1990s
1989/90 Oliver Ford Davies – Racing Demon
- Nigel Hawthorne – Shadowlands
- Ian McKellen – Othello / Bent
- Michael Pennington – The Wars of the Roses
Note: There was only one ceremony for 1989/90.
1991 Ian McKellen – Richard III
- Richard Harris – Henry IV
- John Malkovich – Burn This
- Warren Mitchell – The Homecoming
1992 Nigel Hawthorne – The Madness of George III
- Marcus D'Amico – Angels in America
- Robert Lindsay – Becket
- Ian McKellen – Uncle Vanya
1993 Robert Stephens – Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
- Kenneth Cranham – An Inspector Calls
- Paul Eddington – No Man's Land
- Paul Scofield – Heartbreak House
1994 Mark Rylance – Much Ado About Nothing
- Henry Goodman – Hysteria
- Patrick Stewart – A Christmas Carol
- David Suchet – Oleanna
1995 David Bamber – My Night with Reg
- James Bolam – Glengarry Glen Ross
- Adrian Lester – As You Like It
- Bob Peck – Rutherford and Son
1996 Alex Jennings – Peer Gynt
- Michael Gambon – Skylight
- Daniel Massey – Taking Sides
- Donal McCann – The Steward of Christendom
1997 Antony Sher – Stanley
- Paul Scofield – John Gabriel Borkman
- Ken Stott – 'Art'
- David Suchet – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1998 Ian Holm – King Lear
- Michael Gambon – Tom & Clem
- Simon Russell Beale – Othello
- Rupert Graves – Hurlyburly
- John Wood – The Invention of Love
1999 Kevin Spacey – The Iceman Cometh
- Michael Gambon – The Unexpected Man
- Iain Glen – The Blue Room
- Jim Norton – The Weir
- David Suchet – Amadeus
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