Cel mai bun actor intr-un rol principal – Oscar

Daca tot am inceput o discutie despre Oscaruri, astazi va punem la dispozitie o lista cu castigatorii prestigioasei statuete de-a lungul istoriei. Hope it helps.
• 1927–1928 Emil Jannings – The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander and The Way of All Flesh as August Schilling
o Richard Barthelmess – The Noose as Nickie Elkins and The Patent Leather Kid as Patent Leather Kid
• 1928–1929 Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid
o George Bancroft – Thunderbolt as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
o Chester Morris – Alibi as Chick Williams (No. 1065)
o Paul Muni – The Valiant as James Dyke
o Lewis Stone – The Patriot as Count Pahlen
• 1929–1930 George Arliss – Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
o George Arliss – The Green Goddess as The Raja of Rukh
o Wallace Beery – The Big House as ‘Machine Gun’ Butch Schmidt
o Maurice Chevalier – The Big Pond as Pierre Mirande and The Love Parade as Count Alfred Renard
o Ronald Colman – Bulldog Drummond as Capt. Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond and Condemned as Michel
o Lawrence Tibbett – The Rogue Song as Yegor
[edit] 1930s
• 1930–1931 Lionel Barrymore – A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe
o Adolphe Menjou – The Front Page as Walter Burns
o Jackie Cooper – Skippy as Skippy Skinner
o Richard Dix – Cimarron as Yancey Cravat
o Fredric March – The Royal Family of Broadway as Tony Cavendish
• 1931–1932 Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Wallace Beery – The Champ as Champ (tie)
o Alfred Lunt – The Guardsman as The Actor
• 1932–1933 Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII
o Leslie Howard – Berkeley Square as Peter Standish
o Paul Muni – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as James Allen
• 1934 Clark Gable – It Happened One Night as Peter Warne
o Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini as Alessandro – Duke of Florence
o William Powell – The Thin Man as Nick Charles
• 1935 Victor McLaglen – The Informer as Gypo Nolan
o Clark Gable – Mutiny on the Bounty as Christian
o Charles Laughton – Mutiny on the Bounty as Bligh
o Franchot Tone – Mutiny on the Bounty as Byam
o Paul Muni – Black Fury as Joe Radek
• 1936 Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur as Louis Pasteur
o Gary Cooper – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds
o Walter Huston – Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth
o William Powell – My Man Godfrey as Godfrey
o Spencer Tracy – San Francisco as Father Mullin
• 1937 Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous as Manuel
o Charles Boyer – Conquest as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
o Fredric March – A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
o Robert Montgomery – Night Must Fall as Danny
o Paul Muni – The Life of Emile Zola as Emile Zola
• 1938 Spencer Tracy – Boys Town as Father Flanagan
o Charles Boyer – Algiers as Pepe le Moko
o James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces as Rocky Sullivan
o Robert Donat – The Citadel as Andrew
o Leslie Howard – Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins
• 1939 Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Mr. Chips
o Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
o Clark Gable – Gone with the Wind as Rhett Butler
o Mickey Rooney – Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran
o James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith
[edit] 1940s
• 1940 James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay Connor
o Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania) / A Jewish Barber
o Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad
o Raymond Massey – Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln
o Laurence Olivier – Rebecca as ‘Maxim’ de Winter
• 1941 Gary Cooper – Sergeant York as Alvin Cullum York
o Cary Grant – Penny Serenade as Roger Adams
o Walter Huston – The Devil and Daniel Webster as Mr. Scratch
o Robert Montgomery – Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe Pendleton
o Orson Welles – Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane
• 1942 James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
o Ronald Colman – Random Harvest as Charles Rainier
o Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees as Henry Louis ‘Lou’ Gehrig
o Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver
o Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper as Howard
• 1943 Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller
o Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca as Rick Blaine
o Gary Cooper – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
o Walter Pidgeon – Madame Curie as Pierre Curie
o Mickey Rooney – The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley
• 1944 Bing Crosby – Going My Way as Father Chuck O’Malley
o Charles Boyer – Gaslight as Gregory Anton
o Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
o Cary Grant – None but the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott
o Alexander Knox – Wilson as Woodrow Wilson
• 1945 Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend as Don Birnam
o Bing Crosby – The Bells of St. Mary’s as Father Chuck O’Malley
o Gene Kelly – Anchors Aweigh as Joseph Brady
o Gregory Peck – The Keys of the Kingdom as Father Francis Chisholm
o Cornel Wilde – A Song to Remember as Frédéric Chopin
• 1946 Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson
o Laurence Olivier – Henry V as King Henry V of England
o Larry Parks – The Jolson Story as Al Jolson
o Gregory Peck – The Yearling as Ezra ‘Penny’ Baxter
o James Stewart – It’s a Wonderful Life as George Bailey
• 1947 Ronald Colman – A Double Life as Anthony John
o John Garfield – Body and Soul as Charlie Davis
o Gregory Peck – Gentleman’s Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green aka Greenberg
o Michael Redgrave – Mourning Becomes Electra as Orin Mannon
o William Powell – Life with Father as Clarence Day, Sr.
• 1948 Laurence Olivier – Hamlet as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
o Lew Ayres – Johnny Belinda as Dr. Robert Richardson
o Montgomery Clift – The Search as Ralph ‘Steve’ Stevenson
o Dan Dailey – When My Baby Smiles at Me as ‘Skid’ Johnson
o Clifton Webb – Sitting Pretty as Lynn Belvedere
• 1949 Broderick Crawford – All the King’s Men as Willie Stark
o Kirk Douglas – Champion as Michael ‘Midge’ Kelly
o Gregory Peck – Twelve O’Clock High as General Savage
o Richard Todd – The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan ‘Lachie’ MacLachlan
o John Wayne – Sands of Iwo Jima as Sgt. John M. Stryker
[edit] 1950s
• 1950 José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
o Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes
o William Holden – Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
o James Stewart – Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd
o Spencer Tracy – Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks
• 1951 Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen as Charlie Allnut
o Marlon Brando – A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski
o Montgomery Clift – A Place in the Sun as George Eastman
o Arthur Kennedy – Bright Victory as Larry Nevins
o Fredric March – Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
• 1952 Gary Cooper – High Noon as Marshal Will Kane
o Marlon Brando – Viva Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata
o Kirk Douglas – The Bad and the Beautiful as Jonathan
o José Ferrer – Moulin Rouge as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / The Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec
o Alec Guinness – The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry Holland
• 1953 William Holden – Stalag 17 as Sgt. J.J. Sefton
o Marlon Brando – Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
o Richard Burton – The Robe as Marcellus Gallio
o Montgomery Clift – From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Robert E. Lee ‘Prew’ Prewitt
o Burt Lancaster – From Here to Eternity as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
• 1954 Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy
o Humphrey Bogart – The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg
o Bing Crosby – The Country Girl as Frank Elgin
o James Mason – A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
o Dan O’Herlihy – The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe as Robinson Crusoe
• 1955 Ernest Borgnine – Marty as Marty Piletti
o James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder
o James Dean – East of Eden as Cal Trask (posthumous nomination)
o Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie Machine
o Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock as John J. Macreedy
• 1956 Yul Brynner – The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam
o James Dean – Giant as Jett Rink (posthumous nomination)
o Kirk Douglas – Lust for Life as Vincent Van Gogh
o Rock Hudson – Giant as Jordan “Bick” Benedict Jr.
o Laurence Olivier – Richard III as Richard III
• 1957 Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai as Col. Nicholson
o Marlon Brando – Sayonara as Maj. Lloyd ‘Ace’ Gruver – USAF
o Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain as Polo Pope
o Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, lawyer
o Anthony Quinn – Wild Is the Wind as Gino
• 1958 David Niven – Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock
o Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones as John ‘Joker’ Jackson
o Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt
o Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen
o Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea as The Old Man / Narrator
• 1959 Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur
o Laurence Harvey – Room at the Top as Joe Lampton
o Jack Lemmon – Some Like It Hot as Jerry – ‘Daphne’
o Paul Muni – The Last Angry Man as Dr. Sam Abelman
o James Stewart – Anatomy of a Murder as Paul Biegler
[edit] 1960s
• 1960 Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
o Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers as Walter Morel
o Jack Lemmon – The Apartment as C. C. ‘Bud’ Baxter
o Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer as Archie Rice
o Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond
• 1961 Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe
o Charles Boyer – Fanny as Cesar
o Paul Newman – The Hustler as Eddie Felson
o Spencer Tracy – Judgment at Nuremberg as Chief Judge Dan Haywood
o Stuart Whitman – The Mark as Jim Fuller
• 1962 Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch
o Burt Lancaster – Birdman of Alcatraz as Robert Stroud
o Jack Lemmon – Days of Wine and Roses as Joe Clay
o Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce, Italian Style as Ferdinando Cefalù
o Peter O’Toole – Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence
• 1963 Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith
o Albert Finney – Tom Jones as Tom Jones
o Richard Harris – This Sporting Life as Frank Machin
o Rex Harrison – Cleopatra as Caesar
o Paul Newman – Hud as Hud Bannon
• 1964 Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins
o Richard Burton – Becket as Thomas Becket
o Peter O’Toole – Becket as King Henry II
o Anthony Quinn – Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba
o Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
• 1965 Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou as Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn
o Richard Burton – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as Alec Leamas
o Laurence Olivier – Othello as Othello
o Rod Steiger – The Pawnbroker as Sol Nazerman
o Oskar Werner – Ship of Fools as Willie Schumann
• 1966 Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More
o Alan Arkin – The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming as Lt. Rozanov
o Richard Burton – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George
o Michael Caine – Alfie as Alfie Elkins
o Steve McQueen – The Sand Pebbles as Holman
• 1967 Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie
o Warren Beatty – Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow
o Dustin Hoffman – The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock
o Paul Newman – Cool Hand Luke as Luke Jackson
o Spencer Tracy – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton (posthumous nomination)
• 1968 Cliff Robertson – Charly as Charly Gordon
o Alan Arkin – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as John Singer
o Alan Bates – The Fixer as Yakov Bok
o Ron Moody – Oliver! as Fagin
o Peter O’Toole – The Lion in Winter as Henry II
• 1969 John Wayne – True Grit as Marshal Reuben J. ‘Rooster’ Cogburn
o Richard Burton – Anne of the Thousand Days as King Henry VIII
o Dustin Hoffman – Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore ‘Ratso’ Rizzo
o Peter O’Toole – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping
o Jon Voight – Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck
[edit] 1970s
• 1970 George C. Scott – Patton as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. (declined)
o Melvyn Douglas – I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison
o James Earl Jones – The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson
o Jack Nicholson – Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea
o Ryan O’Neal – Love Story as Oliver Barrett IV
• 1971 Gene Hackman – The French Connection as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle
o Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Dr. Daniel Hirsh
o Walter Matthau – Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher
o George C. Scott – The Hospital as Dr. Herbert Bock
o Chaim Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye
• 1972 Marlon Brando – The Godfather as Don Vito Corleone (declined)
o Michael Caine – Sleuth as Milo Tindle
o Laurence Olivier – Sleuth as Andrew Wyke
o Peter O’Toole – The Ruling Class as Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney
o Paul Winfield – Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan
• 1973 Jack Lemmon – Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner
o Marlon Brando – Last Tango in Paris as Paul
o Jack Nicholson – The Last Detail as SM1 Billy ‘Bad Ass’ Buddusky
o Al Pacino – Serpico as Frank Serpico
o Robert Redford – The Sting as Johnny Hooker
• 1974 Art Carney – Harry and Tonto as Harry Coombes
o Albert Finney – Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
o Dustin Hoffman – Lenny as Lenny Bruce
o Jack Nicholson – Chinatown as Jake ‘J.J.’ Gittes
o Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II as Don Michael Corleone
• 1975 Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as R.P. McMurphy
o Walter Matthau – The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark
o Al Pacino – Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
o Maximilian Schell – The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman
o James Whitmore – Give ‘em Hell, Harry! as Harry Truman
• 1976 Peter Finch – Network as Howard Beale (posthumous win)
o Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver as Travis Bickle
o Giancarlo Giannini – Seven Beauties as Pasqualino Frafuso
o William Holden – Network as Max Schumacher
o Sylvester Stallone – Rocky as Rocky Balboa
• 1977 Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
o Woody Allen – Annie Hall as Alvy Singer
o Richard Burton – Equus as Martin Dysart
o Marcello Mastroianni – A Special Day as Gabriele
o John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever as Tony Manero
• 1978 Jon Voight – Coming Home as Luke Martin
o Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait as Joe Pendleton
o Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly
o Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter as Michael Vronsky
o Laurence Olivier – The Boys from Brazil as Ezra Lieberman
• 1979 Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer
o Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome as Jack Godell
o Al Pacino – …And Justice for All as Arthur Kirkland
o Roy Scheider – All That Jazz as Joe Gideon
o Peter Sellers – Being There as Chance
[edit] 1980s
• 1980 Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta
o Robert Duvall – The Great Santini as Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum
o John Hurt – The Elephant Man as John Merrick
o Jack Lemmon – Tribute as Scottie Templeton
o Peter O’Toole – The Stunt Man as Eli Cross
• 1981 Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer
o Warren Beatty – Reds as John Reed
o Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City as Lou Pascal
o Dudley Moore – Arthur as Arthur Bach
o Paul Newman – Absence of Malice as Michael Colin Gallagher
• 1982 Ben Kingsley – Gandhi as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
o Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
o Jack Lemmon – Missing as Ed Horman
o Paul Newman – The Verdict as Frank Galvin
o Peter O’Toole – My Favorite Year as Alan Swann
• 1983 Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge
o Michael Caine – Educating Rita as Dr. Frank Bryant
o Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben as Gowan McGland
o Tom Courtenay – The Dresser as Norman
o Albert Finney – The Dresser as Sir
• 1984 F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
o Jeff Bridges – Starman as Starman
o Albert Finney – Under the Volcano as Geoffrey Firmin
o Tom Hulce – Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
o Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg
• 1985 William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina
o Harrison Ford – Witness as Det. Capt. John Book
o James Garner – Murphy’s Romance as Murphy Jones
o Jack Nicholson – Prizzi’s Honor as Charley Partanna
o Jon Voight – Runaway Train as Oscar ‘Manny’ Manheim
• 1986 Paul Newman – The Color of Money as Fast Eddie Felson
o Dexter Gordon – Round Midnight as Dale Turner
o Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa as George
o William Hurt – Children of a Lesser God as James Leeds
o James Woods – Salvador as Richard Boyle
• 1987 Michael Douglas – Wall Street as Gordon Gekko
o William Hurt – Broadcast News as Tom Grunick
o Marcello Mastroianni – Dark Eyes as Romano
o Jack Nicholson – Ironweed as Francis Phelan
o Robin Williams – Good Morning, Vietnam as Adrian Cronauer
• 1988 Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt
o Gene Hackman – Mississippi Burning as Agent Rupert Anderson
o Tom Hanks – Big as Josh Baskin
o Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver as Jaime Escalante
o Max von Sydow – Pelle the Conqueror as Lassefar
• 1989 Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot as Christy Brown
o Kenneth Branagh – Henry V as Henry V
o Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July as Ron Kovic
o Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy as Hoke Colburn
o Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society as John Keating
[edit] 1990s
• 1990 Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow
o Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves as Lt. John J. Dunbar
o Robert De Niro – Awakenings as Leonard Lowe
o Gérard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano De Bergerac
o Richard Harris – The Field as ‘Bull’ McCabe
• 1991 Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
o Warren Beatty – Bugsy as Bugsy Siegel
o Robert De Niro – Cape Fear as Max Cady
o Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides as Tom Wingo
o Robin Williams – The Fisher King as Parry
• 1992 Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
o Robert Downey, Jr. – Chaplin as Charlie Chaplin
o Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven as William ‘Bill’ Munny
o Stephen Rea – The Crying Game as Fergus
o Denzel Washington – Malcolm X as Malcolm X
• 1993 Tom Hanks – Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett
o Laurence Fishburne – What’s Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner
o Anthony Hopkins – The Remains of the Day as James Stevens
o Daniel Day-Lewis – In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon
o Liam Neeson – Schindler’s List as Oskar Schindler
• 1994 Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump
o Morgan Freeman – The Shawshank Redemption as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding
o Nigel Hawthorne – The Madness of King George as George III
o Paul Newman – Nobody’s Fool as Sully Sullivan
o John Travolta – Pulp Fiction as Vincent Vega
• 1995 Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson
o Richard Dreyfuss – Mr. Holland’s Opus as Glenn Holland
o Anthony Hopkins – Nixon as Richard Nixon
o Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet
o Massimo Troisi – Il Postino as Mario Ruoppolo (posthumous nomination)
• 1996 Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David Helfgott
o Tom Cruise – Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire
o Ralph Fiennes – The English Patient as Count Laszlo de Almásy
o Woody Harrelson – The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
o Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade as Karl Childers
• 1997 Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall
o Matt Damon – Good Will Hunting as Will Hunting
o Robert Duvall – The Apostle as Euliss ‘Sonny’ Dewey – The Apostle E.F.
o Peter Fonda – Ulee’s Gold as Ulee Jackson
o Dustin Hoffman – Wag the Dog as Stanley Motss
• 1998 Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful as Guido Orefice
o Tom Hanks – Saving Private Ryan as Captain John Miller
o Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters as James Whale
o Nick Nolte – Affliction as Wade Whitehouse
o Edward Norton – American History X as Derek Vinyard
• 1999 Kevin Spacey – American Beauty as Lester Burnham
o Russell Crowe – The Insider as Jeffrey Wigand
o Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story as Alvin Straight
o Sean Penn – Sweet and Lowdown as Emmet Ray
o Denzel Washington -The Hurricane as Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter
[edit] 2000s
• 2000 Russell Crowe – Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius
o Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
o Tom Hanks – Cast Away as Chuck Noland
o Ed Harris – Pollock as Jackson Pollock
o Geoffrey Rush – Quills as The Marquis de Sade
• 2001 Denzel Washington – Training Day as Alonzo Harris
o Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Nash
o Sean Penn – I Am Sam as Sam Dawson
o Will Smith – Ali as Muhammad Ali
o Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom as Matt Fowler
• 2002 Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Wladyslaw Szpilman
o Nicolas Cage – Adaptation. as Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
o Michael Caine – The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
o Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York as William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting
o Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt as Warren R. Schmidt
• 2003 Sean Penn – Mystic River as Jimmy Markum
o Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Jack Sparrow
o Ben Kingsley – House of Sand and Fog as Behrani
o Jude Law – Cold Mountain as Inman
o Bill Murray – Lost in Translation as Bob Harris
• 2004 Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles
o Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
o Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland as Sir James Matthew Barrie
o Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator as Howard Hughes
o Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby as Frankie Dunn
• 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote
o Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow as Djay
o Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
o Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
o David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow
• 2006 Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
o Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond as Danny Archer
o Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson as Danny Danne
o Peter O’Toole – Venus as Maurice
o Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness as Chris Gardner
• 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
o George Clooney – Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
o Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Sweeney Todd
o Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield
o Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin
• 2008 Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk
o Richard Jenkins – The Visitor as Walter Vale
o Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
o Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
o Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Randy “The Ram” Robinson