1941 Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley as "Gwilym Morgan"

1942 Van Heflin - Johnny Eager as "Jeff Hartnett"

From 1943 winners received statuettes like everybody else.

1943 Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier as "Benjamin Dingle"

1944 Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way as "Father Fitzgibbon"

1945 James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn as "Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush"

1946 Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives as "Homer Parrish"

1947 Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street as "Kris Kringle"

1948 Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as "Howard"

1949 Dean Jagger- Twelve O'Clock High as "Maj. Harvey Stovall"

1950 George Sanders - All About Eve as "Addison De Witt"