| The Bedford Incident | Sidney Poitier | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Katharine Hepburn |
| Stage Door | Katharine Hepburn | A Woman Rebels | Van Heflin |
| Tennessee Johnson | Van Heflin | The Three Musketeers | Gene Kelly |
| Anchors Aweigh | Gene Kelly | Cover Girl | Rita Hayworth |
| You'll Never Get Rich | Rita Hayworth | Circus World | John Wayne |
| Red River | John Wayne | Back to Bataan | Anthony Quinn |
| Zorba the Greek | Anthony Quinn | City for Conquest | James Cagney |
| The Strawberry Blonde | James Cagney | Mister Roberts | Jack Lemmon |
| The Odd Couple | Jack Lemmon | Some Like It Hot | Marilyn Monroe |
| How to Marry a Millionaire | Marilyn Monroe | Monkey Business | Ginger Rogers |
| Kitty Foyle | Ginger Rogers | Roberta | Irene Dunne |
| Love Affair | Irene Dunne | A Guy Named Joe | Lionel Barrymore |
| A Free Soul | Lionel Barrymore | Captains Courageous | Freddie Bartholomew |
| David Copperfield | Freddie Bartholomew | Lloyd's of London | Tyrone Power |
| Blood and Sand | Tyrone Power | The Rains Came | Myrna Loy |
| The Mask of Fu Manchu | Myrna Loy | Love Me Tonight | Jeanette MacDonald |
| Rose Marie | Jeanette MacDonald | Let's Go Native | Kay Francis |
| Stranded | Kay Francis | Living on Velvet | Warren William |
| Satan Met a Lady | Warren William | The Wolf Man | Claude Rains |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | Claude Rains | Notorious | Ingrid Bergman |
| Gaslight | Ingrid Bergman | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Gary Cooper |
| A Farewell to Arms | Gary Cooper | The Naked Edge | Deborah Kerr |
| Love on the Dole | Deborah Kerr | The Hucksters | Ava Gardner |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ava Gardner | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | James Mason |
| East Side, West Side | James Mason | North by Northwest | Eva Marie Saint |
| A Hatful of Rain | Eva Marie Saint | Grand Prix | Toshiro Mifune |
| Seven Samurai | Toshiro Mifune | | |