1927-28 | Emil Jannings 'The Way of All Flesh' and 'The Last Command' | Janet Gaynor in 'Seventh Heaven', 'Street Angel', and 'Sunrise' | 1927-28 |
1928-9 | Warner Baxter in 'In Old Arizona' | Mary Pickford in 'Coquette' | 1928-29 |
1929-30 | George Arliss in 'Disraeli' | Norma Shearer in 'The Divorcee' | 1929-30 |
1930-31 | Lionel Barrymore in 'A Free Soul' | Marie Dressler in 'Min and Bill' | 1930-31 |
1931-2 | William Powell in 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' | Helen Hayes in 'The Sin of Madelon Claudet' | 1931-2 |
1932-3 | Charles Laughton in 'The Private Life of Henry VIII' | Katharine Hepburn in 'Morning Glory' | 1932-3 |
1934 | Clark Gable in 'It Happened One Night' | Claudette Colbert in 'It Happened One Night' | 1934 |
1935 | Victor Mclagen in 'The Informer' | Bette Davis in 'Dangerous' | 1935 |
1936 | Paul Muni in 'The Story of Louis Pasteur' | Louise Rainer in 'The Great Ziegfeld' | 1936 |
1937 | Spencer Tracy in 'Captains Courageous' | Louise Rainer in 'The Good Earth' | 1937 |
1938 | Spencer Tracy in 'Boys Town' | Bette Davis in 'Jezebel' | 1938 |
1939 | Robert Donat in 'Goodbye, Mr Chips' | Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With The Wind' | 1939 |
1940 | James Stewart in 'The Philadelphia Story' | Ginger Rogers in 'Kitty Foyle' | 1940 |
1941 | Gary Cooper in 'Sergeant York' | Joan Fontaine in 'Suspicion' | 1941 |
1942 | James Cagney in 'Yankee Doodle Dandy ' | Greer Garson in 'Mrs Miniver' | 1942 |
1943 | Paul Lukas in 'Watch on the Rhine' | Jennifer Jones in 'The Song of Bernadette' | 1943 |
1944 | Bing Crosby in 'Going My Way' | Ingrid Bergman in 'Gaslight' | 1944 |
1945 | Ray Milland in 'The Lost Weekend' | Joan Crawford in 'Mildred Pierce' | 1945 |
1946 | Fredric March in 'The Best Years of Our Lives' | Olivia de Havilland in 'To Each His Own' | 1946 |
1947 | Ronald Colman in 'A Double Life' | Loretta Young in 'The Farmer's Daughter' | 1947 |
1948 | Laurence Olivier in 'Hamlet' | Jane Wyman in 'Johnny Belinda' | 1948 |
1949 | Broderick Crawford in 'All The King's Men' | Olivia de Havilland in 'The Heiress' | 1949 |
1950 | Jose Ferrer in 'Cyrano de Bergerac' | Judy Holliday in 'Born Yesterday' | 1950 |
1951 | Humphrey Bogart in 'The African Queen ' | Vivien Leigh in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' | 1951 |
1952 | Gary Cooper in 'High Noon' | Shirley Booth in 'Come Back, Little Sheba' | 1952 |
1953 | William Holden in 'Stalag 17' | Audrey Hepburn in 'Roman Holiday' | 1953 |
1954 | Marlon Brando in 'On the Waterfront ' | Grace Kelly in 'The Country Girl' | 1954 |
1955 | Ernest Borgnine in 'Marty' | Anna Magnani in 'The Rose Tattoo' | 1955 |
1956 | Yul Brynner in 'The King and I' | Ingrid Bergman in 'Anastasia' | 1956 |
1957 | Alec Guinness in 'The Bridge On The River Kwai' | Joanne Woodward in 'The Three Faces of Eve' | 1957 |
1958 | David Niven in 'Separate Tables' | Susan Hayward in 'I Want to Live' | 1958 |
1959 | Charlton Heston in 'Ben-Hur' | Simone Signoret in 'Room at the Top' | 1959 |