Monday 7 October 2013

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1978: Results

6. Sam Shepard in Days of Heaven- Sam Shepard doesn't completely escape the limitations put upon him by Terrence Malick's style but he still gives an intriguing performances within these confines.

Best Scene: The farmer figures out Bill and Abby.
5. John Vernon in Animal House- Vernon gives a hilarious performance through his deadly intensity as a particularly hateful Dean.

Best Scene: Dean Wormer tells the members of Delta their GPAs.
4. Harry Dean Stanton in Straight Time- Stanton has a limited role, but steals the film with his portrayal of a down to earth professional criminal.

Best Scene: Max and Jerry hold up a bank.
3. John Cazale in The Deer Hunter- John Cazale in his final performance gives an effective portrayal of the pathetic member of the group of friends.

Best Scene: Stan is forced to play a game of Russian roulette by Michael.
2. John Savage in The Deer Hunter- John Savage gives a moving portrayal of the most easy going member of the group of friends who has to bear terrible trauma from his time in the Vietnam war.

Best Scene: Steven is unable to bear the idea of playing Russian roulette.
1. Gene Hackman in Superman- Good Prediction Michael Patison, RatedRStar, Lezlie. Gene Hackman gives a great performance as always this time being absolutely hilarious with just the right amount of menace thrown in. 

Best Scene: Lex Luthor reveals the Kryptonite.
Overall Rank:
  1. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter
  2. Gene Hackman in Superman
  3. John Savage in The Deer Hunter
  4. Yaphet Kotto in Blue Collar
  5. John Cazale in The Deer Hunter
  6. Harry Dean Stanton in Straight Time 
  7. Michael Graham Cox in Watership Down
  8. John Vernon in Animal House
  9. Christopher Plummer in The Silent Partner
  10. James Mason in The Boys From Brazil
  11. Richard Farnsworth in Comes a Horseman
  12. Barry Bostwick in Movie Movie
  13. Sam Shepard in Days of Heaven
  14. Jean Carmet in Violette Nozière
  15. Ned Beatty in Superman 
  16. James Mason in Heaven Can Wait
  17. John Hurt in Midnight Express
  18. Scott Reineger in Dawn of the Dead
  19. Bruce Dern in The Driver
  20. Dudley Moore in Foul Play
  21. Robert Morley in Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
  22. George Dzundza in The Deer Hunter
  23. Michael V. Gazzo in Fingers
  24. Peter Carroll in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
  25. M. Emmet Walsh in Straight Time
  26. John Hurt in The Lord of the Rings 
  27. Bruce Dern in Coming Home
  28. Alan Bates in An Unmarried Woman
  29. Warren Oates in The Brink's Job
  30. Edward Fox in Force 10 From Navarone
  31. Glenn Ford in Superman 
  32. Jackie Cooper in Superman
  33. Marc McClure in I Wanna Hold Your Hand
  34. Jack Warden in Heaven Can Wait
  35. Jeff Goldblum in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  36. Ernest Borgnine in Convoy
  37. Jason Robards in Comes a Horseman
  38. John Belushi in Animal House   
  39. Paul Sorvino in The Brink's Job
  40. Harry Andrews in Watership Down
  41. Burgess Meredith in Magic
  42. Marlon Brando in Superman
  43. Stephen Furst in Animal House 
  44. E.G. Marshall in Interiors 
  45. Bobby Di Cicco in I Wanna Hold Your Hand
  46. Chuck Aspegren in The Deer Hunter 
  47. Richard Briers in Watership Down 
  48. Terrence Stamp in Superman 
  49. Roy Kinnear in Watership Down 
  50. Zero Mostel in Watership Down 
  51. Burgess Meredith in Foul Play 
  52. Michael Douglas in Coma
  53. David Niven in Death on the Nile
  54. Buck Henry in Heaven Can Wait
  55. Joss Ackland in Watership Down 
  56. Brian Dennehy in Foul Play
  57. Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile  
  58. Brad Dourif in Eyes of Laura Mars
  59. Halvar Bjork in Autumn Sonata
  60. Bruce McGill in Animal House 
  61. Seymour Cassel in Convoy
  62. Leonard Nimoy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  63. Randy Quaid in Midnight Express  
  64. Christopher Lloyd in Goin' South
  65. Vittorio Gassman in A Wedding 
  66. Leo McKern in Damien: Omen II
  67. James Stewart in The Big Sleep
  68. Allen Garfield in The Brink's Job
  69. Kevin McCarthy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers  
  70. Robert J. Wilke in Days of Heaven 
  71. Richard Boone in The Big Sleep
  72. F. Murray Abraham in The Big Fix
  73. Rene Auberjonis in Eyes of Laura Mars
  74. Lance Henriksen in Damien: Omen II
  75. Kevin Bacon in Animal House
  76. Eli Wallach in Movie Movie
  77. Richard Widmark in Coma
  78. Sid Caesar in Grease
  79. Charles Grodin in Heaven Can Wait  
  80. John Cassavettes in The Fury
  81. Dennis Christopher in A Wedding
  82. Bruno Ganz in The Boys From Brazil 
  83. Jean-Pierre Cassel in The Meetings of Anna
  84. Red Buttons in Movie Movie 
  85. Charles Durning in An Enemy of the People
  86. Donald Sutherland in Animal House
  87. Denholm Elliot in The Boys From Brazil 
  88. Paul Dooley in A Wedding
  89. Charles Durning in The Fury
  90. Gary Busey in Straight Time 
  91. Jack Thompson in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 
  92. John Lithgow in The Big Fix
  93. Richard Jordan in Interiors
  94. Carl Weathers in From 10 From Navarone
  95. Ed Lauter in Magic 
  96. Tom Hulce in Animal House  
  97. Sam Waterston in Interiors
  98. Dai Bradley in The Absolution
  99. Murray Hamilton in Jaws 2
  100. Jack Warden in Death on the Nile
  101. Marc McClure in Superman 
  102. Charles Cyphers in Halloween
  103. Trevor Howard in Superman
  104. Michael Murphy in An Unmarried Woman
  105. Raul Julia in Eyes of Laura Mars 
  106. Billy Connolly in Absolution
  107. Paul Sorvino in Bloodbrothers
  108. William Squire in The Lord of the Rings
  109. George Kennedy in Death on the Nile
  110. Robert Carradine in Coming Home 
  111. Jon Finch in Death on the Nile 
  112. Eddie Deezen in I Wanna Hold Your Hand
  113. Oliver Reed in The Big Sleep
  114. James Widdoes in Animal House
  115. Harry Andrews in Superman
  116. Fritz Weaver in The Big Fix
  117. Brian Andrews in Halloween
  118. Charles Martin Smith in The Buddy Holly Story  
  119. Tony Lo Bianco in Bloodbrothers
  120. Jeff Conaway in Grease
  121. Steven Guttenberg in The Boys From Brazil
  122. Don Stroud in The Buddy Holly Story 
  123. John Houseman in The Cheap Detectvive
  124. John Belushi in Goin' South 
  125. Jan Michael Vincent in Hooper
  126. Peter Riegert in Animal House
  127. Tim Matheson in Animal House
  128. Edward Fox in The Big Sleep
  129. Joseph Mascolo in Jaws 2
  130. Mark Metcalf in Animal House 
  131. Jeffrey Kramer in Jaws 2
  132. James Daughton in Animal House
  133. Barry Pearl in Grease 
  134. James Coco in The Cheap Detective
  135. Don Deluise in The Cheap Detective
  136. Richard Kiel in Force 10 from Navarone
  137. Michael Tucci in Grease
  138. Michael Scholes in The Lord of the Rings
  139. Andrew Stevens in The Fury
Next Year: 1931 lead

22 comments:

RatedRStar said...

Louis there is like only one line up for 1931, but boy is it legendary.

Peter Lorre - M
Edward G Robinson - Little Caesar
Bela Lugosi - Dracula
Boris Karloff - Frankenstein
Charlie Chaplin - City Lights
James Cagney - Public Enemy

RatedRStar said...

and ohh what should I go for, Claude Rains.. A Hong Kong film performance perhaps, ill let you know soon what ive chosen.

Michael McCarthy said...

^I second all of these

Anonymous said...

So I guess I'm the only one who thinks Lorre is supporting in M?

Anonymous said...

@RatedRStar Why don't you choose someone else for once instead of Claude Rains and Hong Kong performances all the time, is that all you like?

JamDenTel said...

A touch off-topic, but when you do 1978 Lead, I do hope you do Gregory Peck for Boys from Brazil. He got the Globe nom and I think he deserved the Oscar nom more than Olivier.

Louis Morgan said...

....I just did 78 lead.

Psifonian said...

1. Peter Lorre, M
2. Edward G. Robinson, Little Caesar
3. Charlie Chaplin, City Lights
4. James Cagney, The Public Enemy
5. Bela Lugosi, Dracula



RatedRStar said...

Louis can I ask you something =)

Louis Morgan said...

Sure.

RatedRStar said...

I have 2 trailers here, since the performance im choosing comes from 1998 best actor, but I honestly don't know who to choose out of Anthony Wong and Tony Leung Chiu Wai from these films, could you check these 2 trailers out and tell me which one you would rather watch.

The Longest Nite = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nd_5T-n9Fs

Beast Cops = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvI8PyDKjxc

RatedRStar said...

their both up their with Hard Boiled and Infernal Affairs as Hong Kongs finest and most iconic.

Louis Morgan said...

I suppose the Longest Nite.

Mark said...

Louis, would you say your three favorite actors are Laurence Olivier, Gene Hackman, and Robert Shaw? Or at least three out of five?

RatedRStar said...

Tony Leung Chiu Wai in The Longest Nite it is then.

Louis Morgan said...

Mark: Those are three of them, Alec Guinness and Toshiro Mifune would fill out the five.

Anonymous said...

Do you still rank James Mason in your top 10 Louis?

Louis Morgan said...

He and Robert Duvall would be my six and seven.

Michael Patison said...

My suggestions for 1931 Lead are:
Actually, I have absolutely nothing to add to RatedRStar.


As for my request, I'll go for Michael Caine in Zulu for 1964. I'm having trouble placing him in a category, however, I have him as lead but borderline supporting. He and Stanley Baker are the two main characters, but, as I recall, Caine has less screentime out of the two. Whatever, I guess Lead, although if you or several others say Supporting then go with that.

Louis Morgan said...

I think I would put him in lead although he is on the border.

Michael McCarthy said...

The Champ technically came out in 1931, are you going to review Jackie Cooper here?

Louis Morgan said...

No, as I really don't consider his performance particularly good and I was really grasping at straws when I listed him originally.