Year Actor Age Film
1927-28: Emil Jannings, 43, The Last Command; The Way of All Flesh
1928-29 Warner Baxter 38 In Old Arizona
1929-30 George Arliss 62 Disraeli; Green Goddess
1930-31 Lionel Barrymore 53 A Free Soul
1931-32 Fredric March 35 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tie Wallace Beery 47 The Champ
1932-33 Charles Laughton 36 The Private Life of Henry VIII
1934 Clark Gable 33 It Happened One Night
1935 Victor McLaghlen 49 The Informer
1936 Paul Muni 41 The Story of Louis Pasteur
1937 Spencer Tracy 37 Captains Courageous
1938 Spencer Tracy 38 Boys Town
1939 Robert Donat 34 Goodbye Mr. Chips
1940-1949
1940 James Stewart 32 The Philadelphia Story
1941 Gary Cooper 40 Sergeant York
1942 James Cagney 43 Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943 Paul Lukas 48 Watch on the Rhine
1944 Bing Crosby 40 Going My Way
1945 Ray Milland 40 The Lost Weekend
1946 Fredric March 49 The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 Ronald Colman 56 A Double Life
1948 Laurence Olivier 41 Hamlet
1949 Broderick Crawford 38 All the King’s Men
1950 Jose Ferrer 38 Cyrano de Bergerac
1951 Humphrey Bogart 52 The African Queen
1952 Gary Cooper 51 High Noon
1953 William Holden 35 Stalag 17
1954 Marlon Brando 30 On the Waterfront
1955 Ernest Borgnine 38 Marty
1956 Yul Brynner 36 The King and I
1957 Alec Guinness 43 The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 David Niven 48 Separate Tables
1959 Charlton Heston 36 Ben-Hur
1960 Burt Lancaster 47 Elmer Gantry
1961 Maxmillian Schell 31 Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 Gregory Peck 46 To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 Sidney Poitier 36 Lilies of the Field
1964 Rex Harrison 56 My Fair Lady
1965 Lee Marvin 41 Cat Ballou
1966 Paul Scofield 44 A Man for All Seasons
1967 Rod Steiger 42 In the Heat of the Night
1968 Cliff Robertson 45 Charly
1969 John Wayne 62 True Grit
1970 George C. Scott 43 Patton
1971 Gene Hackman 41 The French Connection
1972 Marlon Brando 48 The Godfather
1973 Jack Lemmon 48 Save the Tiger
1974 Art Carney 56 Harry and Tonto
1975 Jack Nicholson 38 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 Peter Finch 60 Network
1977 Richard Dreyfuss 30 The Goodbye Girl
1978 Jon Voight 40 Coming Home
1979 Dustin Hoffman 42 Kramer Vs. Kramer
1980 Robert De Niro 37 Raging Bull
1981 Henry Fonda 76 On Golden Pond
1982 Ben Kingsley 39 Gandhi
1983 Robert Duvall 52 Tender Mercies
1984 F. Murray Abraham 44 Amadeus
1985 William Hurt 35 Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986 Paul Newman 61 The Color of Money
1987 Michael Douglas 43 Wall Street
1988 Dustin Hoffman 45 Tootsie
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis 32 My Left Foot
1990-1999
1990 Jeremy Irons, 42, Reversal of Fortune
1991 Anthony Hopkins 54 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Al Pacino 53 Scent of a Woman
1993 Tom Hanks 37 Philadelphia
1994 Tom Hanks 38 Forrest Gump
1995 Nicolas Cage 31 Leaving Las Vegas
1996 Geoffrey Rush 45 Shine
1997 Jack Nicholson 60 As Good As It Gets
1998 Roberto Benigni 46 Life Is Beautiful
1999 Kevin Spacey, 40, American Beauty
2000-2009
2000 Russell Crowe, 36, A Beautiful Mind
2001 Denzel Washington, 47, Training Day
2002 Adrien Brody, 29, The Pianist
2003 Sean Penn, 43, Mystic River
2004 Jamie Foxx 37 Ray
2005 Philip Seymour 38 Capote
2006 Forest Whitaker 45 Last King of Scotland
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis 50 There Will Be Blood
2008 Sean Penn, 48, Milk
2009 Jeff Bridges, 60, Crazy Heart
2010-2019
2010 Colin Firth, 50, The King’s Speech
2011 Jean DuJardin, 39, The Artist
2012 Daniel Day-Lewis, 55, Lincoln
2013 Matthew McConaughey, 44, Dallas Buyers Club
2014 Eddie Redmayne, 34, The Theory of Everything
2015 Leonardo DiCaprio, 41, The Revenant
2016 Casey Affleck, 41, Manchester by the Sea
2017 Gary Oldman, 59, The Darkest Hour
2018 Rami Malek, 37, Bohemian Rhapsody
2019 Joaquin Phoenix, 45, Joker
