Year
|
Actor
|
Film
|
1927/28
|
Emil Jannings
|
The Last Command
|
The Way of All Flesh
|
1928/29
|
Warner Baxter
|
In Old Arizona
|
1929/30
|
George Arliss
|
Disraeli
|
1930/31
|
Lionel Barrymore
|
A Free Soul
|
1931/32
|
Wallace Beery
|
The Champ
|
Fredric March
|
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
|
1932/33
|
Charles Laughton
|
The Private Life of Henry VIII
|
1934
|
Clark Gable
|
It Happened One Night
|
1935
|
Victor McLaglen
|
The Informer
|
1936
|
Paul Muni
|
The Story of Louis Pasteur
|
1937
|
Spencer Tracy
|
Captains Courageous
|
1938
|
Spencer Tracy
|
Boys Town
|
1939
|
Robert Donat
|
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
|
1940
|
James Stewart
|
The Philadelphia Story
|
1941
|
Gary Cooper
|
Sergeant York
|
1942
|
James Cagney
|
Yankee Doodle Dandy
|
1943
|
Paul Lukas
|
Watch on the Rhine
|
1944
|
Bing Crosby
|
Going My Way
|
1945
|
Ray Milland
|
The Lost Weekend
|
1946
|
Fredric March
|
The Best Years of Our Lives
|
1947
|
Ronald Colman
|
A Double Life
|
1948
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Hamlet
|
1949
|
Broderick Crawford
|
All the King's Men
|
1950
|
José Ferrer
|
Cyrano de Bergerac
|
1951
|
Humphrey Bogart
|
The African Queen
|
1952
|
Gary Cooper
|
High Noon
|
1953
|
William Holden
|
Stalag 17
|
1954
|
Marlon Brando
|
On the Waterfront
|
1955
|
Ernest Borgnine
|
Marty
|
1956
|
Yul Brynner
|
The King and I
|
1957
|
Alec Guinness
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
1958
|
David Niven
|
Separate Tables
|
1959
|
Charlton Heston
|
Ben-Hur
|
1960
|
Burt Lancaster
|
Elmer Gantry
|
1961
|
Maximillian Schell
|
Judgement at Nuremburg
|
1962
|
Gregory Peck
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
1963
|
Sydney Poitier
|
Lillies on the Field
|
1964
|
Rex Harrison
|
My Fair Lady
|
1965
|
Lee Marvin
|
Cat Ballou
|
1966
|
Paul Scofield
|
A Man for All Seasons
|
1967
|
Rod Steiger
|
In the Heart of the Night
|
1968
|
Cliff Robertson
|
Charly
|
1969
|
John Wayne
|
True Grit
|
1970
|
George C. Scott
|
Patton
|
1971
|
Gene Hackman
|
The French Connection
|
1972
|
Marlon Brando
|
The Godfather
|
1973
|
Jack Lemmon
|
Save the Tiger
|
1974
|
Art Carney
|
Harry and Tonto
|
1975
|
Jack Nicholson
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
1976
|
Peter Finch
|
Network
|
1977
|
Richard Dreyfuss
|
The Goodbye Girl
|
1978
|
Jon Voight
|
Coming Home
|
1979
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
Kramer vs. Kramer
|
1980
|
Robert De Niro
|
Raging Bull
|
1981
|
Henry Fonda
|
On Golden Pond
|
1982
|
Ben Kingsley
|
Gandhi
|
1983
|
Robert Duvall
|
Tender Mercies
|
1984
|
F. Murray Abraham
|
Amadeus
|
1985
|
William Hurt
|
Kiss of the Spider Woman
|
1986
|
Paul Newman
|
The Color of Money
|
1987
|
Michael Douglas
|
Wall Street
|
1988
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
Rain Man
|
1989
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
My Left Foot
|
1990
|
Jeremy Irons
|
Reversal of Fortune
|
1991
|
Anthony Hopkins
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
1992
|
Al Pacino
|
Scent of a Woman
|
1993
|
Tom Hanks
|
Philadelphia
|
1994
|
Tom Hanks
|
Forrest Gump
|
1995
|
Nicolas Cage
|
Leaving Las Vegas
|
1996
|
Geoffrey Rush
|
Shine
|
1997
|
Jack Nicholson
|
As Good as it Gets
|
1998
|
Roberto Benigni
|
Life is Beautiful
|
1999
|
Kevin Spacey
|
American Beauty
|
2000
|
Russell Crowe
|
Gladiator
|
2001
|
Denzel Washington
|
Training Day
|
2002
|
Adrien Brody
|
The Pianist
|
2003
|
Sean Penn
|
Mystic River
|
2004
|
Jamie Foxx
|
Ray
|
2005
|
Philip Seymour Hoffman
|
Capote
|
2006
|
Forest Whitaker
|
The Last King of Scotland
|
2007
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
There Will Be Blood
|
2008
|
Sean Penn
|
Milk
|
2009
|
Jeff Bridges
|
Crazy Heart
|
2010
|
Colin Firth
|
The King's Speech
|
2011
|
Jean Dujardin
|
The Artist
|
2012
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
Lincoln
|
2013
|
Matthew McConaughey
|
Dallas Buyers Club
|
2014
|
Eddie Redmayne
|
The Theory of Everything
|
2015
|
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
The Revenant
|
2016
|
Casey Affleck
|
Manchester by the Sea
|
2017
|
Gary Oldman
|
Darkest Hour
|
2018
|
Rami Malek
|
Bohemian Rhapsody
|
2019
|
Joaquin Phoenix
|
Joker
|
2020/21
|
Anthony Hopkins
|
The Father
|
2021
|
Will Smith
|
King Richard
|
2022
|
Brendan Fraser
|
The Whale
|
2023
|
Cillian Murphy
|
Oppenheimer
|