Akim Tamiroff (1943) • Barry Fitzgerald (1944) • J. Carrol Naish (1945) • Clifton Webb (1946) • Edmund Gwenn (1947) • Walter Huston (1948) • James Whitmore (1949) • Edmund Gwenn (1950)
Peter Ustinov (1951) • Millard Mitchell (1952) • Frank Sinatra (1953) • Edmond O'Brien (1954) • Arthur Kennedy (1955) • Earl Holliman (1956) • Red Buttons (1957) • Burl Ives (1958) • Stephen Boyd (1959) • Sal Mineo (1960) • George Chakiris (1961) • Omar Sharif (1962) • John Huston (1963) • Edmond O'Brien (1964) • Oskar Werner (1965) • Richard Attenborough (1966) • Richard Attenborough (1967) • Daniel Massey (1968) • Gig Young (1969) • John Mills (1970) • Ben Johnson (1971) • Joel Grey (1972) • John Houseman (1973) • Fred Astaire (1974) • Richard Benjamin (1975)
Laurence Olivier (1976) • Peter Firth (1977) • John Hurt (1978) • Melvyn Douglas / Robert Duvall (1979) • Timothy Hutton (1980) • John Gielgud (1981) • Louis Gossett Jr. (1982) • Jack Nicholson (1983) • Haing S. Ngor (1984) • Klaus Maria Brandauer (1985) • Tom Berenger (1986) • Sean Connery (1987) • Martin Landau (1988) • Denzel Washington (1989) • Bruce Davison (1990) • Jack Palance (1991) • Gene Hackman (1992) • Tommy Lee Jones (1993) • Martin Landau (1994) • Brad Pitt (1995) • Edward Norton (1996) • Burt Reynolds (1997) • Ed Harris (1998) • Tom Cruise (1999) • Benicio del Toro (2000)
Jim Broadbent (2001) • Chris Cooper (2002) • Tim Robbins (2003) • Clive Owen (2004) • George Clooney (2005) • Eddie Murphy (2006) • Javier Bardem (2007) • Heath Ledger (2008) • Christoph Waltz (2009) • Christian Bale (2010) • Christopher Plummer (2011) • Christoph Waltz (2012) • Jared Leto (2013) • J. K. Simmons (2014) • Sylvester Stallone (2015) • Aaron Taylor-Johnson (2016) • Sam Rockwell (2017) • Mahershala Ali (2018) • Brad Pitt (2019) • Daniel Kaluuya (2020) • Kodi Smit-McPhee (2021) • Ke Huy Quan (2022) • Robert Downey Jr. (2023)