1936 Walter Brennan - Come and Get It as "Swan Bostrom"

1937 Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola as Alfred Dreyfus

1938 Walter Brennan - Kentucky as "Peter Goodwin"

1939 Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach as "Doc Boone"

1940 Walter Brennan - The Westerner as "Judge Roy Bean"