| Year | Actor | In | As | Supporting Actor | In | As |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-28 | Emil Jannings | The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command | August Schilling/Gen. Dolgorucki | N/A | N/A | |
| 1928-29 | Warner Baxter | In Old Arizona | The Cisco Kid | N/A | N/A | |
| 1929-30 | George Arliss | Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | N/A | N/A | |
| 1930-31 | Lionel Barrymore | A Free Soul | Stephen Ashe | N/A | N/A | |
| 1931-32 | Fredric March; Wallace Beery | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Champ | Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde and The Champ | N/A | N/A | |
| 1932-33 | Charles Laughton | The Private Life of Henry VIII | King Henry VIII | N/A | N/A | |
| 1934 | Clark Gable | It Happened One Night | Peter Warne | N/A | N/A | |
| 1935 | Victor McLaglen | The Informer | Gypo Nolan | N/A | N/A | |
| 1936 | Paul Muni | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Louis Pasteur | Walter Brennan | Come and Get It | Swan Bostrom |
| 1937 | Spencer Tracy | Captains Courageous | Manuel | Joseph Schildkraut | The Life of Emile Zola | Capt. Alfred Dreyfus |
| 1938 | Spencer Tracy | Boys Town | Father Flanagan | Walter Brennan | Kentucky | Peter Goodwin |
| 1939 | Robert Donat | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Mr. Charles Chipping (Mr. Chips) | Thomas Mitchell | Stagecoach | Doc Boone |
| 1940 | James Stewart | The Philadelphia Story | Macaulay Connor | Walter Brennan | The Westerner | Judge Roy Bean |
| 1941 | Gary Cooper | Sergeant York | Alvin Cullum York | Donald Crisp | How Green Was My Valley | Mr. Morgan |
| 1942 | James Cagney | Yankee Doodle Dandy | George M. Cohan | Van Heflin | Johnny Eager | Jeff Hartnett |
| 1943 | Paul Lukas | Watch on the Rhine | Kurt Muller | Charles Coburn | The More the Merrier | Benjamin Dingle |
| 1944 | Bing Crosby | Going My Way | Father Chuck O'Malley | Barry Fitzgerald | Going My Way | Father Fitzgibbon |
| 1945 | Ray Milland | The Lost Weekend | Don Birnam | James Dunn | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Johnny Nolan (aka The Brooklyn Thrush) |
| 1946 | Fredric March | The Best Years of Our Lives | Al Stephenson | Harold Russell | The Best Years of Our Lives | Homer Parrish |
| 1947 | Ronald Colman | A Double Life | Anthony John | Edmund Gwenn | Miracle on 34th Street | Kris Kringle |
| 1948 | Laurence Olivier | Hamlet | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Walter Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Howard |
| 1949 | Broderick Crawford | All the King's Men | Willie Stark | Dean Jagger | Twelve O'Clock High | Major Stovall |
| 1950 | Jose Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | George Sanders | All About Eve | Addison DeWitt |
| 1951 | Humphrey Bogart | The African Queen | Charlie Allnut | Karl Malden | A Streetcar Named Desire | Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell |
| 1952 | Gary Cooper | High Noon | Marshal Will Kane | Anthony Quinn | Viva Zapata | Eufemio Zapata |
| 1953 | William Holden | Stalag 17 | Sgt. J.J. Sefton | Frank Sinatra | From Here to Eternity | Pvt. Angelo Maggio |
| 1954 | Marlon Brando | On The Waterfront | Terry Malloy | Edmond O'Brien | The Barefoot Contessa | Oscar Muldoon |
| 1955 | Ernest Borgnine | Marty | Marty Piletti | Jack Lemmon | Mister Roberts | Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver |
| 1956 | Yul Brynner | The King and I | King Mongkut of Siam | Anthony Quinn | Lust for Life | Paul Gauguin |
| 1957 | Alec Guinness | The Bridge On The River Kwai | Col. Nicholson | Red Buttons | Sayonara | Airman Joe Kelly |
| 1958 | David Niven | Separate Tables | Major Angus Pollock | Burl Ives | The Big Country | Rufus Hannassey |
| 1959 | Charlton Heston | Ben-Hur | Judah Ben-Hur | Hugh Griffith | Ben-Hur | Sheik Ilderim |
| 1960 | Burt Lancaster | Elmer Gantry | Elmer Gantry | Peter Ustinov | Spartacus | Lentulus Batiatus |
| 1961 | Maximillian Schell | Judgment at Nuremburg | Hans Rolfe | George Chakiris | West Side Story | Bernardo |
| 1962 | Gregory Peck | To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | Ed Begley | Sweet Bird of Youth | Tom 'Boss' Finley |
| 1963 | Sidney Poitier | Lilies of the Field | Homer Smith | Melvyn Douglas | Hud | Homer Bannon |
| 1964 | Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | Professor Henry Higgins | Peter Ustinov | Topkapi | Arthur Simon Simpson |
| 1965 | Lee Marvin | Cat Ballou | Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn | Martin Balsam | A Thousand Clowns | Arnold Burns |
| 1966 | Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More | Walter Matthau | The Fortune Cookie | Willie Gingrich |
| 1967 | Rod Steiger | In the Heat of the Night | Police Chief Bill Gillespie | George Kennedy | Cool Hand Luke | Dragline |
| 1968 | Cliff Robertson | Charly | Charly Gordon | Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses | John Cleary |
| 1969 | John Wayne | True Grit | Marshal Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn | Gig Young | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Rocky |
| 1970 | George C. Scott | Patton | Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. | John Mills | Ryan's Daughter | Michael |
| 1971 | Gene Hackman | The French Connection | Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle | Ben Johnson | The Last Picture Show | Sam the Lion |
| 1972 | Marlon Brando | The Godfather | Don Vito Corleone | Joel Gray | Cabaret | MC - Master of Ceremonies |
| 1973 | Jack Lemmon | Save the Tiger | Harry Stoner | John Houseman | The Paper Chase | Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. |
| 1974 | Art Carney | Harry and Tonto | Harry Coombes | Robert De Niro | The Godfather, Part 2 | Vito Corleone |
| 1975 | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Randle Patrick (R. P.) "Mac" McMurphy | George Burns | The Sunshine Boys | Al Lewis |
| 1976 | Peter Finch | Network | Howard Beale | Jason Robards | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee |
| 1977 | Richard Dreyfuss | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | Jason Robards | Julia | Dashiell Hammett |
| 1978 | Jon Voight | Coming Home | Luke Martin | Christopher Walken | The Deer Hunter | Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich |
| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer | Ted Kramer | Melvyn Douglas | Being There | Benjamin Turnbull Rand |
| 1980 | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta | Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People | Conrad Jarrett |
| 1981 | Henry Fonda | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | John Gielgud | Arthur | Hobson |
| 1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | Louis Gossett, Jr. | An Officer and a Gentleman | Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley |
| 1983 | Robert Duvall | Tender Mercies | Mac Sledge | Jack Nicholson | Terms of Endearment | Garrett Breedlove |
| 1984 | F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields | Dith Pran |
| 1985 | William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina | Don Ameche | Cocoon | Arthur Selwyn |
| 1986 | Paul Newman | The Color of Money | 'Fast Eddie' Felson | Michael Caine | Hannah and Her Sisters | Elliot |
| 1987 | Michael Douglas | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko | Sean Connery | The Untouchables | Jim Malone |
| 1988 | Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man | Raymond Babbitt | Kevin Kline | A Fish Called Wanda | Otto West |
| 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown | Denzel Washington | Glory | Pvt. Trip |
| 1990 | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bulow | Joe Pesci | GoodFellas | Tommy DeVito |
| 1991 | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | Jack Palance | City Slickers | Curly Washburn |
| 1992 | Al Pacino | Scent of a Woman | Lieut. Col. Frank Slade | Gene Hackman | Unforgiven | Little Bill Daggett |
| 1993 | Tom Hanks | Philadelphia | Andrew Beckett | Tommy Lee Jones | The Fugitive | Marshall Samuel Gerard |
| 1994 | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump | Martin Landau | Ed Wood | Bela Lugosi |
| 1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects | Roger 'Verbal' Kint |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Rush | Shine | David Helfgott | Cuba Gooding, Jr. | Jerry Maguire | Rod Tidwell |
| 1997 | Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall | Robin Williams | Good Will Hunting | Sean Maguire |
| 1998 | Roberto Benigni | Life is Beautiful | Guido Orefice | James Coburn | Affliction | Glen Whitehouse |
| 1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham | Michael Caine | The Cider House Rules | Dr. Wilbur Larch |
| 2000 | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Maximus Decimus Meridius | Benicio Del Toro | Traffic | Javier Rodriguez |
| 2001 | Denzel Washington | Training Day | Alonzo Harris | Jim Broadbent | Iris | John Bayley |
| 2002 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Wladyslaw Szpilman | Chris Cooper | Adaptation | John Laroche |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum | Tim Robbins | Mystic River | Dave Boyle |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles | Morgan Freeman | Million Dollar Baby | Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote | George Clooney | Syriana | Bob Barnes |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin | Alan Arkin | Little Miss Sunshine | Edwin Hoover |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview | Javier Bardem | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk | Heath Ledger | The Dark Knight | The Joker |
| 2009 | Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Bad Blake | Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds | Hans Landa |
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI | Christian Bale | The Fighter | Dick "Dicky" Eklund |
| 2011 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | Hal Fields |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Christoph Waltz | Django Unchained | Dr. King Schultz |
| 2013 | Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof | Jared Leto | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon |
| 2014 | Eddie Redmayne | The Theory of Everything | Stephen Hawking | J.K. Simmons | Whiplash | Terence Fletcher |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass | Mark Rylance | Bridge of Spies | Rudolf Abel |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester By the Sea | Lee Chandler | Mahershala Ali | Moonlight | Juan |
| 2017 | Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill | Sam Rockwell | Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri | Jason Dixon |
| 2018 | Rami Malek | Bohemian Rhapsody | Freddie Mercury | Mahershala Ali | Green Book | Dr. Don Shirley |
| 2019 | Joaquin Phoenix | Joker | Arthur Fleck | Brad Pitt | Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood | Cliff Booth |
| 2020 | Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony | Daniel Kaluuya | Judas and the Black Messiah | Fred Hampton |
| 2021 | Will Smith | King Richard | Richard Williams | Troy Kotsur | Coda | Frank Rossi |
| Year | Actress | In | As | Supporting | In | As |
| 1927-28 | Janet Gaynor | Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise | Diane/Angela/The Wife | N/A | N/A | |
| 1928-29 | Mary Pickford | Coquette | Norma Besant | N/A | N/A | |
| 1929-30 | Norma Shearer | The Divorcee | Jerry Bernard Martin | N/A | N/A | |
| 1930-31 | Marie Dressler | Min and Bill | Min Divot | N/A | N/A | |
| 1931-32 | Helen Hayes | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Madelon Claudet | N/A | N/A | |
| 1932-33 | Katharine Hepburn | Morning Glory | Eva Lovelace | N/A | N/A | |
| 1934 | Claudette Colbert | It Happened One Night | Ellie Andrews | N/A | N/A | |
| 1935 | Bette Davis | Dangerous | Joyce Heath | N/A | N/A | |
| 1936 | Luise Rainer | The Great Ziegfeld | Anna Held | Gale Sondergaard | Anthony Adverse | Faith Paleologus |
| 1937 | Luise Rainer | The Good Earth | O-Lan | Alice Brady | In Old Chicago | Molly O'Leary |
| 1938 | Bette Davis | Jezebel | Julie Marsden | Fay Bainter | Jezebel | Aunt Belle |
| 1939 | Vivien Leigh | Gone With the Wind | Scarlett O'Hara | Hattie McDaniel | Gone With the Wind | Mammy |
| 1940 | Ginger Rogers | Kitty Foyle | Kitty Foyle | Jane Darwell | The Grapes of Wrath | Ma Joad |
| 1941 | Joan Fontaine | Suspicion | Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth | Mary Astor | The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak |
| 1942 | Greer Garson | Mrs. Miniver | Mrs. Miniver | Teresa Wright | Mrs. Miniver | Carol Beldon |
| 1943 | Jennifer Jones | The Song of Bernadette | Bernadette | Katina Paxinou | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Pilar |
| 1944 | Ingrid Bergman | Gaslight | Paula Alquist Anton | Ethel Barrymore | None But the Lonely Heart | Ma Mott |
| 1945 | Joan Crawford | Mildred Pierce | Mildred Pierce Beragon | Anne Revere | National Velvet | Mrs. Brown |
| 1946 | Olivia de Havilland | To Each His Own | Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris | Anne Baxter | The Razor's Edge | Sophie MacDonald |
| 1947 | Loretta Young | The Farmer's Daughter | Katrin Holstrom | Celeste Holm | Gentleman's Agreement | Anne Dettrey |
| 1948 | Jane Wyman | Johnny Belinda | Belinda McDonald | Claire Trevor | Key Largo | Gaye Dawn |
| 1949 | Olivia de Havilland | The Heiress | Catherine Sloper | Mercedes McCambridge | All the King's Men | Sadie Burke |
| 1950 | Judy Holliday | Born Yesterday | Emma 'Billie' Dawn | Josephine Hull | Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons |
| 1951 | Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois | Kim Hunter | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski |
| 1952 | Shirley Booth | Come Back, Little Sheba | Lola Delaney | Gloria Grahame | The Bad and the Beautiful | Rosemary |
| 1953 | Audrey Hepburn | Roman Holiday | Princess Ann | Donna Reed | From Here to Eternity | Alma 'Lorene' Burke |
| 1954 | Grace Kelly | The Country Girl | Georgie Elgin | Eva Marie Saint | On the Waterfront | Edie Doyle |
| 1955 | Anna Magnani | The Rose Tattoo | Serafina Delle Rose | Jo Van Fleet | East of Eden | Kate |
| 1956 | Ingrid Bergman | Anastasia | Anna Koreff/Anastasia | Dorothy Malone | Written on the Wind | Marylee Hadley |
| 1957 | Joanne Woodward | The Three Faces of Eve | Eve White/Eve Black/Jane | Miyoshi Umeki | Sayonara | Katsumi |
| 1958 | Susan Hayward | I Want to Live! | Barbara Graham | Wendy Hiller | Separate Tables | Pat Cooper |
| 1959 | Simone Signoret | Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill | Shelley Winters | The Diary of Anne Frank | Mrs. Petronella Van Daan |
| 1960 | Elizabeth Taylor | Butterfield 8 | Gloria Wandrous | Shirley Jones | Elmer Gantry | Lulu Bains |
| 1961 | Sophia Loren | Two Women | Cesira | Rita Moreno | West Side Story | Anita |
| 1962 | Anne Bancroft | The Miracle Worker | Annie Sullivan | Patty Duke | The Miracle Worker | Helen Keller |
| 1963 | Patricia Neal | Hud | Alma Brown | Margaret Rutherford | The V.I.P.'s | The Duchess of Brighton |
| 1964 | Julie Andrews | Mary Poppins | Mary Poppins | Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | Madame Hortense |
| 1965 | Julie Christie | Darling | Diana Scott | Shelley Winters | A Patch of Blue | Rose-Ann D'Arcy |
| 1966 | Elizabeth Taylor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | Sandy Dennis | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Honey |
| 1967 | Katharine Hepburn | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Christina Drayton | Estelle Parsons | Bonnie and Clyde | Blanche Barrow |
| 1968 | Katharine Hepburn; Barbra Streisand | The Lion in Winter; Funny Girl | Eleanor of Aquitaine/Fanny Brice | Ruth Gordon | Rosemary's Baby | Minnie Castevet |
| 1969 | Maggie Smith | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jean Brodie | Goldie Hawn | Cactus Flower | Toni Simmons |
| 1970 | Glenda Jackson | Women in Love | Gudrun Brangwen | Helen Hayes | Airport | Ada Quonsett |
| 1971 | Jane Fonda | Klute | Bree Daniels | Cloris Leachman | The Last Picture Show | Ruth Popper |
| 1972 | Liza Minnelli | Cabaret | Sally Bowles | Eileen Heckart | Butterflies Are Free | Mrs. Baker |
| 1973 | Glenda Jackson | A Touch of Class | Vicki Allessio | Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | Addie Loggins |
| 1974 | Ellen Burstyn | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Alice Hyatt | Ingrid Bergman | Murder on the Orient Express | Greta Ohlsson |
| 1975 | Louise Fletcher | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Nurse Ratched | Lee Grant | Shampoo | Felicia Carp |
| 1976 | Faye Dunaway | Network | Diana Christensen | Beatrice Straight | Network | Louise Schumacher |
| 1977 | Diane Keaton | Annie Hall | Annie Hall | Vanessa Redgrave | Julia | Julia |
| 1978 | Jane Fonda | Coming Home | Sally Hyde | Maggie Smith | California Suite | Diana Barrie |
| 1979 | Sally Field | Norma Rae | Norma Rae Webster | Meryl Streep | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer |
| 1980 | Sissy Spacek | Coal Miner's Daughter | Loretta Lynn | Mary Steenburgen | Melvin and Howard | Lynda Dummar |
| 1981 | Katharine Hepburn | On Golden Pond | Ethel Thayer | Maureen Stapleton | Reds | Emma Goldman |
| 1982 | Meryl Streep | Sophie's Choice | Sophie Zawistowski | Jessica Lange | Tootsie | Julie Nichols |
| 1983 | Shirley MacLaine | Terms of Endearment | Aurora Greenway | Linda Hunt | The Year of Living Dangerously | Billy Kwan |
| 1984 | Sally Field | Places in the Heart | Edna Spalding | Dame Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | Mrs. Moore |
| 1985 | Geraldine Page | The Trip to Bountiful | Carrie Watts | Anjelica Huston | Prizzi's Honor | Maerose Prizzi |
| 1986 | Marlee Matlin | Children of a Lesser God | Sarah Norman | Dianne Wiest | Hannah and Her Sisters | Holly |
| 1987 | Cher | Moonstruck | Loretta Castorini | Olympia Dukakis | Moonstruck | Rose Castorini |
| 1988 | Jodie Foster | The Accused | Sarah Tobias | Geena Davis | The Accidental Tourist | Muriel Pritchett |
| 1989 | Jessica Tandy | Driving Miss Daisy | Daisy Werthan | Brenda Fricker | My Left Foot | Mrs. Brown |
| 1990 | Kathy Bates | Misery | Annie Wilkes | Whoopi Goldberg | Ghost | Oda Mae Brown |
| 1991 | Jodie Foster | The Silence of the Lambs | Clarice Starling | Mercedes Ruehl | The Fisher King | Anne Napolitano |
| 1992 | Emma Thompson | Howards End | Margaret J. 'Meg' Schlegel | Marisa Tomei | My Cousin Vinny | Mona Lisa Vito |
| 1993 | Holly Hunter | The Piano | Ada McGrath | Anna Paquin | The Piano | Flora McGrath |
| 1994 | Jessica Lange | Blue Sky | Carly Marshall | Dianne Wiest | Bullets Over Broadway | Helen Sinclair |
| 1995 | Susan Sarandon | Dead Man Walking | Sister Helen Prejean | Mira Sorvino | Mighty Aphrodite | Linda Ash |
| 1996 | Frances McDormand | Fargo | Marge Gunderson | Juliette Binoche | The English Patient | Hana |
| 1997 | Helen Hunt | As Good As It Gets | Carol Connelly | Kim Basinger | L.A. Confidential | Lynn Bracken |
| 1998 | Gwyneth Paltrow | Shakespeare in Love | Viola De Lesseps/Thomas Kent | Judi Dench | Shakespeare in Love | Queen Elizabeth |
| 1999 | Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena | Angelina Jolie | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe |
| 2000 | Julia Roberts | Erin Brockovich | Erin Pattee-Brockovich | Marcia Gay Harden | Pollock | Lee Krasner |
| 2001 | Halle Berry | Monster's Ball | Leticia Musgrove | Jennifer Connelly | A Beautiful Mind | Alicia Nash |
| 2002 | Nicole Kidman | The Hours | Virginia Woolf | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Chicago | Velma Kelly |
| 2003 | Charlize Theron | Monster | Aileen Wuornos | Renee Zellweger | Cold Mountain | Ruby Thewes |
| 2004 | Hilary Swank | Million Dollar Baby | Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald | Cate Blanchett | The Aviator | Katharine Hepburn |
| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon | Walk the Line | June Carter | Rachel Weisz | The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II | Jennifer Hudson | Dreamgirls | Effie White |
| 2007 | Marion Cotillard | La Vie en Rose | Edith Piaf | Tilda Swinton | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | The Reader | Hanna Schmitz | Penelope Cruz | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Maria Elena |
| 2009 | Sandra Bullock | The Blind Side | Leigh Anne Roberts-Tuohy | Mo'Nique | Precious | Mary Jones |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman | Black Swan | Nina Sayers | Melissa Leo | The Fighter | Alice Ward |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher | Octavia Spencer | The Help | Minny Jackson |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell | Anne Hathaway | Les Miserables | Fantine |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis | Lupita Nyong'o | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore | Still Alice | Alice Daly-Howland | Patricia Arquette | Boyhood | Olivia Evans |
| 2015 | Brie Larson | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome | Alicia Vikander | The Danish Girl | Gerda Wegener |
| 2016 | Emma Stone | La La Land | Mia | Viola Davis | Fences | Rose Maxson |
| 2017 | Frances McDormand | Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes | Allison Janey | I, Tonya | LaVona Fay Golden |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman | The Favourite | Queen Anne | Regina King | If Beale Street Could Talk | Sharon Rivers |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger | Judy | Judy Garland | Laura Dern | Marriage Story | Nora Fanshaw |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand | Nomadland | Fern | Yuh-Jung Youn | Minari | Soon-ja |
| 2021 | Jessica Chastain | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Tammy Faye | Ariana De Bose | West Side Story | Anita |