† – indicates the performance also won the Filmfare Award
‡ – indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award

2000s edit

• 2000 Anil Kapoor – Taal as Vikrant Kapoor †
• 2001 Amitabh Bachchan – Mohabbatein as Narayan Shankar †
  • Anupam Kher – Kya Kehna as Gulshan Baxi
  • Chandrachur Singh – Josh as Rahul
  • Paresh Rawal – Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega as Goverdhan
  • Sunil Shetty – Refugee as Ranger Mohammad Ashraf ‡
• 2002 Saif Ali Khan – Dil Chahta Hai as Sameer
  • Akshaye Khanna – Dil Chahta Hai as Siddharth Sinha †
  • Amitabh Bachchan – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Yashvardhan Raichand ‡
  • Hrithik Roshan – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Rohan Raichand ‡
  • Kulbhushan Kharbanda – Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India as Rajah Puran Singh
• 2003 Mohanlal – Company as Srinivasan ‡
  • Ashutosh Rana – Raaz as Agni Swaroop
  • Dilip Prabhavalkar – Encounter: The Killing as Ponappa Awadhe
  • Jackie Shroff – Devdas as Chunnilal ‡
  • Sushant Singh – The Legend of Bhagat Singh as Sukhdev
• 2004 Saif Ali Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Rohit Patel †
  • Arshad Warsi – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Sarkeshwar (Circuit)^[1] ‡
  • Ashutosh Rana – LOC Kargil as Yogender Singh, 18 Grenadiers
  • Sunil Shetty – Qayamat: City Under Threat as Akram Sheikh
  • Yash Tonk – Janasheen as Max Pereira
• 2005 Abhishek Bachchan – Yuva as Lallan Singh †
  • Amitabh Bachchan – Veer-Zaara as Choudhary Sumer Singh‡
  • Pankaj Kapur – Maqbool as Jahangir Khan (Abbaji)
  • Paresh Rawal – Aitraaz as Advocate Patel
  • Zayed Khan – Main Hoon Na as Lakshman Prasad Sharma a.k.a. Lucky ‡
• 2006 Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar as Shankar Nagre †
  • Amitabh Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as Dashrath Singh ‡
  • John Abraham – Garam Masala as Shyam "Sam"
  • Naseeruddin Shah – Iqbal as Mohit ‡
  • Sanjay Dutt – Parineeta as Girish ‡
• 2007 Arshad Warsi – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Circuit (Sarkeshwar)^[2]
  • Amitabh Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Samarjit 'Sam' Talwar ‡
  • Abhishek Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Rishi Talwar †
  • Atul Kulkarni – Rang De Basanti as Laxman Pandey / Ramprasad Bismil
  • Kunal Kapoor – Rang De Basanti as Aslam / Ashfaqullah Khan ‡
• 2008 Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty †
  • Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar Pandey (Majnu) ‡
  • Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devkar Chaudhary
  • Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manik Dasgupta ‡
  • Rajat Kapoor – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani
• 2009 Arjun Rampal – Rock On!! as Joe Mascarenhas †
  • Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar Raj as Shankar Nagare ‡
  • Irrfan Khan – Mumbai Meri Jaan as Thomas
  • Sonu Sood – Jodhaa Akbar as Rajkumar Sujamal ‡
  • Vinay Pathak – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as Balwinder "Bobby" Khosla ‡

2010s edit

• 2010 Sharman Joshi – 3 Idiots as Raju Rastogi ‡
  • Abhimanyu Singh – Gulaal as Rananjay Singh "Ransa"
  • Abhishek Bachchan – Paa as Amol Arte
  • Irrfan Khan – New York as Roshan
  • R. Madhavan – 3 Idiots as Farhan Qureshi ‡
  • Rishi Kapoor – Love Aaj Kal as Veer Singh
• 2011 Arjun Rampal – Raajneeti as Prithviraj Pratap^[3] ‡
  • Arshad Warsi – Ishqiya as Razzak Hussain ‡
  • Emraan Hashmi – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Shoaib Khan ‡
  • Manoj Bajpayee – Raajneeti as Virendra Pratap ‡
  • Mithun Chakraborty – Golmaal 3 as Pritam
• 2012 Farhan Akhtar – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Imran †
  • Abhay Deol – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Kabir ‡
  • Emraan Hashmi – The Dirty Picture as Abraham
  • Naseeruddin Shah – The Dirty Picture as Suryakant ‡
  • Randeep Hooda – Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster as Lalit/Babloo
• 2013 Annu Kapoor – Vicky Donor as Dr. Baldev Chaddha †
  • Akshay Kumar – OMG – Oh My God! as Krishna Vasudev Yadav ‡
  • Mithun Chakraborty – OMG – Oh My God! as Leeladhar Swamy
  • Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 as Faizal Khan
  • Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Talaash: The Answer Lies Within as Taimur ‡
  • Saurabh Shukla – Barfi! as Sudhanshu Dutta
• 2014 Aditya Roy Kapur – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Avinash "Avi" Arora ‡
  • Anupam Kher – Special 26 as P.K. Sharma ‡
  • Nawazuddin Siddiqui – The Lunchbox as Shaikh †
  • Pawan Malhotra – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as Hawaldar (Constable) Gurudev Singh
  • Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB as Justice Tripathi
• 2015 Riteish Deshmukh – Ek Villain as Rakesh Mahadkar ‡
  • Inaamulhaq – Filmistaan as Aftab
  • Kay Kay Menon – Haider as Khurram Meer †
  • Naseeruddin Shah – Finding Fanny as Ferdinand "Ferdie" Pinto
  • Randeep Hooda – Kick as Himanshu Tyagi
  • Ronit Roy – 2 States as Vikram Malhotra (Krish's father) ‡
• 2016 Anil Kapoor – Dil Dhadakne Do as Kamal Mehra †
  • Deepak Dobriyal – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Pappi ‡
  • Farhan Akhtar – Dil Dhadakne Do as Sunny Gill
  • Irrfan Khan – Piku as Rana Chaudhary
  • Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Bajrangi Bhaijaan as Chand Nawab
• 2017 Anupam Kher – M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story as Pan Singh
  • Amitabh Bachchan – Wazir as Pandit Omkar Nath Dar
  • Rajat Kapoor – Kapoor & Sons as Harsh Kapoor ‡
  • Rajkummar Rao – Aligarh as Deepu Sebastian ‡
  • Rishi Kapoor – Kapoor & Sons as Amarjeet Kapoor †
• 2018 Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Mom as Daya Shankar "DK" Kapoor ‡
  • Deepak Dobriyal – Hindi Medium as Shyamprakash Kori ‡
  • Pankaj Tripathi – Newton as Assistant Commandant Aatma Singh ‡
  • Rajkummar Rao – Bareilly Ki Barfi as Pritam Vidrohi †
  • Vijay Maurya – Tumhari Sulu as Pankaj Rai Baaghi
• 2019 Vicky Kaushal – Sanju as Kamlesh Kanhaiyalal Kapasi †
  • Anil Kapoor – Race 3 as Shamsher Singh
  • Jim Sarbh – Padmaavat as Malik Kafur ‡
  • Manoj Pahwa – Mulk as Bilaal Ali Mohammed ‡
  • Pankaj Tripathi – Stree as Rudra ‡

2020s edit

• 2022 Pankaj Tripathi – Ludo as Satyendra "Sattu Bhaiya" Tripathi^[4]
  • Jiiva – 83 as Krishnamachari Srikkanth
  • Kumud Mishra – Thappad as Sachin Sandhu
  • Pankaj Tripathi – 83 as PR Man Singh
  • Saif Ali Khan – Tanhaji as Udaybhan Singh Rathore

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