1998 - Roberto Benigni [1952-] - (Life is Beautiful)
1997 - Jack Nicholson [1937-] - (As Good As It Gets)
1996 - Geoffrey Rush [1951-] - (Shine)
1995 - Nicolas Cage [1964-] - (Leaving Las Vegas)
1994 - Tom Hanks [1956-] - (Forrest Gump)
1993 - Tom Hanks [1956-] - (Philadelphia)
1992 - Al Pacino [1940-] - (Scent of a Woman)
1991 - Anthony Hopkins [1937-] - (Silence of the Lambs)
1990 - Jeremy Irons [1948-] - (Reversal of Fortune)
1989 - Daniel Day-Lewis [1957-] - (My Left Foot)
1988 - Dustin Hoffman [1937-] - (Rain Man)
1987 - Michael Douglas [1944-] - (Wall Street)
1986 - Paul Newman [1925-] - (The Color of Money)
1985 - William Hurt [1950-] - (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1984 - F. Murray Abraham [1939-] - (Amadeus)
1983 - Robert Duvall [1931-] - (Tender Mercies)
1982 - Ben Kingsley [1943-] - (Gandhi)
1981 - Henry Fonda [1905-1982] - (On Golden Pond)
1980 - Robert De Niro [1943-] - (Raging Bull)
1979 - Dustin Hoffman [1937-] - (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1978 - Jon Voight [1938-] - (Coming Home)
1977 - Richard Dreyfuss [1947-] - (The Goodbye Girl)
1976 - Peter Finch [1916-1977] - (Network)
1975 - Jack Nicholson [1937-] - (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1974 - Art Carney [1918-] - (Harry and Tonto)
1973 - Jack Lemmon [1925-] - (Save the Tiger)
1972 - Marlon Brando [1924-] - (The Godfather)
1971 - Gene Hackman [1930-] - (The French Connection)
1970 - George C. Scott [1927-] - (Patton)
1969 - John Wayne [1907-1979] - (True Grit)
1968 - Cliff Robertson [1925-] - (Charly)
1967 - Rod Steiger [1925-] - (In the Heat of the Night)
1966 - Paul Scofield [1922-] - (A Man For All Seasons)
1965 - Lee Marvin [1924-1987] - (Cat Ballou)
1964 - Rex Harrison [1908-1990] - (My Fair Lady)
1963 - Sidney Poitier [1927-] - (Lilies of the Field)
1962 - Gregory Peck [1916-] - (To Kill A Mockingbird)
1961 - Maximilian Schell [1930-] - (Judgement at Nuremberg)
1960 - Burt Lancaster [1913-1994] - (Elmer Gantry)
1959 - Charlton Heston [1924-] - (Ben Hur)
1958 - David Niven [1910-1983] - (Separate Tables)
1957 - Alec Guinness [1914-] - (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1956 - Yul Brynner [1920-1985] - (The King and I)
1955 - Ernest Borgnine [1917-] - (Marty)
1954 - Marlon Brando [1924-] - (On the Waterfront)
1953 - William Holden [1918-1981] - (Stalag 17)
1952 - Gary Cooper [1901-1961] - (High Noon)
1951 - Humphrey Bogart [1899-1957] - (The African Queen)
1950 - Jose Ferrer [1912-1992] - (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1949 - Broderick Crawford [1911-1986] - (All the King's Men)
1948 - Laurence Olivier [1907-1989] - (Hamlet)
1947 - Ronald Colman [1891-1958] - (A Double Life)
1946 - Fredric March [1897-1975] - (The Best Years of Our Lives)
1945 - Ray Milland [1907-1986] - (The Lost Weekend)
1944 - Bing Crosby [1901-1977] - (Going My Way)
1943 - Paul Lukas [1895-1971] - (Watch on the Rhine)
1942 - James Cagney [1899-1986] - (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1941 - Gary Cooper [1901-1961] - (Sergeant York)
1940 - James Stewart [1908-1997] - (The Philadelphia Story)
1939 - Robert Donat [1905-1958] - (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
1938 - Spencer Tracy [1900-1967] - (Boy's Town)
1937 - Spencer Tracy [1900-1967] - (Captains Courageous)
1936 - Paul Muni [1895-1967] - (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
1935 - Victor McLaglen [1883-1959] - (The Informer)
1934 - Clark Gable [1901-1960] - (It Happened One Night)
1933 - Charles Laughton [1899-1962] - (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
1932 - Wallace Beery [1885-1949] - (The Champ)
1931 - Lionel Barrymore [1878-1954] - (A Free Soul)
1930 - George Arliss [1868-1946] - (Disraeli)
1929 - Warner Baxter [1889-1951] - (In Old Arizona)
1928 - Emil Jannings [1884-1950] - (The Last Command & The Way of All Flesh)