2023 Steven Yeun – Beef – Awantura
2022 Michael Keaton – Dopesick – Lekomania
2021 Ewan McGregor – Halston – Halston
2020 Mark Ruffalo – I Know This Much Is True – To wiem na pewno
2019 Jharrel Jerome – When They See Us – Jak nas widzą
2018 Darren Criss – American Crime Story – American Crime Story: Sprawa O.J. Simpsona
2017 Riz Ahmed – The Night Of – Długa noc
2016 Courtney B. Vance – American Crime Story – American Crime Story: Sprawa O.J. Simpsona
2015 Richard Jenkins – Olive Kitteridge – Olive Kitteridge
2014 Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock: His Last Wov
2013 Michael Douglas – Behind the Candelabra – Wielki Liberace
2012 Kevin Costner – Hatfields & McCoys
2011 Barry Pepper – The Kennedys – Klan Kennedych
2010 Al Pacino – You Don't Know Jack – Jack, jakiego nie znacie
2009 Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm – W czasie burzy
2008 Paul Giamatti – John Adams – John Adams
2007 Robert Duvall – Broken Trail – Przerwany szlak
2006 Andre Braugher – Thief – Złodziej – pilot serialu
2005 Geoffrey Rush – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers – Życie i śmierć Petera Sellersa
2004 Al Pacino – Angels in America – Anioły w Ameryce
2003 William H. Macy – Door to Door – Od drzwi do drzwi
2002 Albert Finney – The Gathering Storm – Wzbierająca burza
2001 Kenneth Branagh – Conspiracy – Ostateczne rozwiązanie
2000 Jack Lemmon – Tuesdays with Morrie – Wtorki z Morriem
1999 Stanley Tucci – Winchell – Winchell
1998 Gary Sinise – George Wallace – George Wallace
1997 Armand Assante – Gotti – Gotti
1996 Alan Rickman – Rasputin – Rasputin
1995 Raul Julia – The Burning Season – Sezon w piekle
1994 Hume Cronyn – To Dance with the White Dog – Spotkać białego psa
1993 Robert Morse – Tru
1992 Beau Bridges – Without Warning: The James Brady Story
1991 John Gielgud – Summer's Lease
1990 Hume Cronyn – Age-Old Friends
1989 James Woods – My Name Is Bill W. – Nazywam się Bill W.
1988 Jason Robards – Inherit the Wind
1987 James Woods – Promise
1986 Dustin Hoffman – Death of a Salesman – Śmierć komiwojażera
1985 Richard Crenna – The Rape of Richard Beck – Richard Beck, ofiara gwałtu
1984 Laurence Olivier – King Lear
1983 Tommy Lee Jones – The Executioner's Song – Pieśń kata
1982 Mickey Rooney – Bill – Bill
1981 Anthony Hopkins – The Bunker – Bunkier
1980 Powers Boothe – Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1979 Peter Strauss – The Jericho Mile
1978 Fred Astaire – A Family Upside Down – Na zakręcie Michael Moriarty – Holocaust – Holocaust
1977 Ed Flanders – Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking Christopher Plummer – The Moneychangers
1976 Anthony Hopkins – The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case – Charles Lindbergh junior porwany Hal Holbrook – Lincoln
1975 Laurence Olivier – Love Among the Ruins
1974 Hal Holbrook – Pueblo
1973 Laurence Olivier – Long Day's Journey Into Night
1972 Keith Michell – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1971 George C. Scott – The Price
1970 Peter Ustinov – A Storm in Summer
1969 Paul Scofield – Male of the Species
1968 Melvyn Douglas – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967 Peter Ustinov – Barefoot in Athens
1963 Trevor Howard – The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1961 Maurice Evans – Macbeth
1960 Laurence Olivier – The Moon and Sixpence