This page should also list nominees for each year, instead of just listing the winners...
The films are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best actor in 1999.
- 1999 [Michael Caine]? - [The Cider House Rules]?
- 1998 [James Coburn]? - Affliction?
- 1997 [Robin Williams]? - [Good Will Hunting]?
- 1996 [Cuba Gooding, Jr.]? - [Jerry Maguire]?
- 1995 Kevin Spacey - [The Usual Suspects]?
- 1994 [Martin Landau]? - [Ed Wood]?
- 1993 [Tommy Lee Jones]? - The Fugitive
- 1992 Gene Hackman - Unforgiven?
- 1991 [Jack Palance]? - [City Slickers]?
- 1990 [Joe Pesci]? - Goodfellas?
- 1989 [Denzel Washington]? - Glory?
- 1988 [Kevin Kline]? - [A Fish Called Wanda]?
- 1987 Sean Connery - [The Untouchables]?
- 1986 [Michael Caine]? - [Hannah and Her Sisters]?
- 1985 [Don Ameche]? - Cocoon?
- 1984 [Haing S. Ngor]? - [The Killing Fields]?
- 1983 [Jack Nicholson]? - [Terms of Endearment]?
- 1982 [Louis Gossett, Jr.]? - [An Officer and A Gentleman]?
- 1981 [John Gielgud]? - Arthur?
- 1980 [Timothy Hutton]? - [Ordinary People]?
- 1979 [Melvyn Douglas]? - [Being There]?
- 1978 [Christopher Walken]? - [The Deer Hunter]?
- 1977 [Jason Robards]? - Julia?
- 1976 [Jason Robards]? - [All The President's Men]?
- 1975 [George Burns]? - [The Sunshine Boys]?
- 1974 Robert De Niro - [The Godfather Part II]?
- 1973 [John Houseman]? - [The Paper Chase]?
- 1972 [Joel Grey]? - Cabaret?
- 1971 [Ben Johnson]? - [The Last Picture Show]?
- 1970 [John Mills]? - [Ryan's Daughter]?
- 1969 [Gig Young]? - [They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]?
- 1968 [Jack Albertson]? - [The Subject Was Roses]?
- 1967 [George Kennedy]? - [Cool Hand Luke]?
- 1966 [Walter Matthau]? - [The Fortune Cookie]?
- 1965 [Martin Balsam]? - [A Thousand Clowns]?
- 1964 [Peter Ustinov]? - Topkapi?
- 1963 [Melvyn Douglas]? - Hud?
- 1962 [Ed Begley]? - [Sweet Bird of Youth]?
- 1961 [George Chakiris]? - West Side Story
- 1960 [Peter Ustinov]? - Spartacus
- 1959 [Hugh Griffith]? - Ben-Hur?
- 1958 [Burl Ives]? - The Big Country
- 1957 [Red Buttons]? - Sayonara?
- 1956 [Anthony Quinn]? - [Lust For Life]?
- 1955 Jack Lemmon - [Mister Roberts]?
- 1954 [Edmond O'Brien]? - [The Barefoot Contessa]?
- 1953 Frank Sinatra - [From Here to Eternity]?
- 1952 [Anthony Quinn]? - [Viva Zapata!]?
- 1951 [Karl Malden]? - [A Streetcar Named Desire]?
- 1950 [George Sanders]? - [All About Eve]?
- 1949 [Dean Jagger]? - [Twelve O'Clock High]?
- 1948 [Walter Huston]? - [The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]?
- 1947 [Edmund Gwenn]? - [Miracle on 34th Street]?
- 1946 [Harold Russell]? - [The Best Years Of Our Lives]?
- 1945 [James Dunn]? - [A Tree Grows In Brooklyn]?
- 1944 [Barry Fitzgerald]? - [Going My Way]?
- 1943 [Charles Coburn]? - [The More the Merrier]?
- 1942 [Van Heflin]? - [Johnny Eager]?
- 1941 [Donald Crisp]? - [How Green Was My Valley]?
- 1940 [Walter Brennan]? - [The Westerner]?
- 1939 [Thomas Mitchell]? - Stagecoach?
- 1938 [Walter Brennan]? - Kentucky
- 1937 [Joseph Schildkraut]? - [The Life of Emile Zola]?
- 1936 [Walter Brennan]? - [Come and Get It]?