Golden Globe Awards, Best Actor in a Motion Picture

2025

Sebastian Stan / The Apprentice

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Daniel Craig / Queer

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

2024

Barry Keoghan / Saltburn

Andrew Scott / All of Us Strangers

Colman Domingo / Rustin

Leonardo DiCaprio / Killers of the Flower Moon

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

2023

Austin Butler / Elvis

Bill Nighy / Living

Jeremy Pope / The Inspection

Hugh Jackman / The Son

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

2022

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Mahershala Ali / Swan Song

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

Tahar Rahim / The Mauritanian

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Gary Oldman / Mank

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

The Two Popes

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

Christian Bale / Ford v Ferrari

2019

John David Washington / BlacKkKlansman

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

Lucas Hedges / Boy Erased

2018

Daniel Day-Lewis / Phantom Thread

Tom Hanks / The Post

Timothée Chalamet / Call Me by Your Name

Denzel Washington / Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

2017

Casey Affleck / Manchester by the Sea

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

2016

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Michael Fassbender / Steve Jobs

2015

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

2014

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Robert Redford / All Is Lost

Chiwetel Ejiofor / 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba / Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

2013

Richard Gere / Arbitrage

John Hawkes / The Sessions

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

2012

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

2011

Mark Wahlberg / The Fighter

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

Jesse Eisenberg / The Social Network

2010

Colin Firth / A Single Man

Tobey Maguire / Brothers

2009

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Leonardo DiCaprio / Revolutionary Road

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

2007

Will Smith / The Pursuit of Happyness

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Departed

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

2006

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Liam Neeson / Kinsey

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Javier Bardem / Mar adentro

2004

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

2003

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

Leonardo DiCaprio / Catch Me If You Can

2002

Billy Bob Thornton / The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

2000

Matt Damon / The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999

Stephen Fry / Wilde

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

1998

Leonardo DiCaprio / Titanic

Djimon Hounsou / Amistad

Daniel Day-Lewis / The Boxer

1997

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

Liam Neeson / Michael Collins

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

1996

Richard Dreyfuss / Mr. Holland's Opus

Ian McKellen / Richard III

1995

Brad Pitt / Legends of the Fall

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

1994

Liam Neeson / Schindler's List

Tom Hanks / Philadelphia

Daniel Day-Lewis / In the Name of the Father

Harrison Ford / The Fugitive

1993

Denzel Washington / Malcolm X

Al Pacino / Scent of a Woman

Jack Nicholson / Hoffa

Tom Cruise / A Few Good Men

1992

Nick Nolte / The Prince of Tides

1991

Al Pacino / The Godfather: Part III

Jeremy Irons / Reversal of Fortune

Robin Williams / Awakenings

1990

Daniel Day-Lewis / My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Tom Cruise / Born on the Fourth of July

Robin Williams / Dead Poets Society

1989

Forest Whitaker / Bird

1988

Michael Douglas / Wall Street

Jack Nicholson / Ironweed

1987

Jeremy Irons / The Mission

Paul Newman / The Color of Money

Harrison Ford / The Mosquito Coast

1986

Harrison Ford / Witness

1985

F. Murray Abraham / Amadeus

Sam Waterston / The Killing Fields

1984

Tom Courtenay / The Dresser

Albert Finney / The Dresser

1983

Ben Kingsley / Gandhi

Richard Gere / An Officer and a Gentleman

Jack Lemmon / Missing

1982

Henry Fonda / On Golden Pond

Burt Lancaster / Atlantic City

Timothy Hutton / Taps

1981

Donald Sutherland / Ordinary People

Robert De Niro / Raging Bull

John Hurt / The Elephant Man

1980

Al Pacino / …And Justice for All

Dustin Hoffman / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Robert De Niro / The Deer Hunter

1978

Marcello Mastroianni / Una giornata particolare

Henry Winkler / Heroes

1977

David Carradine / Bound for Glory

1976

Al Pacino / Dog Day Afternoon

Jack Nicholson / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

Gene Hackman / The Conversation

James Caan / The Gambler

Jack Nicholson / Chinatown

1974

Jack Nicholson / The Last Detail

Al Pacino / Serpico

1973

Al Pacino / The Godfather

Marlon Brando / The Godfather

Jon Voight / Deliverance

1972

Peter Finch / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Jack Nicholson / Carnal Knowledge

Gene Hackman / The French Connection

1971

George C. Scott / Patton

Jack Nicholson / Five Easy Pieces

1970

Jon Voight / Midnight Cowboy

John Wayne / True Grit

Dustin Hoffman / Midnight Cowboy

1969

Cliff Robertson / Charly

Tony Curtis / The Boston Strangler

Alan Arkin / The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1968

Sidney Poitier / In the Heat of the Night

Paul Newman / Cool Hand Luke

Rod Steiger / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Michael Caine / Alfie

Sidney Poitier / A Patch of Blue

1964

Paul Newman / Hud

Sidney Poitier / Lilies of the Field

1963

Burt Lancaster / Birdman of Alcatraz

1962

Sidney Poitier / A Raisin in the Sun

Maximilian Schell / Judgment at Nuremberg

Paul Newman / The Hustler

1961

Burt Lancaster / Elmer Gantry

1960

Charlton Heston / Ben-Hur

Joseph Schildkraut / The Diary of Anne Frank

1959

Tony Curtis / The Defiant Ones

Sidney Poitier / The Defiant Ones

1958

Marlon Brando / Sayonara

Charles Laughton / Witness for the Prosecution

Henry Fonda / 12 Angry Men

1957

Karl Malden / Baby Doll

Burt Lancaster / The Rainmaker

Gary Cooper / Friendly Persuasion

1956

Ernest Borgnine / Marty

1955

Marlon Brando / On the Waterfront

1953

Gary Cooper / High Noon

1951

James Stewart / Harvey

José Ferrer / Cyrano de Bergerac

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

1947

Gregory Peck / The Yearling

1944

Paul Lukas / Watch on the Rhine

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