1. Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street
2. Van Heflin, Johnny Eager
3. Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives
4. James Dunn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5. Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way
6. Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. Dean Jagger, Three O’Clock High
8. Donald Crisp, How Green Was My Valley
9. Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier
10. Walter Brennan, The Westerner

This article is part of a special year-long series of anecdotes, reflections and thoughts about the Academy Awards.