Oscar za najboljeg glavnog glumca

Oscar za najboljeg glavnog glumca ili zvanično Nagrada Akademije za najbolju izvedbu glumca u glavnoj ulozi (engl. The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role) dodeljuje Američka filmska akademija glumcima u u glavnim ulogama u igranim filmovima. Nominacije za ovu nagradu predlažu glumci i glumice, koji su članovi Akademije.

Oscar za najboljeg glavnog glumca
Dodjeljuje se za	najboljeg glavnog glumca
Dodjeljuje	Akademija filmskih umjetnosti i nauka
Zemlja	SAD
Prvo dodjeljivanje	1929. (za filmsku sezonu 1927/1928)
Aktualni dobitnik	Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Službene stranice	oscars.org

Osim u dva izuzetka u ranim godinama, nominacije se vrše za ulogu u samo jednom filmu. Godine 1928. i 1930. bilo je moguće nominovati glumce za uloge u više filmova.

Nekoliko glumaca su dva puta osvojili ovu nagradu: Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938), Fredric March (1932, 1946), Gary Cooper (1941, 1952), Marlon Brando (1954, 1972), Dustin Hoffman (1979, 1988), Tom Hanks (1993, 1994) i Jack Nicholson (1975, 19997).

Spencer Tracy i Laurence Olivier su, za sada, najviše puta nominovani glumci, sa po 9 nominacija. Slede ih Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson i Peter O’Toole sa po osam.

Šest glumaca su osvojili ovu nagradu i nagradu za najboljeg sporednog glumca: Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Heckman, Kevin Spacey i Denzel Washington.

Samo jednom do sada se desilo da je nagrada podeljena. Godine 1932. Fredric March je osvojio samo jedan glas više od Wallacea Beeryja i Akademija je odlučila da obojici dodeli nagradu. Danas se, po pravilima, nagrada dodeljuje dvojici ili više nominovanih glumaca samo u slučaju zaista jednakog broja glasova, što do sada nije bio slučaj u ovoj kategoriji, iako se desilo u kategoriji Oscara za najbolju glavnu glumicu, 1968.

Peter Finch je jedini glumac koji je posthumno nagrađen, dok su James Dean, Spencer Tracy i Massimo Troisi bili posthumno nominovani.

Dvojica glumaca su odbili da prime nagradu: George C Scott 1970. i Marlon Brando 1972. godine.

Nagrade po godinama su:

1920-g

• 1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command u ulozi "Gen. Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander" i The Way of All Flesh u ulozi "August Schilling"
  • Richard Barthelmess - The Noose u ulozi "Nicky Elkins" i The Patent Leather Kid u ulozi "the Patent Leather Kid"
  • Charlie Chaplin - The Circus u ulozi "The Little Tramp"
• 1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona u ulozi "The Cisco Kid"
  • George Bancroft - Thunderbolt u ulozi "Thunderbolt Jim Lang"
  • Chester Morris - Alibi u ulozi "Chick Williams (No. 1065)"
  • Paul Muni - The Valiant u ulozi "James Dyke"
  • Lewis Stone - The Patriot u ulozi "Count Pahlen"

1930-g

• 1930 George Arliss - Disraeli u ulozi Benjamin Disraeli
  • George Arliss - The Green Goddess u ulozi "The Raja of Rukh"
  • Wallace Beery - The Big House u ulozi "'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt"
  • Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond u ulozi "Pierre Mirande" i The Love Parade u ulozi "Count Alfred Renard"
  • Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond u ulozi "Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond" i Condemned u ulozi "Michel"
  • Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song u ulozi "Yegor"
• 1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul u ulozi "Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney"
  • Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page u ulozi "Walter Burns"
  • Jackie Cooper - Skippy u ulozi "Skippy Skinner"
  • Richard Dix - Cimarron u ulozi "Yancey Cravat"
  • Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway u ulozi "Tony Cavendish"
• 1932 Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde u ulozi "Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde" i Wallace Beery - The Champ u ulozi "Champ"
  • Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman u ulozi "The Actor"
• 1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII u ulozi King Henry VIII
  • Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square u ulozi "Peter Standish"
  • Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang u ulozi "James Allen/Allen James"
• 1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night u ulozi "Peter Warne"
  • Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini u ulozi Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
  • William Powell - The Thin Man u ulozi "Nick Charles"
• 1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer u ulozi "Gypo Nolan"
  • Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty u ulozi Fletcher Christian
  • Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty u ulozi William Bligh
  • Paul Muni - Black Fury u ulozi "Joe Radek"
  • Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty u ulozi Midshipman Roger Byam
• 1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur u ulozi Dr. Louis Pasteur
  • Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town u ulozi "Longfellow Deeds"
  • Walter Huston - Dodsworth u ulozi "Samuel Dodsworth"
  • William Powell - My Man Godfrey u ulozi Godfrey "Smith"
  • Spencer Tracy - San Francisco u ulozi "Father Tim Mullin"
• 1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous u ulozi "Manuel Fidello"
  • Charles Boyer - Conquest u ulozi Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fredric March - A Star Is Born u ulozi "Norman Maine"
  • Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall u ulozi "Danny"
  • Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola u ulozi Émile Zola
• 1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town u ulozi Father Edward J. Flanigan
  • Charles Boyer - Algiers u ulozi "Pepe Le Moko"
  • James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces u ulozi "Rocky Sullivan"
  • Robert Donat - The Citadel u ulozi "Dr. Andrew Manson"
  • Leslie Howard - Pygmalion u ulozi "Professor Henry Higgins"
• 1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips u ulozi "Charles E. Chipping"
  • Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind u ulozi "Rhett Butler"
  • Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights u ulozi "Heathcliff"
  • Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms u ulozi "Mickey Moran"
  • James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington u ulozi "Jefferson Smith"

1940-g

• 1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story u ulozi "Macaulay Connor"
  • Charles Chaplin - The Great Dictator u ulozi "Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania)"/"A Jewish Barber"
  • Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath u ulozi "Tom Joad"
  • Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois u ulozi Abraham Lincoln
  • Laurence Olivier - Rebecca u ulozi "Maxim de Winter"
• 1941 Gary Cooper - Sergeant York u ulozi Sergeant Alvin York
  • Cary Grant - Penny Serenade u ulozi "Roger Adams"
  • Walter Huston - The Devil and Daniel Webster u ulozi "Mr. Scratch"
  • Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan u ulozi "Joe Pendleton"
  • Orson Welles - Citizen Kane u ulozi "Charles Foster Kane"
• 1942 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy u ulozi George M. Cohan
  • Ronald Colman - Random Harvest u ulozi "Charles Rainier"
  • Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees u ulozi Lou Gehrig
  • Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver u ulozi "Clem Miniver"
  • Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper u ulozi "Howard"
• 1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine u ulozi "Kurt Muller"
  • Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca u ulozi "Rick Blaine"
  • Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls u ulozi "Robert Jordan"
  • Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie u ulozi Pierre Curie
  • Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy u ulozi "Homer Macauley"
• 1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way u ulozi "Father Chuck O'Malley"
  • Charles Boyer - Gaslight u ulozi "Gregory Anton"
  • Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way u ulozi "Father Fitzgibbon"
  • Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart u ulozi "Ernie Mott"
  • Alexander Knox - Wilson u ulozi Woodrow Wilson
• 1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend u ulozi "Don Birnam"
  • Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's u ulozi "Father Chuck O'Malley"
  • Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh u ulozi "Joseph Brady"
  • Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom u ulozi "Father Francis Chisolm"
  • Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember u ulozi Frederic Chopin
• 1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives u ulozi "Al Stephenson"
  • Laurence Olivier - Henry V u ulozi Henry V of England (N.B. Laurence Olivier je primio i Academy Honourary Award za "svoje izvrsni uspeh kao glumca, producenta i reditelja u prikazivanju Henryja V')
  • Larry Parks - The Jolson Story u ulozi Al Jolson
  • Gregory Peck - The Yearling u ulozi "Penny Baxter"
  • James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life u ulozi "George Bailey"
• 1947 Ronald Colman - A Double Life u ulozi "Anthony John"
  • John Garfield - Body and Soul u ulozi "Charley Davis"
  • Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement u ulozi "Philip Schuyler Green"
  • Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra u ulozi "Orin Mannon"
  • William Powell - Life with Father u ulozi "Clarence 'Father' Day"
• 1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet u ulozi "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"
  • Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda u ulozi "Dr. Robert Richardson"
  • Montgomery Clift - The Search u ulozi "Ralph 'Steve' Stevenson"
  • Dan Dailey - When My Baby Smiles at Me u ulozi "'Skid' Johnson"
  • Clifton Webb - Sitting Pretty u ulozi "Lynn Belvedere"
• 1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men u ulozi "Willie Stark"
  • Kirk Douglas - Champion u ulozi "Michael 'Midge' Kelly"
  • Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High u ulozi "Brig. Gen. Frank Savage"
  • Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart u ulozi "Cpl. Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan"
  • John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima u ulozi "Sgt. John Stryker"

1950-g

• 1950 José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac u ulozi Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee u ulozi Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • William Holden - Sunset Boulevard u ulozi "Joe Gillis"
  • James Stewart - Harvey u ulozi "Elwood P. Dowd"
  • Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride u ulozi "Stanley T. Banks"
• 1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen u ulozi "Charlie Allnut"
  • Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire u ulozi "Stanley Kowalski"
  • Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun u ulozi "George Eastman"
  • Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory u ulozi "Larry Nevins"
  • Fredric March - Death of a Salesman u ulozi "Willy Loman"
• 1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon u ulozi "Will Kane"
  • Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata! u ulozi Emiliano Zapata
  • Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful u ulozi "Jonathan Shields"
  • José Ferrer - Moulin Rouge u ulozi Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec i Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob u ulozi "Henry 'Dutch' Holland"
• 1953 William Holden - Stalag 17 u ulozi "Sergeant J.J. Sefton"
  • Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar u ulozi Mark Antony
  • Richard Burton - The Robe u ulozi "Marcellus Gallio"
  • Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity u ulozi "Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt"
  • Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity u ulozi "Sgt. Milton Warden"
• 1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront u ulozi "Terry Malloy"
  • Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny u ulozi "Phillip Francis Queeg"
  • Bing Crosby - The Country Girl u ulozi "Frank Elgin"
  • James Mason - A Star Is Born u ulozi "Norman Maine"
  • Dan O'Herlihy - The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe u ulozi "Robinson Crusoe"
• 1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty u ulozi "Marty Piletti"
  • James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me u ulozi "Martin Snyder"
  • James Dean - East of Eden u ulozi "Cal Trask" (posthumno nominovan)
  • Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm u ulozi "Frankie Machine"
  • Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock u ulozi "John J. Macreedy"
• 1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I u ulozi "King Mongkut of Siam"
  • James Dean - Giant u ulozi "Jett Rink" (posthumno nominovan)
  • Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life u ulozi Vincent Van Gogh
  • Rock Hudson - Giant u ulozi "Bick Benedict"
  • Laurence Olivier - Richard III u ulozi Richard III of England
• 1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai u ulozi "Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson"
  • Marlon Brando - Sayonara u ulozi "Major Lloyd 'Ace Garber, USAF"
  • Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain u ulozi "Polo Pope"
  • Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution u ulozi "Sir Wilfrid Robarts"
  • Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind u ulozi "Gino"
• 1958 David Niven - Separate Tables u ulozi "Major Angus Pollock"
  • Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones u ulozi "John 'Joker' Jackson"
  • Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof u ulozi "Brick Pollitt"
  • Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones u ulozi "Noah Cullen"
  • Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea u ulozi "Santiago"
• 1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur u ulozi "Judah Ben-Hur"
  • Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top u ulozi "Joe Lampton"
  • Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot u ulozi "Jerry/Daphne"
  • Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man u ulozi "Dr. Sam Abelman"
  • James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder u ulozi "Paul Biegler"

1960-g

• 1960 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry u ulozi "Elmer Gantry"
  • Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers u ulozi "Walter Morel"
  • Jack Lemmon - The Apartment u ulozi "C.C. Baxter"
  • Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer u ulozi "Archie Rice"
  • Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind u ulozi "Henry Drummond"
• 1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg u ulozi "Hans Rolfe"
  • Charles Boyer - Fanny u ulozi "Fanny"
  • Paul Newman - The Hustler u ulozi "Fast Eddie Felson"
  • Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg u ulozi "Chief Judge Dan Haywood"
  • Stuart Whitman - The Mark u ulozi "Jim Fuller"
• 1962 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird u ulozi "Atticus Finch"
  • Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz u ulozi Robert Stroud
  • Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses u ulozi "Joe Clay"
  • Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style u ulozi "Ferdinando Cefalú"
  • Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia u ulozi T. E. Lawrence
• 1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field u ulozi "Homer Smith"
  • Albert Finney - Tom Jones u ulozi "Tom Jones"
  • Richard Harris - This Sporting Life u ulozi "Frank Machin"
  • Rex Harrison - Cleopatra u ulozi Julius Caesar
  • Paul Newman - Hud u ulozi "Hud Bannon"
• 1964 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady u ulozi "Henry Higgins"
  • Richard Burton - Becket u ulozi Thomas Becket
  • Peter O'Toole - Becket u ulozi Henry II of England
  • Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek u ulozi "Alexis Zorba"
  • Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb u ulozi "Group Captain Lionel Mendrake," "President Merkin Muffley," i "Dr. Strangelove"
• 1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou u ulozi "Kid Sheleen" i "Tim Strawn"
  • Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold u ulozi "Alec Leamas"
  • Laurence Olivier - Othello u ulozi "Othello"
  • Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker u ulozi "Sol Nazerman"
  • Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools u ulozi "Willie Schumann"
• 1966 Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons u ulozi Thomas More
  • Alan Arkin - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming u ulozi "Lt. Rozanov"
  • Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? u ulozi "George"
  • Michael Caine - Alfie u ulozi "Alfie"
  • Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles u ulozi "Jake Holman"
• 1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night u ulozi "Bill Gillespie"
  • Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde u ulozi Clyde Barrow
  • Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate u ulozi "Benjamin Braddock"
  • Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke u ulozi "Luke Jackson"
  • Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner u ulozi "Matt Drayton"
• 1968 Cliff Robertson - Charly u ulozi "Charly Gordon"
  • Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter u ulozi "John Singer"
  • Alan Bates - The Fixer u ulozi "Yakov Bok"
  • Ron Moody - Oliver! u ulozi "Fagin"
  • Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter u ulozi Henry II of England
• 1969 John Wayne - True Grit u ulozi "Rooster Cogburn"
  • Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days u ulozi Henry VIII of England
  • Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy u ulozi "Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo"
  • Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips u ulozi "Arthur Chipping"
  • Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy u ulozi "Joe Buck"

1970-g

• 1970 George C. Scott - Patton (odbio) u ulozi George S. Patton
  • Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father u ulozi "Tom Garrison"
  • James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope u ulozi "Jack Jefferson"
  • Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces u ulozi "Bobby Dupea"
  • Ryan O'Neal - Love Story u ulozi "Oliver Barrett IV"
• 1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection u ulozi "Detective Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle"
  • Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday u ulozi "Daniel Hirsh"
  • Walter Matthau - Kotch u ulozi "Joseph P. Kotcher"
  • George C. Scott - The Hospital u ulozi "Dr. Herbert Bock"
  • Topol - Fiddler on the Roof u ulozi "Tevye"
• 1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather (odbio) u ulozi "Vito Corleone"
  • Michael Caine - Sleuth u ulozi "Milo Tindle"
  • Laurence Olivier - Sleuth u ulozi "Andrew Wyke"
  • Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class u ulozi "Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney"
  • Paul Winfield - Sounder u ulozi "Nathan Lee Morgan"
• 1973 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger u ulozi "Harry Stoner"
  • Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris u ulozi "Paul"
  • Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail u ulozi "Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky"
  • Al Pacino - Serpico u ulozi Frank Serpico
  • Robert Redford - The Sting u ulozi "Johnny Hooker"
• 1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto u ulozi "Harry Coombes"
  • Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express u ulozi "Hercule Poirot"
  • Dustin Hoffman - Lenny u ulozi Lenny Bruce
  • Jack Nicholson - Chinatown u ulozi "Jake 'J.J' Gittes"
  • Al Pacino - The Godfather, Part II u ulozi "Michael Corleone"
• 1975 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest u ulozi "Randle Patrick McMurphy"
  • Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys u ulozi "Willy Clark"
  • Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon u ulozi "Sonny Wortzik"
  • Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth u ulozi "Arthur Goldman"
  • James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry! u ulozi Harry S. Truman
• 1976 Peter Finch - Network (posthumous) u ulozi "Howard Beale"
  • Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver u ulozi "Travis Bickle"
  • Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) u ulozi "Pasqualino Frafuso"
  • William Holden - Network u ulozi "Max Schumacher"
  • Sylvester Stallone - Rocky u ulozi "Rocky Balboa"
• 1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl u ulozi "Elliot Garfield"
  • Woody Allen - Annie Hall u ulozi "Alvy Singer"
  • Richard Burton - Equus u ulozi "Martin Dysart"
  • Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day u ulozi "Gabriele"
  • John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever u ulozi "Tony Manero"
• 1978 Jon Voight - Coming Home u ulozi "Luke Martin"
  • Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait u ulozi "Joe Pendleton"
  • Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story u ulozi Buddy Holly
  • Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter u ulozi "Michael Vronsky"
  • Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil u ulozi "Ezra Lieberman"
• 1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer u ulozi "Ted Kramer"
  • Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome u ulozi "Jack Godell"
  • Roy Scheider - All That Jazz u ulozi "Joe Gideon"
  • Peter Sellers - Being There u ulozi "Chance"
  • Al Pacino - ...And Justice for All u ulozi "Arthur Kirkland"

1980-g

• 1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull u ulozi Jake LaMotta
  • Robert Duvall - The Great Santini u ulozi "Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum"
  • John Hurt - The Elephant Man u ulozi Joseph Merrick
  • Jack Lemmon - Tribute u ulozi "Scottie Templeton"
  • Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man u ulozi "Eli Cross"
• 1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond u ulozi "Norman Thayer Jr."
  • Warren Beatty - Reds u ulozi John Silas Reed
  • Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City u ulozi "Lou Pascal"
  • Dudley Moore - Arthur u ulozi "Arthur Bach"
  • Paul Newman - Absence of Malice u ulozi "Michael Colin Gallagher"
• 1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi u ulozi Mahatma Gandhi
  • Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie u ulozi "Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels"
  • Jack Lemmon - Missing u ulozi Ed Horman
  • Paul Newman - The Verdict u ulozi "Frank Galvin"
  • Peter O'Toole - My Favorite Year u ulozi "Alan Swann"
• 1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies u ulozi "Mac Sledge"
  • Michael Caine - Educating Rita u ulozi "Dr. Frank Bryant"
  • Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben u ulozi "Gowan McGland"
  • Tom Courtenay - The Dresser u ulozi "Norman"
  • Albert Finney - The Dresser u ulozi "Sir"
• 1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus u ulozi "Antonio Salieri"
  • Jeff Bridges - Starman u ulozi "Starman"
  • Albert Finney - Under the Volcano u ulozi "Geoffrey Firmin"
  • Tom Hulce - Amadeus u ulozi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Sam Waterston - The Killing Fields u ulozi Sydney Schanberg
• 1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman u ulozi "Luis Molina"
  • Harrison Ford - Witness u ulozi "John Book"
  • James Garner - Murphy's Romance u ulozi "Murphy Jones"
  • Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor u ulozi "Charley Partaana"
  • Jon Voight - Runaway Train u ulozi "Oscar 'Manny' Manheim"
• 1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money u ulozi "Fast Eddie Felson"
  • Dexter Gordon - 'Round Midnight u ulozi "Dale Turner"
  • Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa u ulozi "George"
  • William Hurt - Children of a Lesser God u ulozi "James Leeds"
  • James Woods - Salvador u ulozi Richard Boyle
• 1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street u ulozi "Gordon Gekko"
  • William Hurt - Broadcast News u ulozi "Tom Grunick"
  • Marcello Mastroianni - Dark Eyes u ulozi "Romano"
  • Jack Nicholson - Ironweed u ulozi "Francis Phelan"
  • Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam u ulozi "Adrian Cronauer"
• 1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man u ulozi "Raymond Babbitt"
  • Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning u ulozi "Rupert Anderson"
  • Tom Hanks - Big u ulozi "Josh"
  • Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver u ulozi Jaime Escalante
  • Max von Sydow - Pelle the Conqueror u ulozi "Lassefar"
• 1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot u ulozi "Christy Brown"
  • Kenneth Branagh - Henry V u ulozi Henry V of England
  • Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July u ulozi Ron Kovic
  • Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy u ulozi "Hoke Colburn"
  • Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society u ulozi "John Keating"

1990-g

• 1990 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune u ulozi Claus von Bülow
  • Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves u ulozi "Lieutenant Dunbar"
  • Robert De Niro - Awakenings u ulozi "Leonard Lowe"
  • Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac u ulozi Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Richard Harris - The Field u ulozi "Bull McCabe"
• 1991 Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs u ulozi "Dr. Hannibal Lecter"
  • Warren Beatty - Bugsy u ulozi Bugsy Siegel
  • Robert De Niro - Cape Fear u ulozi "Max Cady"
  • Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides u ulozi "Tom Wingo"
  • Robin Williams - The Fisher King u ulozi "Parry"
• 1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman u ulozi "Lt. Col. Frank Slade"
  • Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin u ulozi Charlie Chaplin
  • Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven u ulozi "William 'Bill' Munny"
  • Stephen Rea - The Crying Game u ulozi "Fergus"
  • Denzel Washington - Malcolm X u ulozi Malcolm X
• 1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia u ulozi "Andy Beckett"
  • Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It? u ulozi Ike Turner
  • Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day u ulozi "James Stevens"
  • Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father u ulozi Gerry Conlon
  • Liam Neeson - Schindler's List u ulozi Oskar Schindler
• 1994 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump u ulozi "Forrest Gump"
  • Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption u ulozi "Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding"
  • Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of King George u ulozi George III
  • Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool u ulozi "Sully Sullivan"
  • John Travolta - Pulp Fiction u ulozi "Vincent Vega"
• 1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas u ulozi "Ben Sanderson"
  • Richard Dreyfuss - Mr. Holland's Opus u ulozi "Glenn Holland"
  • Anthony Hopkins - Nixon u ulozi Richard Nixon
  • Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking u ulozi "Matthew Poncelet"
  • Massimo Troisi - Il Postino u ulozi Mario Ruoppolo (posthumno nominovan)
• 1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine u ulozi David Helfgott
  • Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire u ulozi "Jerry Maguire"
  • Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient u ulozi Count László de Almásy
  • Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt u ulozi Larry Flynt
  • Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade u ulozi "Karl Childers"
• 1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets u ulozi "Melvin Udall"
  • Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting u ulozi "Will Hunting"
  • Robert Duvall - The Apostle u ulozi "Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey - The Apostle E.F."
  • Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold u ulozi "Ulysses 'Ulee' Jackson"
  • Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog u ulozi "Stanley Motss"
• 1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful u ulozi "Guido Orefice"
  • Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan u ulozi "Captain John H. Miller"
  • Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters u ulozi James Whale
  • Nick Nolte - Affliction u ulozi "Wade Whitehouse"
  • Edward Norton - American History X u ulozi "Derek Vinyard"
• 1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty u ulozi "Lester Burnham"
  • Russell Crowe - The Insider u ulozi Dr. Jeffrey Wigand
  • Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story u ulozi Alvin Straight
  • Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown u ulozi "Emmet Ray"
  • Denzel Washington -The Hurricane u ulozi Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

2000-g

• 2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator u ulozi "Maximus Decimus Meridius"
  • Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls u ulozi Reinaldo Arenas
  • Tom Hanks - Cast Away u ulozi "Chuck Noland"
  • Ed Harris - Pollock u ulozi Jackson Pollock
  • Geoffrey Rush - Quills u ulozi The Marquis de Sade
• 2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day u ulozi "Alonzo Harris"
  • Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind u ulozi John Forbes Nash
  • Sean Penn - I Am Sam u ulozi "Sam Dawson"
  • Will Smith - Ali u ulozi Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali
  • Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom u ulozi "Matt Fowler"
• 2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist u ulozi Władysław Szpilman
  • Nicolas Cage - Adaptation. u ulozi Charlie Kaufman/"Donald Kaufman"
  • Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York u ulozi "William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting"
  • Michael Caine - The Quiet American u ulozi "Thomas Fowler"
  • Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt u ulozi "Warren Schmidt"
• 2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River u ulozi "Jimmy Markum"
  • Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl u ulozi "Captain Jack Sparrow"
  • Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog u ulozi "Behrani"
  • Jude Law - Cold Mountain u ulozi "Inman"
  • Bill Murray - Lost in Translation u ulozi "Bob Harris"
• 2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray u ulozi Ray Charles
  • Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda u ulozi Paul Rusesabagina
  • Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland u ulozi Sir James Matthew Barrie
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator u ulozi Howard Hughes
  • Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby u ulozi "Frankie Dunn"
• 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote u ulozi Truman Capote
  • Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow u ulozi "Djay"
  • Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain u ulozi "Ennis Del Mar"
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line u ulozi Johnny Cash
  • David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck. u ulozi Edward R. Murrow
• 2006 - Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland u ulozi Idi Amin
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond u ulozi "Danny Archer"
  • Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson u ulozi "Dan Dunne"
  • Peter O'Toole - Venus u ulozi "Maurice"
  • Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness u ulozi "Chris Gardner"
• 2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood u ulozi Daniel Plainview
  • George Clooney - Michael Clayton u ulozi "Michael Clayton"
  • Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street u ulozi "Sweeney Todd"
  • Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah u ulozi "Hank Deerfield"
  • Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises u ulozi "Nikolai"
• 2008 - Sean Penn - Milk u ulozi "Harvey Milk"
  • Richard Jenkins - The Visitor u ulozi "Walter Vale"
  • Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon u ulozi "Richard Nixon"
  • Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button u ulozi "Benjamin Button"
  • Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler u ulozi "Randy 'The Ram' Robinson"
• 2009 Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart u ulozi Otis "Bad" Blake
  • George Clooney - Up in the Air u ulozi "Ryan Bingham"
  • Colin Firth - A Single Man u ulozi "George Falconer"
  • Morgan Freeman - Invictus u ulozi "Nelson Mandela"
  • Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker u ulozi "SFC. William James"

2010-g

• 2010 Colin Firth - King's Speech u ulozi "George VI"
  • Javier Bardem - Biutiful u ulozi "Uxbal"
  • Jeff Bridges - True Grit u ulozi "Rooster Cogburn"
  • Jesse Eisenberg - Social Network u ulozi "Mark Zuckerberg"
  • James Franco - 127 Hours u ulozi "Aaron Ralston"
• 2011 Jean Dujardin - The Artist u ulozi "George Valentin"
  • Demian Bichir - A Better Life u ulozi "Carlos Galindo"
  • George Clooney - The Descendants u ulozi "Matt King"
  • Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) u ulozi "George Smiley"
  • Brad Pitt - Moneyball u ulozi "Billy Beane"
• 2012 Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln u ulozi "Abraham Lincoln"
  • Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook u ulozi Patrick "Pat" Solitano, Jr.
  • Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables u ulozi "Jean Valjean"
  • Joaquin Phoenix - The Master u ulozi "Freddie Quell"
  • Denzel Washington - Flight u ulozi William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr.
• 2013 Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club u ulozi "Ron Woodroof"
  • Christian Bale - American Hustle u ulozi "Irving Rosenfeld"
  • Bruce Dern - Nebraska u ulozi Woodrow T. "Woody" Grant
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street u ulozi "Jordan Belfort"
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave u ulozi "Solomon Northup"
• 2014 Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything u ulozi "Stephen Hawking"
  • Steve Carell - Foxcatcher u ulozi "John du Pont"
  • Bradley Cooper - American Sniper u ulozi "Chris Kyle"
  • Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game u ulozi "Alan Turing"
  • Michael Keaton - Birdman u ulozi "Riggan Thomson / Birdman"
• 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio – Povratnik
  • Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
  • Matt Damon – Marsovac: Spasilačka misija
  • Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
  • Eddie Redmayne – Dankinja
• 2016 Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea u ulozi "Lee Chandler"
  • Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge u ulozi "Desmond T. Doss"
  • Ryan Gosling - La La Land u ulozi "Sebastian Wilder"
  • Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic u ulozi "Ben Cash"
  • Denzel Washington - Fences u ulozi "Troy Maxson"