1929; Emil Jannings
1930; Warner Baxter
1931; Wallace Beery
1932; Lionel Barrymore
1933; Fredric March
1934; Paul Muni
1934; Charles Laughton
1935; Clark Gable
1936; Charles Laughton
1937; William Powell
1938; Spencer Tracy
1939; James Cagney
1940; James Stewart
1941; Henry Fonda
1942; Cary Grant
1943; James Cagney
1944; Humphrey Bogart
1945; Charles Boyer
1946; Ray Milland
1947; James Stewart
1948; Gregory Peck
1949; Laurence Olivier
1950; Broderick Crawford
1951; José Ferrer
1952; Marlon Brando
1953; Gary Cooper
1954; Montgnomery Clift
1955; Marlon Brando
1956; James Dean
1957; Kirk Douglas
1958; Alec Guinness
1959; Sidney Poitier
1960; Charlton Heston
1961; Jack Lemmon
1962; Paul Newman
1963; Peter O'Toole
1964; Richard Harris
1965; Peter Sellers
1966; Richard Burton
1967; Paul Scofield
1968; Rod Steiger
1969; Peter O'Toole
1970; Dustin Hoffman
1971; George C. Scott
1972; Gene Hackman
1973; Marlon Brando
1974; Marlon Brando
1975; Al Pacino
1976; Jack Nicholson
1977; Peter Finch
1978; Marcello Mastroianni
1979; Jon Voight
1980; Jack Lemmon
1981; Robert DeNiro
1982; Burt Lancaster
1983; Dustin Hoffman
1984; Albert Finney
1985; F. Murray Abraham
1986; William Hurt
1987; Bob Hoskins
1988; Jack Nicholson
1989; Tom Hanks
1990; Daniel Day-Lewis
1991; Jeremy Irons
1992; Anthony Hopkins
1993; Denzel Washington
1994; Anthony Hopkins
1995; Tom Hanks
1996; Nicolas Cage
1997; Woody Harrelson
1998; Jack Nicholson
1999; Ian McKellen
2000; Kevin Spacey
2001; Javier Bardem
2002; Tom Wilkinson
2003; Daniel Day-Lewis
2004; Bill Murray
2005; Leonardo DiCaprio
2006; Phillip Seymour Hoffman
2007; Forest Whitaker
2008; Daniel Day-Lewis
2009; Sean Penn
2010; Colin Firth
2011; Jeff Bridges
2012; Jean Dujardin
2013; Joaquin Phoenix
2014; Matthew McConaughey
2015; Michael Keaton
2016; Michael Fassbender
2017; Casey Affleck
2018; Timothée Chalamet
2019; Christian Bale
2020; Joaquin Phoenix