Yedi aktör bu dalda iki ödül almıştır. Bunlar kronolojik sıra ile; Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938), Fredric March (1932, 1946), Gary Cooper (1941, 1952), Marlon Brando (1954, 1972), Dustin Hoffman (1979, 1988), Tom Hanks (1993, 1994) ve Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997). Spencer Tracy ve Tom Hanks bu ödülü üst üste iki sene kazanmayı başarmıştır.
Bu kategoride en fazla adaylığı olan kişiler ise dokuz adaylık ile Spencer Tracy ve Laurence Olivier. Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson ve Peter O`Toole ise sekiz kez bu ödüle aday gösterildi.
Altı aktör hem En İyi Aktör hemde En İyi Yardımcı Aktör oskarını almayı başarmıştır. Bunlar; Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey ve Denzel Washington.
1920`ler
- 1928 Emil Jannings - ``The Last Command`` - "Gen. Dolgorucki/Grand Duke Sergius Alexander" ve The Way of All Flesh`` - "August Schilling"
- Richard Barthelmess - ``The Noose`` - "Nicky Elkins" and ``The Patent Leather Kid`` - "the Patent Leather Kid"
- Charlie Chaplin - ``The Circus`` - "The Little Tramp"
- 1929 Warner Baxter - ``In Old Arizona`` - "The Cisco Kid"
- George Bancroft - ``Thunderbolt`` - "Thunderbolt Jim Lang"
- Chester Morris - ``Alibi`` - "Chick Williams (No. 1065)"
- Paul Muni - ``The Valiant`` - "James Dyke"
- Lewis Stone - ``The Patriot`` - "Count Pahlen"
1930`lar
- 1930 George Arliss - ``Disraeli`` - Benjamin Disraeli
- George Arliss - ``The Green Goddess`` - "The Raja of Rukh"
- Wallace Beery - ``The Big House`` - "`Machine Gun` Butch Schmidt"
- Maurice Chevalier - ``The Big Pond`` - "Pierre Mirande" and ``The Love Parade`` - "Count Alfred Renard"
- Ronald Colman - ``Bulldog Drummond`` - "Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond" and ``Condemned`` - "Michel"
- Lawrence Tibbett - ``The Rogue Song`` - "Yegor"
- 1931 Lionel Barrymore - ``A Free Soul`` - "Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney"
- Adolphe Menjou - ``The Front Page`` - "Walter Burns"
- Jackie Cooper - ``Skippy`` - "Skippy Skinner"
- Richard Dix - ``Cimarron`` - "Yancey Cravat"
- Fredric March - ``The Royal Family of Broadway`` - "Tony Cavendish"
- 1932 Fredric March - ``Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde`` - "Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde" ve Wallace Beery - ``The Champ`` - "Champ"
- Alfred Lunt - ``The Guardsman`` - "The Actor"
- 1933 Charles Laughton - ``The Private Life of Henry VIII`` - Kral Henry VIII
- Leslie Howard - ``Berkeley Square`` - "Peter Standish"
- Paul Muni - ``I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang`` - "James Allen/Allen James"
- 1934 Clark Gable - ``It Happened One Night`` - "Peter Warne"
- 1935 Victor McLaglen - ``The Informer`` - "Gypo Nolan"
- Clark Gable - ``Mutiny on the Bounty`` - Fletcher Christian
- Charles Laughton - ``Mutiny on the Bounty`` - William Bligh
- Paul Muni - ``Black Fury`` - "Joe Radek" (unofficial nomination; write-in candidate)
- Franchot Tone - ``Mutiny on the Bounty`` - Midshipman Roger Byam
- 1936 Paul Muni - ``The Story of Louis P-teur`` - Dr. Louis Pasteur
- Gary Cooper - ``Mr. Deeds Goes to Town`` - "Longfellow Deeds"
- Walter Huston - ``Dodsworth`` - "Samuel Dodsworth"
- William Powell - ``My Man Godfrey`` - Godfrey "Smith"
- Spencer Tracy - ``San Francisco`` - "Father Tim Mullin"
- 1937 Spencer Tracy - ``Captains Courageous`` - "Manuel Fidello"
- Charles Boyer - ``Conquest`` - Napoleon Bonaparte
- Fredric March - ``A Star Is Born`` - "Norman Maine"
- Robert Montgomery - ``Night Must Fall`` - "Danny"
- Paul Muni - ``The Life of Emile Zola`` - í‰mile Zola
- 1938 Spencer Tracy - ``Boys Town`` - Father Edward J. Flanigan
- Charles Boyer - ``Algiers`` - "Pepe Le Moko"
- James Cagney - ``Angels with Dirty Faces`` - "Rocky Sullivan"
- Robert Donat - ``The Citadel`` - "Dr. Andrew Manson"
- Leslie Howard - ``Pygmalion`` - "Professor Henry Higgins"
- 1939 Robert Donat - ``Goodbye, Mr. Chips`` - "Charles E. Chipping"
- Clark Gable - ``Gone with the Wind`` - "Rhett Butler"
- Laurence Olivier - ``Wuthering Heights`` - "Heathcliff"
- Mickey Rooney - ``Babes in Arms`` - "Mickey Moran"
- James Stewart - ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington`` - "Jefferson Smith"
1940`lar
- 1940 James Stewart - ``The Philadelphia Story`` - "Macaulay Connor"
- Charles Chaplin - ``The Great Dictator`` - "Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania)"/"A Jewish Barber"
- Henry Fonda - ``The Grapes of Wrath`` - "Tom Joad"
- Raymond Massey - ``Abe Lincoln in Illinois`` - Abraham Lincoln
- Laurence Olivier - ``Rebecca`` - "Maxim de Winter"
- 1941 Gary Cooper - ``Sergeant York`` - Sergeant Alvin York
- Cary Grant - ``Penny Serenade`` - "Roger Adams"
- Walter Huston - ``The Devil and Daniel Webster`` - "Mr. Scratch"
- Robert Montgomery - ``Here Comes Mr. Jordan`` - "Joe Pendleton"
- Orson Welles - ``Citizen Kane`` - "Charles Foster Kane"
- 1942 James Cagney - ``Yankee Doodle Dandy`` - George M. Cohan
- Ronald Colman - ``Random Harvest`` - "Charles Rainier"
- Gary Cooper - ``The Pride of the Yankees`` - Lou Gehrig
- Walter Pidgeon - ``Mrs. Miniver`` - "Clem Miniver"
- Monty Woolley - ``The Pied Piper`` - "Howard"
- 1943 Paul Lukas - ``Watch on the Rhine`` - "Kurt Muller"
- Humphrey Bogart - ``Casablanca`` - "Rick Blaine"
- Gary Cooper - ``For Whom the Bell Tolls`` - "Robert Jordan"
- Walter Pidgeon - ``Madame Curie`` - Pierre Curie
- Mickey Rooney - ``The Human Comedy`` - "Homer Macauley"
- 1944 Bing Crosby - ``Going My Way`` - "Father Chuck O`Malley"
- Charles Boyer - ``Gaslight`` - "Gregory Anton"
- Barry Fitzgerald - ``Going My Way`` - "Father Fitzgibbon"
- Cary Grant - ``None but the Lonely Heart`` - "Ernie Mott"
- Alexander Knox - ``Wilson`` - Woodrow Wilson
- 1945 Ray Milland - ``The Lost Weekend`` - "Don Birnam"
- Bing Crosby - ``The Bells of St. Mary`s`` - "Father Chuck O`Malley"
- Gene Kelly - ``Anchors Aweigh`` - "Joseph Brady"
- Gregory Peck - ``The Keys of the Kingdom`` - "Father Francis Chisolm"
- Cornel Wilde - ``A Song to Remember`` - Frederic Chopin
- 1946 Fredric March - ``The Best Years of Our Lives`` - "Al Stephenson"
- Laurence Olivier - ``Henry V`` - Henry V of England
- Larry Parks - ``The Jolson Story`` - Al Jolson
- Gregory Peck - ``The Yearling`` - "Penny Baxter"
- James Stewart - ``It`s a Wonderful Life`` - "George Bailey"
- 1947 Ronald Colman - ``A Double Life`` - "Anthony John"
- John Garfield - ``Body and Soul`` - "Charley Davis"
- Gregory Peck - ``Gentleman`s Agreement`` - "Philip Schuyler Green"
- Michael Redgrave - ``Mourning Becomes Electra`` - "Orin Mannon"
- William Powell - ``Life with Father`` - "Clarence `Father` Day"
- 1948 Laurence Olivier - ``Hamlet`` - "Hamlet"
- Lew Ayres - ``Johnny Belinda`` - "Dr. Robert Richardson"
- Montgomery Clift - ``The Search`` - "Ralph `Steve` Stevenson"
- Dan Dailey - ``When My Baby Smiles at Me`` - "`Skid` Johnson"
- Clifton Webb - ``Sitting Pretty`` - "Lynn Belvedere"
- 1949 Broderick Crawford - ``All the King`s Men`` - "Willie Stark"
- Kirk Dougl- - ``Champion`` - "Michael `Midge` Kelly"
- Gregory Peck - ``Twelve O`Clock High`` - "Brig. Gen. Frank Savage"
- Richard Todd - ``The H-ty Heart`` - "Cpl. Lachlan `Lachie` MacLachlan"
- John Wayne - ``Sands of Iwo Jima`` - "Sgt. John Stryker"
1950`ler
- 1950 Josí© Ferrer - ``Cyrano de Bergerac`` - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Louis Calhern - ``The Magnificent Yankee`` - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- William Holden - ``Sunset Boulevard`` - "Joe Gillis"
- James Stewart - ``Harvey`` - "Elwood P. Dowd"
- Spencer Tracy - ``Father of the Bride`` - "Stanley T. Banks"
- 1951 Humphrey Bogart - ``The African Queen`` - "Charlie Allnut"
- Marlon Brando - ``A Streetcar Named Desire`` - "Stanley Kowalski"
- Montgomery Clift - ``A Place in the Sun`` - "George E-tman"
- Arthur Kennedy - ``Bright Victory`` - "Larry Nevins"
- Fredric March - ``Death of a Salesman`` - "Willy Loman"
- 1952 Gary Cooper - ``High Noon`` - "Will Kane"
- Marlon Brando - ``Viva Zapata!`` - Emiliano Zapata
- Kirk Douglas - ``The Bad and the Beautiful`` - "Jonathan Shields"
- Josí© Ferrer - ``Moulin Rouge`` - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Alec Guinness - ``The Lavender Hill Mob`` - "Henry `Dutch` Holland"
- 1953 William Holden - ``Stalag 17`` - "Sergeant J.J. Sefton"
- Marlon Brando - ``Julius Caesar`` - Mark Antony
- Richard Burton - ``The Robe`` - "Marcellus Gallio"
- Montgomery Clift - ``From Here to Eternity`` - "Pvt. Robert E. Lee `Prew` Prewitt"
- Burt Lanc-ter - ``From Here to Eternity`` - "Sgt. Milton Warden"
- 1954 Marlon Brando - ``On the Waterfront`` - "Terry Malloy"
- Humphrey Bogart - ``The Caine Mutiny`` - Phillip Francis Queeg "
- Bing Crosby - ``The Country Girl`` - "Frank Elgin"
- James Mason - ``A Star Is Born`` - "Norman Maine"
- Dan O`Herlihy - ``The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe`` - "Robinson Crusoe"
- 1955 Ernest Borgnine - ``Marty`` - "Marty Piletti"
- James Cagney - ``Love Me or Leave Me`` - "Martin Snyder"
- James Dean - ``East of Eden`` - "Cal Trask" ``(posthumously nominated)``
- Frank Sinatra - ``The Man with the Golden Arm`` - "Frankie Machine"
- Spencer Tracy - ``Bad Day at Black Rock`` - "John J. Macreedy"
- 1956 Yul Brynner - ``The King and I`` - "King Mongkut of Siam"
- James Dean - ``Giant`` - "Jett Rink" ``(posthumously nominated)``
- Kirk Dougl- - ``Lust for Life`` - Vincent Van Gogh
- Rock Hudson - ``Giant`` - "Bick Benedict"
- Laurence Olivier - ``Richard III`` - Richard III of England
- 1957 Alec Guinness - ``The Bridge on the River Kwai`` - "Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson"
- Marlon Brando - ``Sayonara`` - "Major Lloyd `Ace Garber, USAF"
- Anthony Franciosa - ``A Hatful of Rain`` - "Polo Pope"
- Charles Laughton - ``Witness for the Prosecution`` - "Sir Wilfrid Robarts"
- Anthony Quinn - ``Wild Is the Wind`` - "Gino"
- 1958 David Niven - ``Separate Tables`` - "Major Angus Pollock"
- Tony Curtis - ``The Defiant Ones`` - "John `Joker` Jackson"
- Paul Newman - ``Cat on a Hot Tin Roof`` - "Brick Pollitt"
- Sidney Poitier - ``The Defiant Ones`` - "Noah Cullen"
- Spencer Tracy - ``The Old Man and the Sea`` - "Santiago"
- 1959 Charlton Heston - ``Ben-Hur`` - "Judah Ben-Hur"
- Laurence Harvey - ``Room at the Top`` - "Joe Lampton"
- Jack Lemmon - ``Some Like It Hot`` - "Jerry/Daphne"
- Paul Muni - ``The Last Angry Man`` - "Dr. Sam Abelman"
- James Stewart - ``Anatomy of a Murder`` - "Paul Biegler"
1960s
- 1960 Burt Lancaster - ``Elmer Gantry`` - "Elmer Gantry"
- Trevor Howard - ``Sons and Lovers`` - "Walter Morel"
- Jack Lemmon - ``The Apartment`` - "C.C. Baxter"
- Laurence Olivier - ``The Entertainer`` - "Archie Rice"
- Spencer Tracy - ``Inherit the Wind`` - "Henry Drummond"
- 1961 Maximilian Schell - ``Judgment at Nuremberg`` - "Hans Rolfe"
- Charles Boyer - ``Fanny`` - "Fanny"
- Paul Newman - ``The Hustler`` - "F-t Eddie Felson"
- Spencer Tracy - ``Judgment at Nuremberg`` - "Chief Judge Dan Haywood"
- Stuart Whitman - ``The Mark`` - "Jim Fuller"
- 1962 Gregory Peck - ``To Kill a Mockingbird`` - "Atticus Finch"
- Burt Lanc-ter - ``Birdman of Alcatraz`` - Robert Stroud
- Jack Lemmon - ``Days of Wine and Roses`` - "Joe Clay"
- Marcello Mastroianni - ``Divorce, Italian Style`` - "Ferdinando Cefalú"
- Peter O`Toole - ``Lawrence of Arabia`` - T. E. Lawrence
- 1963 Sidney Poitier - ``Lilies of the Field`` - "Homer Smith"
- Albert Finney - ``Tom Jones`` - "Tom Jones"
- Richard Harris - ``This Sporting Life`` - "Frank Machin"
- Rex Harrison - ``Cleopatra`` - Julius Caesar
- Paul Newman - ``Hud`` - "Hud Bannon"
- 1964 Rex Harrison - ``My Fair Lady`` - "Henry Higgins"
- Richard Burton - ``Becket`` - Thomas Becket
- Peter O`Toole - ``Becket`` - Henry II of England
- Anthony Quinn - ``Zorba the Greek`` - "Alexis Zorba"
- Peter Sellers - ``How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb`` - "Group Captain Lionel Mendrake," "President Merkin Muffley," ve "Dr. Strangelove"
- 1965 Lee Marvin - ``Cat Ballou`` - "Kid Sheleen" ve "Tim Strawn"
- Richard Burton - ``The Spy Who Came in from the Cold`` - "Alec Leamas"
- Laurence Olivier - ``Othello`` - "Othello"
- Rod Steiger - ``The Pawnbroker`` - "Sol Nazerman"
- Oskar Werner - ``Ship of Fools`` - "Willie Schumann"
- 1966 Paul Scofield - ``A Man for All Seasons`` - Thom- More
- Alan Arkin - ``The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming`` - "Lt. Rozanov"
- Richard Burton - ``Who`s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?`` - "George"
- Michael Caine - ``Alfie`` - "Alfie"
- Steve McQueen - ``The Sand Pebbles`` - "Jake Holman"
- 1967 Rod Steiger - ``In the Heat of the Night`` - "Bill Gillespie"
- Warren Beatty - ``Bonnie and Clyde`` - Clyde Barrow
- Dustin Hoffman - ``The Graduate`` - "Benjamin Braddock"
- Paul Newman - ``Cool Hand Luke`` - "Luke Jackson"
- Spencer Tracy - ``Guess Who`s Coming to Dinner`` - "Matt Drayton"
- 1968 Cliff Robertson - ``Charly`` - "Charly Gordon"
- Alan Arkin - ``The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter`` - "John Singer"
- Alan Bates - ``The Fixer`` - "Yakov Bok"
- Ron Moody - ``Oliver!`` - "Fagin"
- Peter O`Toole - ``The Lion in Winter`` - Henry II of England
- 1969 John Wayne - ``True Grit`` - "Rooster Cogburn"
- Richard Burton - ``Anne of the Thousand Days`` - Henry VIII of England
- Dustin Hoffman - ``Midnight Cowboy`` - "Enrico `Ratso` Rizzo"
- Peter O`Toole - ``Goodbye, Mr. Chips`` - "Arthur Chipping"
- Jon Voight - ``Midnight Cowboy`` - "Joe Buck"
1970`ler
- 1970 George C. Scott - ``Patton`` (declined) - George S. Patton
- Melvyn Dougl- - ``I Never Sang for My Father`` - "Tom Garrison"
- James Earl Jones - ``The Great White Hope`` - "Jack Jefferson"
- Jack Nicholson - ``Five Easy Pieces`` - "Bobby Dupea"
- Ryan O`Neal - ``Love Story`` - "Oliver Barrett IV"
- 1971 Gene Hackman - ``The French Connection`` - "Detective Jimmy `Popeye` Doyle"
- Peter Finch - ``Sunday Bloody Sunday`` - "Daniel Hirsh"
- Walter Matthau - ``Kotch`` - "Joseph P. Kotcher"
- George C. Scott - ``The Hospital`` - "Dr. Herbert Bock"
- Topol - ``Fiddler on the Roof`` - "Tevye"
- 1972 Marlon Brando - ``The Godfather`` (red edildi) - "Vito Corleone"
- Michael Caine - ``Sleuth`` - "Milo Tindle"
- Laurence Olivier - ``Sleuth`` - "Andrew Wyke"
- Peter O`Toole - ``The Ruling Class`` - "Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney"
- Paul Winfield - ``Sounder`` - "Nathan Lee Morgan"
- 1973 Jack Lemmon - ``Save the Tiger`` - "Harry Stoner"
- Marlon Brando - ``L-t Tango in Paris`` - "Paul"
- Jack Nicholson - ``The Last Detail`` - "Billy `Bad ass` Buddusky"
- Al Pacino - ``Serpico`` - Frank Serpico
- Robert Redford - ``The Sting`` - "Johnny Hooker"
- 1974 Art Carney - ``Harry and Tonto`` - "Harry Coombes"
- Albert Finney - ``Murder on the Orient Express`` - "Hercule Poirot"
- Dustin Hoffman - ``Lenny`` - Lenny Bruce
- Jack Nicholson - ``Chinatown`` - "Jake `J.J` Gittes"
- Al Pacino - ``The Godfather, Part II`` - "Michael Corleone"
- 1975 Jack Nicholson - ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest`` - "Randle Patrick McMurphy"
- Walter Matthau - ``The Sunshine Boys`` - "Willy Clark"
- Al Pacino - ``Dog Day Afternoon`` - "Sonny Wortzik"
- Maximilian Schell - ``The Man in the Glass Booth`` - "Arthur Goldman"
- James Whitmore - ``Give `em Hell, Harry!`` - Harry S. Truman
- 1976 Peter Finch - ``Network`` (ölümünden sonra) - "Howard Beale"
- Robert De Niro - ``Taxi Driver`` - "Travis Bickle"
- Giancarlo Giannini - ``Seven Beauties`` (Pasqualino Settebellezze) - "Pasqualino Frafuso"
- William Holden - ``Network`` - "Max Schumacher"
- Sylvester Stallone - ``Rocky`` - "Rocky Balboa"
- 1977 Richard Dreyfuss - ``The Goodbye Girl`` - "Elliot Garfield"
- Woody Allen - ``Annie Hall`` - "Alvy Singer"
- Richard Burton - ``Equus`` - "Martin Dysart"
- Marcello Mastroianni - ``A Special Day`` - "Gabriele"
- John Travolta - ``Saturday Night Fever`` - "Tony Manero"
- 1978 Jon Voight - ``Coming Home`` - "Luke Martin"
- Warren Beatty - ``Heaven Can Wait`` - "Joe Pendleton"
- Gary Busey - ``The Buddy Holly Story`` - Buddy Holly
- Robert De Niro - ``The Deer Hunter`` - "Michael Vronsky"
- Laurence Olivier - ``The Boys from Brazil`` - "Ezra Lieberman"
- 1979 Dustin Hoffman - ``Kramer vs. Kramer`` - "Ted Kramer"
- Jack Lemmon - ``The China Syndrome`` - "Jack Godell"
- Roy Scheider - ``All That Jazz`` - "Joe Gideon"
- Peter Sellers - ``Being There`` - "Chance"
- Al Pacino - ``...And Justice for All`` - "Arthur Kirkland"
1980`ler
- 1980 Robert De Niro - ``Raging Bull`` - Jake LaMotta
- Robert Duvall - ``The Great Santini`` - "Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum"
- John Hurt - ``The Elephant Man`` - Joseph Merrick
- Jack Lemmon - ``Tribute`` - "Scottie Templeton"
- Peter O`Toole - ``The Stunt Man`` - "Eli Cross"
- 1981 Henry Fonda - ``On Golden Pond`` - "Norman Thayer Jr."
- Warren Beatty - ``Reds`` - John Sil- Reed
- Burt Lanc-ter - ``Atlantic City`` - "Lou P-cal"
- Dudley Moore - ``Arthur`` - "Arthur Bach"
- Paul Newman - ``Absence of Malice`` - "Michael Colin Gallagher"
- 1982 Ben Kingsley - ``Gandhi`` - Mahatma Gandhi
- Dustin Hoffman - ``Tootsie`` - "Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels"
- Jack Lemmon - ``Missing`` - Ed Horman
- Paul Newman - ``The Verdict`` - "Frank Galvin"
- Peter O`Toole - ``My Favorite Year`` - "Alan Swann"
- 1983 Robert Duvall - ``Tender Mercies`` - "Mac Sledge"
- Michael Caine - ``Educating Rita`` - "Dr. Frank Bryant"
- Tom Conti - ``Reuben, Reuben`` - "Gowan McGland"
- Tom Courtenay - ``The Dresser`` - "Norman"
- Albert Finney - ``The Dresser`` - "Sir"
- 1984 F. Murray Abraham - ``Amadeus`` - "Antonio Salieri"
- Jeff Bridges - ``Starman`` - "Starman"
- Albert Finney - ``Under the Volcano`` - "Geoffrey Firmin"
- Tom Hulce - ``Amadeus`` - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sam Waterston - ``The Killing Fields`` - Sydney Schanberg
- 1985 William Hurt - ``Kiss of the Spider Woman`` - "Luis Molina"
- Harrison Ford - ``Witness`` - "John Book"
- James Garner - ``Murphy`s Romance`` - "Murphy Jones"
- Jack Nicholson - ``Prizzi`s Honor`` - "Charley Partaana"
- Jon Voight - ``Runaway Train`` - "Oscar `Manny` Manheim"
- 1986 Paul Newman - ``The Color of Money`` - "F-t Eddie Felson"
- Dexter Gordon - ```Round Midnight`` - "Dale Turner"
- Bob Hoskins - ``Mona Lisa`` - "George"
- William Hurt - ``Children of a Lesser God`` - "James Leeds"
- James Woods - ``Salvador`` - Richard Boyle
- 1987 Michael Douglas - ``Wall Street`` - "Gordon Gekko"
- William Hurt - ``Broadc-t News`` - "Tom Grunick"
- Marcello M-troianni - ``Dark Eyes`` - "Romano"
- Jack Nicholson - ``Ironweed`` - "Francis Phelan"
- Robin Williams - ``Good Morning, Vietnam`` - "Adrian Cronauer"
- 1988 Dustin Hoffman - ``Rain Man`` - "Raymond Babbitt"
- Gene Hackman - ``Mississippi Burning`` - "Rupert Anderson"
- Tom Hanks - ``Big`` - "Josh"
- Edward James Olmos - ``Stand and Deliver`` - Jaime Escalante
- Max von Sydow - ``Pelle the Conqueror`` - "L-sefar"
- 1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - ``My Left Foot`` - "Christy Brown"
- Kenneth Branagh - ``Henry V`` - Henry V
- Tom Cruise - ``Born on the Fourth of July`` - Ron Kovic
- Morgan Freeman - ``Driving Miss Daisy`` - "Hoke Colburn"
- Robin Williams - ``Dead Poets Society`` - "John Keating"
1990`lar
- 1990 Jeremy Irons - ``Reversal of Fortune`` - Claus von Bülow
- Kevin Costner - ``Dances with Wolves`` - "Lieutenant Dunbar"
- Robert De Niro - ``Awakenings`` - "Leonard Lowe"
- Gerard Depardieu - ``Cyrano de Bergerac`` - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Richard Harris - ``The Field`` - "Bull McCabe"
- 1991 Anthony Hopkins - ``The Silence of the Lambs`` - "Dr. Hannibal Lecter"
- Warren Beatty - ``Bugsy`` - Bugsy Siegel
- Robert De Niro - ``Cape Fear`` - "Max Cady"
- Nick Nolte - ``The Prince of Tides`` - "Tom Wingo"
- Robin Williams - ``The Fisher King`` - "Parry"
- 1992 Al Pacino - ``Scent of a Woman`` - "Lt. Col. Frank Slade"
- Robert Downey Jr. - ``Chaplin`` - Charlie Chaplin
- Clint Eastwood - ``Unforgiven`` - "William `Bill` Munny"
- Stephen Rea - ``The Crying Game`` - "Fergus"
- Denzel Washington - ``Malcolm X`` - Malcolm X
- 1993 Tom Hanks - ``Philadelphia`` - "Andy Beckett"
- Laurence Fishburne - ``What`s Love Got to Do with It?`` - Ike Turner
- Anthony Hopkins - ``The Remains of the Day`` - "James Stevens"
- Daniel Day-Lewis - ``In the Name of the Father`` - Gerry Conlon
- Liam Neeson - ``Schindler`s List`` - Oskar Schindler
- 1994 Tom Hanks - ``Forrest Gump`` - "Forrest Gump"
- Morgan Freeman - ``The Shawshank Redemption`` - "Ellis Boyd `Red` Redding"
- Nigel Hawthorne - ``The Madness of King George`` - George III
- Paul Newman - ``Nobody`s Fool`` - "Sully Sullivan"
- John Travolta - ``Pulp Fiction`` - "Vincent Vega"
- 1995 Nicolas Cage - ``Leaving L- Veg-`` - "Ben Sanderson"
- Richard Dreyfuss - ``Mr. Holland`s Opus`` - "Glenn Holland"
- Anthony Hopkins - ``Nixon`` - Richard Nixon
- Sean Penn - ``Dead Man Walking`` - "Matthew Poncelet"
- Massimo Troisi - ``Il Postino`` - Mario Ruoppolo ``(posthumously nominated)``
- 1996 Geoffrey Rush - ``Shine`` - David Helfgott
- Tom Cruise - ``Jerry Maguire`` - "Jerry Maguire"
- Ralph Fiennes - ``The English Patient`` - Count László de Almásy
- Woody Harrelson - ``The People vs. Larry Flynt`` - Larry Flynt
- Billy Bob Thornton - ``Sling Blade`` - "Karl Childers"
- 1997 Jack Nicholson - ``As Good as It Gets `` - "Melvin Udall"
- Matt Damon - ``Good Will Hunting`` - "Will Hunting"
- Robert Duvall - ``The Apostle`` - "Euliss `Sonny` Dewey - The Apostle E.F."
- Peter Fonda - ``Ulee`s Gold`` - "Ulysses `Ulee` Jackson"
- Dustin Hoffman - ``Wag the Dog`` - "Stanley Motss"
- 1998 Roberto Benigni - ``Life Is Beautiful`` - "Guido Orefice"
- Tom Hanks - ``Saving Private Ryan`` - "Captain John H. Miller"
- Ian McKellen - ``Gods and Monsters`` - James Whale
- Nick Nolte - ``Affliction`` - "Wade Whitehouse"
- Edward Norton - ``American History X`` - "Derek Vinyard"
- 1999 Kevin Spacey - ``American Beauty`` - "Lester Burnham"
- Russell Crowe - ``The Insider`` - Dr. Jeffrey Wigand
- Richard Farnsworth - ``The Straight Story`` - Alvin Straight
- Sean Penn - ``Sweet and Lowdown`` - "Emmet Ray"
- Denzel Washington -``The Hurricane`` - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
2000`ler
- 2000 Russell Crowe - ``Gladiator`` - "Maximus Decimus Meridius"
- Javier Bardem - ``Before Night Falls`` - Reinaldo Aren-
- Tom Hanks - ``Cast Away`` - "Chuck Noland"
- Ed Harris - ``Pollock`` - Jackson Pollock
- Geoffrey Rush - ``Quills`` - The Marquis de Sade
- 2001 Denzel Washington - ``Training Day`` - "Alonzo Harris"
- Russell Crowe - ``A Beautiful Mind`` - John Forbes N-h
- Sean Penn - ``I Am Sam`` - "Sam Dawson"
- Will Smith - ``Ali`` - Cassius Clay/Muhammet Ali
- Tom Wilkinson - ``In the Bedroom`` - "Matt Fowler"
- 2002 Adrien Brody - ``The Pianist`` - Władysław Szpilman
- Nicolas Cage - ``Adaptation.`` - Charlie Kaufman/"Donald Kaufman"
- Daniel Day-Lewis - ``Gangs of New York`` - "William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting"
- Michael Caine - ``The Quiet American`` - "Thom- Fowler"
- Jack Nicholson - ``About Schmidt`` - "Warren Schmidt"
- 2003 Sean Penn - ``Mystic River`` - "Jimmy Markum"
- Johnny Depp - ``The Curse of the Black Pearl`` - "Kaptan Jack Sparrow"
- Ben Kingsley - ``House of Sand and Fog`` - "Behrani"
- Jude Law - ``Cold Mountain`` - "Inman"
- Bill Murray - ``Lost in Translation`` - "Bob Harris"
- 2004 Jamie Foxx - ``Ray`` - Ray Charles
- Don Cheadle - ``Hotel Rwanda`` - Paul Rusesabagina
- Johnny Depp - ``Finding Neverland`` - Sir James Matthew Barrie
- Leonardo DiCaprio - ``The Aviator`` - Howard Hughes
- Clint Eastwood - ``Million Dollar Baby`` - "Frankie Dunn"
- 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - ``Capote`` - Truman Capote
- Terrence Howard - ``Hustle & Flow`` - "Djay"
- Heath Ledger - ``Brokeback Mountain`` - "Ennis Del Mar"
- Joaquin Phoenix - ``Walk the Line`` - Johnny Cash
- David Strathairn - ``Good Night, and Good Luck.`` - Edward R. Murrow
- 2006 - Forest Whitaker - ``The Last King of Scotland`` - Idi Amin
- Leonardo DiCaprio - ``Blood Diamond`` - "Danny Archer"
- Ryan Gosling - ``Half Nelson`` - "Dan Dunne"
- Peter O`Toole - ``Venus`` - "Maurice"
- Will Smith - ``The Pursuit of Happyness`` - "Chris Gardner"