| Year |
Winner |
Film |
| 2006 |
Dilip Prabhavalkar |
Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi) |
| 2005 |
Naseeruddin Shah |
Iqbal (Hindi) |
| 2004 |
Haradhan Banerjee |
Krantikaal (Bengali) |
| 2003 |
Pankaj Kapoor |
Maqbool (Hindi) |
| 2002 |
Chandrasekhar |
Nanba Nanba (Tamil) |
| 2001 |
Atul Kulkarni |
Chandni Bar (Hindi) |
| 2000 |
H.G. Dattatreya |
Munnudi (Kannada) |
| 1999 |
Atul Kulkarni |
Hey Ram (Hindi) |
| 1998 |
Manoj Bajpai |
Satya (Hindi) |
| 1997 |
Prakash Raj |
Iruvar (Tamil) |
| 1996 |
Nana Patekar |
Agni Sakshi (Hindi) |
| 1995 |
Mithun Chakravarthyr |
Swami Vivekananda (Udiya) |
| 1994 |
Ashish Vidyarthi |
Droh Kaal (Hindi) |
| 1993 |
Paresh Rawal & Sunny Deol |
Sardar (Hindi) & Damini (Hindi) |
| 1992 |
P.L. Narayana |
Yamanam (Malayalam) |
| 1991 |
P.L. Narayana |
Yagnam (Telugu) |
| 1990 |
Nedumudi Venu |
His Highness Abdulla (Malayalam) |
