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2004 Jamie Foxx -- Ray: 77th Annual Academy Awards

2003 Sean Penn -- Mystic River

2002 Adrien Brody -- The Pianist

2001 Denzel Washington -- Training Day

2000 Russell Crowe, Gladiator

1999 Kevin Spacey, American Beauty

1998 Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful

1997 Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets

1996 Geoffrey Rush, Shine

1995 Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas

1994 Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump

1993 Tom Hanks, Philadelphia

1992 Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman (1992)

1991 Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs

1990 Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune

1989 Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot

1988 Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man

1987 Michael Douglas, Wall Street

1986 Paul Newman, The Color of Money

1985 William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman

1984 F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus

1983 Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies

1982 Ben Kingsley, Gandhi

1981 Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond

1980 Robert De Niro, Raging Bull

1979 Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer

1978 Jon Voight, Coming Home

1977 Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl

1976 Peter Finch, Network

1975 Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1974 Art Carney, Harry and Tonto

1973 Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger

1972 Marlon Brando, The Godfather

1971 Gene Hackman, The French Connection

1970 George C. Scott, Patton

1969 John Wayne, True Grit

1968 Cliff Robertson, Charly

1967 Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night

1966 Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons

1965 Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou

1964 Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady

1963 Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field

1962 Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird

1961 Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg

1960 Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry

1959 Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur

1958 David Niven, Separate Tables

1957 Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai

1956 Yul Brynner, The King and I

1955 Ernest Borgnine, Marty

1954 Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront

1953 William Holden, Stalag 17

1952 Gary Cooper, High Noon

1951 Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen

1950 José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

1949 Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men

1948 Laurence Olivier, Hamlet (1948)

1947 Ronald Colman, A Double Life

1946 Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives

1945 Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend

1944 Bing Crosby, Going My Way

1943 Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine

1942 James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

1941 Gary Cooper, Sergeant York

1940 James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story

1939 Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

1938 Spencer Tracy, Boys Town

1937 Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous

1936 Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur

1935 Victor McLaglen, The Informer

1934 Clark Gable, It Happened One Night

1932/33 Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII

1931/32 Wallace Beery, The Champ (1931/32)

1931/32 Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931/32)

1930/31 Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul

1929/30 George Arliss, Disraeli

1928/29 Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona

1927/28 Emil Jannings, The Last Command

1927/28 Emil Jannings, The Way of All Flesh