Previous round's results:
1. Al Pacino, "The Godfather" - 35 votes
2. Marlon Brando, "The Godfather" -23 votes
3. Michael Caine, "Sleuth" - 3 votes
4. Laurence Olivier, "Sleuth" - 2 votes
5. Jon Voight, "Deliverance" - 1 vote
Winner Masterlist: (in bold, the same pick as the HFPA)
1950: José Ferrer, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
1951: Fredric March, "Death of a Salesman"
1952: Gary Cooper, "High Noon"
1956: Kirk Douglas, "Lust for Life"
1957: Alec Guinness, "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1958: Sidney Poitier, "The Defiant Ones"
1959: Fredric March, "Middle of the Night"
1960: Burt Lancaster, "Elmer Gantry"
1962: Gregory Peck, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
1963: Paul Newman, "Hud"
1964: Peter O'Toole, "Becket"
1966: Richard Burton, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1967: Paul Newman, "Cool Hand Luke
1968: Peter O'Toole, "The Lion in Winter"
1969: Jon Voight, "Midnight Cowboy
1970: George C. Scott, "Patton"
1971: Malcolm McDowell, "A Clockwork Orange"
1972: Al Pacino, "The Godfather"
1973: Al Pacino, "Serpico"
1974: Al Pacino, "The Godfather Part II"
1976: Robert De Niro, "Taxi Driver"
1977: Marcello Mastroianni, "A Special Day"
1978: Robert De Niro, "The Deer Hunter"
1979: Dustin Hoffman, "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1980: Robert De Niro, "Raging Bull"
1981: Burt Lancaster, "Atlantic City"
1982: Paul Newman, "The Verdict"
1983: Al Pacino, "Scarface"
1984: F. Murray Abraham, "Amadeus"
1985: William Hurt, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and Raul Julia, "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
1986: Bob Hoskins, "Mona Lisa"
1988: Forest Whitaker, "Bird"
1989: Daniel Day-Lewis, "My Left Foot"
1990: Jeremy Irons, "Reversal of Fortune"
1991: Anthony Hopkins, "The Silence of the Lambs"
1993: Anthony Hopkins, "The Remains of the Day"
1994: Paul Newman, "Nobody's Fool"
1995: Sean Penn, "Dead Man Walking"
1996: Woody Harrelson, "The People vs. Larry Flynt"
1997: Peter Fonda, "Ulee's Gold"
1998: Ian McKellen, "Gods and Monsters"
1999: Richard Farnsworth, "The Straight Story"
2000: Javier Bardem, "Before Night Falls"
2001: Denzel Washington, "Training Day"
2003: Russell Crowe, "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"
2004: Don Cheadle, "Hotel Rwanda"
2005: Heath Ledger, "Brokeback Mountain"
2006: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
2008: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
2010: Jesse Eisenberg, "The Social Network"
2011: Michael Fassbender, "Shame"
2012: Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
2013: Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
2014: Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler"
2015: Michael Fassbender, " Steve Jobs"
2017: Timothée Chalamet, "Call Me by Your Name"
2018: Bradley Cooper, "A Star Is Born"
2019: Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory"
2021: Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Power of the Dog