1936 Walter Brennan, COME AND GET IT
1937 Joseph Schildkraut, THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
1938 Walter Brennan, KENTUCKY
1939 Thomas Mitchell, STAGECOACH
1940 Walter Brennan, THE WESTERNER
1941 Donald Crisp, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
1942 Van Heflin, JOHNNY EAGER
1943 Charles Coburn, THE MORE THE MERRIER
1944 Barry Fitzgerald, GOING MY WAY
1945 James Dunn, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
1946 Harold Russell, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
1947 Edmund Gwenn, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
1948 Walter Huston, TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE
1949 Dean Jagger, TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH

1950 George Sanders, ALL ABOUT EVE
1951 Karl Malden, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
1952 Anthony Quinn, VIVA ZAPATA!
1953 Frank Sinatra, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
1954 Edmond O'Brien, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA
1955 Jack Lemmon, MISTER ROBERTS
1956 Anthony Quinn, LUST FOR LIFE
1957 Red Buttons, SAYONARA
1958 Burl Ives, THE BIG COUNTRY
1959 Hugh Griffith, BEN-HUR

1960 Peter Ustinov, SPARTACUS
1961 George Chakiris, WEST SIDE STORY
1962 Ed Begley, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
1963 Melvyn Douglas, HUD
1964 Peter Ustinov, TOPKAPI
1965 Martin Balsam, A THOUSAND CLOWNS
1966 Walter Matthau, THE FORTUNE COOKIE
1967 George Kennedy, COOL HAND LUKE
1968 Jack Albertson, THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
1969 Gig Young, THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?

1970 John Mills, RYAN'S DAUGHTER
1971 Ben Johnson, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
1972 Joel Grey, CABARET
1973 John Houseman, THE PAPER CHASE
1974 Robert De Niro, THE GODFATHER, PART 2
1975 George Burns, THE SUNSHINE BOYS
1976 Jason Robards, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
1977 Jason Robards, JULIA
1978 Christopher Walken, THE DEER HUNTER
1979 Melvyn Douglas, BEING THERE

1980 Timothy Hutton, ORDINARY PEOPLE
1981 John Gielgud, ARTHUR
1982 Louis Gossett, Jr., AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
1983 Jack Nicholson, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
1984 Haing S. Ngor, THE KILLING FIELDS
1985 Don Ameche, COCOON
1986 Michael Caine, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
1987 Sean Connery, THE UNTOUCHABLES
1988 Kevin Kline, A FISH CALLED WANDA
1989 Denzel Washington, GLORY

1990 Joe Pesci, GOODFELLAS
1991 Jack Palance, CITY SLICKERS
1992 Jack Nicholson, AS GOOD AS IT GETS
1993 Tommy Lee Jones, THE FUGITIVE
1994 Martin Landau, ED WOOD
1995 Kevin Spacey, AMERICAN BEAUTY
1996 Cuba Gooding Jr, JERRY MAGUIRE
1997 Robin Williams, GOOD WILL HUNTING
1998 James Coburn, AFFLICTION
1999 Michael Caine, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES