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1940
James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story
Charles Chaplin – The Great Dictator
Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath
Raymond Massey – Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Laurence Olivier – Rebecca
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1941
Gary Cooper – Sergeant York
Cary Grant – Penny Serenade
Walter Huston – All That Money Can Buy
Robert Montgomery – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
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1942
James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ronald Colman – Random Harvest
Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees
Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver
Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper
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1943
Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine
Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca
Gary Cooper – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Walter Pidgeon – Madame Curie
Mickey Rooney – The Human Comedy
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1944
Bing Crosby – Going My Way
Charles Boyer – Gaslight
Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way
Cary Grant – None But the Lonely Heart
Alexander Knox – Wilson
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1945
Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend
Bing Crosby – The Bells of St. Mary's
Gene Kelly – Anchors Aweigh
Gregory Peck – The Keys of the Kingdom
Cornel Wilde – A Song to Remember
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1946
Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives
Laurence Olivier – Henry V
Larry Parks – The Jolson Story
Gregory Peck – The Yearling
James Stewart – It's a Wonderful Life
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1947
Ronald Colman – A Double Life
John Garfield – Body and Soul
Gregory Peck – Gentleman's Agreement
William Powell – Life With Father
Michael Redgrave – Mourning Becomes Electra
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1948
Laurence Olivier – Hamlet
Lew Ayres – Johnny Belinda
Montgomery Clift – The Search
Dan Dailey – When My Baby Smiles at Me
Clifton Webb – Sitting Pretty
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1949
Broderick Crawford – All the King's Men
Kirk Douglas – Champion
Gregory Peck – Twelve O'Clock High
Richard Todd – The Hasty Heart
John Wayne – Sands of Iwo Jima