Tahun | Pemenang dan nominee | Film | Peran |
2000 | Tom Hanks | Cast Away | Chuck Noland |
Javier Bardem | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas |
Michael Douglas | Wonder Boys | Prof. Grady Tripp |
Mark Ruffalo | You Can Count on Me | Terry Prescott |
Geoffrey Rush | Quills | Marquis de Sade |
2001 | Gene Hackman | The Royal Tenenbaums | Royal Tenenbaum |
Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | John Nash |
John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hansel Schmidt/Hedwig Robinson |
Guy Pearce | Memento | Leonard Shelby |
Denzel Washington | Training Day | Alonzo Harris |
Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler |
2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |
Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman |
Nicolas Cage | Adaptation | Charlie dan Donald Kaufman |
Hugh Grant | About a Boy | Will Freeman |
Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren R. Schmidt |
2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
Johnny Depp | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Captain Jack Sparrow |
Paul Giamatti | American Splendor | Harvey Pekar |
Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Kolonel Massoud Amir Behrani |
Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
2004 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways | Miles Raymond |
2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow | DJay |
Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar |
Joaquin Phoenix | Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck | Edward R. Murrow |
2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | Billy Costigan |
Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne |
Peter O'Toole | Venus | Maurice |
Will Smith | The Pursuit of Happyness | Chris Gardner |
2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton |
Ryan Gosling | Lars and the Real Girl | Lars Lindstrom |
Frank Langella | Starting Out in the Evening | Leonard Schiller |
Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin |
2008 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Randy Robinson |
Clint Eastwood | Gran Torino | Walt Kowalski |
Richard Jenkins | The Visitor | Walter Vale |
Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon |
Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James |
Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Bad Blake |
George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
Matt Damon | The Informant! | Mark Whitacre |
Michael Stuhlbarg | A Serious Man | Larry Gopnik |