| Mischa Auer -- My Man Godfrey {"Carlo"}  | 
| * | Walter Brennan -- Come and Get It {"Swan Bostrom"}  | 
| Stuart Erwin -- Pigskin Parade {"Amos Dodd"}  | 
| Basil Rathbone -- Romeo and Juliet {"Tybalt"}  | 
| Akim Tamiroff -- The General Died at Dawn {"General Yang"}  | 
| Ralph Bellamy -- The Awful Truth {"Daniel Leeson"}  | 
| Thomas Mitchell -- The Hurricane {"Doctor Kersaint"}  | 
| * | Joseph Schildkraut -- The Life of Emile Zola {"Captain Alfred Dreyfus"}  | 
| H. B. Warner -- Lost Horizon {"Chang"}  | 
| Roland Young -- Topper {"Cosmo Topper"}  | 
| * | Walter Brennan -- Kentucky {"Peter Goodwin"}  | 
| John Garfield -- Four Daughters {"Mickey Borden"}  | 
| Gene Lockhart -- Algiers {"Regis"}  | 
| Robert Morley -- Marie Antoinette {"King Louis XVI"}  | 
| Basil Rathbone -- If I Were King {"Louis XI"}  | 
| Brian Aherne -- Juarez {"Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg"}  | 
| Harry Carey -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington {"President of the Senate"}  | 
| Brian Donlevy -- Beau Geste {"Sergeant Markoff"}  | 
| * | Thomas Mitchell -- Stagecoach {"Dr. Josiah Boone"}  | 
| Claude Rains -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington {"Senator Joseph Paine"}  | 
| Albert Basserman -- Foreign Correspondent {"Van Meer"}  | 
| * | Walter Brennan -- The Westerner {"Judge Roy Bean"}  | 
| William Gargan -- They Knew What They Wanted {"Joe, the Foreman"}  | 
| Jack Oakie -- The Great Dictator {"Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria"}  | 
| James Stephenson -- The Letter {"Howard Joyce"}  | 
| Walter Brennan -- Sergeant York {"Pastor Posier Pile"}  | 
| Charles Coburn -- The Devil and Miss Jones {"John P. Merrick"}  | 
| * | Donald Crisp -- How Green Was My Valley {"Mr. Morgan"}  | 
| James Gleason -- Here Comes Mr. Jordan {"Max Corkle"}  | 
| Sydney Greenstreet -- The Maltese Falcon {"Kaspar Gutman"}  | 
| William Bendix -- Wake Island {"Smacksie Randall"}  | 
| * | Van Heflin -- Johnny Eager {"Jeff Hartnett"}  | 
| Walter Huston -- Yankee Doodle Dandy {"Jerry Cohan"}  | 
| Frank Morgan -- Tortilla Flat {"The Pirate"}  | 
| Henry Travers -- Mrs. Miniver {"Mr. Ballard"}  | 
| Charles Bickford -- The Song of Bernadette {"Dean Peyramale"}  | 
| * | Charles Coburn -- The More the Merrier {"Benjamin Dingle"}  | 
| J. Carrol Naish -- Sahara {"Giuseppe"}  | 
| Claude Rains -- Casablanca {"Captain Louis Renault"}  | 
| Akim Tamiroff -- For Whom the Bell Tolls {"Pablo"}  | 
| Hume Cronyn -- The Seventh Cross {"Paul Roeder"}  | 
| * | Barry Fitzgerald -- Going My Way {"Father Fitzgibbon"}  | 
| Claude Rains -- Mr. Skeffington {"Job Skeffington"}  | 
| Clifton Webb -- Laura {"Waldo Lydecker"}  | 
| Monty Woolley -- Since You Went Away {"Colonel Smollett"}  | 
| Michael Chekhov -- Spellbound {"Dr. Alex Brulov"}  | 
| John Dall -- The Corn Is Green {"Morgan Evans"}  | 
| * | James Dunn -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn {"Johnny Nolan"}  | 
| Robert Mitchum -- G. I. Joe {"Lieutenant Walker"}  | 
| J. Carrol Naish -- A Medal for Benny {"Charlie Martini"}  | 
| Charles Coburn -- The Green Years {"Alexander Gow"}  | 
| William Demarest -- The Jolson Story {"Steve Martin"}  | 
| Claude Rains -- Notorious {"Alexander Sebastian"}  | 
| * | Harold Russell -- The Best Years of Our Lives {"Homer Parrish"}  | 
| Clifton Webb -- The Razor's Edge {"Elliott Templeton"}  | 
| Charles Bickford -- The Farmer's Daughter {"Clancy"}  | 
| Thomas Gomez -- Ride the Pink Horse {"Pancho"}  | 
| * | Edmund Gwenn -- Miracle on 34th Street {"Kris Kringle"}  | 
| Robert Ryan -- Crossfire {"Montgomery"}  | 
| Richard Widmark -- Kiss of Death {"Tommy Udo"}  | 
| Charles Bickford -- Johnny Belinda {"Black McDonald"}  | 
| José Ferrer -- Joan of Arc {"The Dauphin, Charles VIII"}  | 
| Oscar Homolka -- I Remember Mama {"Uncle Chris"}  | 
| * | Walter Huston -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre {"Howard"}  | 
| Cecil Kellaway -- The Luck of the Irish {"Horace"}  | 
| John Ireland -- All the King's Men {"Jack Burden"}  | 
| * | Dean Jagger -- Twelve O'Clock High {"Major Stovall"}  | 
| Arthur Kennedy -- Champion {"Connie Kelly"}  | 
| Ralph Richardson -- The Heiress {"Dr. Austin Sloper"}  | 
| James Whitmore -- Battleground {"Kinnie"}  | 
| Jeff Chandler -- Broken Arrow {"Cochise"}  | 
| Edmund Gwenn -- Mister 880 {"Skipper Miller"}  | 
| Sam Jaffe -- The Asphalt Jungle {"Dr. Erwin Riedenschneider"}  | 
| * | George Sanders -- All about Eve {"Addison De Witt"}  | 
| Erich von Stroheim -- Sunset Blvd. {"Max Von Mayerling"}  | 
| Leo Genn -- Quo Vadis {"Petronius"}  | 
| Kevin McCarthy -- Death of a Salesman {"Biff Loman"}  | 
| * | Karl Malden -- A Streetcar Named Desire {"Mitch"}  | 
| Peter Ustinov -- Quo Vadis {"Nero"}  | 
| Gig Young -- Come Fill the Cup {"Boyd Copeland"}  | 
| Richard Burton -- My Cousin Rachel {"Philip Ashley"}  | 
| Arthur Hunnicutt -- The Big Sky {"Zeb Callaway"}  | 
| Victor McLaglen -- The Quiet Man {"Red Will Danaher"}  | 
| Jack Palance -- Sudden Fear {"Lester Blaine"}  | 
| * | Anthony Quinn -- Viva Zapata! {"Eufemio Zapata"}  | 
| Eddie Albert -- Roman Holiday {"Irving Radovich"}  | 
| Brandon De Wilde -- Shane {"Joey Starrett"}  | 
| Jack Palance -- Shane {"Wilson"}  | 
| * | Frank Sinatra -- From Here to Eternity {"Angelo Maggio"}  | 
| Robert Strauss -- Stalag 17 {"Stosh/'Animal'"}  | 
| Lee J. Cobb -- On the Waterfront {"Johnny Friendly"}  | 
| Karl Malden -- On the Waterfront {"Father Barry"}  | 
| * | Edmond O'Brien -- The Barefoot Contessa {"Oscar Muldoon"}  | 
| Rod Steiger -- On the Waterfront {"Charles Malloy"}  | 
| Tom Tully -- The Caine Mutiny {"Captain DeVriess"}  | 
| Arthur Kennedy -- Trial {"Barney Castle"}  | 
| * | Jack Lemmon -- Mister Roberts {"Ensign Pulver"}  | 
| Joe Mantell -- Marty {"Angie"}  | 
| Sal Mineo -- Rebel without a Cause {"Plato"}  | 
| Arthur O'Connell -- Picnic {"Howard Bevans"}  | 
| Don Murray -- Bus Stop {"Bo"}  | 
| Anthony Perkins -- Friendly Persuasion {"Josh Birdwell"}  | 
| * | Anthony Quinn -- Lust for Life {"Paul Gauguin"}  | 
| Mickey Rooney -- The Bold and the Brave {"Dooley"}  | 
| Robert Stack -- Written on the Wind {"Kyle Hadley"}  | 
| * | Red Buttons -- Sayonara {"Joe Kelly"}  | 
| Vittorio De Sica -- A Farewell to Arms {"Major Alessandro Rinaldi"}  | 
| Sessue Hayakawa -- The Bridge on the River Kwai {"Saito"}  | 
| Arthur Kennedy -- Peyton Place {"Lucas Cross"}  | 
| Russ Tamblyn -- Peyton Place {"Norman Page"}  | 
| Theodore Bikel -- The Defiant Ones {"Sheriff Max Muller"}  | 
| Lee J. Cobb -- The Brothers Karamazov {"Fyodor Karamazov"}  | 
| * | Burl Ives -- The Big Country {"Rufus Hannassey"}  | 
| Arthur Kennedy -- Some Came Running {"Frank Hirsh"}  | 
| Gig Young -- Teacher's Pet {"Dr. Hugo Pine"}  | 
| * | Hugh Griffith -- Ben-Hur {"Sheik Ilderim"}  | 
| Arthur O'Connell -- Anatomy of a Murder {"Parnell McCarthy"}  | 
| George C. Scott -- Anatomy of a Murder {"Claude Dancer"}  | 
| Robert Vaughn -- The Young Philadelphians {"Chester Gwynn"}  | 
| Ed Wynn -- The Diary of Anne Frank {"Mr. Dussell"}  | 
| Peter Falk -- Murder, Inc. {"Abe Reles"}  | 
| Jack Kruschen -- The Apartment {"Dr. Dreyfuss"}  | 
| Sal Mineo -- Exodus {"Dov Landau"}  | 
| * | Peter Ustinov -- Spartacus {"Batiatus"}  | 
| Chill Wills -- The Alamo {"Beekeeper"}  | 
| * | George Chakiris -- West Side Story {"Bernardo"}  | 
| Montgomery Clift -- Judgment at Nuremberg {"Rudolph Petersen"}  | 
| Peter Falk -- Pocketful of Miracles {"Joy Boy"}  | 
| Jackie Gleason -- The Hustler {"Minnesota Fats"}  | 
| George C. Scott -- The Hustler {"Bert Gordon"}  | 
| * | Ed Begley -- Sweet Bird of Youth {"Tom 'Boss' Finley"}  | 
| Victor Buono -- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? {"Edwin Flagg"}  | 
| Telly Savalas -- Birdman of Alcatraz {"Feto Gomez"}  | 
| Omar Sharif -- Lawrence of Arabia {"Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish"}  | 
| Terence Stamp -- Billy Budd {"Billy Budd"}  | 
| Nick Adams -- Twilight of Honor {"Ben Brown"}  | 
| Bobby Darin -- Captain Newman, M.D. {"Corp. Jim Tompkins"}  | 
| * | Melvyn Douglas -- Hud {"Homer Bannon"}  | 
| Hugh Griffith -- Tom Jones {"Squire Western"}  | 
| John Huston -- The Cardinal {"Cardinal Glennon"}  | 
| John Gielgud -- Becket {"King Louis VII of France"}  | 
| Stanley Holloway -- My Fair Lady {"Alfred P. Doolittle"}  | 
| Edmond O'Brien -- Seven Days in May {"Senator Raymond Clark"}  | 
| Lee Tracy -- The Best Man {"Art Hockstader"}  | 
| * | Peter Ustinov -- Topkapi {"Arthur Simpson"}  | 
| * | Martin Balsam -- A Thousand Clowns {"Arnold Burns"}  | 
| Ian Bannen -- The Flight of the Phoenix {"Crow"}  | 
| Tom Courtenay -- Doctor Zhivago {"Pasha Antipov/Strelnikoff"}  | 
| Michael Dunn -- Ship of Fools {"Glocken"}  | 
| Frank Finlay -- Othello {"Iago"}  | 
| Mako -- The Sand Pebbles {"Po-Han"}  | 
| James Mason -- Georgy Girl {"James Leamington"}  | 
| * | Walter Matthau -- The Fortune Cookie {"Willie Gingrich"}  | 
| George Segal -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? {"Nick"}  | 
| Robert Shaw -- A Man for All Seasons {"King Henry VIII"}  | 
| John Cassavetes -- The Dirty Dozen {"Victor Franko"}  | 
| Gene Hackman -- Bonnie and Clyde {"Buck Barrow"}  | 
| Cecil Kellaway -- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner {"Monsignor Ryan"}  | 
| * | George Kennedy -- Cool Hand Luke {"Dragline"}  | 
| Michael J. Pollard -- Bonnie and Clyde {"C.W. Moss"}  | 
| * | Jack Albertson -- The Subject Was Roses {"John Cleary"}  | 
| Seymour Cassel -- Faces {"Chet"}  | 
| Daniel Massey -- Star! {"Noel Coward"}  | 
| Jack Wild -- Oliver! {"The Artful Dodger"}  | 
| Gene Wilder -- The Producers {"Leo Bloom"}  | 
| Rupert Crosse -- The Reivers {"Ned McCaslin"}  | 
| Elliott Gould -- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice {"Ted Henderson"}  | 
| Jack Nicholson -- Easy Rider {"George Hanson"}  | 
| Anthony Quayle -- Anne of the Thousand Days {"Cardinal Wolsey"}  | 
| * | Gig Young -- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? {"Rocky"}  | 
| Richard Castellano -- Lovers and Other Strangers {"Frank Vecchio"}  | 
| Chief Dan George -- Little Big Man {"Old Lodge Skins"}  | 
| Gene Hackman -- I Never Sang for My Father {"Gene Garrison"}  | 
| John Marley -- Love Story {"Phil Cavilleri"}  | 
| * | John Mills -- Ryan's Daughter {"Michael"}  | 
| Jeff Bridges -- The Last Picture Show {"Duane Jackson"}  | 
| Leonard Frey -- Fiddler on the Roof {"Motel"}  | 
| Richard Jaeckel -- Sometimes a Great Notion {"Joe Ben Stamper"}  | 
| * | Ben Johnson -- The Last Picture Show {"Sam the Lion"}  | 
| Roy Scheider -- The French Connection {"Buddy Russo"}  | 
| Eddie Albert -- The Heartbreak Kid {"Mr. Corcoran"}  | 
| James Caan -- The Godfather {"Sonny Corleone"}  | 
| Robert Duvall -- The Godfather {"Tom Hagen"}  | 
| * | Joel Grey -- Cabaret {"The Master of Ceremonies"}  | 
| Al Pacino -- The Godfather {"Michael Corleone"}  | 
| Vincent Gardenia -- Bang the Drum Slowly {"Dutch Schnell"}  | 
| Jack Gilford -- Save the Tiger {"Phil Greene"}  | 
| * | John Houseman -- The Paper Chase {"Professor Kingsfield"}  | 
| Jason Miller -- The Exorcist {"Father Damian Karras"}  | 
| Randy Quaid -- The Last Detail {"Meadows"}  | 
| Fred Astaire -- The Towering Inferno {"Harlee Claiborne"}  | 
| Jeff Bridges -- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot {"Lightfoot"}  | 
| * | Robert De Niro -- The Godfather Part II {"Vito Corleone"}  | 
| Michael V. Gazzo -- The Godfather Part II {"Frankie Pentangeli"}  | 
| Lee Strasberg -- The Godfather Part II {"Hyman Roth"}  | 
| * | George Burns -- The Sunshine Boys {"Al Lewis"}  | 
| Brad Dourif -- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest {"Billy Bibbit"}  | 
| Burgess Meredith -- The Day of the Locust {"Harry"}  | 
| Chris Sarandon -- Dog Day Afternoon {"Leon"}  | 
| Jack Warden -- Shampoo {"Lester Carr"}  | 
| Ned Beatty -- Network {"Arthur Jensen"}  | 
| Burgess Meredith -- Rocky {"Mickey"}  | 
| Laurence Olivier -- Marathon Man {"Szell"}  | 
| * | Jason Robards -- All the President's Men {"Ben Bradlee"}  | 
| Burt Young -- Rocky {"Paulie"}  | 
| Mikhail Baryshnikov -- The Turning Point {"Yuri Kopeikine"}  | 
| Peter Firth -- Equus {"Alan Strang"}  | 
| Alec Guinness -- Star Wars {"Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi"}  | 
| * | Jason Robards -- Julia {"Dashiell Hammett"}  | 
| Maximilian Schell -- Julia {"Johann"}  | 
| Bruce Dern -- Coming Home {"Captain Bob Hyde"}  | 
| Richard Farnsworth -- Comes a Horseman {"Dodger"}  | 
| John Hurt -- Midnight Express {"Max"}  | 
| * | Christopher Walken -- The Deer Hunter {"Nick"}  | 
| Jack Warden -- Heaven Can Wait {"Max Corkle"}  | 
| * | Melvyn Douglas -- Being There {"Benjamin Rand"}  | 
| Robert Duvall -- Apocalypse Now {"Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore"}  | 
| Frederic Forrest -- The Rose {"Dyer"}  | 
| Justin Henry -- Kramer vs. Kramer {"Billy Kramer"}  | 
| Mickey Rooney -- The Black Stallion {"Henry Dailey"}  | 
| Judd Hirsch -- Ordinary People {"Dr. Berger"}  | 
| * | Timothy Hutton -- Ordinary People {"Conrad Jarrett"}  | 
| Michael O'Keefe -- The Great Santini {"Ben Meechum"}  | 
| Joe Pesci -- Raging Bull {"Joey LaMotta"}  | 
| Jason Robards -- Melvin and Howard {"Howard Hughes"}  | 
| James Coco -- Only When I Laugh {"Jimmy Perry"}  | 
| * | John Gielgud -- Arthur {"Hobson"}  | 
| Ian Holm -- Chariots of Fire {"Sam Mussabini"}  | 
| Jack Nicholson -- Reds {"Eugene O'Neill"}  | 
| Howard E. Rollins, Jr. -- Ragtime {"Coalhouse Walker, Jr."}  | 
| Charles Durning -- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas {"The Governor"}  | 
| * | Louis Gossett, Jr. -- An Officer and a Gentleman {"Sgt. Emil Foley"}  | 
| John Lithgow -- The World According to Garp {"Roberta Muldoon"}  | 
| James Mason -- The Verdict {"Edward Concannon"}  | 
| Robert Preston -- Victor/Victoria {"Toddy"}  | 
| Charles Durning -- To Be or Not to Be {"Col. Erhardt"}  | 
| John Lithgow -- Terms of Endearment {"Sam Burns"}  | 
| * | Jack Nicholson -- Terms of Endearment {"Garrett Breedlove"}  | 
| Sam Shepard -- The Right Stuff {"Chuck Yeager"}  | 
| Rip Torn -- Cross Creek {"Marsh Turner"}  | 
| Adolph Caesar -- A Soldier's Story {"Sgt. Waters"}  | 
| John Malkovich -- Places in the Heart {"Mr. Will"}  | 
| Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita -- The Karate Kid {"Miyagi"}  | 
| * | Haing S. Ngor -- The Killing Fields {"Dith Pran"}  | 
| Ralph Richardson -- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes {"The Sixth Earl of Greystoke"}  | 
| * | Don Ameche -- Cocoon {"Art Selwyn"}  | 
| Klaus Maria Brandauer -- Out of Africa {"Bror"}  | 
| William Hickey -- Prizzi's Honor {"Don Corrado Prizzi"}  | 
| Robert Loggia -- Jagged Edge {"Sam Ransom"}  | 
| Eric Roberts -- Runaway Train {"Buck"}  | 
| Tom Berenger -- Platoon {"Sgt. Barnes"}  | 
| * | Michael Caine -- Hannah and Her Sisters {"Elliot"}  | 
| Willem Dafoe -- Platoon {"Sgt. Elias"}  | 
| Denholm Elliott -- A Room with a View {"Mr. Emerson"}  | 
| Dennis Hopper -- Hoosiers {"Shooter"}  | 
| Albert Brooks -- Broadcast News {"Aaron Altman"}  | 
| * | Sean Connery -- The Untouchables {"Jim Malone"}  | 
| Morgan Freeman -- Street Smart {"Fast Black"}  | 
| Vincent Gardenia -- Moonstruck {"Cosmo Castorini"}  | 
| Denzel Washington -- Cry Freedom {"Steve Biko"}  | 
| Alec Guinness -- Little Dorrit {"William Dorrit"}  | 
| * | Kevin Kline -- A Fish Called Wanda {"Otto"}  | 
| Martin Landau -- Tucker The Man and His Dream {"Abe"}  | 
| River Phoenix -- Running on Empty {"Danny Pope"}  | 
| Dean Stockwell -- Married to the Mob {"Tony 'the Tiger' Russo"}  | 
| Danny Aiello -- Do the Right Thing {"Sal"}  | 
| Dan Aykroyd -- Driving Miss Daisy {"Boolie Werthan"}  | 
| Marlon Brando -- A Dry White Season {"McKenzie"}  | 
| Martin Landau -- Crimes and Misdemeanors {"Judah Rosenthal"}  | 
| * | Denzel Washington -- Glory {"Trip"}  | 
| Bruce Davison -- Longtime Companion {"David"}  | 
| Andy Garcia -- The Godfather, Part III {"Vincent Mancini"}  | 
| Graham Greene -- Dances With Wolves {"Kicking Bird"}  | 
| Al Pacino -- Dick Tracy {"Big Boy Caprice"}  | 
| * | Joe Pesci -- Good Fellas {"Tommy DeVito"}  | 
| Tommy Lee Jones -- JFK {"Clay Shaw"}  | 
| Harvey Keitel -- Bugsy {"Mickey Cohen"}  | 
| Ben Kingsley -- Bugsy {"Meyer Lansky"}  | 
| Michael Lerner -- Barton Fink {"Jack Lipnick"}  | 
| * | Jack Palance -- City Slickers {"Curly"}  | 
| Jaye Davidson -- The Crying Game {"Dil"}  | 
| * | Gene Hackman -- Unforgiven {"Little Bill Daggett"}  | 
| Jack Nicholson -- A Few Good Men {"Col. Nathan R. Jessep"}  | 
| Al Pacino -- Glengarry Glen Ross {"Ricky Roma"}  | 
| David Paymer -- Mr. Saturday Night {"Stan"}  | 
| Leonardo DiCaprio -- What's Eating Gilbert Grape {"Arnie Grape"}  | 
| Ralph Fiennes -- Schindler's List {"Amon Goeth"}  | 
| * | Tommy Lee Jones -- The Fugitive {"Samuel Gerard"}  | 
| John Malkovich -- In the Line of Fire {"Mitch Leary"}  | 
| Pete Postlethwaite -- In the Name of the Father {"Giuseppe Conlon"}  | 
| Samuel L. Jackson -- Pulp Fiction {"Jules Winnfield"}  | 
| * | Martin Landau -- Ed Wood {"Bela Lugosi"}  | 
| Chazz Palminteri -- Bullets over Broadway {"Cheech"}  | 
| Paul Scofield -- Quiz Show {"Mark Van Doren"}  | 
| Gary Sinise -- Forrest Gump {"Lieutenant Dan"}  | 
| James Cromwell -- Babe {"Farmer Hoggett"}  | 
| Ed Harris -- Apollo 13 {"Gene Kranz"}  | 
| Brad Pitt -- 12 Monkeys {"Jeffrey Goines"}  | 
| Tim Roth -- Rob Roy {"Archibald Cunningham"}  | 
| * | Kevin Spacey -- The Usual Suspects {"Roger 'Verbal' Kint"}  | 
| * | Cuba Gooding, Jr. -- Jerry Maguire {"Rod Tidwell"}  | 
| William H. Macy -- Fargo {"Jerry Lundegaard"}  | 
| Armin Mueller-Stahl -- Shine {"Peter Helfgott"}  | 
| Edward Norton -- Primal Fear {"Aaron Stampler"}  | 
| James Woods -- Ghosts of Mississippi {"Byron De La Beckwith"}  | 
| Robert Forster -- Jackie Brown {"Max Cherry"}  | 
| Anthony Hopkins -- Amistad {"John Quincy Adams"}  | 
| Greg Kinnear --  |