1958 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Winner and Nominees

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Alec Guinness

British POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies’ plans to destroy it.

A Hatful of Rain

Anthony Franciosa

Sayonara

Marlon Brando

Wild Is the Wind

Anthony Quinn

Witness for the Prosecution

Charles Laughton