Best Actor 1948-1957

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Who was the Best Actor of Oscar's third decade?

1948 - Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
0
No votes
1949 - Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men
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No votes
1950 - William Holden, Sunset Boulevard
1
9%
1951 - Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire
6
55%
1952 - Kirk Douglas, The Bad and the Beautiful
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No votes
1953 - Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity
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No votes
1954 - Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
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No votes
1955 - James Dean, East of Eden
3
27%
1956 - Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life
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No votes
1957 - Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
1
9%
 
Total votes: 11
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Best Actor 1948-1957

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Brando understandably won our polls twice in this decade, but Kirk Douglas?

This was also the decade in which Alec Guinness was at his best and we quite correctly honored him. Olivier, Holden, Clift and Dean were also outstanding choices. For me it's a toss-up between Brando's two performances and Guinness' one. I think I'll go with Guinness, the more consistently fine actor who was superb even in bad films, something Brando never was.
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