Alternate Best Actor 1954: Results

5. Charles Laughton in Hobson's Choice- Charles Laughton has a fairly simple role but he is consistently amusing in his performance.

Best Scene: Hobson falls down the hole.

4. James Stewart in Rear Window- Stewart manages to provide a realistic portrait who we can easily go along through the sometimes quite seedy world of being a voyeur.

Best Scene: Jeff watches as Lisa breaks into the killer's home. 

3. Ray Milland in Dial M For Murder- Milland gives a strong performance by both bringing to life the fierce some hidden motivation of his murderer, but as well as easily adding an appropriate degree of humor in the role as well.

Best Scene: Tony convinces a man to kill his wife. 

2. Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai- Mifune gives a very big but also a very striking performance of a swordsman driven mad by his past.

Best Scene: Kikuchiyo makes his last stand.

1.James Mason 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Mason gives a great performance of an iconic character by always bringing to life both the wondrous qualities to his portrayal in equal measure with his more violent aspects.

Best Scene: Captain Nemo destroys a ship. 

Overall Rank:

1. Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront
2. James Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
3. Ray Milland in Dial M For Murder
4. James Stewart in Rear Window
5. Alec Guinness in The Detective
6. James Mason in A Star is Born
7. Toshiro Mifune in Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 
8. Takashi Shimura in Seven Samurai 
9. Jean Gabin in Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
10. Anthony Quinn in La Strada
11. Bing Crosby in The Country Girl
12. Sō Yamamura in Sound of the Mountain
13. Van Heflin in The Raid
14. Kirk Douglas in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 
15. James Stewart in The Far Country
16. Dan O'Herlihy in Robinson Crusoe
17. Charles Laughton in Hobson's Choice
18. Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina 
19. James Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story
20. Yoshiaki Hanayagi in Sansho the Bailiff
21. William Holden in Executive Suite
22. George Sanders in Journey to Italy 
23. Neville Brand in Riot in Cell Block 11 
24. Kazou Hasegawa in The Crucified Lovers
25. Jack Lemmon in It Should Happen to You
26. Kenneth More in Doctor in the House
27. Gary Cooper in Vera Cruz
28. John Mills in Hobson's Choice
29. William Holden in Sabrina 
30. Burt Lancaster in Vera Cruz
31. Harry Belafonte in Carmen Jones
32. David Niven Carrington V.C.
33. Jack Lemmon in Phffft
34. Paul Lukas in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 
35. Rock Hudson in Magnificent Obsession
36. Maurice Denham in Animal Farm
37. Sterling Hayden in Johnny Guitar
38. Robert Mitchum in River of No Return 
39. James Whitmore in Them!
40. Dirk Bogarde in Doctor in the House
41. John Wayne in The High and the Mighty
42. Glenn Ford in Human Desire
43. James Arness in Them!
44. Howard Keel in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
45. Gary Merrill in The Black Dakotas
46. Gene Kelly in Brigadoon 
47. Peter Lawford in It Should Happen to You
48. Bing Crosby in White Christmas
49. Danny Kaye in White Christmas
50. Richard Carlson in Creature from the Black Lagoon
51. Richard Denning in Creature from the Black Lagoon
52. Robert Wagner in Broken Lance
53. Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance 
54. Robert Francis in The Caine Mutiny

Next Year: 1937