GEOFFREY RUSH: 1996, Shine

NICOLAS CAGE: 1995, Leaving Las Vegas

TOM HANKS: 1993, Philadelphia, et al.

AL PACINO: 1992, Scent of a Woman

ANTHONY HOPKINS: 1991, The Silence of the Lambs

JEREMY IRONS: 1990, Reversal of Fortune

DANIEL DAY LEWIS: 1989, My Left Foot

MICHAEL DOUGLAS: 1987, Wall Street

PAUL NEWMAN: 1986, The Color of Money

WILLIAM HURT: 1985, Kiss of the Spider Woman

F MURRAY ABRAHAM: 1984, Amadeus

ROBERT DUVALL: 1983, Tender Mercies

BEN KINGSLEY: 1982, Gandhi

HENRY FONDA: 1981, On Golden Pond

ROBERT DENIRO: 1980, Raging Bull

DUSTIN HOFFMAN: 1988, Rain Man, et al.

JON VOIGHT: 1978, Coming Home

RICHARD DREYFUSS: 1977, The Goodbye Girl

PETER FINCH: 1976, Network

JACK NICHOLSON: 1975, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, et al.

ART CARNEY: 1974, Harry and Tonto

JACK LEMMON: 1973, Save the Tiger

GENE HACKMAN: 1971, The French Connection

GEORGE C SCOTT: 1970, Patton

JOHN WAYNE: 1969, True Grit

CLIFF ROBERTSON: 1968, Charly

ROD STEIGER: 1967, In the Heat of the Night

PAUL SCOFIELD: 1966, A Man for All Seasons

LEE MARVIN: 1965, Cat Ballou

REX HARRISON: 1964, My Fair Lady

SIDNEY POITIER: 1963, Lilies of the Field

GREGORY PECK: 1962, To Kill a Mockingbird

MAXIMILLIAN SCHELL: 1961, Judgment at Nuremberg

BURT LANCASTER: 1960, Elmer Gantry

CHARLETON HESTON: 1959, Ben-Hur

DAVID NIVEN: 1958, Separate Tables

ALEC GUINESS: 1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai

YUL BRYNNER: 1956, The King and I

ERNEST BORGNINE: 1955, Marty

MARLON BRANDO: 1954, On the Waterfront, et al.

WILLIAM HOLDEN: 1953, Stalag 17

HUMPHREY BOGART: 1951, The African Queen

JOSE FERRER: 1950, Cyrano de Bergerac

BRODERICK CRAWFORD: 1949, All the King's Men

LAWRENCE OLIVIER: 1948, Hamlet

RONALD COLEMAN: 1947, A Double Life

RAY MILLAND: 1945, The Lost Weekend

BING CROSBY: 1944, Going My Way

PAUL LUKAS: 1943, Watch on the Rhine

JAMES CAGNEY: 1942, Yankee Doodle Dandy

GARY COOPER: 1952, High Noon, et al.

JAMES STEWART: 1940, The Philadelphia Story

ROBERT DONAT: 1939, Goodbye Mr. Chips

SPENCER TRACY: 1937, Captains Courageous, et al.

PAUL MUNI: 1936, The Story of Louis Pasteur

VICTOR MCLAGLEN: 1935, The Informer

CLARK GABLE: 1934, It Happened One Night

CHARLES LAUGHTON: 1932-1933, The Private Life of Henry VIII

WALLACE BERRY: 1931-1932, The Champ

FREDRIC MARCH: 1931-1932, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, et al.

LIONEL BARRYMORE: 1930-1931, A Free Soul

GEORGE ARLISS: 1929-1930, Disraeli

WARNER BAXTER: 1928-1929, In Old Arizona

EMIL JENNINGS: 1927-1928, The Way of All Flesh