| Year | Best Picture | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
| 2002 | Chicago | Adrien Brody - The Pianist | Nicole Kidman - The Hours | Chris Cooper - Adaptation | Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Denzel Washington - Training Day | Halle Berry - Monster's Ball | Jim Broadbent - Iris | Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Russell Crowe - Gladiator | Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich | Benicio Del Toro - Traffic | Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Kevin Spacey - American Beauty | Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry | Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules | Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted |
| 1998 | Shakespeare In Love | Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful | Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare In Love | James Coburn - Affliction | Judi Dench - Shakespeare In Love |
| 1997 | Titanic | Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets | Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets | Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting | Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Geoffrey Rush - Shine | Frances McDormand - Fargo | Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire | Juliette Binoche - The English Patient |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas | Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking | Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects | Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump | Jessica Lange - Blue Sky | Martin Landau - Ed Wood | Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Tom Hanks - Philadelphia | Holly Hunter - The Piano | Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive | Anna Paquin - The Piano |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Al Pacino - Scent Of A Woman | Emma Thompson - Howards End | Gene Hackman - Unforgiven | Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny |
| 1991 | The Silence Of The Lambs | Anthony Hopkins - The Silence Of The Lambs | Jodie Foster - The Silence Of The Lambs | Jack Palance - City Slickers | Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King |
| 1990 | Dances With Wolves | Jeremy Irons - Reversal Of Fortune | Kathy Bates - Misery | Joe Pesci - GoodFellas | Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot | Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy | Denzel Washington - Glory | Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot |
| 1988 | Rain Man | Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man | Jodie Foster - The Accused | Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda | Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Michael Douglas - Wall Street | Cher - Moonstruck | Sean Connery - The Untouchables | Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck |
| 1986 | Platoon | Paul Newman - The Color Of Money | Marlee Matlin - Children Of A Lesser God | Michael Caine - Hannah And Her Sisters | Dianne Wiest - Hannah And Her Sisters |
| 1985 | Out Of Africa | William Hurt - Kiss Of The Spider Woman | Geraldine Page - The Trip To The Bountiful | Don Ameche - Cocoon | Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor |
| 1984 | Amadeus | F Murray Abraham - Amadeus | Sally Field - Places In The Heart | Haing S Ngor - The Killing Fields | Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage To India |
| 1983 | Terms Of Endearment | Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies | Shirley MacLaine - Terms Of Endearment | Jack Nicholson - Terms Of Endearment | Linda Hunt - The Year Of Living Dangerously |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Ben Kingsley - Gandhi | Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice | Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer And A Gentleman | Jessica Lange - Tootsie |
| 1981 | Chariots Of Fire | Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond | Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond | John Gielgud - Arthur | Maureen Stapleton - R |
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull | Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter | Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People | Mary Steenburgen - Melvin & Howard |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer | Sally Field - Norma Rae | Melvyn Douglas - Being There | Merryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Jon Vioght - Coming Home | Jane Fonda - Coming Home | Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter | Maggie Smith - California Suite |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl | Diane Keaton - Annie Hall | Jason Robards - Julia | Vanessa Redgrave - Julia |
| 1976 | Rocky | Peter Finch - Network | Faye Dunaway - Network | Jason Robards - All The President's Men | Beatrice Straight - Network |
| 1975 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | George Burns - The Sunshine Boys | Lee Grant - Shampoo |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Art Carney - Harry And Tonto | Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II | Ingrid Bergman - Murder On The Orient Express |
| 1973 | The Sting | Jack Lemmon - Save The Tiger | Glenda Jackson - A Touch Of Class | John Houseman - The Paper Chase | Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon |
| 1972 | The Godfather | Marlon Brando - The Godfather | Liza Minelli - Cabaret | Joel Grey - Cabaret | Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Gene Hackman - The French Connection | Jane Fonda - Klute | Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show | Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show |
| 1970 | Patton | George C Scott - Patton | Glenda Jackson - Women In Love | John Mills - Ryan's Daughter | Helen Hayes - Airport |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | John Wayne - True Grit | Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower |
| 1968 | Oliver! | Cliff Robertson - Charly | Katharine Hepburn - The Lion In Winter / Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl | Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses | Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night | Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? | George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke | Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons | Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie | Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou | Julie Christie - Darling | Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns | Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady | Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins | Peter Ustinov - Topkapi | Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field | Patricia Neal - Hud | Melvyn Douglas - Hud | Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird | Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker | Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth | Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker |
| 1961 | West Side Story | Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg | Sophia Loren - Two Women | George Chakiris - West Side Story | Rita Moreno - West Side Story |
| 1960 | The Apartment | Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry | Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8 | Peter Ustinov - Spartacus | Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur | Simone Signoret - Room at the Top | Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur | Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 1958 | Gigi | David Niven - Separate Tables | Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! | Burl Ives - The Big Country | Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Alec Guiness - The Bridge on the River Kwai | Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve | Red Buttons - Sayonara | Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Yul Bryner - The King and I | Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia | Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life | Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind |
| 1955 | Marty | Ernest Borgnine - Marty | Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo | Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts | Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden |
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront | Grace Kelly - The Country Girl | Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa | Eva Maria Saint - On the Waterfront |
© R
Salter, 10 Apr 2003