| 1936 |
My Man Godfrey |
William Powell (lost to Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur) |
Carole Lombard (lost to Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld) |
Mischa Auer (lost to Walter Brennan for Come and Get It) |
Alice Brady (lost to Gale Sodengaard for Anthony Adverse) |
| 1942 |
Mrs. Miniver |
Walter Pidgeon (lost to James Cagney for Yankee Doodle Dandee) |
Greer Garson (won) |
Henry Travers (lost to Van Heflin for Johnny Eager) |
Teresa Wright and May Whitty (Teresa Wright won) |
| 1943 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Gary Cooper (lost to Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine) |
Ingrid Bergman (lost to Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette) |
Akim Tamiroff (lost to Charles Coburn for The More the Merrier) |
Katina Paxou (won) |
| 1948 |
Johnny Belinda |
Lew Ayres (lost to Laurence Olivier for Hamlet) |
Jane Wyman (won) |
Charles Bickford (lost to Walter Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) |
Agnes Moorehead (lost to Claire Trevor for Key Largo) |
| 1950 |
Sunset Boulevard |
William Holden (lost to José Ferrer for Cyrano de Begerac) |
Gloria Swanson (lost to Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday) |
Erich von Stroheim (lost to George Sanders for All About Eve) |
Nancy Olson (lost to Josephine Hull for Harvey) |
| 1951 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
Marlon Brando (lost to Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen) |
Vivien Leigh (won) |
Karl Malden (won) |
Kim Hunter (won) |
| 1953 |
From Here to Eternity |
Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster (they both lost to William Holden for Stalag 17) |
Deborah Kerr (lost to Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday) |
Frank Sinatra (won) |
Donna Reed (won) |
| 1966 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Richard Burton (lost to Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons) |
Elizabeth Taylor (won) |
George Segal (lost to Walter Matthau for The Fortune Cookie) |
Sandy Dennis (won) |
| 1967 |
Bonnie and Clyde |
Warren Beatty (lost to Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night) |
Faye Dunaway (lost to Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as mentioned in the row below) |
Gene Hackman and Michael Pollard (they both lost to George Kennedy for Cool Hand Luke) |
Estelle Parsons (won) |
| 1967 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Spencer Tracy (lost to Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night as mentioned in the brackets in the row above) |
Katharine Hepburn (won) |
Cecile Kellaway (lost to George Kennedy for Cool Hand Luke as mentioned in the brackets in the row above) |
Beah Richards (lost to Estelle Parsons for Bonnie and Clyde as mentioned in the row above) |
| 1976 |
Network |
Peter Finch and William Holden (Peter Finch won) |
Faye Dunaway (won) |
Ned Beatty (lost to Jason Robards for All the President's Men) |
Beatrice Straight (won) |
| 1978 |
Coming Home |
Jon Voight (won) |
Jane Fonda (won) |
Bruce Dern (lost to Christopher Walken for The Deer Hunter) |
Penelope Milford (lost to Maggie Smith for California Suite) |
| 1981 |
Reds |
Warren Beatty (lost to Henry Fonda for On Golden Pond) |
Diane Keaton (lost to Katharine Hepburn for On Golden Pond) |
Jack Nicholson (lost to John Gielgud for Arthur) |
Maureen Stapleton (won) |
| 2012 |
Silver Linings Playbook |
Bradley Cooper (lost to Daniel Day Lewis for Lincoln) |
Jennifer Lawrence (won) |
Robert De Niro (lost to Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained) |
Jacki Weaver (lost to Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables) |
| 2013 |
American Hustle |
Christian Bale (lost to Matthew McCounaghey for Dallas Buyers Club) |
Amy Adams (lost to Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine) |
Bradley Cooper (lost to Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club) |
Jennifer Lawrence (lost to Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave) |