En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Akademi Ödülü
Kazananlar ve adaylar > 2000’ler

| Yıl | Oyuncu | Film | Rol | Kay>  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2000  (73.)  | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Maximus Decimus Meridius |  |
| 2000  (73.)  | Javier Bardem | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas |  |
| 2000  (73.)  | Tom Hanks | Cast Away | Chuck Noland |  |
| 2000  (73.)  | Ed Harris | Pollock | Jackson Pollock |  |
| 2000  (73.)  | Geoffrey Rush | Quills | The Marquis de Sade |  |
| 2001  (74.)  | Denzel Washington | Training Day | Detective Alonzo Harris |  |
| 2001  (74.)  | Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | John Forbes Nash, Jr. |  |
| 2001  (74.)  | Sean Penn | I Am Sam | Sam Dawson |  |
| 2001  (74.)  | Will Smith | Ali | Muhammad Ali |  |
| 2001  (74.)  | Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Dr. Matt Fowler |  |
| 2002  (75.)  | Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman |  |
| 2002  (75.)  | Nicolas Cage | Adaptation | Charlie Kaufman Donald Kaufman |  |
| 2002  (75.)  | Michael Caine | The Quiet American | Thomas Fowler |  |
| 2002  (75.)  | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |  |
| 2002  (75.)  | Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren R. Schmidt |  |
| 2003  (76.)  | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |  |
| 2003  (76.)  | Johnny Depp | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Jack Sparrow |  |
| 2003  (76.)  | Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Massoud Amir Behrani |  |
| 2003  (76.)  | Jude Law | Cold Mountain | W. P. Inman |  |
| 2003  (76.)  | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |  |
| 2004  (77.)  | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |  |
| 2004  (77.)  | Don Cheadle | Hotel Rwanda | Paul Rusesabagina |  |
| 2004  (77.)  | Johnny Depp | Finding Neverland | J. M. Barrie |  |
| 2004  (77.)  | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Aviator | Howard Hughes |  |
| 2004  (77.)  | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby | Frankie Dunn |  |
| 2005  (78.)  | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |  |
| 2005  (78.)  | Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow | Djay |  |
| 2005  (78.)  | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | en:Ennis Del Mar |  |
| 2005  (78.)  | Joaquin Phoenix | Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |  |
| 2005  (78.)  | David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck | Edward R. Murrow |  |
| 2006  (79.)  | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |  |
| 2006  (79.)  | Leonardo DiCaprio | Blood Diamond | Danny Archer |  |
| 2006  (79.)  | Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne |  |
| 2006  (79.)  | Peter O'Toole | Venus | Maurice |  |
| 2006  (79.)  | Will Smith | The Pursuit of Happyness | en:Chris Gardner |  |
| 2007  (80.)  | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |  |
| 2007  (80.)  | George Clooney | Avukat | Michael Clayton |  |
| 2007  (80.)  | Johnny Depp | Sweeney Todd: Fleet Sokağı'nın Şeytani Berberi | Sweeney Todd / Benjamin Barker |  |
| 2007  (80.)  | Tommy Lee Jones | In the Valley of Elah | Hank Deerfield |  |
| 2007  (80.)  | Viggo Mortensen | Şark Vaatleri | Nikolai Luzhin |  |
| 2008  (81.)  | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |  |
| 2008  (81.)  | Richard Jenkins | The Visitor | Walter Vale |  |
| 2008  (81.)  | Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon |  |
| 2008  (81.)  | Brad Pitt | Benjamin Button'ın Tuhaf Hikayesi | Benjamin Button |  |
| 2008  (81.)  | Mickey Rourke | Şampiyon | Randy "The Ram" Robinson |  |
| 2009  (82.)  | Jeff Bridges | Çılgın Kalp | Otis "Bad" Blake |  |
| 2009  (82.)  | George Clooney | Aklı Havada | Ryan Bingham |  |
| 2009  (82.)  | Colin Firth | Tek Başına Bir Adam | George Falconer |  |
| 2009  (82.)  | Morgan Freeman | Yenilmez | Nelson Mandela |  |
| 2009  (82.)  | Jeremy Renner | Ölümcül Tuzak | Sergeant First Class William James |  |