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Best Actor

2009 GEORGE CLOONEY, Up In The Air; MORGAN FREEMAN, Invictus
2008 CLINT EASTWOOD, Gran Torino
2007 GEORGE CLOONEY, Michael Clayton
2006 Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
2004 Jamie Foxx, Ray
2003 Sean Penn, Mystic River and 21 Grams, presented by Robert De Niro
2002 Campbell Scott, Roger Doger, presented by Isabella Rossellini
2001 Billy Bob Thornton, Monster's Ball, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Bandits, presented by F. Murray Abraham
2000 Javier Bardem, Before Night Falls, presented by Christopher Walken
1999 Russell Crowe, The Insider, presented by Connie Nielsen
1998 Ian McKellan, Gods and Monsters, presented by Susan Sarandon
1997 Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets, presented by Art Garfunkel
1996 Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire, presented by Jerry Orbach
1995 Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas, presented by Andrew Bergman
1994 Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump, presented by David Letterman
1993 Anthony Hopkins, Remains of the Day, Shadowlands
1992 Jack Lemmon, Glengarry Glen Ross
1991 Warren Beatty, Bugsy
1990 Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams, Awakening
1989 Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy
1988 Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning
1987 Michael Douglas, Wallstreet
1986 Paul Newman, The Color of Money
1985 Raul Julia and William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman
1984 Victor Banerjee, A Passage to India
1983 Tom Conti, Reuben, Reuben, Merry Christmas Mr. Laurence
1982 Ben Kingsley, Gandhi
1981 Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond
1980 Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull
1979 Peter Sellers, Being There
1978 Jon Voight, Coming Home and Laurence Olivier, The Boys from Brazil
1977 John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever
1976 David Carradine, Bound for Glory
1975 Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974 Gene Hackman, The Conversation
1973 Al Pacino, Serpico and Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh
1972 Peter O'Toole, Man of La Mancha, The Ruling Class
1971 Gene Hackman, The French Connection
1970 George C. Scott, Patton
1969 Peter O'Toole, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1968 Cliff Robertson, Charly
1967 Peter Finch, Far From the Maddening Crowd
1966 Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons
1965 Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou, Ship of Fools
1964 Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek
1963 Rex Harrison, Cleopatra
1962 Jason Robards, Long Day's Journey into Night, Tender is the Night
1961 Albert Finney, Saturday
1960 Robert Mitchum, The Sundowners, Home from the Hill
1959 Victor Seastrom, The Wild Strawberries
1958 Spencer Tracy, The Old Man and the Sea, The Last Hurrah
1957 Alec Guiness, The Bridge Over River Kwai
1956 Yul Brenner, The King and I, Anastasia, The Ten Commandments
1955 Ernest Borgnine, Marty
1954 Bing Crosby, The Country Girl
1953 James Mason, Face to Face, The Desert Rats, The Man Between, Julius Caesar
1952 Ralph Richardson, Breaking the Sound Barrier
1951 Richard Basehart, Fourteen Hours
1950 Alec Guiness, Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 Ralph Richardson, The Heiress, The Fallen Idol
1948 Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Seirra Madre
1947 Michael Redgrave, Morning Becomes Electra
1946 Laurence Oliver, Henry V
1945 Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend

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