| MARLONBRANDO | American actor who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1954 and 1972 (6,6) |
| DANDRIDGE | Dorothy _, African-american performer nominated for the Best Actress Oscar in 1954 (9) |
| GEOFFREYRUSH | 2012's award was won by this thespian, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1997 for "Shine" |
| EMILJENNINGS | German actor who won the first Best Actor Oscar in 1929 (4,8) |
| ALECGUINNESS | He won the Best Actor Oscar for The Bridge On The River Kwai (4,8) |
| COLOROFMONEY | 'The --', film for which Paul Newman won Best Actor Oscar in 1986 (5,2,5) |
| WALLACEBEERY | American actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for The Champ (7,5) |
| ALEC | Guinness who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1958 |
| SPENCERTRACY | 20th-Century American actor who won two consecutive Best Actor Oscars, for Captains Courageous and Boys Town (7,5) |
| MARTINLANDAU | American actor who won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood |
| THEFATHER | Film for which Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar in 2021 (3,6) |
| PETERFINCH | He posthumously won the Best Actor Oscar in 1977 for "Network" |
| BINGCROSBY | Singer and actor who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Father Chuck O'Malley in the film Going My Way (4,6) |
| ALPACINO | Four-time nominee for the Best Actor Oscar in the 1970s |
| CASTINGDOUBT | "Is he really the best actor for the role?" |
| TOMHANKS | He won the Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump (3,5) |
| ERNESTBORGNINE | ____ won the best actor Oscar for his role in Marty (1955) |
| LEEMARVIN | He won the Best Actor Oscar for playing both Kid Shelleen and his desperado twin |
| WHALE | Movie for which Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor Oscar last night (with "The") |
| PAULING | Linus, U.S. chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962 (7) |