| Girl Shy | Harold Lloyd | The Milky Way | Adolphe Menjou |
| The Front Page | Adolphe Menjou | A Star Is Born | Fredric March |
| The Buccaneer | Fredric March | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Jennifer Jones |
| Carrie | Jennifer Jones | Madame Bovary | James Mason |
| Lolita | James Mason | The Man Between | Claire Bloom |
| Look Back in Anger | Claire Bloom | The Buccaneer | Yul Brynner |
| The King and I | Yul Brynner | Le serpent (Night Flight from Moscow) | Dirk Bogarde |
| Victim | Dirk Bogarde | I Could Go on Singing | Judy Garland |
| A Star Is Born | Judy Garland | Ziegfeld Follies | Red Skelton |
| Whistling in the Dark | Red Skelton | Merton of the Movies | Gloria Grahame |
| In a Lonely Place | Gloria Grahame | Naked Alibi | Sterling Hayden |
| Terror in a Texas Town | Sterling Hayden | Dr. Strangelove | Peter Sellers |
| I'm All Right Jack | Peter Sellers | The World of Henry Orient | Angela Lansbury |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Angela Lansbury | Blue Hawaii | Elvis Presley |
| King Creole | Elvis Presley | Viva Las Vegas | Ann-Margret |
| Carnal Knowledge | Ann-Margret | Pocketful of Miracles | Bette Davis |
| Old Acquaintance | Bette Davis | Jezebel | Henry Fonda |
| The Rounders | Henry Fonda | How the West Was Won | John Wayne |
| The Searchers | John Wayne | A Lady Takes a Chance | Jean Arthur |
| Easy Living | Jean Arthur | Only Angels Have Wings | Cary Grant |
| North by Northwest | Cary Grant | The Pride and the Passion | Frank Sinatra |
| Pal Joey | Frank Sinatra | From Here to Eternity | Deborah Kerr |
| An Affair to Remember | Deborah Kerr | The Gypsy Moths | Gene Hackman |
| The French Connection | Gene Hackman | Bite the Bullet | James Coburn |
| Cross of Iron | James Coburn | Charade | Audrey Hepburn |
| Two for the Road | Audrey Hepburn | The Children's Hour | Miriam Hopkins |
| Design for Living | Miriam Hopkins | These Three | Merle Oberon |
| Wuthering Heights | Merle Oberon | Forever and a Day | Ida Lupino |
| Devotion | Ida Lupino | Lust for Gold | Glenn Ford |
| The Big Heat | Glenn Ford | Blackboard Jungle | Sidney Poitier |
| Edge of the City | Sidney Poitier | Band of Angels | Clark Gable |
| The Hucksters | Clark Gable | Cain and Mabel | Marion Davies |
| Show People | Marion Davies | | |