1931
Winner (tie)
Wallace Beery
Champ, The
King Vidor
Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
YouTube $
WIKI
1931
Nominee
Richard Dix
Cimarron
Wesley Ruggles
Irene Dunne, Estelle Lee
YouTube $
WIKI
1934
Winner
Clark Gable
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Sling TV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1935
Nominees
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Mutiny on the Bounty
Frank Lloyd
YouTube $
WIKI
1936
Winner
Paul Muni
Story of Louis Pasteur, The
William Dieterle
Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Fritz Leiber
Prime Video $
WIKI
1936
Nominee
Gary Cooper
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
YouTube $
WIKI
1936
Nominee
William Powell
My Man Godfrey
Gregory La Cava
Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1937
Nominee
Paul Muni
Life of Emile Zola, The
William Dieterle
Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky
YouTube $
WIKI
1938
Nominee
Leslie Howard
Pygmalion
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland
Crackle (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1939
Winner
Robert Donat
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sam Wood
Greer Garson
YouTube $
WIKI
1939
Nominee
Clark Gable
Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming
Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
YouTube $
WIKI
1939
Nominee
Jimmy Stewart
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
YouTube $
WIKI
1939
Nominee
Laurence Olivier
Wuthering Heights
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1940
Winner
Jimmy Stewart
Philadelphia Story, The
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Ruth Hussey
YouTube $
WIKI
1940
Nominee
Raymond Massey
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
John Cromwell
Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard
YouTube $
WIKI
1940
Nominee
Henry Fonda
Grapes of Wrath, The
John Ford
Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Prime Video $
WIKI
1940
Nominee
Charlie Chaplin
Great Dictator, The
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
Prime Video $
WIKI
1940
Nominee
Laurence Olivier
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1941
Winner
Gary Cooper
Sergeant York
Howard Hawks
Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan
YouTube $
WIKI
1941
Nominee
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotton
YouTube $
WIKI
1942
Nominee
Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
YouTube $
WIKI
DETAILS
1942
Nominee
Walter Pidgeon
Mrs. Miniver
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Teresa Wright, May Whitty, Richard Ney
YouTube $
WIKI
1942
Nominee
Gary Cooper
Pride of the Yankees, The
Sam Wood
Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth (as himself), Walter Brennan
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1943
Nominee
Walter Pidgeon
Madame Curie
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
YouTube $
WIKI
1944
Nominee
Charles Boyer
Gaslight
George Cukor
Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury
Prime Video
WIKI
1945
Winner
Ray Milland
Lost Weekend, The
Billy Wilder
Jane Wyman
YouTube $
WIKI
1946
Winner
Fredric March
Best Years of Our Lives, The
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Harold Russell
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1946
Nominee
Jimmy Stewart
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers
Plex (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1947
Nominee
Gregory Peck
Gentleman's Agreement
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere
YouTube $
WIKI
1948
Winner
Laurence Olivier
Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
Basil Sydney. Eileen Herlie, Jean Simmons, Stanley Holloway
Plex (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1949
Winner
Broderick Crawford
All the King's Men
Robert Rossen
John Ireland, Joanne Dru
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1950
Nominee
William Holden
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder
Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1951
Nominee
Montgomery Clift
Place in the Sun, A
George Stevens
Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1951
Nominee
Marlon Brando
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Elia Kazan
Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
YouTube $
WIKI
1952
Winner
Gary Cooper
High Noon
Fred Zinnemann
Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges
YouTube $
WIKI
1953
Winner
William Holden
Stalag 17
Billy Wilder
Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1953
Nominees
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
Deborah Karr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine
YouTube $
WIKI
1953
Nominee
Richard Burton
Robe, The
Henry Koster
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie
YouTube $
WIKI
1954
Winner
Marlon Brando
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
Rod Steiger, Karl Marlden, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb
YouTube $
WIKI
1954
Nominee
Humphrey Bogart
Caine Mutiny, The
Edward Dmytryk
José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn
YouTube $
WIKI
1954
Nominee
James Mason
Star Is Born, A
George Cukor
Judy Garland
YouTube $
WIKI
1955
Winner
Ernest Borgnine
Marty
Delbert Mann
Betsy Blair
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1956
Winner
Yul Brynner
King and I, The
Walter Lang
Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson
Vudu $
WATCH
WIKI
1956
Nominee
Rock Hudson
Giant
George Stevens
Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean
Prime Video $
WIKI
1957
Winner
Alec Guinness
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
David Lean
William Holden, Jack Hawkins
YouTube $
WIKI
1957
Nominee
Charles Laughton
Witness for the Prosecution
Billy Wilder
Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1958
Winner
David Niven
Separate Tables
Delbert Mann
Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1958
Nominee
Paul Newman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks
Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives. Judith Anderson
YouTube $
WIKI
1959
Winner
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur
William Wyler
Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith
YouTube $
WIKI
1959
Nominee
Jimmy Stewart
Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger
Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara
YouTube $
WIKI
1959
Nominee
Jack Lemmon
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder
Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe
YouTube $
WIKI
1960
Nominee
Jack Lemmon
Apartment, The
Billy Wilder
Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1960
Nominee
Spencer Tracy
Inherit the Wind
Stanley Kramer
Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1961
Winner*, nominee
Maximilian Schell*, Spencer Tracy
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer
Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1961
Nominee
Paul Newman
Hustler, The
Robert Rossen
Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott
Sling TV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1962
Winner
Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan
Mary Badham, Philip Alford
YouTube $
WIKI
1962
Nominee
Peter O'Toole
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains
YouTube $
WIKI
1963
Nominee
Rex Harrison
Cleopatra
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall
YouTube $
WIKI
1964
Winner
Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady
George Cukor
Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
YouTube $
WIKI
1964
Nominees
Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton
Becket
Peter Glenville
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1964
Nominee
Peter Sellers (triple role)
Dr. Strangelove
Stenley Kubrick
George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens
YouTube $
WIKI
1966
Winner
Paul Scofield
Man for All Seasons, A
Fred Zinnemann
Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York
YouTube $
WIKI
1966
Nominee
Richard Burton
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols
Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
YouTube $
WIKI
1967
Winner
Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night
Norman Jewison
Sidney Poitier
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1967
Nominee
Warren Beatty
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn
Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Prime Video $
WIKI
1967
Nominee
Dustin Hoffman
Graduate, The
Mike Nichols
Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1967
Nominee
Spencer Tracy
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Stanley Kramer
Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton
YouTube $
WIKI
1968
Nominee
Peter O'Toole
Lion in Winter, The
Anthony Harvey
Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton
YouTube $
WIKI
1968
Nominee
Ron Moody
Oliver!
Carol Reed
Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Jack Wild
YouTube $
WIKI
1969
Winner
John Wayne
True Grit (Version 1)
Henry Hathaway
Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Prime Video
WIKI
1970
Winner
George C. Scott
Patton
Frank McCarthy
Karl Malden
YouTube $
WIKI
1970
Nominee
Ryan O'Neal
Love Story
Arthur Hiller
Ali MacGraw, Ray Milland, John Marley
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1971
Winner
Gene Hackman
French Connection, The
William Friedkin
Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi
Prime Video $
WIKI
1971
Nominee
Topol
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison
Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1972
Winner
Marlon Brando
Godfather, The
Francis Ford Coppola
Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg
YouTube $
WIKI
1972
Nominees
Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
Sleuth
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1973
Nominee
Al Pacino
Serpico
Sidney Lumet
John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Prime Video
WIKI
1973
Nominee
Robert Redford
Sting, The
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Shaw
YouTube $
WIKI
1974
Nominee
Jack Nicholson
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Prime Video
WIKI
1974
Nominee
Al Pacino
Godfather, The, Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale
Prime Video $
WIKI
1975
Winner
Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman
Louise Fletcher
YouTube $
WIKI
1975
Nominee
Al Pacino
Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet
John Cazale, James Broderick, Charles Durning
Prime Video
WIKI
1976
Winner*, nominee
Peter Finch*, William Holden
Network
Sidney Lumet
Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
Prime Video $
WIKI
1976
Nominee
Sylvester Stallone
Rocky
John G. Avildsen
Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith
Prime Video
WIKI
1976
Nominee
Robert De Niro
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese
Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd
YouTube $
WIKI
1977
Winner
Richard Dreyfuss
Goodbye Girl, The
Herbert Ross
Marsha Mason
YouTube $
WIKI
1977
Nominee
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
Diane Keaton, Paul Simon, Ben Gazzara
YouTube $
WIKI
1977
Nominee
John Travolta
Saturday Night Fever
John Badham
Karen Lynn Gorney
Prime Video
WIKI
1978
Winner
Jon Voight
Coming Home
Hal Ashby
Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern
WIKI
1978
Nominee
Robert De Niro
Deer Hunter, The
Michael Cimino
Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale
Netflix
WIKI
1979
Winner
Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry
YouTube $
WIKI
1979
Nominee
Al Pacino
And Justice for All
Norman Jewison
Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg
YouTube $
WIKI
1979
Nominee
Peter Sellers
Being There
Hal Ashby
Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas
YouTube $
WIKI
1979
Nominee
Jack Lemmon
China Syndrome, The
James Bridges
Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas
YouTube $
WIKI
1980
Winner
Robert De Niro
Raging Bull
MartinScorsese
Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
YouTube $
WIKI
1980
Nominee
Burt Lancaster
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
Susan Sarandon
YouTube $
WIKI
1980
Nominee
John Hurt
Elephant Man, The
David Lynch
Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller
YouTube $
WIKI
1981
Winner
Henry Fonda
On Golden Pond
Mark Rydell
Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1981
Nominee
Paul Newman
Absence of Malice
Sydney Pollack
Sally Field
YouTube $
WIKI
1981
Nominee
Dudley Moore
Arthur
Steve Gordon
Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1981
Nominee
Warren Beatty
Reds
Warren Beatty
Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson
Prime Video $
WIKI
1982
Winner
Ben Kingsley,
Gandhi
Richard Attenborough
Edward Fox, Candice Bergen, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth, John Gielgud, Saeed Jaffrey, Martin Sheen, Geraldine James, Alyque Padamsee, Ian Charleson
YouTube $
WIKI
1982
Nominee
Dustin Hoffman
Tootsie
Sydney Pollack
Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Bill Murray, Geena Davis
YouTube $
WIKI
1982
Nominee
Paul Newman
Verdict, The
Sidney Lumet
Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea
YouTube $
WIKI
1984
Winner*, nominee
F. Murray Abraham*, Tom Hulce
Amadeus
Milos Forman
Elizabeth Berridge
Prime Video
WIKI
1985
Nominee
Harrison Ford
Witness
Peter Weir
Kelly McGillis, Danny Glover, Viggo Mortensen, Josef Sommer
Prime Video $
WIKI
1986
Winner
Paul Newman
Color of Money, The
Martin Scorsese
Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Turturro, Forest Whitaker
Prime Video $
WIKI
1987
Winner
Michael Douglas
Wall Street
Oliver Stone
Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen
Prime Video $
WIKI
1988
Winner
Dustin Hoffman
Rain Man
Barry Levinson
Tom Cruise
Prime Video $
WIKI
1988
Nominee
Tom Hanks
Big
Penny Marshall
Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1988
Nominee
Gene Hackman
Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker
Willem Dafoe
Prime Video $
WIKI
1988
Nominee
Edward James Olmos
Stand and Deliver
Ramón Menéndez
Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy García
Prime Video $
WIKI
1989
Nominee
Tom Cruise
Born on the Fourth of July
Oliver Stone
Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, Willem Dafoe
YouTube $
WIKI
1989
Nominee
Morgan Freeman
Driving Miss Daisy
Bruce Beresford
Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle
YouTube $
WIKI
1990
Nominee
Robert De Niro
Awakenings
Penny Marshall
Robin Williams, John Heard, Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann Miller, Max von Sydow
YouTube $
WIKI
1991
Winner
Anthony Hopkins
Silence of the Lambs, The
Jonathan Demme
Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
YouTube $
WIKI
1992
Winner
Al Pacino
Scent of a Woman
Martin Brest
Chris O'Donnell, Philip Seymour Hoffman
YouTube $
WIKI
1992
Nominee
Denzel Washington
Malcolm X
Spike Lee
Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
YouTube $
WIKI
1992
Nominee
Clint Eastwood
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood
Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1993
Winner
Tom Hanks
Philadelphia
Jonathan Demme
Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas
Prime Video $
WIKI
1993
Nominee
Anthony Hopkins
Remains of the Day, The
James Ivory
Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant
YouTube $
WIKI
1993
Nominee
Liam Neeson
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg
Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Prime Video $
WIKI
1994
Winner
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis
Robin Wright, Gary Sinese, Sally Field
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
1994
Nominee
John Travolta
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tanrantino
Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson
YouTube $
WIKI
1994
Nominee
Morgan Freeman
Shawshank Redemption, The
Frank Darabont
Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore
YouTube $
WIKI
1995
Nominee
Richard Dreyfuss
Mr. Holland's Opus
Stephen Herek
Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis
Disney+
WIKI
1996
Nominee
Ralph Fiennes
English Patient, The
Anthony Minghella
Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth
YouTube $
WIKI
1996
Nominee
Tom Cruise
Jerry Maguire
Cameron Crowe
Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston
YouTube $
WIKI
1997
Winner
Jack Nicholson
As Good As It Gets
James L. Brooks
Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight
YouTube $
WIKI
1997
Nominee
Matt Damon
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant
Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, Minnie Driver
YouTube $
WIKI
1998
Nominee
Tom Hanks
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
Prime Video
WIKI
1999
Winner
Kevin Spacey
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper
Prime Video $
WIKI
1999
Nominee
Russell Crowe
Insider, The
Michael Mann
Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer
YouTube $
WIKI
2000
Winner
Russell Crowe
Gladiator
Ridley Scott
Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed
Prime Video
WATCH
WIKI
2000
Nominee
Tom Hanks
Cast Away
Robert Zemeckis
Helen Hunt
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
2001
Winner
Denzel Washington
Training Day
Antoine Fuqua
Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Cliff Curtis, Dr. Dre
YouTube $
WIKI
2001
Nominee
Will Smith
Ali
Michael Mann
Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson
Prime Video $
WIKI
2001
Nominee
Russell Crowe
Beautiful Mind, A
Ron Howard
Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer, Judd Hisrch
Prime Video $
WIKI
2002
Winner
Adrien Brody
Pianist, The
Roman Polanski
Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard
Prime Video
WIKI
2002
Nominee
Jack Nicholson
About Schmidt
Alexander Payne
Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates
YouTube $
WIKI
2002
Nominee
Nicolas Cage
Adaptation
Spike Jonze
Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox
YouTube $
WIKI
2003
Winner
Sean Penn
Mystic River
Clint Eastwood
Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney
YouTube $
WIKI
2003
Nominee
Ben Kingsley
House of Sand and Fog
Vadim Perelman
Jennifer Connelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher, Kim Dickens
Prime Video $
WIKI
2003
Nominee
Bill Murray
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Netflix
WIKI
2003
Nominee
Johnny Depp
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Gore Verbinski
Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Pryce
Disney+
WIKI
2004
Nominee
Leonardo DiCaprio
Aviator, The
Martin Scorsese
Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Jude Law
Prime Video $$
WIKI
2004
Nominee
Don Cheadle
Hotel Rwanda
Terry George
Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
2004
Nominee
Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
YouTube $
WIKI
2005
Nominee
David Strathairn
Good Night, and Good Luck
George Clooney
Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey, Jr., Frank Langella
YouTube $
WIKI
2006
Winner
Forest Whitaker
Last King of Scotland, The
Kevin Macdonald
James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson
Prime Video $
WIKI
2006
Nominee
Will Smith
Pursuit of Happyness, The
Gabriele Muccino
Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith
Netflix
WIKI
2007
Nominee
George Clooney
Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy
Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack
YouTube $
WIKI
2007
Nominee
Richard Jenkins
Visitor, The
Tom McCarthy
Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Tubi (free)
WATCH
WIKI
2008
Winner
Sean Penn
Milk
Gus Van Sant
Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco
YouTube $
WIKI
2008
Nominee
Frank Langella
Frost/Nixon
Ron Howard
Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon
Prime Video
WIKI
2008
Nominee
Mickey Rourke
Wrestler, The
Darren Aronofsky
Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
YouTube $
WIKI
2009
Nominee
Morgan Freeman
Invictus
Clint Eastwood
Matt Damon
YouTube $
WIKI
2009
Nominee
George Clooney
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman
Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Danny McBride
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
2010
Winner
Colin Firth
King's Speech, The
Tom Hooper
Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
2010
Nominee
Jesse Eisenberg
Social Network, The
David Fincher
Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella
Prime Video $
WIKI
2010
Nominee
Jeff Bridges
True Grit (Version 2)
Joel & Ethan Coen
Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry Pepper
Prime Video
WIKI
2011
Winner
Jean Dujardin
Artist, The (French)
Michel Hazanavicius
Berenice Bejo
YouTube $
WIKI
2011
Nominee
George Clooney
Descendants, The
Alexander Payne
Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard
YouTube $
WIKI
2011
Nominee
Brad Pitt
Moneyball
Bennett Miller
Kerris Dorsey, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
YouTube $
WIKI
2012
Winner
Daniel Day-Lewis
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg
Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones
YouTube $
WIKI
2012
Nominee
Denzel Washington
Flight
Robert Zemeckis
Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman, Bruce Greenwood, Melissa Leo
YouTube $
WIKI
2012
Nominee
Bradley Cooper
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Anupam Kher, Chris Tucker
Prime Video
WIKI
2013
Nominee
Chiwetel Ejiofor
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt
YouTube $
WIKI
2013
Nominee
Christian Bale
American Hustle
David O. Russell
Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C. K., Jack Huston, Michael Peña
PlutoTV (free)
WATCH
WIKI
2013
Nominee
Bruce Dern
Nebraska
Alexander Payne
Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk
Prime Video
WIKI
2014
Winner
Eddie Redmayne
Theory of Everything, The
James Marsh
Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, David Thewlis, Maxine Peake
YouTube $
WIKI
2014
Nominee
Bradley Cooper
American Sniper
Clint Eastwood
Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Cory Hardrict
YouTube $
WIKI
2014
Nominee
Benedict Cumberbatch
Imitation Game, The
Morten Tyldum
Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, Mark Strong
Prime Video
WIKI
2015
Winner
Leonardo DiCaprio
Revenant, The
Alejandro, Inarritu
Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
YouTube $
WIKI
2015
Nominee
Matt Damon
Martian, The
Ridley Scott
Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, Kate Mara, Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor
YouTube $
WIKI
2015
Nominee
Michael Fassbender
Steve Jobs
Danny Boyle
Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels
Prime Video $
WIKI
2015
Nominee
Bryan Cranston
Trumbo
Jay Roach
Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman
YouTube (free)
WATCH
WIKI
2016
Winner
Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Matthew Broderick
Prime Video
WIKI
2016
Nominee
Denzel Washington
Fences
Denzel Washington
Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson
Netflix
WIKI
2017
Winner
Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour
Joe Wright
Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Ben Mendelsohn
Netflix
WIKI
2017
Nominee
Daniel Kaluuya
Get Out
Jordan Peele
Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Catherine Keener
YouTube $
WIKI
2017
Nominee
Daniel Day-Lewis
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson
Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps
Netflix
WIKI
2018
Winner
Rami Malek
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bryan Singer
Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joe Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, Mike Myers
YouTube $
WIKI
2018
Nominee
Viggo Mortensen
Green Book
Peter Farrelly
Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
YouTube $
WIKI
2018
Nominee
Bradley Cooper
Star is Born, A
Bradley Cooper
Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, Sam Elliott
YouTube $
WIKI
2018
Nominee
Christian Bale
Vice
Adam McKay
Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Tyler Perry, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, Jesse Plemons
Netflix
WIKI
2020
Nominee
Gary Oldman
Mank
David Fincher
Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Charles Dance
Netflix
WIKI
2021
Winner
Will Smith
King Richard
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn, Jon Bernthal
YouTube $
WIKI
2021
Nominee
Javier Bardem
Being the Ricardos
Aaron Sorkin
Nicole Kidman, J. K. Simmons, Nina Arianda
Prime Video
WIKI
2021
Nominee
Benedict Cumberbatch
Power of the Dog, The
Jane Campion
Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Netflix
WIKI
2022
Nominee
Austin Butler
Elvis
Baz Luhrmann
Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge
YouTube $
WIKI
2023
Winner
Cillian Murphy
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh
YouTube $
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