Year Awarded – Actor – Movie
2020 Anthony Hopkins The Father
2019 Joaquin Phoenix Joker
2018 – Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
2017 – Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
2016 – Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
2015 – Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
2014 – Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”
2013 – Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
2012 – Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
2011 – Jean Duhardin, “The Artist”
2011 Colin Firth The King’s Speech
2010 Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart
2009 Sean Penn Milk
2008 Daniel Day Lewis There Will Be Blood
2007 Forrest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland
2006 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote
2005 Jamie Foxx Ray
2004 Sean Penn Mystic River
2003 Adrien Brody The Pianist
2002 Denzel Washington Training Day
2001 Russell Crowe Gladiator
2000 Kevin Spacey American Beauty
1999 Roberto Benigni Life Is Beautiful
1998 Jack Nicholson As Good As It Gets
1997 Geoffrey Rush Shine
1996 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas
1995 Tom Hanks Forrest Gump
1994 Tom Hanks Philadelphia
1993 Al Pacino Scent of a Woman
1992 Anthony Hopkins The Silence Of The Lambs
1991 Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune
1990 Daniel Day Lewis My Left Foot
1989 Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
1988 Michael Douglas Wall Street
1987 Paul Newman The Color Of Money
1986 William Hurt Kiss Of The Spider Woman
1985 F. Murray Abraham Amadeus
1984 Robert Duvall Tender Mercies
1983 Ben Kingsley Gandhi
1982 Henry Fonda On Golden Pond
1981 Robert De Niro Raging Bull
1980 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 Jon Voight Coming Home
1978 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl
1977 Peter Finch Network
1976 Jack Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
1975 Art Carney Harry And Tonto
1974 Jack Lemmon Save The Tiger
1973 Marlon Brando The Godfather
1972 Gene Hackman The French Connection
1971 George C. Scott Patton
1970 John Wayne True Grit
1969 Cliff Robertson Charly
1968 Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night
1967 Paul Scofield A Man for all Seasons
1966 Lee Marvin Cat Ballou
1965 Rex Harrison My Fair Lady
1964 Sidney Poitier Lillies Of The Field
1963 Gregory Peck To Kill A Mocking Bird
1962 Maximilian Schell Judgment At Nuremburg
1961 Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry
1960 Charlton Heston Ben Hur
