Academy Awards: Nominees and Winners-Actor in a Leading Role 1940-1949 * 1940 James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay Connor (winner) o Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania) / A Jewish Barber o Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad o Raymond Massey – Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln o Laurence Olivier – Rebecca as ‘Maxim’ de Winter * 1941 Gary Cooper – Sergeant York as Alvin C. York (winner) o Cary Grant – Penny Serenade as Roger Adams o Walter Huston – The Devil and Daniel Webster as Mr. Scratch o Robert Montgomery – Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe Pendleton o Orson Welles – Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane * 1942 James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan (winner) o Ronald Colman – Random Harvest as Charles Rainier o Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig o Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver o Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper as Howard * 1943 Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller (winner) o Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca as Rick Blaine o Gary Cooper – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan o Walter Pidgeon – Madame Curie as Pierre Curie o Mickey Rooney – The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley * 1944 Bing Crosby – Going My Way as Father Chuck O’Malley (winner) o Charles Boyer – Gaslight as Gregory Anton o Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon o Cary Grant – None but the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott o Alexander Knox – Wilson as Woodrow Wilson * 1945 Ray …
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