Alternate Best Actor 1960: Results

5. Robert Mitchum in The Sundowners- Mitchum gives as usual a good performance that always stays very light but fitting to the film.

Best Scene:  Early romantic scene between Paddy and his wife.

4. Max von Sydow in The Virgin Spring- Sydow although takes awhile to have his moment is quite powerful in his depiction of a father's grief and vengeance.

Best Scene: Tore's final prayer. 

3. Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita- Mastroianni acts as an effective guide as for the audience through the decadence in Rome, as well as gives an effective portrait of a man slowly giving in to it.

Best Scene:  The "orgy".

2. Albert Finney in Saturday Morning and Sunday Night- Finney gives a raw and powerful performance as a frustrated young man who couldn't care less of societal expectations.

Best Scene: "Dead from the neck down"

1. Anthony Perkins in Psycho- Congratulations to both Michael Patison and Maciej for their correct predictions please feel free to name a year and a performance. This year was incredibly close for me not between Finney and Perkins, but between Perkins and Olivier. Perkins after all gives an outstanding performance as Norman Bates being truly terrifying in his chilling portrait of a deranged man. I still will have Olivier remain the winner for the moment since I really need to watch the Entertainer again to be sure because the two are definitely close. It would be easy to hand Perkins the win since he is amazing, but I could not cheat my favorite actor like that.

Best Scene: "We all go a little mad sometimes" 

Overall Rank:

1. Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer
2. Anthony Perkins in Psycho
3. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
4. Richard Attenborough in The Angry Silence
5. Toshiro Mifune in The Bad Sleep Well
6. Renato Salvatori in Rocco and His Brothers
7. Jack Lemmon in The Apartment
8. Albert Finney in Saturday Morning and Sunday Night
9. Alec Guinness in Tunes of Glory
10. Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita
11. Alain Delon in Purple Noon
12. Karlheinz Böhm in Peeping Tom
13. Peter Finch in The Trials of Oscar Wilde
14. Soumitra Chatterjee in Devi
15. Montgomery Clift in Wild River 
16. Jack Hawkins in The League of Gentlemen
17. Kirk Douglas in Spartacus  
18. Charles Aznavour in Shoot the Piano Player
    
19. Gabriele Ferzetti in L'Avventura
    
20. Alain Delon in Rocco and His Brothers
21. Woody Strode in Sergeant Rutledge
22. Pierre Brasseur in Eyes Without a Face
23. Max von Sydow in The Virgin Spring
24. Dean Stockwell in Sons and Lovers 
25. Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde 
26. George Sanders in The Village of the Damned
27. James Cagney in The Gallant Hours
28. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind
29. Yul Brynner in The Magnificent Seven
30. Robert Mitchum in The Sundowners
31. George Hamilton in Home from the Hill
32. Jerry Lewis in The Bellboy 
33. Mel Welles in The Little Shop of Horrors
    
34. Rod Taylor in The Time Machine 
    
35. Jonathan Haze in The Little Shop of Horrors
    
36. Jerry Lewis in Cinderfella
37. Burt Lancaster in The Unforgiven 
38. Paul Newman in Exodus
39. Jean Paul Belmondo in Breathless
40. Dirk Bogarde in Song Without End  
41. Jules Dassin in Never on Sunday 
42. Frank Sinatra in Ocean's Eleven   
43. John Richardson in Black Sunday
44. Jeffrey Hunter in Sergeant Rutledge
45. Stuart Whitman in Murder Inc.
46. Tommy Kirk in Swiss Family Robinson
47. James MacArthur in Swiss Family Robinson
48. Fredric March in Inherit The Wind
49. Ralph Bellamy in Sunrise At Campobello
50. Ward Ramsey in Dinosaurus!

Next Year: 2003