Year | Best Actor | Best Actress |
1927-28 | Emil Jannings, The Way Of All Flesh | Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven |
1928-29 | Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona | Mary Pickford, Coquette |
1929-30 | George Arliss, Disraeli | Norma Shearer, The Divorcee |
1930-31 | Lionel Barrymore, Free Soul | Marie Dressler, Min And Bill |
1931-32 | Frederic March, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde; Wallace Beery, The Champ | Helen Hayes, The Sin Of Madelon Claudet |
1932-33 | Charles Laughton, The Private Life Of Henry VIII | Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory |
1934 | Clark Gable, It Happened One Night | Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night |
1935 | Victor McLaglen, The Informer | Bette Davis, Dangerous |
1936 | Paul Muni, The Story Of Louis Pateur | Luise Rainer, The Great Ziegfeld |
1937 | Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous | Luise Rainer, The Good Earth |
1938 | Spencer Tracy, Boys Town | Bette Davis, Jezebel |
1939 | Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips | Vivien Leigh, Gone With The Wind |
1940 | James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story | Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle |
1941 | Gary Cooper, Sergeant York | Joan Fontaine, Suspicion |
1942 | James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy | Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver |
1943 | Paul Lukas, Watch On The Rhine | Jennifer Jones, The Song Of Bernadette |
1944 | Bing Cosby, Going My Way | Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight |
1945 | Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend | Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce |
1946 | Frederic March, The Best Years Of Our Lives | Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own |
1947 | Ronald Coleman, A Double Life | Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter |
1948 | Laurence Olivier, Hamlet | Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda |
1949 | Broderick Crawford, All The King's Men | Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress |
1950 | Jose Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac | Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday |
1951 | Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen | Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire |
1952 | Gary Cooper, High Noon | Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba |
1953 | William Holden, Stalag 17 | Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday |
1954 | Marlon Brando, On The Waterfront | Grace Kelly, The Country Girl |
1955 | Ernest Borgnine, Marty | Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo |
1956 | Yul Brynner, The King And I | Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia |
1957 | Alec Guinness, The Bridge On The River Kwai | Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces Of Eve |
1958 | David Niven, Seperate Tables | Susan Hayward, I Want To Live |
1959 | Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur | Simone Signoret, Room At The Top |
1960 | Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry | Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8 |