1980s
Year | Actor | Film | Role |
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1980 |
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Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta | |
Robert Duvall | The Great Santini | Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum | |
John Hurt | The Elephant Man | John Merrick | |
Jack Lemmon | Tribute | Scottie Templeton | |
Peter O'Toole | The Stunt Man | Eli Cross | |
1981 |
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Henry Fonda | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | |
Warren Beatty | Reds | John Reed | |
Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal | |
Dudley Moore | Arthur | Arthur Bach | |
Paul Newman | Absence of Malice | Michael Colin Gallagher | |
1982 |
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Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | |
Dustin Hoffman | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels | |
Jack Lemmon | Missing | Ed Horman | |
Paul Newman | The Verdict | Frank Galvin | |
Peter O'Toole | My Favorite Year | Alan Swann | |
1983 |
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Robert Duvall | Tender Mercies | Mac Sledge | |
Michael Caine | Educating Rita | Dr. Frank Bryant | |
Tom Conti | Reuben, Reuben | Gowan McGland | |
Tom Courtenay | The Dresser | Norman | |
Albert Finney | The Dresser | Sir | |
1984 |
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F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | |
Jeff Bridges | Starman | Starman | |
Albert Finney | Under the Volcano | Geoffrey Firmin | |
Tom Hulce | Amadeus | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
Sam Waterston | The Killing Fields | Sydney Schanberg | |
1985 |
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William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina | |
Harrison Ford | Witness | Detective Captain John Book | |
James Garner | Murphy's Romance | Murphy Jones | |
Jack Nicholson | Prizzi's Honor | Charley Partanna | |
Jon Voight | Runaway Train | Oscar 'Manny' Manheim | |
1986 |
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Paul Newman | The Color of Money | Fast Eddie Felson | |
Dexter Gordon | Round Midnight | Dale Turner | |
Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George | |
William Hurt | Children of a Lesser God | James Leeds | |
James Woods | Salvador | Richard Boyle | |
1987 |
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Michael Douglas | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko | |
William Hurt | Broadcast News | Tom Grunick | |
Marcello Mastroianni | Dark Eyes | Romano | |
Jack Nicholson | Ironweed | Francis Phelan | |
Robin Williams | Good Morning, Vietnam | Adrian Cronauer | |
1988 |
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Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man | Raymond Babbitt | |
Gene Hackman | Mississippi Burning | Agent Rupert Anderson | |
Tom Hanks | Big | Josh Baskin | |
Edward James Olmos | Stand and Deliver | Jaime Escalante | |
Max von Sydow | Pelle the Conqueror | Lassefar | |
1989 |
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Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown | |
Kenneth Branagh | Henry V | King Henry V of England | |
Tom Cruise | Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic | |
Morgan Freeman | Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn | |
Robin Williams | Dead Poets Society | John Keating |
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