2001 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerGladiatorRussell CroweA former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.Amazon2001 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesBefore Night FallsJavier BardemAmazonCast AwayTom HanksAmazonPollockEd HarrisAmazonQuillsGeoffrey RushAmazon

2000 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerAmerican BeautyKevin SpaceyA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Amazon2000 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesSweet and LowdownSean PennAmazonThe HurricaneDenzel WashingtonAmazonThe InsiderRussell CroweAmazonThe Straight StoryRichard FarnsworthAmazon

1999 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerLife Is BeautifulRoberto BenigniWhen an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.Amazon1999 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesAfflictionNick NolteAmazonAmerican History XEdward NortonAmazonGods and MonstersIan McKellenAmazonSaving Private RyanTom HanksAmazon

1998 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerAs Good as It GetsJack NicholsonA single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.Amazon1998 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesGood Will HuntingMatt DamonAmazonThe ApostleRobert DuvallAmazonUlee's GoldPeter FondaAmazonWag the DogDustin HoffmanAmazon

1997 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerShineGeoffrey RushPianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.Amazon1997 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesJerry MaguireTom CruiseAmazonSling BladeBilly Bob ThorntonAmazonThe English PatientRalph FiennesAmazonThe People vs. Larry FlyntWoody HarrelsonAmazon

1996 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerLeaving Las VegasNicolas CageBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..Amazon1996 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesDead Man WalkingSean PennAmazonIl Postino: The PostmanMassimo TroisiAmazonMr. Holland's OpusRichard DreyfussAmazonNixonAnthony HopkinsAmazon

1995 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerForrest GumpTom HanksThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.Amazon1995 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesNobody's FoolPaul NewmanAmazonPulp FictionJohn TravoltaAmazonThe Madness of King GeorgeNigel HawthorneAmazonThe Shawshank RedemptionMorgan FreemanAmazon

1994 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerPhiladelphiaTom HanksWhen a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.Amazon1994 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesIn the Name of the FatherDaniel Day-LewisAmazonSchindler's ListLiam NeesonAmazonThe Remains of the DayAnthony HopkinsAmazonWhat's Love Got to Do with ItLaurence FishburneAmazon

1993 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerScent of a WomanAl PacinoA prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.Amazon1993 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesChaplinRobert Downey Jr.AmazonMalcolm XDenzel WashingtonAmazonThe Crying GameStephen ReaAmazonUnforgivenClint EastwoodAmazon

1992 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerThe Silence of the LambsAnthony HopkinsA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Amazon1992 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesBugsyWarren BeattyAmazonCape FearRobert De NiroAmazonThe Fisher KingRobin WilliamsAmazonThe Prince of TidesNick NolteAmazon