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Which of this year's nominees for the Best Actor Academy Award do you think should take home the Oscar?

Check out below the interviews and clips of each nominated performance; then, vote in our poll at the end of this article!

Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"

The star of "Breaking Bad" earned his first Academy Award nomination for his performance as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted by Hollywood studios in the 1950s for having refused to name names to the House Un-American Activities Committee's hunt for Communists in the film industry. He continued to work anonymously, and even saw two of his scripts, credited to his pseudonyms, win Academy Awards.

"It was a dark, dark period in not just Hollywood history but in American history," Cranston told Variety in explaining why he decided to play "such a flamboyant, dramatic man.

"The story was just so big and so great. The jeopardy of losing your First Amendment rights under the pressure and penalty of imprisonment for no crime committed, and these men went to prison for years, it was so compelling to me and I had to do it.

"John McNamara's script then backed up that story http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2016/02/26/the-oscars-social-media-and-chocolate-diamonds-3-crucial-lessons/2/