1937

1. Grand Illusion 2. The Awful Truth 3. Stella Dallas 4. Make Way for Tomorrow 5. Pepe-le-moko 6. History is Made at Night 7. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 8. You Only Live Once 9. Humanity and Paper Balloons 10. Gueule d'amour

11. The Prisoner of Zenda 12. Captains Courageous 13. A Day at the Races 14. Regain 15. Un carnet de bal 16. Way Out West 17. Lost Horizon 18. Stage Door 19. The Hurricane 20. Easy Living

1. Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion 2. Frank Capra, Lost Horizon 3. Julien Duvivier, Un carnet de bal 4. Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth 5. Sadao Yamanaka, Humanity and Paper Balloons

6. Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow 7. Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night 8. King Vidor, Stella Dallas 9. Julien Duvivier, Pepe le Moko 10. John Ford, The Hurricane

1. Jean Gabin, Pepe-le-moko 2. Robert Montgomery, Night Must Fall 3. Ronald Colman, The Prisoner of Zenda 4. Jean Gabin, Gueule d'amour 5. Cary Grant, The Awful Truth

6. Jean Gabin, Grand Illusion 7. Oliver Hardy, Way Out West 8. Stan Laurel, Way Out West 9. Fredric March, A Star is Born 10. Henry Fonda, You Only Live Once

1. Irene Dunne, The Awful Truth 2. Barbara Stanwyck, Stella Dallas 3. Beulah Bondi, Make Way for Tomorrow 4. Jean Arthur, Easy Living 5. Luise Rainer, The Good Earth

6. Joan Blondell, Stand-In 7. Jean Arthur, History Is Made at Night 8. Janet Gaynor, A Star is Born 9. Ginger Rogers, Shall We Dance 10. Sylvia Sidney, You Only Live Once

1. Erich von Stroheim, Grand Illusion 2. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., The Prisoner of Zenda 3. Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane 4. Ralph Bellamy, The Awful Truth 5. Fernandel, Regain

6. Joseph Schildkraut, The Life of Emile Zola 7. Pierre Fresnay, Grand Illusion 8. Claude Rains, The Prince and the Pauper 9. Humphrey Bogart, Dead End 10. Jean Hersholt, Heidi

1. May Whitty, Night Must Fall 2. Flora Robson, Fire Over England 3. Line Noro, Pepe-le-moko 4. Claire Trevor, Dead End 5. Fay Bainter, Make Way for Tomorrow

6. Lucille La Verne, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 7. Bette Davis, Kid Galahad 8. Dita Parlo, Grand Illusion 9. Mary Astor, The Hurricane 10. Andrea Leeds, Stage Door

1. Christian Matras, Grand Illusion 2. P. Agostini, M.Kelber & P. Levent, Un carnet de bal 3. Gregg Toland, Dead End 4. Karl Freund, The Good Earth 5. Akira Mimura, Humanity and Paper Balloons

6. Marc Fossard & Jules Kruger, Pepe-le-moko 7. Masao Saito, Children in the Wind 8. Joseph Walker, Lost Horizon 9. Leon Shamroy, You Only Live Once 10. Joseph A. Valentine, Wings Over Honolulu

1949

1. The Third Man 2. Late Spring 3. White Heat 4. Kind Hearts and Coronets 5. The Heiress 6. Jour de Fête 7. Stray Dog 8. The Small Back Room 9. The Fountainhead 10. Battleground

11. Le Silence de la Mer 12. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 13. The Set-Up 14. Whisky Galore! 15. Blood of the Beasts 16. The Reckless Moment 17. Act of Violence 18. On the Town 19. Thieves’ Highway 20. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1. Carol Reed, The Third Man 2. Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog 3. Raoul Walsh, White Heat 4. Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring 5. Robert Wise, The Set-Up

6. William Wyler,  The Heiress 7. Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, The Small Back Room 8. William A. Wellman, Battleground 9. Robert Hamer, Kind Hearts and Coronets 10. Fred Zinnemann, Act of Violence

1. Chishû Ryû, Late Spring 2. James Cagney, White Heat 3. David Farrar, The Small Back Room 4. Kirk Douglas, Champion 5. Toshiro Mifune, Stray Dog

6. Toshiro Mifune, The Quiet Duel 7. Joseph Cotten, The Third Man 8. Robert Ryan, The Set-Up 9. Dennis Price, Kind Hearts and Coronets 10. Van Heflin, Act of Violence

1. Setsuko Hara, Late Spring 2. Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress 3. Viviane Romance, Maya 4. Patricia Neal, The Fountainhead 5. Eva Henning, Thirst

6. Virginia Mayo, Colorado Territory 7. Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway 8. Linda Darnell, A Letter to Three Wives 9. Edith Evans, The Last Days of Dolwyn 10. Doris Svelund, Prison

1. Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets 2. Orson Welles, The Third Man 3. Ralph Richardson, The Heiress 4. Claude Rains,  The Passionate Friends 5. Jose Ferrer, Whirlpool

6. Trevor Howard, The Third Man 7. James Whitmore,  Battleground 8. Juano Hernandez, Intruder in the Dust 9. Edmond O'Brien,  White Heat 10. Raymond Massey,  The Fountainhead

1. Mercedes McCambridge, All The King's Men 2. Judy Holliday, Adam's Rib 3. Margaret Wycherly, White Heat 4. Kathleen Byron The Small Back Room 5. Joan Greenwood, Kind Hearts and Coronets

6. Miriam Hopkins The Heiress 7. Thelma Ritter, A Letter to Three Wives 8. Ethel Waters, Pinky 9. Noriko Sengoku, The Quiet Duel 10. Valentina Cortese, Thieves' Highway

1. Robert Krasker, The Third Man 2. Otello Martelli, Bitter Rice 3. Douglas Slocombe, Kind Hearts and Coronets 4. Winton C. Hoch, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 5. André Thomas, Maya

6. Paul Vogel, Battleground 7. Yûharu Atsuta, Late Spring 8. Leo Tover, The Heiress 9. Leon Shamroy,  Prince of Foxes 10. Robert Burks, The Fountainhead