1997 bis 1999

1997

Burt Reynolds – Boogie Nights

Rupert Everett – Die Hochzeit meines besten Freundes

Anthony Hopkins – Amistad

1998

Billy Bob Thornton – Ein einfacher Plan

Ed Harris – Die Truman Show

Jason Patric – Männer, Frauen und die Wahrheit über Sex (Your Friends & Neighbors)

1999

Haley Joel Osment – The Sixth Sense

Wes Bentley – American Beauty

Michael Clarke Duncan – The Green Mile

John Malkovich – Being John Malkovich

Christopher Plummer – Insider (The Insider)

2000 bis 2009

2000

Benicio del Toro – Traffic – Macht des Kartells
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Almost Famous – Fast berühmt

Jack Black – High Fidelity

Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire

Albert Finney – Erin Brockovich

Joaquin Phoenix – Gladiator

2001

Steve Buscemi – Ghost World

Ben Kingsley – Sexy Beast

Jude Law – A.I. – Künstliche Intelligenz

Ian McKellen – Der Herr der Ringe: Die Gefährten

Tony Shalhoub – The Man Who Wasn’t There

2002

Dennis Quaid – Dem Himmel so fern (Far from Heaven)

Alan Arkin – Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Chris Cooper – Adaption – Der Orchideen-Dieb

Paul Newman – Road to Perdition

Andy Serkis – Der Herr der Ringe: Die zwei Türme

2003

Peter Sarsgaard – Shattered Glass

Sean Astin – Der Herr der Ringe: Die Rückkehr des Königs

Alec Baldwin – The Cooler – Alles auf Liebe

Tim Robbins – Mystic River

Andy Serkis – Der Herr der Ringe: Die Rückkehr des Königs

2004

Thomas Haden Church – Sideways

David Carradine – Kill Bill – Volume 2

Jamie Foxx – Collateral

Clive Owen – Hautnah

Peter Sarsgaard – Kinsey – Die Wahrheit über Sex

2005

Mickey Rourke – Sin City

Matt Dillon – L.A. Crash

Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man

Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain

William Hurt – A History of Violence

2006

Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children

Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine

Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls

Jack Nicholson – Departed – Unter Feinden

Mark Wahlberg – Departed – Unter Feinden

2007

Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men

Casey Affleck – Die Ermordung des Jesse James durch den Feigling Robert Ford (The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Der Krieg des Charlie Wilson (Charlie Wilson's War)

Hal Holbrook – Into the Wild

Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton

2008

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Glaubensfrage (Doubt)

Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky

Michael Shannon – Zeiten des Aufruhrs (Revolutionary Road)

2009

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Peter Capaldi – Kabinett außer Kontrolle (In the Loop)

Jackie Earle Haley – Watchmen – Die Wächter

Woody Harrelson – The Messenger – Die letzte Nachricht

Anthony Mackie – Tödliches Kommando – The Hurt Locker

2010 bis 2019

2010

Christian Bale – The Fighter

Andrew Garfield – The Social Network

John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone

Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right

Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech

2011

Christopher Plummer – Beginners

Albert Brooks – Drive

John Hawkes – Martha Marcy May Marlene

Nick Nolte – Warrior

Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life

2012

Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Alan Arkin – Argo

Dwight Henry – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

2013

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Matthew McConaughey – Mud – Kein Ausweg

Sam Rockwell – Ganz weit hinten (The Way, Way Back)

2014

Edward Norton – Birdman oder (Die unverhoffte Macht der Ahnungslosigkeit) (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))

Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice – Natürliche Mängel (Inherent Vice)

Ethan Hawke – Boyhood

Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher

J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

2015

Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina

Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight

Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies – Der Unterhändler (Bridge of Spies)

Sylvester Stallone – Creed – Rocky’s Legacy (Creed)

Benicio del Toro – Sicario

2016

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight

Tom Bennett – Love & Friendship

Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water

Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea

Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals

2017

Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name

Richard Jenkins – Shape of Water – Das Flüstern des Wassers (The Shape of Water)

Patrick Stewart – Logan – The Wolverine (Logan)

Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name

2018

Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther

Mahershala Ali – Green Book – Eine besondere Freundschaft (Green Book)

Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Steven Yeun – Burning (버닝 Burning)

2019

Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Willem Dafoe – Der Leuchtturm (The Lighthouse)

Al Pacino – The Irishman

Joe Pesci – The Irishman

Song Kang-ho – Parasite

Ab 2020

2020

Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods

Bill Murray – On the Rocks

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

2021

Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog

Mike Faist – West Side Story

Ciaran Hinds – Belfast

Troy Kotsur – Coda

Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

2022

Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Paul Dano – Die Fabelmans

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin

Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway

Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin