1960s
| Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) |
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| 1960 |
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| Burt Lancaster | Elmer Gantry | Elmer Gantry | |
| Trevor Howard | Sons and Lovers | Walter Morel | |
| Jack Lemmon | The Apartment | C. C. 'Bud' Baxter | |
| Laurence Olivier | The Entertainer | Archie Rice | |
| Spencer Tracy | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | |
| 1961 |
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| Maximilian Schell | Judgment at Nuremberg | Hans Rolfe | |
| Charles Boyer | Fanny | Cesar | |
| Paul Newman | The Hustler | Eddie Felson | |
| Spencer Tracy | Judgment at Nuremberg | Chief Judge Dan Haywood | |
| Stuart Whitman | The Mark | Jim Fuller | |
| 1962 |
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| Gregory Peck | To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | |
| Burt Lancaster | Birdman of Alcatraz | Robert Stroud | |
| Jack Lemmon | Days of Wine and Roses | Joe Clay | |
| Marcello Mastroianni | Divorce, Italian Style | Ferdinando Cefalù | |
| Peter O'Toole | Lawrence of Arabia | T. E. Lawrence | |
| 1963 |
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| Sidney Poitier | Lilies of the Field | Homer Smith | |
| Albert Finney | Tom Jones | Tom Jones | |
| Richard Harris | This Sporting Life | Frank Machin | |
| Rex Harrison | Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | |
| Paul Newman | Hud | Hud Bannon | |
| 1964 |
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| Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | Professor Henry Higgins | |
| Richard Burton | Becket | Thomas Becket | |
| Peter O'Toole | Becket | King Henry II of England | |
| Anthony Quinn | Zorba the Greek | Alexis Zorba | |
| Peter Sellers | Dr. Strangelove | Group Captain Lionel Mandrake President Merkin Muffley Dr. Strangelove |
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| 1965 |
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| Lee Marvin | Cat Ballou | Kid Shelleen Tim Strawn |
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| Richard Burton | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Alec Leamas | |
| Laurence Olivier | Othello | Othello | |
| Rod Steiger | The Pawnbroker | Sol Nazerman | |
| Oskar Werner | Ship of Fools | Willie Schumann | |
| 1966 |
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| Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More | |
| Alan Arkin | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | Lt. Rozanov | |
| Richard Burton | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | George | |
| Michael Caine | Alfie | Alfie Elkins | |
| Steve McQueen | The Sand Pebbles | Jake Holman | |
| 1967 |
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| Rod Steiger | In the Heat of the Night | Police Chief Bill Gillespie | |
| Warren Beatty | Bonnie and Clyde | Clyde Barrow | |
| Dustin Hoffman | The Graduate | Benjamin Braddock | |
| Paul Newman | Cool Hand Luke | Luke Jackson | |
| Spencer Tracy | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Matt Drayton | |
| 1968 |
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| Cliff Robertson | Charly | Charly Gordon | |
| Alan Arkin | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | John Singer | |
| Alan Bates | The Fixer | Yakov Bok | |
| Ron Moody | Oliver! | Fagin | |
| Peter O'Toole | The Lion in Winter | King Henry II of England | |
| 1969 |
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| John Wayne | True Grit | Rooster Cogburn | |
| Richard Burton | Anne of the Thousand Days | King Henry VIII of England | |
| Dustin Hoffman | Midnight Cowboy | Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo | |
| Peter O'Toole | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Arthur Chipping | |
| Jon Voight | Midnight Cowboy | Joe Buck |
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