Redigerer Oscar for beste mannlige hovedrolle (avsnitt)

==[[1940-tallet]]==
*'''[[1949]] [[Broderick Crawford]]'''' – i rollen som '''Willie Stark''' i filmen '''''[[Det kan hende overalt]]''''', (''All the King's Men'') 
** [[Kirk Douglas]] – ''[[Champion (1949)|Champion]]''
** [[Gregory Peck]] – ''[[Nerver av stål]]''
** [[Richard Todd]] – ''[[The Hasty Heart]]''
** [[John Wayne]] – ''[[Sands of Iwo Jima]]''

*'''[[1948]] [[Laurence Olivier]]''' – i rollen som '''Hamlet, Prince of Denmark''' i filmen '''''[[Hamlet (1948)|Hamlet]]''''' 
** [[Lew Ayres]] – ''[[Johnny Belinda]]''
** [[Montgomery Clift]] – ''[[The Search]]''
** [[Dan Dailey]] – ''[[When My Baby Smiles at Me]]''
** [[Clifton Webb]] – ''[[Sitting Pretty]]''

*'''[[1947]] [[Ronald Colman]]''' – i rollen som '''Anthony John''' i filmen '''''[[Dobbeltliv]]''''', (''A Double Life'')
** [[John Garfield]] – ''[[Body and Soul]]''
** [[Gregory Peck]] – ''[[Mellom gentlemenn]]'', (''Gentleman's Agreement'')
** [[Michael Redgrave]] – ''[[Sorgen kler Elektra]]''
** [[William Powell]] – ''[[Life with Father]]''

*'''[[1946]] [[Fredric March]]''' –  i rollen som '''Al Stephenson''' i filmen '''''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]''''' 
** [[Laurence Olivier]] – ''[[Henry V (film)|Henry V]]''
** [[Larry Parks]] – ''[[The Jolson Story]]''
** [[Gregory Peck]] – ''[[Hjortekalven]]''
** [[James Stewart]] – ''[[Livet er vidunderlig]]'' (''It's a Wonderful Life'')

*'''[[1945]] [[Ray Milland]]''' – i rollen som '''Don Birnam''' i filmen '''''[[Forspilte dager]]''''', (''The Lost Weekend'')
** [[Bing Crosby]] – ''[[Klokkene i St. Mary]]''
** [[Gene Kelly]] – ''[[To gaster går i land]]''
** [[Gregory Peck]] – ''[[The Keys of the Kingdom]]''
** [[Cornel Wilde]] – ''[[A Song to Remember]]''

*'''[[1944]] [[Bing Crosby]]''' – i rollen som '''Father Chuck O'Malley''' i filmen '''''[[Vandre min vei]]''''', (''Going My Way'') 
** [[Charles Boyer]] – ''[[Gasslys]], (Gaslight)''
** [[Barry Fitzgerald]] – ''[[Vandre min vei]] (Going My Way)''
** [[Cary Grant]] – ''[[None but the Lonely Heart]]''
** [[Alexander Knox]] – ''[[Wilson]]''

*'''[[1943]] [[Paul Lukas]]''' – i rollen som '''Kurt Muller''' i filmen '''''[[En dag skal komme]]'''''
** [[Humphrey Bogart]] – ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''
** [[Gary Cooper]] – ''[[Klokkene ringer for deg (film)|Klokkene ringer for deg]]''
** [[Walter Pidgeon]] – ''[[Madame Curie (film)|Madame Curie]]''
** [[Mickey Rooney]] – ''[[Den menneskelige komedie]]''

*'''[[1942]] [[James Cagney]]''' – i rollen som '''[[George M. Cohan]]''' i filmen '''''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]'''''
** [[Ronald Colman]] – ''[[Ut av skodden]]''
** [[Gary Cooper]] – ''[[Yankee'enes stolthet]]''
** [[Walter Pidgeon]] – ''[[Mrs. Miniver]]''
** [[Monty Woolley]] – ''[[The Pied Piper]]''

*'''[[1941]] [[Gary Cooper]]''' – i rollen som '''[[Alvin C. York]]''' i filmen '''''[[Sersjant York]]'''''
** [[Cary Grant]] – ''[[Penny Serenade]]''
** [[Walter Huston]] – ''[[Du kan ikke kjøpe alt for penger]]''
** [[Robert Montgomery]] – ''[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]''
** [[Orson Welles]] – ''[[Citizen Kane]]''

*'''[[1940]] [[James Stewart]]''' – i rollen som '''Macaulay Connor''' i filmen '''''[[En nydelig historie‎]]''''' (''The Philadelphia Story'') 
** [[Charlie Chaplin]] – ''[[The Great Dictator]]''
** [[Henry Fonda]] – ''[[Vredens druer (film)|Vredens druer]]'' (''The Grapes of Wrath'')
** [[Raymond Massey]] – ''[[Abe Lincoln in Illinois]]''
** [[Laurence Olivier]] – ''[[Rebecca (film)|Rebecca]]'' i rollen som Maxim de Winter