| Actor | Next One | Year |
| Janet Gaynor | |
| Norma Shearer | |
| Marie Dresser | |
| Helen Hayes (1932) | |
| Fredric March (1932) | |
| Katharine Hepburn (1933) | |
| Charles Laughton | |
| Claudette Colbert | |
| Clark Gable | |
| Bette Davis (1935) | |
| Victor McLaglen | |
| Luise Rainer (1936) | |
| Paul Muni | |
| Gale Sondergaard | |
| Walter Brennan (1936) | |
| Spencer Tracy (1937) | |
| Bette Davis (1938) | |
| Spencer Tracy (1938) | |
| Fay Bainter | |
| Walter Brennan (1938) | |
| Vivien Leigh (1939) | |
| James Stewart | |
| Walter Brennan (1940) | |
| Joan Fontaine | |
| Gary Cooper (1941) | |
| Greer Garson | |
| James Cagney | |
| Jennifer Jones | |
| Charles Coburn | |
| Ingrid Bergman (1944) | |
| Bing Crosby | |
| Ethel Barrymore | |
| Joan Crawford | |
| Anne Revere | |
| Olivia de Havilland (1946) | |
| Fredric March (1946) | |
| Anne Baxter | |
| Loretta Young | |
| Celeste Holm | |
| Edmund Gwenn | |
| Jane Wyman | |
| Laurence Olivier | |
| Claire Trevor | |
| Mercedes McCambridge | |
| Jose Ferrer | |
| Humphrey Bogart | |
| Karl Malden | |
| Anthony Quinn (1952) | |
| Audrey Hepburn | |
| William Holden | |
| Frank Sinatra | |
| Marlon Brando (1954) | |
| Edmond O'Brien | |
| Anna Magnani | |
| Jack Lemmon (1955) | |
| | Actor | Next One | Year |
| Ingrid Bergman (1956) | |
| Anthony Quinn (1956) | |
| Joanne Woodward | |
| Alec Guinness | |
| Wendy Hiller | |
| Simone Signoret | |
| Shelley Winters (1959) | |
| Hugh Griffith | |
| Elizabeth Taylor (1960) | |
| Burt Lancaster | |
| Peter Ustinov (1960) | |
| Sophia Loren | |
| Maximilian Schell | |
| Anne Bancroft | |
| Patricia Neal | |
| Melvyn Douglas (1963) | |
| Julie Andrews | |
| Julie Christie | |
| Shelley Winters (1965) | |
| Paul Scofield | |
| Walter Matthau | |
| Katharine Hepburn (1967) | |
| Estelle Parsons | |
| Katharine Hepburn (1968) | |
| Barbra Streisand | |
| Maggie Smith (1969) | |
| Goldie Hawn | |
| Glenda Jackson (1970) | |
| George C. Scott | |
| Jane Fonda (1971) | |
| Gene Hackman (1971) | |
| Marlon Brando (1972) | |
| Glenda Jackson (1973) | |
| Jack Lemmon (1973) | |
| Ellen Burstyn | |
| Ingrid Bergman (1974) | |
| Robert De Niro (1974) | |
| Jack Nicholson (1975) | |
| Lee Grant | |
| Jason Robards (1976) | |
| Diane Keaton | |
| Richard Dreyfuss | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | |
| Jason Robards (1977) | |
| Jane Fonda (1978) | |
| Jon Voight | |
| Maggie Smith (1978) | |
| Christopher Walken | |
| Sally Field (1979) | |
| Dustin Hoffman (1979) | |
| Meryl Streep (1979) | |
| Sissy Spacek | |
| Robert De Niro (1980) | |
| Meryl Streep (1982) | |
| Ben Kingsley | |
| | Actor | Next One | Year |
| Jessica Lange (1982) | |
| Robert Duvall | |
| Jack Nicholson (1983) | |
| Sally Field (1984) | |
| William Hurt | |
| Anjelica Huston | |
| Paul Newman | |
| Dianne Wiest | |
| Michael Caine (1986) | |
| Jodie Foster (1988) | |
| Dustin Hoffman (1988 | |
| Geena Davis | |
| Jessica Tandy | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) | |
| Denzel Washington (1989) | |
| Kathy Bates | |
| Jodie Foster (1991) | |
| Anthony Hopkins | |
| Emma Thompson | |
| Marisa Tomei | |
| Holly Hunter | |
| Tom Hanks (1993) | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | |
| Tom Hanks (1994) | |
| Nicolas Cage | |
| Kevin Spacey (1995) | |
| Frances McDormand | |
| Geoffrey Rush | |
| Juliette Binoche | |
| Jack Nicholson (1997) | |
| Helen Hunt | |
| Judi Dench | |
| Hilary Swank (1999) | |
| Angelina Jolie | |
| Michael Caine (1999) | |
| Russell Crowe | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | |
| Benicio Del Toro | |
| Denzel Washington (2001) | |
| Nicole Kidman | |
| Charlize Theron | |
| Sean Penn (2003) | |
| Cate Blanchett | |
| Morgan Freeman | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | |
| George Clooney | |
| Helen Mirren | |
| Alan Arkin | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) | |
| Javier Bardem | |
| Penelope Cruz | |
| Jeff Bridges | |
| Chistoph Waltz | |
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