Tahun | Pemenang dan nominee | Film | Peran |
1996 | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Shine | Peter Helfgott ‡ |
Steve Buscemi | Fargo | Carl Showalter |
Robert Carlyle | Trainspotting | Francis "Franco" Begbie |
Jeremy Irons | Stealing Beauty | Alex Parrish |
John Lynch | Moll Flanders | Jonathan (the Artist) |
Paul Scofield | The Crucible | Thomas Danforth |
1997 | Burt Reynolds | Boogie Nights | Jack Horner ‡ |
Billy Connolly | Mrs Brown | John Brown |
Danny DeVito | The Rainmaker | Deck Shifflet |
Samuel L. Jackson | Eve's Bayou | Louis Batiste |
Robin Williams | Good Will Hunting | Dr. Sean Maguire † |
1998 | Donald Sutherland | Without Limits | Bill Bowerman |
Robert Duvall | A Civil Action | Jerome Facher ‡ |
Jason Patric | Your Friends & Neighbors | Cary |
Billy Bob Thornton | A Simple Plan | Jacob Mitchell ‡ |
Tom Sizemore | Saving Private Ryan | Mike Horvath |
1999 | Harry J. Lennix | Titus | Aaron |
Tom Cruise | Magnolia | Frank "T.J." Mackey ‡ |
Michael Caine | The Cider House Rules | Wilbur Larch † |
Doug Hutchison | The Green Mile | Percy Wetmore |
Jude Law | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Dickie Greenleaf ‡ |
Christopher Plummer | The Insider | Mike Wallace |
2000 | Bruce Greenwood | Thirteen Days | John F. Kennedy |
Jeff Bridges | The Contender | Jackson Evans ‡ |
Benicio del Toro | Traffic | Javier Rodriguez † |
Robert De Niro | Men of Honor | Billy Sunday |
Albert Finney | Erin Brockovich | Edward L. Masry ‡ |
Joaquin Phoenix | Gladiator | Commodus ‡ |
2001 | Ben Kingsley | Sexy Beast | Don Logan ‡ |
Jim Broadbent | Iris | John Bayley † |
Billy Crudup | Charlotte Gray | Julien Levade |
Ed Harris | A Beautiful Mind | William Parcher |
Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf ‡ |
Goran Visnjic | The Deep End | Alek "Al" Spera |
2002 | Dennis Haysbert | Far from Heaven | Raymond Deagan |
Jeremy Davies | Solaris | Snow |
Viggo Mortensen | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Aragorn |
Paul Newman | Road to Perdition | John Rooney ‡ |
Alfred Molina | Frida | Diego Rivera |
Dennis Quaid | Far from Heaven | Frank Whitaker |
2003 | Djimon Hounsou | In America | Mateo ‡ |
Alec Baldwin | The Cooler | Shelly Kaplow ‡ |
Jeff Bridges | Seabiscuit | Charles S. Howard |
Benicio del Toro | 21 Grams | Jack Jordan ‡ |
Omar Sharif | Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran | Ibrahim Demildji |
Ken Watanabe | The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto ‡ |
2004 | Christopher Walken | Around the Bend | Turner Lair |
David Carradine | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Bill |
Jamie Foxx | Collateral | Max Durocher ‡ |
Alfred Molina | Spider-Man 2 | Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus |
Clive Owen | Closer | Larry Gray ‡ |
Peter Sarsgaard | Kinsey | Clyde Martin |
2005 | Danny Huston | The Constant Gardener | Sandy Woodrow |
Chris Cooper | Capote | Alvin Dewey |
Jake Gyllenhaal | Brokeback Mountain | Jack Twist ‡ |
Edward Norton | Kingdom of Heaven | Baldwin IV dari Yerusalem |
Mickey Rourke | Sin City | Marv |
Peter Sarsgaard | Jarhead | Alan Troy |