 | 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis THERE WILL BE BLOOD | 
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| 2006 | Forest Whitaker THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 
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| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman CAPOTE | 
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| 2004 | Jamie Foxx RAY | 
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| 2003 | Sean Penn MYSTIC RIVER | 
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| 2002 | Adrien Brody THE PIANIST | 
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| 2001 | Denzel Washington TRAINING DAY | 
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| 2000 | Russell Crowe GLADIATOR | 
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| 1999 | Kevin Spacey AMERICAN BEAUTY | 
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| 1998 | Roberto Benigni LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL | 
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| 1997 | Jack Nicholson AS GOOD AS IT GETS | 
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| 1996 | Geoffrey Rush SHINE | 
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| 1995 | Nicolas Cage LEAVING LAS VEGAS | 
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| 1994 | Tom Hanks FORREST GUMP | 
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| 1993 | Tom Hanks PHILADELPHIA | 
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| 1992 | Al Pacino SCENT OF A WOMAN | 
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| 1991 | Sir Anthony Hopkins THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS | 
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| 1990 | Jeremy Irons REVERSAL OF FORTUNE | 
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| 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis MY LEFT FOOT | 
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| 1988 | Dustin Hoffman RAIN MAN | 
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| 1987 | Michael Douglas WALL STREET | 
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| 1986 | Paul Newman THE COLOR OF MONEY | 
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| 1985 | William Hurt KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN | 
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| 1984 | F. Murray Abraham AMADEUS | 
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| 1983 | Robert Duvall TENDER MERCIES | 
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| 1982 | Ben Kingsley GANDHI | 
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| 1981 | Henry Fonda ON GOLDEN POND | 
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| 1980 | Robert De Niro RAGING BULL | 
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| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman KRAMER VS. KRAMER | 
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| 1978 | Jon Voight COMING HOME | 
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| 1977 | Richard Dreyfuss THE GOODBYE GIRL | 
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| 1976 | Peter Finch NETWORK | 
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| 1975 | Jack Nicholson ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST | 
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| 1974 | Art Carney HARRY AND TONTO | 
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| 1973 | Jack Lemmon SAVE THE TIGER | 
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| 1972 | Marlon Brando THE GODFATHER | 
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| 1971 | Gene Hackman THE FRENCH CONNECTION | 
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| 1970 | George C. Scott PATTON | 
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| 1969 | John Wayne TRUE GRIT | 
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| 1968 | Cliff Robertson CHARLY | 
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| 1967 | Rod Steiger IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT | 
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| 1966 | Paul Scofield A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS | 
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| 1965 | Lee Marvin CAT BALLOU | 
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| 1964 | Sir Rex Harrison MY FAIR LADY | 
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| 1963 | Sidney Poitier LILIES OF THE FIELD | 
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| 1962 | Gregory Peck TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | 
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| 1961 | Maximilian Schell JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG | 
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| 1960 | Burt Lancaster ELMER GANTRY | 
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| 1959 | Charlton Heston BEN-HUR | 
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| 1958 | David Niven SEPARATE TABLES | 
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| 1957 | Sir Alec Guinness THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI | 
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| 1956 | Yul Brynner THE KING AND I | 
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| 1955 | Ernest Borgnine MARTY | 
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| 1954 | Marlon Brando ON THE WATERFRONT | 
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| 1953 | William Holden STALAG 17 | 
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| 1952 | Gary Cooper HIGH NOON | 
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| 1951 | Humphrey Bogart THE AFRICAN QUEEN | 
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| 1950 | José Ferrer CYRANO DE BERGERAC | 
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| 1949 | Broderick Crawford ALL THE KING'S MEN | 
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| 1948 | Lord Laurence Olivier HAMLET | 
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| 1947 | Ronald Colman A DOUBLE LIFE | 
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| 1946 | Fredric March THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES | 
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| 1945 | Ray Milland THE LOST WEEKEND | 
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| 1944 | Bing Crosby GOING MY WAY | 
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| 1943 | Paul Lukas WATCH ON THE RHINE | 
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| 1942 | James Cagney YANKEE DOODLE DANDY | 
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| 1941 | Gary Cooper SERGEANT YORK | 
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| 1940 | James Stewart THE PHILADELPHIA STORY | 
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| 1939 | Robert Donat GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS | 
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| 1938 | Spencer Tracy BOYS TOWN | 
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| 1937 | Spencer Tracy CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS | 
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| 1936 | Paul Muni THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR | 
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| 1935 | Victor McLaglen THE INFORMER | 
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| 1934 | Clark Gable IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT | 
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| 1932 - 1933 | Charles Laughton THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII | 
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| 1931 - 1932 | Wallace Beery THE CHAMP and Fredric March DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. |  
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| 1930 - 1931 | Lionel Barrymore A FREE SOUL | 
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| 1929 - 1930 | George Arliss DISRAELI & THE GREEN GODDESS | 
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| 1928 - 1929 | Warner Baxter IN OLD ARIZONA | 
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| 1927 - 1928 | Emil Jannings THE LAST COMMAND & THE WAY OF ALL FLESH | 
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