Thursday 16 September 2010

Best Actor 1955: Results

5. Frank Sinatra in The Man with Golden Arm- Sinatra I will admit tries hard to do a good job here, but he never really succeeds. It is a challenging role which he does not meet the challenge.
4. James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me- This is not a challenging role really, and Cagney plays it as well as possible. He is properly mean as the rather simple gangster, it is not much of a character but Cagney does a fine job with it.
3. James Dean in East of Eden- Mr. Mannerisms himself certainly has a lot of mannerism in his fairly over the top performance, now I probably would not let anyone else get away with a performance like this but something about Dean and the character of Cal make it work.
2. Spencer Tracy in A Bad Day at Black- Probably his best work, Tracy is brilliant here in a completely understated role. He has a magnetic presence in this film, and somehow controls the scenes even though he only ever raises his voice once.
1. Ernest Borgnine in Marty- Borgnine is just brilliant as Marty. He gives a very realistic and heartfelt of performance. He is brilliant at showing all of who Marty his from his frustrations, to the real joy he has when he finally finds love. Simply a great performance.
Deserving Performances:
Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter

6 comments:

Brandon said...

Interesting stuff!

I haven't seen Marty as a whole, but Borgnine does seem to be a deserving winner!

Fritz said...

Nice work! I've forgotten how much you like Borgnine. Where is he in your ranking of all winners?

Louis Morgan said...

Thanks Fritz.
Borgnine had been in my top ten.

dinasztie said...

Great job. I'm really interested in Spencer Tracy now. :)

joe burns said...

Great job!

Louis Morgan said...

Dinasztie: Thanks. You should really watch it.

Joe: Thanks.