Academy Award winners and nominees of Best Actor In A Leading Role
Academy Awards
| Year 2008 |
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| Winner | Milk | Sean Penn |
| Nominee | The Visitor | Richard Jenkins |
| Nominee | Frost/Nixon | Frank Langella |
| Nominee | Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The | Brad Pitt |
| Nominee | Wrestler, The | Mickey Rourke |
| Year 2007 |
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| Winner | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Nominee | Michael Clayton | George Clooney |
| Nominee | Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Johnny Depp |
| Nominee | In the Valley of Elah | Tommy Lee Jones |
| Nominee | Eastern Promises | Viggo Mortensen |
| Year 2006 |
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| Winner | Last King of Scotland, The | Forrest Whittaker |
| Nominee | Blood Diamond | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| Nominee | Half Nelson | Ryan Gosling |
| Nominee | Venus | Peter O'Toole |
| Nominee | Pursuit of Happyness, The | Will Smith |
| Year 2005 |
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| Winner | Capote | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| Nominee | Hustle & Flow | Terrence Howard |
| Nominee | Brokeback Mountain | Heath Ledger |
| Nominee | Walk the Line | Joaquin Phoenix |
| Nominee | Good Night, and Good Luck. | David Strathairn |
| Year 2004 |
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| Winner | Ray | Jamie Foxx |
| Nominee | Hotel Rwanda | Don Cheadle |
| Nominee | Finding Neverland | Johnny Depp |
| Nominee | Aviator, The | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| Nominee | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood |
| Year 2003 |
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| Winner | Mystic River | Sean Penn |
| Nominee | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Johnny Depp |
| Nominee | House of Sand and Fog | Ben Kingsley |
| Nominee | Cold Mountain | Jude Law |
| Nominee | Lost in Translation | Bill Murray |
| Year 2002 |
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| Winner | Pianist, The | Adrien Brody |
| Nominee | Adaptation | Nicolas Cage |
| Nominee | Quiet American, The | Michael Caine |
| Nominee | Gangs of New York | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Nominee | About Schmidt | Jack Nicholson |
| Year 2001 |
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| Winner | Training Day | Denzel Washington |
| Nominee | Beautiful Mind, A | Russell Crowe |
| Nominee | I Am Sam | Sean Penn |
| Nominee | Ali | Will Smith |
| Nominee | In the Bedroom | Tom Wilkinson |
| Year 2000 |
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| Winner | Gladiator | Russell Crowe |
| Nominee | Before Night Falls | Javier Bardem |
| Nominee | Cast Away | Tom Hanks |
| Nominee | Pollock | Ed Harris |
| Nominee | Quills | Geoffrey Rush |
| Year 1999 |
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| Winner | American Beauty | Kevin Spacey |
| Nominee | Insider, The | Russell Crowe |
| Nominee | Straight Story, The | Richard Farnsworth |
| Nominee | Sweet and Lowdown | Sean Penn |
| Nominee | Hurricane, The | Denzel Washington |
| Year 1998 |
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| Winner | Life Is Beautiful | Roberto Benigni |
| Nominee | Saving Private Ryan | Tom Hanks |
| Nominee | Gods and Monsters | Ian McKellen |
| Nominee | Affliction | Nick Nolte |
| Nominee | American History X | Edward Norton |
| Year 1997 |
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| Winner | As Good As It Gets | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominee | Good Will Hunting | Matt Damon |
| Nominee | Apostle, The | Robert Duvall |
| Nominee | Ulee's Gold | Peter Fonda |
| Nominee | Wag the Dog | Dustin Hoffman |
| Year 1996 |
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| Winner | Shine | Geoffrey Rush |
| Nominee | Jerry Maguire | Tom Cruise |
| Nominee | English Patient, The | Ralph Fiennes |
| Nominee | People vs. Larry Flynt, The | Woody Harrelson |
| Nominee | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton |
| Year 1995 |
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| Winner | Leaving Las Vegas | Nicolas Cage |
| Nominee | Mr. Holland's Opus | Richard Dreyfuss |
| Nominee | Nixon | Anthony Hopkins |
| Nominee | Dead Man Walking | Sean Penn |
| Nominee | Postman (Il Postino), The | Massimo Troisi |
| Year 1994 |
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| Winner | Forrest Gump | Tom Hanks |
| Nominee | Shawshank Redemption, The | Morgan Freeman |
| Nominee | Madness of King George, The | Nigel Hawthorne |
| Nominee | Nobody's Fool | Paul Newman |
| Nominee | Pulp Fiction | John Travolta |
| Year 1993 |
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| Winner | Philadelphia | Tom Hanks |
| Nominee | In the Name of the Father | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Nominee | What's Love Got to Do with It | Laurence Fishburne |
| Nominee | Remains of the Day, The | Anthony Hopkins |
| Nominee | Schindler's List | Liam Neeson |
| Year 1992 |
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| Winner | Scent of a Woman | Al Pacino |
| Nominee | Chaplin | Robert Downey, Jr. |
| Nominee | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood |
| Nominee | Crying Game, The | Stephen Rea |
| Nominee | Malcolm X | Denzel Washington |
| Year 1991 |
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| Winner | Silence of the Lambs, The | Anthony Hopkins |
| Nominee | Bugsy | Warren Beatty |
| Nominee | Cape Fear | Robert De Niro |
| Nominee | Prince of Tides, The | Nick Nolte |
| Nominee | Fisher King, The | Robin Williams |
| Year 1990 |
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| Winner | Reversal of Fortune | Jeremy Irons |
| Nominee | Dances With Wolves | Kevin Costner |
| Nominee | Awakenings | Robert De Niro |
| Nominee | Cyrano de Bergerac | Gerard Depardieu |
| Nominee | Field, The | Richard Harris |
| Year 1989 |
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| Winner | My Left Foot | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Nominee | Henry V | Kenneth Branagh |
| Nominee | Born on the Fourth of July | Tom Cruise |
| Nominee | Driving Miss Daisy | Morgan Freeman |
| Nominee | Dead Poets Society | Robin Williams |
| Year 1988 |
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| Winner | Rain Man | Dustin Hoffman |
| Nominee | Mississippi Burning | Gene Hackman |
| Nominee | Big | Tom Hanks |
| Nominee | Stand and Deliver | Edward James Olmos |
| Nominee | Pelle the Conqueror | Max Von Sydow |
| Year 1987 |
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| Winner | Wall Street | Michael Douglas |
| Nominee | Broadcast News | William Hurt |
| Nominee | Dark Eyes | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Nominee | Ironweed | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominee | Good Morning, Vietnam | Robin Williams |
| Year 1986 |
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| Winner | Color of Money, The | Paul Newman |
| Nominee | 'Round Midnight | Dexter Gordon |
| Nominee | Mona Lisa | Bob Hoskins |
| Nominee | Children of a Lesser God | William Hurt |
| Nominee | Salvador | James Woods |
| Year 1985 |
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| Winner | Kiss of the Spider Woman | William Hurt |
| Nominee | Witness | Harrison Ford |
| Nominee | Murphy's Romance | James Garner |
| Nominee | Prizzi's Honor | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominee | Runaway Train | Jon Voight |
| Year 1984 |
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| Winner | Amadeus | F. Murray Abraham |
| Nominee | Starman | Jeff Bridges |
| Nominee | Under the Volcano | Albert Finney |
| Nominee | Amadeus | Tom Hulce |
| Nominee | Killing Fields, The | Sam Waterston |
| Year 1983 |
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| Winner | Tender Mercies | Robert Duvall |
| Nominee | Educating Rita | Michael Caine |
| Nominee | Reuben, Reuben | Tom Conti |
| Nominee | Dresser, The | Tom Courtenay |
| Nominee | Dresser, The | Albert Finney |
| Year 1982 |
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| Winner | Gandhi | Ben Kingsley |
| Nominee | Tootsie | Dustin Hoffman |
| Nominee | Missing | Jack Lemmon |
| Nominee | Verdict, The | Paul Newman |
| Nominee | My Favorite Year | Peter O'Toole |
| Year 1981 |
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| Winner | On Golden Pond | Henry Fonda |
| Nominee | Reds | Warren Beatty |
| Nominee | Atlantic City | Burt Lancaster |
| Nominee | Arthur | Dudley Moore |
| Nominee | Absence of Malice | Paul Newman |
| Year 1980 |
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| Winner | Raging Bull | Robert De Niro |
| Nominee | Great Santini, The | Robert Duvall |
| Nominee | Elephant Man, The | John Hurt |
| Nominee | Tribute | Jack Lemmon |
| Nominee | Stunt Man, The | Peter O'Toole |
| Year 1979 |
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| Winner | Kramer vs. Kramer | Dustin Hoffman |
| Nominee | China Syndrome, The | Jack Lemmon |
| Nominee | ...And Justice for All | Al Pacino |
| Nominee | All That Jazz | Roy Scheider |
| Nominee | Being There | Peter Sellers |
| Year 1978 |
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| Winner | Coming Home | Jon Voight |
| Nominee | Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty |
| Nominee | Buddy Holly Story, The | Gary Busey |
| Nominee | Deer Hunter, The | Robert De Niro |
| Nominee | Boys from Brazil, The | Laurence Olivier |
| Year 1977 |
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| Winner | Goodbye Girl, The | Richard Dreyfuss |
| Nominee | Annie Hall | Woody Allen |
| Nominee | Equus | Richard Burton |
| Nominee | Special Day, A | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Nominee | Saturday Night Fever | John Travolta |
| Year 1976 |
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| Winner | Network | Peter Finch |
| Nominee | Taxi Driver | Robert De Niro |
| Nominee | Seven Beauties | Giancarlo Giannini |
| Nominee | Network | William Holden |
| Nominee | Rocky | Sylvester Stallone |
| Year 1975 |
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| Winner | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominee | Sunshine Boys, The | Walter Matthau |
| Nominee | Dog Day Afternoon | Al Pacino |
| Nominee | Man in the Glass Booth, The | Maximilian Schell |
| Nominee | Give 'em Hell, Harry! | James Whitmore |
| Year 1974 |
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| Winner | Harry and Tonto | Art Carney |
| Nominee | Murder on the Orient Express | Albert Finney |
| Nominee | Lenny | Dustin Hoffman |
| Nominee | Chinatown | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominee | Godfather Part II, The | Al Pacino |
| Year 1973 |
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| Winner | Save the Tiger | Jack Lemmon |
| Nominee | Last Tango in Paris | Marlon Brando |
| Nominee | Last Detail, The | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominee | Serpico | Al Pacino |
| Nominee | Sting, The | Robert Redford |
| Year 1972 |
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| Winner | Godfather, The | Marlon Brando |
| Nominee | Sleuth | Michael Caine |
| Nominee | Sleuth | Laurence Olivier |
| Nominee | Ruling Class, The | Peter O'Toole |
| Nominee | Sounder | Paul Winfield |
| Year 1971 |
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| Winner | French Connection, The | Gene Hackman |
| Nominee | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Peter Finch |
| Nominee | Kotch | Walter Matthau |
| Nominee | Hospital, The | George C. Scott |
| Nominee | Fiddler on the Roof | Topol |
| Year 1970 |
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| Winner | Patton | George C. Scott |
| Nominee | I Never Sang for My Father | Melvyn Douglas |
| Nominee | Great White Hope, The | James Earl Jones |
| Nominee | Five Easy Pieces | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominee | Love Story | Ryan O'Neal |
| Year 1969 |
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| Winner | True Grit | John Wayne |
| Nominee | Anne of the Thousand Days | Richard Burton |
| Nominee | Midnight Cowboy | Dustin Hoffman |
| Nominee | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Peter O'Toole |
| Nominee | Midnight Cowboy | Jon Voight |
| Year 1968 |
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| Winner | Charly | Cliff Robertson |
| Nominee | Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The | Alan Arkin |
| Nominee | Fixer, The | Alan Bates |
| Nominee | Oliver! | Ron Moody |
| Nominee | Lion in Winter, The | Peter O'Toole |
| Year 1967 |
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| Winner | In the Heat of the Night | Rod Steiger |
| Nominee | Bonnie and Clyde | Warren Beatty |
| Nominee | Graduate, The | Dustin Hoffman |
| Nominee | Cool Hand Luke | Paul Newman |
| Nominee | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Spencer Tracy |
| Year 1966 |
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| Winner | Man for All Seasons, A | Paul Scofield |
| Nominee | Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming, The | Alan Arkin |
| Nominee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Richard Burton |
| Nominee | Alfie | Michael Caine |
| Nominee | Sand Pebbles, The | Steve McQueen |
| Year 1965 |
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| Winner | Cat Ballou | Lee Marvin |
| Nominee | Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The | Richard Burton |
| Nominee | Othello | Laurence Olivier |
| Nominee | Pawnbroker, The | Rod Steiger |
| Nominee | Ship of Fools | Oskar Werner |
| Year 1964 |
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| Winner | My Fair Lady | Rex Harrison |
| Nominee | Becket | Richard Burton |
| Nominee | Becket | Peter O'Toole |
| Nominee | Zorba the Greek | Anthony Quinn |
| Nominee | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Peter Sellers |
| Year 1963 |
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| Winner | Lilies of the Field | Sidney Poitier |
| Nominee | Tom Jones | Albert Finney |
| Nominee | This Sporting Life | Richard Harris |
| Nominee | Cleopatra | Rex Harrison |
| Nominee | Hud | Paul Newman |
| Year 1962 |
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| Winner | To Kill a Mockingbird | Gregory Peck |
| Nominee | Birdman of Alcatraz | Burt Lancaster |
| Nominee | Days of Wine and Roses | Jack Lemmon |
| Nominee | Divorce--Italian Style | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Nominee | Lawrence of Arabia | Peter O'Toole |
| Year 1961 |
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| Winner | Judgment at Nuremberg | Maximilian Schell |
| Nominee | Fanny | Charles Boyer |
| Nominee | Hustler, The | Paul Newman |
| Nominee | Judgment at Nuremberg | Spencer Tracy |
| Nominee | Mark, The | Stuart Whitman |
| Year 1960 |
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| Winner | Elmer Gantry | Burt Lancaster |
| Nominee | Sons and Lovers | Trevor Howard |
| Nominee | Apartment, The | Jack Lemmon |
| Nominee | Entertainer, The | Laurence Olivier |
| Nominee | Inherit the Wind | Spencer Tracy |
| Year 1959 |
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| Winner | Ben-Hur | Charlton Heston |
| Nominee | Room at the Top | Laurence Harvey |
| Nominee | Some Like It Hot | Jack Lemmon |
| Nominee | Last Angry Man, The | Paul Muni |
| Nominee | Anatomy of a Murder | James Stewart |
| Year 1958 |
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| Winner | Separate Tables | David Niven |
| Nominee | Defiant Ones, The | Tony Curtis |
| Nominee | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Paul Newman |
| Nominee | Defiant Ones, The | Sidney Poitier |
| Nominee | Old Man and the Sea, The | Spencer Tracy |
| Year 1957 |
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| Winner | Bridge on the River Kwai, The | Alec Guinness |
| Nominee | Sayonara | Marlon Brando |
| Nominee | Hatful of Rain, A | Anthony Franciosa |
| Nominee | Witness for the Prosecution | Charles Laughton |
| Nominee | Wild Is the Wind | Anthony Quinn |
| Year 1956 |
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| Winner | King and I, The | Yul Brynner |
| Nominee | Giant | James Dean |
| Nominee | Lust for Life | Kirk Douglas |
| Nominee | Giant | Rock Hudson |
| Nominee | Richard III | Sir Laurence Olivier |
| Year 1955 |
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| Winner | Marty | Ernest Borgnine |
| Nominee | Love Me or Leave Me | James Cagney |
| Nominee | East of Eden | James Dean |
| Nominee | Man with the Golden Arm, The | Frank Sinatra |
| Nominee | Bad Day at Black Rock | Spencer Tracy |
| Year 1954 |
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| Winner | On the Waterfront | Marlon Brando |
| Nominee | Caine Mutiny, The | Humphrey Bogart |
| Nominee | Country Girl, The | Bing Crosby |
| Nominee | Star Is Born, A | James Mason |
| Nominee | Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Dan O'Herlihy |
| Year 1953 |
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| Winner | Stalag 17 | William Holden |
| Nominee | Julius Caesar | Marlon Brando |
| Nominee | Robe, The | Richard Burton |
| Nominee | From Here to Eternity | Montgomery Clift |
| Nominee | From Here to Eternity | Burt Lancaster |
| Year 1952 |
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| Winner | High Noon | Gary Cooper |
| Nominee | Viva Zapata! | Marlon Brando |
| Nominee | Bad and the Beautiful, The | Kirk Douglas |
| Nominee | Moulin Rouge | Jos |
| Nominee | Lavender Hill Mob, The | Alec Guinness |
| Year 1951 |
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| Winner | African Queen, The | Humphrey Bogart |
| Nominee | Streetcar Named Desire, A | Marlon Brando |
| Nominee | Place in the Sun, A | Montgomery Clift |
| Nominee | Bright Victory | Arthur Kennedy |
| Nominee | Death of a Salesman | Fredric March |
| Year 1950 |
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| Winner | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jos |
| Nominee | Magnificent Yankee, The | Louis Calhern |
| Nominee | Sunset Blvd. | William Holden |
| Nominee | Harvey | James Stewart |
| Nominee | Father of the Bride | Spencer Tracy |
| Year 1949 |
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| Winner | All the King's Men | Broderick Crawford |
| Nominee | Champion | Kirk Douglas |
| Nominee | Twelve O'Clock High | Gregory Peck |
| Nominee | Hasty Heart, The | Richard Todd |
| Nominee | Sands of Iwo Jima | John Wayne |
| Year 1948 |
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| Winner | Hamlet | Laurence Olivier |
| Nominee | Johnny Belinda | Lew Ayres |
| Nominee | Search, The | Montgomery Clift |
| Nominee | When My Baby Smiles at Me | Dan Dailey |
| Nominee | Sitting Pretty | Clifton Webb |
| Year 1947 |
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| Winner | Double Life, A | Ronald Colman |
| Nominee | Body and Soul | John Garfield |
| Nominee | Gentleman's Agreement | Gregory Peck |
| Nominee | Life with Father | William Powell |
| Nominee | Mourning Becomes Electra | Michael Redgrave |
| Year 1946 |
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| Winner | Best Years of Our Lives, The | Fredric March |
| Nominee | Henry V | Laurence Olivier |
| Nominee | Jolson Story, The | Larry Parks |
| Nominee | Yearling, The | Gregory Peck |
| Nominee | It's a Wonderful Life | James Stewart |
| Year 1945 |
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| Winner | Lost Weekend, The | Ray Milland |
| Nominee | Bells of St. Mary's, The | Bing Crosby |
| Nominee | Anchors Aweigh | Gene Kelly |
| Nominee | Keys of the Kingdom, The | Gregory Peck |
| Nominee | Song to Remember, A | Cornel Wilde |
| Year 1944 |
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| Winner | Going My Way | Bing Crosby |
| Nominee | Gaslight | Charles Boyer |
| Nominee | Going My Way | Barry Fitzgerald |
| Nominee | None but the Lonely Heart | Cary Grant |
| Nominee | Wilson | Alexander Knox |
| Year 1943 |
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| Winner | Watch on the Rhine | Paul Lukas |
| Nominee | Casablanca | Humphrey Bogart |
| Nominee | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Gary Cooper |
| Nominee | Madame Curie | Walter Pidgeon |
| Nominee | Human Comedy, The | Mickey Rooney |
| Year 1942 |
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| Winner | Yankee Doodle Dandy | James Cagney |
| Nominee | Random Harvest | Ronald Colman |
| Nominee | Pride of the Yankees, The | Gary Cooper |
| Nominee | Mrs. Miniver | Walter Pidgeon |
| Nominee | Pied Piper, The | Monty Woolley |
| Year 1941 |
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| Winner | Sergeant York | Gary Cooper |
| Nominee | Penny Serenade | Cary Grant |
| Nominee | All That Money Can Buy | Walter Huston |
| Nominee | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Robert Montgomery |
| Nominee | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles |
| Year 1940 |
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| Winner | Philadelphia Story, The | James Stewart |
| Nominee | Great Dictator, The | Charles Chaplin |
| Nominee | Grapes of Wrath, The | Henry Fonda |
| Nominee | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Raymond Massey |
| Nominee | Rebecca | Laurence Olivier |
| Year 1939 |
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| Winner | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Robert Donat |
| Nominee | Gone with the Wind | Clark Gable |
| Nominee | Wuthering Heights | Laurence Olivier |
| Nominee | Babes in Arms | Mickey Rooney |
| Nominee | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | James Stewart |
| Year 1938 |
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| Winner | Boys Town | Spencer Tracy |
| Nominee | Algiers | Charles Boyer |
| Nominee | Angels with Dirty Faces | James Cagney |
| Nominee | Citadel, The | Robert Donat |
| Nominee | Pygmalion | Leslie Howard |
| Year 1937 |
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| Winner | Captains Courageous | Spencer Tracy |
| Nominee | Conquest | Charles Boyer |
| Nominee | Star Is Born, A | Fredric March |
| Nominee | Night Must Fall | Robert Montgomery |
| Nominee | Life of Emile Zola, The | Paul Muni |
| Year 1936 |
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| Winner | Story of Louis Pasteur, The | Paul Muni |
| Nominee | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Gary Cooper |
| Nominee | Dodsworth | Walter Huston |
| Nominee | My Man Godfrey | William Powell |
| Nominee | San Francisco | Spencer Tracy |
| Year 1935 |
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| Winner | Informer, The | Victor McLaglen |
| Nominee | Mutiny on the Bounty | Clark Gable |
| Nominee | Mutiny on the Bounty | Charles Laughton |
| Nominee | Black Fury | Paul Muni |
| Nominee | Mutiny on the Bounty | Franchot Tone |
| Year 1934 |
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| Winner | It Happened One Night | Clark Gable |
| Nominee | Affairs of Cellini, The | Frank Morgan |
| Nominee | Thin Man, The | William Powell |
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