2025:
Sean Penn in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
2024:
Kieran Culkin in A REAL PAIN
2023:
Robert Downey Jr. in OPPENHEIMER
2022:
Ke Huy Quan in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
2021:
Troy Kotsur in CODA
2020:
Daniel Kaluuya in JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
2019:
Brad Pitt in ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD
2018:
Mahershala Ali in GREEN BOOK
2017:
Sam Rockwell in THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
2016:
Mahershala Ali in MOONLIGHT
2015:
Mark Rylance in BRIDGE OF SPIES
2014:
J.K. Simmons in WHIPLASH
2013:
Jared Leto in DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2012:
Christoph Waltz in DJANGO UNCHAINED
2011:
Christopher Plummer in BEGINNERS
2010:
Christian Bale in THE FIGHTER
2009:
Christoph Waltz in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
2008:
Heath Ledger in THE DARK KNIGHT
2007:
Javier Bardem in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
2006:
Alan Arkin in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
2005:
George Clooney in SYRIANA
2004:
Morgan Freeman in MILLION DOLLAR BABY
2003:
Tim Robbins in MYSTIC RIVER
2002:
Chris Cooper in ADAPTATION
2001:
Jim Broadbent in IRIS
2000:
Benicio Del Toro in TRAFFIC
1999:
Michael Caine in THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
1998:
James Coburn in AFFLICTION
1997:
Robin Williams in GOOD WILL HUNTING
1996:
Cuba Gooding, Jr. in JERRY MAGUIRE
1995:
Kevin Spacey in THE USUAL SUSPECTS
1994:
Martin Landau in ED WOOD
1993:
Tommy Lee Jones in THE FUGITIVE
1992:
Gene Hackman in UNFORGIVEN
1991:
Jack Palance in CITY SLICKERS
1990:
Joe Pesci in GOODFELLAS
1989:
Denzel Washington in GLORY
1988:
Kevin Kline in A FISH CALLED WANDA
1987:
Sean Connery in THE UNTOUCHABLES
1986:
Michael Caine in HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
1985:
Don Ameche in COCOON
1984:
Haing S. Ngor in THE KILLING FIELDS
1983:
Jack Nicholson in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
1982:
Louis Gossett, Jr. in AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
1981:
John Gielgud in ARTHUR
1980:
Timothy Hutton in ORDINARY PEOPLE
1979:
Melvyn Douglas in BEING THERE
1978:
Christopher Walken in THE DEER HUNTER
1977:
Jason Robards in JULIA
1976:
Jason Robards in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
1975:
George Burns in THE SUNSHINE BOYS
1974:
Robert De Niro in THE GODFATHER PART II
1973:
John Houseman in THE PAPER CHASE
1972:
Joel Grey in CABARET
1971:
Ben Johnson in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
1970:
John Mills in RYAN'S DAUGHTER
1969:
Gig Young in THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
1968:
Jack Albertson in THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
1967:
George Kennedy in COOL HAND LUKE
1966:
Walter Matthau in THE FORTUNE COOKIE
1965:
Martin Balsam in A THOUSAND CLOWNS
1964:
Peter Ustinov in TOPKAPI
1963:
Melvyn Douglas in HUD
1962:
Ed Begley in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
1961:
George Chakiris in WEST SIDE STORY
1960:
Peter Ustinov in SPARTACUS
1959:
Hugh Griffith in BEN-HUR
1958:
Burl Ives in THE BIG COUNTRY
1957:
Red Buttons in SAYONARA
1956:
Anthony Quinn in LUST FOR LIFE
1955:
Jack Lemmon in MISTER ROBERTS
1954:
Edmond O'Brien in THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA
1953:
Frank Sinatra in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
1952:
Anthony Quinn in VIVA ZAPATA!
1951:
Karl Malden in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
1950:
George Sanders in ALL ABOUT EVE
1949:
Dean Jagger in TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH
1948:
Walter Huston in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
1947:
Edmund Gwenn in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
1946:
Harold Russell in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
1945:
James Dunn in A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
1944:
Barry Fitzgerald in GOING MY WAY
1943:
Charles Coburn in THE MORE THE MERRIER
1942:
Van Heflin in JOHNNY EAGER
1941:
Donald Crisp in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
1940:
Walter Brennan in THE WESTERNER
1939:
Thomas Mitchell in STAGECOACH
1938:
Walter Brennan in KENTUCKY
1937:
Joseph Schildkraut in THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
1936:
Walter Brennan in COME AND GET IT
