Alternate Best Actor 1960: Results

5. Robert Mitchum in The Sundowners- Mitchum gives as usual a good performance that always stays very light but fitting to the film.

Best Scene:  Early romantic scene between Paddy and his wife.

4. Max von Sydow in The Virgin Spring- Sydow although takes awhile to have his moment is quite powerful in his depiction of a father's grief and vengeance.

Best Scene: Tore's final prayer. 

3. Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita- Mastroianni acts as an effective guide as for the audience through the decadence in Rome, as well as gives an effective portrait of a man slowly giving in to it.

Best Scene:  The "orgy".

2. Albert Finney in Saturday Morning and Sunday Night- Finney gives a raw and powerful performance as a frustrated young man who couldn't care less of societal expectations.

Best Scene: "Dead from the neck down"

1. Anthony Perkins in Psycho- Congratulations to both Michael Patison and Maciej for their correct predictions please feel free to name a year and a performance. This year was incredibly close for me not between Finney and Perkins, but between Perkins and Olivier. Perkins after all gives an outstanding performance as Norman Bates being truly terrifying in his chilling portrait of a deranged man. I still will have Olivier remain the winner for the moment since I really need to watch the Entertainer again to be sure because the two are definitely close. It would be easy to hand Perkins the win since he is amazing, but I could not cheat my favorite actor like that.

Best Scene: "We all go a little mad sometimes" 

Overall Rank:

1. Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer
2. Anthony Perkins in Psycho
3. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
4. Richard Attenborough in The Angry Silence
5. Toshiro Mifune in The Bad Sleep Well
6. Renato Salvatori in Rocco and His Brothers
7. Jack Lemmon in The Apartment
8. Albert Finney in Saturday Morning and Sunday Night
9. Alec Guinness in Tunes of Glory
10. Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita
11. Alain Delon in Purple Noon
12. Karlheinz Böhm in Peeping Tom
13. Peter Finch in The Trials of Oscar Wilde
14. Montgomery Clift in Wild River 
15. Jack Hawkins in The League of Gentlemen
16. Kirk Douglas in Spartacus  
17. Charles Aznavour in Shoot the Piano Player
    
18. Gabriele Ferzetti in L'Avventura
    
19. Alain Delon in Rocco and His Brothers
20. Woody Strode in Sergeant Rutledge
21. Pierre Brasseur in Eyes Without a Face
22. Max von Sydow in The Virgin Spring
23. Dean Stockwell in Sons and Lovers 
24. Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde 
25. George Sanders in The Village of the Damned
26. James Cagney in The Gallant Hours
27. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind
28. Yul Brynner in The Magnificent Seven
29. Robert Mitchum in The Sundowners
30. George Hamilton in Home from the Hill
31. Jerry Lewis in The Bellboy 
32. Mel Welles in The Little Shop of Horrors
    
33. Rod Taylor in The Time Machine 
    
34. Jonathan Haze in The Little Shop of Horrors
    
35. Jerry Lewis in Cinderfella
36. Burt Lancaster in The Unforgiven 
37. Paul Newman in Exodus
38. Jean Paul Belmondo in Breathless
39. Dirk Bogarde in Song Without End  
40. Jules Dassin in Never on Sunday 
41. Frank Sinatra in Ocean's Eleven   
42. John Richardson in Black Sunday
43. Jeffrey Hunter in Sergeant Rutledge
44. Stuart Whitman in Murder Inc.
45. Tommy Kirk in Swiss Family Robinson
46. James MacArthur in Swiss Family Robinson
47. Fredric March in Inherit The Wind
48. Ralph Bellamy in Sunrise At Campobello
49. Ward Ramsey in Dinosaurus!

Next Year: 2003