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Thập niên 1950

• 1952
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Ralph Richardson – The Sound Barrier
    • Laurence Olivier – Carrie
    • Alastair Sim – Folly to Be Wise
    • Jack Hawkins – Mandy
    • James Hayter – The Pickwick Papers
    • Nigel Patrick – The Sound Barrier
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Marlon Brando – Viva Zapata!
    • Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen
    • Fredric March – Death of a Salesman
    • Pierre Fresnay – Dieu a besoin des hommes
    • Francesco Golisano – Miracolo a Milano
• 1953
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – John Gielgud – Julius Caesar
    • Jack Hawkins – The Cruel Sea
    • Kenneth More – Genevieve
    • Trevor Howard – The Heart of the Matter
    • Duncan Macrae – The Kidnappers'
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Marlon Brando – Julius Caesar
    • Spencer Tracy – The Actress
    • Claude Laydu – Journal d'un curé de campagne
    • Marcel Mouloudji – Nous sommes tous des assassins
    • Eddie Albert – Roman Holiday
    • Gregory Peck – Roman Holiday
    • Van Heflin – Shane
• 1954
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất– Kenneth More – Doctor in the House
    • David Niven – Carrington V.C.
    • John Mills – Hobson's Choice
    • Robert Donat – Lease of Life
    • Maurice Denham – The Purple Plain
    • Donald Wolfit – Svengali
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront
    • José Ferrer – The Caine Mutiny
    • Fredric March – Executive Suite
    • James Stewart – The Glenn Miller Story
    • Neville Brand – Riot in Cell Block 11
• 1955
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Laurence Olivier – Richard III
    • Alfie Bass – The Bespoke Overcoat
    • Kenneth More – The Deep Blue Sea
    • Michael Redgrave – The Night My Number Came Up
    • Alec Guinness – The Prisoner
    • Jack Hawkins – The Prisoner
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Ernest Borgnine – Marty
    • James Dean – East of Eden
    • Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts
    • Frank Sinatra – Not as a Stranger
    • Toshirô Mifune – Shichinin no samurai
    • Takashi Shimura – Shichinin no samurai
• 1956
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Peter Finch – A Town Like Alice
    • Jack Hawkins – The Long Arm
    • Kenneth More – Reach for the Sky
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – François Périer – Gervaise
    • Karl Malden – Baby Doll
    • Pierre Fresnay – Le Défroqué
    • Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm
    • Spencer Tracy – The Mountain
    • William Holden – Picnic
    • James Dean – Rebel Without a Cause
    • Gunnar Björnstrand – Sommarnattens leende
• 1957
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai
    • Trevor Howard – Manuela
    • Laurence Olivier – The Prince and the Showgirl
    • Michael Redgrave – Time Without Pity
    • Peter Finch – Windom's Way
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Henry Fonda – 12 Angry Men
    • Sidney Poitier – Edge of the City
    • Ed Wynn – The Great Man
    • Robert Mitchum – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
    • Pierre Brasseur – Porte des Lilas
    • Tony Curtis – Sweet Smell of Success
    • Richard Basehart – Time Limit
    • Jean Gabin – La Traversée de Paris
• 1958
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Trevor Howard – The Key
    • I.S. Johar – Harry Black
    • Anthony Quayle – Ice-Cold in Alex
    • Laurence Harvey – Room at the Top
    • Donald Wolfit – Room at the Top
    • Michael Craig – Sea of Sand
    • Terry-Thomas – tom thumb
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
    • Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
    • Curd Jürgens – The Enemy Below
    • Curd Jürgens – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
    • Spencer Tracy – The Last Hurrah
    • Glenn Ford – The Sheepman
    • Victor Sjöström – Smultronstället
    • Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution
    • Marlon Brando – The Young Lions
• 1959
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Peter Sellers – I'm All Right Jack
    • Laurence Olivier – The Devil's Disciple
    • Laurence Harvey – Expresso Bongo
    • Richard Burton – Look Back in Anger
    • Peter Finch – The Nun's Story
    • Stanley Baker – Yesterday's Enemy
    • Gordon Jackson – Yesterday's Enemy
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Jack Lemmon – Some Like It Hot
    • James Stewart – Anatomy of a Murder
    • Takashi Shimura – Ikiru
    • Jean Desailly – Maigret tend un piège
    • Jean Gabin – Maigret tend un piège
    • Zbigniew Cybulski – Popiól i diament

Thập niên 1960

• 1960
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Peter Finch – The Trials of Oscar Wilde
    • Richard Attenborough – The Angry Silence
    • Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer
    • Albert Finney – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
    • John Fraser – The Trials of Oscar Wilde
    • Alec Guinness – Tunes of Glory
    • John Mills – Tunes of Glory
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Jack Lemmon – The Apartment
    • George Hamilton – Crime & Punishment
    • Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry
    • Fredric March – Inherit the Wind
    • Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind
    • Yves Montand – Let's Make Love
• 1961
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Peter Finch – No Love for Johnnie
    • Dirk Bogarde – Victim
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Paul Newman – The Hustler
    • Vladimir Ivashov – Ballada o soldate
    • Alberto Sordi – The Best of Enemies
    • Montgomery Clift – Judgment at Nuremberg
    • Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg
    • Sidney Poitier – A Raisin in the Sun
    • Philippe Leroy – Le Trou
• 1962
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Peter O'Toole – Lawrence of Arabia
    • Richard Attenborough – The Dock Brief
    • Alan Bates – A Kind of Loving
    • James Mason – Lolita
    • Peter Sellers – Only Two Can Play
    • Laurence Olivier – Term of Trial
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Burt Lancaster – Birdman of Alcatraz
    • Charles Laughton – Advise and Consent
    • Robert Ryan – Billy Budd
    • Anthony Quinn – Lawrence of Arabia
    • George Hamilton – Light in the Piazza
    • Kirk Douglas – Lonely Are the Brave
    • Jean-Paul Belmondo – Léon Morin, prêtre
    • Georges Wilson – Une aussi longue absence
• 1963
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Dirk Bogarde – The Servant
    • Tom Courtenay – Billy Liar
    • Richard Harris – This Sporting Life
    • Albert Finney – Tom Jones
    • Hugh Griffith – Tom Jones
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Marcello Mastroianni – Divorzio all'italiana
    • Franco Citti – Accattone
    • Howard Da Silva – David and Lisa
    • Jack Lemmon – Days of Wine and Roses
    • Paul Newman – Hud
    • Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
• 1964
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Richard Attenborough – Guns at Batasi & Seance on a Wet Afternoon
    • Peter O'Toole – Becket
    • Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    • Tom Courtenay – King & Country
    • Peter Sellers – The Pink Panther
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Marcello Mastroianni – Ieri, oggi, domani
    • Cary Grant – Charade
    • Sterling Hayden – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    • Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field
• 1965
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Dirk Bogarde – Darling
    • Harry Andrews – The Hill
    • Michael Caine – The Ipcress File
    • Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou & The Killers
    • Anthony Quinn – Alexis Zorbas
    • Innokenti Smoktunovsky – Gamlet
    • Jack Lemmon – Good Neighbor Sam
    • Jack Lemmon – How to Murder Your Wife
    • Oskar Werner – Ship of Fools
• 1966
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Richard Burton – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold & Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    • Michael Caine – Alfie
    • Ralph Richardson – Doctor Zhivago
    • Ralph Richardson – Khartoum
    • Ralph Richardson – The Wrong Box
    • David Warner – Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Rod Steiger – The Pawnbroker
    • Sidney Poitier – A Patch of Blue
    • Jean-Paul Belmondo – Pierrot le fou
    • Oskar Werner – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• 1967
  • Nam diễn viên Anh xuất sắc nhất – Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
    • Dirk Bogarde – Accident
    • James Mason – The Deadly Affair
    • Dirk Bogarde – Our Mother's House
    • Richard Burton – The Taming of the Shrew
  • Nam diễn viên nước ngoài xuất sắc nhất – Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night
    • Warren Beatty – Bonnie and Clyde
    • Orson Welles – Campanadas a medianoche
    • Sidney Poitier – In the Heat of the Night
• 1968 – Spencer Tracy – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner vai Matt Drayton
  • Ron Moody – Oliver!
  • Trevor Howard – The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Nicol Williamson – The Bofors Gun
• 1969 – Dustin Hoffman – John and Mary vai John, & Midnight Cowboy vai Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo
  • Walter Matthau – Hello, Dolly!
  • Walter Matthau – The Secret Life of an American Wife
  • Nicol Williamson – Inadmissible Evidence
  • Alan Bates – Women in Love

Thập niên 1970

• 1970 – Robert Redford – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid vai Sundance Kid, Downhill Racer vai David Chappellet, & Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here vai Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper
  • Paul Newman – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • George C. Scott – Patton
  • Elliott Gould – MASH
  • Elliott Gould – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• 1971 – Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday vai Dr. Daniel Hirsh
  • Albert Finney – Gumshoe
  • Dustin Hoffman – Little Big Man
  • Dirk Bogarde – Morte a Venezia
• 1972 – Gene Hackman – The French Connection vai Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle, & The Poseidon Adventure vai Reverend Frank Scott
  • Marlon Brando – The Godfather
  • Marlon Brando – The Nightcomers
  • George C. Scott – The Hospital
  • George C. Scott – They Might Be Giants
  • Robert Shaw – Young Winston
• 1973 – Walter Matthau – Charley Varrick vai Charley Varrick, & Pete 'n' Tillie vai Pete
  • Marlon Brando – Ultimo tango a Parigi
  • Donald Sutherland – Steelyard Blues
  • Donald Sutherland – Don't Look Now
  • Laurence Olivier – Sleuth
• 1974 – Jack Nicholson – Chinatown vai J.J. 'Jake' Gittes, & The Last Detail vai Billy Buddusky
  • Gene Hackman – The Conversation
  • Albert Finney – Murder on the Orient Express
  • Al Pacino – Serpico
• 1975 – Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II vai Michael Corleone, & Dog Day Afternoon vai Sonny Wortzik
  • Richard Dreyfuss – Jaws
  • Gene Hackman – French Connection II
  • Gene Hackman – Night Moves
  • Dustin Hoffman – Lenny
• 1976 – Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vai Randle McMurphy
  • Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver
  • Dustin Hoffman – All the President's Men
  • Dustin Hoffman – Marathon Man
  • Walter Matthau – The Bad News Bears
  • Walter Matthau – The Sunshine Boys
• 1977 – Peter Finch – Network vai Howard Beale
  • William Holden – Network
  • Woody Allen – Annie Hall
  • Sylvester Stallone – Rocky
• 1978 – Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl vai Elliot Garfield
  • Peter Ustinov – Death on the Nile
  • Anthony Hopkins – Magic
• 1979 – Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome vai Jack Godell
  • Woody Allen – Manhattan
  • Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter
  • Martin Sheen – Apocalypse Now

Thập niên 1980

• 1980 – John Hurt – The Elephant Man vai John Merrick
  • Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Roy Scheider – All That Jazz
  • Peter Sellers – Being There
• 1981 – Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City vai Lou Pascal
  • Jeremy Irons – The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
  • Bob Hoskins – The Long Good Friday
• 1982 – Ben Kingsley – Gandhi vai Mahatma Gandhi
  • Warren Beatty – Reds
  • Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
  • Albert Finney – Shoot the Moon
  • Jack Lemmon – Missing
• 1983 – Michael Caine – Educating Rita vai Dr. Frank Bryant, & Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie vai Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
  • Michael Caine – The Honorary Consul
  • Robert De Niro – The King of Comedy
• 1984 – Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields vai Dith Pran
  • Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields
  • Tom Courtenay – The Dresser
  • Albert Finney – The Dresser
• 1985 – William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman vai Luis Molina
  • F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
  • Harrison Ford – Witness
  • Victor Banerjee – A Passage to India
• 1986 – Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa vai George
  • Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Paul Hogan – Crocodile Dundee
• 1987 – Sean Connery – Der Name der Rose vai William of Baskerville
  • Gérard Depardieu – Jean de Florette
  • Yves Montand – Jean de Florette
  • Gary Oldman – Prick Up Your Ears
• 1988 – John Cleese – A Fish Called Wanda vai Archie Leach
  • Kevin Kline – A Fish Called Wanda vai Otto West
  • Michael Douglas – Fatal Attraction vai Dan Gallagher
  • Robin Williams – Good Morning, Vietnam vai Adrian Cronauer
• 1989 – Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot vai Christy Brown
  • Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man vai Raymond Babbit
  • Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society vai John Keating
  • Kenneth Branagh – Henry V vai Henry V

Thập niên 1990

• 1990 – Philippe Noiret – Nuovo cinema Paradiso vai Alfredo
  • Robert De Niro – Goodfellas vai Jimmy Conway
  • Sean Connery – The Hunt for Red October vai Captain Marko Ramius
  • Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July vai Ron Kovic
• 1991 – Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs vai Dr. Hannibal Lecter
  • Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves vai Trung úy Dunbar
  • Alan Rickman – Truly, Madly, Deeply vai Jamie
  • Gérard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac vai Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1992 – Robert Downey Jr. – Chaplin vai Charlie Chaplin
  • Stephen Rea – The Crying Game vai Fergus
  • Tim Robbins – The Player vai Griffin Mill
  • Daniel Day Lewis – The Last of the Mohicans vai Nathaniel Poe
• 1993 – Anthony Hopkins – Shadowlands vai C. S. Lewis
  • Anthony Hopkins – The Remains of the Day vai James Stevens
  • Liam Neeson – Schindler's List vai Oskar Schindler
  • Daniel Day-Lewis – In the Name of the Father vai Gerry Conlon
• 1994 – Hugh Grant – Four Weddings and a Funeral vai Charles
  • Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump vai Forrest Gump
  • Terence Stamp – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert vai Ralph / Bernadette Bassenger
  • John Travolta – Pulp Fiction vai Vincent Vega
• 1995 – Nigel Hawthorne – The Madness of King George vai George III
  • Jonathan Pryce – Carrington vai Lytton Strachey
  • Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas vai Ben Sanderson
  • Massimo Troisi – Il Postino vai Mario Ruoppolo
• 1996 – Geoffrey Rush – Shine vai David Helfgott
  • Ralph Fiennes – The English Patient vai Count Laszlo de Almásy
  • Ian McKellen – Richard III vai Richard III
  • Timothy Spall – Secrets & Lies vai Maurice Purley
• 1997 – Robert Carlyle – The Full Monty vai Gaz
  • Kevin Spacey – L.A. Confidential vai Jack Vincennes
  • Billy Connolly – Mrs Brown vai John Brown
  • Ray Winstone – Nil by Mouth vai Ray
• 1998 – Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) vai Guido
  • Michael Caine – Little Voice vai Ray Say
  • Tom Hanks – Saving Private Ryan vai Captain John H. Miller
  • Joseph Fiennes – Shakespeare in Love vai William Shakespeare
• 1999 – Kevin Spacey – American Beauty vai Lester Burnham
  • Om Puri – East Is East vai George Khan
  • Ralph Fiennes – The End of the Affair vai Maurice Bendrix
  • Russell Crowe – The Insider vai Jeffrey Wigand
  • Jim Broadbent – Topsy-Turvy vai W. S. Gilbert

Thập niên 2000

Thập niên 2010

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