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Danh sách cụ thể > Thập niên 1980

| Năm | Diễn viên | Phim | Vai diễn | Chú thích |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1980  (53)  | Robert De Niro ‡ | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta |  |
| 1980  (53)  | Robert Duvall | The Great Santini | Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" Meechum |  |
| 1980  (53)  | John Hurt | The Elephant Man | John Merrick |  |
| 1980  (53)  | Jack Lemmon | Tribute | Scottie Templeton |  |
| 1980  (53)  | Peter O'Toole | The Stunt Man | Eli Cross |  |
| 1981  (54)  | Henry Fonda ‡ | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer Jr. |  |
| 1981  (54)  | Warren Beatty | Reds | John Silas "Jack" Reed |  |
| 1981  (54)  | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal |  |
| 1981  (54)  | Dudley Moore | Arthur | Arthur Bach |  |
| 1981  (54)  | Paul Newman | Absence of Malice | Michael Colin Gallagher |  |
| 1982  (55)  | Ben Kingsley ‡ | Gandhi | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |  |
| 1982  (55)  | Dustin Hoffman | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey, aka Dorothy Michaels |  |
| 1982  (55)  | Jack Lemmon | Missing | Ed Horman |  |
| 1982  (55)  | Paul Newman | The Verdict | Frank Galvin |  |
| 1982  (55)  | Peter O'Toole | My Favorite Year | Alan Swann |  |
| 1983  (56)  | Robert Duvall ‡ | Tender Mercies | Mac Sledge |  |
| 1983  (56)  | Michael Caine | Educating Rita | Dr. Frank Bryant |  |
| 1983  (56)  | Tom Conti | Reuben, Reuben | Gowan McGland |  |
| 1983  (56)  | Tom Courtenay | The Dresser | Norman |  |
| 1983  (56)  | Albert Finney | The Dresser | Sir |  |
| 1984  (57)  | F. Murray Abraham ‡ | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri |  |
| 1984  (57)  | Jeff Bridges | Starman | Starman |  |
| 1984  (57)  | Albert Finney | Under the Volcano | Geoffrey Firmin |  |
| 1984  (57)  | Tom Hulce | Amadeus | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |  |
| 1984  (57)  | Sam Waterston | The Killing Fields | Sydney Schanberg |  |
| 1985  (58)  | William Hurt ‡ | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina |  |
| 1985  (58)  | Harrison Ford | Witness | Detective Captain John Book |  |
| 1985  (58)  | James Garner | Murphy's Romance | Murphy Jones |  |
| 1985  (58)  | Jack Nicholson | Prizzi's Honor | Charley Partanna |  |
| 1985  (58)  | Jon Voight | Runaway Train | Oscar "Manny" Manheim |  |
| 1986  (59)  | Paul Newman ‡ | The Color of Money | Fast Eddie Felson |  |
| 1986  (59)  | Dexter Gordon | Round Midnight | Dale Turner |  |
| 1986  (59)  | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George |  |
| 1986  (59)  | William Hurt | Children of a Lesser God | James Leeds |  |
| 1986  (59)  | James Woods | Salvador | Richard Boyle |  |
| 1987  (60)  | Michael Douglas ‡ | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko |  |
| 1987  (60)  | William Hurt | Broadcast News | Tom Grunick |  |
| 1987  (60)  | Marcello Mastroianni | Dark Eyes | Romano |  |
| 1987  (60)  | Jack Nicholson | Ironweed | Francis Phelan |  |
| 1987  (60)  | Robin Williams | Good Morning, Vietnam | Adrian Cronauer |  |
| 1988  (61)  | Dustin Hoffman ‡ | Rain Man | Raymond Babbitt |  |
| 1988  (61)  | Gene Hackman | Mississippi Burning | Agent Rupert Anderson |  |
| 1988  (61)  | Tom Hanks | Big | Josh Baskin |  |
| 1988  (61)  | Edward James Olmos | Stand and Deliver | Jaime Escalante |  |
| 1988  (61)  | Max von Sydow | Pelle the Conqueror | Lassefar |  |
| 1989  (62)  | Daniel Day-Lewis ‡ | My Left Foot | Christy Brown |  |
| 1989  (62)  | Kenneth Branagh | Henry V | Vua Henry V của Anh |  |
| 1989  (62)  | Tom Cruise | Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic |  |
| 1989  (62)  | Morgan Freeman | Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn |  |
| 1989  (62)  | Robin Williams | Dead Poets Society | John Charles "Keats" Keating |  |