2000's

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart- 82nd Academy Awards- 2009
Sean Penn, Milk- 81st Academy Awards- 2008
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood- 80th Academy Awards- 2007
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland- 79th Academy Awards- 2006
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote- 78th Academy Awards- 2005
Jamie Foxx, Ray- 77th Academy Awards- 2004
Sean Penn, Mystic River- 76th Academy Awards- 2003
Adrien Brody, The Pianist- 75th Academy Awards- 2002
Denzel Washington, Training Day- 74th Academy Awards- 2001
Russell Crowe, Gladiator- 73rd Academy Awards- 2000

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1990's

Kevin Spacey, American Beauty- 72nd Academy Awards- 1999
Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful - 71st Academy Awards- 1998
Jack Nicholson, As Good as It Gets- 70th Academy Awards- 1997
Geoffrey Rush, Shine- 69th Academy Awards- 1996
Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas- 68th Academy Awards- 1995
Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump- 67th Academy Awards- 1994
Tom Hanks, Philadelphia- 66th Academy Awards- 1993
Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman- 65th Academy Awards- 1992
Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs- 64th Academy Awards- 1991
Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune- 63rd Academy Awards- 1990

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1980's

Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot- 62nd Academy Awards- 1989
Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man- 61st Academy Awards- 1988
Michael Douglas, Wall Street- 60th Academy Awards- 1987
Paul Newman, The Color of Money- 59th Academy Awards- 1986
William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman- 58th Academy Awards- 1985
F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus- 57th Academy Awards- 1984
Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies- 56th Academy Awards- 1983
Ben Kingsley, Gandhi- 55th Academy Awards- 1982
Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond- 54th Academy Awards- 1981
Robert De Niro, Raging Bull- 53rd Academy Awards- 1980

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1970's

Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer- 52nd Academy Awards- 1979
Jon Voight, Coming Home- 51st Academy Awards- 1978
Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl- 50th Academy Awards- 1977
Peter Finch, Network- 49th Academy Awards- 1976
Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- 48th Academy Awards- 1975
Art Carney, Harry and Tonto- 47th Academy Awards-1974
Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger- 46th Academy Awards- 1973
Marlon Brando, The Godfather- 45th Academy Awards- 1972
Gene Hackman, The French Connection- 44th Academy Awards- 1971
George C. Scott, Patton- 43rd Academy Awards- 1970

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1960's

John Wayne, True Grit- 42nd Academy Awards- 1969
Cliff Robertson, Charly- 41st Academy Awards- 1968
Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night- 40th Academy Awards- 1967
Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons- 39th Academy Awards- 1966
Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou- 38th Academy Awards- 1965
Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady- 37th Academy Awards- 1964
Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field- 36th Academy Awards- 1963
Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird- 35th Academy Awards- 1962
Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg- 34th Academy Awards- 1961
Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry- 33rd Academy Awards- 1960

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1950's

Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur- 32nd Academy Awards- 1959
David Niven, Separate Tables- 31st Academy Awards- 1958
Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai- 30th Academy Awards- 1957
Yul Brynner, The King and I- 29th Academy Awards- 1956
Ernest Borgnine, Marty- 28th Academy Awards- 1955
Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront- 27th Academy Awards- 1954
William Holden, Stalag 17- 26th Academy Awards- 1953
Gary Cooper, High Noon- 25th Academy Awards- 1952
Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen- 24th Academy Awards- 1951
Jose Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac- 23rd Academy Awards- 1950

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1940's

Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men- 22nd Academy Awards- 1949
Laurence Olivier, Hamlet- 21st Academy Awards- 1948
Ronald Colman, A Double Life- 20th Academy Awards- 1947
Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives- 19th Academy Awards- 1946
Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend- 18th Academy Awards- 1945
Bing Crosby, Going My Way- 17th Academy Awards- 1944
Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine- 16th Academy Awards- 1943
James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy- 15th Academy Awards- 1942
Gary Cooper, Sergeant York- 14th Academy Awards- 1941
James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story- 13th Academy Awards- 1940

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1930's & 1920's

Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips- 12th Academy Awards- 1939
Spencer Tracy, Boys Town- 11th Academy Awards- 1938
Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous- 10th Academy Awards- 1937
Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur- 9th Academy Awards- 1936
Victor McLaglen, The Informer- 8th Academy Awards- 1935
Clark Gable, It Happened One Night- 7th Academy Awards- 1934
Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII- 6th Academy Awards- 1932-1933
(tie) Wallace Beery, The Champ- 5th Academy Awards- 1931-1932
(tie) Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- 5th Academy Awards- 1931-1932
Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul- 4th Academy Awards- 1930-1931
George Arliss, Disraeli- 3rd Academy Awards- 1929-1930
Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona- 2nd Academy Awards- 1928-1929
Emil Jannings, The Last Command & The Way of All Flesh- 1st Academy Awards- 1927-1928

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