| 100% | COLMANDOMINGO | 13 | 2024 Best Actor Oscar nominee for portraying civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in "Rustin" (2 wds.) |
| 61% | BRADLEYCOOPER | 13 | 2024 Best Actor Oscar nominee for portraying composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein in "Maestro" (2 wds.) |
| 52% | CILLIANMURPHY | 13 | 2024 Best Actor Oscar winner for portraying Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | DUSTINHOFFMAN | 13 | Best Actor Oscar nominee for playing Benjamin Braddock in 28-Across (2 wds.) |
| 44% | AUSTINBUTLER | 12 | Best Actor Oscar nominee for his portrayal of the "King of Rock and Roll" in the 2022 film "Elvis" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | SIDNEYPOITIER | 13 | 1964 Best Actor Oscar winner for playing Homer Smith in "Lilies of the Field": 2 wds. |
| 42% | GREGORYPECK | 11 | 1963 Best Actor Oscar winner for playing Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird": 2 wds. |
| 42% | MLKJR | 5 | Civil rights leader honored in January, for short: 2 wds. |
| 42% | BRENDANFRASER | 13 | 2023 Best Actor Oscar winner for his role in "The Whale": 2 wds. |
| 41% | REXHARRISON | 11 | 1965 Best Actor Oscar winner for playing Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady": 2 wds. |
| 40% | COLINFARRELL | 12 | Best Actor Oscar nominee for his portrayal of a man who is suddenly cut out of the life of his best friend in the 2022 film "The Banshees of Inisherin" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ALBERTFINNEY | 12 | Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 40% | JAMIEFOXX | 9 | Actor who won an Oscar for portraying Ray Charles in a 2004 biopic: 2 wds. |
| 40% | TOMHANKS | 8 | Best Supporting Actor nominee for 2019's "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood": 2 wds. |
| 40% | CAREYMULLIGAN | 13 | Best Actress Oscar nominee for playing Felicia Montealegre in "Maestro" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ANNETTEBENING | 13 | Best Actress Oscar nominee for playing Diana Nyad in "Nyad" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | BRADPITT | 8 | Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for the 2019 film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood": 2 wds. |
| 39% | OTOOLE | 6 | Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Lion in Winter" |
| 39% | LILYGLADSTONE | 13 | Best Actress Oscar nominee for playing Mollie Kyle in "Killers of the Flower Moon" (2 wds.) |
| 39% | DAVIDOYELOWO | 12 | British-Nigerian actor who played American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in "Selma": 2 wds. |
| 39% | BRYANCRANSTON | 13 | "Trumbo" Best Actor Oscar nominee who voices Chief in 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | DANIELKALUUYA | 13 | "Get Out" Best Actor Oscar nominee who plays Jatemme Manning in "Widows" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | KATHARINEROSS | 13 | Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for playing Elaine Robinson in 28-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | MARLONBRANDO | 12 | "On the Waterfront" actor who won an Oscar for portraying 40-Across in 1972's "The Godfather": 2 wds. |
| 38% | CYNTHIAERIVO | 12 | Nominee for the Best Actress and Best Original Song Oscars for her work in "Harriet": 2 wds. |
| 38% | RUFFALO | 7 | Mark —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Kids Are All Right |
| 38% | BILLMURRAY | 10 | "Lost in Translation" Best Actor Oscar nominee who voices Boss in 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | LIAMNEESON | 10 | "Schindler's List" Best Actor Oscar nominee who plays Harry Rawlins in "Widows" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | GREENBOOK | 9 | Film for which 32-Across won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2019: 2 wds. |