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Year	Nominee	Show / Notes
1947	Fredric March	Years Ago
1947	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac
1948	Henry Fonda	Mister Roberts
1948	Paul Kelly	Command Decision
1948	Basil Rathbone	The Heiress
1949	Rex Harrison	Anne of the Thousand Days
1950	Sidney Blackmer	Come Back, Little Sheba
1951	Claude Rains	Darkness At Noon
1952	José Ferrer	The Shrike
1953	Tom Ewell	The Seven Year Itch
1954	David Wayne	The Teahouse of the August Moon
1955	Alfred Lunt	Quadrille
1956	Paul Muni	Inherit the Wind
1956	Ben Gazzara	A Hatful of Rain
1956	Boris Karloff	The Lark
1956	Michael Redgrave	Tiger at the Gates
1956	Edward G. Robinson	Middle of the Night
1957	Fredric March	Long Day's Journey Into Night
1957	Maurice Evans	The Apple Cart
1957	Wilfred Hyde-White	The Reluctant Debutante
1957	Eric Portman	Separate Table
1957	Ralph Richardson	The Waltz Of The Toreadors
1957	Cyril Ritchard	A Visit To A Small Planet
1958	Ralph Bellamy	Sunrise At Campobello
1958	Richard Burton	Time Remembered
1958	Hugh Griffith	Look Homeward, Angel
1958	Laurence Olivier	The Entertainer
1958	Anthony Perkins	Look Homeward, Angel
1958	Peter Ustinov	Romanoff and Juliet
1958	Emlyn Williams	A Boy Growing Up
1959	Jason Robards, Jr.	The Disenchanted
1959	Cedric Hardwicke	A Majority of One
1959	Alfred Lunt	The Visit
1959	Christopher Plummer	J.B.
1959	Cyril Ritchard	The Pleasure of His Company
1959	Robert Stephens	Epitaph for George Dillon
1960	Melvyn Douglas	The Best Man
1960	Lee Tracy	The Best Man
1960	Jason Robards, Jr.,	Toys in the Attic
1960	Sidney Poitier	A Raisin in the Sun
1960	George C. Scott	The Andersonville Trial
1961	Zero Mostel	Rhinoceros
1961	Hume Cronyn	Big Fish, Little Fish
1961	Sam Levene	The Devil's Advocate
1961	Anthony Quinn	Beckett
1962	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons
1962	Frederic March	Gideon
1962	John Mills	Ross
1962	Donald Pleasence	The Caretaker
1963	Arthur Hill	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1963	Charles Boyer	Lord Pengo
1963	Paul Ford	Never Too Late
1963	Bert Lahr	The Beauty Part
1964	Alec Guinness	Dylan
1964	Richard Burton	Hamlet
1964	Albert Finney	Luther
1964	Jason Robards, Jr.	After the Fall
1965	Walter Matthau	The Odd Couple
1965	John Gielgud	Tiny Alice
1965	Donald Pleasence	Poor Bitos
1965	Jason Robards	Hughie
1966	Hal Holbrook	Mark Twain Tonight!
1966	Roland Culber	Ivanov
1966	Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford	Philadelphia, Here I Come!
1966	Nicol Williamson	Inadmissible Evidence
1967	Paul Rogers	The Homecoming
1967	Hume Cronyn	A Delicate Balance
1967	Donald Madden	Black Comedy
1967	Donald Moffat	Right You Are and The Wild Duck
1968	Martin Balsam	You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
1968	Albert Finney	Joe Egg
1968	Milo O'Shea	Staircase
1968	Alan Webb	I Never Sang for My Father
1969	James Earl Jones	The Great White Hope
1969	Art Carney	Lovers
1969	Alec McGowen	Hadrian VII
1969	Donald Pleasence	The Man in the Glass Booth
1970	Fritz Weaver	Child's Play
1970	James Coco	Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1970	Frank Grimes	Borstal Boy
1970	Stacy Keach	Indians
1971	Brian Bedford	The School for Wives
1971	John Gielgud	Home
1971	Alec McGowen	The Philanthropist
1971	Ralph Richardson	Home
1972	Cliff Gorman	Lenny
1972	Tom Aldredge	Sticks and Bones
1972	Donald Pleasence	Wise Child
1972	Jason Robards	The Country Girl
1973	Alan Bates	Butley
1973	Jack Albertson	The Sunshine Boys
1973	Wilfrid Hyde White	The Jockey Club Stakes
1973	Paul Sorvino	That Championship Season
1974	Michael Moriarty	Find Your Way Home
1974	Zero Mostel	Ulysses in Nightgown
1974	Jason Robards	A Moon for the Misbegotten
1974	George C. Scott	Uncle Vanya
1974	Nicol Williamson	Uncle Vanya
1975	John Kani and Winston Ntshona	Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island
1975	James Dale	Scapino
1975	Peter Firth	Equus
1975	Henry Fonda	Clarence Darrow
1975	Ben Gazzara	Hughie and Duet
1975	John Wood	Sherlock Holmes
1976	John Wood	Travesties
1976	Moses Gunn	The Poison Tree
1976	George C. Scott	Death of a Salesman
1976	Donald Sinden	Habeas Corpus
1977	Al Pacino	The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
1977	Tom Courtenay	Otherwise Engaged
1977	Ben Gazzara	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1977	Ralph Richardson	No Man's Land
1978	Barnard Hughes	Da
1978	Hume Cronyn	The Gin Game
1978	Frank Langella	Dracula
1978	Jason Robards	A Touch of the Poet
1979	Tom Conti	Who's Life Is It Anyway?
1979	Philip Anglim	The Elephant Song
1979	Jack Lemmon	Tribute
1979	Alec McCowen	St. Mark's Gospel
1980	John Rubinstein	Children of a Lesser God
1980	Charles Brown	Home
1980	Gerlad Hiken	Strider
1980	Judd Hirsch	Talley's Folly
1981	Ian McKellen	Amadeus
1981	Tim Curry	Amadeus
1981	Roy Dotrice	A Life
1981	Jack Weston	The Floating Light Bulb
1982	Roger Rees	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982	Tom Courtenay	The Dresser
1982	Milo O'Shea	Mass Appeal
1982	Christopher Plummer	Othello
1983	Harvey Fierstein	Torch Song Trilogy
1983	Jeffrey DeMunn	K2
1983	Edward Herrmann	Plenty
1983	Tony Lo Bianco	A View from the Bridge
1984	Jeremy Irons	The Real Thing
1984	Calvin Levels	Open Admissions
1984	Rex Harrison	Heartbreak House
1984	Ian McKellen	Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare
1985	Derek Jacobi	Much Ado About Nothing
1985	Jim Dale	Joe Egg
1985	Jonathan Hogan	As Is
1985	John Lithgow	Requiem for a Heavyweight
1986	Judd Hirsch	I'm Not Rappaport
1986	Hume Cronyn	The Petition
1986	Ed Harris	Precious Sons
1986	Jack Lemmon	Long Day's Journey Into Night
1987	James Earl Jones	Fences
1987	Philip Bosco	You Never Can Tell
1987	Richard Kiley	All My Sons
1987	Alan Rickman	Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1988	Ron Silver	Speed the Plow
1988	Derek Jacobi	Breaking the Code
1988	John Lithgow	M. Butterfly
1988	Robert Prosky	A Walk in the Woods
1989	Philip Bosco	Lend Me a Tenor
1989	Victor Garber	Lend Me a Tenor
1989	Mikhail Baryshnikov	Metamorphosis
1989	Bill Irwin	Largely New York
1990	Robert Morse	Tru
1990	Charles S. Dutton	The Piano Lesson
1990	Dustin Hoffman	The Merchant of Venice
1990	Tom Hulce	A Few Good Men
1991	Nigel Hawthorne	Shadowlands
1991	Peter Frechette	Our Country's Good
1991	Tom McGowan	La Bête
1991	Courtney B. Vance	Six Degrees of Separation
1992	Judd Hirsch	Conversations with my Father
1992	Alan Alda	Jake's Women
1992	Alec Baldwin	A Streetcar Named Desire
1992	Brian Bedford	Two Shakespearean Actors
1993	Ron Leibman	Angels in America: Millenium Approaches
1993	K. Todd Freeman	The Song of Jacob Zulu
1993	Liam Neeson	Anna Christie
1993	Stephen Rea	Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
1994	Stephen Spinella	Angels in America: Perestroika
1994	Brian Bedford	Timon of Athens
1994	Christopher Plummer	No Man's Land
1994	Sam Waterston	Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1995	Ralph Fiennes	Hamlet
1995	Brian Bedford	The Moliere Comedies
1995	Roger Rees	Indiscretions
1995	Joe Sears	A Tuna Christmas
1996	George Grizzard	A Delicate Balance
1996	Philip Bosco	Moon Over Buffalo
1996	George C. Scott	Inherit the Wind
1996	Martin Shaw	An Ideal Husband
1997	Christopher Plummer	Barrymore
1997	Brian Bedford	London Assurance
1997	Michael Gambon	Skylight
1997	Anthony Sher	Stanley
1998	Anthony LaPaglia	A View from the Bridge
1998	Richard Briers	The Chairs
1998	John Leguizamo	Freak
1998	Alfred Molina	Art
1999	Brian Dennehy	Death of a Salesman
1999	Brian F. O'Byrne	The Lonesome West
1999	Corin Redgrave	Not About Nightingales
1999	Kevin Spacey	The Iceman Cometh
2000	Stephen Dillane	The Real Thing
2000	Gabriel Byrne	A Moon for the Misbegotten
2000	Philip Seymour Hoffman	True West
2000	John C. Reilly	True West
2000	David Suchet	Amadeus
2001	Richard Easton	The Invention of Love
2001	Seán Campion	Stones in His Pocket
2001	Conleth Hill	Stones in His Pocket
2001	Brian Stokes Mitchell	King Hedley II
2001	Gary Sinise	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2002	Alan Bates	Fortune's Fool
2002	Bill Crudup	The Elephant Man
2002	Liam Neeson	The Crucible
2002	Alan Rickman	Private Lives
2002	Jeffrey Wright	Topdog/Underdog
2003	Brian Dennehy	Long Day's Journey into Night
2003	Brian Bedford	Tartuffe
2003	Eddie Izzard	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2003	Paul Newman	Our Town
2003	Stanley Tucci	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
2004	Jefferson Mays	I Am My Own Wife
2004	Simon Russell Beale	Jumpers
2004	Kevin Kline	Henry IV
2004	Frank Langella	Match
2004	Christopher Plummer	King Lear
2005	Bill Irwin	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2005	Philip Bosco	Twelve Angry Men
2005	Billy Crudup	The Pillowman
2005	James Earl Jones	On Golden Pond
2005	Brian F. O'Byrne	Doubt
2006	Ralph Fiennes	Faith Healer
2006	Richard Griffiths	The History Boys
2006	Zeljko Ivanek	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
2006	Oliver Platt	Shining City
2006	David Wilmot	The Lieutenant of Inishmore
2007	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon
2007	Boyd Gaines	Journey's End
2007	Brian F. O'Byrne	The Coast of Utopia
2007	Christopher Plummer	Inherit the Wind
2007	Liev Schreiber	Talk Radio
2008	Ben Daniels	Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2008	Laurence Fishburne	Thurgood
2008	Mark Rylance	Boeing-Boeing
2008	Rufus Sewell	Rock 'n' Roll
2008	Patrick Stewart	Macbeth
2009	Jeff Daniels	God of Carnage
2009	James Gandolfini	God of Carnage
2009	Raúl Esparza	Speed-the-Plow
2009	Geoffrey Rush	Exit the King
2009	Thomas Sadoski	Reasons to Be Pretty
2010	Jude Law	Hamlet
2010	Alfred Molina	Red
2010	Liev Schreiber	A View from the Bridge
2010	Christopher Walken	A Behanding in Spokane
2010	Denzel Washington	Fences
2011	Brian Bedford	The Importance of Being Earnest
2011	Bobby Cannavale	The Motherf**ker with the Hat
2011	Joe Mantello	The Normal Heart
2011	Al Pacino	The Merchant of Venice
2011	Mark Rylance	Jerusalem