Top 25 Academy Award Nominations - Best Actor

Actor	Movie
Clark Gable	It Happened one Night (1934)
James Cagney	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Humphrey Bogart	Casablanca (1943)
Bing Crosby	Going My way (1944)
James Stewart	It’s a  Wonderful Life (1946)
William Powell	Life with Father (1947)
Larry Olivier	Hamlet (1948)
John Wayne	Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Marlon Brando	Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
William Holden	Stalag 17 (1953)
Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront (1954)
Charles Laughton	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Alec Guinness	Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Charlton Heston	Ben Hur (1959)
Paul Newman	The Hustler (1961)
Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady (1964)
Richard Burton	Spy who came in from the cold (1965)
Steve McQueen	The Sand Pebbles (1966)
George c. Scott	Patton (1970)
Gene Hackman	French connection (1971)
Al Pacino	Godfather II (1974)
Robert De Niro	Raging Bull (1980)
James Woods	Salvador (1986)
Tom Hanks	Castaway (2000)
Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote (2006)