Statistics for 1950s Oscar Best Actor Nominees

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Movie	Actor	% Correct
A Streetcar Named Desire; Viva Zapata!; Julius Caesar; On the Waterfront; Sayonara	Marlon Brando	95%
The African Queen; The Caine Mutiny	Humphrey Bogart	90%
High Noon	Gary Cooper	78%
The King and I	Yul Brynner	77%
East of Eden; Giant	James Dean	76%
The Lavender Hill Mob; The Bridge on the River Kwai	Alec Guinness	73%
Richard III	Laurence Olivier	69%
Harvey	James Stewart	68%
From Here to Eternity	Burt Lancaster	67%
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Paul Newman	65%
Father of the Bride; Bad Day at Black Rock; The Old Man and the Sea	Spencer Tracy	62%
The Man with the Golden Arm	Frank Sinatra	60%
Marty	Ernest Borgnine	58%
The Robe	Richard Burton	58%
Sunset Boulevard; Stalag 17	William Holden	58%
Sands of Iwo Jima	John Wayne	56%
The Defiant Ones	Sidney Poitier	53%
Separate Tables	David Niven	52%
Twelve O'Clock High	Gregory Peck	52%
Champion; The Bad and the Beautiful; Lust for Life	Kirk Douglas	52%
A Place in the Sun; From Here to Eternity	Montgomery Clift	51%
Giant	Rock Hudson	49%
The Defiant Ones	Tony Curtis	45%
A Star Is Born	James Mason	42%
Cyrano de Bergerac; Moulin Rouge	José Ferrer	42%
The Country Girl	Bing Crosby	41%
Witness for the Prosecution	Charles Laughton	40%
Love Me or Leave Me	James Cagney	36%
All the King's Men	Broderick Crawford	35%
Death of a Salesman	Fredric March	34%
Wild Is the Wind	Anthony Quinn	30%
A Hatful of Rain	Anthony Franciosa	16%
Bright Victory	Arthur Kennedy	15%
The Hasty Heart	Richard Todd	15%
Robinson Crusoe	Dan O'Herlihy	13%
The Magnificent Yankee	Louis Calhern	6%