| The Nun's Story | Audrey Hepburn | Charade | Cary Grant |
| Big Brown Eyes | Cary Grant | In Name Only | Carole Lombard |
| Made for Each Other | Carole Lombard | My Man Godfrey | William Powell |
| Reckless | William Powell | Life with Father | Arlene Dahl |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Arlene Dahl | Wicked as They Come | Herbert Marshall |
| Blonde Venus | Herbert Marshall | Breakfast for Two | Barbara Stanwyck |
| The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Barbara Stanwyck | Walk on the Wild Side | Jane Fonda |
| The China Syndrome | Jane Fonda | The Chase | Marlon Brando |
| Julius Caesar | Marlon Brando | Don Juan DeMarco | Faye Dunaway |
| Chinatown | Faye Dunaway | The Extraordinary Seaman | David Niven |
| Raffles | David Niven | Lady L | Sophia Loren |
| The Key | Sophia Loren | Boy on a Dolphin | Alan Ladd |
| The Badlanders | Alan Ladd | The Big Land | Edmond O'Brien |
| D.O.A. | Edmond O'Brien | Silver City | Gladys George |
| Madame X | Gladys George | Undercover Girl | Alexis Smith |
| Night and Day | Alexis Smith | The Young Philadelphians | Paul Newman |
| The Rack | Paul Newman | A New Kind of Love | Thelma Ritter |
| Rear Window | Thelma Ritter | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Betty Grable |
| How to Marry a Millionaire | Betty Grable | Pigskin Parade | Judy Garland |
| The Clock | Judy Garland | The Harvey Girls | John Hodiak |
| Lifeboat | John Hodiak | Malaya | James Stewart |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | James Stewart | The Flight of the Phoenix | Ernest Borgnine |
| The Wild Bunch | Ernest Borgnine | The Oscar | Joseph Cotten |
| The Man with a Cloak | Joseph Cotten | Since You Went Away | Claudette Colbert |
| Without Reservations | Claudette Colbert | The Secret Heart | Walter Pidgeon |
| These Wilder Years | Walter Pidgeon | The Bad and the Beautiful | Dick Powell |
| Dames | Dick Powell | Blessed Event | Lee Tracy |
| Washington Merry-Go-Round | Lee Tracy | | |