Emil Jannings (1928) • Warner Baxter (1929) • George Arliss (1930) • Lionel Barrymore (1931) • Fredric March / Wallace Beery (1932) • Charles Laughton (1933) • Clark Gable (1934) • Victor McLaglen (1935) • Paul Muni (1936) • Spencer Tracy (1937) • Spencer Tracy (1938) • Robert Donat (1939) • James Stewart (1940)
Gary Cooper (1941) • James Cagney (1942) • Paul Lukas (1943) • Bing Crosby (1944) • Ray Milland (1945) • Fredric March (1946) • Ronald Colman (1947) • Laurence Olivier (1948) • Broderick Crawford (1949) • José Ferrer (1950) • Humphrey Bogart (1951) • Gary Cooper (1952) • William Holden (1953) • Marlon Brando (1954) • Ernest Borgnine (1955) • Yul Brynner (1956) • Alec Guinness (1957) • David Niven (1958) • Charlton Heston (1959) • Burt Lancaster (1960)
Maximilian Schell (1961) • Gregory Peck (1962) • Sidney Poitier (1963) • Rex Harrison (1964) • Lee Marvin (1965) • Paul Scofield (1966) • Rod Steiger (1967) • Cliff Robertson (1968) • John Wayne (1969) • George C. Scott (1970) • Gene Hackman (1971) • Marlon Brando (1972) • Jack Lemmon (1973) • Art Carney (1974) • Jack Nicholson (1975) • Peter Finch (1976) • Richard Dreyfuss (1977) • Jon Voight (1978) • Dustin Hoffman (1979) • Robert De Niro (1980)
Henry Fonda (1981) • Ben Kingsley (1982) • Robert Duvall (1983) • F. Murray Abraham (1984) • William Hurt (1985) • Paul Newman (1986) • Michael Douglas (1987) • Dustin Hoffman (1988) • Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) • Jeremy Irons (1990) • Anthony Hopkins (1991) • Al Pacino (1992) • Tom Hanks (1993) • Tom Hanks (1994) • Nicolas Cage (1995) • Geoffrey Rush (1996) • Jack Nicholson (1997) • Roberto Benigni (1998) • Kevin Spacey (1999) • Russell Crowe (2000)
Denzel Washington (2001) • Adrien Brody (2002) • Sean Penn (2003) • Jamie Foxx (2004) • Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) • Forest Whitaker (2006) • Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) • Sean Penn (2008) • Jeff Bridges (2009) • Colin Firth (2010) • Jean Dujardin (2011) • Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) • Matthew McConaughey (2013) • Eddie Redmayne (2014) • Leonardo DiCaprio (2015) • Casey Affleck (2016) • Gary Oldman (2017) • Rami Malek (2018) • Joaquin Phoenix (2019) • Anthony Hopkins (2020) • Will Smith (2021) • Brendan Fraiser (2022) • Cillian Murphy (2023)