Alternate Best Actor 1980: Results

5. Anthony Hopkins in The Elephant Man- Hopkins gives a good performance making the most out of his relatively simple character and bringing to life the complexities of the character where they exist.

Best Scene: Treves first sees the Elephant Man.

4. Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant- Thompson has a simple but showy role bringing the emotional punch to his courtroom scenes.

Best Scene:  Major J.F. Thomas's summation.

3. Donald Sutherland in Ordinary People- Sutherland gives an understated and moving turn showing the attempt of a man to hold his life as well as his family together after a terrible tragedy.

Best Scene: Calvin confronts Beth.

2. Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant- Woodward gives an excellent performance showing a courageous gentlemanly soldier, whose capable of horrible deeds.

Best Scene: Morant tells the court of rule 303.

1.Tatsuya Nakadai in Kagemusha- Nakadai gives an amazing performance playing two characters brilliantly one a cunning war lord, and the other an impersonator who has a difficult journey of pretending to be the other man. I am going to face all the wraith of meddling with the grand scheme of things and go my own way this year altogether. I have a confession to make which is watching Ordinary People again really made me lose a lot of my enthusiasm for Timothy Hutton's performance. I still think he is great, but actually watching it this time Donald Sutherland left the bigger impression on me. As for Robert De Niro I do believe his performance is tremendous but its never been a performance that I love. Therefore my very personal win goes to Tatsuya Nakadai.

Best Scene: The Lord and Kagemusha meet for the first time. 

Overall Rank:

1. John Hurt in The Elephant Man
2. Tatsuya Nakadai in Kagemusha
3. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
4. Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant
5. Donald Sutherland in Ordinary People
6. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People
7. Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant
8. Lee Marvin in The Big Red One 
   
9. Anthony Hopkins in The Elephant Man
10. Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City
11. John Savage in Inside Moves
12. Ken Takakura in A Distant Cry of Spring
    
13. Anthony Quinn in Lion in the Desert
14. Naseeruddin Shah in Sparsh
15. George C. Scott in Changeling
16. Kurt Russell in Used Cars
    
17. Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing
18. Tommy Lee Jones in Coal Miner's Daughter 
19. Kris Kristofferson in Heaven's Gate
    
20. William Hurt in Altered States 
21. Hector Alterio in El Nido 
22. Peter Andorai in Confidence
23. Hidetaka Yoshioka in A Distant Cry of Spring
24. Gerard Depardieu in The Last Metro
    
25. Paul Le Mat in Melvin and Howard  
    
26. Gerard Depardieu in Mon Oncle d'Amerique
    
27. Mark Hamill in The Empire Strikes Back 
28. Brinsley Forde in Babylon
    
29. John Travolta in Urban Cowboy 
30. Walter Matthau in Hopscotch
    
31. Ray Sharkey in The Idolmaker 
32. Marcello Mastroianni in City of Women
33. Robert Redford in Brubaker
34. Stacy Keach in The Ninth Configuration
    
35. Christopher Reeve in Superman II   
36. Gerard Depardieu in Loulou
    
37. Nicola Zarbo in Palermo or Wolfsburg
    
38. Andrzej Seweryn in The Orchestra Conductor
39. Richard Gere in American Gigolo
40. Richard Dreyfuss in The Competition
    
41. John Belushi in The Blues Brothers
42. Al Pacino in Cruising
43. Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time
    
44. Jack Nicholson in The Shining    
45. Woody Allen in Stardust Memories
    
46. George C. Scott in The Formula 
47. Hans van Tongeren in Spetters
48. Maarten Spanjer in Spetters
49. Toon Agterberg in Spetters
    
50. Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers
51. Steve Railsback in The Stunt Man
52. Robert Hays in Airplane
53. Omero Antonutti in Alexander the Great
    
54. Robin Williams in Popeye
55. Sam J. Jones in Flash Gordon
56. Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit II
57. Jack Lemmon in Tribute 
58. Michael O'Keefe in Caddyshack 
59. Tom Atkins in The Fog
    
60. Leigh McCloskey in Inferno 
61. Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer
    
62. Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon
    

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