1929
Emil Jannings

1930
a) Warner Baxter
b) George Arliss

1931
Lionel Barrymore

1932
a) Wallace Beery
b) Frederic March

1933
in diesem Jahr wurde kein Oscar vergeben

1934
Charles Laughton

1935
Clark Gable

1936
Victor McLaglen

1937
Paul Muni

1938
Spencer Tracy

1939
Spencer Tracy

1940
Robert Donat

1941
James Stewart

1942
Gary Cooper

1943
James Cagney

1944
Paul Lukas

1945
Bing Crosby

1946
Ray Milland

1947
Frederic March

1948
Ronald Colman

1949
Laurence Olivier

1950
Broderick Crawford

1951
José Ferrer

1952
Humphrey Bogart

1953
Gary Cooper

1954
William Holden

1955
Marlon Brando

1956
Ernest Borgnine

1957
Yul Brynner

1958
Alec Guinness

1959
David Niven

1960
Charlton Heston

1961
Burt Lancaster

1962
Maximilian Schell

1963
Gregory Peck

1964
Sidney Poitier

1965
Rex Harrison

1966
Lee Marvin

1967
Paul Scofield

1968
Rod Steiger

1969
Cliff Robertson

1970
John Wayne

1971
George C. Scott (Preis wurde abgelehnt)

1972
Gene Hackman

1973
Marlon Brando

1974
Jack Lemmon

1975
Art Carney

1976
Jack Nicholson

1977
Peter Finch

1978
Richard Dreyfuss

1979
Jon Voight

1980
Dustin Hoffman

1981
Robert De Niro

1982
Henry Fonda

1983
Ben Kingsley

1984
Robert Duvall

1985
F. Murray Abraham

1986
William Hurt

1987
Paul Newman

1988
Michael Douglas

1989
Dustin Hoffman

1990
Daniel Day-Lewis

1991
Jeremy Irons

1992
Anthony Hopkins

1993
Al Pacino

1994
Tom Hanks

1995
Tom Hanks

1996
Nicolas Cage

1997
Geoffrey Rush

1998
Jack Nicholson

1999
Roberto Benigni

2000
Kevin Spacey

2001
Russell Crowe

2002
Denzel Washington

2003
Adrien Brody

2004
Sean Penn

2005
Jamie Foxx

2006
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Quelle: Oscar/Bester Hauptdarsteller - Wikipedia