| Año | Ganador | Película |
| 2007 |
Daniel Day-Lewis |
(Pozos de Ambición |
| 2006 |
Forest Whitaker |
("The Last King of Scotland") |
| 2005 |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Capote |
|
2004 |
Jamie Foxx |
'Ray' |
|
2003 |
Sean Penn |
Mystic River |
|
2002 |
Adrien Brody |
El pianista (The pianist) |
|
2001 |
Denzel Washington |
Training Day |
|
2000 |
Russell Crowe |
Gladiator |
|
1999 |
Kevin Spacey |
American Beauty |
|
1998 |
Roberto Benigni |
La vida es bella (La vita è bella) |
|
1997 |
Jack Nicholson |
Mejor... imposible (As good as it gets) |
|
1996 |
Geoffrey Rush |
Shine |
|
1995 |
Nicolas Cage |
Leaving Las Vegas |
|
1994 |
Tom Hanks |
Forrest Gump |
|
1993 |
Tom Hanks |
Philadelphia |
|
1992 |
Al Pacino |
Esencia de mujer (Scent of a woman) |
|
1991 |
Anthony Hopkins |
El silencio de los corderos (The silence of the lambs) |
|
1990 |
Jeremy Irons |
El misterio Von Bulow (Reversal of fortune) |
|
1989 |
Daniel Day-Lewis |
Mi pie izquierdo (My left foot) |
|
1988 |
Dustin Hoffman |
Rain Man |
|
1987 |
Michael Douglas |
Wall Street |
|
1986 |
Paul Newman |
El color del dinero (The colour of money) |
|
1985 |
William Hurt |
El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman) |
|
1984 |
F. Murray Abraham |
Amadeus |
|
1983 |
Robert Duvall |
Gracias y favores (Tender mercies) |
|
1982 |
Ben Kingsley |
Gandhi |
|
1981 |
Henry Fonda |
En el estanque dorado (On golden pont) |
|
1980 |
Robert de Niro |
Toro Salvaje (Raging bull) |
|
1979 |
Dustin Hoffman |
Kramer contra Kramer (Kramer vs. Kramer) |
|
1978 |
Jon Voight |
El regreso (Coming home) |
|
1977 |
Richard Dreyfuss |
La chica del adiós (The goodbye girl) |
|
1976 |
Peter Finch |
Un mundo implacable (Network) |
|
1975 |
Jack Nicholson |
Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco (One flew over the Cukoo's nest) |
|
1974 |
Art Carney |
Harry y Tonto (Harry and Tonto) |
|
1973 |
Jack Lemmon |
Salvad al tigre (Save the tiger) |
|
1972 |
Marlon Brando |
El padrino (The godfather) |
|
1971 |
Gene Hackman |
Contra el imperio de la droga (The French Connection) |
|
1970 |
George C. Scott |
Patton |
|
1969 |
John Wayne |
Valor de ley (True grit) |
|
1968 |
Clift Robertson |
Charly |
|
1967 |
Rod Steiger |
En el calor de la noche (In the heat of the night) |
|
1966 |
Paul Scofield |
Un hombre para la eternidad (A man for all seasons) |
|
1965 |
Lee Marvin |
La ingenua explosiva (Cat Ballou) |
|
1964 |
Rex Harrison |
My fair lady |
|
1963 |
Sidney Poitier |
Los lirios del valle (Lilies of the field) |
|
1962 |
Gregory Peck |
Matar a un ruiseñor (To kill a mockingbird) |
|
1961 |
Maximillian Schell |
¿Vencedores o vencidos? (Judgement at Nuremberg) |
|
1960 |
Burt Lancaster |
El fuego y la palabra (Elmer Gantry) |
|
1959 |
Charlton Heston |
Ben-Hur |
|
1958 |
David Niven |
Mesas separadas (Separate Tables) |
|
1957 |
Alec Guinness |
El puente sobre el río Kwai (The bridge on the river Kwai) |
|
1956 |
Yul Brinner |
El rey y yo (The king and I) |
|
1955 |
Ernest Borgnine |
Marty |
|
1954 |
Marlon Brando |
La ley del silencio (On the waterfront) |
|
1953 |
William Holden |
Traidor en el infierno (Stalag 17) |
|
1952 |
Gary Cooper |
Solo ante el peligro (High Noon) |
|
1951 |
Humphrey Bogart |
La reina de África (The African Queen) |
|
1950 |
José Ferrer |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
|
1949 |
Broderick Crawford |
El político (All the king's men) |
|
1948 |
Laurence Olivier |
Hamlet |
|
1947 |
Ronald Colman |
Doble vida (A double life) |
|
1946 |
Fredric March |
Los mejores años de nuestra vida (The best years of our lives) |
|
1945 |
Ray Milland |
Días sin huella (The lost weekend) |
|
1944 |
Bing Crosby |
Siguiendo mi camino (Going my way) |
|
1943 |
Paul Lukas |
Watch on the Rhine |
|
1942 |
James Cagney |
Yanqui Dandy (Yankee Doodle Dandy) |
|
1941 |
Gary Cooper |
El sargento York (Sargeant York) |
|
1940 |
James Stewart |
Historias de Filadelfia (The Philadelphia Story) |
|
1939 |
Robert Donat |
Adiós, Mr. Chips (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) |
|
1938 |
Spencer Tracy |
Forja de hombres (Boys Town) |
|
1937 |
Spencer Tracy |
Capitanes intrépidos (Captains courageous) |
|
1936 |
Paul Muni |
La tragedia de Louis Pasteur (The story of Louis Pasteur) |
|
1935 |
Victor McLaglen |
El delator (The Informer) |
|
1934 |
Clark Gable |
Sucedió una noche (It happened one night) |
|
1933 |
Charles Laughton |
La vida privada de Enrique VIII (The private life of Henry VIII) |
|
1932 |
Fredric March |
El hombre y el monstruo (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) |
|
Wallace Beery |
El campeón (The Champ) |
|
1931 |
Lionel Barrymore |
Un alma libre (A free soul) |
|
1930 |
George Arliss |
Disraeli |
|
1929 |
Warner Baxter |
En el viejo Arizona (In old Arizona) |
|
1928 |
Emil Jamings |
El destino de la carne (The way of all flesh) y La última orden (The last command) |