List of biographical films

This is a list of biographical films.

Before 1950[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
1906	The Story of the Kelly Gang	Ned Kelly	Frank Mills
1909	Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata	Ludwig van Beethoven	Harry Baur
	The Life of Moses	Moses	Pat Hartigan
	Saul and David	King David	Maurice Costello
	Saul and David	King Saul	William V. Ranous
1910	Pyotr Velikiy	Peter the Great	Pyotr Voinov
1911	Sweet Nell of Old Drury	Nell Gwyn	Nellie Stewart
1911	Sweet Nell of Old Drury	Charles II of England	Augustus Neville
1912	Custer's Last Fight	George Armstrong Custer	Francis Ford
1912	From the Manger to the Cross	Jesus	Robert Henderson-Bland
1913	Adrienne Lecouvreur	Adrienne Lecouvreur	Sarah Bernhardt
	Beating Back	Al Jennings	Al Jennings
	The Life and Works of Richard Wagner	Richard Wagner	Giuseppe Becce
	Sixty Years a Queen	Queen Victoria	Louie Henri
1914	Home, Sweet Home	John Howard Payne	Henry B. Walthall
	Judith of Bethulia	Judith	Blanche Sweet
	The Life of General Villa	Pancho Villa	Raoul Walsh
1915	Florence Nightingale	Florence Nightingale	Elisabeth Risdon
	Mistress Nell	Nell Gwyn	Mary Pickford
	The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	Henry B. Walthall
1916	David Garrick	David Garrick	Dustin Farnum
	Davy Crockett	Davy Crockett	Dustin Farnum
	Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	Dennis Eadie
	Joan the Woman	Joan of Arc	Geraldine Farrar
1917	Betsy Ross	Betsy Ross	Alice Brady
	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	Theda Bara
	The Conqueror	Sam Houston	William Farnum
	The Fall of the Romanovs	Nicholas II of Russia	Alfred Hickman
	The Fall of the Romanovs	Alexandra Feodorovna	Nance O'Neil
	The Lincoln Cycle	Abraham Lincoln	Benjamin Chapin
	My Father	Abraham Lincoln	Benjamin Chapin
	My Mother	Abraham Lincoln	Benjamin Chapin
	Myself	Abraham Lincoln	Benjamin Chapin
	Rasputin, the Black Monk	Grigori Rasputin	Montagu Love
1918	Casanova	Giacomo Casanova	Alfréd Deésy
	My Four Years in Germany	James W. Gerard	Halbert Brown
	The Life Story of David Lloyd George	David Lloyd George	Norman Page
	Why America Will Win	John J. Pershing	Harris Gordon
	The Woman the Germans Shot	Edith Cavell	Julia Arthur
1919	Deliverance	Helen Keller	Ann Mason
	The Fighting Roosevelts	Theodore Roosevelt	Herbert Bradshaw
	Private Peat	Harold R. Peat	Harold R. Peat
1920	Headin' Home	Babe Ruth	Babe Ruth
1920	If I Were King	François Villon	William Farnum
1921	Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	George Arliss
1922	Dick Turpin's Ride to York	Dick Turpin	Matheson Lang
	Nero	Nero	Jacques Grétillat
	Peter the Great	Peter the Great	Emil Jannings
	A Prince of Lovers	Lord Byron	Howard Gaye
1923	Bonnie Prince Charlie	Charles Edward Stuart	Ivor Novello
	Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend	Friedrich Schiller	Theodor Loos
	Guy Fawkes	Guy Fawkes	Matheson Lang
	Landru, the Bluebeard of Paris	Henri Désiré Landru	Wilhelm Sichra
	The Little Napoleon	Napoleon	Egon von Hagen
	Paganini	Niccolò Paganini	Conrad Veidt
	Richard the Lion-Hearted	Richard I	Wallace Beery
	The Ten Commandments	Moses	Theodore Roberts
	The Ten Commandments	Rameses II	Charles De Roche
1924	Beau Brummel	Beau Brummel	John Barrymore
1924	The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	George A. Billings
1926	Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo	Davy Crockett	Cullen Landis
	Josef Kajetán Tyl	Josef Kajetán Tyl	Zdeněk Štěpánek
	The Life Story of Charles Chaplin	Charlie Chaplin	Chick Wango
	Nell Gwyn	Nell Gwyn	Dorothy Gish
	Nelson	Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson	Cedric Hardwicke
1927	The King of Kings	Jesus	H. B. Warner
	The Loves of Casanova	Giacomo Casanova	Ivan Mozzhukhin
	Napoléon	Napoleon Bonaparte	Albert Dieudonné
1928	Dream of Love	Adrienne Lecouvreur	Joan Crawford
	Luther	Martin Luther	Eugen Klöpfer
	The Passion of Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc	Renée Jeanne Falconetti
	The Patriot	Tsar Paul I of Russia	Emil Jannings
	Tracy the Outlaw	Harry Tracy	Jack Hoy
	Una nueva y gloriosa nación	Manuel Belgrano	Francis X. Bushman
1929	The Divine Lady	Emma Hamilton	Corinne Griffith
	The Divine Lady	Lord Horatio Nelson	Victor Varconi
	Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	George Arliss
1930	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	Walter Huston
	Billy the Kid	Billy the Kid	Johnny Mack Brown
	A Lady's Morals	Jenny Lind	Grace Moore
	The Loves of Robert Burns	Robert Burns	Joseph Hislop
	Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern	Ludwig II of Bavaria	William Dieterle
1931	Alexander Hamilton	Alexander Hamilton	George Arliss
	Dreyfus	Alfred Dreyfus	Cedric Hardwicke
	Mata Hari	Mata Hari	Greta Garbo
	Yorck	Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg	Werner Krauss
1932	Jenny Lind	Jenny Lind	Grace Moore
	Rasputin and the Empress	Grigori Rasputin	Lionel Barrymore
		Alexandra Feodorovna	Ethel Barrymore
		Nicholas II of Russia	Ralph Morgan
	Silver Dollar	Yates Martin	Edward G. Robinson
1933	The Bowery	Chuck Connors	Wallace Beery
	The Bowery	Steve Brodie	George Raft
	In the Wake of the Bounty	William Bligh	Mayne Lynton
	In the Wake of the Bounty	Fletcher Christian	Errol Flynn
	The Private Life of Henry VIII	Henry VIII	Charles Laughton
	Queen Christina	Queen Christina of Sweden	Greta Garbo
	Voltaire	Voltaire	George Arliss
1934	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Norma Shearer
	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Robert Browning	Fredric March
	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	Claudette Colbert
		Julius Caesar	Warren William
		Mark Antony	Henry Wilcoxon
	The House of Rothschild	Mayer Rothschild	George Arliss
	The Iron Duke	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	George Arliss
	Love Time	Franz Schubert	Nils Asther
	Madame Du Barry	Madame Du Barry	Dolores del Río
	Madame Du Barry	Louis XV of France	Reginald Owen
	The Mighty Barnum	P. T. Barnum	Wallace Beery
	Nell Gwynn	Nell Gwynn	Anna Neagle
	The Rise of Catherine the Great	Catherine II of Russia	Elisabeth Bergner
	The Scarlet Empress	Catherine II "The Great" of Russia	Marlene Dietrich
	Waltzes from Vienna	Johann Strauss	Edmund Gwenn
	Waltzes from Vienna	Johann Strauss II	Esmond Knight
	Viva Villa!	Pancho Villa	Wallace Beery
1935	Annie Oakley	Annie Oakley	Barbara Stanwyck
	Clive of India	Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive	Ronald Colman
	Diamond Jim	Jim Brady	Edward Arnold
	Drake of England	Francis Drake	Matheson Lang
	Golgotha	Jesus	Robert Le Vigan
	Harmony Lane	Stephen Foster	Douglass Montgomery
	Mutiny on the Bounty	William Bligh	Charles Laughton
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Fletcher Christian	Clark Gable
1936	Daniel Boone	Daniel Boone	George O'Brien
	Der Kaiser von Kalifornien	John Sutter	Luis Trenker
	The Great Ziegfeld	Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.	William Powell
	Hearts Divided	Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson	Marion Davies
		Jérôme Bonaparte	Dick Powell
		Napoleon Bonaparte	Claude Rains
	Mary of Scotland	Mary, Queen of Scots	Katharine Hepburn
	The Plainsman	Wild Bill Hickok	Gary Cooper
	The Prisoner of Shark Island	Samuel Mudd	Warner Baxter
	Rembrandt	Rembrandt	Charles Laughton
	Rhodes of Africa	Cecil Rhodes	Walter Huston
	Robin Hood of El Dorado	Joaquin Murrieta	Warner Baxter
	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Louis Pasteur	Paul Muni
	Sutter's Gold	John Sutter	Edward Arnold
	Whom the Gods Love	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Stephen Haggard
	The White Angel	Florence Nightingale	Kay Francis
1937	Auld Lang Syne	Robert Burns	Andrew Cruickshank
	Fire Over England	Elizabeth I of England	Flora Robson
	The Great Garrick	David Garrick	Brian Aherne
	The Life of Émile Zola	Émile Zola	Paul Muni
	Parnell	Charles Stewart Parnell	Clark Gable
	Peter the First	Peter the Great	Nikolai Simonov
	The Toast of New York	James Fisk	Edward Arnold
	Victoria the Great	Queen Victoria	Anna Neagle
	William Tindale	William Tyndale	Alan Wheatley
	Young Pushkin	Alexander Pushkin	Valentin Litovsky
1938	Adrienne Lecouvreur	Adrienne Lecouvreur	Yvonne Printemps
	The Adventures of Marco Polo	Marco Polo	Gary Cooper
	Alexander Nevsky	Alexander Nevsky	Nikolay Cherkasov
	Boys Town	Edward J. Flanagan	Spencer Tracy
	The Buccaneer	Jean Lafitte	Fredric March
	The Buccaneer	Andrew Jackson	Hugh Sothern
	The Childhood of Maxim Gorky	Maxim Gorky	Aleksei Lyarsky
	The Great Waltz	Johann Strauss II	Fernand Gravey
	If I Were King	François Villon	Ronald Colman
	Marie Antoinette	Marie Antoinette	Norma Shearer
	That Mothers Might Live	Ignaz Semmelweis	Shepperd Strudwick
	Pugachev	Yemelyan Pugachev	Yevgeny Matveyev
	Saint Theresa of Lisieux	Thérèse of Lisieux	Irène Corday
	Sixty Glorious Years	Queen Victoria	Anna Neagle
	Suez	Ferdinand de Lesseps	Tyrone Power
1939	Conquest of Peter the Great	Peter the Great	Nikolai Simonov
	Drums Along the Mohawk	Nicholas Herkimer	Roger Imhof
	The Flying Irishman	Douglas Corrigan	Douglas Corrigan
	Frontier Marshal	Wyatt Earp	Randolph Scott
	The Great Victor Herbert	Victor Herbert	Allan Jones
	Immortal Waltz	Johann Strauss I	Paul Hörbiger
	Jesse James	Jesse James	Tyrone Power
	Jesse James	Frank James	Henry Fonda
	Juarez	Benito Juárez	Paul Muni
	Kaiss wa leila	Qays	Badr Lama
	Kaiss wa leila	Layla Al-Aamiriya	Amina Rizk
	Lenin in 1918	Vladimir Lenin	Boris Shchukin
	The Mad Empress	Charlotte of Belgium	Medea de Novara
	Man of Conquest	Sam Houston	Richard Dix
	Nurse Edith Cavell	Edith Cavell	Anna Neagle
	On His Own	Maxim Gorky	Aleksei Lyarsky
	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Elizabeth I of England	Bette Davis
	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex	Errol Flynn
	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Alexander Graham Bell	Don Ameche
	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Thomas A. Watson	Henry Fonda
	The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle	Vernon Castle	Fred Astaire
	The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle	Irene Castle	Ginger Rogers
	Swanee River	Stephen Foster	Don Ameche
	Tower of London	Richard III of England	Basil Rathbone
	Young Mr. Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	Henry Fonda
1940	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Abraham Lincoln	Raymond Massey
	Bismarck	Otto von Bismarck	Paul Hartmann
	Brigham Young	Brigham Young	Dean Jagger
	Brigham Young	Joseph Smith	Vincent Price
	A Dispatch from Reuter's	Paul Reuter	Edward G. Robinson
	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Paul Ehrlich	Edward G. Robinson
	Edison, the Man	Thomas Edison	Spencer Tracy
	Eternal Melodies	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Gino Cervi
	Kit Carson	Kit Carson	Jon Hall
	Knute Rockne, All American	Knute Rockne	Pat O'Brien
	Knute Rockne, All American	George Gipp	Ronald Reagan
	Lillian Russell	Lillian Russell	Alice Faye
	Lillian Russell	Alexander Pollock Moore	Henry Fonda
	Lady with Red Hair	Mrs. Leslie Carter	Miriam Hopkins
	Northwest Passage	Robert Rogers	Spencer Tracy
	Rambrandt	Rembrandt	Jules Verstraete
	The Return of Frank James	Frank James	Henry Fonda
	The Rothschilds	Nathan Mayer Rothschild	Carl Kuhlmann
	Santa Fe Trail	J.E.B. Stuart	Errol Flynn
		George Armstrong Custer	Ronald Reagan
		John Brown	Raymond Massey
	Semmelweis	Ignaz Semmelweis	Tivadar Uray
	The Westerner	Judge Roy Bean	Walter Brennan
	Young Tom Edison	Thomas Edison	Mickey Rooney
1941	Belle Starr	Belle Starr	Gene Tierney
	Billy the Kid	Billy the Kid	Robert Taylor
	Blossoms in the Dust	Edna Gladney	Greer Garson
	Hudson's Bay	Pierre-Esprit Radisson	Paul Muni
	Hudson's Bay	Médard des Groseilliers	Laird Cregar
	Men of Boys Town	Edward J. Flanagan	Spencer Tracy
	Ohm Kruger	Paul Kruger	Emil Jannings
	One Foot in Heaven	William Spence	Fredric March
	The Prime Minister	Benjamin Disraeli	John Gielgud
	Sergeant York	Alvin York	Gary Cooper
	That Hamilton Woman	Emma Hamilton	Vivien Leigh
	That Hamilton Woman	Lord Horatio Nelson	Laurence Olivier
	They Died with Their Boots On	George Armstrong Custer	Errol Flynn
	You Will Remember	Leslie Stuart	Robert Morley
1942	Apache Trail	Tom O'Folliard	William Lundigan
	Die Entlassung	Otto von Bismarck	Emil Jannings
	The First of the Few	R. J. Mitchell	Leslie Howard
	For Me and My Gal	Harry Palmer	Gene Kelly
	Gentleman Jim	James J. Corbett	Errol Flynn
	The Great Mr. Handel	George Frideric Handel	Wilfrid Lawson
	Here Will I Nest	Thomas Talbot	John Sullivan
	The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe	Edgar Allan Poe	Shepperd Strudwick
	My Gal Sal	Paul Dresser	Victor Mature
	The Pride of the Yankees	Lou Gehrig	Gary Cooper
	The Remarkable Andrew	Andrew Jackson	Brian Donlevy
	Rembrandt	Rembrandt	Ewald Balser
	Rossini	Gioachino Rossini	Nino Besozzi
	Simón Bolívar	Simón Bolívar	Julián Soler
	Tennessee Johnson	Andrew Johnson	Van Heflin
	Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die	Wyatt Earp	Richard Dix
	The Vanishing Virginian	Robert Yancey	Frank Morgan
	Yankee Doodle Dandy	George M. Cohan	James Cagney
	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Sam Harris	Richard Whorf
	The Young Mr. Pitt	William Pitt the Younger	Robert Donat
1943	Der Unendliche Weg	Friedrich List	Eugen Klöpfer
	Dixie	Daniel Decatur Emmett	Bing Crosby
	Hitler's Madman	Reinhard Heydrich	John Carradine
	The Iron Major	Frank Cavanaugh	Pat O'Brien
	Is Everybody Happy?	Ted Lewis	Michael Duane
	Jack London	Jack London	Michael O'Shea
	Madame Curie	Marie Curie	Greer Garson
	Madame Curie	Pierre Curie	Walter Pidgeon
	Mission to Moscow	Joseph E. Davies	Walter Huston
	The Outlaw	Billy the Kid	Jack Buetel
	The Song of Bernadette	Bernadette Soubirous	Jennifer Jones
	The Woman of the Town	Bat Masterson	Albert Dekker
1944	The Adventures of Mark Twain	Mark Twain	Fredric March
	Buffalo Bill	Buffalo Bill	Joel McCrea
	Champagne Charlie	George Leybourne	Tommy Trinder
	Champagne Charlie	Alfred Vance	Stanley Holloway
	Enemy of Women	Joseph Goebbels	Paul Andor
	The Great Moment	William T. G. Morton	Joel McCrea
	Henry V	Henry V of England	Laurence Olivier
	The Hitler Gang	Adolf Hitler	Robert Watson
	Ivan the Terrible	Ivan IV of Russia	Nikolay Cherkasov
	Shine On, Harvest Moon	Nora Bayes	Ann Sheridan
	Shine On, Harvest Moon	Jack Norworth	Dennis Morgan
	Wilson	Woodrow Wilson	Alexander Knox
1945	Caesar and Cleopatra	Julius Caesar	Claude Rains
	Caesar and Cleopatra	Cleopatra	Vivien Leigh
	Captain Eddie	Eddie Rickenbacker	Fred MacMurray
	Captain Kidd	William Kidd	Charles Laughton
	Dillinger	John Dillinger	Lawrence Tierney
	The Dolly Sisters	Janszieka "Jenny" Dolly	Betty Grable
	The Dolly Sisters	Rozsika "Rosie" Dolly	June Haver
	The Great John L.	John L. Sullivan	Greg McClure
	God Is My Co-Pilot	Robert Lee Scott Jr.	Dennis Morgan
	Incendiary Blonde	Texas Guinan	Betty Hutton
	Pride of the Marines	Al Schmid	John Garfield
	Rhapsody in Blue	George Gershwin	Robert Alda
	A Royal Scandal	Catherine II of Russia	Tallulah Bankhead
	A Song to Remember	Frédéric Chopin	Cornel Wilde
1946	Anna and the King of Siam	Anna Leonowens	Irene Dunne
	Camões	Luís de Camões	Antonio Vilar
	Devotion	Charlotte Brontë	Olivia de Havilland
		Emily Brontë	Ida Lupino
		Anne Brontë	Nancy Coleman
	Gallant Journey	John Joseph Montgomery	Glenn Ford
	The Great Glinka	Mikhail Glinka	Boris Chirkov
	The Jolson Story	Al Jolson	Larry Parks
	The Magic Bow	Niccolò Paganini	Stewart Granger
	Magnificent Doll	Dolley Madison	Ginger Rogers
		James Madison	Burgess Meredith
		Aaron Burr	David Niven
	My Darling Clementine	Wyatt Earp	Henry Fonda
	Night and Day	Cole Porter	Cary Grant
	The Razor's Edge	W. Somerset Maugham	Herbert Marshall
	Sister Kenny	Elizabeth Kenny	Rosalind Russell
	So Goes My Love	Hiram Percy Maxim	Don Ameche
	Till the Clouds Roll By	Jerome Kern	Robert Walker
1947	Albéniz	Isaac Albéniz	Pedro López Lagar
	Captain Boycott	Charles Boycott	Cecil Parker
	Captain Boycott	Charles Stewart Parnell	Robert Donat
	The Fabulous Dorseys	Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey	Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey
	Monsieur Vincent	Vincent de Paul	Pierre Fresnay
	My Wild Irish Rose	Chauncey Olcott	Dennis Morgan
	The Perils of Pauline	Pearl White	Betty Hutton
	Seine einzige Liebe	Franz Schubert	Franz Böheim
	Song of Love	Clara Schumann	Katharine Hepburn
	Song of Love	Robert Schumann	Paul Henreid
	Song of Scheherazade	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Jean-Pierre Aumont
	Trail Street	Bat Masterson	Randolph Scott
1948	The Babe Ruth Story	Babe Ruth	William Bendix
	Bonnie Prince Charlie	Charles Edward Stuart	David Niven
	Brindis a Manolete	Manolete	Pedro Ortega
	The Iron Curtain	Igor Gouzenko	Dana Andrews
	Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc	Ingrid Bergman
	The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux)	Talleyrand	Sacha Guitry
	Macbeth	Macbeth of Scotland	Orson Welles
	Man to Men	Henry Dunant	Jean-Louis Barrault
	Saraband	Philip Christoph von Königsmarck	Stewart Granger
	The Mozart Story	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Hans Holt
	Up in Central Park	William Tweed	Vincent Price
	Words and Music	Richard Rodgers	Tom Drake
	Words and Music	Lorenz Hart	Mickey Rooney
1949	Alexander Popov	Alexander Stepanovich Popov	Nikolay Cherkasov
	Almafuerte	Pedro Bonifacio Palacios	Narciso Ibáñez Menta
	The Bad Lord Byron	Lord Byron	Dennis Price
	Christopher Columbus	Christopher Columbus	Fredric March
	Docteur Laennec	René Laennec	Pierre Blanchar
	Eroica	Ludwig van Beethoven	Ewald Balser
	Heaven over the Marshes	Maria Goretti	Inés Orsini
	Hen. Gregorio del Pilar	Gregorio del Pilar	Jose Padilla, Jr.
	I Shot Jesse James	Jesse James	Reed Hadley
	I Shot Jesse James	Frank James	Tom Tyler
	Ivan Pavlov	Ivan Pavlov	Aleksandr Borisov
	Jolson Sings Again	Al Jolson	Larry Parks
	Life of St. Paul Series	Paul the Apostle	Nelson Leigh
	Orpopojan valssi	J. Alfred Tanner	Sakari Halonen
	Padre Burgos	Jose Burgos	Jaime de la Rosa
	Samson and Delilah	Samson	Victor Mature
	Samson and Delilah	Delilah	Hedy Lamarr
	The Stratton Story	Monty Stratton	James Stewart
	Viennese Girls	Karl Michael Ziehrer	Willi Forst

1950s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
1950	Annie Get Your Gun	Annie Oakley	Betty Hutton
	The Baron of Arizona	James Reavis	Vincent Price
	The Bells of Nagasaki	Takashi Nagai	Masao Wakahara
	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	José Ferrer
	The Jackie Robinson Story	Jackie Robinson	Jackie Robinson
	Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar	Harold Tasker
	Madeleine	Madeleine Smith	Ann Todd
	The Magnificent Yankee	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	Louis Calhern
	Mussorgsky	Modest Mussorgsky	Aleksandr Borisov
	Over the Waves	Juventino Rosas	Pedro Infante
	The Petty Girl	George Petty	Robert Cummings
	Three Little Words	Bert Kalmar	Fred Astaire
	Three Little Words	Harry Ruby	Red Skelton
	Young Man with a Horn	Bix Beiderbecke	Kirk Douglas
	Zhukovsky	Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky	Yuri Yurovsky
1951	David and Bathsheba	King David	Gregory Peck
	David and Bathsheba	Bathsheba	Susan Hayward
	The Desert Fox	Field Marshal Erwin Rommel	James Mason
	Diego Silang	Diego Silang	José Padilla, Jr.
	Follow the Sun	Ben Hogan	Glenn Ford
	The Great Caruso	Enrico Caruso	Mario Lanza
	I'd Climb the Highest Mountain	William Asbury Thompson	William Lundigan
	I Was an American Spy	Claire Phillips	Ann Dvorak
	I'll See You in My Dreams	Gus Kahn	Danny Thomas
	Jim Thorpe – All-American	Jim Thorpe	Burt Lancaster
	The Lady and the Bandit	Dick Turpin	Louis Hayward
	The Lady with the Lamp	Florence Nightingale	Anna Neagle
	The Magic Box	William Friese-Greene	Robert Donat
	The Man with a Cloak	Edgar Allan Poe	Joseph Cotten
	Valentino	Rudolph Valentino	Anthony Dexter
	Wherever She Goes	Eileen Joyce	Suzanne Parrett
1952	Above and Beyond	Paul Tibbets	Robert Taylor
	Blackbeard the Pirate	Blackbeard	Robert Newton
	Carbine Williams	David Marshall Williams	James Stewart
	Dr.Schweitzer	Albert Schweitzer	Pierre Fresnay
	The Girl in White	Emily Barringer	June Allyson
	Hans Christian Andersen	Hans Christian Andersen	Danny Kaye
	I Dream of Jeanie	Stephen Foster	Bill Shirley
	The Iron Mistress	James Bowie	Alan Ladd
	Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo	Calle Jularbo	Jan-Olof Lindstedt
	Million Dollar Mermaid	Annette Kellermann	Esther Williams
	The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Lúcia dos Santos	Susan Whitney
	Moulin Rouge	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	José Ferrer
	No Greater Love	Bertha von Suttner	Hilde Krahl
	The Pride of St. Louis	Dizzy Dean	Dan Dailey
	Procès au Vatican	Thérèse of Lisieux	France Descaut
	The Secret Conclave	Pope Pius X	Henri Vidon
	Somebody Loves Me	Blossom Seeley	Betty Hutton
	Somebody Loves Me	Benny Fields	Ralph Meeker
	Stars and Stripes Forever	John Philip Sousa	Clifton Webb
	The Story of Will Rogers	Will Rogers	Will Rogers Jr.
	Taras Shevchenko	Taras Shevchenko	Sergei Bondarchuk
	Viva Zapata!	Emiliano Zapata	Marlon Brando
	The Winning Team	Grover Cleveland Alexander	Ronald Reagan
	With a Song in My Heart	Jane Froman	Susan Hayward
	The Young Caruso	Enrico Caruso	Ermanno Randi
1953	The Actress	Ruth Gordon	Jean Simmons
	Admiral Ushakov	Fyodor Ushakov	Ivan Pereverzev
	Belinsky	Vissarion Belinsky	Sergei Kurilov
	Calamity Jane	Calamity Jane	Doris Day
	Chaimite	Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque	Jacinto Ramos
	Crazylegs	Elroy Hirsch	Elroy Hirsch
	Dagohoy	Francisco Dagohoy	Mario Montenegro
	The Desert Rats	Field Marshal Erwin Rommel	James Mason
	The Eddie Cantor Story	Eddie Cantor	Keefe Brasselle
	Franz Schubert	Franz Schubert	Heinrich Schweiger
	The Great Warrior Skanderbeg	Skanderbeg	Akaki Khorava^[1]
	Houdini	Harry Houdini	Tony Curtis
	The I Don't Care Girl	Eva Tanguay	Mitzi Gaynor
	The Joe Louis Story	Joe Louis	Coley Wallace
	Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar	Marlon Brando
	The Lawless Breed	John Wesley Hardin	Rock Hudson
	The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi	Pierre Cressoy
	Man of Music	Mikhail Glinka	Boris Smirnov
	Martin Luther	Martin Luther	Niall MacGinnis
	Melba	Nellie Melba	Patrice Munsel
	Puccini	Giacomo Puccini	Gabriele Ferzetti
	The President's Lady	Andrew Jackson	Charlton Heston
	The President's Lady	Rachel Donelson Robards	Susan Hayward
	So This Is Love	Grace Moore	Kathryn Grayson
	The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan	W. S. Gilbert	Robert Morley
	The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan	Arthur Sullivan	Maurice Evans
	Young Bess	Elizabeth I of England	Jean Simmons
1954	Beau Brummell	Beau Brummell	Stewart Granger
	The Bob Mathias Story	Bob Mathias	Bob Mathias
	Canaris	Wilhelm Canaris	O. E. Hasse
	Cuando me vaya	María Grever	Libertad Lamarque
	Deep in My Heart	Sigmund Romberg	José Ferrer
	Der Komödiant von Wien [de]	Alexander Girardi	Karl Paryla
	Desirée	Désirée Clary	Jean Simmons
	Desirée	Napoleon Bonaparte	Marlon Brando
	El joven Juárez	Benito Juárez	Humberto Almazán
	Ernst Thälmann	Ernst Thälmann	Günther Simon
	The Eternal Waltz	Johann Strauss II	Bernhard Wicki
	The Glenn Miller Story	Glenn Miller	James Stewart
	His Majesty O'Keefe	David O'Keefe	Burt Lancaster
	John Wesley	John Wesley	Leonard Sachs
	The Red Prince	Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (Johann Orth)	Peter Pasetti
	Rimskiy-Korsakov	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Grigori Belov
	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto	Miyamoto Musashi	Toshirō Mifune
	Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben	Ferdinand Sauerbruch	Ewald Balser
	Seger i mörker	Gustaf Dalén	Olof Bergström
	Sitting Bull	Sitting Bull	J. Carroll Naish
1955	Adriana Lecouvreur	Adriana Lecouvreur	Valentina Cortese
	Chief Crazy Horse	Crazy Horse	Victor Mature
	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	Billy Mitchell	Gary Cooper
	Ernst Thälmann	Ernst Thälmann	Günther Simon
	The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing	Evelyn Nesbit	Joan Collins
	Interrupted Melody	Marjorie Lawrence	Eleanor Parker
	I'll Cry Tomorrow	Lillian Roth	Susan Hayward
	Lapu-Lapu	Lapulapu	Mario Montenegro
	The Last Command	James Bowie	Sterling Hayden
	Lola Montès	Lola Montez	Martine Carol
	The Long Gray Line	Martin Maher	Tyrone Power
	Love Me or Leave Me	Ruth Etting	Doris Day
	Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs	Ludwig II of Bavaria	O.W. Fischer
	Magic Fire	Richard Wagner	Alan Badel
	A Man Called Peter	Peter Marshall	Richard Todd
	Melodie immortali - Mascagni	Pietro Mascagni	Pierre Cressoy
	Mozart	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Oskar Werner
	Napoléon	Napoleon	Daniel Gélin (Young)
	Napoléon	Napoleon	Raymond Pellegrin (Older)
	Prince of Players	Edwin Booth	Richard Burton
	Richard III	Richard III of England	Laurence Olivier
	Road to Life	Anton Makarenko	Vladimir Yemelyanov
	Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple	Miyamoto Musashi	Toshirō Mifune
	Seven Angry Men	John Brown	Raymond Massey
	Seven Cities of Gold	Junípero Serra	Michael Rennie
	The Seven Little Foys	Eddie Foy Sr.	Bob Hope
	Säkkijärven polkka	Viljo Vesterinen	Sakari Jurkka
	To Hell and Back	Audie Murphy	Audie Murphy
	The Virgin Queen	Elizabeth I of England	Bette Davis
	Wiegenlied	Ernestine Schumann-Heink	Osa Massen
1956	Alexander the Great	Alexander the Great	Richard Burton
	Ang buhay at pag-ibig ni Dr. Jose Rizal	José Rizal	Eddie Del Mar
	The Benny Goodman Story	Benny Goodman	Steve Allen
	The Best Things in Life Are Free	Buddy DeSylva	Gordon MacRae
		Ray Henderson	Dan Dailey
		Lew Brown	Ernest Borgnine
	Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer	Daniel Boone	Bruce Bennett
	The Eddy Duchin Story	Eddy Duchin	Tyrone Power
	The Conqueror	Genghis Khan	John Wayne
	Heneral Paua	Heneral Paua	Danilo Montes
	The King and I	Anna Leonowens	Deborah Kerr
	Lust for Life	Vincent van Gogh	Kirk Douglas
	Magic Fire	Richard Wagner	Alan Badel
	Reach for the Sky	Douglas Bader	Kenneth More
	Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island	Miyamoto Musashi	Toshirō Mifune
	Somebody Up There Likes Me	Rocky Graziano	Paul Newman
	The Ten Commandments	Moses	Charlton Heston
	The Ten Commandments	Ramesses II	Yul Brynner
	Walk the Proud Land	John Clum	Audie Murphy
1957	After the Ball	Vesta Tilley	Patricia Kirkwood
	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Jennifer Jones
	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Robert Browning	Bill Travers
	Battle Hymn	Dean Hess	Rock Hudson
	Beau James	Jimmy Walker	Bob Hope
	The Buster Keaton Story	Buster Keaton	Donald O'Connor
	En drömmares vandring	Dan Andersson	Jarl Kulle
	Fear Strikes Out	Jimmy Piersall	Anthony Perkins
	The Flying Dutchman	Anthony Fokker	Ton Kuyl
	The Helen Morgan Story	Helen Morgan	Ann Blyth
	Jeanne Eagels	Jeanne Eagels	Kim Novak
	The Joker is Wild	Joe E. Lewis	Frank Sinatra
	A Lesson in History	Georgi Dimitrov	Stefan Savov
	Made in Germany - Die dramatische Geschichte des Hauses Zeiss	Ernst Abbe	Carl Raddatz
	Mahnı belə yaranır	Süleyman Stalski	K. Slanov
	Man of a Thousand Faces	Lon Chaney	James Cagney
	Monkey on My Back	Barney Ross	Cameron Mitchell
	Nine Lives	Jan Baalsrud	Jack Fjeldstad
	Rasskazy o Lenine	Vladimir Lenin	Maksim Shtraukh
	Rasskazy o Lenine	Nadezhda Krupskaya	Mariya Pastukhova
	Rot ist die Liebe	Hermann Löns	Dieter Borsche
	Saint Joan	Joan of Arc	Jean Seberg
	The Spirit of St. Louis	Charles Lindbergh	James Stewart
	Stresemann	Gustav Stresemann	Ernst Schröder
	The Three Faces of Eve	Chris Costner Sizemore	Joanne Woodward
	The True Story of Jesse James	Jesse James	Robert Wagner
	The True Story of Jesse James	Frank James	Jeffrey Hunter
	The Wings of Eagles	Frank Wead	John Wayne
1958	The Bonnie Parker Story	Bonnie Elizabeth Parker	Dorothy Provine
	The Buccaneer	Jean Lafitte	Yul Brenner
	The Buccaneer	Andrew Jackson	Charlton Heston
	Carve Her Name with Pride	Violette Szabo	Virginia McKenna
	The Csardas Princess	Emmerich Kálmán	Gerhard Riedmann
	Rosemary	Rosemarie Nitribitt	Nadja Tiller
	I Accuse!	Alfred Dreyfus	José Ferrer
	The Inn of the Sixth Happiness	Gladys Aylward	Ingrid Bergman
	Ivan the Terrible	Ivan IV of Russia	Nikolay Cherkasov
	I Want to Live!	Barbara Graham	Susan Hayward
	I Was Monty's Double	M. E. Clifton James	M. E. Clifton James
	The Left Handed Gun	Billy the Kid	Paul Newman
	The Lovers of Montparnasse	Amedeo Modigliani	Gérard Philipe
	Machine-Gun Kelly	Machine Gun Kelly	Charles Bronson
	The Naked Maja	Francisco Goya	Anthony Franciosa,
	Rasputín	Grigori Rasputin	Narciso Ibáñez Menta
	Sebastian Kneipp	Sebastian Kneipp	Carl Wery
	The Silent Enemy	Lionel Crabb	Laurence Harvey
	St. Louis Blues	W. C. Handy	Nat King Cole
	Too Much, Too Soon	Diana Barrymore	Dorothy Malone
	Too Much, Too Soon	John Barrymore	Errol Flynn
1959	Affäre Dreyfus	Alfred Dreyfus
	Al Capone	Al Capone	Rod Steiger
	The Diary of Anne Frank	Anne Frank	Millie Perkins
	Beloved Infidel	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Gregory Peck
	Beloved Infidel	Sheilah Graham	Deborah Kerr
	The Five Pennies	Red Nichols	Danny Kaye
	Gayarre	Julián Gayarre	Alfredo Kraus
	The Gene Krupa Story	Gene Krupa	Sal Mineo
	The Great Impostor	Ferdinand Waldo Demara	Tony Curtis
	Hannibal	Hannibal	Victor Mature
	Herod the Great	Herod the Great	Edmund Purdom
	John Paul Jones	John Paul Jones	Robert Stack
	Leap to Fame	Santiago Ramón y Cajal	Adolfo Marsillach
	Love Now, Pay Later	Rosemarie Nitribitt	Belinda Lee
	The Redeemer	Jesus	Luis Álvarez
	Solomon and Sheba	King Solomon	Yul Brynner
	Solomon and Sheba	Queen of Sheba	Gina Lollobrigida

1960s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
1960	Alfonso XII y María Cristina	Alfonso XII of Spain	Vicente Parra
	Alfonso XII y María Cristina	Maria Christina of Austria	Marga López
	Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons	Henri Désiré Landru	George Sanders
	David and Goliath	King David	Ivica Pajer
	David and Goliath	King Saul	Orson Welles
	Esther and the King	Esther	Joan Collins
	The Gallant Hours	William Halsey Jr.	James Cagney
	Hell to Eternity	Guy Gabaldon	Jeffrey Hunter
	I Aim at the Stars	Wernher von Braun	Curd Jürgens
	Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Robert Morley
	Por ti aprendí a querer	Lorenzo Barcelata	Antonio Maciel
	Pretty Boy Floyd	Pretty Boy Floyd	John Ericson
	Song Without End	Franz Liszt	Dirk Bogarde
	Spartacus	Spartacus	Kirk Douglas
	The Story of Ruth	Ruth	Elana Eden
	Sunrise at Campobello	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Ralph Bellamy
	Sweetheart of the Gods	Renate Müller	Ruth Leuwerik
	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Peter Finch
1961	Barabbas	Barabbas	Anthony Quinn
	Bridge to the Sun	Gwen & Hidenari Terisaki	Carroll Baker & James Shigeta
	Darclee	Hariclea Darclée	Silvia Popovici
	El Cid	El Cid	Charlton Heston
	The Flash Elorde Story	Gabriel Elorde	Gabriel Elorde
	Francis of Assisi	Francis of Assisi	Bradford Dillman
	Fray Escoba	Martin de Porres	René Muñoz
	Galileo	Galileo Galilei	James Grout
	The George Raft Story	George Raft	Ray Danton
	Hoodlum Priest	Father Charles Dismas Clark	Don Murray
	King of Kings	Jesus	Jeffrey Hunter
	King of the Roaring 20s	Arnold Rothstein	David Janssen
	Mad Dog Coll	Mad Dog Coll	John Davis Chandler
	The Moises Padilla Story	Moises Padilla	Leopoldo Salcedo
	Prince Yeonsan	Yeonsangun of Joseon	Shin Young-kyun
	Portrait of a Mobster	Dutch Schultz	Vic Morrow
	A Story of David	King David	Jeff Chandler
1962	Birdman of Alcatraz	Robert Franklin Stroud	Burt Lancaster
	Docteur Schweitzer	Albert Schweitzer	Jean-Pierre Marielle
	Elgar	Edward Elgar	Peter Brett
	Freud: The Secret Passion	Sigmund Freud	Montgomery Clift
	Geronimo	Geronimo	Chuck Connors
	Hitler	Adolf Hitler	Richard Basehart
	Joseph and His Brethren	Joseph	Geoffrey Horne
	Lawrence of Arabia	T. E. Lawrence	Peter O'Toole
	The Miracle Worker	Helen Keller	Patty Duke
	The Miracle Worker	Annie Sullivan	Anne Bancroft
	No Man Is an Island	George Ray Tweed	Jeffrey Hunter
	The Reluctant Saint	Joseph of Cupertino	Maximilian Schell
	Salvatore Giuliano	Salvatore Giuliano	Pietro Cammarata
	Sodom and Gomorrah	Lot	Stewart Granger
	The Trial of Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc	Florence Delay
	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	Wilhelm Grimm	Laurence Harvey
	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	Jacob Grimm	Karlheinz Böhm
1963	Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din	Saladin	Ahmed Mazhar
	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	Elizabeth Taylor
	Jacob, the Man Who Fought With God	Jacob	Fosco Giacchei
	Landru	Henri Désiré Landru	Charles Denner
	PT 109	John F. Kennedy	Cliff Robertson
1964	Becket	Thomas Becket	Richard Burton
	Becket	Henry II of England	Peter O'Toole
	Lady General Hua Mu-lan	Hua Mulan	Ivy Ling Po
	Saul and David	King David	Gianni Garko
	Saul and David	King Saul	Norman Wooland
	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Molly Brown	Debbie Reynolds
	Your Cheatin' Heart	Hank Williams	George Hamilton
1965	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Michelangelo	Charlton Heston
	The Debussy Film	Claude Debussy	Oliver Reed
	Genghis Khan	Genghis Khan	Omar Sharif
	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Jesus	Max von Sydow
	Harlow	Jean Harlow	Carroll Baker
	Harlow	Jean Harlow	Carol Lynley
	The Magnificent Yankee	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	Alfred Lunt
	Lee Seong-gye King Taejo	Taejo of Joseon	Shin Young-kyun
	A Man Named John	Pope John XXIII	Giovanni Rossi
	A Patriot for Me	Alfred Redl	John Osborne
	The Sound of Music	Maria von Trapp	Julie Andrews
		Georg von Trapp	Christopher Plummer
		Virgilia, Mother Abbess	Peggy Wood
1966	Andrei Rublev	Andrei Rublev	Anatoly Solonitsyn
	Born Free	Joy Adamson	Virginia McKenna
	Born Free	George Adamson	Bill Travers
	El Greco	El Greco	Mel Ferrer
	Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World	Isadora Duncan	Vivian Pickles
	Khartoum	General Gordon	Charlton Heston
	Khartoum	Muhammad Ahmad	Laurence Olivier
	La vida de Pedro Infante	Pedro Infante	Jose Infante Cruz
	A Man for All Seasons	Thomas More	Paul Scofield
	Rasputin, the Mad Monk	Grigori Rasputin	Christopher Lee
	The Singing Nun	Jeanine Deckers	Debbie Reynolds
1967	Bill Wallace of China	Dr Bill Wallace	Gregory Walcott
	Bonnie and Clyde	Bonnie Parker	Faye Dunaway
	Bonnie and Clyde	Clyde Barrow	Warren Beatty
	Cervantes	Miguel de Cervantes	Horst Buchholz
	Custer of the West	George Armstrong Custer	Robert Shaw
	The Happiest Millionaire	Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.	Fred MacMurray
	The Life of Na Woon-gyu	Na Woon-gyu	Choi Moo-ryong
	Sofiya Perovskaya	Sofiya Perovskaya	Aleksandra Nazarova
1968	Bloody Che Contra	Che Guevara	Francisco Rabal
	The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach	Johann Sebastian Bach	Gustav Leonhardt
	The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach	Anna Magdalena Bach	Christiane Lang
	Funny Girl	Fanny Brice	Barbra Streisand
	Hrabina Cosel	Anna Constantia von Brockdorff	Jadwiga Barańska
	Hrabina Cosel	Augustus II the Strong	Mariusz Dmockowski
	Isadora	Isadora Duncan	Vanessa Redgrave
	The Lion in Winter	Henry II of England	Peter O'Toole
	The Lion in Winter	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Katharine Hepburn
	Prince Daewon	Heungseon Daewongun	Shin Young-kyun
	Star!	Gertrude Lawrence	Julie Andrews
	Song of Summer	Frederick Delius	Max Adrian
1969	Alfred the Great	Alfred the Great	David Hemmings
	Anne of the Thousand Days	Henry VIII	Richard Burton
	Anne of the Thousand Days	Anne Boleyn	Geneviève Bujold
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Butch Cassidy	Paul Newman
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Harry Longabaugh	Robert Redford
	The Color of Pomegranates	Sayat-Nova	Sofiko Chiaureli, others
	Che!	Che Guevara	Omar Sharif
	De Sade	Marquis de Sade	Keir Dullea
	Emma Hamilton	Emma Hamilton	Michèle Mercier
	Emma Hamilton	Lord Horatio Nelson	Richard Johnson
	Posol Sovetskogo Soyuza	Alexandra Kollontai	Yuliya Borisova
	Simón Bolívar	Simón Bolívar	Maximilian Schell
	Where's Jack?	Jack Sheppard	Tommy Steele

1970s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
1970	A Bullet for Pretty Boy	Pretty Boy Floyd	Fabian
	Chisum	John Chisum	John Wayne
	Cromwell	Oliver Cromwell	Richard Harris
	The Cross and the Switchblade	David Wilkerson	Pat Boone
	The Honeymoon Killers	Martha Beck	Shirley Stoler
	The Honeymoon Killers	Raymond Fernandez	Tony Lo Bianco
	Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar	Charlton Heston
	Michael the Brave	Michael the Brave	Amza Pellea
	Ned Kelly	Ned Kelly	Mick Jagger
	Patton	George S. Patton	George C. Scott
	Song of Norway	Edvard Grieg	Toralv Maurstad
	Song of Norway	Rikard Nordraak	Frank Porretta
	Szerelmi álmok – Liszt	Franz Liszt	Imre Sinkovits
	Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller	Rip Torn
	The Wild Child	Victor of Aveyron	Jean-Pierre Cargol
1971	Brian's Song	Brian Piccolo	James Caan
	The Devils	Urbain Grandier	Oliver Reed
	Doc	Doc Holliday	Stacy Keach
	Evel Knievel	Evel Knievel	George Hamilton
	Macbeth	Macbeth of Scotland	Jon Finch
	Mary, Queen of Scots	Mary, Queen of Scots	Vanessa Redgrave
	Mary, Queen of Scots	Elizabeth I of England	Glenda Jackson
	The Music Lovers	Pyotr Tchaikovsky	Richard Chamberlain
	Nicholas and Alexandra	Tsar Nicholas II	Michael Jayston
	Nicholas and Alexandra	Tsaritsa Alexandra of Russia	Janet Suzman
	Rain for a Dusty Summer	Miguel Pro	Humberto Almazán
	10 Rillington Place	John Reginald Christie	Richard Attenborough
1972	Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall	Spike Milligan	Jim Dale
	The Assassination of Trotsky	Leon Trotsky	Richard Burton
	Aguirre, the Wrath of God	Lope de Aguirre	Klaus Kinski
	Antony and Cleopatra	Mark Antony	Charlton Heston
	Antony and Cleopatra	Cleopatra VII	Hildegarde Neil
	Brother Sun, Sister Moon	St. Francis of Assisi	Graham Faulkner
	Brother Sun, Sister Moon	St. Clare of Assisi	Judi Bowker
	Dirty Little Billy	Billy the Kid	Michael J. Pollard
	The Great Waltz	Johann Strauss II	Horst Buchholz
	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Henry VIII	Keith Michell
	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Anne Boleyn	Charlotte Rampling
	Lady Caroline Lamb	Lady Caroline Lamb	Sarah Miles
	Lady Sings the Blues	Billie Holiday	Diana Ross
	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	Judge Roy Bean	Paul Newman
	The Life of Leonardo da Vinci	Leonardo da Vinci	Philippe Leroy
	Living Free	George Adamson	Nigel Davenport
	Living Free	Joy Adamson	Susan Hampshire
	Ludwig	Ludwig II of Bavaria	Helmut Berger
	Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King	Ludwig II of Bavaria	Harry Baer
	The Mattei Affair	Enrico Mattei	Gian Maria Volonté
	Pancho Villa	Pancho Villa	Telly Savalas
	Pope Joan	Pope Joan	Liv Ullmann
	Savage Messiah	Henri Gaudier-Brzeska	Scott Antony
	Tadas Blinda	Tadas Blinda	Vytautas Tomkus
	The Valachi Papers	Joseph Valachi	Charles Bronson
	Young Winston	Winston Churchill	Simon Ward
1973	Dillinger	John Dillinger	Warren Oates
	Edvard Munch	Edvard Munch	Geir Westby
	Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Adolf Hitler	Alec Guinness
	Jesus Christ Superstar	Jesus	Ted Neeley
	The Last American Hero	Junior Johnson	Jeff Bridges
	Lucky Luciano	Lucky Luciano	Gian Maria Volonté
	Maurie	Maurice Stokes	Bernie Casey
	Maurie	Jack Twyman	Bo Svenson
	Papillon	Henri Charrière	Steve McQueen
	Papillon	Louis Dega	Dustin Hoffman
	Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid	Pat Garrett	James Coburn
	Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid	Billy the Kid	Kris Kristofferson
	Serpico	Frank Serpico	Al Pacino
	Walking Tall	Buford Pusser	Joe Don Baker
1974	The Abdication	Queen Christina of Sweden	Liv Ullmann
	The Education of Sonny Carson	Robert "Sonny" Carson	Rony Clanton
	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser	Kaspar Hauser	Bruno S.
	Karl May	Karl May	Helmut Käutner
	The Great McGonagall	William McGonagall	Spike Milligan
	Lenny	Lenny Bruce	Dustin Hoffman
	Mahler	Gustav Mahler	Robert Powell
	Mahler	Alma Mahler	Georgina Hale
	Stavisky	Alexandre Stavisky	Jean-Paul Belmondo
	The Story of Jacob and Joseph	Jacob	Keith Michell
	The Story of Jacob and Joseph	Joseph	Tony Lo Bianco
1975	Babe	Babe Didrickson	Susan Clark
	Capone	Al Capone	Ben Gazzara
	Dog Day Afternoon	Sonny Wortzik	Al Pacino
	Galileo	Galileo Galilei	Chaim Topol
	The Happy Hooker	Xaviera Hollander	Lynn Redgrave
	The Hiding Place	Corrie ten Boom	Julie Harris
	Lepke	Louis Buchalter	Tony Curtis
	Lisztomania	Franz Liszt	Roger Daltrey
	Moses the Lawgiver	Moses	Burt Lancaster
	Murph the Surf	Jack Roland Murphy	Don Stroud
	The Naked Civil Servant	Quentin Crisp	John Hurt
	The Other Side of the Mountain	Jill Kinmont	Marilyn Hassett
	The Story of Adele H.	Adèle Hugo	Isabelle Adjani
	Un prete scomodo	Lorenzo Milani	Enrico Maria Salerno
1976	Amelia Earhart (miniseries)	Amelia Earhart	Susan Clark
	Bound for Glory	Woody Guthrie	David Carradine
	Bruce Lee and I	Bruce Lee	Danny Lee
	Bruce Lee and I	Betty Ting Pei	Betty Ting Pei
	Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth	Bruce Lee	Bruce Li
	Buffalo Bill and the Indians	Buffalo Bill	Paul Newman
	The Disappearance of Aimee	Aimee Semple McPherson	Faye Dunaway
	Eleanor and Franklin	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Edward Herrmann
	Eleanor and Franklin	Eleanor Roosevelt	Jane Alexander
	Fellini's Casanova	Giacomo Casanova	Donald Sutherland
	Gable and Lombard	Clark Gable	James Brolin
	Gable and Lombard	Carole Lombard	Jill Clayburgh
	James Dean (1976 film)	James Dean	Stephen McHattie
	The Last of Mrs. Lincoln	Mary Todd Lincoln	Julie Harris
	Mad Dog Morgan	Dan Morgan	Dennis Hopper^[2]
	The Message	Muhammad	Anthony Quinn
	The Story of David	King David	Timothy Bottoms
	Sybil	Shirley Ardell Mason	Sally Field
	W.C. Fields and Me	W. C. Fields	Rod Steiger
1977	Chanakya Chandragupta	Chanakya	Akkineni Nageswara Rao
	Chanakya Chandragupta	Chandragupta	N. T. Rama Rao
	The Amazing Howard Hughes	Howard Hughes	Tommy Lee Jones
	Greased Lightning	Wendell Scott	Richard Pryor
	The Greatest	Muhammad Ali	Muhammad Ali
	MacArthur	Douglas MacArthur	Gregory Peck
	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	Roseann Quinn	Diane Keaton
	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	J. Edgar Hoover	Broderick Crawford
	Rembrandt fecit 1669	Rembrandt	Frans Stelling as (Rembrandt young)
	Rembrandt fecit 1669	Rembrandt	Ton de Koff as (Rembrandt old)
	Scott Joplin	Scott Joplin	Billy Dee Williams
	Valentino	Rudolph Valentino	Rudolf Nureyev
	Wilma	Wilma Rudolph	Shirley Jo Finney
1978	American Hot Wax	Alan Freed	Tim McIntire
	Bud and Lou	Bud Abbott	Harvey Korman
	Bud and Lou	Lou Costello	Buddy Hackett
	The Buddy Holly Story	Buddy Holly	Gary Busey
	Deadman's Curve	Jan Berry	Richard Hatch
	Deadman's Curve	Dean Torrence	Bruce Davison
	Diary of Korean-Japanese War	Yi Sun-sin	Kim Jin-kyu
	Ishi: The Last of His Tribe	Ishi	Eloy Casados
	La Vida y Poesia de Julia de Burgos	Julia de Burgos	Ana Li Diaz
	King	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	Paul Winfield
	The Lost Boys	J. M. Barrie	Ian Holm
	Midnight Express	Billy Hayes	Brad Davis
	Pretty Baby	Ernest J. Bellocq	Keith Carradine
	The Roads of Exile	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	François Simon
1979	Birth of The Beatles	John Lennon	Stephen MacKenna
		Paul McCartney	Rod Culbertson
		George Harrison	John Altman
		Ringo Starr	Ray Ashcroft
	The Bronte Sisters	Charlotte Brontë	Isabelle Adjani
		Emily Brontë	Marie-France Pisier
		Anne Brontë	Isabelle Huppert
	Caligula	Gaius Germanicus Caligula	Malcolm McDowell
	Elvis	Elvis Presley	Kurt Russell
	Escape from Alcatraz	Frank Morris	Clint Eastwood
	Jesus	Jesus	Brian Deacon
	Les Égouts du paradis	Albert Spaggiari	Francis Huster
	Meetings with Remarkable Men	George Gurdjieff	Dragan Maksimovic
	The Onion Field	Karl Francis Hettinger	John Savage
		Gregory Powell	James Woods
		Jimmy Lee Smith	Franklyn Seales
	Vlad Tepes	Vlad the Impaler	Stefan Sileanu^[3]

1980s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
1980	Breaker Morant	Breaker Morant	Edward Woodward
	Coal Miner's Daughter	Loretta Lynn	Sissy Spacek
	The Elephant Man	John Merrick	John Hurt
	Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones	Jim Jones	Powers Boothe
	Heart Beat	Neal Cassady	Nick Nolte
		Carolyn Cassady	Sissy Spacek
		Jack Kerouac	John Heard
	Heaven's Gate	James "Jim" Averall	Kris Kristofferson
		Ellen Watson	Isabelle Huppert
		Nate Champion	Christopher Walken
	The Hunter	Ralph "Papa" Thorson	Steve McQueen
	Nijinsky	Vaslav Nijinsky	George de la Peña
	The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd	Samuel Mudd	Dennis Weaver
	Raging Bull	Jake LaMotta	Robert De Niro
	The Secret of Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla	Petar Božović
	A Time for Miracles	Elizabeth Ann Seton	Kate Mulgrew
	Where the Buffalo Roam	Hunter S. Thompson	Bill Murray
1981	Agony	Grigori Rasputin	Alexei Petrenko
	Chariots of Fire	Harold Abrahams	Ben Cross
	Chariots of Fire	Eric Liddell	Ian Charleson
	Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo	Christiane F.	Natja Brunckhorst
	Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story	Dorothy Stratten	Jamie Lee Curtis
	Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story	Paul Snider	Bruce Weitz
	Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung	Egon Schiele	Mathieu Carrière
	The Girl with the Red Hair	Hannie Schaft	Renée Soutendijk
	Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy	Jacqueline Kennedy	Jaclyn Smith
	Lion of the Desert	Omar Mukhtar	Anthony Quinn
	Mommie Dearest	Joan Crawford	Faye Dunaway
	Peter and Paul	Paul of Tarsus	Anthony Hopkins
	Peter and Paul	Peter the Fisherman	Robert Foxworth
	Al Qadisiyya	Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas	Ezzat El Alaili
	Reds	John Reed	Warren Beatty
	Rise and Fall of Idi Amin	Idi Amin	Joseph Olita
	Stand By Your Man	Tammy Wynette	Annette O'Toole
	Stand By Your Man	George Jones	Tim McIntire
1982	Macbeth	Macbeth of Scotland	György Cserhalmi
	Flight of the Eagle	Salomon August Andrée	Max von Sydow
	Frances	Frances Farmer	Jessica Lange
	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Ben Kingsley
	Grace Kelly	Grace Kelly	Cheryl Ladd
	The Grey Fox	Bill Miner	Richard Farnsworth
	Legend of a Fighter	Fok Yuen-kap	Bryan Leung
	Missing	Charles Horman	John Shea
	The Return of Martin Guerre	Arnaud du Tilh	Gérard Depardieu
	The Return of Martin Guerre	Bertrande de Rols	Nathalie Baye
	The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana	Charles, Prince of Wales	Christopher Baines
	The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana	Diana, Princess of Wales	Catherine Oxenberg
	The White Rose	Sophie Scholl	Lena Stolze
	A Woman Called Golda	Golda Meir	Ingrid Bergman
1983	Adi Shankaracharya	Adi Shankara	Sarvadaman D. Banerjee
	Banović Strahinja	Strahinja Banović	Franco Nero
	Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess	Rita Hayworth	Lynda Carter
	Cross Creek	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	Mary Steenburgen
	Champions	Bob Champion	John Hurt
	Danton	Georges Danton	Gérard Depardieu
	Dempsey	Jack Dempsey	Treat Williams
	Heart Like a Wheel	Shirley Muldowney	Bonnie Bedelia
	Kennedy	John F. Kennedy	Martin Sheen
	Kennedy	Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy	Blair Brown
	Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story	Hank Williams, Jr.	Richard Thomas
	Sadat	Anwar El Sadat	Louis Gossett, Jr
	The Scarlet and the Black	Hugh O'Flaherty	Gregory Peck
	Silkwood	Karen Silkwood	Meryl Streep
	Star 80	Dorothy Stratten	Mariel Hemingway
	Star 80	Paul Snider	Eric Roberts
	Wagner	Richard Wagner	Richard Burton
1984	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	F. Murray Abraham
	Amadeus	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Tom Hulce
	The Bounty	Captain William Bligh	Anthony Hopkins
	The Bounty	First Mate Fletcher Christian	Mel Gibson
	The Jesse Owens Story	Jesse Owens	Dorian Harewood
	The Killing Fields	Sydney Schanberg	Sam Waterston
		Dith Pran	Haing S. Ngor
		Jon Swain	Julian Sands
	The Miracle Continues	Helen Keller	Mare Winningham
	Puccini	Giacomo Puccini	Robert Stephens
	Samson and Delilah	Samson	Max von Sydow
	Samson and Delilah	Delilah	Belinda Bauer
1985	Colonel Redl	Alfred Redl	Klaus Maria Brandauer
	Dance with a Stranger	Ruth Ellis	Miranda Richardson
	Eoudong	Uhwudong	Lee Bo-hee
	God Rot Tunbridge Wells	George Frideric Handel	Trevor Howard
	King David	King David	Richard Gere
	Marie	Marie Ragghianti	Sissy Spacek
	Mask	Florence Dennis	Cher
	Mask	Roy L. Dennis	Eric Stoltz
	Mata Hari	Mata Hari	Sylvia Kristel
	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Yukio Mishima	Ken Ogata
	Robert Kennedy & His Times	Robert F. Kennedy	Brad Davis
	Out of Africa	Karen Blixen	Meryl Streep
	Out of Africa	Denys Finch Hatton	Robert Redford
	Sweet Dreams	Patsy Cline	Jessica Lange
	Sylvia	Sylvia Ashton-Warner	Eleanor David
	Wallenberg: A Hero's Story	Raoul Wallenberg	Richard Chamberlain
1986	The Boy in Blue	Ned Hanlan	Nicolas Cage
	Castaway	Gerald Kingsland	Oliver Reed
	Castaway	Lucy Irvine	Amanda Donohoe
	The Deliberate Stranger	Ted Bundy	Mark Harmon
	George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation	George Washington	Barry Bostwick
	Heartburn	Nora Ephron	Meryl Streep
	Heartburn	Carl Bernstein	Jack Nicholson
	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	Henry Lee Lucas	Michael Rooker
	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	Otis Toole	Tom Towles
	Hwang Jin Yi	Hwang Jini	Chang Mi-hee
	Lady Jane	Lady Jane Grey	Helena Bonham Carter
	The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James	Frank James	Johnny Cash
	The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James	Jesse James	Kris Kristofferson
	Palay Khan	Palay Khan	Jackie Shroff
	Romanza final	Julián Gayarre	José Carreras
	Salvador	Richard Boyle	James Woods
	Second Serve	Renee Richards	Vanessa Redgrave
	Shaka Zulu	Shaka	Henry Cele
	Sid and Nancy	Sid Vicious	Gary Oldman
	Sid and Nancy	Nancy Spungen	Chloe Webb
	Thérèse	Thérèse of Lisieux	Catherine Mouchet
	A Winner Never Quits	Pete Gray	Keith Carradine
1987	The Betty Ford Story	Betty Ford	Gena Rowlands
	Blonde Dolly	Blonde Dolly	Hilde Van Mieghem
	84 Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff	Anne Bancroft
	84 Charing Cross Road	Frank Doel	Anthony Hopkins
	A Child Called Jesus	Jesus	Matteo Bellina
	Cry Freedom	Steve Biko	Denzel Washington
	The Impossible Spy	Eli Cohen	John Shea
	La Bamba	Ritchie Valens	Lou Diamond Phillips
	LBJ: The Early Years	Lyndon B. Johnson	Randy Quaid
	The Last Emperor	Pu-Yi	John Lone
	Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story	Barbara Hutton	Farrah Fawcett
	Prick Up Your Ears	Joe Orton	Gary Oldman
	Prick Up Your Ears	Kenneth Halliwell	Alfred Molina
	The Sicilian	Salvatore Giuliano	Christopher Lambert
	Shinran: Path to Purity	Shinran	Junkyu Moriyama
	The Untouchables	Eliot Ness	Kevin Costner
	The Untouchables	Al Capone	Robert De Niro
	Waiting for the Moon	Gertrude Stein	Linda Bassett
	Waiting for the Moon	Alice B. Toklas	Linda Hunt
	Walker	William Walker	Ed Harris
	Good Morning Vietnam	Adrian Cronauer	Robin Williams
	Yohwa Eoludong	Uhwudong	Kim Muh-hee
1988	Bird	Charlie Parker	Forest Whitaker
	Bloodsport	Frank Dux	Jean-Claude Van Damme
	Camille Claudel	Camille Claudel	Isabelle Adjani
	A Cry in the Dark	Lindy Chamberlain	Meryl Streep
	David	David Rothenberg	Matthew Lawrence
	David	Marie Rothenberg	Bernadette Peters
	Diary of King Yeonsan	Yeonsangun of Joseon	Yu In-chon
	Elvis and Me	Elvis Presley	Dale Midkiff
	Elvis and Me	Priscilla Presley	Susan Walters
	Gorillas in the Mist	Dian Fossey	Sigourney Weaver
	Hanna's War	Hannah Szenes	Maruschka Detmers
	The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway	Ernest Hemingway	Victor Garber
	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	Sam Waterston
	Onassis: The Richest Man in the World	Aristotle Onassis	Raul Julia
	Painted Faces	Yu Jim-yuen	Sammo Hung
	Patty Hearst	Patty Hearst	Natasha Richardson
	Stand and Deliver	Jaime Escalante	Edward James Olmos
	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Preston Tucker	Jeff Bridges
	Young Guns	Billy the Kid	Emilio Estevez
1989	Billy the Kid	Billy the Kid	Val Kilmer
	Blaze	Earl Long	Paul Newman
	Blaze	Blaze Starr	Lolita Davidovich
	Bomber Harris	Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet	John Thaw
	Born on the Fourth of July	Ron Kovic	Tom Cruise
	Communion	Whitley Strieber	Christopher Walken
	Francesco	Francis of Assisi	Mickey Rourke
	Glory	Colonel Robert Gould Shaw	Matthew Broderick
	Great Balls of Fire!	Jerry Lee Lewis	Dennis Quaid
	Henry V	Henry V of England	Kenneth Branagh
	The Karen Carpenter Story	Karen Carpenter	Cynthia Gibb
	Lean on Me	Joe Louis Clark	Morgan Freeman
	My Left Foot	Christy Brown	Daniel Day-Lewis
	Paganini	Niccolò Paganini	Klaus Kinski
	Rikyu	Sen no Rikyū	Rentarō Mikuni
	Romero	Óscar Romero	Raúl Juliá
	Triumph of the Spirit	Salamo Arouch	Willem Dafoe
	Winter of '54: Father Pierre	Abbé Pierre	Lambert Wilson
	Wired	John Belushi	Michael Chiklis
	Tjoet Nja' Dhien	Cut Nyak Dhien	Christine Hakim

1990s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
1990	An Angel at My Table	Janet Frame	Karen Fergusson (child), Alexia Keogh (adolescent) and Kerry Fox (adult)
	Awakenings	Oliver Sacks	Robin Williams
	Bhim Garjana	B. R. Ambedkar	Krishnanand
	C.H. Spurgeon Tonight	Charles Spurgeon	Craig Skinner
	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	Gérard Depardieu
	A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia	T. E. Lawrence	Ralph Fiennes
	A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia	Faisal I of Iraq	Alexander Siddig
	The Dreamer of Oz	L. Frank Baum	John Ritter
	The Elegant Criminal	Pierre François Lacenaire	Daniel Auteuil
	Europa Europa	Solomon Perel	Marco Hofschneider
	Family of Spies	John Anthony Walker	Powers Boothe
	Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg	Raoul Wallenberg	Stellan Skarsgård
	Goodfellas	Henry Hill	Ray Liotta
	Henry & June	Henry Miller	Fred Ward
		June Miller	Uma Thurman
		Anaïs Nin	Maria de Medeiros
		Hugo Guiler	Richard E. Grant
	Iron & Silk	Mark Salzman	Mark Salzman
	The Krays	The Kray twins	Martin Kemp and Gary Kemp
	Nambugun	Lee Tae	Ahn Sung-ki
	The Nasty Girl	Anna Rosmus	Lena Stolze
	Reversal of Fortune	Claus von Bülow	Jeremy Irons
	Reversal of Fortune	Sunny von Bülow	Glenn Close
	Rock Hudson	Rock Hudson	Thomas Ian Griffith
	Schweitzer	Albert Schweitzer	Malcolm McDowell
	Vincent & Theo	Vincent van Gogh	Tim Roth
	Vincent & Theo	Theo van Gogh	Paul Rhys
	Young Guns II	Billy the Kid	Emilio Estevez
1991	Babe Ruth	Babe Ruth	Stephen Lang
	Balak Ambedkar	B. R. Ambedkar	Chiranjeevi Vinay
	Bugsy	Bugsy Siegel	Warren Beatty
	Cabeza de Vaca	Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca	Juan Diego
	Center Stage	Ruan Lingyu	Maggie Cheung
	Death Song	Yun Sim-deok	Chang Mi-hee
	Dillinger	John Dillinger	Mark Harmon
	The Doors	Jim Morrison	Val Kilmer
	Impromptu	Frédéric Chopin	Hugh Grant
	Impromptu	George Sand	Judy Davis
	JFK	Jim Garrison	Kevin Costner
	The Josephine Baker Story	Josephine Baker	Lynn Whitfield
	Lucy & Desi: Before The Laughter	Lucille Ball	Frances Fisher
	Lucy & Desi: Before The Laughter	Desi Arnaz	Maurice Benard
	Not Without My Daughter	Betty Mahmoody	Sally Field
	Once Upon a Time in China	Wong Fei-hung	Jet Li
	The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend	Pete Maravich	Adam Guier
	Prisoner of Honor	Georges Picquart	Richard Dreyfuss
	Tous les matins du monde	Marin Marais	Gérard Depardieu
	Van Gogh	Vincent van Gogh	Jacques Dutronc
	A Woman Named Jackie	Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	Roma Downey
	A Woman Named Jackie	John F. Kennedy	Stephen Collins
	Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken	Sonora Webster Carver	Gabrielle Anwar
	Young Catherine	Catherine II of Russia	Julia Ormond
1992	Amy Fisher: My Story	Amy Fisher	Noelle Parker
	The Babe	Babe Ruth	John Goodman
	Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story	Bonnie Parker	Tracey Needham
	Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story	Clyde Barrow	Dana Ashbrookt
	Chaplin	Charlie Chaplin	Robert Downey, Jr.
	Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After	Charles, Prince of Wales	Christopher Baines
	Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After	Diana, Princess of Wales	Catherine Oxenberg
	Citizen Cohn	Roy Marcus Cohn	James Woods
	1492: Conquest of Paradise	Christopher Columbus	Gérard Depardieu
	Christopher Columbus: The Discovery	Christopher Columbus	Georges Corraface
	Daens	Adolf Daens	Jan Decleir
	Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story	Hank Gathers	Victor Love
	Hoffa	Jimmy Hoffa	Jack Nicholson
	The Jacksons: An American Dream	Jackson family	various casts
	The Last of His Tribe	Ishi	Graham Greene
	Lorenzo's Oil	Augusto Odone	Nick Nolte
	Lorenzo's Oil	Michaela Odone	Susan Sarandon
	Malcolm X	Malcolm X	Denzel Washington
	A River Runs Through It	Norman Maclean	Craig Sheffer
	Ruby	Jack Ruby	Danny Aiello
	Sinatra	Frank Sinatra	Philip Casnoff
	Stalin	Joseph Stalin	Robert Duvall
	Swoon	Nathan Leopold	Craig Chester
	Swoon	Richard Loeb	Daniel Schlachet
	To Catch a Killer	John Wayne Gacy	Brian Dennehy
1993	The Amy Fisher Story	Amy Fisher	Drew Barrymore
	Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière	Isabelle de Charrière	Will van Kralingen
	Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière	Benjamin Constant	Laus Steenbeeke
	Benito	Benito Mussolini	Antonio Banderas
	Cannibal! The Musical	Alferd Packer	Trey Parker
	Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story	Amy Fisher	Alyssa Milano
	Cool Runnings	1988 Jamaican Bobsleigh Team	Leon Robinson Doug E. Doug Rawle D. Lewis Malik Yoba
	Diana: Her True Story	Diana, Princess of Wales	Serena Scott Thomas
	Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story	Bruce Lee	Jason Scott Lee
	Fong Sai Yuk	Fong Sai Yuk	Jet Li
	Geronimo: An American Legend	Geronimo	Wes Studi
	Heaven & Earth	Le Ly Hayslip	Hiep Thi Le
	In The Name Of The Father	Guildford Four	Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite
	Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life	Jeffrey Dahmer	Carl Crew
	JFK: Reckless Youth	John F. Kennedy	Patrick Dempsey
	Ludwig 1881	Ludwig II of Bavaria	Helmut Berger
	M. Butterfly	Bernard Boursicot	Jeremy Irons
	Rudy	Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger	Sean Astin
	Schindler's List	Oskar Schindler	Liam Neeson
	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Joshua Waitzkin	Max Pomeranc
	Shadowlands	C. S. Lewis	Anthony Hopkins
	Shadowlands	Joy Gresham	Debra Winger
	Shrinatha Kavi Sarvabhowma	Srinatha	Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould	Glenn Gould	Colm Feore
	This Boy's Life	Tobias Wolff	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Tombstone	Wyatt Earp	Kurt Russell
	Tombstone	Doc Holliday	Val Kilmer
	Viva Castro!	Fidel Castro	Pavel Zharkov
	What's Love Got to Do with It	Tina Turner	Angela Bassett
	What's Love Got to Do with It	Ike Turner	Laurence Fishburne
	Wittgenstein	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Karl Johnson
	Yugpurush Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar	B. R. Ambedkar	Narayan Dulake
	Zelda	Zelda Fitzgerald	Natasha Richardson
	Zohar	Zohar Argov	Shaul Mizrachi
1994	Vivekananda	Swami Vivekananda	Sarvadaman D. Banerjee
	Abraham	Abraham	Richard Harris
	Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight	Amelia Earhart	Diane Keaton
	Backbeat	Stuart Sutcliffe	Stephen Dorff
	Backbeat	John Lennon	Ian Hart
	Bandit Queen	Phoolan Devi	Seema Biswas
	A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story	Margaret Mitchell	Shannen Doherty
	Cobb	Ty Cobb	Tommy Lee Jones
	Ed Wood	Ed Wood	Johnny Depp
	Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi	Martin Landau
	Farinelli	Farinelli	Stefano Dionisi
	Frank & Jesse	Jesse James	Rob Lowe
	Frank & Jesse	Frank James	Bill Paxton
	Heavenly Creatures	Pauline Parker	Melanie Lynskey
	Heavenly Creatures	Juliet Hulme	Kate Winslet
	Immortal Beloved	Ludwig van Beethoven	Gary Oldman
	La Reine Margot	Queen Margot	Isabelle Adjani
	Jacob	Jacob	Matthew Modine
	The Madness of King George	George III of the United Kingdom	Nigel Hawthorne
	Mesmer	Franz Anton Mesmer	Alan Rickman
	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Dorothy Parker	Jennifer Jason Leigh
	Nostradamus	Nostradamus	Tchéky Karyo
	Quiz Show	Charles Van Doren	Ralph Fiennes
	The Road to Wellville	John Harvey Kellogg	Anthony Hopkins
	8 Seconds	Lane Frost	Luke Perry
	A Soul Haunted by Painting	Pan Yuliang	Gong Li
	Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	Squanto	Adam Beach
	Tom & Viv	T. S. Eliot	Willem Dafoe
	Tom & Viv	Vivienne Haigh-Wood	Miranda Richardson
	The Vernon Johns Story	Vernon Johns	James Earl
	Wing Chun	Yim Wing-chun	Michelle Yeoh
	Wyatt Earp	Wyatt Earp	Kevin Costner
	Zorn	Anders Zorn	Gunnar Hellström
1995	Aletta Jacobs: Het Hoogste Streven	Aletta Jacobs	Luutgard Willems
	Apollo 13	Jim Lovell	Tom Hanks
		Jack Swigert	Kevin Bacon
		Fred Haise	Bill Paxton
	Balto	Balto	Kevin Bacon (voice)
	The Basketball Diaries	Jim Carroll	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Braveheart	William Wallace	Mel Gibson
	Casino	Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal	Robert De Niro
	Catherine the Great	Catherine II of Russia	Catherine Zeta-Jones
	Carrington	Dora Carrington	Emma Thompson
	Carrington	Lytton Strachey	Jonathan Pryce
	Citizen X	Andrei Chikatilo	Jeffrey DeMunn
	Dangerous Minds	LouAnne Johnson	Michelle Pfeiffer
	Dead Man Walking	Sister Helen Prejean	Susan Sarandon
	Faustina	Mary Faustina Kowalska	Dorota Segda
	The Flor Contemplacion Story	Flor Contemplacion	Nora Aunor
	Jefferson in Paris	Thomas Jefferson	Nick Nolte
	Joseph	Joseph	Paul Mercurio
	Le Grand blanc de Lambaréné	Albert Schweitzer	André Wilms
	Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story	Elizabeth Taylor	Sherilyn Fenn
	Love Can Build a Bridge	Naomi Judd	Kathleen York
	Love Can Build a Bridge	Wynonna Judd	Viveka Davis
	Murder in the First	Henri Young	Kevin Bacon
	Nixon	Richard Nixon	Anthony Hopkins
	Panther	Bobby Seale	Courtney B. Vance
	Panther	Huey P. Newton	Marcus Chong
	Restoration	Charles II of England	Sam Neill
	Rob Roy	Robert Roy MacGregor	Liam Neeson
	Sister My Sister	Christine and Lea Papin	Joely Richardson
	Sister My Sister	Christine and Lea Papin	Jodhi May
	Solomon & Sheba	Solomon	Jimmy Smits
	Solomon & Sheba	Queen of Sheba	Halle Berry
	Total Eclipse	Arthur Rimbaud	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Total Eclipse	Paul Verlaine	David Thewlis
	Truman	Harry S. Truman	Gary Sinise
	Wild Bill	Wild Bill Hickok	Jeff Bridges
	Wild Bill	Calamity Jane	Ellen Barkin
	Madonna: Innocence Lost	Madonna	Terumi Matthews
	The Young Poisoner's Handbook	Graham Young	Hugh O'Conor (older) Tobias Arnold (young)
1996	Basquiat	Jean-Michel Basquiat	Jeffrey Wright
	Beaumarchais	Pierre Beaumarchais	Fabrice Luchini
	The Crucible	John Proctor	Daniel Day-Lewis
	The Crucible	Abigail Williams	Winona Ryder
	Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story	Dorothy Day	Moira Kelly
	Evita	Eva Perón	Madonna
	The Ghost and the Darkness	John Henry Patterson	Val Kilmer
	Ghosts of Mississippi	Byron De La Beckwith	James Woods
	A Girl Called Rosemary	Rosemarie Nitribitt	Nina Hoss
	Gotti	John Gotti	Armand Assante
	Infinity	Richard Feynman	Matthew Broderick
	In Love and War	Ernest Hemingway	Chris O'Donnell
	I Shot Andy Warhol	Valerie Solanas	Lili Taylor
	Killer: A Journal of Murder	Carl Panzram	James Woods
	Michael Collins	Michael Collins	Liam Neeson
	Moses	Moses	Ben Kingsley
	Nasser 56	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Ahmed Zaki
	Norma Jean & Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe	Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino
	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Larry Flynt	Woody Harrelson
	Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny	Grigori Rasputin	Alan Rickman
	Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault	Earl Manigault	Don Cheadle
	Samson and Delilah	Samson	Dennis Hopper
	Samson and Delilah	Delilah	Elizabeth Hurley
	Shine	David Helfgott	Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor
	Surviving Picasso	Pablo Picasso	Anthony Hopkins
	Unabomber: The True Story	Ted Kaczynski	Tobin Bell
	The Whole Wide World	Robert E. Howard	Vincent D'Onofrio
	The Whole Wide World	Novalyne Price Ellis	Renée Zellweger
1997	Amistad	John Quincy Adams	Anthony Hopkins
	Amistad	Martin Van Buren	Nigel Hawthorne
	Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story	Greg Louganis	Mario Lopez
	David	King David	Nathaniel Parker
	The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca	Federico García Lorca	Andy García
	Donnie Brasco	Donnie Brasco	Johnny Depp
	Elvis Meets Nixon	Elvis Presley	Rick Peters
	Elvis Meets Nixon	Richard Nixon	Bob Gunton
	Four Days in September	Fernando Gabeira	Pedro Cardoso
	Four Days in September	Charles Burke Elbrick	Alan Arkin
	The Gambler	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Michael Gambon
	Hoodlum	Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson	Laurence Fishburne
		Dutch Schultz	Tim Roth
		Lucky Luciano	Andy Garcia
	Kundun	Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama	Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, others
	The Last Time I Committed Suicide	Neal Cassady	Thomas Jane
	Mrs Brown	Queen Victoria	Judi Dench
	Mrs Brown	John Brown	Billy Connolly
	My Heart Is Mine Alone	Else Lasker-Schüler	Lena Stolze
	My Heart Is Mine Alone	Gottfried Benn	Cornelius Obonya
	Prefontaine	Steve Prefontaine	Jared Leto
	Private Parts	Howard Stern	Howard Stern
	Rizal sa Dapitan	Jose Rizal	Albert Martinez
	Rough Riders	Theodore Roosevelt	Tom Berenger
	Saint-Ex	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	Bruno Ganz
	Selena	Selena	Jennifer Lopez
	Seven Years in Tibet	Heinrich Harrer	Brad Pitt
	Solomon	King Solomon	Ben Cross
	The Soong Sisters	Soong Ching-ling	Maggie Cheung
		Soong Ai-ling	Michelle Yeoh
		Soong Mei-ling	Vivian Wu
	The Sarah Balabagan Story	Sarah Balabagan	Vina Morales
	Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Stephen Fry
1998	54	Steve Rubell	Mike Myers
	A Bright Shining Lie	John Paul Vann	Bill Paxton
	A Civil Action	Jan Schlichtmann	John Travolta
	Dangerous Beauty	Veronica Franco	Catherine McCormack
	Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess	Diana, Princess of Wales	Amy Seccombe
	Elizabeth	Elizabeth I	Cate Blanchett
	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson	Johnny Depp
	Fifteen and Pregnant	Tina Spangler	Kirsten Dunst
	The General	Martin Cahill	Brendan Gleeson
	Gia	Gia Marie Carangi	Angelina Jolie
	Gods and Monsters	James Whale	Ian McKellen
	Grey Owl	Grey Owl	Pierce Brosnan
	Hilary and Jackie	Hilary du Pré	Rachel Griffiths
	Hilary and Jackie	Jacqueline du Pré	Emily Watson
	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	Patrick Dempsey
	Jinnah	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	Christopher Lee
	José Rizal	José Rizal	Cesar Montano
	Lautrec	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	Régis Royer
	Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon	Francis Bacon	Derek Jacobi
	Patch Adams	Hunter "Patch" Adams	Robin Williams
	Permanent Midnight	Jerry Stahl	Ben Stiller
	The Prince of Egypt	Moses and Ramesses II	Val Kilmer and Ralph Fiennes (voices)
	The Rat Pack	Frank Sinatra	Ray Liotta
		Dean Martin	Joe Mantegna
		Sammy Davis, Jr.	Don Cheadle
	The Temptations	The Temptations	Leon, Terron Brooks, D. B. Woodside
	Shakespeare in Love	William Shakespeare	Joseph Fiennes
	Winchell	Walter Winchell	Stanley Tucci
	Without Limits	Steve Prefontaine	Billy Crudup
	Without Limits	Bill Bowerman	Donald Sutherland
	Why Do Fools Fall in Love	Frankie Lymon	Larenz Tate
1999	The 13th Warrior	Ahmad ibn Fadlan	Antonio Banderas
	And The Beat Goes On: The Sonny And Cher Story	Sonny Bono	Jay Underwood
	And The Beat Goes On: The Sonny And Cher Story	Cher	Renee Faia
	Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt	Joe Breen young, Ciaran Owens (middle) and Michael Legge (older)
	Anna and the King	Anna Leonowens	Jodie Foster
	Balzac: A Life of Passion	Honoré de Balzac	Gérard Depardieu
	Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena	Hilary Swank
	Children of the Century	George Sand	Juliette Binoche
	Children of the Century	Alfred de Musset	Benoît Magimel
	Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story	Danny Bonaduce	Shawn Pyfrom
	Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story	David Cassidy	Rodney Scott
	Esther	Esther	Louise Lombard
	Girl, Interrupted	Susanna Kaysen	Winona Ryder
	Goya in Bordeaux	Francisco Goya	José Coronado as (Goya young)
	Goya in Bordeaux	Francisco Goya	Francisco Rabal as (Goya old)
	Hefner: Unauthorized	Hugh Hefner	Randall Batinkoff
	The Hurricane	Rubin Carter	Denzel Washington
	The Insider	Jeffrey Wigand	Russell Crowe
	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Dorothy Dandridge	Halle Berry
	Jesus	Jesus	Jeremy Sisto
	Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc	Leelee Sobieski
	Man on the Moon	Andy Kaufman	Jim Carrey
	Mary, Mother of Jesus	Mary of Nazareth	Pernilla August
	Mary, Mother of Jesus	Young Mary	Melinda Kinnaman
	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc	Milla Jovovich
	Moloch	Adolf Hitler	Leonid Mozgovoy
	Molokai: The Story of Father Damien	Father Damien	David Wenham
	Music of the Heart	Roberta Guaspari	Meryl Streep
	October Sky	Homer Hickam	Jake Gyllenhaal
	The Passion of Ayn Rand	Ayn Rand	Helen Mirren
	The Passion of Ayn Rand	Nathaniel Branden	Eric Stoltz
	Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger	Percy Grainger	Richard Roxburgh
	Pirates of Silicon Valley	Steve Jobs	Noah Wyle
	Pirates of Silicon Valley	Bill Gates	Anthony Michael Hall
	RKO 281	Orson Welles	Liev Schreiber
	Rocky Marciano	Rocky Marciano	Jon Favreau
	The Straight Story	Alvin Straight	Richard Farnsworth
	Summer of Sam	David Berkowitz	Michael Badalucco
	To Walk with Lions	George Adamson	Richard Harris
	To Walk with Lions	Tony Fitzjohn	John Michie
	Topsy-Turvy	W. S. Gilbert	Jim Broadbent
	Topsy-Turvy	Arthur Sullivan	Allan Corduner

2000s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
2000	The Audrey Hepburn Story	Audrey Hepburn	Jennifer Love Hewitt
	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas	Javier Bardem
	Best	George Best	John Lynch
	The Beach Boys: An American Family	The Beach Boys	Multiple actors
	Chopper	Mark Brandon "Chopper" Readp	Eric Bana
	Close to Jesus	Joseph of Nazareth	Tabias Moretti
		Mary Magdalene	Maria Grazia Cucinotta
		Judas	Enrico Lo Verso
		Thomas	Ricky Tognazzi
	The Courage To Love	Henriette DeLille	Vanessa L. Williams
	The Crossing	George Washington	Jeff Daniels
	The David Cassidy Story	David Cassidy	Andrew Kavovit
	The David Cassidy Story	Shirley Jones	Dey Young
	Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story	The Monkees	Multiple Actors
	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar	B. R. Ambedkar	Mammootty
	Erin Brockovich	Erin Brockovich	Julia Roberts
	The Farewell	Bertolt Brecht	Josef Bierbichler
	For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story	Arturo Sandoval	Andy Garcia
	Growing Up Brady	Barry Williams	Adam Brody
	Growing Up Brady	Florence Henderson	Rebeccah Bush
	Hendrix	Jimi Hendrix	Wood Harris
	I Dreamed of Africa	Kuki Gallmann	Kim Basinger
	In His Life: The John Lennon Story	John Lennon	Philip McQuillan Phoenix
	In the Light of the Moon	Ed Gein	Steve Railsback
	Isn't She Great	Jacqueline Susann	Bette Midler
	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	Joanne Whalley
	Joe Gould's Secret	Joe Gould	Ian Holm
	Joseph: King of Dreams	Joseph	Ben Affleck (voice)
	Little Richard	Little Richard	Leon Robinson
	Lumumba	Patrice Lumumba	Eriq Ebouaney
	Men of Honor	Carl Brashear	Cuba Gooding, Jr.
	The Miracle Maker	Jesus (voice)	Ralph Fiennes
	Murderous Maids	Christine and Lea Papin	Sylvie Testud
	Murderous Maids	Christine and Lea Papin	Julie-Marie Parmentier
	One Hundred Steps	Giuseppe Impastato	Luigi Lo Cascio
	Pandaemonium	William Wordsworth	John Hannah
	Pandaemonium	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Linus Roache
	Paul the Apostle	Paul of Tarsus	Johannes Brandrup
	Perfect Murder, Perfect Town	Lou Smit	Kris Kristofferson
	Pollock	Jackson Pollock	Ed Harris
	Quills	Marquis de Sade	Geoffrey Rush
	Rated X	Artie Jay Mitchell	Charlie Sheen
	Rated X	James Lloyd "Jim" Mitchell	Emilio Estevez
	Remember the Titans	Herman Boone	Denzel Washington
	Ricky 6	Ricky Kasso	Vincent Kartheiser
	Shadow of the Vampire	F. W. Murnau	John Malkovich
	Shadow of the Vampire	Max Schreck	Willem Dafoe
	Steal This Movie!	Abbie Hoffman	Vincent D'Onofrio
	The Three Stooges	Moe Howard	Paul Ben-Victor
		Larry Fine	Evan Handler
		Curly Howard	Michael Chiklis
		Shemp Howard	John Kassir
	Vatel	François Vatel	Gérard Depardieu
	Word and Utopia	António Vieira	Lima Duarte
	Take Me Home: The John Denver Story	John Denver	Chad Lowe
2001	61*	Roger Maris	Barry Pepper
	61*	Mickey Mantle	Thomas Jane
	Ali	Muhammad Ali	Will Smith
	Anne Frank: The Whole Story	Anne Frank	Hannah Taylor-Gordon
	Attila	Attila	Gerard Butler
	Ayyam El Sadat	Anwar Al Sadat	Ahmad Zaki
	A Beautiful Mind	John Nash	Russell Crowe
	Blow	George Jung	Johnny Depp
	Bojangles	Bill Robinson	Gregory Hines
	Brian's Song	Brian Piccolo	Sean Maher
	Brian's Song	Gale Sayers	Mekhi Phifer
	Bride of the Wind	Alma Mahler	Sarah Wynter
	Bride of the Wind	Gustav Mahler	Jonathan Pryce
	The Cat's Meow	Marion Davies	Kirsten Dunst
	The Cat's Meow	William Randolph Hearst	Edward Herrmann
	Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story	Shirley Temple	Emily Hart (older)
	Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story	Shirley Temple	Ashley Rose Orr (young)
	The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky	Vaslav Nijinsky	Derek Jacobi
	The Gaul	Vercingetorix	Christopher Lambert
	A Huey P. Newton Story	Huey P. Newton	Roger Guenveur Smith
	Hysteria - The Def Leppard Story	Def Leppard	Multiple Actors
	In the Time Of Butterflies	Minerva Mirabal	Salma Hayek
	Iris	Iris Murdoch	Judi Dench (older)
	Iris	Iris Murdoch	Kate Winslet (young)
	Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot	Jacqueline Kennedy	Jill Hennessy
		Ethel Kennedy	Lauren Holly
		Joan Kennedy	Leslie Stefanson
	James Dean	James Dean	James Franco
	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Judy Garland	Judy Davis (older)
	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Judy Garland	Tammy Blanchard (young)
	Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante & Kenny Kimes	Sante Kimes	Mary Tyler Moore
		Kenny Kimes	Gabriel Olds
	Mad Love	Joanna of Castile	Pilar López de Ayala
	Mad Love	Philip I of Castile	Daniele Liotti
	The Moving True Story of a Woman Ahead of Her Time	Nienke van Hichtum	Monic Hendrickx
	The Moving True Story of a Woman Ahead of Her Time	Pieter Jelles Troelstra	Jeroen Willems
	The Other Side of Heaven	John H. Groberg	Christopher Gorham
	Piñero	Miguel Piñero	Benjamin Bratt
	Riding in Cars with Boys	Beverly Donofrio	Drew Barrymore
	Taurus	Vladimir Lenin	Leonid Mozgovoy
	Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story	MC Hammer	Romany Malco
	Der Tunnel	Hasso Herschel	Heino Ferch
2002	24 Hour Party People	Tony Wilson	Steve Coogan
	Adaptation	Charlie Kaufman	Nicolas Cage
		Susan Orlean	Meryl Streep
		John Laroche	Chris Cooper
	Antwone Fisher	Antwone Q. Fisher	Derek Luke (adult)
	Antwone Fisher	Antwone Q. Fisher	Malcolm David Kelley (child)
	Auto Focus	Bob Crane	Greg Kinnear
	Bertie and Elizabeth	George VI	James Wilby
	Bertie and Elizabeth	Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	Juliet Aubrey
	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Callas Forever	Maria Callas	Fanny Ardant
	Champion	Kim Duk-koo	Yu Oh-seong
	Chi-hwa-seon	Owon	Choi Min-sik
	The Child I Never Was	Jürgen Bartsch	Tobias Schenke
	Chopin: Desire for Love	Fryderyk Chopin	Piotr Adamczyk
	Chopin: Desire for Love	George Sand	Danuta Stenka
	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Chuck Barris	Sam Rockwell
	Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	Jeremy Renner
	Evelyn	Desmond Doyle	Pierce Brosnan
	Fidel	Fidel Castro	Víctor Huggo Martin
	Frida	Frida Kahlo	Salma Hayek
	Gada Meilin	Gada Meiren	Deligeer
	The Gathering Storm	Winston Churchill	Albert Finney
	Gilda Radner: It's Always Something	Gilda Radner	Jami Gertz
	Gilda Radner: It's Always Something	Gene Wilder	Tom Rooney
	Gleason	Jackie Gleason	Brad Garrett
	The Hours	Virginia Woolf	Nicole Kidman
	The Kid Stays in the Picture	Robert Evans	Robert Evans
	Lapu-Lapu	Lapulapu	Lito Lapid
	Lapu-Lapu	Ferdinand Magellan	Dante Rivero
	The Legend of Bhagat Singh	Bhagat Singh	Ajay Devgan
	Madame Satã	Madame Satã	Lázaro Ramos
	The Man Who Saved Christmas	A.C. Gilbert	Jason Alexander
	Martin and Lewis	Dean Martin	Jeremy Northam
	Martin and Lewis	Jerry Lewis	Sean Hayes
	The Matthew Shepard Story	Matthew Shepard	Shane Meier
	Path to War	Lyndon B. Johnson	Michael Gambon
	The Pianist	Władysław Szpilman	Adrien Brody
	Prince William	Prince William	Jordan Frieda
	The Rookie	Jim Morris	Dennis Quaid
	The Rosa Parks Story	Rosa Parks	Angela Bassett
	Shackleton	Ernest Shackleton	Kenneth Branagh
	The Soul Keeper	Sabina Spielrein	Emilia Fox
	The Soul Keeper	Carl Gustav Jung	Iain Glen
	Francesco	Francis of Assisi	Raoul Bova
	Ted Bundy	Ted Bundy	Michael Reilly Burke
2003	Remake	Zlatko Topčić	Ermin Bravo
	America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story	John F. Kennedy, Jr.	Kristoffer Polaha
		Jackie Kennedy Onassis	Jacqueline Bisset
		Carolyn Bessette Kennedy	Portia de Rossi
	American Splendor	Harvey Pekar	Paul Giamatti
	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Pancho Villa	Antonio Banderas
	BAADASSSSS!	Melvin Van Peebles	Mario Van Peebles
	Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company	John Ritter	Bret Anthony
		Suzanne Somers	Jud Tylor
		Joyce DeWitt	Melanie Deanne Moore
	Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor	Benedict Arnold	Aidan Quinn
	Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor	George Washington	Kelsey Grammer
	Blind Flight	John McCarthy	Linus Roache
	Blind Flight	Brian Keenan	Ian Hart
	Cambridge Spies	Guy Burgess	Tom Hollander
	Cambridge Spies	Donald MacLean	Rupert Penry-Jones
	Cleopatra	Cleopatra VII	Norma Aleandro
	A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster	Andrew Luster	Jason Gedrick
	The Deal	Gordon Brown	David Morrissey
	The Deal	Tony Blair	Michael Sheen
	The Elizabeth Smart Story	Elizabeth Smart	Amber Marshall
	Gacy	John Wayne Gacy	Mark Holton
	Henry VIII	Henry VIII	Ray Winstone
	High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story	Stu Ungar	Michael Imperioli
	Hitler: The Rise of Evil	Adolf Hitler	Robert Carlyle
	Imperium: Augustus	Caesar Augustus	Peter O' Toole
	The Lion in Winter	King Henry II	Patrick Stewart
	The Lion in Winter	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Glenn Close
	The Lost Prince	Prince John	Daniel Williams (young)
	The Lost Prince	Prince John	Matthew James Thomas (older)
	Lucy	Lucille Ball	Rachel York
	Lucy	Desi Arnaz	Danny Pino
	Luther	Martin Luther	Joseph Fiennes
	Maria Goretti	Maria Goretti	Martina Pinto
	Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart	Martha Stewart	Cybill Shepherd
	Monster	Aileen Wuornos	Charlize Theron
	Mother Teresa of Calcutta	Mother Teresa	Olivia Hussey
	Ned Kelly	Ned Kelly	Heath Ledger
	The Night We Called It a Day	Frank Sinatra	Dennis Hopper
	Paradise Found	Paul Gauguin	Kiefer Sutherland
	Party Monster	Michael Alig	Macaulay Culkin
	Radio	James Robert "Radio" Kennedy	Cuba Gooding, Jr.
	Radio	Harold Jones	Ed Harris
	The Reagans	Ronald Reagan	James Brolin
	The Reagans	Nancy Reagan	Judy Davis
	Seabiscuit	Red Pollard	Tobey Maguire
		Charles S. Howard	Jeff Bridges
		Tom Smith	Chris Cooper
	Shattered Glass	Stephen Glass	Hayden Christensen
	Soraya	Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari	Anna Valle
	Soraya	Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Erol Sander
	Spy Sorge	Richard Sorge	Iain Glen
	Stander	Andre Stander	Thomas Jane
	Swimming Upstream	Tony Fingleton	Jesse Spencer
	Sylvia	Sylvia Plath	Gwyneth Paltrow
	Touching the Void	Joe Simpson	Brendan Mackey
	Veronica Guerin	Veronica Guerin	Cate Blanchett
	Wonderland	John Holmes	Val Kilmer
2004	Against the Ropes	Jackie Kallen	Meg Ryan
	Aimee Semple McPherson	Aimee Semple McPherson	Mimi Michaels
	Alexander	Alexander the Great	Colin Farrell
	The Assassination of Richard Nixon	Samuel Byck	Sean Penn
	The Aviator	Howard Hughes	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Beautiful Boxer	Parinya Charoenphol	Asanee Suwan
	Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels	Farrah Fawcett	Tricia Helfer
		Jaclyn Smith	Christina Chambers
		Kate Jackson	Lauren Stamile
	Bettie Page: Dark Angel	Bettie Page	Paige Richards
	Beyond the Sea	Bobby Darin	Kevin Spacey
	Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius	Bobby Jones	Jim Caviezel
	The Brooke Ellison Story	Brooke Ellison	Lacey Chabert & Vanessa Marano
	Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss	Heidi Fleiss	Jamie-Lynn Sigler
	3: The Dale Earnhardt Story	Dale Earnhardt	Barry Pepper
	De-Lovely	Cole Porter	Kevin Kline
	Downfall
	Downfall	Adolf Hitler	Bruno Ganz
	The Ninth Day	Father Jean Bernard	Ulrich Matthes
	Finding Neverland	J. M. Barrie	Johnny Depp
	Fighter in the Wind	Masutatsu Oyama	Yang Dong-geun
	Hawking	Stephen Hawking	Benedict Cumberbatch
	Helter Skelter	Charles Manson	Jeremy Davies
	Hidalgo	Frank Hopkins	Viggo Mortensen
	Hotel Rwanda	Paul Rusesabagina	Don Cheadle
	Ike: Countdown to D-Day	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Tom Selleck
	Kinsey	Alfred Kinsey	Liam Neeson
	The Libertine	John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester	Johnny Depp
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peter Sellers	Geoffrey Rush
	Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story	Michael Jackson	Flex Alexander
	Miracle	Herb Brooks	Kurt Russell
	Modigliani	Amedeo Modigliani	Andy García
	The Motorcycle Diaries	Che Guevara	Gael García Bernal
	The Motorcycle Diaries	Alberto Granado	Rodrigo de la Serna
	Nero	Nero	Hans Matheson
	My Nikifor	Nikifor	Krystyna Feldman
	The Mystery of Natalie Wood	Natalie Wood	Justine Waddell
	The Mystery of Natalie Wood	Robert Wagner	Michael Weatherly
	Ray	Ray Charles	Jamie Foxx
	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Stanley Tookie Williams	Jamie Foxx
	Rikidōzan	Rikidōzan	Sol Kyung-gu
	Khuni Shikder	Ershad Sikder	Shakib Khan
	The Sea Inside	Ramon Sampedro	Javier Bardem
	Something The Lord Made	Alfred Blalock	Alan Rickman
	Something The Lord Made	Vivien Thomas	Mos Def
	Stage Beauty	Edward Kynaston	Billy Crudup
	Thérèse	Saint Thérèse of Lisieux	Lindsay Younce
2005	2 Filhos de Francisco	Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano	Márcio Kieling
	2 Filhos de Francisco	Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano	Thiago Mendonça
	Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution	Amber Frey	Janel Moloney
		Scott Peterson	Nathan Anderson
		Gloria Allred	Nora Dunn
	Ambulance Girl	Jane Stern	Kathy Bates
	Aurore	Aurore Gagnon	Marianne Fortier
	Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy	Robin Williams	Chris Diamantopoulos
	Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy	Pam Dawber	Erinn Hayes
	Blue Swallow	Park Kyung-won	Jang Jin-young
	Bose – The Forgotten Hero	Subhas Chandra Bose	Sachin Khedekar
	Capote	Truman Capote	Philip Seymour Hoffman
	Charles Wesley: Hymns of Praise	Charles Wesley	John Jackman
	Cinderella Man	James J. Braddock	Russell Crowe
	Coach Carter	Ken Carter	Samuel L. Jackson
	Désiré Landru	Henri Désiré Landru	Patrick Timsit
	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar	B. R. Ambedkar	Vishnukanth B. J.
	Domino	Domino Harvey	Keira Knightley
	Elizabeth I	Elizabeth I of England	Helen Mirren
	Elvis	Elvis Presley	Jonathan Rhys Meyers
	The Flight That Fought Back	Mark Bingham	Jason LeGrande
	The Flight That Fought Back	Jeremy Glick	Kevin Paul
	Gie	Soe Hok Gie	Nicholas Saputra
	Good Night, and Good Luck	Edward R. Murrow	David Strathairn
	The Greatest Game Ever Played	Francis Ouimet	Shia LaBeouf
	The Hunt for the BTK Killer	Dennis Rader	Gregg Henry
	Jarhead	Anthony Swofford	Jake Gyllenhaal
	Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration	Joseph Smith	Nathan Mitchell
	Karol: A Man Who Became Pope	Karol Wojtyła	Piotr Adamczyk
	Lords of Dogtown	Stacy Peralta	John Robinson
		Jay Adams	Emile Hirsch
		Tony Alva	Victor Rasuk
	Marathon	Cho-won^[4]^{[circular reference]}	Cho Seung-woo
	Martha: Behind Bars	Martha Stewart	Cybill Shepherd
	Mrs. Harris	Jean Harris	Annette Bening
	Mrs Henderson Presents	Laura Henderson	Judi Dench
	Murder Unveiled	Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu	Anita Majumdar
	My Family and Other Animals	Gerald Durrell	Eugene Simon
	The New World	John Smith	Colin Farrell
	The New World	Pocahontas	Q'orianka Kilcher
	The Notorious Bettie Page	Bettie Page	Gretchen Mol
	Pierrepoint	Albert Pierrepoint	Timothy Spall
	Pope John Paul II	Pope John Paul II	Cary Elwes (young), Jon Voight (old)
	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio	Evelyn Ryan	Julianne Moore
	The Queen's Sister	Princess Margaret	Lucy Cohu
	Riot at the Rite	Vaslav Nijinsky	Adam Garcia
	The Rising	Mangal Pandey	Aamir Khan
	The Rocket	Maurice Richard	Roy Dupuis
	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl	Julia Jentsch
	Stoned	Brian Jones	Leo Gregory
	Imperium: Saint Peter	Saint Peter	Omar Sharif
	The Sun	Emperor Hirohito	Issey Ogata
	Trump Unauthorized	Donald Trump	Justin Louis
	Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story	Walter Gretzky	Tom McCamus
	Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story	Wayne Gretzky	Kristen Holden-Ried
	Walk the Line	Johnny Cash	Joaquin Phoenix
	Walk the Line	June Carter Cash	Reese Witherspoon
	Warm Springs	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Kenneth Branagh
	Warm Springs	Eleanor Roosevelt	Cynthia Nixon
	Wolf Creek	Mick Taylor	John Jarratt
	The World's Fastest Indian	Burt Munro	Anthony Hopkins
2006	Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa	Albert Schweitzer	Jeff McCarthy
	Amazing Grace	William Wilberforce	Ioan Gruffudd
	Amazing Grace	John Newton	Albert Finney
	The Amazing Grace	John Newton	Nick Moran
	Beau Brummell: This Charming Man	Beau Brummell	James Purefoy
	The Black Dahlia	Elizabeth Short	Mia Kirshner
	The Borgia	Rodrigo Borgia	Lluís Homar
	The Borgia	Cesare Borgia	Sergio Peris-Mencheta
	Catch a Fire	Patrick Chamusso	Derek Luke
	Color of the Cross	Jesus	Jean-Claude La Marre
	The Death of Poe	Edgar Allan Poe	Mark Redfield
	Driving Lessons	Jeremy Brock	Rupert Grint
	El Benny	Benny Moré	Renny Arozarena
	El Cantante	Héctor Lavoe	Marc Anthony
	Factory Girl	Edie Sedgwick	Sienna Miller
	Faith like Potatoes	Angus Buchan	Frank Rautenbach
	The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not a Fairy Tale	Fantasia Barrino	Fantasia Barrino (older)
	The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not a Fairy Tale	Fantasia Barrino	Jamia Simone Nash (young)
	Fearless	Huo Yuanjia	Jet Li
	Find Me Guilty	Giacomo "Jackie" DiNorscio	Vin Diesel
	The Flying Scotsman	Graeme Obree	Jonny Lee Miller
	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus	Diane Arbus	Nicole Kidman
	Glory Road	Don Haskins	Josh Lucas
	The Good Shepherd	James Jesus Angleton	Matt Damon
	Goya's Ghosts	Francisco Goya	Stellan Skarsgård
	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints	Dito Montiel	Robert Downey, Jr. (adult)
	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints	Dito Montiel	Shia LaBeouf (young)
	Hannibal – Rome's Worst Nightmare	Hannibal	Alexander Siddig
	Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross	Henry Dunant	Thomas Jouannet
	Hollywoodland	George Reeves	Ben Affleck
	Infamous	Truman Capote	Toby Jones
	Invincible	Vince Papale	Mark Wahlberg
	Klimt	Gustav Klimt	John Malkovich
	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin	Forest Whitaker
	Marie Antoinette	Marie Antoinette	Kirsten Dunst
	Milarepa	Milarepa	Jamyang Lodro
	Miss Potter	Beatrix Potter	Renée Zellweger
	The Nativity Story	Mary of Nazareth	Keisha Castle-Hughes
	The Nativity Story	Joseph of Nazareth	Oscar Isaac
	One Night with the King	Esther	Tiffany Dupont
	One Night with the King	King Xerxes 1	Luke Goss
	Peaceful Warrior	Dan Millman	Scott Mechlowicz
	Provoked	Kiranjit Ahluwalia	Aishwarya Rai
	The Pursuit of Happyness	Christopher Gardner	Will Smith
	Pushkin: The Last Duel	Alexander Pushkin	Sergei Bezrukov
	The Queen	HM Queen Elizabeth II	Helen Mirren
	Raising Jeffrey Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	Rusty Sneary
	Requiem	Anneliese Michel	Sandra Hüller
	The Ron Clark Story	Ron Clark	Matthew Perry
	Running with Scissors	Augusten Burroughs	Joseph Cross
	Stan	Stan Laurel	Jim Norton (old), Nik Howden (young)
	Stan	Oliver Hardy	Trevor Cooper (old), Mike Goodenough (young)
	Take the Lead	Pierre Dulaine	Antonio Banderas
	United 93	Mark Bingham	Cheyenne Jackson
	United 93	Jeremy Glick	Peter Hermann
	The Water Is Wide	Pat Conroy	Jeff Hephner
	We Are Marshall	Jack Lengyel	Matthew McConaughey
	Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy	Geralyn Lucas	Sarah Chalke
	Wild Romance	Herman Brood	Daniël Boissevain
	World Trade Center	John McLoughlin	Nicolas Cage
	World Trade Center	Will Jimeno	Michael Peña
2007	American Gangster	Frank Lucas	Denzel Washington
	An American Crime	Sylvia Likens	Ellen Page
	An American Crime	Gertrude Baniszewski	Catherine Keener
	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Jesse James	Brad Pitt
		Robert Ford	Casey Affleck
	Assembly	Gu Zidi	Zhang Hanyu
	Becoming Jane	Jane Austen	Anne Hathaway
	The Black Pimpernel	Harald Edelstam	Michael Nyqvist
	Breach	Robert Hanssen	Chris Cooper
	Charlie Wilson's War	Charlie Wilson	Tom Hanks
	Clare and Francis	Clare of Assisi	Mary Petruolo
	Clare and Francis	Francis of Assisi	Ettore Bassi
	Control	Ian Curtis	Sam Riley
	Colour Me Kubrick	Alan Conway	John Malkovich
	The Counterfeiters	Salomon Smolianoff	Karl Markovics
	Crazy	Hank Garland	Waylon Payne
	Dark Matter	Gang Lu	Liu Ye
	Eight Miles High	Uschi Obermaier	Natalia Avelon
	Diana: Last Days of a Princess	Diana, Princess of Wales	Genevieve O'Reilly
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Jean-Dominique Bauby	Mathieu Amalric
	Eichmann	Adolf Eichmann	Thomas Kretschmann
	El Greco	El Greco	Nick Ashdon
	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Elizabeth I	Cate Blanchett
	Freedom Writers	Erin Gruwell	Hilary Swank
	Gandhi, My Father	Mahatma Gandhi	Darshan Jariwala
	Gandhi, My Father	Harilal Gandhi	Akshaye Khanna
	Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea	Genghis Khan	Takashi Sorimachi
	Georg	Georg Ots	Marko Matvere
	Goodbye Bafana	James Gregory	Joseph Fiennes
	Goodbye Bafana	Nelson Mandela	Dennis Haysbert
	The Gray Man	Albert Fish	Patrick Bauchau
	The Great Debaters	Melvin B. Tolson	Denzel Washington
		James L. Farmer, Sr.	Forest Whitaker
		James Farmer	Denzel Whitaker
	The Hoax	Clifford Irving	Richard Gere
	Hwang Jin Yi	Hwang Jin Yi	Song Hye Kyo
	I'm Not There	Bob Dylan	Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Ben Whishaw.
	Into The Wild	Christopher McCandless	Emile Hirsch
	Jump!	Philippe Halsman	Ben Silverstone
	The Killing of John Lennon	Mark David Chapman	Jonas Ball
	The King	Graham Kennedy	Stephen Curry
	La Vie En Rose	Édith Piaf	Marion Cotillard
	Manolete	Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez	Adrien Brody
	My Boy Jack	Jack Kipling	Daniel Radcliffe
	Neal Cassady	Neal Cassady	Tate Donovan
	A Mighty Heart	Mariane Pearl	Angelina Jolie
	A Mighty Heart	Daniel Pearl	Dan Futterman
	Miss Austen Regrets	Jane Austen	Olivia Williams
	Mongol	Genghis Khan	Tadanobu Asano
	Music Within	Richard Pimentel	Ron Livingston
	My Father	Hwang Nam-cheol	Kim Yeong-cheol
	Nightwatching	Rembrandt	Martin Freeman
	Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi	Chiara Mastroianni (voice)
	Pride	Jim Ellis	Terrence Howard
	Rescue Dawn	Dieter Dengler	Christian Bale
	Rise of the Footsoldier	Carlton Leach	Ricci Harnett
	Romulus, My Father	Romulus Gaita	Eric Bana
	Romulus, My Father	Raimond Gaita	Kodi Smit-McPhee
	Saint Mary	Mary (mother of Jesus)	Shabnam Gholikhani
	Shake Hands with the Devil	Roméo Dallaire	Roy Dupuis
	The Singer	Héctor Lavoe	Raul Carbonell
	Sybil	Shirley Ardell Mason	Tammy Blanchard
	Talk to Me	Ralph "Petey" Greene	Don Cheadle
	Tears of a King	Elvis Presley	Matt Lewis
The Ten Commandments	Moses	Ben Kingsley (voice)
Theresa: The Body of Christ	Saint Teresa of Ávila	Paz Vega
26 Years Diary	Lee Su-hyon	Lee Tae-sung
Zodiac	Robert Graysmith	Jake Gyllenhaal
2008	Admiral	Alexander Kolchak	Konstantin Habensky
	Amália	Amália Rodrigues	Sandra Barata
	Billy: The Early Years	Billy Graham	Armie Hammer
	Bronson	Charles Bronson	Tom Hardy
	Cadillac Records	Leonard Chess	Adrien Brody
		Muddy Waters	Jeffrey Wright
		Etta James	Beyoncé Knowles
	Cass	Cass Pennant	Nonso Anozie
	Che	Che Guevara	Benicio del Toro
	Changeling	Christine Collins	Angelina Jolie
	Chapter 27	Mark David Chapman	Jared Leto
	Coco Chanel	Coco Chanel	Shirley MacLaine (older) Barbora Bobuľová (young)
	The Curse of Steptoe	Harry H. Corbett	Jason Isaacs
	The Curse of Steptoe	Wilfrid Brambell	Phil Davis
	Defiance	Tuvia Bielski	Daniel Craig
	Defiance	Zus Bielski	Liev Schreiber
	Der Baader Meinhof Komplex	Ulrike Meinhof	Martina Gedeck
		Andreas Baader	Moritz Bleibtreu
		Gudrun Ensslin	Johanna Wokalek
	The Duchess	Georgiana Cavendish	Keira Knightley
	The Easy Way	Albert Spaggiari	Jean-Paul Rouve
	The Edge of Love	Dylan Thomas	Matthew Rhys
	The Express: The Ernie Davis Story	Ernie Davis	Rob Brown
	Flash of Genius	Robert Kearns	Greg Kinnear
	Forever Enthralled	Mei Lanfang	Leon Lai
	Front of the Class	Brad Cohen	James Wolk
	Frost/Nixon	Richard Nixon	Frank Langella
	Frost/Nixon	David Frost	Michael Sheen
	Hansie	Hansie Cronje	Frank Rautenbach
	House of Saddam	Saddam Hussein	yigal Naor
	House of Saddam	Sajida Khairallah Talfah	Shohreh Aghdashloo
	Hunger	Bobby Sands	Michael Fassbender
	Il Divo	Giulio Andreotti	Toni Servillo
	Ip Man	Ip Man	Donnie Yen
	Jodhaa Akbar	Akbar the Great	Hrithik Roshan
	Jodhaa Akbar	Jodhabai	Aishwarya Rai
	John Adams	John Adams	Paul Giamatti
	John Adams	Abigail Adams	Laura Linney
	The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce	Alexander Pearce	Ciarán McMenamin
	Little Ashes	Salvador Dalí	Robert Pattinson
	Little Ashes	Federico García Lorca	Javier Beltrán
	The Longshots	Jasmine Plummer	Keke Palmer
	Mao's Last Dancer	Li Cunxin	Chi Cao
	Max Manus	Max Manus	Aksel Hennie
	The Messiah	Jesus	Ahmad Soleimani Nia
	Milk	Harvey Milk	Sean Penn
	Mesrine: Killer Instinct	Jacques Mesrine	Vincent Cassel
	Muhammad: The Final Legacy	Muhammad
	Meu Nome Não É Johnny	João Guilherme Estrella	Selton Mello
	The Other Boleyn Girl	Mary Boleyn	Scarlett Johansson
	The Other Boleyn Girl	Anne Boleyn	Natalie Portman
	Public Enemy Number One	Jacques Mesrine	Vincent Cassel
	Portrait of a Beauty	Sin Yun-bok	Kim Min-sun
	The Red Baron	Manfred von Richthofen	Matthias Schweighöfer
	Red Cliff	Zhou Yu	Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
		Zhuge Liang	Takeshi Kaneshiro
		Cao Cao	Zhang Fengyi
	Sagan	Françoise Sagan	Sylvie Testud
	Séraphine	Séraphine Louis	Yolande Moreau
	Skin	Sandra Laing	Sophie Okonedo
	Sugar	Miguel Santos	Algenis Perez Soto
	A Tale of Water on the Southern Island	Yoichi Hatta	Kazuhiko Inoue (Voice)
	Valkyrie	Col. Claus von Stauffenberg	Tom Cruise
	W.	George W. Bush	Josh Brolin
Waltz with Bashir	Ari Folman	Ari Folman (voice)
What We Do Is Secret	Darby Crash	Shane West
Within the Whirlwind	Yevgenia Ginzburg	Emily Watson
2009	Agora	Hypatia	Rachel Weisz
	Albert Schweitzer	Albert Schweitzer	Jeroen Krabbé
	The Damned United	Brian Clough	Michael Sheen
	Amelia	Amelia Earhart	Hilary Swank
	An Englishman in New York	Quentin Crisp	John Hurt
	The Anna Nicole Smith Story	Anna Nicole Smith	Willa Ford
	The Assailant	Manoel Henrique "Besouro Mangangá" Pereira^[5]^{[circular reference]}	Aílton Carmo^[6]
	Berdella^[7]	Robert Berdella	Seth Correa
	Berlin 36	Gretel Bergmann	Karoline Herfurth
	Berlin 36	Marie Ketteler	Sebastian Urzendowsky
	The Blind Side	Leigh Anne Tuohy	Sandra Bullock
		Sean Tuohy	Tim McGraw
		Michael Oher	Quinton Aaron
	Bright Star	John Keats	Ben Whishaw
	Bright Star	Fanny Brawne	Abbie Cornish
	Coco Before Chanel	Coco Chanel	Audrey Tautou
	Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky	Coco Chanel	Anna Mouglalis
	Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky	Igor Stravinsky	Mads Mikkelsen
	Connolly	James Connolly	Peter Mullan
	The Consul of Sodom	Jaime Gil de Biedma	Jordi Mollà
	The Countess	Countess Elizabeth Báthory	Julie Delpy
	The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler	Irena Sendler	Anna Paquin
	Creation	Charles Darwin	Paul Bettany
	Desert Flower	Waris Dirie	Liya Kebede
	Enid	Enid Blyton	Helena Bonham Carter
	Fortapàsc	Giancarlo Siani	Libero De Rienzo
	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story	Ben Carson	Cuba Gooding Jr.
	Georgia O'Keeffe	Georgia O'Keeffe	Joan Allen
	Goemon	Ishikawa Goemon	Yōsuke Eguchi
	Grey Gardens	Edith Ewing Bouvier	Jessica Lange
	Grey Gardens	Edith Bouvier Beale	Drew Barrymore
	Hilde	Hildegard Knef	Heike Makatsch
	The Informant!	Mark Whitacre	Matt Damon
	Into the Storm	Winston Churchill	Brendan Gleeson
	Invictus	Nelson Mandela	Morgan Freeman
	Invictus	François Pienaar	Matt Damon
	John Rabe	John Rabe	Ulrich Tukur
	Julie & Julia	Julie Powell	Amy Adams
	Julie & Julia	Julia Child	Meryl Streep
	King Conqueror	Peter II of Aragon	Tim Roth
	Kerala Varma Pazhassiraja	Pazhassi Raja	Mammootty
	The Last Station	Leo Tolstoy	Christopher Plummer
	Margaret	Margaret Thatcher	Lindsay Duncan
	The Mighty Macs	Cathy Rush	Carla Gugino
	Mulan	Hua Mulan	Zhao Wei
	Natalee Holloway	Natalee Holloway	Amy Gumenick
		Beth Twitty	Tracy Pollan
		Joran van der Sloot	Jacques Strydom
	Notorious	Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace	Jamal Woolard
	Nowhere Boy	John Lennon	Aaron Johnson
	12 Paces Without a Head	Klaus Störtebeker	Ronald Zehrfeld
	Phantom Punch	Sonny Liston	Ving Rhames
	Pope Joan	Pope Joan	Johanna Wokalek
	Princess Kaiulani	Kaʻiulani	Q'Orianka Kilcher
	Public Enemies	John Dillinger	Johnny Depp
		Melvin Purvis	Christian Bale
		Billie Frechette	Marion Cotillard
		Baby Face Nelson	Stephen Graham
	Sanctity Within Reach	Pier Giorgio Frassati	Christine M. Wohar
	See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure	Keith Moon	Mike Myers
	Schweitzer	Albert Schweitzer	Jeroen Krabbé
	Skin	Sandra Laing	Sophie Okonedo
	Soeur Sourire	Jeanine Deckers	Cécile De France
	The Soloist	Steve Lopez	Robert Downey, Jr.
Nathaniel Ayers	The Soloist	Jamie Foxx
Telstar	Joe Meek	Con O'Neill
Toussaint	Toussaint Louverture	Don Cheadle
Van Diemen's Land	Alexander Pearce	Oscar Redding
Vincere	Ida Dalser	Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Vincere	Benito Mussolini	Filippo Timi
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen	Hildegard von Bingen	Barbara Sukowa
Wesley	John Wesley	Burgess Jenkins
The Young Victoria	Queen Victoria	Emily Blunt
Zen	Dōgen Zenji	Nakamura Kantarō II

2010s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Portrayed by
2010	127 Hours	Aron Ralston	James Franco
	The 5th Quarter	Jon Abbate	Ryan Merriman
	American: The Bill Hicks Story	Bill Hicks	Bill Hicks
	Angel of Evil	Renato Vallanzasca	Kim Rossi Stuart
	Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire	Augustine of Hippo	Franco Nero
	The Bang Bang Club	Greg Marinovich	Ryan Phillippe
		Kevin Carter	Taylor Kitsch
		Ken Oosterbroek	Frank Rautenbach
		João Silva	Neels Van Jaarsveld
	Bruce Lee, My Brother	Bruce Lee	Aarif Lee
	Carlos	Carlos the Jackal	Édgar Ramírez
	Casino Jack	Jack Abramoff	Kevin Spacey
	Chico Xavier	Chico Xavier	Nelson Xavier
	Confucius	Confucius	Chow Yun-fat
	Conviction	Betty Anne Waters	Hilary Swank
	Cornelis	Cornelis Vreeswijk	Hank von Hell
	The Day the Music Died^[8]	Buddy Holly	Guy Kent
	Eat Pray Love	Elizabeth Gilbert	Julia Roberts
	Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber	Edith Stein	Maia Morgenstern
	The End Is My Beginning	Tiziano Terzani	Bruno Ganz
	Malik Ek	Sai Baba of Shirdi	Jackie Shroff
	Extraordinary Measures	John Crowley	Brendan Fraser
	Fair Game	Valerie Plame	Naomi Watts
	Fair Game	Joseph Wilson	Sean Penn
	The Fighter	"Irish" Micky Ward	Mark Wahlberg
	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund	Christian Bale
	The First Grader	Kimani Maruge	Oliver Litondo
	Frankie & Alice	Frankie Murdoch	Halle Berry
	Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life	Serge Gainsbourg	Éric Elmosnino
		Jane Birkin	Lucy Gordon
		Brigitte Bardot	Laetitia Casta
	The Great Vazquez	Manuel Vázquez Gallego	Santiago Segura
	The Hammer	Matt Hamill	Russell Harvard
	House of Versace	Donatella Versace	Gina Gershon
	Howl	Allen Ginsberg	James Franco
	I Love You Phillip Morris	Steven Jay Russell	Jim Carrey
	I Love You Phillip Morris	Phillip Morris	Ewan McGregor
	Ip Man 2	Ip Man	Donnie Yen
	Iron Lord	Yaroslav the Wise	Alexander Ivashkevich
	Jew Suss: Rise and Fall	Ferdinand Marian	Tobias Moretti
	The Kingdom of Solomon	Solomon	Amin Zendegani
	The King's Speech	King George VI	Colin Firth
		Lionel Logue	Geoffrey Rush
		Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon	Helena Bonham Carter
	The Legend Is Born: Ip Man	Ip Man	Dennis To
	Leonie	Leonie Gilmour	Emily Mortimer
	Lope	Lope de Vega	Alberto Ammann
	Lula, the son of Brazil	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Rui Ricardo Dias
	Mahler on the Couch	Gustav Mahler	Johannes Silberschneider
	Mahler on the Couch	Alma Mahler	Barbara Romaner
	Max Schmeling	Max Schmeling	Henry Maske
	Mr. Nice	Howard Marks	Rhys Ifans
	Nanga Parbat	Reinhold Messner	Florian Stetter
	Nanga Parbat	Günther Messner	Andreas Tobias
	Risen	Howard Winstone	Stuart Brennan
	The Robber	Johann Kastenberger	Andreas Lust
	The Runaways	Joan Jett	Kristen Stewart
	The Runaways	Cherie Currie	Dakota Fanning
	The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister	Anne Lister	Maxine Peake
	Secretariat	Penny Chenery	Diane Lane
	Secretariat	Lucien Laurin	John Malkovich
	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	Ian Dury	Andy Serkis
	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg	Jesse Eisenberg
		Eduardo Saverin	Andrew Garfield
Sean Parker		Justin Timberlake
Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss		Armie Hammer
Spartacus	Spartacus	Andy Whitfield (season 1), Liam McIntyre (seasons 2-3)
The Special Relationship	Bill Clinton	Dennis Quaid
The Special Relationship	Tony Blair	Michael Sheen
Temple Grandin	Temple Grandin	Claire Danes
Times You Change	Bushido	Elyas M'Barek
Van Gogh: Painted with Words^[9]	Vincent van Gogh	Benedict Cumberbatch
Veda	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	Sinan Tuzcu
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen	Hildegard von Bingen	Barbara Sukowa
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story	Lois Wilson	Winona Ryder
Who Is Clark Rockefeller?	Christian Gerhartsreiter	Eric McCormack
You Don't Know Jack	Jack Kevorkian	Al Pacino
2011	17 Miracles	Levi Savage Jr.	Jasen Wade
	A Yell From Heaven	Hikaru Nakasone	Hiroshi Abe
	Bernie	Bernie Tiede	Jack Black
	The Amanda Knox Story	Amanda Knox	Hayden Panettiere
	Bakhita: From Slave to Saint	Josephine Bakhita	Fatou Kine Boye
	Cinema Verite	Pat Loud	Diane Lane
		Bill Loud	Tim Robbins
		Lance Loud	Thomas Dekker
	Citizen Gangster	Edwin Alonzo Boyd	Scott Speedman
	Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl	Bruna Surfistinha	Deborah Secco
	The Craigslist Killer	Philip Markoff	Jake McDorman
	A Dangerous Method	Sigmund Freud	Viggo Mortensen
		Carl Gustav Jung	Michael Fassbender
		Sabina Spielrein	Keira Knightley
	The Devil's Double	Latif Yahia / Uday Hussein	Dominic Cooper
	A Funny Man	Dirch Passer	Nikolaj Lie Kaas
	Hattie	Hattie Jacques	Ruth Jones
	Heleno	Heleno de Freitas	Rodrigo Santoro
	Higher Ground	Corinne Walker	Vera Farmiga
	Hür Adam: Bediüzzaman Said Nursi	Said Nursî	Mursit Bag
	J. Edgar	J. Edgar Hoover	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Jeanne Captive	Joan of Arc	Clémence Poésy
	Juan y Eva	Juan Perón	Osmar Nuñez
	Juan y Eva	Eva Perón	Julieta Díaz
	Natalee Holloway	Natalee Holloway	Amy Gumenick
		Beth Holloway	Tracy Pollan
		Joran van der Sloot	Stephen Amell
	Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar	Ramabai Ambedkar	Nisha Parulekar
	Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar	B. R. Ambedkar	Ganesh Jethe
	Snowtown	John Bunting	Daniel Henshall
		James "Jamie" Vlassakis	Lucas Pittaway
		Robert Wagner	Aaron Viergever
		Mark Haydon	David Walker
	The Kennedys	John F. Kennedy	Greg Kinnear
		Robert F. Kennedy	Barry Pepper
		Jackie Kennedy	Katie Holmes
		Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.	Tom Wilkinson
	Killing Pablo	Pablo Escobar	Édgar Ramírez
	Kill the Irishman	Danny Greene	Ray Stevenson
	The Lady	Aung San Suu Kyi	Michelle Yeoh
	The Last Ride	Hank Williams	Henry Thomas
	Muawiya, Hassan and Hussein	Muawiyah I	Rashid Assaf
		Hasan	Khaled Al-Guwairy
		Husayn	Mohammed al-Majali
	The Dirty Picture	Silk Smitha	Vidya Balan
	No One Killed Jessica	Jessica Lal	Myra Karn
	The Lost Bladesman	Guan Yu	Donnie Yen
	Moneyball	Billy Beane	Brad Pitt
	Hugo	Georges Méliès	Ben Kingsley
	Hugo	Jeanne d'Alcy	Helen McCrory
	My Week With Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe	Michelle Williams
	Anonymous	Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford	Rhys Ifans (older) Jamie Campbell Bower (young)
	Anonymous	Elizabeth I of England	Vanessa Redgrave (older) Joely Richardson (young)
	The Sky of My Childhood	Nursultan Nazarbayev	Elzhas Albiyev
	Perfect Game	Choi Dong-won	Cho Seung-woo
	Perfect Game	Sun Dong-yeol	Yang Dong-geun
	Red Dog	Red Dog	Koko
	Soul Surfer	Bethany Hamilton	AnnaSophia Robb
	Tatsumi	Yoshihiro Tatsumi	Yoshihiro Tatsumi
	Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story	Tiffany Rubin	Taraji P. Henson
	Kaze no Shounen	Yutaka Ozaki	Hiroki Narimiya
	Violeta	Violeta Parra	Francisca Gavilán
	We Bought a Zoo	Benjamin Mee	Matt Damon
	Winnie	Winnie Mandela	Jennifer Hudson
Nelson Mandela	Winnie	Terrence Howard
William & Kate	Prince William	Nico Evers-Swindell
William & Kate	Catherine Middleton	Camilla Luddington
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake	Qiu Jin	Huang Yi
2012	Abducted: The Carlina White Story	Carlina White	Keke Palmer
	Argo	Tony Mendez	Ben Affleck
	As One	Hyun Jung-hwa	Ha Ji-won
	As One	Ri Pun-hui	Bae Doona
	Falling Flowers	Xiao Hong	Song Jia
	Florbela	Florbela Espanca	Dalila Carmo
	The Girl	Alfred Hitchcock	Toby Jones
	Game Change	Sarah Palin	Julianne Moore
	Game Change	John McCain	Ed Harris
	Bert and Dickie	Dickie Burnell	Sam Hoare
	Bert and Dickie	Bert Bushnell	Matt Smith
	Ivan Megharoopan	P. Kunhiraman Nair	Prakash Bare
	National Security	Kim Jong-tae	Park Won-sang
	Sri Ramakrishna Darshanam	Ramakrishna	Sashikumar
	Amen	Harish Iyer	Karan Mehra
	Hannah Arendt	Hannah Arendt	Barbara Sukowa
	Hitchcock	Alfred Hitchcock	Anthony Hopkins
	Hyde Park on Hudson	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Bill Murray
	Hyde Park on Hudson	Margaret Suckley	Laura Linney
	Lawless	Jack Bondaurant	Shia LaBeouf
		Forest Bondaurant	Tom Hardy
		Howard Bondaurant	Jason Clarke
	A Smile as Big as the Moon	Mike Kersjes	John Corbett
	The Iceman	Richard Kuklinski	Michael Shannon
	Paan Singh Tomar	Paan Singh Tomar	Irrfan Khan
	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher	Meryl Streep
	Omar	Omar ibn Al-Khattab	Samer Ismail
	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	Daniel Day-Lewis
	The Consul of Bordeaux	Aristides de Sousa Mendes	Vítor Norte
	Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord	Pablo Escobar	Andrés Parra
	Renoir	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	Michel Bouquet
		Catherine Hessling	Christa Théret
		Jean Renoir	Vincent Rottiers
	Soegija	Albertus Soegijapranata	Nirwan Dewanto
2013	Ask This of Rikyu	Sen no Rikyū	Ichikawa Ebizō XI
	Betty & Coretta	Betty Shabazz	Mary J. Blige
	Betty & Coretta	Coretta Scott King	Angela Bassett
	The Bling Ring	Rachel Lee	Katie Chang
		Nick Prugo	Israel Broussard
		Alexis Neiers	Emma Watson
		Tess Taylor	Taissa Farmiga
		Courtney Ames	Claire Julien
	Blue Caprice	John Allen Muhammad	Isaiah Washington
	Blue Caprice	Lee Boyd Malvo	Tequan Richmond
	Bonnie & Clyde	Bonnie Parker	Holliday Grainger
	Bonnie & Clyde	Clyde Barrow	Emile Hirsch
	Liz & Dick	Elizabeth Taylor	Lindsay Lohan
	Liz & Dick	Richard Burton	Grant Bowler
	42	Jackie Robinson	Chadwick Boseman
	42	Branch Rickey	Harrison Ford
	Letters to Sofija	Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis	Rokas Zubovas
	Lone Survivor	Marcus Luttrell	Mark Wahlberg
		Michael P. Murphy	Taylor Kitsch
		Danny Dietz	Emile Hirsch
		Matthew Axelson	Ben Foster
		Erik S. Kristensen	Eric Bana
	Kill Your Darlings	Allen Ginsberg	Daniel Radcliffe
	Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The TLC Story	Tionne Watkins	Drew Sidora
		Lisa Lopes	Lil Mama
		Rozonda Thomas	Keke Palmer
	Legend № 17	Valeri Kharlamov	Danila Kozlovsky
	Big Sur	Jack Kerouac	Jean-Marc Barr
	The Look of Love	Paul Raymond	Steve Coogan
	Diana	Diana, Princess of Wales	Naomi Watts
	Celluloid	J. C. Daniel	Prithviraj Sukumaran
	Emperor	Douglas MacArthur	Tommy Lee Jones
	Ephraim's Rescue	Ephraim Hanks	Darin Southam
	The Grandmaster	Ip Man	Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
	Jobs	Steve Jobs	Ashton Kutcher
	Bhaag Milkha Bhaag	Milkha Singh	Farhan Akhtar
	The Devil's Violinist	Niccolò Paganini	David Garrett
	Captain Phillips	Richard Phillips	Tom Hanks
	The Conjuring	Lorraine Warren	Vera Farmiga
	The Conjuring	Ed Warren	Patrick Wilson
	Like the Wind	Armida Miserere	Valeria Golino
	Lovelace	Linda Lovelace	Amanda Seyfried
	Lovelace	Chuck Traynor	Peter Sarsgaard
	The Invisible Woman	Charles Dickens	Ralph Fiennes
	Meghe Dhaka Tara	Nilkantha Bagchi	Saswata Chatterjee
	Behind the Candelabra	Liberace	Michael Douglas
	One Chance	Paul Potts	James Corden
	Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story	Christopher Porco	Matt Barr
	Saving Mr. Banks	P.L. Travers	Emma Thompson
	Saving Mr. Banks	Walt Disney	Tom Hanks
	The Last of Robin Hood	Errol Flynn	Kevin Kline
	Rush	James Hunt	Chris Hemsworth
	Rush	Niki Lauda	Daniel Brühl
	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof	Matthew McConaughey
	Jimi: All Is by My Side	Jimi Hendrix	André Benjamin
	The Anna Nicole Story	Anna Nicole Smith	Agnes Bruckner
	The Butler	Cecil Gaines	Forest Whitaker
	A Journey of Samyak Buddha	Gautama Buddha	Abhishek Urade
	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	Idris Elba
	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup	Chiwetel Ejiofor
	Marina	Rocco Granata	Matteo Simoni
	The Fifth Estate	Julian Assange	Benedict Cumberbatch
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort	Leonardo DiCaprio
	American Hustle	Melvin Weinberg	Christian Bale
Anthony Amoroso, Jr.	American Hustle	Bradley Cooper
Gagarin: First in Space	Yuri Gagarin	Yaroslav Zhalnin
vikings	ragner Lodbrok	Travis Fimmel
Waltz for Monica	Monica Zetterlund	Edda Magnason
The Wind Rises	Jiro Horikoshi	Hideaki Anno (Japanese voice) Joseph Gordon-Levitt (English voice)
2014	Grace of Monaco	Grace Kelly	Nicole Kidman
	Foxcatcher	John Eleuthère du Pont	Steve Carell
		Mark Schultz	Channing Tatum
		Dave Schultz	Mark Ruffalo
	Set Fire to the Stars	Dylan Thomas	Celyn Jones
	Set Fire to the Stars	John Malcolm Brinnin	Elijah Wood
	Cesar Chavez	Cesar Chavez	Michael Peña
	Electric Slide	Eddie Dodson	Jim Sturgess
	Escobar: Paradise Lost	Pablo Escobar	Benicio del Toro
	The Outlaw Michael Howe	Michael Howe	Damon Herriman^[10]
	Jersey Boys	Frankie Valli	John Lloyd Young
		Bob Gaudio	Erich Bergen
		Nick Massi	Michael Lomenda
		Tommy DeVito	Vincent Piazza
	Beloved Sisters	Friedrich Schiller	Florian Stetter
		Charlotte von Lengefeld	Henriette Confurius
		Caroline von Wolzogen	Hannah Herzsprung
	Ekaterina	Catherine the Great	Marina Aleksandrova
	Million Dollar Arm	J. B. Bernstein	Jon Hamm
		Ash Vasudevan	Aasif Mandvi
		Rinku Singh	Suraj Sharma
		Dinesh Patel	Madhur Mittal
		Tom House	Bill Paxton
	Testament of Youth	Vera Brittain	Alicia Vikander
		Roland Leighton	Kit Harington
		Victor Richardson	Colin Morgan
		Edward Brittain	Taron Egerton
	Gods	Zbigniew Religa	Tomasz Kot
	American Sniper	Chris Kyle	Bradley Cooper
	Kill the Messenger	Gary Webb	Jeremy Renner
	Get On Up	James Brown	Chadwick Boseman
	Big Eyes	Margaret Keane	Amy Adams
	Big Eyes	Walter Keane	Christoph Waltz
	Mr. Turner	J.M.W. Turner	Timothy Spall
	Marvellous	Neil Baldwin	Toby Jones
	Selma	Martin Luther King Jr.	David Oyelowo
	Heaven Is for Real	Colton Burpo	Connor Corum
	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo	Greg Kinnear
	Unbroken	Louis Zamperini	Jack O'Connell
	The Gabby Douglas Story^[11]	Gabby Douglas	Sydney Mikayla(7–12 years old) and Imani Hakim (13–16 years old)
	Getúlio	Getúlio Vargas	Tony Ramos
	Che	Mostafa Chamran	Fariborz Arabnia
	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing	Benedict Cumberbatch
	Desert Dancer	Afshin Ghaffarian	Reece Ritchie
	Lizzie Borden Took An Ax	Lizzie Borden	Christina Ricci
	House of Manson	Charles Manson	Ryan Kiser
	Love & Mercy	Brian Wilson	Paul Dano and John Cusack
	The Letters	Mother Teresa	Juliet Stevenson
	Não Pare na Pista	Paulo Coelho	Júlio Andrade
	Houdini	Harry Houdini	Adrien Brody
	The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story	Cast of Saved by the Bell	Various actors
	Tim Maia	Tim Maia	Robson Nunes and Babu Santana
	Amour Fou	Heinrich von Kleist	Christian Friedel
	The Brittany Murphy Story	Brittany Murphy	Amanda Fuller
	Mary Kom	Mary Kom	Priyanka Chopra
	Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B	Aaliyah	Alexandra Shipp
	Rang Rasiya	Raja Ravi Varma	Randeep Hooda
	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking	Eddie Redmayne
	The Tenor – Lirico Spinto	Bae Jae-chul	Yoo Ji-tae
	Pride	Mark Ashton	Ben Schnetzer
2015	10 Days in a Madhouse	Nellie Bly	Caroline Barry
	Bessie	Bessie Smith	Queen Latifah
	The Big Short	Michael Burry	Christian Bale
	Bloed, zweet & tranen	André Hazes	Martijn Fischer
	Born to Be Blue	Chet Baker	Ethan Hawke
	Catherine the Great	Catherine the Great	Yuliya Snigir (older) Christina Kucherenko (young)
	Chiamatemi Francesco	Pope Francis	Sergio Hernández (older) Rodrigo de la Serna (young)
	Cleveland Abduction	Michelle Knight	Taryn Manning
		Amanda Berry	Samantha Droke
		Gina DeJesus	Katie Sarife
		Ariel Castro	Raymond Cruz
	M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story	M. S. Dhoni	Sushant Singh Rajput
	Bajirao Mastani	Baji Rao I	Ranveer Singh
		Mastani	Deepika Padukone
		Kashibai	Priyanka Chopra
	Black Mass	Whitey Bulger	Johnny Depp
	The End of the Tour	David Foster Wallace	Jason Segel
	The End of the Tour	David Lipsky	Jesse Eisenberg
	Whitney	Whitney Houston	Yaya DaCosta
	Anton Tchékhov 1890	Anton Chekhov	Nicolas Giraud
	Walt Before Mickey	Walt Disney	Thomas Ian Nicholas
	Straight Outta Compton	Eazy-E	Jason Mitchell
		Dr. Dre	Corey Hawkins
		Ice Cube	O'Shea Jackson Jr.
		DJ Yella	Neil Brown Jr.
		MC Ren	Aldis Hodge
	Experimenter	Stanley Milgram	Peter Sarsgaard
	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs	Michael Fassbender
	Truth	Dan Rather	Robert Redford
	Truth	Mary Mapes	Cate Blanchett
	The Unauthorized Full House Story	Cast of Full House	Various actors
	Persona Non Grata	Chiune Sugihara	Toshiaki Karasawa
	Concussion	Bennet Omalu	Will Smith
	Everest	Rob Hall	Jason Clarke
		Scott Fischer	Jake Gyllenhaal
		Beck Weathers	Josh Brolin
	The 33	Mario Sepúlveda	Antonio Banderas
		Jeff Hart	James Brolin
		Luis Urzúa	Lou Diamond Phillips
	Ip Man 3	Ip Man	Donnie Yen
	The Gamechangers	Sam Houser	Daniel Radcliffe
	The Gamechangers	Jack Thompson	Bill Paxton
	Eisenstein in Guanajuato	Sergei Eisenstein	Elmer Bäck
	Pawn Sacrifice	Bobby Fischer	Tobey Macguire
	Kid Kulafu	Manny Pacquiao	Buboy Villar
	Kidnapping Freddy Heineken	Freddy Heineken	Anthony Hopkins
		Willem Holleeder	Sam Worthington
		Cor van Hout	Jim Sturgess
	Life	Dennis Stock	Robert Pattinson
	Life	James Dean	Dane DeHaan
	McFarland, USA	James White	Kevin Costner
	Manjhi - The Mountain Man	Dashrath Manjhi	Nawazuddin Siddiqui
	The Man Who Knew Infinity	Srinivasa Ramanujan	Dev Patel
	The Program	Lance Armstrong	Ben Foster
	Ownerless Flower Uhwudong^[12]^{[circular reference]}	Uhwudong	Kang Eun-bi
	Legend	Kray Twins	Tom Hardy
	The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story	Cast of Beverly Hills, 90210	Various actors
	Heneral Luna	Antonio Luna	John Arcilla
	The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story	Cast of Melrose Place	Various actors
	Spotlight	Michael Rezendes	Mark Ruffalo
		Walter "Robby" Robinson	Michael Keaton
		Sacha Pfeiffer	Rachel McAdams
		Martin Baron	Liev Schreiber
		Ben Bradlee Jr.	John Slattery
Matt Carroll		Brian d'Arcy James
Felix Manalo	Felix Ysagun Manalo	Dennis Trillo
Queen of the Desert	Gertrude Bell	Nicole Kidman
Trumbo	Dalton Trumbo	Bryan Cranston
The People vs. Fritz Bauer	Fritz Bauer	Burghart Klaußner
The Danish Girl	Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe	Eddie Redmayne
The Danish Girl	Gerda Wegener	Alicia Vikander
In the Heart of the Sea	Owen Chase	Chris Hemsworth
	George Pollard Jr.	Benjamin Walker
	Thomas Nickerson	Tom Holland (young), Brendan Gleeson (older)
Freeheld	Laurel Hester	Julianne Moore
Joy	Joy Mangano	Jennifer Lawrence (older), Isabella Cramp (younger)
The Revenant	Hugh Glass	Leonardo DiCaprio
The Sound of a Flower	Shin Jae-hyo	Ryu Seung-ryong
The Sound of a Flower	Jin Chae-seon	Bae Suzy
Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors	Dolly Parton	Alyvia Alyn Lind
Narcos	Pablo Escobar	Wagner Moura
Narcos	Steve Murphy	Boyd Holbrook
Versailles	Louis XIV of France	George Blagden
Versailles	Philippe I, Duke of Orléans	Alexander Vlahos
2016	Maudie	Maud Lewis	Sally Hawkins
	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	Members of the Battle of Benghazi Defense Team	Various Actors
	Bole India Jai Bhim	L. N. Hardas	Vijay Gite
	Bole India Jai Bhim	B. R. Ambedkar	Shyam Bhimsaria
	Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet	Yun Dong-ju	Kang Ha-neul
	The Durrells	Louisa Durrell	Keeley Hawes
		Gerald Durrell	Milo Parker
		Lawrence Durrell	Josh O'Connor
		Margaret Durrell	Daisy Waterstone
	Hail, Caesar!	Eddie Mannix	Josh Brolin
	Genius	Maxwell Perkins	Colin Firth
		Thomas Wolfe	Jude Law
		Aline Bernstein	Nicole Kidman
		Ernest Hemingway	Dominic West
		F. Scott Fitzgerald	Guy Pearce
	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	O.J Simpson, Robert Kardashian, Rob Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, Christopher Darden and Marcia Clark	Cuba Gooding Jr, David Schwimmer, John Travolta, Courtney B. Vance, Sterling K. Brown and Sarah Paulson
	Loving	Richard Loving	Joel Edgerton
	Loving	Mildred Loving	Ruth Negga
	Medici	Cosimo de' Medici	Richard Madden
		Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici	Dustin Hoffman
		Lorenzo de' Medici	Daniel Sharman
		Giuliano de' Medici	Bradley James
	Race	Jesse Owens	Stephan James
	El Inca	Edwin Valero	Alexander Leterni
	Ek Thi Marium	Marium Mukhtiar	Sanam Baloch
	Ramabai	Ramabai Ambedkar	Yagna Shetty
	Ramabai	B. R. Ambedkar	Siddaram Karnik
	Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le	Michel'le	Rhyon Nicole Brown
	Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le	Jerry Heller	Jamie Kennedy
	I'm Gilda	Gilda	Natalia Oreiro
	Queen of Katwe	Phiona Mutesi	Madina Nalwanga
	All the Way	Lyndon B. Johnson	Bryan Cranston
	All the Way	Martin Luther King Jr.	Anthony Mackie
	Miles Ahead	Miles Davis	Don Cheadle
	I Saw the Light	Hank Williams	Tom Hiddleston
	Confirmation	Anita Hill	Kerry Washington
	Cézanne and I	Émile Zola	Guillaume Canet
	Cézanne and I	Paul Cézanne	Guillaume Gallienne
	I'm Not Ashamed	Rachel Scott	Masey McLain
	Red Dog: True Blue	Red Dog	Phoenix
	Pelé: Birth of a Legend	Pelé	Kevin de Paula
	Altamira	Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola	Antonio Banderas
	Miracles from Heaven	Christy Beam	Jennifer Garner
	Miracles from Heaven	Anna Beam	Kylie Rogers
	Houdini and Doyle	Harry Houdini	Michael Weston
	Houdini and Doyle	Arthur Conan Doyle	Stephen Mangan
	The Conjuring 2	Lorraine Warren	Vera Farmiga
	The Conjuring 2	Ed Warren	Patrick Wilson
	Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden	Egon Schiele	Noah Saavedra^[13]^{[circular reference]}
	Nina	Nina Simone	Zoe Saldana
	Chocolat	Chocolat	Omar Sy
	Chocolat	George Foottit	James Thiérrée
	The Legend of Ben Hall	Ben Hall	Jack Martin
		John Gilbert	Jamie Coffa
		John Dunn	William Lee
	Florence Foster Jenkins	Florence Foster Jenkins	Meryl Streep
	Hands of Stone	Roberto Durán	Édgar Ramírez
	Hands of Stone	Ray Arcel	Robert De Niro
	Snowden	Edward Snowden	Joseph Gordon-Levitt
	USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage	Captain Charles B. McVay III	Nicolas Cage
	The Infiltrator	Robert Mazur	Bryan Cranston
	Masterminds	David Ghantt	Zach Galifianakis
	Xuanzang	Xuanzang	Huang Xiaoming
	War Dogs	Efraim Diveroli	Jonah Hill
David Packouz	War Dogs	Miles Teller
The Chronicles of Melanie	Melānija Vanaga	Sabine Timoteo
The Odyssey	Jacques Cousteau	Lambert Wilson
Denial	Deborah Lipstadt	Rachel Weisz
Birth of the Dragon	Bruce Lee	Philip Ng
Birth of the Dragon	Wong Jack Man	Xia Yu
Hacksaw Ridge	Desmond Doss	Andrew Garfield
Lion	Saroo Brierley	Dev Patel
Neruda	Pablo Neruda	Luis Gnecco
Sully	Chesley Sullenberger	Tom Hanks
The Crown	Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, King George VI, Winston Churchill, and Princess Margaret	Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, John Lithgow, and Vanessa Kirby
Christine	Christine Chubbuck	Rebecca Hall
Bleed for This	Vinny Pazienza	Miles Teller
Nelly	Nelly Arcan	Mylène Mackay
Azhar	Mohammad Azharuddin	Emraan Hashmi
Dangal	Mahavir Singh Phogat	Aamir Khan
Free State of Jones	Newton Knight	Matthew McConaughey
LBJ	Lyndon B. Johnson	Woody Harrelson
Elvis & Nixon	Richard Nixon	Kevin Spacey
Elvis & Nixon	Elvis Presley	Michael Shannon
Riphagen	Dries Riphagen	Pieter Kuijpers
The Birth of a Nation	Nat Turner	Nate Parker
The Dancer	Loie Fuller	Soko
Mah e Mir	Mir Taqi Mir	Fahad Mustafa
Barry	Barack Obama	Devon Terrell
Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy	Natalie Portman
Brain on Fire	Susannah Cahalan	Chloë Grace Moretz
Eddie the Eagle	Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards	Taron Egerton
Hidden Figures	Katherine Johnson	Taraji P. Henson
	Dorothy Vaughan	Octavia Spencer
	Mary Jackson	Janelle Monáe
The Founder	Ray Kroc	Michael Keaton
A United Kingdom	Seretse Khama	David Oyelowo
A United Kingdom	Ruth Williams Khama	Rosamund Pike
Southside with You	Barack Obama	Parker Sawyers
Southside with You	Michelle Robinson	Tika Sumpter
Churchill^[14]	Winston Churchill	Brian Cox
Chuck	Chuck Wepner	Liev Schreiber
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Sushant Singh Rajput
Rudy Habibie	B. J. Habibie	Reza Rahadian
Anna	Anna Hazare	Shashank Udapurkar
Patriots Day	Commissioner Ed Davis	John Goodman
	Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese	J.K. Simmons
	Boston Mayor Thomas Menino	Vincent Curatola
	FBI Agent Richard DesLauriers	Kevin Bacon
	Dzhokhar Tsarnaev	Alex Wolff
	Tamerlan Tsarnaev	Themo Melikidze^[15]
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie	Donald Trump	Johnny Depp^[16]
Victoria	Queen Victoria	Jenna Coleman
	Albert, Prince Consort	Tom Hughes
	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	Peter Bowles
	Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	Catherine Flemming
2017	6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain	Eric LeMarque	Josh Hartnett
	The Current War	Thomas Edison	Benedict Cumberbatch
		George Westinghouse	Michael Shannon
		Nikola Tesla	Nicholas Hoult
		Samuel Insull	Tom Holland
	The Imam	Ahmad ibn Hanbal	Mehyar Khaddour
	Most Hated Woman in America	Madalyn Murray O'Hair	Melissa Leo
	Jungle	Yossi Ghinsberg	Daniel Radcliffe
	The Lost City of Z	Percy Fawcett	Charlie Hunnam
	Rebel in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	Nicholas Hoult
	Anarchist from Colony	Pak Yol	Lee Je-hoon
	Anarchist from Colony	Fumiko Kaneko	Choi Hee-seo
	The Wizard of Lies	Bernie Madoff	Robert De Niro
	Mariposa de Barrio	Jenni Rivera	Angélica Celaya
	Django	Django Reinhardt	Reda Kateb
	First They Killed My Father	Loung Ung	Sareum Srey Moch
	Bomb City	Brian Deneke	Dave Davis
	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill	Gary Oldman
	Loving Pablo	Pablo Escobar	Javier Bardem
	Loving Pablo	Virginia Vallejo	Penélope Cruz
	Detroit	Melvin Dismukes	John Boyega
		Larry Reed	Algee Smith
		Fred Temple	Jacob Latimore
	Gotti	John Gotti	John Travolta
	Gautamiputra Satakarni	Gautamiputra Satakarni	Nandamuri Balakrishna
	Roxanne Roxanne	Roxanne Shante	Chanté Adams
	England Is Mine	Morrissey	Jack Lowden
		Linder Sterling	Jessica Brown Findlay
		Johnny Marr	Laurie Kynaston
	All Eyez on Me	Tupac Shakur	Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
	The Black Prince	Duleep Singh	Satinder Sartaaj
	The Black Prince	Queen Victoria	Amanda Root
	Molly's Game	Molly Bloom	Jessica Chastain
	The New Edition Story	Ralph Tresvant	Algee Smith (older) Jahi Di'Allo Winston (young)
		Bobby Brown	Woody McClain (older)^[17] Tyler Marcel Williams (young)
		Ricky Bell	Elijah Kelley (older) Caleb McLaughlin (young)
		Michael Bivins	Bryshere Gray (older) Dante Hoagland (young)
		Ronnie DeVoe	Keith Powers (older) Myles Truitt (young)
		Johnny Gill	Luke James
	Megan Leavey	Megan Leavey	Kate Mara
	The Zookeeper's Wife	Antonina Żabińska	Jessica Chastain
		Jan Żabiński	Johan Heldenbergh
		Lutz Heck	Daniel Brühl
	Marshall	Thurgood Marshall	Chadwick Boseman
	Bobbi Kristina	Bobbi Kristina Brown	Joy Rovaris
	El Chapo	Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán	Marco de la O
	American Made	Barry Seal	Tom Cruise
	The Mercy	Donald Crowhurst	Colin Firth
	Crown Heights	Colin Warner	Lakeith Stanfield
	Crown Heights	Carl King	Nnamdi Asomugha
	All Saints	Michael Spurlock	John Corbett
	The Disaster Artist	Tommy Wiseau	James Franco
	The Disaster Artist	Greg Sestero	Dave Franco
	Stronger	Jeff Bauman	Jake Gyllenhaal
	Britney Ever After	Britney Spears	Natasha Bassett
	The Greatest Showman	P.T. Barnum	Hugh Jackman
	Woman Walks Ahead	Catherine Weldon	Jessica Chastain
	Woman Walks Ahead	Sitting Bull	Michael Greyeyes
	The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls	Brie Larson
	Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders	Leslie Abramson	Edie Falco
		Erik Menendez	Gus Halper
		Lyle Menendez	Miles Gaston Villanueva
	Billionaire Boys Club	Joe Hunt	Ansel Elgort
	No Show Jones^[18]	George Jones	Josh Brolin
Papillon	Henri Charrière	Charlie Hunnam
Papillon	Louis Dega	Rami Malek
Mata Hari	Mata Hari	Vahina Giocante
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Henrietta Lacks	Renée Elise Goldsberry
Porus	Porus	Laksh Lalwani
Porus	Alexander the Great	Rohit Purohit
All the Money in the World	Gail Harris	Michelle Williams
	J. Paul Getty	Christopher Plummer
	John Paul Getty III	Charlie Plummer (older) Charlie Shotwell (young)
Borg McEnroe	Björn Borg	Sverrir Gudnason
Borg McEnroe	John McEnroe	Shia LaBeouf
Sachin: A Billion Dreams	Sachin Tendulkar	Sachin Tendulkar
Battle of the Sexes	Billie Jean King	Emma Stone
Battle of the Sexes	Bobby Riggs	Steve Carell
Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland	Michael Jackson	Navi
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women	William Moulton Marston	Luke Evans
	Elizabeth Holloway Marston	Rebecca Hall
	Olive Byrne	Bella Heathcote
My Friend Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	Ross Lynch
My Friend Dahmer	John "Derf" Backderf	Alex Wolff
Goodbye Christopher Robin	A. A. Milne	Domhnall Gleeson
Goodbye Christopher Robin	Christopher Robin Milne	Will Tilston (8 years old) and Alex Lawther (18 years old)
Going Vertical	Vladimir Kondrashin	Vladimir Mashkov
I, Tonya	Tonya Harding	Margot Robbie
The Post	Katharine Graham	Meryl Streep
The Post	Ben Bradlee	Tom Hanks
Genius	Albert Einstein	Geoffrey Rush
	Pablo Picasso	Antonio Banderas
	Aretha Franklin	Cynthia Erivo
2018	Red Joan	Joan Elizabeth Stanley	Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson (young)
	Red Joan	Clement Attlee	Robin Soans
	Outlaw King	Robert the Bruce	Chris Pine
		James Douglas, Lord of Douglas	Aaron Taylor-Johnson
		Elizabeth de Burgh	Florence Pugh
		Aonghus Óg of Islay	Tony Curran
	Bal Bhimrao	B. R. Ambedkar	Manish Kamble
	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, Antonio D'Amico and Donatella Versace	Darren Criss, Édgar Ramírez, Ricky Martin and Penélope Cruz
	First Man	Neil Armstrong	Ryan Gosling
	The Drug King	Lee Doo-sam	Song Kang-ho
	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Lee Israel	Melissa McCarthy
	Cocaine Godmother	Griselda Blanco	Catherine Zeta-Jones (older) Isabella Sierra (young)
	A Futile and Stupid Gesture	Douglas Kenney	Will Forte
	Lizzie	Lizzie Borden	Chloë Sevigny
	Becoming Astrid^[19]	Astrid Lindgren	Alba August
	Traffic Ramasamy	Traffic Ramaswamy	S.A. Chandrasekhar
	3 Days in Quiberon	Romy Schneider	Marie Bäumer
	Beautiful Boy	David Sheff	Steve Carell
	Beautiful Boy	Nic Sheff	Timothée Chalamet
	Dovlatov	Sergei Dovlatov	Milan Marić
	Hurricane	Jan Zumbach	Iwan Rheon
	Hurricane	John A. Kent	Milo Gibson
	The Old Man & the Gun	Forrest Tucker	Robert Redford
	The Front Runner	Gary Hart	Hugh Jackman
	Mary Queen of Scots	Mary, Queen of Scots	Saoirse Ronan
	Mary Queen of Scots	Elizabeth I of England	Margot Robbie
	Charlie Says	Leslie Van Houten	Hannah Murray
		Patricia Krenwinkel	Sosie Bacon
		Susan Atkins	Marianne Rendón
		Mary Brunner	Suki Waterhouse
		Charles Manson	Matt Smith
	Patriot of the Web^[20]	Aaron Swartz	Shawn McClintock
	Leto	Viktor Tsoi	Teo Yoo
	Skin	Bryon Widner	Jamie Bell (older) Tyler Williamson (young)
	City of Lies	Russell Poole	Johnny Depp
	The Favourite	Anne, Queen of Great Britain	Olivia Colman
		Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham	Emma Stone
		Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough	Rachel Weisz
	A Tale of Two Coreys^[21]	Corey Feldman	Elijah Marcano (teen) Scott Bosely (adult)
	A Tale of Two Coreys^[21]	Corey Haim	Justin Ellings (teen) Casey Leach (adult)
	The Bobby Brown Story	Bobby Brown	Woody McClain (older) Tyler Marcel Williams (young)
	The Bobby Brown Story	Whitney Houston	Gabrielle Dennis
	Green Book	Tony Lip	Viggo Mortensen
	Green Book	Don Shirley	Mahershala Ali
	Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury	Rami Malek
		Brian May	Gwilym Lee
		Roger Taylor	Ben Hardy
		John Deacon	Joseph Mazzello
	Unsolved	Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, Detective Greg Kading and Detective Russell Poole	Wavyy Jonez, Marcc Rose, Josh Duhamel and Jimmi Simpson
	Unbroken: Path to Redemption	Louis Zamperini	Samuel Hunt
	In Like Flynn	Errol Flynn	Thomas Cocquerel
	Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral	Gregorio del Pilar	Paulo Avelino
	White Boy Rick	Richard Wershe Jr.	Richie Merritt
	BlacKkKlansman	Ron Stallworth	John David Washington
	Colette	Colette	Keira Knightley
	On the Basis of Sex	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Felicity Jones
	The 15:17 to Paris	Spencer Stone	Spencer Stone
		Anthony Sadler	Anthony Sadler
		Alek Skarlatos	Alek Skarlatos
	Luis Miguel: The Series	Luis Miguel	Diego Boneta (older) Luis de la Rosa (teen) Izan Llunas (young)
	Vice	Dick Cheney	Christian Bale
	The Mule	Earl Stone	Clint Eastwood
	27 Guns	Yoweri Museveni	Arnold Mubangizi
	Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot	John Callahan	Joaquin Phoenix
I Can Only Imagine	Bart Millard	J. Michael Finley (older) Brody Rose (young)
Stan & Ollie	Stan Laurel	Steve Coogan
Stan & Ollie	Oliver Hardy	John C. Reilly
At Eternity's Gate	Vincent van Gogh	Willem Dafoe
All Is True	William Shakespeare	Kenneth Branagh
	Anne Hathaway	Judi Dench
	Henry Wriothesley	Ian McKellen
Mahanati	Savitri	Keerthy Suresh
2019	Wu-Tang: An American Saga	RZA	Ashton Sanders
	Wu-Tang: An American Saga	Raekwon	Shameik Moore
	The Irishman	Frank Sheeran	Robert De Niro
		Jimmy Hoffa	Al Pacino
		Russell Bufalino	Joe Pesci
	Ip Man 4: The Finale	Ip Man	Donnie Yen
	Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile	Ted Bundy	Zac Efron
	Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile	Liz Kloepfer	Lily Collins
	The Traitor	Tommaso Buscetta	Pierfrancesco Favino
	Fighting with My Family	Saraya "Paige" Bevis	Florence Pugh
	Ford v. Ferrari	Ken Miles	Christian Bale
	Ford v. Ferrari	Carroll Shelby	Matt Damon
	72 Hours: Martyr Who Never Died	Jaswant Singh Rawat	Avinash Dhyani
	The Accidental Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh	Anupam Kher
	The Accidental Prime Minister	Sanjaya Baru	Akshaye Khanna
	Fisherman's Friends	Members of Fisherman's Friends	Various Actors
	The Golden Glove	Fritz Honka	Jonas Dassler
	The Aeronauts	James Glaisher	Eddie Redmayne
	The Highwaymen	Frank Hamer	Kevin Costner
	The Highwaymen	Maney Gault	Woody Harrelson
	The Best of Enemies	Ann Atwater	Taraji P. Henson
	The Best of Enemies	C. P. Ellis	Sam Rockwell
	Breakthrough	Joyce Smith	Chrissy Metz
	Breakthrough	Brian Smith	Josh Lucas
	Judy	Judy Garland	Renée Zellweger (older) Darci Shaw (young)
	Kesari	Havildar Ishar Singh	Akshay Kumar
	The Dirt	Nikki Sixx	Douglas Booth
		Mick Mars	Iwan Rheon
		Tommy Lee	Colson Baker
		Vince Neil	Daniel Webber
	Walk Ride Rodeo	Amberley Snyder	Spencer Locke
	The Kid	Billy the Kid	Dane DeHaan
	Kingdom	Li Xin	Kento Yamazaki
		Ying Zheng	Ryo Yoshizawa
		He Liao Diao	Kanna Hashimoto
	Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi	Rani of Jhansi	Kangana Ranaut
	Son of Kashmir: Burhan	Burhan Wani	(voice)
	Super 30	Anand Kumar	Hrithik Roshan
	Midway	Lieutenant Dick Best	Ed Skrein
		Lieutenant Commander Edwin T. Layton	Patrick Wilson
		Commander C. Wade McClusky	Luke Evans
		Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey	Dennis Quaid
		Admiral Chester W. Nimitz	Woody Harrelson
		Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle	Aaron Eckhart
		Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance	Jake Weber
	Mr. Jones	Gareth Jones	James Norton
	Richard Jewell	Richard Jewell	Paul Walter Hauser
	A Girl from Mogadishu	Ifrah Ahmed	Aja Naomi King
	Dolemite Is My Name	Rudy Ray Moore	Eddie Murphy
	Official Secrets	Katharine Gun	Keira Knightley
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Sharon Tate	Margot Robbie
	Panipat	Sadashivrao Bhau	Arjun Kapoor
		Ahmad Shah Durrani	Sanjay Dutt
		Parvatibai	Kriti Sanon
	Thackeray	Bal Thackeray	Nawazuddin Siddiqui
	Tolkien	J. R. R. Tolkien	Nicholas Hoult
	Tolkien	Edith Tolkien	Lily Collins
	Union of Salvation	Sergey Muravyov-Apostol	Leonid Bichevin
	I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story	Regina Louise	Angela Fairley
	I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story	Jeanne Kerr	Ginnifer Goodwin
	Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson	Michael B. Jordan
	Just Mercy	Walter McMillian	Jamie Foxx
	The Report	Daniel J. Jones	Adam Driver
	American Soul	Don Cornelius	Sinqua Walls
Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez	Carlos Tevez	Balthazar Murillo
Chernobyl	Valery Legasov	Jared Harris
Chernobyl	Boris Shcherbina	Stellan Skarsgård
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	William Kamkwamba	Maxwell Simba
When They See Us	Kevin Richardson	Asante Blackk (young) Justin Cunningham (adult)
	Antron McCray	Caleel Harris (young) Jovan Adepo (adult)
	Yusef Salaam	Ethan Herisse (young) Chris Chalk (adult)
	Raymond Santana Jr.	Marquis Rodriguez (young) Freddy Miyares (adult)
	Korey Wise	Jharrel Jerome
Rocketman	Elton John	Taron Egerton
The Act	Dee Dee Blanchard, Gypsy Blanchard and Nick Godejohn	Patricia Arquette, Joey King and Calum Worthy
Goalie	Terry Sawchuk	Mark O'Brien
Fosse/Verdon	Bob Fosse	Sam Rockwell
	Gwen Verdon	Michelle Williams
	Ann Reinking	Margaret Qualley
	Paddy Chayefsky	Norbert Leo Butz
N.T.R: Kathanayakudu	N. T. Rama Rao	Nandamuri Balakrishna
N.T.R: Mahanayakudu	N. T. Rama Rao	Nandamuri Balakrishna
Yatra	Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy	Mammootty
Lakshmi's NTR	N. T. Rama Rao	P Vijay Kumar
Lakshmi's NTR	Lakshmi Parvathi	Yagna Shetty
Mallesham	Chintakindi Mallesham	Priyadarshi Pulikonda
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy	Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy	Chiranjeevi
Togo	Leonhard Seppala	Willem Dafoe
Togo	Togo	Diesel
George Reddy	George Reddy	Sandeep Madhav
The Two Popes	Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio	Jonathan Pryce (older) Juan Minujín (young)
The Two Popes	Pope Benedict XVI	Anthony Hopkins
Bombshell	Megyn Kelly	Charlize Theron
Bombshell	Gretchen Carlson	Nicole Kidman
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Fred Rogers	Tom Hanks
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Lloyd Vogel	Matthew Rhys
The King	Henry V of England	Timothée Chalamet
	Louis, Duke of Guyenne	Robert Pattinson
	Henry IV of England	Ben Mendelsohn
Harriet	Harriet Tubman	Cynthia Erivo
Harriet	William Still	Leslie Odom Jr.
A Hidden Life	Franz Jägerstätter	August Diehl
Seberg	Jean Seberg	Kristen Stewart
Seberg	Hakim Jamal	Anthony Mackie
Dark Waters	Robert Bilott	Mark Ruffalo
True History of the Kelly Gang	Ned Kelly	George MacKay
True History of the Kelly Gang	Harry Power	Russell Crowe
Dickinson	Emily Dickinson	Hailee Steinfeld
	Edward Dickinson	Toby Huss
	Emily Norcross Dickinson	Jane Krakowski
	William Austin Dickinson	Adrian Enscoe
	Lavinia Norcross Dickinson	Anna Baryshnikov
	Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson	Ella Hunt
Ride Like a Girl	Michelle Payne	Teresa Palmer
The Professor and the Madman	James Murray	Mel Gibson
The Professor and the Madman	William Chester Minor	Sean Penn
The Loudest Voice	Roger Ailes	Russell Crowe
	Brian Lewis	Seth MacFarlane
	Rupert Murdoch	Simon McBurney
	Gretchen Carlson	Naomi Watts

2020s[edit]

Year	Film	Subject(s)	Portrayed by
2020	I Still Believe	Jeremy Camp	KJ Apa
	Chhapaak	Laxmi Agarwal	Deepika Padukone
	Misbehaviour	Sally Alexander	Keira Knightley
	Misbehaviour	Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada	Gugu Mbatha-Raw
	Capone	Al Capone	Tom Hardy
	Roe v. Wade	Bernard Nathanson	Nick Loeb
	Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl	Gunjan Saxena	Janhvi Kapoor
	Leap	Lang Ping	Gong Li
	The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel	Twinkie Clark	Christina Bell
		Karen Clark Sheard	Kierra Sheard
		Dorinda Clark-Cole	Sheléa Frazier
		Denise Clark-Bradford	Raven Goodwin
		Jacky Clark Chisholm	Angela Birchett
	The Glorias	Gloria Steinem	Julianne Moore (older), Alicia Vikander (adult) Lulu Wilson (teen), Ryan Kira Armstrong (young)
	Resistance	Marcel Marceau	Jesse Eisenberg
	Taanaji: The Unsung Warrior	Tanaji Malusare	Ajay Devgn
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Abbie Hoffman	Sacha Baron Cohen
		Tom Hayden	Eddie Redmayne
		Jerry Rubin	Jeremy Strong
		David Dellinger	John Carroll Lynch
		Rennie Davis	Alex Sharp
		John Froines	Daniel Flaherty
		Lee Weiner	Noah Robbins
		Bobby Seale	Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
	Mrs. America	Phyllis Schlafly	Cate Blanchett
		Gloria Steinem	Rose Byrne
		Shirley Chisholm	Uzo Aduba
		Jill Ruckelshaus	Elizabeth Banks
		Bella Abzug	Margo Martindale
		Betty Friedan	Tracey Ullman
		Fred Schlafly	John Slattery
	Worth	Kenneth Feinberg	Michael Keaton
	Shakuntala Devi	Shakuntala Devi	Vidya Balan
	Shirley	Shirley Jackson	Elisabeth Moss
	Shirley	Stanley Edgar Hyman	Michael Stuhlbarg
	Sergio	Sérgio Vieira de Mello	Wagner Moura
	Hamilton	Alexander Hamilton	Lin-Manuel Miranda
	Tesla	Nikola Tesla	Ethan Hawke
	AK-47	Mikhail Kalashnikov	Yuri Borisov
	The Courier	Greville Wynne	Benedict Cumberbatch
	Self Made	Madam C. J. Walker	Octavia Spencer
	Mogul	Gulshan Kumar	Aamir Khan
	Selena: The Series	Selena Quintanilla	Christian Serratos (older) Madison Taylor Baez (young)
		A.B. Quintanilla	Gabriel Chavarria (older) Juan Martinez (young)
		Abraham Quintanilla	Ricardo Antonio Chavira (older) Brandol Ruiz (young)
		Suzette Quintanilla	Noemi Gonzalez (older) Daniela Estrada (young)
		Marcella Quintanilla	Seidy López (older) Aneasa Yacoub (young)
	Stardust	David Bowie	Johnny Flynn
	Critical Thinking	Mario Martinez	John Leguizamo
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey	Viola Davis
	Mank	Herman J. Mankiewicz	Gary Oldman
		Marion Davies	Amanda Seyfried
		Orson Welles	Tom Burke
	Beyond That Mountain	Stephen Kim Sou-hwan	Lee Kyung-hoon
	Tove	Tove Jansson	Alma Pöysti
	One Night in Miami...	Malcolm X	Kingsley Ben-Adir
		Cassius Clay	Eli Goree
		Jim Brown	Aldis Hodge
		Sam Cooke	Leslie Odom Jr.
2021	King Richard	Richard Williams	Will Smith
	Baba Sathya Sai	Sathya Sai Baba	Dileep
	Wendy Williams: The Movie	Wendy Williams	Ciera Payton
	Untitled Joe Exotic Series	Joe Exotic	Nicolas Cage
	Bhuj: The Pride of India	Vijay Karnik	Ajay Devgn
	Bhuj: The Pride of India	Ranchordas Pagi	Sanjay Dutt
	Medieval	Jan Žižka	Ben Foster
	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Jonathan Larson	Andrew Garfield
	Maidaan	Syed Abdul Rahim	Ajay Devgn
	Rise	Willie Davis	Sterling K. Brown
	RRR	Komaram Bheem	N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
	RRR	Alluri Sitarama Raju	Ram Charan
	Blonde	Marilyn Monroe	Ana de Armas
	Respect	Aretha Franklin	Jennifer Hudson (older) Skye Dakota Turner (young)
	Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham	Kunjali Marakkar IV	Mohanlal
	The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It	Lorraine Warren	Vera Farmiga
	The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It	Ed Warren	Patrick Wilson
	83	Members of the India National Cricket Team	Various actors
	The Godmother	Griselda Blanco	Catalina Sandino Moreno (older) Alexa Demie (young)
	The Devil in the White City	H. H. Holmes	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Thalaivi	J. Jayalalithaa	Kangana Ranaut
	Nicole & O.J.	O. J. Simpson	Boris Kodjoe
	Nicole & O.J.	Nicole Brown Simpson	Charlotte Kirk
	The Last Duel	Jean de Carrouges	Matt Damon
	The Last Duel	Jacques Le Gris	Adam Driver
	Saina	Saina Nehwal	Parineeti Chopra
	Bukowski	Charles Bukowski	Josh Peck
	Takht	Emperor Shah Jahan	Anil Kapoor
	Sardar Udham Singh	Udham Singh	Vicky Kaushal
	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Tammy Faye Messner	Jessica Chastain
	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Jim Bakker	Andrew Garfield
	Jhund	Vijay Barse	Amitabh Bachchan
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Fred Hampton	Daniel Kaluuya
	Judas and the Black Messiah	William O'Neal	Lakeith Stanfield
	Spinning Gold	Neil Bogart	Jeremy Jordan
	The Survivor	Harry Haft	Ben Foster
	Evel	Evel Knievel	Milo Ventimiglia
2022	Elvis	Elvis Presley	Austin Butler
2022	Reagan	Ronald Reagan	Dennis Quaid (older) David Henrie (young)

References[edit]

^ https://www.allmovie.com/movie/velikiy-voin-albanii-skanderbeg-v168705
^ https://www.allmovie.com/movie/mad-dog-morgan-v30653
^ "Vlad Tepes (1979) – - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ ko:배형진
^ pt:Besouro Mangangá
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^ Scherstuhl, Alan (24 September 2009). "Berdella: The Movie is torture to sit through". thepitch.com. The Pitch. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ "The Day the Music Died". IMDb.com.
^ Van Gogh: Painted with Words at IMDb
^ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_outlaw_michael_howe
^ The Gabby Douglas Story at IMDb
^ ko:어우동: 주인 없는 꽃
^ de:Noah Saavedra
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^ "Themo Melikidze". IMDb.
^ "Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016) – - Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ "Woody McClain". IMDb.
^ No Show Jones at IMDb
^ "Becoming Astrid". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ Patriot of the Web at IMDb
^ "A Tale of Two Coreys". IMDb.com.

[1] ttps://www.allmovie.com/movie/velikiy-voin-albanii-skanderbeg-v168705

[2] ttps://www.allmovie.com/movie/mad-dog-morgan-v30653

[3] "Vlad Tepes (1979) – - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[4] :배형진

[5] t:Besouro Mangangá

[6] "Aílton Carmo". IMDb.

[7] Scherstuhl, Alan (24 September 2009). "Berdella: The Movie is torture to sit through". thepitch.com. The Pitch. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.

[8] "The Day the Music Died". IMDb.com.

[9] Van Gogh: Painted with Words at IMDb

[10] ttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_outlaw_michael_howe

[11] The Gabby Douglas Story at IMDb

[12] :어우동: 주인 없는 꽃

[13] :Noah Saavedra

[14] Churchill at IMDb

[15] "Themo Melikidze". IMDb.

[16] "Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016) – - Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[17] "Woody McClain". IMDb.

[18] No Show Jones at IMDb

[19] "Becoming Astrid". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[20] Patriot of the Web at IMDb

[21] "A Tale of Two Coreys". IMDb.com.

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