year

film

actor

actress

1996

The English Patient

Geoffrey Rush,

Shine

Frances McDormand,

Fargo

1995

Braveheart

Nicolas Cage,

Leaving Las Vegas

Susan Sarandon,

Dead Man Walking

1994

Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks,

Forrest Gump

Jessica Lange,

Blue Sky

1993

Schindler’s List

Tom Hanks,

Philadelphia

Holly Hunter,

The Piano

1992

Unforgiven

Al Pacino,

The Scent of a Women

Emma Thopmson,

Howards End

1991

The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins,

The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster,

The Silence of the Lambs

1990

Dances with Wolves

Jeremy Irons,

Reversal of Fortune

Kathy bates,

Misery

1989

Driving Miss Daisy

Daniel Day-Lewis,

My Left Foot

Jessica Tandy,

Driving Miss Daisy

1988

Rain Man

Dustin Hoffman,

Rain Man

Jodie Foster,

The Accused

1987

The Last Emperor

Michael Douglas,

Wall Street

Cher,

Moonstruck

1986

Platoon

Paul Newman,

The Color of Money

Marlee Matlin,

Children of a Lesser God

1985

Out of Africa

William Hurt,

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Geraldine Page,

The Trip to Bountiful

1984

Amadeus,

Saul Zaentz

F. Murrey Abrahams,

Amadeus

Sally Field,

Places in the Heart

1983

Terms of Endearment,

James L. Brooks

Robert Duvall,

Tender Mercies

Shirley MacLaine,

Terms of Endearment

1982

Gandhi,

Richard Attenborough

Ben Kinsley,

Gandhi

Meryl Streep,

Sophie’s Choice

1981

Chariots of Fire,

Davis Puttnam

Henry Fonda,

On Golden Pond

Katharine Hepburn,

On Golden Pond

1980

Ordinary Peoply,

Ronald L. Schwary

Robert De Niro,

Raging Bull

Sissy Spacek,

Coal Miner’s Daughter

1979

Kramer vs. Kramer

Dustin Hoffman,

Kramer vs. Kramer

Sally Field,

Norma Rae

1978

The Deer Hunter

Jon Voight,

Coming Home

Jane Fonda,

Coming Home

1977

Annie Hall

Richard Dreyfuss,

The Goodbye Girl

Diane Keaton,

Annie Hall

1976

Rocky

Peter Finch,

Network

Faye Danaway,

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

1974

The Godfather: Part II

Art Carney,

Harry and Tonto

Ellen Burstyn,

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

1973

The Sting

Jack Lemmon,

Save the Tiger

Glenda Jackson,

A Touch of Glass

1972

The Godfather

Marlon Brando,

The Godfather

Liza Minelly,

Cabaret

1971

The French Connection

Gene Hackman,

The French Connection

Jane Fonda,

Klute

1970

Patton

George C. Scott,

Patton

Glenda Jackson,

Woman in Love

1969

Midnight Cowboy

John Wayne,

True Grit

Maggie Smith,

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1968

Oliver!

Cliff Robertson,

Charly

Barbra Streisand,

Funny Girl

1967

In the Heat of the Night

Rod Steiger,

In the Heat of the Night

Katharine Hepburn,

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

1966

A Man for All Seasons

Paul Scofield,

A Man for All Seasons

Elizabeth Taylor,

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1965

The Sound of Music

Lee Marvin,

Cat Ballou

Julie Christie,

Darling

1964

My Fair Lady

Rex Harrison,

My Fair Lady

Julie Andrews,

Mary Poppins

1963

Tom Jones

Sidney Poitier,

Lilies of the Field

Patricia Neal,

Hud

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

Gregory Peck,

To Kill a Mockingbird

Anne Bancroft,

The Miracle Worker

1961

West Side Story

Maximilian Schell,

Judgment at Nuremberg

Sophia Loren,

Two Women

1960

The Apartment

Burt Lancaster,

Elmer Gantry

Elizabeth Taylor,

Butterfield