1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond as "Norman Thayer Jr."

1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi

1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies as "Mac Sledge"

1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus as "Antonio Salieri"

1985 William Hurt- Kiss of the Spider Woman as "Luis Molina"

1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money as "Fast Eddie Felson"

1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street as "Gordon Gekko"

1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man as "Raymond Babbitt"

1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot as "Christy Brown" ~ as "John Keating"