Thomas Mitchell (1953) • Robert Cummings (1955) • Lloyd Nolan (1956) • Jack Palance (1957) • Peter Ustinov (1958) • Fred Astaire (1959) • Laurence Olivier (1960) • Maurice Evans (1961) • Peter Falk (1962) • Trevor Howard (1963) • Jack Klugman (1964) • Alfred Lunt (1965) • Cliff Robertson (1966) • Peter Ustinov (1967) • Melvyn Douglas (1968) • Paul Scofield (1969) • Peter Ustinov (1970) • George C. Scott (1971) • Keith Michell (1972) • Laurence Olivier / Anthony Murphy (1973) • Hal Holbrook / William Holden (1974) • Laurence Olivier / Peter Falk (1975)
Anthony Hopkins / Hal Holbrook (1976) • Ed Flanders / Christopher Plummer (1977) • Fred Astaire / Michael Moriarty (1978) • Peter Strauss (1979) • Powers Boothe (1980) • Anthony Hopkins (1981) • Mickey Rooney (1982) • Tommy Lee Jones (1983) • Laurence Olivier (1984) • Richard Crenna (1985) • Dustin Hoffman (1986) • James Woods (1987) • Jason Robards (1988) • James Woods (1989) • Hume Cronyn (1990) • John Gielgud (1991) • Beau Bridges (1992) • Robert Morse (1993) • Hume Cronyn (1994) • Raul Julia (1995) • Alan Rickman (1996) • Armand Assante (1997) • Gary Sinise (1998) • Stanley Tucci (1999) • Jack Lemmon (2000)
Kenneth Branagh (2001) • Albert Finney (2002) • William H. Macy (2003) • Al Pacino (2004) • Geoffrey Rush (2005) • Andre Braugher (2006) • Robert Duvall (2007) • Paul Giamatti (2008) • Brendan Gleeson (2009) • Al Pacino (2010) • Barry Pepper (2011) • Kevin Costner (2012) • Michael Douglas (2013) • Benedict Cumberbatch (2014) • Richard Jenkins (2015) • Courtney B. Vance (2016) • Riz Ahmed (2017) • Darren Criss (2018) • Jharrel Jerome (2019) • Mark Ruffalo (2020) • Ewan McGregor (2021) • Michael Keaton (2022) • Steven Yeun (2023)
