# BAFTA de melhor ator em cinema

BAFTA de melhor ator num papel principal (no original, em inglês: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role) é um prêmio entregue anualmente pela British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) ao ator masculino que se tenha distinguido durante o ano num papel principal em cinema. Atores de qualquer nacionalidade são elegíveis para receber o prémio.
Lista com os atores premiados e nomeados:

## Anos 1950

* 1953
** Melhor Ator Britânico — Ralph Richardson - The Sound Barrier
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!
* 1954
** Melhor Ator Britânico — John Gielgud — Julius Caesar
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar
* 1955
** Melhor Ator Britânico — Kenneth More — Doctor in the House
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
* 1956
** Melhor Ator Britânico — Laurence Olivier — Richard III
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Ernest Borgnine - Marty
* 1957
** Melhor Ator Britânico — Peter Finch — A Town Like Alice
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Clare Van Den Thiel - Gervaise
* 1958
** Melhor Ator Britânico — Alec Guinness — The Bridge on the River Kwai
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
* 1959
** Melhor Ator Britânico — Trevor Howard — The Key
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones

## Anos 1960

* 1960
** Melhor Ator Britânico — Peter Sellers – I'm All Right Jack
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
* 1961
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Peter Finch - The Trials of Oscar Wilde
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
* 1962
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Peter Finch - No Love for Johnnie
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Paul Newman - The Hustler
* 1963
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz
* 1964
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Dirk Bogarde - The Servant
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marcello Mastroianni - Divorzio all'italiana
* 1965
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Richard Attenborough - Guns at Batasi e Seance on a Wet Afternoon
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marcello Mastroianni - Ieri, oggi, domani
* 1966
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Dirk Bogarde - Darling
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou e The Killers
* 1967
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold e Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
* 1968
** Melhor Ator Britânico - Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
** Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
| Ano | Ator | Filme | Personagem |
| 1969 |
| 1969 | Spencer Tracy | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Matt Drayton |
| 1969 | Trevor Howard | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lorde Cardigan |
| 1969 | Ron Moody | Oliver! | Fagin |
| 1969 | Nicol Williamson | The Bofors Gun | O'Rourke |

## Anos 1970

| Ano | Ator | Filme | Personagem |
| 1970 |
| 1970 | Dustin Hoffman | Midnight Cowboy | Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo |
| 1970 | Dustin Hoffman | John & Mary | John |
| 1970 | Alan Bates | Women in Love | Rupert Birkin |
| 1970 | Walter Matthau | Hello, Dolly! | Horace Vandergelder |
| 1970 | Walter Matthau | The Secret Life of an American Wife | O Astro de Cinema |
| 1970 | Nicol Williamson | Inadmissible Evidence | bill Maitland |
| 1971 |
| 1971 | Robert Redford | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Sundance Kid |
| 1971 | Robert Redford | Downhill Racer | David Chappellet |
| 1971 | Robert Redford | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Xerife Christopher Cooper |
| 1971 | Elliott Gould | MASH | John McIntyre |
| 1971 | Elliott Gould | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Ted Henderson |
| 1971 | Paul Newman | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Butch Cassidy |
| 1971 | George C. Scott | Patton | George S. Patton |
| 1972 |
| 1972 | Peter Finch | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Dr. Daniel Hirsh |
| 1972 | Dirk Bogarde | Death in Venice(Morte a Venezia) | Gustav von Aschenbach |
| 1972 | Albert Finney | Gumshoe | Eddie Ginley |
| 1972 | Dustin Hoffman | Little Big Man | Jack Crabb |
| 1973 |
| 1973 | Gene Hackman | The French Connection | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle |
| 1973 | Gene Hackman | The Poseidon Adventure | Reverendo Frank Scott |
| 1973 | Marlon Brando | The Godfather | Don Vito Corleone |
| 1973 | Marlon Brando | The Nightcomers | Peter Quint |
| 1973 | George C. Scott | The Hospital | Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock |
| 1973 | George C. Scott | They Might Be Giants | Justin Playfair |
| 1973 | Robert Shaw | Young Winston | Lorde Randolph Churchill |
| 1974 |
| 1974 | Walter Matthau | Charley Varrick | Charley Varrick |
| 1974 | Walter Matthau | Pete 'n' Tillie | Pete |
| 1974 | Marlon Brando | Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo Tango a Parigi) | Paul |
| 1974 | Laurence Olivier | Sleuth | Andrew Wyke |
| 1974 | Donald Sutherland | Steelyard Blues | Jesse Veldini |
| 1974 | Donald Sutherland | Don't Look Now | John Baxter |
| 1975 |
| 1975 | Jack Nicholson | Chinatown | J.J. "Jake" Gittes |
| 1975 | Jack Nicholson | The Last Detail | Billy Buddusky |
| 1975 | Albert Finney | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot |
| 1975 | Gene Hackman | The Conversation | Harry Caul |
| 1975 | Al Pacino | Serpico | Frank Serpico |
| 1976 |
| 1976 | Al Pacino | The Godfather Part II | Michael Corleone |
| 1976 | Al Pacino | Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik |
| 1976 | Richard Dreyfuss | Jaws | Matt Hooper |
| 1976 | Gene Hackman | French Connection II | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle |
| 1976 | Gene Hackman | Night Moves | Harry Moseby |
| 1976 | Dustin Hoffman | Lenny | Lenny Bruce |
| 1977 |
| 1977 | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Randle McMurphy |
| 1977 | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver | Travis Bickle |
| 1977 | Dustin Hoffman | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein |
| 1977 | Dustin Hoffman | Marathon Man | Thomas "Babe" Levy |
| 1977 | Walter Matthau | The Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker |
| 1977 | Walter Matthau | The Sunshine Boys | Willy Clark |
| 1978 |
| 1978 | Peter Finch | Network | Howard Beale |
| 1978 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall | Alvy "Max" Singer |
| 1978 | William Holden | Network | Max Schumacher |
| 1978 | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky | Rocky Balboa |
| 1979 |
| 1979 | Richard Dreyfuss | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield |
| 1979 | Brad Davis | Midnight Express | Billy Hayes |
| 1979 | Anthony Hopkins | Magic | Corky Withers / Fats |
| 1979 | Peter Ustinov | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot |

## Anos 1980

| Ano | Ator | Filme | Personagem |
| 1980 |
| 1980 | Jack Lemmon | The China Syndrome | Jack Godell |
| 1980 | Woody Allen | Manhattan | Isaac Davis |
| 1980 | Robert De Niro | The Deer Hunter | Sargento Michael "Mike" Vronsky |
| 1980 | Martin Sheen | Apocalypse Now | Benjamin L. Willard |
| 1981 |
| 1981 | John Hurt | The Elephant Man | John Merrick |
| 1981 | Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer | Ted Kramer |
| 1981 | Roy Scheider | All That Jazz | Joe Gideon |
| 1981 | Peter Sellers | Being There | Chance |
| 1982 |
| 1982 | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal |
| 1982 | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta |
| 1982 | Bob Hoskins | The Long Good Friday | Harold |
| 1982 | Jeremy Irons | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Charles Henry Smithson |
| 1983 |
| 1983 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1983 | Warren Beatty | Reds | John Silas Reed |
| 1983 | Henry Fonda | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayler Jr. |
| 1983 | Albert Finney | Shoot the Moon | George Dunlap |
| 1983 | Jack Lemmon | Missing | Ed Horman |
| 1984 |
| 1984 | Michael Caine | Educating Rita | Dr. Frank Bryant |
| 1984 | Dustin Hoffman | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels |
| 1984 | Michael Caine | The Honorary Consul | Charley Fortnum |
| 1984 | Robert De Niro | The King of Comedy | Rupert Pupkin |
| 1985 |
| 1985 | Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields | Dith Pran |
| 1985 | Tom Courtenay | The Dresser | Norman |
| 1985 | Albert Finney | The Dresser | Senhor |
| 1985 | Sam Waterston | The Killing Fields | Sydney Schanberg |
| 1986 |
| 1986 | William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina |
| 1986 | F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri |
| 1986 | Victor Banerjee | A Passage to India | Dr. Aziz Ahmed |
| 1986 | Harrison Ford | Witness | John Book |
| 1987 |
| 1987 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George |
| 1987 | Woody Allen | Hannah and Her Sisters | Mickey Sachs |
| 1987 | Michael Caine | Hannah and Her Sisters | Elliot |
| 1987 | Paul Hogan | Crocodile Dundee | Michael "Crocodile" J. Dundee |
| 1988 |
| 1988 | Sean Connery | Der Name der Rose | William de Baskerville |
| 1988 | Gérard Depardieu | Jean de Florette | Jean de Florette |
| 1988 | Yves Montand | Jean de Florette | César Soubeyran |
| 1988 | Gary Oldman | Prick Up Your Ears | Joe Orton |
| 1989 |
| 1989 | John Cleese | A Fish Called Wanda | Archibald "Archie" Leach |
| 1989 | Michael Douglas | Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher |
| 1989 | Kevin Kline | A Fish Called Wanda | Otto West |
| 1989 | Robin Williams | Good Morning, Vietnam | Adrian Cronauer |

## Anos 1990

| Ano | Ator | Filme | Personagem |
| 1990 |
| 1990 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown |
| 1990 | Kenneth Branagh | Henry V | Rei Henrique V |
| 1990 | Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man | Raymond Babbit |
| 1990 | Robin Williams | Dead Poets Society | John Keating |
| 1991 |
| 1991 | Philippe Noiret | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Alfredo |
| 1991 | Sean Connery | The Hunt for Red October | Grady Tripp |
| 1991 | Tom Cruise | Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic |
| 1991 | Robert De Niro | Goodfellas | Jimmy Conway |
| 1992 |
| 1992 | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| 1992 | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves | Tenente Dunbar |
| 1992 | Gérard Depardieu | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1992 | Alan Rickman | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Jamie |
| 1993 |
| 1993 | Robert Downey Jr. | Chaplin | Charles Chaplin |
| 1993 | Daniel Day-Lewis | The Last of the Mohicans | Nathaniel Poe |
| 1993 | Stephen Rea | The Crying Game | Fergus |
| 1993 | Tim Robbins | The Player | Griffin Mill |
| 1994 |
| 1994 | Anthony Hopkins | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens |
| 1994 | Daniel Day-Lewis | In the Name of the Father | Gerry Conlon |
| 1994 | Anthony Hopkins | Shadowlands | C. S. Lewis |
| 1994 | Liam Neeson | Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler |
| 1995 |
| 1995 | Hugh Grant | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Charles |
| 1995 | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump |
| 1995 | Terrence Stamp | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Ralph / Bernadette Bassenger |
| 1995 | John Travolta | Pulp Fiction | Vincent Vega |
| 1996 |
| 1996 | Nigel Hawthorne | The Madness of King George | Rei George III |
| 1996 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
| 1996 | Jonathan Pryce | Carrington | Lytton Strachey |
| 1996 | Massimo Troisi | Il Postino: The Postman | Mario Ruoppolo |
| 1997 |
| 1997 | Geoffrey Rush | Shine | David Helfgott |
| 1997 | Ralph Fiennes | The English Patient | Laszlo de Almásy |
| 1997 | Ian McKellen | Richard III | Rei Richard III |
| 1997 | Timothy Spall | Secrets & Lies | Maurice Purley |
| 1998 |
| 1998 | Robert Carlyle | The Full Monty | Gaz |
| 1998 | Billy Connolly | Mrs Brown | John Brown |
| 1998 | Kevin Spacey | L.A. Confidential | Jack Vincennes |
| 1998 | Ray Winstone | Nil by Mouth | Ray |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | Roberto Benigni | Life Is Beautiful | Guido Orefice |
| 1999 | Michael Caine | Little Voice | Ray Say |
| 1999 | Joseph Fiennes | Shakespeare in Love | William Shakespeare |
| 1999 | Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | Capitão John H. Miller |

## Anos 2000

| Ano | Ator | Filme | Personagem |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham |
| 2000 | Jim Broadbent | Topsy-Turvy | W. S. Gilbert |
| 2000 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Maurice Bendrix |
| 2000 | Ralph Fiennes | The End of the Affair | Jeffrey Wigand |
| 2000 | Om Puri | East Is East | George Khan |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Jamie Bell | Billy Elliot | Billy Elliot |
| 2001 | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Máximus Décimus Merídius |
| 2001 | Michael Douglas | Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp |
| 2001 | Tom Hanks | Cast Away | Chuck Noland |
| 2001 | Geoffrey Rush | Quills | Marquês de Sade |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | John Forbes Nash Jr. |
| 2002 | Jim Broadbent | Iris | John Bayley |
| 2002 | Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf |
| 2002 | Kevin Spacey | The Shipping News | Quoyle |
| 2002 | Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill, O Açougueiro" Cutting |
| 2003 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman |
| 2003 | Nicolas Cage | Adaptation. | Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman |
| 2003 | Michael Caine | The Quiet American | Thomas Fowler |
| 2003 | Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren Schmidt |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2004 | Benicio Del Toro | 21 Grams | Jack Jordan |
| 2004 | Sean Penn | 21 Grams | Paul Rivers |
| 2004 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
| 2004 | Johnny Depp | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Capitão Jack Sparrow |
| 2004 | Jude Law | Cold Mountain | W.P. Inman |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
| 2005 | Jim Carrey | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Joel Barrish |
| 2005 | Johnny Depp | Finding Neverland | Sir James Matthew Barrie |
| 2005 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Aviator | Howard Hughes |
| 2005 | Gael García Bernal | The Motorcycle Diaries | Che Guevara |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2006 | Ralph Fiennes | The Constant Gardener | Justin Quayle |
| 2006 | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar |
| 2006 | Joaquin Phoenix | Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
| 2006 | David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Edward R. Murrow |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2007 | Daniel Craig | Casino Royale | James Bond |
| 2007 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | William "Billy" Costigan Jr. |
| 2007 | Richard Griffiths | The History Boys | Hector |
| 2007 | Peter O'Toole | Venus | Maurice |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2008 | George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton |
| 2008 | James McAvoy | Atonement | Robbie Turner |
| 2008 | Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai |
| 2008 | Ulrich Mühe | The Life of Others | Gerd Weisler |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Randy "The Ram" Robinson |
| 2009 | Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon |
| 2009 | Dev Patel | Slumdog Millionaire | Jamal Malik |
| 2009 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2009 | Brad Pitt | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Benjamin Button |

## Anos 2010

| Ano | Ator | Filme | Personagem |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer |
| 2010 | Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Bad Blake |
| 2010 | George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
| 2010 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | Sargento William James |
| 2010 | Andy Serkis | Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | Ian Dury |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | Rei George VI do Reino Unido |
| 2011 | Javier Bardem | Biutiful | Uxbal |
| 2011 | Jeff Bridges | True Grit | Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn |
| 2011 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2011 | James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin |
| 2012 | George Clooney | The Descendants | Matt King |
| 2012 | Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan |
| 2012 | Gary Oldman | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | George Smiley |
| 2012 | Brad Pitt | Moneyball | Billy Beane |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2013 | Ben Affleck | Argo | Tony Mendez |
| 2013 | Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrick "Pat" Solitano |
| 2013 | Hugh Jackman | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 2013 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| 2014 | Christian Bale | American Hustle | Irving Rosenfeld |
| 2014 | Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woodrow "Woody" T. Grant |
| 2014 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Wolf of Wall Street | Jordan Belfort |
| 2014 | Tom Hanks | Captain Phillips | Capitão Richard Phillips |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Eddie Redmayne | The Theory of Everything | Stephen Hawking |
| 2015 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing |
| 2015 | Ralph Fiennes | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Monsieur Gustave H. |
| 2015 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis "Lou" Bloom |
| 2015 | Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |
| 2016 | Bryan Cranston | Trumbo | Dalton Trumbo |
| 2016 | Matt Damon | The Martian | Mark Watney |
| 2016 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
| 2016 | Eddie Redmayne | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| 2017 | Andrew Garfield | Hacksaw Ridge | Desmond T. Doss |
| 2017 | Ryan Gosling | La La Land | Sebastian Wilder |
| 2017 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nocturnal Animals | Edward Sheffield / Tony Hastings |
| 2017 | Viggo Mortensen | Captain Fantastic | Ben Cash |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill |
| 2018 | Jamie Bell | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Peter Turner |
| 2018 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman |
| 2018 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread | Reynolds Woodcock |
| 2018 | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Rami Malek | Bohemian Rhapsody | Freddie Mercury |
| 2019 | Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born | Jackson Maine |
| 2019 | Christian Bale | Vice | Dick Cheney |
| 2019 | Steve Coogan | Stan & Ollie | Stan Laurel |
| 2019 | Viggo Mortensen | Green Book | Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga |

## Anos 2020

| Ano | Ator | Filme | Personagem |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Joaquin Phoenix | Joker | Arthur Fleck / Joker |
| 2020 | Adam Driver | Marriage Story | Charlie Barber |
| 2020 | Jonathan Pryce | The Two Popes | Cardeal Jorge Mario Bergoglio |
| 2020 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Rick Dalton |
| 2020 | Taron Egerton | Rocketman | Elton John |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony |
| 2021 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| 2021 | Chadwick Boseman (nominação póstuma) | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green |
| 2021 | Adarsh Gourav | The White Tiger | Balram Halwai |
| 2021 | Mads Mikkelsen | Druk | Martin |
| 2021 | Tahar Rahim | The Mauritanian | Mohamedou Ould Slahi |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Will Smith | King Richard | Richard Williams |
| 2022 | Mahershala Ali | Swan Song | Cameron Turner |
| 2022 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
| 2022 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Don't Look Up | Dr. Randall Mindy |
| 2022 | Adeel Akhtar | Ali & Ava | Ali |
| 2022 | Stephen Graham | Boiling Point | Andy Jones |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley |
| 2023 | Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2023 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Charlie |
| 2023 | Daryl McCormack | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Leo Grande/ Connor |
| 2023 | Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum Paterson |
| 2023 | Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2024 | Barry Keoghan | Saltburn | Oliver Quick |
| 2024 | Bradley Cooper | Maestro | Leonard Bernstein |
| 2024 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
| 2024 | Colman Domingo | Rustin | Bayard Rustin |
| 2024 | Teo Yoo | Past Lives | Hae Sung |
| 2025 |
| 2025 | Adrien Brody | The Brutalist | László Tóth |
| 2025 | Colman Domingo | Sing Sing | John "Divine G" Whitfield |
| 2025 | Hugh Grant | Heretic | Mr. Reed |
| 2025 | Ralph Fiennes | Conclave | Cardeal Thomas Lawrence |
| 2025 | Sebastian Stan | The Apprentice | Donald Trump |
| 2025 | Timothée Chalamet | A Complete Unknown | Bob Dylan |