Alternate Best Actor 1954: Results

5. Charles Laughton in Hobson's Choice- Charles Laughton has a fairly simple role but he is consistently amusing in his performance.

Best Scene: Hobson falls down the hole.

4. James Stewart in Rear Window- Stewart manages to provide a realistic portrait who we can easily go along through the sometimes quite seedy world of being a voyeur.

Best Scene: Jeff watches as Lisa breaks into the killer's home. 

3. Ray Milland in Dial M For Murder- Milland gives a strong performance by both bringing to life the fierce some hidden motivation of his murderer, but as well as easily adding an appropriate degree of humor in the role as well.

Best Scene: Tony convinces a man to kill his wife. 

2. Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai- Mifune gives a very big but also a very striking performance of a swordsman driven mad by his past.

Best Scene: Kikuchiyo makes his last stand.

1.James Mason 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Mason gives a great performance of an iconic character by always bringing to life both the wondrous qualities to his portrayal in equal measure with his more violent aspects.

Best Scene: Captain Nemo destroys a ship. 

Overall Rank:

1. Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront
2. James Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
3. Ray Milland in Dial M For Murder
4. James Stewart in Rear Window
5. Alec Guinness in The Detective
6. James Mason in A Star is Born
7. Toshiro Mifune in Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 
8. Takashi Shimura in Seven Samurai 
9. Jean Gabin in Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
10. Anthony Quinn in La Strada
11. Bing Crosby in The Country Girl
12. Van Heflin in The Raid
13. Kirk Douglas in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 
14. James Stewart in The Far Country
15. Dan O'Herlihy in Robinson Crusoe
16. Charles Laughton in Hobson's Choice
17. Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina 
18. James Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story
19. Yoshiaki Hanayagi in Sansho the Bailiff
20. William Holden in Executive Suite
21. George Sanders in Journey to Italy 
22. Neville Brand in Riot in Cell Block 11 
23. Kazou Hasegawa in The Crucified Lovers
24. Jack Lemmon in It Should Happen to You
25. Kenneth More in Doctor in the House
26. Gary Cooper in Vera Cruz
27. John Mills in Hobson's Choice
28. William Holden in Sabrina 
29. Burt Lancaster in Vera Cruz
30. Harry Belafonte in Carmen Jones
31. David Niven Carrington V.C.
32. Jack Lemmon in Phffft
33. Paul Lukas in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 
34. Rock Hudson in Magnificent Obsession
35. Maurice Denham in Animal Farm
36. Sterling Hayden in Johnny Guitar
37. Robert Mitchum in River of No Return 
38. James Whitmore in Them!
39. Dirk Bogarde in Doctor in the House
40. John Wayne in The High and the Mighty
41. Glenn Ford in Human Desire
42. James Arness in Them!
43. Howard Keel in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
44. Gary Merrill in The Black Dakotas
45. Gene Kelly in Brigadoon 
46. Peter Lawford in It Should Happen to You
47. Bing Crosby in White Christmas
48. Danny Kaye in White Christmas
49. Richard Carlson in Creature from the Black Lagoon
50. Richard Denning in Creature from the Black Lagoon
51. Robert Wagner in Broken Lance
52. Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance 
53. Robert Francis in The Caine Mutiny

Next Year: 1937