1980
Jack Lemmon – Tribute
Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection
Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard
Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
1981
Paul Newman – Absence of Malice
Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire
Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
1982
Peter O’Toole – My Favorite Year
Debra Winger – An Officer and a Gentleman
Charles Durning – The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Jessica Lange – Tootsie
1983
Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben
Jane Alexander – Testament
Charles Durning – To Be or Not to Be
Amy Irving – Yentl
1984
Albert Finney – Under the Volcano
Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians
Ralph Richardson – Greystoke
Glenn Close – The Natural
1985
Jon Voight – Runaway Train
Anne Bancroft – Agnes of God
Robert Loggia – Jagged Edge
Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime
1986
Dexter Gordon – Round Midnight
Jane Fonda – The Morning After
Denholm Elliott – A Room with a View
Tess Harper – Crimes of the Heart
1987
Jack Nicholson – Ironweed
Meryl Streep – Ironweed
Denzel Washington – Cry Freedom
Ann Sothern – The Whales of August
1988
Max Von Sydow – Pelle the Conqueror
Meryl Streep – A Cry in the Dark
Alec Guinness – Little Dorrit
Geena Davis – The Accidental Tourist
1989
Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy
Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine
Marlon Brando – A Dry White Season
Julia Roberts – Steel Magnolias
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