Gary Busey: Buddy Holly – The Buddy Holly Story 1978
Sissy Spacek: Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter 1980
F. Murray Abraham: Antonio Salieri – Amadeus 1984
Gary Oldman: Sid Vicious – Sid & Nancy 1986
Lou Diamond Phillips: Ritchie Valens – La Bamba 1987
Val Kilmer: Jim Morrison – The Doors 1991
Angela Bassett: Tina Turner – What’s Love Got to Do with It 1993
Jamie Foxx: Ray Charles – Ray 2004
Reese Witherspoon: June Carter Cash – Walk the Line 2005
Marion Cotillard: Édith Piaf – La Vie en Rose 2007