Tuesday 14 May 2013

Alternate Best Actor 1975: Results

5. Gene Hackman in Night Moves- Gene Hackman as usual gives a solid performance as a footballer turned private detective who is out of his element, but his best work this year was his heartbreaking reprise of Popeye Doyle in French Connection II.

Best Scene for the French Connection II: Doyle suffers withdrawal.  
4. Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show- Curry gives a delightful entertaining strange performance that is by far the highlight of his film.

Best Scene: "Sweet Transvestite" 
3. Roy Scheider in Jaws- Scheider gives a great reactive performance that amplifies the intensity of his film by being a very human guide and who we can relate to.

Best Scene: Chief Brody sees the Shark attack. 
1. Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King- I find it almost impossible to separate these performances as they both amplify each other through their impeccable chemistry and together they create two marvelous characters that end up both being very entertaining as well as rather heartbreaking as well. As for the year itself I feel like kicking myself for my placement for any one of the top seven performances because I love all of them. I hate putting Hackman as low as he is because I love that performance. This is just a tremendous year and all seven of my top seven would be a worthy winners.

Best Scene: Danny apologizes to Peachy. 
Overall Rank:
  1. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
  2. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon
  3. Gene Hackman in French Connection II  
  4. Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King
  5. Roy Scheider in Jaws  
  6. Giancarlo Giannini in Seven Beauties
  7. Maximilian Schell in The Man in The Glass Booth
  8. Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor 
  9. Richard Dreyfuss in Inserts
  10. Gene Hackman in Bite the Bullet
  11. Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  12. Maxim Munzuk in Dersu Uzala
  13. Gene Hackman in Night Moves
  14. Robert Mitchum in Farewell, My Lovely
  15. Charles Bronson in Hard Times
  16. Jack Nicholson in The Passenger 
  17. Sean Connery in The Wind and the Lion
  18. Jack Lemmon in The Prisoner of Second Avenue 
  19. Glynn Turman in Cooley High
  20. Fabio Testi in That Most Important Thing: Love
  21. Rafael Roco in Manila in The Claws of Light
  22. Woody Allen in Love and Death
  23. William Atherton in The Day of the Locust
  24. Don Johnson in A Boy and His Dog
  25. Warren Beatty in Shampoo
  26. David Hemmings in Deep Red
  27. George C. Scott in The Hindenburg
  28. Steven Keats in Hester Street
  29. Daniel Olbrychski in The Promised Land
  30. Tim McIntire in A Boy and His Dog
  31. James Caan in Rollerball 
  32. James Coburn in Hard Times 
  33. John Wayne in Brannigan
  34. Dharmendra in Sholay
  35. Amitabh Bachchan in Sholay
  36. Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs in Cooley High
  37. Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction
  38. Michael Caine in The Wilby Conspiracy
  39. Yury Solomin in Dersu Uzala
  40. Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys
  41. Victor Lanoux in Cousin Cousine
  42. Sidney Poitier in The Wilby Conspiracy
  43. Ryan O'Neal in Barry Lyndon
  44. John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn
  45. Barry Bostwick in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  46. Kirk Douglas in Once is Not Enough
  47. Paul Hampton in Shivers
  48. Roger Daltry in Tommy
  49. David Carradine in Death Race 2000
  50. James Caan in The Killer Elite
Next Year: 1948 lead

5 comments:

Robert MacFarlane said...

1948 Lead?

Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre
James Stewart in Rope (unless you consider him supporting)
John Wayne and/or Montgomery Clift in Red River
Lamberto Maggiorani in Bicycle Thieves
Orson Welles in Macbeth
Alec Guinness in Oliver Twist (again, unless you consider him supporting)
Takashi Shimura and/or Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel
Ray Milland in The Big Clock

I'm sure there's more, I'm just too lazy to list anymore right now.

Michael Patison said...

For 1948 Lead:
Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madra
Montgomery Clift in Red River
Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours
Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol
Anton Walbrook in The Red Shoes
John Wayne in Red River

Anonymous said...

O hope you do Alec Guinness in Oliver Twist

Vincent said...

I really hope you do John Dall (my win as leading actor in 1948) and Farley Granger in Rope! I consider James Stewart supporting in that film.

Anonymous said...

I consider Hackman's performance in The French Connection II the best of that year overall, just perfect, I can't believe he was overlooked for two perfect performances two years in a row.