Academy Awards, Actor in a Leading Role

2026

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Wagner Moura / O Agente Secreto

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

2025

Sebastian Stan / The Apprentice

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

2024

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Colman Domingo / Rustin

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

2023

Austin Butler / Elvis

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Paul Mescal / Aftersun

Bill Nighy / Living

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

2021

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Gary Oldman / Mank

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Steven Yeun / Minari

2020

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

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

The Two Popes

2019

Christian Bale / Vice

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

Bradley Cooper / A Star Is Born

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Timothée Chalamet / Call Me by Your Name

Denzel Washington / Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

Daniel Day-Lewis / Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya / Get Out

2017

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

Denzel Washington / Fences

Ryan Gosling / La La Land

Casey Affleck / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Michael Fassbender / Steve Jobs

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

2015

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Michael Keaton / Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale / American Hustle

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Chiwetel Ejiofor / 12 Years a Slave

2013

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

Bradley Cooper / Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

2012

Gary Oldman / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

Javier Bardem / Biutiful

2010

Jeff Bridges / Crazy Heart

Colin Firth / A Single Man

2009

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sean Penn / Milk

2008

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

George Clooney / Michael Clayton

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

Tommy Lee Jones / In the Valley of Elah

2007

Will Smith / The Pursuit of Happyness

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

2006

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

Keira Knightley / Pride & Prejudice

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Jamie Foxx / Ray

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Sean Penn / Mystic River

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

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

2003

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

2002

Denzel Washington / Training Day

Will Smith / Ali

Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Russell Crowe / Gladiator

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

Ed Harris / Pollock

2000

Kevin Spacey / American Beauty

1999

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Edward Norton / American History X

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

1998

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

1997

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

1996

Sean Penn / Dead Man Walking

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

Richard Dreyfuss / Mr. Holland's Opus

Massimo Troisi / Il Postino

1995

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

1994

Liam Neeson / Schindler's List

Daniel Day-Lewis / In the Name of the Father

Tom Hanks / Philadelphia

1993

Denzel Washington / Malcolm X

Al Pacino / Scent of a Woman

Robert Downey Jr. / Chaplin

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Anthony Hopkins / The Silence of the Lambs

Robin Williams / The Fisher King

1991

Jeremy Irons / Reversal of Fortune

Gérard Depardieu / Cyrano de Bergerac

1990

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

Robin Williams / Dead Poets Society

Tom Cruise / Born on the Fourth of July

1989

Tom Hanks / Big

Max von Sydow / Pelle the Conqueror

Gene Hackman / Mississippi Burning

Dustin Hoffman / Rain Man

1988

Michael Douglas / Wall Street

Jack Nicholson / Ironweed

Robin Williams / Good Morning, Vietnam

Marcello Mastroianni / Dark Eyes

1987

Paul Newman / The Color of Money

William Hurt / Children of a Lesser God

1986

James Garner / Murphy's Romance

Harrison Ford / Witness

Jack Nicholson / Prizzi's Honor

Jon Voight / Runaway Train

1985

Sam Waterston / The Killing Fields

F. Murray Abraham / Amadeus

1984

Michael Caine / Educating Rita

Tom Courtenay / The Dresser

Albert Finney / The Dresser

1983

Jack Lemmon / Missing

Ben Kingsley / Gandhi

1982

Burt Lancaster / Atlantic City

Henry Fonda / On Golden Pond

1981

Robert De Niro / Raging Bull

John Hurt / The Elephant Man

1980

Roy Scheider / All That Jazz

Dustin Hoffman / Kramer vs. Kramer

Al Pacino / …And Justice for All

Peter Sellers / Being There

1979

Robert De Niro / The Deer Hunter

Gary Busey / The Buddy Holly Story

Jon Voight / Coming Home

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

1978

Marcello Mastroianni / Una giornata particolare

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

Richard Dreyfuss / The Goodbye Girl

1977

Sylvester Stallone / Rocky

Peter Finch / Network

Giancarlo Giannini / Seven Beauties

William Holden / Network

1976

Al Pacino / Dog Day Afternoon

Jack Nicholson / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

Jack Nicholson / Chinatown

Al Pacino / The Godfather: Part II

Art Carney / Harry and Tonto

1974

Al Pacino / Serpico

Marlon Brando / Le Dernier Tango à Paris

Jack Nicholson / The Last Detail

Jack Lemmon / Save the Tiger

Robert Redford / The Sting

1973

Marlon Brando / The Godfather

Peter O'Toole / The Ruling Class

1972

Peter Finch / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Gene Hackman / The French Connection

1971

George C. Scott / Patton

Jack Nicholson / Five Easy Pieces

1970

Jon Voight / Midnight Cowboy

Dustin Hoffman / Midnight Cowboy

John Wayne / True Grit

1969

Cliff Robertson / Charly

Alan Arkin / The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1968

Paul Newman / Cool Hand Luke

Rod Steiger / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Paul Scofield / A Man for All Seasons

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

Michael Caine / Alfie

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

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

Jack Lemmon / The Apartment

Burt Lancaster / Elmer Gantry

1960

Charlton Heston / Ben-Hur

James Stewart / Anatomy of a Murder

1959

Sidney Poitier / The Defiant Ones

Tony Curtis / The Defiant Ones

Paul Newman / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

Alec Guinness / The Bridge on the River Kwai

Marlon Brando / Sayonara

Charles Laughton / Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Rock Hudson / Giant

James Dean / Giant

Yul Brynner / The King and I

1956

Ernest Borgnine / Marty

Laurence Olivier / Richard III

Frank Sinatra / The Man with the Golden Arm

James Dean / East of Eden

1955

Marlon Brando / On the Waterfront

1954

Marlon Brando / Julius Caesar

Burt Lancaster / From Here to Eternity

Montgomery Clift / From Here to Eternity

William Holden / Stalag 17

1953

Marlon Brando / Viva Zapata!

Gary Cooper / High Noon

1952

Marlon Brando / A Streetcar Named Desire

Humphrey Bogart / The African Queen

Montgomery Clift / A Place in the Sun

1951

William Holden / Sunset Boulevard

José Ferrer / Cyrano de Bergerac

James Stewart / Harvey

1950

John Wayne / Sands of Iwo Jima

Gregory Peck / Twelve O'Clock High

Broderick Crawford / All the King's Men

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

Lew Ayres / Johnny Belinda

1948

Gregory Peck / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Laurence Olivier / Henry V

Gregory Peck / The Yearling

1946

Ray Milland / The Lost Weekend

Gregory Peck / The Keys of the Kingdom

Gene Kelly / Anchors Aweigh

1945

Bing Crosby / Going My Way

Walter Pidgeon / Mrs. Parkington

1944

Paul Lukas / Watch on the Rhine

Mickey Rooney / The Human Comedy

Gary Cooper / For Whom the Bell Tolls

Humphrey Bogart / Casablanca

1943

Walter Pidgeon / Mrs. Miniver

Gary Cooper / The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Gary Cooper / Sergeant York

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

1941

Henry Fonda / The Grapes of Wrath

Charlie Chaplin / The Great Dictator

Laurence Olivier / Rebecca

James Stewart / The Philadelphia Story

1940

Mickey Rooney / Babes in Arms

Clark Gable / Gone with the Wind

James Stewart / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Robert Donat / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Laurence Olivier / Wuthering Heights

1937

Gary Cooper / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

Clark Gable / Mutiny on the Bounty

Franchot Tone / Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Laughton / Mutiny on the Bounty

1935

Clark Gable / It Happened One Night

1934

Charles Laughton / The Private Life of Henry VIII

1931

Richard Dix / Cimarron

Jackie Cooper / Skippy

Adolphe Menjou / The Front Page

Fredric March / The Royal Family of Broadway

Lionel Barrymore / A Free Soul

1930

Warner Baxter / In Old Arizona

George Arliss / The Green Goddess

George Arliss / Disraeli

Lawrence Tibbett / The Rogue Song

Ronald Colman / Bulldog Drummond

Maurice Chevalier / The Love Parade

Maurice Chevalier / The Big Pond

Wallace Beery / The Big House

Ronald Colman / Condemned

1929

Emil Jannings / The Last Command

Richard Barthelmess / The Patent Leather Kid

Richard Barthelmess / The Noose

Emil Jannings / The Way of All Flesh

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