1936        Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey as Carlo

1936        Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd

1937        Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus

1937        H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon as Chang

1937        Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth as 'Dan' Leeson

1937        Roland Young - Topper as Cosmo Topper

1938        Gene Lockhart - Algiers as Regis

1938        John Garfield - Four Daughters as Mickey Borden

1938        Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI

1939        Brian Aherne - Juarez as Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg

1939        Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste as Sgt. Markoff

1939        Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate

1940        Albert Basserman - Foreign Correspondent as Van Meer

1940        Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator as Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)

1940        James Stephenson - The Letter as Howard Joyce

1940        William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted as Joe

1941        James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Max Corkle

1941        Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon as Kasper Gutman

1941        Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley as Mr. Morgan

1942        Van Heflin - Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett

1942        Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat as The Pirate

1942        Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver as Mr. Ballard

1942        Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy as Jerry Cohan

1942        William Bendix - Wake Island as Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall

1944        Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon

1944        Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder

1944        Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away as Colonel William G. Smollett

1945        James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn as Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush

1945        John Dall - The Corn Is Green as Morgan Evans

1945        Michael Chekhov - Spellbound as Dr. Alexander 'Alex' Brulov

1945        Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe as Lt. / Capt. Bill Walker

1946        Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives as Homer Parrish

1946        William Demarest - The Jolson Story as Steve Martin

1947        Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo

1947        Robert Ryan - Crossfire as Montgomery

1947        Thomas Gomez - Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho

1948        José Ferrer - Joan of Arc as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France

1948        Oscar Homolka - I Remember Mama as Uncle Chris Halverson

1948        Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Howard

1949        Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High as Major Stovall

1949        James Whitmore - Battleground as Kinnie

1949        John Ireland - All the King's Men as Jack Burden

1950        George Sanders - All About Eve as Addison De Witt

1950        Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard as Max von Meyerling

1950        Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow as Cochise

1950        Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider

1951        Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman

1951        Leo Genn - Quo Vadis as Petronius

1952        Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky as Zeb Calloway/Narrator

1952        Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel as Philip Ashley

1952        Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man as 'Red' Will Danaher

1953        Brandon de Wilde - Shane as Joey Starrett

1953        Robert Strauss - Stalag 17 as Stanislas 'Animal' Kasava

1953        Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Angelo Maggio

1954        Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront as Charley 'the Gent' Malloy

1954        Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny as Commander DeVriess

1955        Joe Mantell - Marty as Angie

1955        Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts as Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver

1956        Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion as Josh Birdwell

1956        Don Murray - Bus Stop as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker

1956        Robert Stack - Written on the Wind as Kyle Hadley

1957        Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place as Norman Page

1957        Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito

1957        Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi

1957        Red Buttons - Sayonara as Airman Joe Kelly

1958        Burl Ives - The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey

1958        Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller

1959        Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussell

1959        Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians as Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn

1960        Chill Wills - The Alamo as Beekeeper

1960        Jack Kruschen - The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss

1961        Jackie Gleason - The Hustler as Minnesota Fats

1961        Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg as Rudolph Petersen

1961        George Chakiris - West Side Story as Bernardo

1962        Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth as Tom 'Boss' Finley

1962        Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish

1962        Telly Savalas - Birdman of Alcatraz as Feto Gomez

1962        Terence Stamp - Billy Budd as Billy Budd

1962        Victor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Edwin Flagg

1963        Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D. as Corporal Jim Tompkins

1963        John Huston - The Cardinal as Cardinal Glennon

1963        Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor as Ben Brown

1964        Lee Tracy - The Best Man as President Art Hockstader

1964        Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady as Alfred Doolittle

1965        Frank Finlay - Othello as Iago

1965        Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix as 'Ratbags' Crow

1965        Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools as Carl Glocken

1965        Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago as Pasha Antipov

1965        Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns as Arnold Burns

1966        Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie as Willie Gingrich

1966        George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Nick

1966        Mako - The Sand Pebbles as Po-han

1966        Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons as Henry VIII of England

1967        George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke as Dragline

1967        John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen as Victor P. Franko

1967        Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss

1968        Daniel Massey - Star! as Noel Coward

1968        Gene Wilder - The Producers as Leo Bloom

1968        Jack Wild - Oliver! as The Artful Dodger

1968        Seymour Cassel - Faces as Chet

1969        Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days as Cardinal Wolsey

1969        Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson

1969        Rupert Crosse - The Reivers as Ned

1970        Chief Dan George - Little Big Man as Old Lodge Skins

1970        John Marley - Love Story as Phil Cavalleri

1970        Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers as Frank Vecchio

1970        John Mills - Ryan's Daughter as Michael

1971        Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show as Sam the Lion

1971        Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil

1971        Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper

1971        Roy Scheider - The French Connection as Detective Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo

1972        James Caan - The Godfather as Sonny Corleone

1972        Joel Grey - Cabaret as Master of Ceremonies

1973        John Houseman - The Paper Chase as Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.

1973        Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger as Phil Greene

1973        Jason Miller - The Exorcist as Father Damien Karras

1973        Randy Quaid - The Last Detail as Larry Meadows

1974        Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno as Harlee Claiborne

1974        Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II as Hyman Roth

1974        Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II as Frankie Pentangeli

1974        Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II as Vito Corleone

1975        George Burns - The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis

1975        Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit

1975        Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Shermer

1976        Burt Young - Rocky as Paulie Pennino

1976        Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man as Dr. Christian Szell

1976        Ned Beatty - Network as Arthur Jensen

1977        Maximilian Schell - Julia as Johann

1977        Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point as Yuri Kopeikine

1977        Peter Firth - Equus as Alan Strang

1978        Bruce Dern - Coming Home as Captain Bob Hyde

1978        John Hurt - Midnight Express as Max

1978        Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman as Dodger

1979        Frederic Forrest - The Rose as Huston Dyer

1979        Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer as Billy Kramer

1980        Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger

1980        Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini as Ben Meechum

1980        Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett

1981        Howard Rollins - Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker, Jr.

1981        Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini

1981        James Coco - Only When I Laugh as Jimmy

1982        Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria as Carroll 'Toddy' Todd

1982        Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and A Gentleman as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley

1983        Rip Torn - Cross Creek as Marsh Turner

1983        Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager

1984        Noriyuki Pat Morita - The Karate Kid as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi

1984        Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields (film) as Dith Pran

1984        Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story as Sergeant Waters

1985        Don Ameche - Cocoon as Arthur Selwyn

1985        Eric Roberts - Runaway Train as Buck

1985        Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of Africa as Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke

1985        Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge as Sam Ransom

1985        William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor as Don Corrado Prizzi

1986        Denholm Elliott - A Room with a View as Mr. Emerson

1986        Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers as Shooter

1986        Tom Berenger - Platoon as Sgt. Barnes

1986        Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot

1987        Sean Connery - The Untouchables as Jim Malone

1987        Albert Brooks - Broadcast News as Aaron Altman

1988        Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob as Tony 'The Tiger' Russo

1988        River Phoenix - Running on Empty as Danny Pope

1988        Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda as Otto West

1989        Dan Aykroyd - Driving Miss Daisy as Boolie Werthan

1989        Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing as Sal

1989        Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season as Ian Mackenzie

1990        Andy García - The Godfather Part III as Vincent Mancini-Corleone

1990        Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion as David

1990        Graham Greene - Dances with Wolves as Kicking Bird

1991        Harvey Keitel - Bugsy as Mickey Cohen

1991        Michael Lerner - Barton Fink as Jack Lipnick

1992        David Paymer - Mr. Saturday Night as Stan

1992        Jaye Davidson - The Crying Game as Dil

1993        Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Arnie Grape

1993        Pete Postlethwaite - In the Name of the Father as Giuseppe Conlon

1993        Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List as Amon Göth

1994        Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway as Cheech

1994        Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump as Lieutenant Dan Taylor

1994        Paul Scofield - Quiz Show as Mark Van Doren

1994        Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield

1995        Brad Pitt - Twelve Monkeys as Jeffrey Goines

1995        James Cromwell - Babe as Farmer Arthur Hoggett

1995        Tim Roth - Rob Roy as Archibald Cunningham

1995        Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects as Roger 'Verbal' Kint

1996        Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell

1996        Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine as Peter Helfgott

1996        Edward Norton - Primal Fear as Aaron Stampler

1996        James Woods - Ghosts of Mississippi as Byron De La Beckwith

1996        William H. Macy - Fargo as Jerry Lundegaard

1997        Anthony Hopkins - Amistad as John Quincy Adams

1997        Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights as Jack Horner

1997        Greg Kinnear - As Good as It Gets as Simon Bishop

1997        Robert Forster - Jackie Brown as Max Cherry

1997        Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting as Sean Maguire

1998        James Coburn - Affliction as Glen Whitehouse

1998        Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell

1998        Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe

1999        Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense as Cole Sear

1999        Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf

1999        Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile as John Coffey

1999        Tom Cruise - Magnolia as Frank 'T.J.' Mackey

2000        Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich as Edward L. Masry

2000        Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator as Commodus

2001        Ethan Hawke - Training Day as Jake Hoyt

2001        Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf

2001        Jon Voight - Ali as Howard Cosell

2001        Jim Broadbent - Iris as John Bayley

2002        Chris Cooper - Adaptation. as John Laroche

2002        John C. Reilly - Chicago as Amos Hart

2002        Paul Newman - Road to Perdition as John Rooney

2003        Alec Baldwin - The Cooler as Shelly Kaplow

2003        Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai as Katsumoto

2003        Tim Robbins - Mystic River as Dave Boyle

2004        Alan Alda - The Aviator as Senator Owen Brewster

2004        Clive Owen - Closer as Larry Gray

2004        Jamie Foxx - Collateral as Max Durocher

2004        Thomas Haden Church - Sideways as Jack

2005        Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist

2005        Matt Dillon - Crash as Sergeant John Ryan

2005        Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man as Joe Gould

2005        William Hurt - A History of Violence as Richie Cusack

2005        George Clooney - Syriana as Bob Barnes

2006        Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine as Edwin Hoover

2006        Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls as James "Thunder" Early

2006        Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children as Ronald James McGorvey

2006        Mark Wahlberg - The Departed as Sgt. Sean Dignam

2007        Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert Ford

2007        Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild as Ron Franz

2007        Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens

2007        Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh

2008        Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumous win)

2008        Josh Brolin - Milk as Dan White

2008        Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road as John Givings

2008        Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus