| Emil Jannings | The Way of All Flesh |
| Warner Baxter | In Old Arizona |
| George Arliss | Disraeli |
| Lionel Barrymore | A Free Soul |
| Fredric March | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Charles Laughton | The Private Life of Henry VIII |
| Clark Gable | It Happened One Night |
| Victor McLaglen | The Informer |
| Paul Muni | The Story of Louis Pasteur |
| Spencer Tracy | Captains Courageous |
| Spencer Tracy | Boys Town |
| Robert Donat | Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| James Stewart | The Philadelphia Story |
| Gary Cooper | Sergeant York |
| James Cagney | Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Paul Lukas | Watch on the Rhine |
| Bing Crosby | Going My Way |
| Ray Milland | The Lost Weekend |
| Fredric March | The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Ronald Colman | A Double Life |
| Laurence Olivier | Hamlet |
| Broderick Crawford | All the King's Men |
| Jose Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Humphrey Bogart | The African Queen |
| Gary Cooper | High Noon |
| William Holden | Stalag 17 |
| Marlon Brando | On the Waterfront |
| Ernest Borgnine | Marty |
| Yul Brynner | The King and I |
| Alec Guinness | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| David Niven | Separate Tables |
| Charlton Heston | Ben-Hur |
| Burt Lancaster | Elmer Gantry |
| Maximillian Schell | Judgment at Nuremberg |
| Gregory Peck | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Sidney Poitier | Lilies of the Field |
| Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady |
| Lee Marvin | Cat Ballou |
| Paul Schofield | A Man for All Seasons |
| Rod Steiger | In the Heat of the Night |
| Cliff Robertson | Charly |
| John Wayne | True Grit |
| George C. Scott | Patton |
| Gene Hackman | The French Connection |
| Marlon Brando | The Godfather |
| Jack Lemmon | Save the Tiger |
| Art Carney | Harry and Tonto |
| Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Peter Finch | Network |
| Richard Dreyfuss | The Goodbye Girl |
| Jon Voight | Coming Home |
| Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| Robert De Niro | Raging Bull |
| Henry Fonda | On Golden Pond |
| Ben Kingsley | Gandhi |
| Robert Duvall | Tender Mercies |
| F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus |
| William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| Paul Newman | The Color of Money |
| Michael Douglas | Wall Street |
| Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot |
| Jeremy Irons | A Reversal of Fortune |
| Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Al Pacino | Scent of a Woman |
| Tom Hanks | Philadelphia |
| Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump |
| Nicholas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas |
| Geoffrey Rush | Shine |
| Jack Nicholson | As Good as it Gets |
| Roberto Benigni | Life is Beautiful |
| Kevin Spacey | American Beauty |
| Russell Crowe | Gladiator |
| Denzel Washington | Training Day |
| Adrien Brody | The Pianist |
| Sean Penn | Mystic River |
| Jamie Foxx | Ray |
| Phillip Seymour Hoffman | Capote |
| Forrest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood |
| Sean Penn | Milk |