 | 2007 | Javier Bardem NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN | 
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| 2006 | Alan Arkin LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE | 
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| 2005 | George Clooney SYRIANA | 
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| 2004 | Morgan Freeman MILLION DOLLAR BABY | 
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| 2003 | Tim Robbins MYSTIC RIVER | 
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| 2002 | Chris Cooper ADAPTATION | 
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| 2001 | Jim Broadbent IRIS | 
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| 2000 | Benicio Del Toro TRAFFIC | 
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| 1999 | Michael Caine THE CIDER HOUSE RULES | 
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| 1998 | James Coburn AFFLICTION | 
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| 1997 | Robin Williams GOOD WILL HUNTING | 
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| 1996 | Cuba Gooding, Jr. JERRY MAGUIRE | 
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| 1995 | Kevin Spacey THE USUAL SUSPECTS | 
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| 1994 | Martin Landau ED WOOD | 
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| 1993 | Tommy Lee Jones THE FUGITIVE | 
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| 1992 | Gene Hackman UNFORGIVEN | 
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| 1991 | Jack Palance CITY SLICKERS | 
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| 1990 | Joe Pesci GOODFELLAS | 
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| 1989 | Denzel Washington GLORY | 
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| 1988 | Kevin Kline A FISH CALLED WANDA | 
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| 1987 | Sean Connery THE UNTOUCHABLES | 
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| 1986 | Michael Caine HANNAH AND HER SISTERS | 
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| 1985 | Don Ameche COCOON | 
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| 1984 | Haing S. Ngor THE KILLING FIELDS | 
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| 1983 | Jack Nicholson TERMS OF ENDEARMENT | 
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| 1982 | Louis Gossett, Jr. AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN | 
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| 1981 | Sir John Gielgud ARTHUR | 
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| 1980 | Timothy Hutton ORDINARY PEOPLE | 
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| 1979 | Melvyn Douglas BEING THERE | 
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| 1978 | Christopher Walken THE DEER HUNTER | 
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| 1977 | Jason Robards JULIA | 
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| 1976 | Jason Robards ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN | 
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| 1975 | George Burns THE SUNSHINE BOYS | 
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| 1974 | Robert De Niro THE GODFATHER, PART II | 
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| 1973 | John Houseman THE PAPER CHASE | 
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| 1972 | Joel Grey CABARET | 
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| 1971 | Ben Johnson THE LAST PICTURE SHOW | 
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| 1970 | John Mills RYAN'S DAUGHTER | 
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| 1969 | Gig Young THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? | 
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| 1968 | Jack Albertson THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES | 
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| 1967 | George Kennedy COOL HAND LUKE | 
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| 1966 | Walter Matthau THE FORTUNE COOKIE | 
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| 1965 | Martin Balsam A THOUSAND CLOWNS | 
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| 1964 | Peter Ustinov TOPKAPI | 
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| 1963 | Melvyn Douglas HUD | 
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| 1962 | Ed Begley SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH | 
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| 1961 | George Chakiris WEST SIDE STORY | 
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| 1960 | Peter Ustinov SPARTACUS | 
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| 1959 | Hugh Griffith BEN-HUR | 
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| 1958 | Burl Ives THE BIG COUNTRY | 
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| 1957 | Red Buttons SAYONARA | 
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| 1956 | Anthony Quinn LUST FOR LIFE | 
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| 1955 | Jack Lemmon MISTER ROBERTS | 
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| 1954 | Edmond O'Brien THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA | 
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| 1953 | Frank Sinatra FROM HERE TO ETERNITY | 
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| 1952 | Anthony Quinn VIVA ZAPATA! | 
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| 1951 | Karl Malden A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | 
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| 1950 | George Sanders ALL ABOUT EVE | 
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| 1949 | Dean Jagger TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH | 
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| 1948 | Walter Huston THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE | 
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| 1947 | Edmund Gwenn MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET | 
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| 1946 | Harold Russell THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES | 
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| 1945 | James Dunn A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN | 
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| 1944 | Barry Fitzgerald GOING MY WAY | 
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| 1943 | Charles Coburn THE MORE THE MERRIER | 
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| 1942 | Van Heflin JOHNNY EAGER | 
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| 1941 | Donald Crisp HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY | 
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| 1940 | Walter Brennan THE WESTERNER | 
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| 1939 | Thomas Mitchell STAGECOACH | 
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| 1938 | Walter Brennan KENTUCKY | 
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| 1937 | Joseph Schildkraut THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA | 
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| 1936 | Walter Brennan COME AND GET IT | 
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