1980s
- 1980 Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer
- Michael Beck - Xanadu
- Robert Blake - Coast to Coast
- Michael Caine - Dressed to Kill / The Island
- Kirk Douglas - Saturn 3
- Richard Dreyfuss - The Competition
- Anthony Hopkins - A Change of Seasons
- Bruce Jenner - Can't Stop the Music
- Sam J. Jones - Flash Gordon
- 1981 Klinton Spilsbury - The Legend of the Lone Ranger
- Gary Coleman - On the Right Track
- Bruce Dern - Tattoo
- Richard Harris - Tarzan, the Ape Man
- Kris Kristofferson - Heaven's Gate / Rollover
- 1982 Laurence Olivier - Inchon
- Willie Aames - Paradise / Zapped!
- Christopher Atkins - The Pirate Movie
- Luciano Pavarotti - Yes, Giorgio
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - Conan the Barbarian
- 1983 Christopher Atkins - A Night in Heaven
- Lloyd Bochner - The Lonely Lady
- Lou Ferrigno - Hercules
- Barbra Streisand (in drag) - Yentl
- John Travolta - Staying Alive / Two of a Kind
- 1984 Sylvester Stallone - Rhinestone
- Lorenzo Lamas - Body Rock
- Jerry Lewis - Slapstick of Another Kind
- Peter O'Toole - Supergirl
- Burt Reynolds - Cannonball Run II / City Heat
- 1985 Sylvester Stallone - Rambo: First Blood Part II / Rocky IV
- Divine - Lust in the Dust
- Richard Gere - King David
- Al Pacino - Revolution
- John Travolta - Perfect
- 1986 Prince - Under the Cherry Moon
- Emilio Estevez - Maximum Overdrive
- Judd Nelson - Blue City
- Sean Penn - Shanghai Surprise
- Sylvester Stallone - Cobra
- 1987 Bill Cosby - Leonard Part 6
- Bruce the Shark - Jaws: The Revenge
- Judd Nelson - From the Hip
- Ryan O'Neal - Tough Guys Don't Dance
- Sylvester Stallone - Over the Top
- 1988 Sylvester Stallone - Rambo III
- Tom Cruise - Cocktail
- Bobcat Goldthwait - Hot to Trot
- Jackie Mason - Caddyshack II
- Burt Reynolds - Rent-A-Cop / Switching Channels
- 1989 William Shatner - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Tony Danza - She's Out of Control
- Ralph Macchio - The Karate Kid, Part III
- Sylvester Stallone - Lock Up / Tango & Cash
- Patrick Swayze - Next of Kin / Road House
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