My Best Actor Nominees - The 1930s

1930:
Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Wallace Beery (The Big House)
Lon Chaney (The Unholy Three)
*Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway)
Groucho Marx (Animal Crackers)

1931:
James Cagney (The Puplic Enemy)
Charles Chaplin (City Lights)
*Peter Lorre (M)
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar; Five Star Final)

1932:
Charles Laughton (Island of Lost Souls)
*Paul Muni (Scarface; I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)
William Powell (One Way Passage)
Michel Simon (Boudu Saved from Drowning)
Lee...