BEST ACTOR: The 1950s

I finally pulled together my yearly Best Actor lists for the 1950s. I suppose I have a few blind spots (some Mizoguchi and Naruse here and there, plus Bergman's The Magician and maybe a few other foreign films of note), though this feels pretty comprehensive. My likes and dislikes should be pretty obvious!

1950
Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place
William Holden, Sunset Blvd.
John Huston, The Furies
James Stewart, Harvey
Richard Widmark, Night and the City and Panic in the Streets
06 Marlon Brando, The Men
07 Joel McCrea, Stars in My Crown
08 Dana Andrews, Where the Sidewalk Ends
09 Toshirô Mifune, Rashômon
10 Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride

1951
Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire
Kirk Douglas, Ace in the Hole
John Garfield, He Ran All the Way
Michael Redgrave, The Browning Version
Oskar Werner, Decision Before Dawn
06 Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun
07 Alec Guiness, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Man in the White Suit
08 Dick Powell, The Tall Target
09 Audie Murphy, The Red Badge of Courage
10 Richard Basehart, 14 Hours

1952
Gary Cooper, High Noon
Ralph Meeker, Glory Alley
Serge Reggiani, Casque d'Or
Robert Ryan, On Dangerous Ground
Takashi Shimura, Ikiru
06 James Mason, 5 Fingers
07 Robert Donat, The Magic Box
08 Robert Mitchum, Angel Face and The Lusty Men
09 Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain
10 Arthur Kennedy, The Lusty Men

1953
John Payne, 99 River Street
James Stewart, The Naked Spur
Spencer Tracy, The Actress
Charles Vanel, The Wages of Fear
Richard Widmark, Pickup on South Street
06 William Holden, Stalag 17
07 Vittorio De Sica, The Earrings of Madame de...
08 Charles Boyer, The Earrings of Madame De…
09 Ake Grönberg, Sawdust and Tinsel
10 Masayuki Mori, Ugetsu

1954
Dirk Bogarde, The Sleeping Tiger
Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
Jean Gabin, Touchez pas au Grisbi
Charles Laughton, Hobson's Choice
James Stewart, Rear Window
06 Sô Yamamura, Sound of the Mountain
07 Sterling Hayden, Crime Wave
08 Glenn Ford, Human Desire
09 Anthony Quinn, La Strada
10 Burt Lancaster, Vera Cruz

1955
James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause
Alberto Closas, Death of a Cyclist
Broderick Crawford, Il Bidone
Robert Mitchum, The Night of the Hunter
Spencer Tracy, Bad Day at Black Rock
06 Henry Fonda, Mister Roberts
07 Ralph Meeker, Kiss Me Deadly
08 Fredric March, The Desperate Hours
09 Jean Servais, Rififi
10 Laurence Olivier, Richard III

1956
Dana Andrews, While the City Sleeps
Gary Cooper, Friendly Persuasion
Henry Fonda, The Wrong Man
James Mason, Bigger Than Life
Paul Newman, Somebody Up There Likes Me
06 John Wayne, The Searchers
07 Robert Ryan, The Proud Ones
08 Masahiko Tsugawa, Crazed Fruit
09 François Leterrier, A Man Escaped
10 Sterling Hayden, The Killing

1957
Ben Gazzara, The Strange One
Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd
Charles Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution
Marcello Mastroianni, Le Notte Bianchi
Anthony Perkins, Fear Strikes Out
06 Steve Cochran, Il Grido
07 Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal
08 Victor Sjöström, Wild Strawberries
09 Robert Ryan, Men in War
10 Yves Montrand, The Wide Blue Road

1958
Vince Edwards, Murder by Contract
Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
James Stewart, Vertigo
Spencer Tracy, The Last Hurrah
Richard Widmark, The Law and Jake Wade
06 David Niven, Separate Tables
07 Alec Guiness, The Horse's Mouth
08 Chhabi Biswas, The Music Room
09 Zbigniew Cybulski, Ashes and Diamonds
10 Tony Curtis, The Defiant Ones

1959
Sergei Bondarchuk, Destiny of a Man
Vittorio De Sica, General della Rovere
Laurence Harvey, Room at the Top 
Jean-Pierre Léaud, The 400 Blows
James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder
06 Fredric March, Middle of the Night
07 Harry Belafonte, Odds Against Tomorrow
08 Alec Guiness, Our Man in Havana
09 Jack Lemmon, Some Like it Hot
10 Jean-Louis Trintignant, Violent Summer