
| 1986 |
Paul Newman |
Fast Eddie Felson in The Colour of Money |
| 1985 |
William Hurt |
Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| 1984 |
F. Murray Abraham |
Antonio Salieri in Amadeus |
| 1983 |
Robert Duvall |
Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies |
| 1982 |
Ben Kingsley |
Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi |
| 1981 |
Henry Fonda |
Norman Thayer Jr in On Golden Pond |
| 1980 |
Robert De Niro |
Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull |
| 1979 |
Dustin Hoffman |
Ted Kramer in Kramer vs Kramer |
| 1978 |
Jon Voight |
Luke Martin in Coming Home |
| 1977 |
Richard Dreyfuss |
Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl |
| 1976 |
Peter Finch |
Howard Beale in Network |
| 1975 |
Jack Nicholson |
Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 1974 |
Art Carney |
Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto |
| 1973 |
Jack Lemmon |
Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger |
| 1972 |
Marlon Brando |
Vito Corleone in The Godfather |
| 1971 |
Gene Hackman |
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle in The French Connection |
| 1970 |
George C. Scott |
General George S. Patton in Patton |
| 1969 |
John Wayne |
Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn in True Grit |
| 1968 |
Cliff Robertson |
Charly Gordon in Charly |
| 1967 |
Rod Steiger |
Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night |
| 1966 |
Paul Scofield |
Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons |
| 1965 |
Lee Marvin |
Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn in Cat Ballou |
| 1964 |
Rex Harrison |
Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady |
| 1963 |
Sidney Poitier |
Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field |
| 1962 |
Gregory Peck |
Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 1961 |
Maximilian Schell |
Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg |
| 1960 |
Burt Lancaster |
Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry |
| 1959 |
Charlton Heston |
Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur |
| 1958 |
David Niven |
Major Angus Pollock in Separate Tables |
| 1957 |
Alec Guinness |
Lt. Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1956 |
Yul Brynner |
King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I |
| 1955 |
Ernest Borgnine |
Marty Piletti in Marty |
| 1954 |
Marlon Brando |
Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront |
| 1953 |
William Holden |
Sgt J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17 |
| 1952 |
Gary Cooper |
Marshal Will Kane in High Noon |
| 1951 |
Humphrey Bogart |
Charlie Allnut in The African Queen |
| 1950 |
Jose Ferrer |
Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1949 |
Broderick Crawford |
Willie Stark in All the King's Men |
| 1948 |
Laurence Olivier |
Hamlet in Hamlet |
| 1947 |
Ronald Colman |
Anthony John in A Double Life |
| 1946 |
Fredric March |
Sgt. Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives |
| 1945 |
Ray Milland |
Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend |
| 1944 |
Bing Crosby |
Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way |
| 1943 |
Paul Lukas |
Kurt Muller in Watch on the Rhine |
| 1942 |
James Cagney |
George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| 1941 |
Gary Cooper |
Sgt. Alvin York in Sergeant York |
| 1940 |
James Stewart |
Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story |
| 1939 |
Robert Donat |
Charles Edward Chipping in Goodbye Mr Chips |
| 1938 |
Spencer Tracy |
Father Flanagan in Boys Town |
| 1937 |
Spencer Tracy |
Manuel Fidello in Captains Courageous |
| 1936 |
Paul Muni |
Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur |
| 1935 |
Victor McLaglen |
Gypo Nolan in The Informer |
| 1934 |
Clark Gable |
Peter Warne in It Happened One Night |
| 1933 |
Charles Laughton |
King Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIII |
| 1932 |
Wallace Beery
Frederic March |
Andy Purcell in The Champ and Henry Jekyll / Mr Edward Hyde in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| 1931 |
Lionel Barrymore |
Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul |
| 1930 |
George Arliss |
Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli |
| 1929 |
Warner Baxter |
The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona |
| 1928 |
Emil Jennings |
Grand Duke Sergius Alexander in The Last Command and August Schiller in The Way of All Flesh |
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