Academy Awards; Nominees and Winners - Leading Actor 1927-1939

Academy Awards: Nominees and Winners - Actor in a Leading Role 1927-1939

· 1927/1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander and The Way of All Flesh as August Schilling (winner)
o Richard Barthelmess - The Noose as Nickie Elkins and The Patent Leather Kid as Patent Leather Kid

· 1928/1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid (winner)
o George Bancroft - Thunderbolt as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
o Chester Morris - Alibi as Chick Williams (No. 1065)
o Paul Muni - The Valiant as James Dyke
o Lewis Stone - The Patriot as Count Pahlen

· 1930 George Arliss - Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli (winner)
o George Arliss - The Green Goddess as The Raja of Rukh
o Wallace Beery - The Big House as 'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt
o Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond as Pierre Mirande and The Love Parade as Count Alfred Renard
o Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond as Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond and Condemned as Michel
o Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song as Yegor

· 1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe (winner)
o Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page as Walter Burns
o Jackie Cooper - Skippy as Skippy Skinner
o Richard Dix - Cimarron as Yancey Cravat
o Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway as Tony Cavendish

· 1932 Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde and Wallace Beery - The Champ as Champ (tie) (winners)
o Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman as The Actor

· 1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII (winner)
o Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square as Peter Standish
o Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as James Allen

· 1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night as Peter Warne (winner)
o Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini as Alessandro - Duke of Florence
o William Powell - The Thin Man as Nick

· 1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer as Gypo Nolan (winner)
o Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty as Christian
o Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty as Bligh
o Paul Muni - Black Fury
o Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty as Byam

· 1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur as Louis Pasteur (winner)
o Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds
o Walter Huston - Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth
o William Powell - My Man Godfrey as Godfrey
o Spencer Tracy - San Francisco as Father Mullin

· 1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as Manuel (winner)
o Charles Boyer - Conquest as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
o Fredric March - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
o Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall as Danny
o Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola as Emile Zola

· 1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town as Father Flanagan (winner)
o Charles Boyer - Algiers as Pepe le Moko
o James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces as Rocky Sullivan
o Robert Donat - The Citadel as Andrew
o Leslie Howard - Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins

· 1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Mr. Chips (winner)
o Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind as Rhett Butler - a Visitor from Charleston
o Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
o Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran
o James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith

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