| Movie | Actor | Year |
|---|
| Gladiator* | |
| Before Night Falls | |
| Cast Away | |
| Pollock | |
| Quills | |
| Training Day* | |
| A Beautiful Mind | |
| I Am Sam | |
| Ali | |
| In the Bedroom | |
| The Pianist* | |
| Adaptation. | |
| The Quiet American | |
| Gangs of New York | |
| About Schmidt | |
| Mystic River* | |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | |
| House of Sand and Fog | |
| Cold Mountain | |
| Lost in Translation | |
| Ray* | |
| Hotel Rwanda | |
| Finding Neverland | |
| The Aviator | |
| Million Dollar Baby | |
| | Movie | Actor | Year |
|---|
| Capote* | |
| Hustle and Flow | |
| Brokeback Mountain | |
| Walk the Line | |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. | |
| The Last King of Scotland* | |
| Blood Diamond | |
| Half Nelson | |
| Venus | |
| The Pursuit of Happyness | |
| There Will Be Blood* | |
| Michael Clayton | |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
| In the Valley of Elah | |
| Eastern Promises | |
| Milk* | |
| The Visitor | |
| Frost/Nixon | |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |
| The Wrestler | |
| Crazy Heart* | |
| Up in the Air | |
| A Single Man | |
| Invictus | |
| The Hurt Locker | |
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Best Actor Nominations ('90s)
Best Sup. Actor Oscar Nominees (90s)
Best Actor Nominations ('80s)
