Best Male Lead

Emil Jannings emerges the first ordinand For The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command Warner Baxter warrants the back-up honour For warning those backstairs In old Arizona Arliss as Disraeli is quite parlous really Barrymore with A Free Soul parries more freely Frederick March as Jekyll and Hyde And Wallace Beery in The Champ tied Laughton slaughtered Henry 8 For Gable It Happened One Night too late Victor McLaglen A victim in raglan Is The Informer Paul Muni Somewhat puny As Louis Pasteur Tracey Courageously Captains Boy's Town Donat doesn’t let Mr Chips down Stewart’s Story is set in Philadelphee Cooper’s Sergeant York is doing fine Cagney’s cagy as a Yankee Doodle Dandy Paul Lukas palookas a Watch on the Rhine Crosby’s Going My Way Milland’s Weekend is Lost March Lives The Best Years Colman’s Life Doubles the cost Olivier makes Hamlet live again For Broderick Crawford in All The King’s Men Jose Ferrer knows Cyrano Bogart is a braggart in The African Queen Cooper at High Noon has a cappuccino Holden holds still in Stalag 17 Brando grunts On the Waterfront Borgnine’s smart As Marty Brynner, Yul Reveals his skull In The King and I And Alec Guinness Shows finesse Bridging the River Kwai Niven’s Table's Separate Heston drives Ben Hur’s chari-ate  Lancaster’s Elmer Gantry healed Max Schell’s Judgement at Nuremberg Peck tries To Kill a Mockingbirg Poitier picks Lilies of the Field Harrison’s Fair Lady and Marvin’s Cat Ballou Think Paul Scofield’s an All Seasons Man And Steiger on a Hot Night an’ Cliff Robertson’s Charly can See The Duke’s True Grit come shining through George C Scott sees the Patton anew But likes Hackman’s Connection best Godfather Brando could come through And Save the Tiger with Lemmon zest Carney, Harry and Tonto flew Nicholson Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Finch furiously Fights the Network Dreyfus fussily Refuses work Saying 'Goodbye Girl, I need a rest' Jon Voight is Coming Home lustin’ To find Kramer fighting Dustin De Niro’s Raging Bull throws The Golden Pond at Fonda Ben Kingsley’s Gandhi shows Tender Mercies to Duvall F Murray Abraham in Amadeus has time to ponder Why The Kiss of the Spider Woman Should Hurt like hell Newman’s Colour of Money ran Mike Douglas out of Wall Street 'It’s a dRain, Man,' Says Hoffman 'Day-Lewis has two Left Feet' Jeremy Irons has a Reversal of Fortune Hopkins eats in Silence, a Lamb chop (chump) Pacino revels in the Scent of a Woman Hanks in Philadelphia fetters Forrest Gump Nicholas Cage is Leaving Las Vegas Rush outShines Nicholson, As Good As he can be To Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful and joyous Spacey spaces out on American Beauty Crowe’s Gladiator has A Training Day in Washington Adrien Brody watches The Pianist pashing on Sean Penn’s egotistical On a River, Mystical Jamie Foxx looks for a Gamma-Ray While P.S. Hoffman channels Cap-otay And I qu-otay Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland 'Day-Lewis, There Will be Blood' After the flood Of Milk from Sean Penn Jeff Bridges has a Crazy Heart Trying to follow Firth’s King’s Speech When Jean Dujardin an Artist Ties to reach Day-Lewis in a Lincoln And Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buying The Theory of Everything For Redmayne who’s still trying To find DiCaprio’s Revenant And Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea Sees Gary Oldman’s Darkest Hour Is Rami Malek’s Bohemian Rhapsody Joaquin Phoenix is a Joker Anthony Hopkins is NOT his Father While Will Smith has King Richard Going much further Than Fraser in The Whale Or Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer Adrien Brody is a BrutalistAnd Michael B Jordan joins the winnersIn SinnersTo complete this listFor now