Best Leading Actor

Winners

2024	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer
2023	Brendan Fraser	The Whale
2022	Will Smith	King Richard
2021	Anthony Hopkins	The Father
2020	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker
2019	Rami Malek	Bohemian Rhapsody
2018	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour
2017	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea
2016	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant
2015	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything
2014	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club
2013	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln
2012	Jean Dujardin	The Artist
2011	Colin Firth	The King's Speech
2010	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart
2009	Sean Penn	Milk
2008	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood
2007	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland
2006	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote
2005	Jamie Foxx	Ray
2004	Sean Penn	Mystic River
2003	Adrien Brody	The Pianist
2002	Denzel Washington	Training Day
2001	Russell Crowe	Gladiator
2000	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty
1999	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful
1998	Jack Nicholson	As Good as It Gets
1997	Geoffrey Rush	Shine
1996	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas
1995	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump
1994	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia
1993	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman
1992	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs
1991	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune
1990	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot
1989	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man
1988	Michael Douglas	Wall Street
1987	Paul Newman	The Color of Money
1986	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus
1984	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies
1983	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi
1982	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond
1981	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull
1980	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs. Kramer
1979	Jon Voight	Coming Home
1978	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl
1977	Peter Finch	Network
1976	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto
1974	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger
1973	Marlon Brando	The Godfather
1972	Gene Hackman	The French Connection
1971	George C. Scott	Patton
1970	John Wayne	True Grit
1969	Cliff Robertson	Charly
1968	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night
1967	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons
1966	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou
1965	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady
1964	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field
1963	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird
1962	Maximilian Schell	Judgment at Nuremberg
1961	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry
1960	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hur
1959	David Niven	Separate Tables
1958	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957	Yul Brynner	The King and I
1956	Ernest Borgnine	Marty
1955	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront
1954	William Holden	Stalag 17
1953	Gary Cooper	High Noon
1952	Humphrey Bogart	The African Queen
1951	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac
1950	Broderick Crawford	All the King's Men
1949	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet
1948	Ronald Colman	A Double Life
1947	Fredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives
1946	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend
1945	Bing Crosby	Going My Way
1944	Paul Lukas	Watch on the Rhine
1943	James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York
1941	James Stewart	The Philadelphia Story
1940	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town
1938	Spencer Tracy	Captains Courageous
1937	Paul Muni	The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936	Victor McLaglen	The Informer
1935	Clark Gable	It Happened One Night
1934	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII.
1933	Wallace Beery	The Champ
	Fredric March	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Tie)
1932	Lionel Barrymore	A Free Soul
1931	George Arliss	Disraeli
1930	Warner Baxter	In Old Arizona
1929	Emil Jannings	The Last Command