There's probably a lot of awesome 90s stuff that I haven't seen.
1990
Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac
Danny Glover - To Sleep With Danger
* Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune *
Ray Liotta - Goodfellas
Tim Robbins - Jacob's Ladder
1991
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
Viggo Mortensen - The Indian Runner
Bill Murray - What About Bob?
* River Phoenix - My Own Private Idaho *
Alan Rickman - Truly Madly Deeply
Anthony Hopkins is supporting in my world.
1992
Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin
Harvey Keitel - Bad Lieutenant
Stephen Rea - The Crying Game
Tim Robbins - The Player
* Denzel Washington - Malcolm X *
1993
Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father
Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day
Bill Murray - Groundhog Day
* Liam Neeson - Schindler's List *
David Thewlis - Naked
1994
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
* Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool *
Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
Johnny Depp is so good in Ed Wood that I recently booted Travolta off my lineup for him. That's right. I booted off John Travolta - in, you know, Pulp Fiction - for Johnny Depp. That's how awesome he is in that movie.
1995
* Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas *
Robert De Niro - Heat
Ian McKellen - Richard III
Al Pacino - Heat
Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
1996
Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
Philip Baker Hall - Hard Eight
William H. Macy - Fargo
Liam Neeson - Michael Collins
* Jeffrey Wright - Basquiat *
1997
Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
Aaron Eckhart - In the Company of Men
* Ian Holm - The Sweet Hereafter *
Clive Owen - Bent
Mark Wahlberg - Boogie Nights
1998
Javier Bardem - Live Flesh
Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski
George Clooney - Out of Sight
* Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters *
Edward Norton - American History X
1999
Russell Crowe - The Insider
Matt Damon - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story
Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
* Kevin Spacey - American Beauty *
2000
* Christian Bale - American Psycho *
Russell Crowe - Gladiator
Billy Crudup - Jesus' Son
Tom Hanks - Cast Away
Clive Owen - Croupier
2001
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
Ewan McGregor - Moulin Rouge!
Haley Joel Osment - AI: Artificial Intelligence
Denzel Washington - Training Day
* Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom *
2002
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation.
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
* Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt *
Edward Norton - 25th Hour
Campbell Scott - Roger Dodger
2003
Hayden Christensen - Shattered Glass
Jude Law - Cold Mountain
* Bill Murray - Lost in Translation *
Sean Penn - Mystic River
Kevin Spacey - The Life of David Gale
2004
Kevin Bacon - The Woodsman
Jeff Bridges - The Door in the Floor
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Paul Giamatti - Sideways
* Clive Owen - Closer *
If TV movies were allowed, Geoffrey Rush in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Alan Rickman and Mos Def in Something the Lord Made would be in here in place of Bacon, Bridges, and Cheadle.
2005
Ralph Fiennes - The Constant Gardener
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
* Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain *
Viggo Mortensen - A History of Violence
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck.
2006
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Matt Damon & Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
* Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson *
Hugh Jackman - The Fountain
Forest Whitaker - Last King of Scotland
Don't ask me to separate Damon and DiCaprio.........
2007
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Christian Bale - Rescue Dawn
* Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood *
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
