| 121 | 1953 | Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity - "Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt" |
| 122 | 1953 | Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity - "Sgt. Milton Warden" |
| 123 | 1954 | Marlon Brando - Rıhtımlar Üzerinde - "Terry Malloy" |
| 124 | 1954 | Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny - Phillip Francis Queeg " |
| 125 | 1954 | Bing Crosby - The Country Girl - "Frank Elgin" |
| 126 | 1954 | James Mason - A Star Is Born - "Norman Maine" |
| 127 | 1954 | Dan O'Herlihy - The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - "Robinson Crusoe" |
| 128 | 1955 | Ernest Borgnine - Marty - "Marty Piletti" |
| 129 | 1955 | James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me - "Martin Snyder" |
| 130 | 1955 | James Dean - East of Eden - "Cal Trask" (posthumously nominated) |
| 131 | 1955 | Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm - "Frankie Machine" |
| 132 | 1955 | Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock - "John J. Macreedy" |
| 133 | 1956 | Yul Brynner - The King and I - "King Mongkut of Siam" |
| 134 | 1956 | James Dean - Devlerin Aşkı - "Jett Rink" (posthumously nominated) |
| 135 | 1956 | Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life - Vincent Van Gogh |
| 136 | 1956 | Rock Hudson - Devlerin Aşkı - "Bick Benedict" |
| 137 | 1956 | Laurence Olivier - Richard III - Richard III of England |
| 138 | 1957 | Alec Guinness - Kwai Köprüsü - "Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson" |
| 139 | 1957 | Marlon Brando - Sayonara - "Major Lloyd 'Ace Garber, USAF" |
| 140 | 1957 | Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain - "Polo Pope" |
| 141 | 1957 | Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution - "Sir Wilfrid Robarts" |
| 142 | 1957 | Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind - "Gino" |
| 143 | 1958 | David Niven - Separate Tables - "Major Angus Pollock" |
| 144 | 1958 | Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones - "John 'Joker' Jackson" |
| 145 | 1958 | Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - "Brick Pollitt" |
| 146 | 1958 | Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones - "Noah Cullen" |
| 147 | 1958 | Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea - "Santiago" |
| 148 | 1959 | Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur - "Judah Ben-Hur" |
| 149 | 1959 | Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top - "Joe Lampton" |
| 150 | 1959 | Jack Lemmon - Bazıları Sıcak Sever - "Jerry/Daphne" |