1940s Oscar Best Actor Nominees

Try to name the actors who received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor from 1940-1949.

Year = year of the ceremony honoring the previous year's films

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1999
Hamlet	Laurence Olivier
Johnny Belinda	Lew Ayres
The Search	Montgomery Clift
When My Baby Smiles at Me	Dan Dailey
Sitting Pretty	Clifton Webb

1998
A Double Life	Ronald Colman
Body and Soul	John Garfield
Gentleman's Agreement	Gregory Peck
Life with Father	William Powell
Mourning Becomes Electra	Michael Redgrave

1997
The Best Years of Our Lives	Fredric March
Henry V	Laurence Olivier
The Jolson Story	Larry Parks
The Yearling	Gregory Peck
It's a Wonderful Life	James Stewart

1996
The Lost Weekend	Ray Milland
The Bells of St. Mary's	Bing Crosby
Anchors Aweigh	Gene Kelly
The Keys of the Kingdom	Gregory Peck
A Song to Remember	Cornel Wilde

1995
Going My Way	Bing Crosby
Gaslight	Charles Boyer
Going My Way	Barry Fitzgerald
None by the Lonely Heart	Cary Grant
Wilson	Alexander Knox

1994
Watch on the Rhine	Paul Lukas
Casablanca	Humphrey Bogart
For Whom the Bells Tolls	Gary Cooper
Madame Curie	Walter Pidgeon
The Human Comedy	Mickey Rooney

1993
Yankee Doodle Dandy	James Cagney
Random Harvest	Ronald Colman
The Pride of the Yankees	Gary Cooper
Mrs. Miniver	Walter Pidgeon
The Pied Piper	Monty Woolley

1992
Sergeant York	Gary Cooper
Penndy Serenade	Cary Grant
The Devil and Daniel Webster	Walter Huston
Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Robert Montgomery
Citizen Kane	Orson Welles

1991
The Philadelphia Story	James Stewart
The Great Dictator	Charlie Chaplin
The Grapes of Wrath	Henry Fonda
Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Raymond Massey
Rebecca	Laurence Olivier

1990
Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Robert Donat
Gone with the Wind	Clark Gable
Wuthering Heighs	Laurence Olivier
Babes in Arms	Mickey Rooney
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	James Stewart

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