| 9th Academy Awards (1936) | Walter Brennan | “Come and Get It” | Swan Bostrom |
| 10th Academy Awards (1937) | Joseph Schildkraut | “The Life of Emile Zola” | Captain Alfred Dreyfus |
| 11th Academy Awards (1938) | Walter Brennan [2] | “Kentucky” | Peter Goodwin |
| 12th Academy Awards (1939) | Thomas Mitchell | “Stagecoach” | Dr. Josiah Boone |
| 13th Academy Awards (1940) | Walter Brennan [3] | “The Westerner” | Judge Roy Bean |
| 14th Academy Awards (1941) | Donald Crisp | “How Green Was My Valley” | Gwilym Morgan |
| 15th Academy Awards (1942) | Van Heflin | “Johnny Eager” | Jeff Hartnett |
| 16th Academy Awards (1943) | Charles Coburn | “The More the Merrier” | Benjamin Dingle |
| 17th Academy Awards (1944) | Barry Fitzgerald | “Going My Way” | Father Fitzgibbon |
| 18th Academy Awards (1945) | James Dunn | “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” | Johnny Nolan |
| 19th Academy Awards (1946) | Harold Russell | “The Best Years of Our Lives” | Homer Parrish |
| 20th Academy Awards (1947) | Edmund Gwenn | “Miracle on 34th Street” | Kris Kringle |
| 21st Academy Awards (1948) | Walter Huston | “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” | Howard |
| 22nd Academy Awards (1949) | Dean Jagger | “Twelve O’Clock High” | Major Harvey Stovall |
| 23rd Academy Awards (1950) | George Sanders | “All About Eve” | Addison DeWitt |
| 24th Academy Awards (1951) | Karl Malden | “A Streetcar Named Desire” | Harold “Mitch” Mitchell |
| 25th Academy Awards (1952) | Anthony Quinn | “Viva Zapata!” | Eufemio Zapata |
| 26th Academy Awards (1953) | Frank Sinatra | “From Here to Eternity” | Pvt. Angelo Maggio |
| 27th Academy Awards (1954) | Edmond O’Brien | “The Barefoot Contessa” | Oscar Muldoon |
| 28th Academy Awards (1955) | Jack Lemmon | “Mister Roberts” | Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver |
| 29th Academy Awards (1956) | Anthony Quinn | “Lust For Life” | Paul Gauguin |
| 30th Academy Awards (1957) | Red Buttons | “Sayonara” | Airman Joe Kelly |
| 31st Academy Awards (1958) | Burl Ives | “The Big Country” | Rufus Hannassey |
| 32nd Academy Awards (1959) | Hugh Griffith | “Ben-Hur” | Sheik Ilderim |
| 33rd Academy Awards (1960) | Peter Ustinov | “Spartacus” | Lentulus Batiatus |
| 34th Academy Awards (1961) | George Chakiris | “West Side Story” | Bernardo Nuñez |
| 35th Academy Awards (1962) | Ed Begley | “Sweet Bird of Youth” | Tom “Boss” Finley |
| 36th Academy Awards (1963) | Melvyn Douglas | “Hud” | Homer Bannon |
| 37th Academy Awards (1964) | Peter Ustinov | “Topkapi” | Arthur Simon Simpson |
| 38th Academy Awards (1965) | Martin Balsam | “A Thousand Clowns” | Arnold Burns |
| 39th Academy Awards (1966) | Walter Matthau | “The Fortune Cookie” | Willie Gingrich |
| 40th Academy Awards (1967) | George Kennedy | “Cool Hand Luke” | Dragline |
| 41st Academy Awards (1968) | Jack Albertson | “The Subject Was Roses” | John Cleary |
| 42nd Academy Awards (1969) | Gig Young | “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” | Rocky Graver |
| 43rd Academy Awards (1970) | John Mills | “Ryan’s Daughter” | Michael |
| 44th Academy Awards (1971) | Ben Johnson | “The Last Picture Show” | Sam the Lion |
| 45th Academy Awards (1972) | Joel Grey | “Cabaret” | Master of Ceremonies |
| 46th Academy Awards (1973) | John Houseman | “The Paper Chase” | Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. |
| 47th Academy Awards (1974) | Robert De Niro | “The Godfather Part II” | Vito Corleone |
| 48th Academy Awards (1975) | George Burns | “The Sunshine Boys” | Al Lewis |
| 49th Academy Awards (1976) | Jason Robards | “All the President’s Men” | Ben Bradlee |
| 50th Academy Awards (1977) | Jason Robards [2] | “Julia” | Dashiell Hammett |
| 51st Academy Awards (1978) | Christopher Walken | “The Deer Hunter” | Nikonar “Nick” Chevotarevich |
| 52nd Academy Awards (1979) | Melvyn Douglas | “Being There” | Benjamin Turnbull Rand |
| 53rd Academy Awards (1980) | Timothy Hutton | “Ordinary People” | Conrad Jarrett |
| 54th Academy Awards (1981) | John Gielgud | “Arthur” | Hobson |
| 55th Academy Awards (1982) | Louis Gossett Jr. | “An Officer and a Gentleman” | Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley |
| 56th Academy Awards (1983) | Jack Nicholson | “Terms of Endearment” | Garrett Breedlove |
| 57th Academy Awards (1984) | Haing S. Ngor | “The Killing Fields” | Dith Pran |
| 58th Academy Awards (1985) | Don Ameche | “Cocoon” | Arthur Selwyn |
| 59th Academy Awards (1986) | Michael Caine | “Hannah and Her Sisters” | Elliott Daniels |
| 60th Academy Awards (1987) | Sean Connery | “The Untouchables” | Jimmy Malone |
| 61st Academy Awards (1988) | Kevin Kline | “A Fish Called Wanda” | Otto West |
| 62nd Academy Awards (1989) | Denzel Washington | “Glory” | Pvt. Trip |
| 63rd Academy Awards (1990) | Joe Pesci | “Goodfellas” | Tommy DeVito |
| 64th Academy Awards (1991) | Jack Palance | “City Slickers” | Curly Washburn |
| 65th Academy Awards (1992) | Gene Hackman | “Unforgiven” | Little Bill Daggett |
| 66th Academy Awards (1993) | Tommy Lee Jones | “The Fugitive” | U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard |
| 67th Academy Awards (1994) | Martin Landau | “Ed Wood” | Béla Lugosi |
| 68th Academy Awards (1995) | Kevin Spacey | “The Usual Suspects” | Roger “Verbal” Kint |
| 69th Academy Awards (1996) | Cuba Gooding Jr. | “Jerry Maguire” | Rod Tidwell |
| 70th Academy Awards (1997) | Robin Williams | “Good Will Hunting” | Dr. Sean Maguire |
| 71st Academy Awards (1998) | James Coburn | “Affliction” | Glen Whitehouse |
| 72nd Academy Awards (1999) | Michael Caine [2] | “The Cider House Rules” | Dr. Wilbur Larch |
| 73rd Academy Awards (2000) | Benicio del Toro | “Traffic” | Javier Rodriguez |
| 74th Academy Awards (2001) | Jim Broadbent | “Iris” | John Bayley |
| 75th Academy Awards (2002) | Chris Cooper | “Adaptation.” | John Laroche |
| 76th Academy Awards (2003) | Tim Robbins | “Mystic River” | Dave Boyle |
| 77th Academy Awards (2004) | Morgan Freeman | “Million Dollar Baby” | Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris |
| 78th Academy Awards (2005) | George Clooney | “Syriana” | Bob Barnes |
| 79th Academy Awards (2006) | Alan Arkin | “Little Miss Sunshine” | Edwin Hoover |
| 80th Academy Awards (2007) | Javier Bardem | “No Country for Old Men” | Anton Chigurh |
| 81st Academy Awards (2008) | Heath Ledger | “The Dark Knight” | The Joker |
| 82nd Academy Awards (2009) | Christoph Waltz | “Inglourious Basterds” | SS Colonel Hans Landa |
| 83rd Academy Awards (2010) | Christian Bale | “The Fighter” | Dicky Eklund |
| 84th Academy Awards (2011) | Christopher Plummer | “Beginners” | Hal Fields |
| 85th Academy Awards (2012) | Christoph Waltz [2] | “Django Unchained” | Dr. King Schultz |
| 86th Academy Awards (2013) | Jared Leto | “Dallas Buyers Club” | Rayon |
| 87th Academy Awards (2014) | J. K. Simmons | “Whiplash” | Terence Fletcher |
| 88th Academy Awards (2015) | Mark Rylance | “Bridge Of Spies” | Rudolf Abel |
| 89th Academy Awards (2016) | Mahershala Ali | “Moonlight” | Juan |
| 90th Academy Awards (2017) | Sam Rockwell | “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” | Officer Jason Dixon |
| 91st Academy Awards (2018) | Mahershala Ali [2] | “Green Book” | Don Shirley |
| 92nd Academy Awards (2019) | Brad Pitt | “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” | Cliff Booth |
| 93rd Academy Awards (2020) | Daniel Kaluuya | “Judas and the Black Messiah” | Fred Hampton |
| 94th Academy Awards (2021) | Troy Kotsur | “CODA” | Frank Rossi |
| 95th Academy Awards (2022) | Ke Huy Quan | “Everything Everywhere All At Once” | Waymond Wang |
| 96th Academy Awards (2023) | Robert Downey Jr. | “Oppenheimer” | Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss |
