Walter Brennan (1936) • Joseph Schildkraut (1937) • Walter Brennan (1938) • Thomas Mitchell (1939) • Walter Brennan (1940) • Donald Crisp (1941) • Van Heflin (1942) • Charles Coburn (1943) • Barry Fitzgerald (1944) • James Dunn (1945) • Harold Russell (1946) • Edmund Gwenn (1947) • Walter Huston (1948) • Dean Jagger (1949) • George Sanders (1950)
Karl Malden (1951) • Anthony Quinn (1952) • Frank Sinatra (1953) • Edmond O'Brien (1954) • Jack Lemmon (1955) • Anthony Quinn (1956) • Red Buttons (1957) • Burl Ives (1958) • Hugh Griffith (1959) • Peter Ustinov (1960) • George Chakiris (1961) • Ed Begley (1962) • Melvyn Douglas (1963) • Peter Ustinov (1964) • Martin Balsam (1965) • Walter Matthau (1966) • George Kennedy (1967) • Jack Albertson (1968) • Gig Young (1969) • John Mills (1970) • Ben Johnson (1971) • Joel Grey (1972) • John Houseman (1973) • Robert De Niro (1974) • George Burns (1975)
Jason Robards (1976) • Jason Robards (1977) • Christopher Walken (1978) • Melvyn Douglas (1979) • Timothy Hutton (1980) • John Gielgud (1981) • Louis Gossett Jr. (1982) • Jack Nicholson (1983) • Haing S. Ngor (1984) • Don Ameche (1985) • Michael Caine (1986) • Sean Connery (1987) • Kevin Kline (1988) • Denzel Washington (1989) • Joe Pesci (1990) • Jack Palance (1991) • Gene Hackman (1992) • Tommy Lee Jones (1993) • Martin Landau (1994) • Kevin Spacey (1995) • Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1996) • Robin Williams (1997) • James Coburn (1998) • Michael Caine (1999) • Benicio del Toro (2000)
Jim Broadbent (2001) • Chris Cooper (2002) • Tim Robbins (2003) • Morgan Freeman (2004) • George Clooney (2005) • Alan Arkin (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) • Mark Rylance (2015) • Mahershala Ali (2016) • Sam Rockwell (2017) • Mahershala Ali (2018) • Brad Pitt (2019) • Daniel Kaluuya (2020) • Troy Kotsur (2021) • Ke Huy Quan (2022) • Robert Downey Jr. (2023)
