Best '50s Actors Who Didn't Win the Oscar

1 Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar

2 Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity

3 Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm

4 Laurence Olivier - Richard III

5 Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

6 James Stewart - Harvey

7 Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind

8 Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful

9 Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun

10 Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top

The Contenders

11 Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny

12 William Holden - Sunset Boulevard

13 James Mason - A Star is Born

14 James Dean - East of Eden

15 Rock Hudson - Giant

16 Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man

17 Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones

18 Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob

19 Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire

20 Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee

21 Jose Ferrer - Moulin Rouge

22 Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory

23 Dan O'Herlihy - Robinson Crusoe

24 James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me

25 Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain