- Buster Keaton as Johnnie Gray in
The General (1927)
- Al Jolson as Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin) in The
Jazz Singer (1927)
- Mary Pickford as Maggie Johnson in My Best Girl
(1927/28)
- Renee Maria Falconetti as Joan in The Passion
of Joan of Arc (1928/29)
- Buster Keaton as Steamboat Bill, Jr., in Steamboat
Bill, Jr. (1928/29)
- Lillian Gish as Letty Mason in The Wind (1928/29)
- Edward G. Robinson as Enrico "Rico" Bandello in Little
Caesar (1930/31)
- Charles Chaplin as The Tramp in
City Lights (1931/32)
- Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in Dracula
(1931/32)
- Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's "Monster"
in Frankenstein (1931/32)
- Joan Crawford as Flaemmchen and John Barrymore as
Baron Felix von Gaigern in Grand Hotel (1931/32)
- James Cagney as Tom Powers in
The Public Enemy (1931/32)
- Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday in Blonde Venus
(1932/33)
- John Barrymore as Larry Renault in Dinner
at Eight (1932/33)
- Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly in
Duck Soup (1932/33)
- Joan Blondell as Carol in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1932/33)
- Claude Rains as Invisible Man Jack Griffin in The
Invisible Man (1932/33)
- Greta Garbo as Queen Christina in Queen
Christina (1932/33)
- Jean Harlow as Vantine in Red
Dust (1932/33)
- Paul Muni as Tony Camonte in Scarface:
The Shame of the Nation (1932/33) (He was nominated for I
Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932/33) and lost)
- Herbert Marshall as Gaston Monescu/Monsieur LaValle
in
Trouble in Paradise (1932/33)
- W. C. Fields as Harold Bissonette in It's
A Gift (1934)
- Bette Davis as Mildred Rogers in Of
Human Bondage (1934) (a write-in candidate only)
- Leslie Howard as Sir Percey Blakeney in The Scarlet
Pimpernel (1934)
- Myrna Loy as Nora Charles in The
Thin Man (1934)
- John Barrymore as Oscar Jaffe in Twentieth Century
(1934)
- Boris Karloff as the "Monster" in
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Errol Flynn as Dr. Peter Blood in Captain Blood
(1935)
- Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood in
A Night at the Opera (1935)
- Robert Donat as Richard Hannay in The
39 Steps (1935)
- Fred Astaire as Jerry Travers in Top
Hat (1935)
- Edward G. Robinson as Arthur Ferguson Jones/Killer
Mannion in The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
- Frances Farmer in the dual role as Lotta Morgan/Lotta
Bostrom in Come and Get It (1936)
- Sylvia Sidney as Katherine Grant in Fury (1936)
- Myrna Loy as Billie Burke in The Great Ziegfeld
(1936)
- Jean Harlow as Gladys Benton and Myrna Loy as Connie
Allenbury in Libeled Lady (1936)
- Jean Arthur as Babe Bennett in Mr.
Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp and Paulette Goddard
as the Gamine in
Modern Times (1936)
- Cary Grant as Jerry Warriner in The
Awful Truth (1937)
- Sylvia Sidney as Drina in Dead End (1937)
- Carole Lombard as Hazel Flagg in Nothing Sacred
(1937)
- Katharine Hepburn as Terry Randall and Ginger Rogers
as Jean Maitland in Stage Door (1937)
- Sylvia Sidney as Joan Graham and Henry Fonda as Eddie
Taylor in You Only Live Once (1937)
- Errol Flynn as Sir Robin of Locksley/Robin in
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Cary Grant as David Huxley and Katharine Hepburn
as Susan Vance in
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton in Holiday (1938)
- James Stewart as Tom Destry in Destry
Rides Again (1939)
- Jean Arthur as Saunders in
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Henry Fonda as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln
(1939)
- W. C. Fields as Egbert Souse in The
Bank Dick (1940)
- Cary Grant as Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell as
Hildy Johnson in
His Girl Friday (1940)
- Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven in
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and
Prejudice (1940)
- James Stewart as Alfred Kralik and Margaret Sullavan
as Klara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - (James
Stewart was nominated for Best Actor as Macauley Connor in
The Philadelphia Story (1940) and won)
- Gary Cooper as Professor Bertram Potts in Ball
of Fire (1941) - (Gary Cooper was nominated for Best Actor as
Sgt. Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941) and won)
- Humphrey Bogart as "Mad Dog" Roy Earle
in High Sierra (1941)
- Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington in
The Lady Eve (1941)
- Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Irene Dunne as Julie Gardiner Adams in Penny Serenade
(1941)
- Joel McCrea as John L. Sullivan and Veronica Lake
as The Girl in Sullivan's Travels (1941)
- Vivien Leigh as Lady Emma Hart Hamilton in That
Hamilton Woman (1941)
- Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund Laszlo in
Casablanca (1942/43)
- Errol Flynn as James J. Corbett in Gentleman Jim
(1942)
- Joseph Cotten as Eugene Morgan in
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- Jack Benny as Joseph Tura and Carole Lombard as Maria
Tura in To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- Spencer Tracy as Sam Craig in Woman of the Year
(1942)
- Roger Livesey as Clive Candy in The Life and Death
of Colonel Blimp (1943, UK)
- Joel McCrea as Joe Carter in The
More the Merrier (1943)
- Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie Oakley and Teresa
Wright as young Charlie Newton in Shadow of
a Doubt (1943)
- Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff and Edward G. Robinson
as Barton Keyes in
Double Indemnity (1944)
- Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt in Laura
(1944)
- Humphrey Bogart as Harry Morgan and Lauren Bacall
as Marie Browning in To Have and Have Not (1944)
- Edward G. Robinson as Professor Richard Wanley in The Woman in the Window (1944)
- Boris Karloff as Mr. John Gray in The Body Snatcher
(1945)
- Edward G. Robinson as Christopher Cross and Joan
Bennett as Kitty March in Scarlet Street (1945)
- Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson, Dana Andrews as Fred
Derry, and Teresa Wright as Peggy Stephenson in
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson Farrell in Gilda
(1946)
- Donna Reed as Mary Hatch/Bailey and Lionel Barrymore
as Mr. Potter in
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp in
My Darling Clementine (1946)
- Ingrid Bergman as Alicia Huberman in
Notorious (1946)
- Lana Turner as Cora Smith in The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- Deborah Kerr as Sister Clodagh in Black Narcissus
(1947)
- Robert Young as Captain Finlay in Crossfire (1947)
- Charles Chaplin as Henry Verdoux / Varney / Bonheur
/ Floray / Narrator in Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
- James Mason as Johnny McQueen in Odd Man Out (1947)
- Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey and Jane Greer as
Kathie Moffat in
Out of the Past (1947)
- Edward G. Robinson as Joe Keller in All My Sons
(1948)
- John Garfield as Joe Morse in Force of Evil (1948)
- Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Rocco in Key Largo
(1948)
- Joan Fontaine as Lisa Berndle in
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
- John Wayne as Tom Dunson in
Red River (1948)
- Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov in The Red Shoes
(1948)
- Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Katharine Hepburn as Amanda Bonner in Adam's
Rib (1949)
- John Dall as Bart Tare and Peggy Cummins as Annie
Laurie Starr in Gun Crazy (1949)
- Alec Guinness as multiple characters in Kind Hearts
and Coronets (1949)
- Gene Kelly as Gabey in On the Town (1949)
- John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore
a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- James Cagney as Arthur Cody Jarrett in White
Heat (1949)
- Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley in The
Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele in In a Lonely
Place (1950)
- Richard Widmark as Harry Fabian in Night and the
City (1950)
- Richard Widmark as Ray Biddle in No Way Out (1950)
- Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed in Panic in
the Streets (1950)
- Maureen O'Hara as Mrs. Kathleen Yorke in Rio Grande
(1950)
- Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas
Carol (1951)
- Kirk Douglas as Detective James McLeod in Detective
Story (1951)
- Kirk Douglas as Charles "Chuck" Tatum
in Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Robert Walker as Bruno Antony in Strangers on
a Train (1951)
- James Mason as Cicero in Five Fingers (1952)
- Judy Holliday as Florence Keefer in The Marrying
Kind (1952)
- John Wayne as Sean Thornton and Maureen O'Hara as
Mary Kate Danaher in
The Quiet Man (1952)
- Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood and Debbie Reynolds as
Kathy Selden in
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh in The
Big Heat (1953)
- Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei and Jane Russell as Dorothy
in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- Alan Ladd as Shane and Jean Arthur as Marion Starrett
in
Shane (1953)
- William Holden as Bernie Dodd in The Country Girl
(1954)
- Charles Laughton as Henry Horatio Hobson in Hobson's
Choice (1954)
- Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont and James Stewart
as 'Jeff' Jefferies in
Rear Window (1954) - (Grace Kelly was nominated for Best
Actress as Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl (1954) and won)
- Glenn Ford as Richard Dadier in Blackboard Jungle
(1955)
- Julie Harris as Abra in East
of Eden (1955)
- Doris Day as Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me
(1955)
- Henry Fonda as Lt. Doug Roberts in Mister Roberts
(1955)
- Robert Mitchum as Preacher Harry Powell in
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- James Dean as Jim Stark in
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - (James Dean was nominated
for Best Actor as Cal Trask in East of Eden
(1955) and lost)
- Marilyn Monroe as Chérie in Bus Stop (1956)
- Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay in The Killing
(1956)
- James Stewart as Dr. Benjamin McKenna and Doris
Day as Josephine "Jo" Conway McKenna in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
- John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in
The Searchers (1956)
- Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes
in A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- Robert Mitchum as Mr. Allison in Heaven Knows,
Mr. Allison (1957)
- Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax in
Paths of Glory (1957)
- Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco in Sweet
Smell of Success (1957)
- Toshiro Mifune as Taketoki Washizu in Throne of
Blood (1957, Jp.)
- Henry Fonda as Juror # 8 in 12
Angry Men (1957)
- Marlene Dietrich as Christine "Helm" Vole
in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- Alec Guinness as Gulley Jimson in The Horse's
Mouth (1958)
- Rita Hayworth as Ann Shankland in Separate Tables
(1958)
- Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan in
Touch of Evil (1958)
- James Stewart as Scottie Ferguson, and Kim Novak
in a dual role as Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton in
Vertigo (1958)
- Lee Remick as Laura Manion in Anatomy of a Murder
(1959)
- Jean-Pierre Leaud as Antoine Doinel in The 400
Blows (1959)
- Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill and Eva Marie Saint
as Eve Kendall in
North by Northwest (1959)
- John Wayne as John T. Chance in Rio Bravo (1959)
- Tony Curtis as Joe-sephine and Marilyn Monroe as
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in
Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer in Elmer
Gantry (1960)
- Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit
the Wind (1960)
- Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in
Psycho (1960)
- Robert Mitchum as Paddy Carmody in The Sundowners
(1960)
- Ralph Bellamy as FDR in Sunrise at Campobello
(1960)
- Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn Taber in The
Misfits (1961)
- James Mason as Humbert Humbert in Lolita
(1962)
- Kirk Douglas as Jack Burns in Lonely Are the Brave
(1962)
- Ralph Richardson as James Tyrone, Sr., and Dean Stockwell
as Edmund Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
- Frank Sinatra as Bennett Marco, and Laurence Harvey
as Sgt. Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate
(1962)
- Robert Preston as Harold Hill in The Music Man
(1962)
- Joel McCrea as Steve Judd and Randolph Scott as Gil
Westrum in Ride the High Country (1962)
- Marcelo Mastroianni as Guido Anselmni in 8 1/2 (1963, It.)
- Sean Connery as James Bond in From Russia With
Love (1963)
- Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in
My Fair Lady (1964)
- Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The
Pink Panther (1964)
- Tony Randall as Dr. Lao in The Seven Faces of
Dr. Lao (1964)
- Julie Christie as Lara in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, The
Bad, and the Ugly (aka Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo) (1966,
It.)
- Liv Ullman as Elisabet Vogler in Persona (1966,
Swe.)
- Sidney Poitier as Detective Virgil Tibbs in In
the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Audrey Hepburn as Joanna Wallace in Two for the
Road (1967) - (Audrey Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress as
Susy Hendrix in Wait Until Dark (1967) and lost)
- Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy (Belle
de Jour) in Belle de Jour (1967, Fr.)
- Steve McQueen as Frank Bullitt in Bullitt (1968)
- Tuesday Weld as Sue Ann Stepanek in Pretty Poison
(1968)
- Mia Farrow as Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary's
Baby (1968)
- Ali McGraw as Brenda Patimkin in Goodbye, Columbus
(1969)
- William Holden as Pike Bishop in
The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Robert Redford as The Sundance Kid (Harry Longbaugh)
in Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Malcolm McDowell as Alex de Large in A
Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Ruth Gordon as Maude in Harold and Maude (1971)
- Jessica Walter as Evelyn Draper in Play
Misty for Me (1971)
- Robert Redford as Bill McKay in The Candidate
(1972)
- Jon Voight as Ed in Deliverance
(1972)
- Robert Redford as Jeremiah Johnson in Jeremiah
Johnson (1972)
- Woody Allen as Allan Felix in Play
It Again, Sam (1972)
- Sissy Spacek as Holly Sargis in Badlands
(1973)
- Robert Mitchum as Eddie Coyle in The Friends of
Eddie Coyle (1973)
- Robert DeNiro as Johnny Boy in Mean Streets (1973)
- Liv Ullmann as Marianne in Scenes from a Marriage
(1973)
- Paul Newman as Henry Gondorff/Mr. Shaw in The
Sting (1973)
- Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in The
Conversation (1974)
- John Cazale as Fredo Corleone in
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
- Diane Keaton as Kay Adams in The
Godfather, Part II (1974)
- Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in
Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Robert Mitchum as Phillip Marlowe in Farewell,
My Lovely (1975)
- Robert Shaw as Quint in
Jaws (1975)
- Michael Caine as Peachy Carnehan and Sean Connery
as Daniel Dravot in The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror
Picture Show (1975)
- Diane Keaton as Theresa Dunn in Looking for Mr.
Goodbar (1977) (Diane Keaton was nominated for Best Actress as
Annie Hall in
Annie Hall (1977) and won)
- Richard Pryor as Zeke Brown in Blue Collar (1978)
- Woody Allen as Isaac Davis in Manhattan (1979)
- Nick Nolte as Phillip Elliott in North Dallas
Forty (1979)
- Donald Sutherland as Calvin Jarrett in Ordinary
People (1980)
- Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The
Shining (1980)
- Kathleen Turner as Matty Walker in Body
Heat (1981)
- Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest
(1981)
- Christopher Walken as Tom in Pennies From Heaven
(1981)
- Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont
High (1982)
- Robert DeNiro as Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy
(1982)
- Christopher Walken as Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone
(1983)
- Ed Harris as John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983)
- Eric Roberts as Paul Snider in Star 80 (1983)
- Steve Martin as Roger Cobb in All of Me (1984)
- Molly Ringwald as Samantha in Sixteen Candles
(1984)
- Cher as Rusty Dennis and Eric Stoltz as Rocky Dennis
in Mask (1985)
- Robert Redford as Denys Finch Hatton in Out of Africa
(1985)
- Mieko Harada as Lady Kaede in Ran (1985)
- Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue
Velvet (1986)
- Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy
(1986)
- Anjelica Huston as Gretta in The Dead (1987)
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Leonard Lawrence (Pvt. Gomer
Pyle) in Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Joanne Woodward as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass
Menagerie (1987)
- Holly Hunter as Ed-wina in Raising Arizona (1987)
- Michael Keaton as Beteljeuse (Beetlejuice) in Beetlejuice
(1988)
- Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy in Bull Durham (1988)
- John Malkovich as Vicomte De Valmont in Dangerous
Liaisons (1988)
- Jeremy Irons in the dual role as Beverly and Elliot
Mantle in Dead Ringers (1988)
- Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988)
- Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (1988)
- Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man (1988)
- Morgan Freeman as John Rawlins in Glory (1989)
- Annette Bening as Marquise de Merteuil in Valmont
(1989)
- Glenn Close as Sunny von Bulow in Reversal of
Fortune (1990)
- Laurence Fishburne as Furious Styles in Boyz 'N
the Hood (1991)
- Samuel L. Jackson as Gator in Jungle Fever (1991)
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Countess Ellen Olenska in The
Age of Innocence (1993)
- Juliette Binoche as Julie Vignon de Courcy in
Three Colors: Blue (1993, Fr.) (aka Trois Couleurs: Bleu)
- Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993)
- Denzel Washington as Joe Miller in Philadelphia
(1993)
- Alfre Woodard as Carolyn Carmichael in Crooklyn
(1994)
- Johnny Depp as Ed Wood in Ed Wood (1994)
- Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures
(1994)
- Ralph Fiennes as Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show
(1994)
- Kathy Bates as Dolores Claiborne in Dolores Claiborne
(1995)
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Sadie in Georgia (1995)
- Ian McKellen as King Richard III in Richard
III (1995)
- Julianne Moore as Carol White in Safe (1995)
- Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone Maretto in To Die
For (1995)
- Angela Bassett as Bernadine Harris in Waiting
to Exhale (1995)
- Harry Belafonte as Seldom Seen in Kansas City
(1996)
- Debbie Reynolds as Beatrice Henderson in Mother
(1996)
- Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump (and others) in The
Nutty Professor (1996)
- Al Pacino as Lefty Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997)
- Sigourney Weaver as Janey Carver in The Ice Storm
(1997)
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic
(1997)
- Dylan Baker as Bill Maplewood in Happiness (1998)
- Christina Ricci as Dedee Truitt in The Opposite
of Sex (1998)
- Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show (1998)
- John Malkovich as Himself in Being John Malkovich
(1999)
- Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Enid Flick in Election
(1999)
- Matt Damon as Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley
(1999)
- Michelle Yeoh as Yui Hsui Lien, and Zhang Ziyi as
Jen Yu in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, HK)
- Gillian Anderson as Lily Bart in The House of
Mirth (2000)
- Ewan McGregor as Christian in Moulin Rouge! (2001)
- Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart in The Others (2001)
- Naomi Watts as Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn in Mulholland
Dr. (2001)
Oscar omissions and losses are also described
for each year
in the complete Oscars history found on this site.
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