Best Actor
2002--Adrien Brody, The Pianist
2001--Denzel Washington, Training Day
2000--Russell Crowe, Gladiator
1999--Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
1998--Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful
1997--Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets
1996--Geoffrey Rush, Shine
1995--Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
1994--Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
1993--Tom Hanks, Philadelphia
1992--Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman
1991--Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
1990--Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune
1989--Daniel Day Lewis, My Left Foot
1988--Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man
1987--Michael Douglas, Wall Street
1986--Paul Newman, The Color of Money
1985--William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman
1984--F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
1983--Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies
1982--Ben Kingsley, Gandhi
1981--Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond
1980--Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
1979--Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer
1978--Jon Voight, Coming Home
1977--Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl
1976--Peter Finch, Network
1975--Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974--Art Carney, Harry and Tonto
1973--Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger
1972--Marlon Brando, The Godfather
1971--Gene Hackman, The French Connection
1970--George C. Scott, Patton
1969--John Wayne, True Grit
1968--Cliff Robertson, Charly
1967--Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night
1966--Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons
1965--Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou
1964--Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady
1963--Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field
1962--Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird
1961--Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg
1960--Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry
1959--Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur
1958--David Niven, Separate Tables
1957--Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956--Yul Brynner, The King and I
1955--Ernest Borgnine, Marty
1954--Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
1953--William Holden, Stalag 17
1952--Gary Cooper, High Noon
1951--Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen
1950--Jose FerrerCyrano de Bergerac
1949--Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men
1948--Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
1947--Ronald Colman, A Double Life
1946--Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives
1945--Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
1944--Bing Crosby, Going My Way
1943--Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine
1942--James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941--Gary Cooper, Sergeant York
1940--James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
1939--Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1938--Spencer Tracy, Boys Town
1937--Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous
1936--Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur
1935--Victor McLaglen, The Informer
1934--Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
1932/33--Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII
1930/31--Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul
1929/30--George Arliss, Disraeli
1928/29--Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona
1927/28--Emil Jannings, The Last Command