1936 : Walter Brennan in "COME AND GET IT"
1937 : Joseph Schildkraut in "THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA"
1938 : Walter Brennan in "KENTUCKY"
1939 : Thomas Mitchell in "STAGECOACH"
1940 : Walter Brennan in "THE WESTERNER"
1941 : Donald Crisp in "HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY"
1942 : Van Heflin in "JOHNNY EAGER"
1943 : Charles Coburn in "THE MORE THE MERRIER"
1944 : Barry Fitzgerald in "GOING MY WAY"
1945 : James Dunn in "A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN"
1946 : Harold Russell in "THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES"
1947 : Edmund Gwenn in "MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET"
1948 : Walter Huston in "THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE"
1949 : Dean Jagger in "TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH"
1950 : George Sanders in "ALL ABOUT EVE"
1951 : Karl Malden in "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE"
1952 : Anthony Quinn in "VIVA ZAPATA!"
1953 : Frank Sinatra in "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY"
1954 : Edmond O'Brien in "THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA"
1955 : Jack Lemmon in "MISTER ROBERTS"
1956 : Anthony Quinn in "LUST FOR LIFE"
1957 : Red Buttons in "SAYONARA"
1958 : Burl Ives in "THE BIG COUNTRY"
1959 : Hugh Griffith in "BEN-HUR"
1960 : Peter Ustinov in "SPARTACUS"
1961 : George Chakiris in "WEST SIDE STORY"
1962 : Ed Begley in "SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH"
1963 : Melvyn Douglas in "HUD"
1964 : Peter Ustinov in "TOPKAPI"
1965 : Martin Balsam in "A THOUSAND CLOWNS"
1966 : Walter Matthau in "THE FORTUNE COOKIE"
1967 : George Kennedy in "COOL HAND LUKE"
1968 : Jack Albertson in "THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES"
1969 : Gig Young in "THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?"
1970 : John Mills in "RYAN'S DAUGHTER"
1971 : Ben Johnson in "THE LAST PICTURE SHOW"
1972 : Joel Grey in "CABARET"
1973 : John Houseman in "THE PAPER CHASE"
1974 : Robert De Niro in "THE GODFATHER PART II"
1975 : George Burns in "THE SUNSHINE BOYS"
1976 : Jason Robards in "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN"
1977 : Jason Robards in "JULIA"
1978 : Christopher Walken in "THE DEER HUNTER"
1979 : Melvyn Douglas in "BEING THERE"
1980 : Timothy Hutton in "ORDINARY PEOPLE"
1981 : John Gielgud in "ARTHUR"
1982 : Louis Gossett, Jr. in "AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN"
1983 : Jack Nicholson in "TERMS OF ENDEARMENT"
1984 : Haing S. Ngor in "THE KILLING FIELDS"
1985 : Don Ameche in "COCOON"
1986 : Michael Caine in "HANNAH AND HER SISTERS"
1987 : Sean Connery in "THE UNTOUCHABLES"
1988 : Kevin Kline in "A FISH CALLED WANDA"
1989 : Denzel Washington in "GLORY"
1990 : Joe Pesci in "GOODFELLAS"
1991 : Jack Palance in "CITY SLICKERS"
1992 : Gene Hackman in "UNFORGIVEN"
1993 : Tommy Lee Jones in "THE FUGITIVE"
1994 : Martin Landau in "ED WOOD"


1995 : Kevin Spacey in "THE USUAL SUSPECTS"
1996 : Cuba Gooding, Jr. in "JERRY MAGUIRE"
1997 : Robin Williams in "GOOD WILL HUNTING"
1998 : James Coburn in "AFFLICTION"
1999 : Michael Caine in "The Cider House Rules"
2000 : Benicio Del Toro, "Traffic"
2001 : Jim Broadbent, "Iris"
2002 : Chris Cooper, "Adaptation"
2003 : Tim Robbins, "Mystic River"
2004 : Morgan Freeman, "Million Dollar Baby"