Alternate Best Actor 1965: Results

5. Michael Caine in The Ipcress File- Caine uses his unique screen presence here to make Harry Palmer a down to earth, and very likable hero.

Best Scene: Palmer is tortured. (The scenes are dated but Caine's performance is not.)

4. Omar Sharif in Doctor Zhivago-This really is not the usual performance for an epic, but Sharif makes the most of his character and successfully carries the film.

Best Scene: Zhivago meets with Strelnikov.

3. Lee Van Cleef in For A Few Dollars More-  It is a performance of quiet simplicity, and in this simplicity is where the incredible strength of this performance lies.

Best Scene: The final duel.

2. Sean Connery in The Hill- This is an excellent showcase of Connery's talent as he not only utilizes his more commonly found command of the screen, but as well effectively shows us that he is fully capable of creating an emotionally resonate performance.

Best Scene: Roberts confronts Major Wilson.

1. Terence Stamp in The Collector-This is a great performance by Stamp as both a humane portrait of a lonely man, but at the same time a convincing portrayal of a man who seems to prefer the dead over the living. This is again an incredible year, and again Stamp wins for now but Connery, Steiger, and Burton are not far behind.

Best Scene: Miranda tries to seduce Freddie.

Overall Rank:

1. Terence Stamp in The Collector
2. Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From The Cold
3. Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker
4. Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight
5. Sean Connery in The Hill
6. Jozef Kroner in The Shop on Main Street
7. Lee Van Cleef in For A Few Dollars More
8. Omar Sharif in Doctor Zhivago
9. Oskar Werner in Ship of Fools 
10. Toshiro Mifune in Samurai Assassin
11. Sidney Poitier in A Patch of Blue
12. James Stewart in Shenandoah
13. Clint Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More  
14. Michael Caine in The Ipcress File
15. Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express
16. James Fox in King Rat 
17. John Wayne in The Sons of Katie Elder
18. Keith Baxter in Chimes at Midnight
19. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou  
20. Walmar Chagas in São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima
21. John Wayne in In Harm's Way
22. James Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix
23. George Segal in King Rat 
24. Richard Widmark in The Bedford Incident
25. Jean Sorel in Sandra
26. Rentarō Mikuni in A Fugitive From the Past
27. Charlton Heston in Major Dundee 
28. Laurence Olivier in Bunny Lake is Missing 
29. Zbigniew Cybulski in The Saragossa Manuscript
30. Laurence Olivier in Othello  
31. Max von Sydow in The Greatest Story Ever Told 
32. Sidney Poitier in The Bedford Incident
33. Jack Lemmon in The Great Race 
34. Claudio Brook in Simon of the Desert
35. Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music
36. Yuzo Kayama in Red Beard 
37. Peter O'Toole in What's New Pussycat?
38. Sean Connery in Thunderball 
39. Frank Finlay in Othello
40. Marcello Mastroianni in The 10th Victim
41. Charlton Heston in The War Lord
42. Marcello Mastroianni in Casanova 70
43. Michael Crawford in The Knack ...and How to Get It
44. Eddie Constantine in Alphaville
45. Charlton Heston in The Agony and The Ecstasy
46. Rex Harrison in The Agony and The Ecstasy
47. Tony Curtis in The Great Race  
48. Jean-Claude Drouot in Le Bonheur
49. Steve McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid 
50. George Peppard in Operation Crossbow 
51. Kirk Douglas in The Heroes of Telemark
52. Stuart Whitman in Those Magnificent Men And Their Flying Machines 
53. Jason Robards in A Thousand Clowns
54. Lou Castel in Fists in the Pocket
55. Peter O'Toole in Lord Jim
56. Jean-Paul Belmondo in Pierrot Le Fou
57. Keir Dullea in Bunny Lake is Missing 
58. Richard Burton in The Sandpiper
59. Ringo Starr in Help!
60. Paul McCartney in Help!
61. John Lennon in Help! 
62. George Harrison in Help!

Next Year: 2011