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Academy Award for Best ActorFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Academy Award for Best Actor

Awarded for "Performance by an actor in a

leading role"

Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts

and Sciences

Country United States

First awarded 1929 (for performances in films

released around 1928)

First winner Emil Jannings,

The Last CommandandThe Way

of All Flesh (1927)

Currently held

by

Jeff Bridges,

Crazy Heart(2009)

Official Website

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of theAcademyAwards of Merit presented annually by theAcademy of Motion Picture Artsand Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actorwho has delivered anoutstanding performance while working within the film industry. Prior tothe 49th Academy Awards ceremony (1977), this award was simply knownas the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actor. Since itsinception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as theOscar for Best Actor. While actors are nominated for this award by

Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners areselected by the Academy membership as a whole.

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1 History

2 Other awards for acting

3 Superlatives

4 Multiple nominations

5 Life expectancy of winners

6 Winners and nominees

o 6.1 1920s

o 6.2 1930s

o 6.3 1940s

o 6.4 1950s

o 6.5 1960s

o 6.6 1970so 6.7 1980s

o 6.8 1990s

o 6.9 2000s

7 International presence

8 See also

9 References

10 External links

[edit]History

Throughout the past 82 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners,AMPAS has presented a total of 83 Best Actor awards to 74 differentactors. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit receive the familiar Oscarstatuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword andstanding on a reel of film. The first recipient was Emil Jannings, who washonored at the 1st Academy Awardsceremony (1929) for his performances

in The Last Commandand The Way of All Flesh. The most recent recipientwas Jeff Bridges, who was honored at the 82nd AcademyAwards ceremony (2010) for his performance in Crazy Heart.

In the first three years of the Academy Awards, individuals such as actorsand directors were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time,all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in
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some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd AcademyAwards ceremony (1930), only one of those films was cited in eachwinner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had had twofilms following their names on the ballots. For the 4th Academy

Awards ceremony (1931), this unwieldy and confusing system wasreplaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for aspecific performance in a single film. Such nominations are limited to fiveper year. Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), nominations forthe Best Actor award were intended to include all actors, whether theperformance was in either a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy

Awards ceremony (1937), however, the Best Supporting Actorcategorywas specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that

the single Best Actor category necessarily favored leading performers withthe most screen time. Nonetheless,Lionel Barrymore had received a BestActor award (A Free Soul, 1931) and Franchot Tone a Best Actornomination (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1936) for their performances in clearsupporting roles. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a LeadingRole, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an

Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in aSupporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for actingannually presented by AMPAS.

[edit]Other awards for acting

Actors have also received special awards, orAcademy Honorary Awards,for acting in specific films (such as in the case ofJames Baskett, whoreceived a special honorary award for Disney's Song of the South). Childactors have also been awarded theAcademy Juvenile Award.

[edit]Superlatives

Superlative Best ActorBest Supporting

ActorOverall

Actor withmost awards

Spencer Tracy

Fredric March2 Walter Brennan 3

Jack NicholsonWalter Brennan

3
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Gary Cooper

Marlon Brando

Dustin Hoffman

Tom Hanks

Jack NicholsonDaniel Day-

Lewis

Sean Penn

Actor with

most

nominations

Spencer Tracy

Laurence Olivier9

Jack Nicholson

Claude Rains

Arthur Kennedy

Walter Brennan

4 Jack Nicholson 12

Actor with

most

nominations(without ever

winning)

Peter O'Toole 8Claude Rains

Arthur Kennedy4 Peter O'Toole 8

Film with mostnominations

Mutiny on theBounty

3

On the

WaterfrontThe Godfather

The Godfather

Part II

3

On the

WaterfrontThe Godfather

The Godfather

Part II

4

Oldest winner Henry Fonda 76 George Burns 80 George Burns 80

Oldest nominee

Richard

Farnsworth 79 Hal Holbrook 82 Hal Holbrook 82

Youngest

winnerAdrien Brody 29 Timothy Hutton 20 Timothy Hutton 20
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Youngest

nomineeJackie Cooper 9 Justin Henry 8 Justin Henry 8

Nine men have won the Best Actor award twice. In chronological order,they are: Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938), Fredric March (1932, 1946), GaryCooper(1941, 1952), Marlon Brando (1954, 1972),Dustin Hoffman (1979,1988), Tom Hanks (1993, 1994), Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997), Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2007), and Sean Penn (2003, 2008). Of these, all were

Americans except for Daniel Day-Lewis. Tracy and Hanks were the onlyactors to win their awards in consecutive years. Furthermore, Tracy andHanks were the same age at the time they received their Academy

Awards: 37 for the first and 38 for the second.

The periods between successive wins by the two-time winners areSpencer Tracy and Tom Hanks (1 year), Sean Penn (5 years), DustinHoffman (9 years), Gary Cooper (11 years), Fredric March (14 years),Marlon Brando (18 years), Daniel Day-Lewis (18 years), and JackNicholson (22 years).

The actors with the most nominations in this category are SpencerTracy and Laurence Olivier, with nine each. Paul Newman, JackNicholson, and Peter O'Toole tie for third place with eight nominationseach. Nicholson won his awards a record 22 years apart. O'Toole holdsthe record for the longest time span between his first and last nominations(44 years), and he also holds the record for the greatest number ofnominations without ever winning the award (eight).

Six actors have won both the Best Actor and the Best SupportingActorawards: Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, GeneHackman, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington.

Two actors have won an Academy Award (Best Actor and Best SupportingActor) for portraying the same character, that of Don Vito Corleone in TheGodfatherand The Godfather Part II, respectively. The actors were MarlonBrando and Robert De Niro.

There has been only one announced tie in the history of this category. In1932, Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery.
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Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, soboth March and Beery received the award. Under the current Academyrules, however, dual awards are only given for exact ties. While that hasnever happened for the Best Actor award, it did happen for the Best

Actress award in 1969.

Peter Finch is the only posthumous winnerof the Best Actor award, thoughhe was alive when his nomination was announced (the only otherposthumous winner in any acting category was anotherAustralian, HeathLedger, who won the Best Supporting Actoraward in 2009). The onlyposthumously nominated performers in this category were JamesDean, Spencer Tracy, and Massimo Troisi. Dean was posthumouslynominated twice.

Three actors have been nominated for Best Actor more than once for thesame character: Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going MyWayand The Bells of St. Mary's; Peter O'Toole as King HenryIIin Becketand The Lion in Winter; and Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie"Felson in The Hustlerand The Color of Money. (Al Pacino was nominatedin 1975 for a role for which he had previously been nominated for BestSupporting Actor, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part II.)

Michael Douglas (1988, Wall Street) and Laurence Olivier(1949, Hamlet)

are the only two actors to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and BestPicture (Douglas as a producer ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestin1976, and Olivier as producer ofHamlet). Olivier is also the only actor towin for acting and producing in the same year. Other Oscar nominees forBest Actor and Best Picture are:Clint Eastwood (acting nominationsforUnforgiven, 1993, and Million Dollar Baby, 2005, winner for both in theBest Picture category); Kevin Costner, Best Actor nominee forDanceswith Wolves and winning producer for the same film, in 1991; Paul

Newman, Best Actor winner forThe Color of Moneyand a Best Picturenominee forRachel, Rachelin 1969; and Henry Fonda, Best Actor winnerforOn Golden Pondand a Best Picture nominee for12 Angry Men in 1958.

Barry Fitzgerald is the only actor to be nominated for both Best Actor andBest Supporting Actor for the same character in the same year (as Father
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Fitzgibbon forGoing My Way). The rules were later changed to prevent arecurrence of this.

Several pairs of actors have been nominated for playing the samecharacter or historical figure: Fredric March and James Mason as NormanMaine in 1937'sA Star Is Born and the 1954 version, RobertDonat and Peter O'Toole as Chipping in 1939's Goodbye, Mr.Chips and the 1969 version, Laurence Olivierand KennethBranagh as Henry V in 1944's Henry Vand the 1989 version (both ofwhich were directed by their stars), Charles Laughton and RichardBurton as Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIIIandAnne of theThousand Days, Leslie Howard and Rex Harrison as Professor HenryHiggins in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, Jos Ferrerand Grard

Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac in 1950's Cyrano de Bergeracand the1990 version, Robert Montgomery and Warren Beatty as Joe Pendletonin Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Heaven Can Wait, andAnthonyHopkins and Frank Langella as RichardNixon in Nixon and Frost/Nixon. Robert De Niro won Best Supporting

Actorfor playingVito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, the role forwhich Marlon Brando had previously won Best Actor.

Laurence Olivieris the only actor to have won an Oscar for

a Shakespearean performance: Best Actor forHamlet(1948). Olivier alsoreceived anAcademy Honorary Award forHenry V(1944), which Olivierdescribed as a "fub-off".

Robert Downey, Jr. is the only actor nominated for playing a previousnominee, Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin.

Two actors directed their own Oscar-winning performances: LaurenceOlivierin Hamletand Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful. To date,however, no individual has won both Best Actor and Best Director.

Two winners have declined the award: George C. Scott, who wonforPatton in 1971 (he had also declined his 1962 nomination for BestSupporting Actor forThe Hustler); and Marlon Brando, upon winning hissecond Oscar forThe Godfatherin 1973.

A few early winning and nominated performances have subsequentlybeen lost, including Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1928), Lewis
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Stone in The Patriot(1928), and Lawrence Tibbett in The RogueSong(1930), of which only a short fragment and the soundtrack survives.

The earliest nominee in this category who is still alive is JackieCooper(1931), followed by Mickey Rooney (1939). The earliest winner inthis category who is still alive is Ernest Borgnine (1955), followedby Maximilian Schell (1962)both won overSpencer Tracy and starred inthe films for which Tracy was nominated. The few remaining livingnominees from the 1940s50s Hollywood era include Kirk Douglas (3nominations). Sidney Poitieralso received his first nomination in 1958.

[edit]Multiple nominations

The following actors have received multiple Best Actor nominations. The

list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of totalnominations listed in parentheses).

2 : Spencer Tracy (9)

2 : Jack Nicholson (8)

2 : Marlon Brando (7)

2 : Dustin Hoffman (7)

2 : Gary Cooper(5)

2 : Tom Hanks (5)

2 : Fredric March (5) 2 : Sean Penn (5)

2 : Daniel Day-Lewis (4)

1 : Laurence Oliv

1 : Paul Newman

1 : Jack Lemmon

1 : Paul Muni (6)

1 : James Stewar

1 : Gregory Peck

1 : Al Pacino (5) 1 : Robert De Nir

1 : Burt Lancaste

1 : Charles Laugh

1 : James Cagney

1 : Ronald Colma

1 : Clark Gable (

1 : William Hold

1 : Humphrey Bo

1 : William Hurt

1 : Bing Crosby (
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[edit]Life expectancy of winners

In 2001 Donald A. Redelmeier, MD, and Sheldon M. Singh, BSc publisheda study in theAnnals of Internal Medicine in which they found:

"Winning an Academy Award was associated with a large gain in lifeexpectancy for actors and actresses...Winning an Academy Award canincrease a performers stature and may add to their longevity. Theabsolute difference in life expectancy is about equal to the societalconsequence of curing all cancers in all people for all time (22, 23).Moreover, movie stars who have won multiple Academy Awards have asurvival advantage of 6.0 years (CI, 0.7 to 11.3 years) over performers withmultiple films but no victories. Formal education is not the only way toimprove health, and strict poverty is not the only way to worsen health. Themain implication is that higherstatus may be linked to lower mortality rateseven at very impressive levels of achievement."[1]

The aforementioned authors did an update to 29 March 2006 in which theyfound 122 more individuals and 144 more deaths since their firstpublication. Their unadjusted analysis showed a smaller survivaladvantage of 3.6 years for winners compared to their fellow nominees andcostars in the films in which their performance garnered them their award.[2] However, in a 2006 published study by Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, MSc, EllaHuszti, MSc, and James A. Hanley, PhD, the authors found:

"The statistical method used to derive this statistically significant differencegave winners an unfair advantage because it credited an Oscar winner'syears of life before winning toward survival subsequent to winning. Whenthe authors of the current article reanalyzed the data using methods thatavoided this "immortal time" bias, the survival advantage was closer to 1

year and was not statistically significant. The bias in Redelmeier andSingh's study is not limited to longevity comparisons of persons who reachdifferent ranks within their profession."[3]

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Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of theirLos Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's yearof release. For example, the Oscar for Best Actor of 1999 was announcedduring the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in bold,

followed by the other nominees.

The first six years of the Academy Awards are sometimes represented asone half of two consecutive years which are 1927-1928(1st), 1928-1929(2nd), 1929-1930(3rd), 1930-1931(4th), 1931-1932(5th) and 1932-1933(6th). The Academy usually simplifies this (most notably during therebroadcasts and in their Oscar montages) by using the latter year to causeless confusion. (i.e. the year representing 1927-1928 becomes just 1928)[4]

[edit]1920s

1928(1927-28)Emil Jannings - The Last Commandas Gen.

Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander and The Way of All

Flesh as August Schilling

Richard Barthelmess - The Noose as Nickie Elkins and ThePatent Leather Kidas Patent Leather Kid

1929 (1928-29) Warner Baxter- In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid

George Bancroft - Thunderboltas Thunderbolt Jim Lang Chester Morris -Alibias Chick Williams (No. 1065) Paul Muni - The Valiantas James Dyke Lewis Stone - The Patriotas Count Pahlen

1930 (1929-30) George Arliss - Disraelias Benjamin Disraeli

George Arliss - The Green Goddess as The Raja of Rukh Wallace Beery - The Big House as 'Machine Gun' Butch

Schmidt

Maurice Chevalier- The Big Pondas Pierre Mirande and TheLove Parade as Count Alfred Renard

Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummondas Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog'Drummond and Condemnedas Michel

Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Songas Yegor
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[edit]1930s

1931 (1930-31) Lionel Barrymore -A Free Soulas Stephen Ashe

Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page as Walter Burns Jackie Cooper- Skippyas Skippy Skinner Richard Dix - Cimarron as Yancey Cravat Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadwayas Tony

Cavendish

1932 (1931-32) Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr.Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Wallace Beery - The Champ as Andy "Champ" Purcell (tie) Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman as The Actor

1933 (1932-33) Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry

VIIIas King Henry VIII of England

Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square as Peter Standish Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gangas James

Allen

1934Clark Gable - It Happened One Nightas Peter Warne

Frank Morgan - The Affairs of CelliniasAlessandro - Duke ofFlorence

William Powell - The Thin Man as Nick Charles

1935Victor McLaglen - The Informeras Gypo Nolan

Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bountyas Fletcher Christian Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bountyas William Bligh Paul Muni - Black Furyas Joe Radek Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bountyas Roger Byam

1936Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteuras Louis Pasteur

Gary Cooper- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds Walter Huston - Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth William Powell - My Man Godfreyas Godfrey Park Spencer Tracy - San Francisco as Father Tim Mullin
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1937Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as Manuel

Charles Boyer- Conquestas Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Fredric March -A Star Is Born as Norman Maine Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fallas Danny Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola as mile Zola

1938Spencer Tracy - Boys Town as Father Flanagan

Charles Boyer-Algiers as Pepe le Moko James Cagney -Angels with Dirty Faces as Rocky Sullivan Robert Donat - The Citadelas Dr. Andrew Manson Leslie Howard - Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins

1939Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping

Clark Gable - Gone with the Windas Rhett Butler Laurence Olivier- Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson

Smith

[edit]1940s

1940James Stewart - The Philadelphia Storyas Macaulay

Connor

Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictatoras Adenoid Hynkel(Dictator of Tomania) / A Jewish Barber

Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad Raymond Massey -Abe Lincoln in Illinois asAbraham Lincoln Laurence Olivier- Rebecca as 'Maxim' de Winter

1941Gary Cooper- Sergeant Yorkas Alvin C. York

Cary Grant - Penny Serenade as Roger Adams Walter Huston - The Devil and Daniel Websteras Mr. Scratch Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe

Pendleton Orson Welles - Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane
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1942James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandyas George M.

Cohan

Ronald Colman - Random Harvestas Charles Rainier Gary Cooper- The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniveras Clem Miniver Monty Woolley - The Pied Piperas Howard

1943Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller

Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca as Rick Blaine Gary Cooper- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie as Pierre Curie Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedyas Homer Macauley

1944Bing Crosby - Going My Wayas Father Chuck O'Malley

Charles Boyer- Gaslightas Gregory Anton Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Wayas Father Fitzgibbon Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heartas Ernie Mott Alexander Knox - Wilson as Woodrow Wilson

1945Ray Milland - The Lost Weekendas Don Birnam

Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's as Father ChuckO'Malley

Gene Kelly -Anchors Aweigh as Joseph Brady Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom as Father Francis

Chisholm Cornel Wilde -A Song to Rememberas Frdric Chopin

1946Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as Al

Stephenson

Laurence Olivier- Henry Vas King Henry V of England

Larry Parks - The Jolson StoryasAl Jolson Gregory Peck - The Yearlingas Ezra 'Penny' Baxter James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life as George Bailey

1947Ronald Colman -A Double Life as Anthony John

John Garfield - Body and Soulas Charlie Davis
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rosbyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bells_of_St._Mary'shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kellyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchors_Aweigh_(film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Peckhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_of_the_Kingdom_(film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_Wildehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_to_Rememberhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_in_filmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Marchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Years_of_Our_Liveshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Olivierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_(1944_film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_Englandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Parkshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jolson_Storyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolsonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Peckhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yearling_(film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart_(actor)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Lifehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bailey_(It's_a_Wonderful_Life)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_in_filmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Colmanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Double_Lifehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfieldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_and_Soul_(1947_film)


14/25

Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreementas Philip SchuylerGreen aka Greenberg

William Powell - Life with Fatheras Clarence Day, Sr. Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra as Orin

Mannon

1948Laurence Olivier- Hamletas Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda as Dr. Robert Richardson Montgomery Clift - The Search as Ralph 'Steve' Stevenson Dan Dailey - When My Baby Smiles at Me as 'Skid' Johnson Clifton Webb - Sitting Prettyas Lynn Belvedere

1949Broderick Crawford -All the King's Men as Willie Stark

Kirk Douglas - Champion as Michael 'Midge' Kelly Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High as General Savage Richard Todd - The Hasty Heartas Cpl. Lachlan 'Lachie'

MacLachlan John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima as Sgt. John M. Stryker

[edit]1950s

1950Jos Ferrer- Cyrano de Bergeracas Cyrano de Bergerac

Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver WendellHolmes

William Holden - Sunset Boulevardas Joe Gillis James Stewart - Harveyas Elwood P. Dowd Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks

1951Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen as Charlie Allnut

Marlon Brando -A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley

Kowalski Montgomery Clift -A Place in the Sun as George Eastman Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victoryas Larry Nevins Fredric March - Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman

1952Gary Cooper- High Noon as Marshal Will Kane

Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!as Emiliano Zapata
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.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holdenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart_(actor)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Tracyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_the_Bride_(1950_film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_in_filmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogarthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Queen_(film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brandohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire_(1951_film)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kowalskihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kowalskihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Clifthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_in_the_Sunhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kennedy_(actor)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Victoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Marchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesmanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_in_filmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cooperhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brandohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Zapata!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata


15/25

Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautifulas Jonathan Shields Jos Ferrer- Moulin Rouge as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec /

The Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry Holland

1953William Holden - Stalag 17as Sgt. J.J. Sefton

Marlon Brando - Julius Caesaras Mark Antony Richard Burton - The Robe as Marcellus Gallio Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternityas Pvt. Robert E.

Lee 'Prew' Prewitt Burt Lancaster- From Here to Eternityas 1st Sgt. Milton

Warden

1954Marlon Brando - On the Waterfrontas Terry Malloy

Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutinyas Lt. Cmdr. PhilipFrancis Queeg

Bing Crosby - The Country Girlas Frank Elgin James Mason -A Star Is Born as Norman Maine Dan O'Herlihy -Adventures of Robinson Crusoe as Robinson

Crusoe

1955Ernest Borgnine - Martyas Marty Piletti

James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder James Dean - East of Eden as Cal Trask (posthumous

nomination) Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie

Machine Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rockas John J. Macreedy

1956Yul Brynner- The King and Ias King Mongkut of Siam

James Dean - Giantas Jett Rink (posthumous nomination) Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life as Vincent van Gogh Rock Hudson - Giantas Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr. Laurence Olivier- Richard IIIas King Richard III of England

1957Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwaias Colonel

Nicholson
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