| The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | City Lights | Jean Harlow |
| Libeled Lady | Jean Harlow | Suzy | Cary Grant |
| Holiday | Cary Grant | Devil and the Deep | Gary Cooper |
| Meet John Doe | Gary Cooper | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Claudette Colbert |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Claudette Colbert | It's a Wonderful World | James Stewart |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | James Stewart | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Doris Day |
| The Pajama Game | Doris Day | Storm Warning | Ginger Rogers |
| Top Hat | Ginger Rogers | The First Traveling Saleslady | Clint Eastwood |
| Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | Two Mules for Sister Sara | Shirley MacLaine |
| The Apartment | Shirley MacLaine | Being There | Peter Sellers |
| Dr. Strangelove | Peter Sellers | The Road to Hong Kong | Bob Hope |
| The Road to Utopia | Bob Hope | Critic's Choice | Lucille Ball |
| Sorrowful Jones | Lucille Ball | Easy to Wed | Esther Williams |
| Neptune's Daughter | Esther Williams | Without Love | Katharine Hepburn |
| The Philadelphia Story | Katharine Hepburn | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Sidney Poitier |
| The Bedford Incident | Sidney Poitier | The Greatest Story Ever Told | John Wayne |
| Fort Apache | John Wayne | The War Wagon | Kirk Douglas |
| Spartacus | Kirk Douglas | The Devil's Disciple | Laurence Olivier |
| Wuthering Heights | Laurence Olivier | The Boys from Brazil | Gregory Peck |
| Mirage | Gregory Peck | How the West Was Won | Debbie Reynolds |
| Singin' in the Rain | Debbie Reynolds | The Catered Affair | Bette Davis |
| Jezebel | Bette Davis | In This Our Life | Olivia de Havilland |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Olivia de Havilland | Male Animal, The | Henry Fonda |
| The Lady Eve | Henry Fonda | Ash Wednesday | Elizabeth Taylor |
| A Place in the Sun | Elizabeth Taylor | The Blue Bird | Ava Gardner |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Ava Gardner | The Killers | Burt Lancaster |
| The Rainmaker | Burt Lancaster | All My Sons | Edward G. Robinson |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Edward G. Robinson | Key Largo | Humphrey Bogart |
| The Petrified Forest | Humphrey Bogart | The Two Mrs Carrolls | Barbara Stanwyck |
| Double Indemnity | Barbara Stanwyck | Roustabout | Elvis Presley |
| King Creole | Elvis Presley | | |