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. John Wayne in In Harm's Way
21. James Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix
22. George Segal in King Rat 
23. Richard Widmark in The Bedford Incident
24. Jean Sorel in Sandra
25. Rentarō Mikuni in A Fugitive From the Past
26. Charlton Heston in Major Dundee 
27. Laurence Olivier in Bunny Lake is Missing 
28. Zbigniew Cybulski in The Saragossa Manuscript
29. Laurence Olivier in Othello  
30. Max von Sydow in The Greatest Story Ever Told 
31. Sidney Poitier in The Bedford Incident
32. Jack Lemmon in The Great Race 
33. Claudio Brook in Simon of the Desert
34. Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music
35. Yuzo Kayama in Red Beard 
36. Peter O'Toole in What's New Pussycat?
37. Sean Connery in Thunderball 
38. Frank Finlay in Othello
39. Marcello Mastroianni in The 10th Victim
40. Charlton Heston in The War Lord
41. Marcello Mastroianni in Casanova 70
42. Michael Crawford in The Knack ...and How to Get It
43. Eddie Constantine in Alphaville
44. Charlton Heston in The Agony and The Ecstasy
45. Rex Harrison in The Agony and The Ecstasy
46. Tony Curtis in The Great Race  
47. Jean-Claude Drouot in Le Bonheur
48. Steve McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid 
49. George Peppard in Operation Crossbow 
50. Kirk Douglas in The Heroes of Telemark
51. Stuart Whitman in Those Magnificent Men And Their Flying Machines 
52. Jason Robards in A Thousand Clowns
53. Lou Castel in Fists in the Pocket
54. Peter O'Toole in Lord Jim
55. Jean-Paul Belmondo in Pierrot Le Fou
56. Keir Dullea in Bunny Lake is Missing 
57. Richard Burton in The Sandpiper
58. Ringo Starr in Help!
59. Paul McCartney in Help!
60. John Lennon in Help! 
61. George Harrison in Help!

Next Year: 2011