| Ano | Gañador | Película | Personaxe | Os outros candidatos foron |
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| 2023 | Robert Downey Jr. | Oppenheimer | Lewis Strauss | Sterling K. Brown,Robert De Niro Ryan Gosling,Mark Ruffalo |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Waymond Wang | Brendan Gleeson,Brian Tyree Henry Judd Hirsch,Barry Keoghan |
| 2021 | Troy Kotsur | CODA | Frank Rossi | Ciarán Hinds,Jesse Plemons J. K. Simmons eKodi Smit-McPhee |
| 2020 | Daniel Kaluuya | Judas and the Black Messiah | Fred Hampton | Sacha Baron Cohen,Leslie Odom Jr. Paul Raci eLaKeith Stanfield |
| 2019 | Brad Pitt | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Cliff Booth | Tom Hanks,Anthony Hopkins Al Pacino eJoe Pesci |
| 2018 | Mahershala Ali | O libro verde | Don Shirley | Adam Driver,Sam Elliott Richard E. Grant eSam Rockwell |
| 2017 | Sam Rockwell | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Jason Dixon | Willem Dafoe,Woody Harrelson Richard Jenkins eChristopher Plummer |
| 2016 | Mahershala Ali | Moonlight | Juan | Jeff Bridges,Lucas Hedges Dev Patel eMichael Shannon |
| 2015 | Mark Rylance | Bridge of Spies | Rudolf Abel | Christian Bale,Tom Hardy Mark Ruffalo eSylvester Stallone |
| 2014 | J.K. Simmons | Whiplash | Terence Fletcher | Robert Duvall,Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton eMark Ruffalo |
| 2013 | Jared Leto | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon | Barkhad Abdi,Bradley Cooper, Michael Fassbender eJonah Hill |
| 2012 | Christoph Waltz | Django Unchained | Dr. King Schultz | Alan Arkin,Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman eTommy Lee Jones |
| 2011 | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | Hal Fields | Kenneth Branagh, Jonah Hill, Nick Nolte eMax von Sydow |
| 2010 | Christian Bale | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund | John Hawkes,Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo eGeoffrey Rush |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds | Hans Landa | Matt Damon,Woody Harrelson, Christopher Plummer eStanley Tucci |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger | O cabaleiro escuro | Joker | Josh Brolin,Robert Downey, Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman eMichael Shannon |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh | Casey Affleck, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hal Holbrook eTom Wilkinson |
| 2006 | Alan Arkin | Little Miss Sunshine | Edwin Hoover | James Earl Haley,Djimon Hounsou, Eddie Murphy eMark Wahlberg |
| 2005 | George Clooney | Syriana | Bob Barnes | Matt Dillon,Paul Giamatti, Jake Gyllenhaal eWilliam Hurt |
| 2004 | Morgan Freeman | Million Dollar Baby | Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris | Alan Alda,Thomas Haden Church, Jamie Foxx eClive Owen |
| 2003 | Tim Robbins | Mystic River | Dave Boyle | Alec Baldwin,Benicio del Toro, Djimon Hounsou eKen Watanabe |
| 2002 | Chris Cooper | Adaptation | John Laroche | Ed Harris,Paul Newman, John C. Reilly eChristopher Walken |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | Iris | John Bayley | Ethan Hawke,Ben Kingsley, Ian McKellen eJon Voight |
| 2000 | Benicio del Toro | Traffic | Javier Rodríguez | Jeff Bridges,Willem Dafoe, Albert Finney eJoaquin Phoenix |
| 1999 | Michael Caine | As normas da casa da sidra | Dr. Wilbur Larch | Tom Cruise,Michael Clarke Duncan, Jude Law eHaley Joel Osment |
| 1998 | James Coburn | Afliction | Glen Whitehouse | Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Geoffrey Rush eBilly Bob Thornton |
| 1997 | Robin Williams | Good Will Hunting | Dr. Sean Maguire | Robert Forster,Anthony Hopkins, Greg Kinnear eBurt Reynolds |
| 1996 | Cuba Gooding, Jr. | Jerry Maguire | Rod Tidwell | William H. Macy,Armin Mueller-Stahl, Edward Norton eJames Woods |
| 1995 | Kevin Spacey | Sospeitosos habituais | Roger "Verbal" Kint | James Cromwell, Ed Harris, Brad Pitt eTim Roth |
| 1994 | Martin Landau | Ed Wood | Béla Lugosi | Samuel L. Jackson,Chazz Palminteri, Paul Scofield eGary Sinise |
| 1993 | Tommy Lee Jones | O fuxitivo | U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard | Leonardo DiCaprio,Ralph Fiennes, John Malkovich ePete Postlethwaite |
| 1992 | Gene Hackman | Sen perdón | Little Bill Daggett | Jaye Davidson,Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino eDavid Paymer |
| 1991 | Jack Palance | City Slickers | Curly Washburn | Tommy Lee Jones,Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley eMichael Lerner |
| 1990 | Joe Pesci | Un dos nosos | Tommy DeVito | Bruce Davison,Andy García, Graham Greene e Al Pacino |
| 1989 | Denzel Washington | Glory | Pvt. Silas Trip | Danny Aiello,Dan Ayckroyd, Marlon Brando eMartin Landau |
| 1988 | Kevin Kline | Un peixe chamado Wanda | Otto West | Alec Guinness, Martin Landau, River Phoenix eDean Stockwell |
| 1987 | Sean Connery | Os intocables de Eliot Ness | Jimmy Malone | Albert Brooks,Morgan Freeman, Vincent Gardenia eDenzel Washington |
| 1986 | Michael Caine | Hannah e as súas irmás | Elliott Daniels | Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Delholm Elliott eDennis Hopper |
| 1985 | Don Ameche | Cocoon | Arthur Selwyn | Klaus Maria Brandauer,William Hickey, Robert Loggia eEric Roberts |
| 1984 | Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields | Dith Pran | Adolph Caesar, John Malkovich, Pat Morita eRalph Richardson |
| 1983 | Jack Nicholson | A forza do cariño | Garrett Breedlove | Charles Durning,John Lithgow, Sam Shepard eRip Torn |
| 1982 | Louis Gossett, Jr. | An Officer and a Gentleman | Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley | Charles Durning, John Lithgow, James Mason eRobert Preston |
| 1981 | John Gielgud | Arthur | Hobson | James Coco,Ian Holm, Jack Nicholson eHoward E. Rollins, Jr. |
| 1980 | Timothy Hutton | Xente corrente | Conrad Jarrett | Judd Hirsh,Michael O’Keefe, Joe Pesci eJason Robards |
| 1979 | Melvyn Douglas | Being There | Benjamin Turnbull Rand | Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Justin Henry eMickey Rooney |
| 1978 | Christopher Walken | O cazador | Nikonar "Nick" Chevotarevich | Bruce Dern, Richard Farnsworth, John Hurt e Jack Warden |
| 1977 | Jason Robards | Julia | Dashiell Hammett | Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Firth, Alec Guinness eMaximilian Schell |
| 1976 | Jason Robards | Tódolos homes do presidente | Ben Bradlee | Ned Beatty, Burgess Meredith, Laurence Olivier e Burt Young |
| 1975 | George Burns | The Sunshine Boys | Al Lewis | Brad Dourif, Burgess Meredith, Chris Sarandon e Jack Warden |
| 1974 | Robert De Niro | O padriño (II parte) | Vito Corleone | Fred Astaire, Jeff Bridges, Michael V. Gazzo e Lee Strasberg |
| 1973 | John Houseman | The Paper Chase | Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. | Vincent Gardenia, Jack Gilford, Jason Miller e Randy Quaid |
| 1972 | Joel Grey | Cabaret | Mestre de cerimonias | Eddie Albert, James Caan, Robert Duvall e Al Pacino |
| 1971 | Ben Johnson | A derradeira película | Sam the Lion | Jeff Bridges, Leonard Frey, Richard Jaeckel eRoy Scheider |
| 1970 | John Mills | Ryan's Daughter | Michael | Richard S. Castellano,Chief Dan George, Gene Hackman e John Marley |
| 1969 | Gig Young | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Rocky Graver | Rupert Crosse, Elliott Gould, Jack Nicholson e Anthony Quayle |
| 1968 | Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses | John Cleary | Seymour Cassel, Daniel Massey, Jack Wild eGene Wilder |
| 1967 | George Kennedy | A lenda do indomable | Dragline | John Cassavetes, Gene Hackman, Cecil Kellaway e Michael J. Pollard |
| 1966 | Walter Matthau | The Fortune Cookie | Willie Gingrich | Mako, James Mason, George Segal e Robert Shaw |
| 1965 | Martin Balsam | A Thousand Clowns | Arnold Burns | Iain Bannen, Tom Courtenay, Michael Dunn e Frank Finley |
| 1964 | Peter Ustinov | Topkapi | Arthur Simon Simpson | John Gielgud, Stanley Holloway, Edmond O'Brien e Lee Tracy |
| 1963 | Melvyn Douglas | Hud | Homer Bannon | Nick Adams, Bobby Darin, Hugh Griffith eJohn Huston |
| 1962 | Ed Begley | Doce paxaro de xuventude | Tom "Boss" Finley | Victor Buono, Telly Savalas, Omar Sharif e Terence Stamp |
| 1961 | George Chakiris | West Side Story | Bernardo Núñez | Montgomery Clift,Peter Falk, Jackie Gleason eGeorge C. Scott |
| 1960 | Peter Ustinov | Spartacus | Lentulus Batiatus | Peter Falk, Jack Kruschen, Sal Mineo e Chill Wills |
| 1959 | Hugh Griffith | Ben-Hur | Xeque Ilderim | Arthur O’Connell, George C. Scott, Robert Vaughn e Ed Wynn |
| 1958 | Burl Ives | Horizontes de grandeza | Rufus Hannassey | Theodore Bikel, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy eGig Young |
| 1957 | Red Buttons | Sayonara | Airman Joe Kelly | Vittorio De Sica, Sessue Hayakawa, Arthur Kennedy e Russ Tamblyn |
| 1956 | Anthony Quinn | Lust for Life | Paul Gauguin | Dan Murray, Anthony Perkins, Mickey Rooney e Robert Stack |
| 1955 | Jack Lemmon | Mister Roberts | Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver | Arthur Kennedy, Joe Mantell, Sal Mineo e Arthur O’Connell |
| 1954 | Edmond O'Brien | A condesa descalza | Oscar Muldoon | Lee J. Cobb,Karl Malden, Rod Steiger e Tom Tully |
| 1953 | Frank Sinatra | De aquí á eternidade | Pvt. Angelo Maggio | Eddie Albert, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance e Robert Strauss |
| 1952 | Anthony Quinn | ¡Viva Zapata! | Eufemio Zapata | Richard Burton, Arthur Hunnicutt, Victor McLaglen e Jack Palance |
| 1951 | Karl Malden | A Streetcar Named Desire | Harold "Mitch" Mitchell | Leo Genn, Kevin McCarthy, Peter Ustinov e Gig Young |
| 1950 | George Sanders | Todo sobre Eva | Addison DeWitt | Jeff Chandler, Edmund Gwenn, Sam Jaffe eErich von Stroheim |
| 1949 | Dean Jagger | Twelve O'Clock High | Major Harvey Stovall | John Ireland, Arthur Kennedy, Ralph Richardson e James Whitmore |
| 1948 | Walter Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Howard | Charles Bickford,José Ferrer, Oskar Homolka e Cecil Kellaway |
| 1947 | Edmund Gwenn | Miracle on 34th Street | Kris Kringle | Charles Bickford, Thomas Gomez, Robert Ryan e Richard Widmark |
| 1946 | Harold Russell | Os mellores anos da nosa vida | Homer Parrish | Charles Coburn,William Demarest, Claude Rains e Clifton Webb |
| 1945 | James Dunn | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Johnny Nolan | Michael Chekhov, John Dall, Robert Mitchum e J. Carroll Naish |
| 1944 | Barry Fitzgerald | Going my way | Father Fitzgibbon | Hume Cronyn, Claude Rains, Clifton Webb e Monty Woolley |
| 1943 | Charles Coburn | The More the Merrier | Benjamin Dingle | Charles Bickford, J. Carroll Naish, Claude Rains e Akim Tamiroff |
| 1942 | Van Heflin | Johnny Eager | Jeff Hartnett | William Bendix,Walter Huston Frank Morgan e Henry Travers |
| 1941 | Donald Crisp | Que verde era o meu val | Gwilym Morgan | Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, James Gleason e Sydney Greenstreet |
| 1940 | Walter Brennan | O forasteiro | XuízRoy Bean | Albert Basserman, William Gargan, Jack Oackie e James Stephenson |
| 1939 | Thomas Mitchell | A dilixencia | Dr. Josiah Boone | Brian Aherne, Harry Carey, Brian Donlevy e Claude Rains |
| 1938 | Walter Brennan | Kentucky | Peter Goodwin | John Garfield, Gene Lockhart, Robert Morley e Basil Rathbone |
| 1937 | Joseph Schildkraut | The Life of Emile Zola | Alfred Dreyfus | Ralph Bellamy,Thomas Mitchell, H.B. Warner e Ronald Young |
| 1936 | Walter Brennan | Come and Get It | Swan Bostrom | Mischa Auer, Stuart Erwin, Basil Rathbone e Akim Tamiroff |