| High Society | Bing Crosby | | |
| Going My Way | Bing Crosby | Robin and the 7 Hoods | Dean Martin |
| The Young Lions | Dean Martin | Ocean's 11 | Angie Dickinson |
| The Killers | Angie Dickinson | Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend | James Garner |
| The Americanization of Emily | James Garner | Mister Buddwing | Jean Simmons |
| Angel Face | Jean Simmons | Divorce American Style | Van Johnson |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Van Johnson | Thrill of a Romance | Esther Williams |
| Neptune's Daughter | Esther Williams | Easy to Wed | Lucille Ball |
| The Long, Long Trailer | Lucille Ball | Ziegfeld Follies | Cyd Charisse |
| Silk Stockings | Cyd Charisse | Two Weeks in Another Town | Edward G. Robinson |
| Five Star Final | Edward G. Robinson | The Whole Town's Talking | Jean Arthur |
| Shane | Jean Arthur | History Is Made at Night | Charles Boyer |
| Liliom | Charles Boyer | Algiers | Hedy Lamarr |
| Samson and Delilah | Hedy Lamarr | I Take This Woman | Spencer Tracy |
| The Show-Off | Spencer Tracy | Up the River | Humphrey Bogart |
| Key Largo | Humphrey Bogart | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Tim Holt |
| The Arizona Ranger | Tim Holt | The Magnificent Ambersons | Anne Baxter |
| The Blue Gardenia | Anne Baxter | All About Eve | Bette Davis |
| Dark Victory | Bette Davis | Dead Ringer | Karl Malden |
| One-Eyed Jacks | Karl Malden | The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin | Roddy McDowall |
| How Green Was My Valley | Roddy McDowall | The Defector | Montgomery Clift |
| I Confess | Montgomery Clift | The Heiress | Ralph Richardson |
| Breaking the Sound Barrier | Ralph Richardson | The Ghoul | Boris Karloff |
| The Old Dark House | Boris Karloff | The Guilty Generation | Constance Cummings |
| Blithe Spirit | Constance Cummings | Haunted Honeymoon | Robert Montgomery |
| They Were Expendable | Robert Montgomery | Three Loves Has Nancy | Janet Gaynor |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Janet Gaynor | | |