Year
|
Film
|
Actor
|
2024
|
Oppenheimer
|
Cillian Murphy
|
Maestro
|
Bradley Cooper
|
Rustin
|
Colman Domingo
|
The Holdovers
|
Paul Giamatti
|
American Fiction
|
Jeffrey Wright
|
2023
|
The Whale
|
Brendan Fraser
|
Elvis
|
Austin Butler
|
The Banshees of Inisherin
|
Colin Farrell
|
Aftersun
|
Paul Mescal
|
Living
|
Bill Nighy
|
2022
|
King Richard
|
Will Smith
|
Being the Ricardos
|
Javier Bardem
|
The Power of the Dog
|
Benedict Cumberbatch
|
Tick, Tick...Boom!
|
Andrew Garfield
|
The Tragedy of Macbeth
|
Denzel Washington
|
2021
|
The Father
|
Anthony Hopkins
|
Sound of Metal
|
Riz Ahmed
|
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
|
Chadwick Boseman
|
Mank
|
Gary Oldman
|
Minari
|
Steven Yeun
|
2020
|
Joker
|
Joaquin Phoenix
|
Pain and Glory
|
Antonio Banderas
|
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
|
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
Marriage Story
|
Adam Driver
|
The Two Popes
|
Jonathan Pryce
|
2019
|
Bohemian Rhapsody
|
Rami Malek
|
Vice
|
Christian Bale
|
A Star Is Born
|
Bradley Cooper
|
At Eternity's Gate
|
Willem Dafoe
|
Green Book
|
Viggo Mortensen
|
2018
|
Darkest Hour
|
Gary Oldman
|
Call Me by Your Name
|
Timothée Chalamet
|
Phantom Thread
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
Get Out
|
Daniel Kaluuya
|
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
|
Denzel Washington
|
2017
|
Manchester by the Sea
|
Casey Affleck
|
Hacksaw Ridge
|
Andrew Garfield
|
La La Land
|
Ryan Gosling
|
Captain Fantastic
|
Viggo Mortensen
|
Fences
|
Denzel Washington
|
2016
|
The Revenant
|
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
Trumbo
|
Bryan Cranston
|
The Martian
|
Matt Damon
|
Steve Jobs
|
Michael Fassbender
|
The Danish Girl
|
Eddie Redmayne
|
2015
|
The Theory of Everything
|
Eddie Redmayne
|
Foxcatcher
|
Steve Carell
|
American Sniper
|
Bradley Cooper
|
The Imitation Game
|
Benedict Cumberbatch
|
Birdman
|
Michael Keaton
|
2014
|
Dallas Buyers Club
|
Matthew McConaughey
|
American Hustle
|
Christian Bale
|
Nebraska
|
Bruce Dern
|
The Wolf of Wall Street
|
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
12 Years a Slave
|
Chiwetel Ejiofor
|
2013
|
Lincoln
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
Silver Linings Playbook
|
Bradley Cooper
|
Les Misérables
|
Hugh Jackman
|
The Master
|
Joaquin Phoenix
|
Flight
|
Denzel Washington
|
2012
|
The Artist
|
Jean Dujardin
|
A Better Life
|
Demián Bichir
|
The Descendants
|
George Clooney
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
|
Gary Oldman
|
Moneyball
|
Brad Pitt
|
2011
|
The King's Speech
|
Colin Firth
|
Biutiful
|
Javier Bardem
|
True Grit
|
Jeff Bridges
|
The Social Network
|
Jesse Eisenberg
|
127 Hours
|
James Franco
|
2010
|
Crazy Heart
|
Jeff Bridges
|
Up in the Air
|
George Clooney
|
A Single Man
|
Colin Firth
|
Invictus
|
Morgan Freeman
|
The Hurt Locker
|
Jeremy Renner
|
2009
|
Milk
|
Sean Penn
|
The Visitor
|
Richard Jenkins
|
Frost/Nixon
|
Frank Langella
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
|
Brad Pitt
|
The Wrestler
|
Mickey Rourke
|
2008
|
There Will Be Blood
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
Michael Clayton
|
George Clooney
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
|
Johnny Depp
|
In the Valley of Elah
|
Tommy Lee Jones
|
Eastern Promises
|
Viggo Mortensen
|
2007
|
The Last King of Scotland
|
Forest Whitaker
|
Blood Diamond
|
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
Half Nelson
|
Ryan Gosling
|
Venus
|
Peter O'Toole
|
The Pursuit of Happyness
|
Will Smith
|
2006
|
Capote
|
Philip Seymour Hoffman
|
Hustle & Flow
|
Terrence Howard
|
Brokeback Mountain
|
Heath Ledger
|
Walk the Line
|
Joaquin Phoenix
|
Good Night, and Good Luck
|
David Strathairn
|
2005
|
Ray
|
Jamie Foxx
|
Hotel Rwanda
|
Don Cheadle
|
Finding Neverland
|
Johnny Depp
|
The Aviator
|
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
Million Dollar Baby
|
Clint Eastwood
|
2004
|
Mystic River
|
Sean Penn
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
|
Johnny Depp
|
House of Sand and Fog
|
Ben Kingsley
|
Cold Mountain
|
Jude Law
|
Lost in Translation
|
Bill Murray
|
2003
|
The Pianist
|
Adrien Brody
|
Adaptation
|
Nicolas Cage
|
The Quiet American
|
Michael Caine
|
Gangs of New York
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
About Schmidt
|
Jack Nicholson
|
2002
|
Training Day
|
Denzel Washington
|
A Beautiful Mind
|
Russell Crowe
|
I Am Sam
|
Sean Penn
|
Ali
|
Will Smith
|
In the Bedroom
|
Tom Wilkinson
|
2001
|
Gladiator
|
Russell Crowe
|
Before Night Falls
|
Javier Bardem
|
Cast Away
|
Tom Hanks
|
Pollock
|
Ed Harris
|
Quills
|
Geoffrey Rush
|
2000
|
American Beauty
|
Kevin Spacey
|
The Insider
|
Russell Crowe
|
The Straight Story
|
Richard Farnsworth
|
Sweet and Lowdown
|
Sean Penn
|
The Hurricane
|
Denzel Washington
|
1999
|
Life Is Beautiful
|
Roberto Benigni
|
Saving Private Ryan
|
Tom Hanks
|
Gods and Monsters
|
Ian McKellen
|
Affliction
|
Nick Nolte
|
American History X
|
Edward Norton
|
1998
|
As Good as It Gets
|
Jack Nicholson
|
Good Will Hunting
|
Matt Damon
|
The Apostle
|
Robert Duvall
|
Ulee's Gold
|
Peter Fonda
|
Wag the Dog
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
1997
|
Shine
|
Geoffrey Rush
|
Jerry Maguire
|
Tom Cruise
|
The English Patient
|
Ralph Fiennes
|
The People vs. Larry Flynt
|
Woody Harrelson
|
Sling Blade
|
Billy Bob Thornton
|
1996
|
Leaving Las Vegas
|
Nicolas Cage
|
Mr. Holland's Opus
|
Richard Dreyfuss
|
Nixon
|
Anthony Hopkins
|
Dead Man Walking
|
Sean Penn
|
Il Postino: The Postman
|
Massimo Troisi
|
1995
|
Forrest Gump
|
Tom Hanks
|
The Shawshank Redemption
|
Morgan Freeman
|
The Madness of King George
|
Nigel Hawthorne
|
Nobody's Fool
|
Paul Newman
|
Pulp Fiction
|
John Travolta
|
1994
|
Philadelphia
|
Tom Hanks
|
In the Name of the Father
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
What's Love Got to Do with It
|
Laurence Fishburne
|
The Remains of the Day
|
Anthony Hopkins
|
Schindler's List
|
Liam Neeson
|
1993
|
Scent of a Woman
|
Al Pacino
|
Chaplin
|
Robert Downey Jr.
|
Unforgiven
|
Clint Eastwood
|
The Crying Game
|
Stephen Rea
|
Malcolm X
|
Denzel Washington
|
1992
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
Anthony Hopkins
|
Bugsy
|
Warren Beatty
|
Cape Fear
|
Robert De Niro
|
The Prince of Tides
|
Nick Nolte
|
The Fisher King
|
Robin Williams
|
1991
|
Reversal of Fortune
|
Jeremy Irons
|
Dances with Wolves
|
Kevin Costner
|
Awakenings
|
Robert De Niro
|
Cyrano de Bergerac
|
Gérard Depardieu
|
The Field
|
Richard Harris
|
1990
|
My Left Foot
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
Henry V
|
Kenneth Branagh
|
Born on the Fourth of July
|
Tom Cruise
|
Driving Miss Daisy
|
Morgan Freeman
|
Dead Poets Society
|
Robin Williams
|
1989
|
Rain Man
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
Mississippi Burning
|
Gene Hackman
|
Big
|
Tom Hanks
|
Stand and Deliver
|
Edward James Olmos
|
Pelle the Conqueror
|
Max von Sydow
|
1988
|
Wall Street
|
Michael Douglas
|
Broadcast News
|
William Hurt
|
Dark Eyes
|
Marcello Mastroianni
|
Ironweed
|
Jack Nicholson
|
Good Morning, Vietnam
|
Robin Williams
|
1987
|
The Color of Money
|
Paul Newman
|
Round Midnight
|
Dexter Gordon
|
Mona Lisa
|
Bob Hoskins
|
Children of a Lesser God
|
William Hurt
|
Salvador
|
James Woods
|
1986
|
Kiss of the Spider Woman
|
William Hurt
|
Witness
|
Harrison Ford
|
Murphy's Romance
|
James Garner
|
Prizzi's Honor
|
Jack Nicholson
|
Runaway Train
|
Jon Voight
|
1985
|
Amadeus
|
F. Murray Abraham
|
Tom Hulce
|
Starman
|
Jeff Bridges
|
Under the Volcano
|
Albert Finney
|
The Killing Fields
|
Sam Waterston
|
1984
|
Tender Mercies
|
Robert Duvall
|
Educating Rita
|
Michael Caine
|
Reuben, Reuben
|
Tom Conti
|
The Dresser
|
Tom Courtenay
|
Albert Finney
|
1983
|
Gandhi
|
Ben Kingsley
|
Tootsie
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
Missing
|
Jack Lemmon
|
The Verdict
|
Paul Newman
|
My Favorite Year
|
Peter O'Toole
|
1982
|
On Golden Pond
|
Henry Fonda
|
Reds
|
Warren Beatty
|
Atlantic City
|
Burt Lancaster
|
Arthur
|
Dudley Moore
|
Absence of Malice
|
Paul Newman
|
1981
|
Raging Bull
|
Robert De Niro
|
The Great Santini
|
Robert Duvall
|
The Elephant Man
|
John Hurt
|
Tribute
|
Jack Lemmon
|
The Stunt Man
|
Peter O'Toole
|
1980
|
Kramer vs. Kramer
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
The China Syndrome
|
Jack Lemmon
|
...And Justice for All
|
Al Pacino
|
All That Jazz
|
Roy Scheider
|
Being There
|
Peter Sellers
|
1979
|
Coming Home
|
Jon Voight
|
Heaven Can Wait
|
Warren Beatty
|
The Buddy Holly Story
|
Gary Busey
|
The Deer Hunter
|
Robert De Niro
|
The Boys from Brazil
|
Laurence Olivier
|
1978
|
The Goodbye Girl
|
Richard Dreyfuss
|
Annie Hall
|
Woody Allen
|
Equus
|
Richard Burton
|
A Special Day
|
Marcello Mastroianni
|
Saturday Night Fever
|
John Travolta
|
1977
|
Network
|
Peter Finch
|
William Holden
|
Taxi Driver
|
Robert De Niro
|
Seven Beauties
|
Giancarlo Giannini
|
Rocky
|
Sylvester Stallone
|
1976
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
Jack Nicholson
|
The Sunshine Boys
|
Walter Matthau
|
Dog Day Afternoon
|
Al Pacino
|
The Man in the Glass Booth
|
Maximilian Schell
|
Give 'em Hell, Harry!
|
James Whitmore
|
1975
|
Harry and Tonto
|
Art Carney
|
Murder on the Orient Express
|
Albert Finney
|
Lenny
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
Chinatown
|
Jack Nicholson
|
The Godfather Part II
|
Al Pacino
|
1974
|
Save the Tiger
|
Jack Lemmon
|
Last Tango in Paris
|
Marlon Brando
|
The Last Detail
|
Jack Nicholson
|
Serpico
|
Al Pacino
|
The Sting
|
Robert Redford
|
1973
|
The Godfather
|
Marlon Brando
|
Sleuth
|
Michael Caine
|
Laurence Olivier
|
The Ruling Class
|
Peter O'Toole
|
Sounder
|
Paul Winfield
|
1972
|
The French Connection
|
Gene Hackman
|
Sunday Bloody Sunday
|
Peter Finch
|
Kotch
|
Walter Matthau
|
The Hospital
|
George C. Scott
|
Fiddler on the Roof
|
Topol
|
1971
|
Patton
|
George C. Scott
|
I Never Sang for My Father
|
Melvyn Douglas
|
The Great White Hope
|
James Earl Jones
|
Five Easy Pieces
|
Jack Nicholson
|
Love Story
|
Ryan O'Neal
|
1970
|
True Grit
|
John Wayne
|
Anne of the Thousand Days
|
Richard Burton
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
Jon Voight
|
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
|
Peter O'Toole
|
1969
|
Charly
|
Cliff Robertson
|
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
|
Alan Arkin
|
The Fixer
|
Alan Bates
|
Oliver!
|
Ron Moody
|
The Lion in Winter
|
Peter O'Toole
|
1968
|
In the Heat of the Night
|
Rod Steiger
|
Bonnie and Clyde
|
Warren Beatty
|
The Graduate
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
Cool Hand Luke
|
Paul Newman
|
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
|
Spencer Tracy
|
1967
|
A Man for All Seasons
|
Paul Scofield
|
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
|
Alan Arkin
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
Richard Burton
|
Alfie
|
Michael Caine
|
The Sand Pebbles
|
Steve McQueen
|
1966
|
Cat Ballou
|
Lee Marvin
|
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
|
Richard Burton
|
Othello
|
Laurence Olivier
|
The Pawnbroker
|
Rod Steiger
|
Ship of Fools
|
Oskar Werner
|
1965
|
My Fair Lady
|
Rex Harrison
|
Becket
|
Richard Burton
|
Peter O'Toole
|
Zorba the Greek
|
Anthony Quinn
|
Dr. Strangelove
|
Peter Sellers
|
1964
|
Lilies of the Field
|
Sidney Poitier
|
Tom Jones
|
Albert Finney
|
This Sporting Life
|
Richard Harris
|
Cleopatra
|
Rex Harrison
|
Hud
|
Paul Newman
|
1963
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Gregory Peck
|
Birdman of Alcatraz
|
Burt Lancaster
|
Days of Wine and Roses
|
Jack Lemmon
|
Divorce Italian Style
|
Marcello Mastroianni
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
Peter O'Toole
|
1962
|
Judgment at Nuremberg
|
Maximilian Schell
|
Spencer Tracy
|
Fanny
|
Charles Boyer
|
The Hustler
|
Paul Newman
|
The Mark
|
Stuart Whitman
|
1961
|
Elmer Gantry
|
Burt Lancaster
|
Sons and Lovers
|
Trevor Howard
|
The Apartment
|
Jack Lemmon
|
The Entertainer
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Iherit the Wind
|
Spencer Tracy
|
1960
|
Ben-Hur
|
Charlton Heston
|
Room at the Top
|
Laurence Harvey
|
Some Like It Hot
|
Jack Lemmon
|
The Last Angry Man
|
Paul Muni
|
Anatomy of a Murder
|
James Stewart
|
1959
|
Separate Tables
|
David Niven
|
The Defiant Ones
|
Tony Curtis
|
Sidney Poitier
|
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
|
Paul Newman
|
The Old Man and the Sea
|
Spencer Tracy
|
1958
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
Alec Guinness
|
Sayonara
|
Marlon Brando
|
A Hatful of Rain
|
Anthony Franciosa
|
Witness for the Prosecution
|
Charles Laughton
|
Wild Is the Wind
|
Anthony Quinn
|
1957
|
The King and I
|
Yul Brynner
|
Giant
|
James Dean
|
Rock Hudson
|
Lust for Life
|
Kirk Douglas
|
Richard III
|
Laurence Olivier
|
1956
|
Marty
|
Ernest Borgnine
|
Love Me or Leave Me
|
James Cagney
|
East of Eden
|
James Dean
|
The Man with the Golden Arm
|
Frank Sinatra
|
Bad Day at Black Rock
|
Spencer Tracy
|
1955
|
On the Waterfront
|
Marlon Brando
|
The Caine Mutiny
|
Humphrey Bogart
|
The Country Girl
|
Bing Crosby
|
A Star Is Born
|
James Mason
|
Robinson Crusoe
|
Dan O'Herlihy
|
1954
|
Stalag 17
|
William Holden
|
Julius Caesar
|
Marlon Brando
|
The Robe
|
Richard Burton
|
From Here to Eternity
|
Montgomery Clift
|
Burt Lancaster
|
1953
|
High Noon
|
Gary Cooper
|
Viva Zapata!
|
Marlon Brando
|
The Bad and the Beautiful
|
Kirk Douglas
|
Moulin Rouge
|
José Ferrer
|
The Lavender Hill Mob
|
Alec Guinness
|
1952
|
The African Queen
|
Humphrey Bogart
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
Marlon Brando
|
A Place in the Sun
|
Montgomery Clift
|
Bright Victory
|
Arthur Kennedy
|
Death of a Salesman
|
Fredric March
|
1951
|
Cyrano de Bergerac
|
José Ferrer
|
The Magnificent Yankee
|
Louis Calhern
|
Sunset Boulevard
|
William Holden
|
Harvey
|
James Stewart
|
Father of the Bride
|
Spencer Tracy
|
1950
|
All the King's Men
|
Broderick Crawford
|
Champion
|
Kirk Douglas
|
Twelve O'Clock High
|
Gregory Peck
|
The Hasty Heart
|
Richard Todd
|
Sands of Iwo Jima
|
John Wayne
|
1949
|
Hamlet
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Johnny Belinda
|
Lew Ayres
|
The Search
|
Montgomery Clift
|
When My Baby Smiles at Me
|
Dan Dailey
|
Sitting Pretty
|
Clifton Webb
|
1948
|
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
|
1947
|
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
|
1946
|
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
|
1945
|
Going My Way
|
Bing Crosby
|
Barry Fitzgerald
|
Gaslight
|
Charles Boyer
|
None but the Lonely Heart
|
Cary Grant
|
Wilson
|
Alexander Knox
|
1944
|
Watch on the Rhine
|
Paul Lukas
|
Casablanca
|
Humphrey Bogart
|
For Whom the Bell Tolls
|
Gary Cooper
|
Madame Curie
|
Walter Pidgeon
|
The Human Comedy
|
Mickey Rooney
|
1943
|
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
|
1942
|
Sergeant York
|
Gary Cooper
|
Penny Serenade
|
Cary Grant
|
The Devil and Daniel Webster
|
Walter Huston
|
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
|
Robert Montgomery
|
Citizen Kane
|
Orson Welles
|
1941
|
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
|
1940
|
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
|
Robert Donat
|
Gone with the Wind
|
Clark Gable
|
Wuthering Heights
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Babes in Arms
|
Mickey Rooney
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
|
James Stewart
|
1939
|
Boys Town
|
Spencer Tracy
|
Algiers
|
Charles Boyer
|
Angels with Dirty Faces
|
James Cagney
|
The Citadel
|
Robert Donat
|
Pygmalion
|
Leslie Howard
|
1938
|
Captains Courageous
|
Spencer Tracy
|
Conquest
|
Charles Boyer
|
A Star Is Born
|
Fredric March
|
The Life of Emile Zola
|
Paul Muni
|
Night Must Fall
|
Robert Montgomery
|
1937
|
The Story of Louis Pasteur
|
Paul Muni
|
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
|
Gary Cooper
|
Dodsworth
|
Walter Huston
|
My Man Godfrey
|
William Powell
|
San Francisco
|
Spencer Tracy
|
1936
|
The Informer
|
Victor McLaglen
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Clark Gable
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Charles Laughton
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Franchot Tone
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1935
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It Happened One Night
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Clark Gable
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The Affairs of Cellini
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Frank Morgan
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The Thin Man
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William Powell
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1934
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
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Charles Laughton
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Berkeley Square
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Leslie Howard
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
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Paul Muni
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1933
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The Champ
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Wallace Beery
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Fredric March
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The Guardsman
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Alfred Lunt
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1932
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A Free Soul
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Lionel Barrymore
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Skippy
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Jackie Cooper
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Cimarron
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Richard Dix
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The Royal Family of Broadway
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Fredric March
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The Front Page
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Adolphe Menjou
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1931
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Disraeli
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George Arliss
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The Green Goddess
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The Big House
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Wallace Beery
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The Big Pond
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Maurice Chevalier
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The Love Parade
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Bulldog Drummond
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Ronald Colman
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Condemned
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The Rogue Song
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Lawrence Tibbett
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1930
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In Old Arizona
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Warner Baxter
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Thunderbolt
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George Bancroft
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Alibi
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Chester Morris
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The Valiant
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Paul Muni
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The Patriot
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Lewis Stone
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1929
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The Last Command
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Emil Jannings
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The Way of All Flesh
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The Noose
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Richard Barthelmess
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The Patent Leather Kid
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The Circus
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Charlie Chaplin
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