1950s Oscar Best Actor Nominees - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Movie	Actor	% Correct
A Streetcar Named Desire; Viva Zapata!; Julius Caesar; On the Waterfront; Sayonara	Marlon Brando	96%
The African Queen; The Caine Mutiny	Humphrey Bogart	89%
High Noon	Gary Cooper	79%
East of Eden; Giant	James Dean	79%
The King and I	Yul Brynner	78%
The Lavender Hill Mob; The Bridge on the River Kwai	Alec Guinness	76%
Harvey	James Stewart	72%
Richard III	Laurence Olivier	71%
From Here to Eternity	Burt Lancaster	68%
The Man with the Golden Arm	Frank Sinatra	65%
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Paul Newman	65%
Father of the Bride; Bad Day at Black Rock; The Old Man and the Sea	Spencer Tracy	64%
Sunset Boulevard; Stalag 17	William Holden	59%
Sands of Iwo Jima	John Wayne	58%
Marty	Ernest Borgnine	57%
Separate Tables	David Niven	54%
The Robe	Richard Burton	54%
Twelve O'Clock High	Gregory Peck	53%
Champion; The Bad and the Beautiful; Lust for Life	Kirk Douglas	52%
A Place in the Sun; From Here to Eternity	Montgomery Clift	52%
Giant	Rock Hudson	50%
The Defiant Ones	Sidney Poitier	50%
The Defiant Ones	Tony Curtis	46%
Witness for the Prosecution	Charles Laughton	44%
Cyrano de Bergerac; Moulin Rouge	José Ferrer	42%
Love Me or Leave Me	James Cagney	40%
A Star Is Born	James Mason	39%
The Country Girl	Bing Crosby	37%
All the King's Men	Broderick Crawford	37%
Death of a Salesman	Fredric March	35%
Wild Is the Wind	Anthony Quinn	28%
Bright Victory	Arthur Kennedy	15%
A Hatful of Rain	Anthony Franciosa	14%
Robinson Crusoe	Dan O'Herlihy	14%
The Hasty Heart	Richard Todd	14%
The Magnificent Yankee	Louis Calhern	7%