Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1985: Results

5. Danny Glover in The Color Purple- Glover is properly intense in his brutality in his role as an abusive husband, but he is unable to get past the restrictions of the part.

Best Scene: Mister is ridiculed by his father. 

4. Wilford Brimley in Cocoon- Brimley gives the best performance of the cast being the quietly commanding presence of the group, as well as creating the greatest emotional impact of the various stories.

Best Scene: Ben tells his grandson he's going away. 

3. M. Emmet Walsh in Blood Simple- Walsh creates a deliriously evil and memorable villain by beautifully playing up the sleaze and menace of his slimy private detective.

Best Scene: Visser double crosses Marty. 

2. Crispin Glover in Back to The Future- Glover gives my second favorite supporting turn of the year in his absolutely hilarious, but when it needs to be moving turn as the spineless George McFly.

Best Scene: George stands up to Biff. 

1. Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future-Well Good predictions to Paoloduncan, and Lezlie please throw out a year and a performance. Lloyd wins this year as it came to the two Back to the Future performances which I love both. I have to choose one so I will choose Lloyd manic and funny turn creating Doc Brown into a truly memorable character.

Best Scene: Doc reveals he did read the letter after all. 

Overall Rank:

1. Christopher Lloyd in Back To The Future
2. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette
3. Ian Holm in Dreamchild
4. Crispin Glover in Back To The Future
5. Michael Mckean in Clue
6. Martin Mull in Clue
7. Christopher Lloyd in Clue
8. M. Emmet Walsh in Blood Simple
9. John Lone in Year of the Dragon
10. Roddy McDowall in Fright Night
11. Dan Hedaya in Blood Simple  
12. Michael Palin in Brazil
13. Chris Sarandon in Fright Night
14. Tim Curry in Legend
15. Robert De Niro in Brazil
16. Wilford Brimley in Cocoon
17. Willem Dafoe in To Live and Die in LA
18. Klaus Maria Brandauer in Out of Africa
19. John Gielgud in The Shooting Party
20. Thomas F. Wilson in Back to the Future  
21. Roshan Seth in My Beautiful Laundrette
22. Stephen Geoffreys in Fright Night 
23. Jan Rubes in Witness
24. Peter Vaughan in Brazil 
25. David Gale in Re-Animator
26. Lucas Haas in Witness
27. Brian Dennehy in Cocoon  
28. John Heard in Trip to the Bountiful 
29. Saeed Jaffrey in My Beautiful Laundrette
30. Bob Hoskins in Brazil   
31. Mark Holton in Pee Wee's Big Adventure
32. Ian Holm in Brazil
33. John Pankow in To Live and Die in LA
34. Danny Glover in The Color Purple
35. Josef Summer in Witness 
36. Ian Holm in Wetherby
37. Paul Gleason in The Breakfast Club 
38. Hume Cronyn in Cocoon 
39. Nicol Williamson in Return to Oz
    
40. John Turturro in To Live and Die in LA   
41. Jim Broadbent in Brazil 
42. Ken Wantanabe in Tampopo 
43. Shinnosuke Ikehata in Ran
44. Dean Stockwell in To Live and Die in LA 
45. Gary Marshall in Lost in America 
46. Tom Wilkinson in Wetherby
47. Curtis Armstrong in Better Off Dead
48. Masayuki Yui in Ran
49. John Heard in After Hours 
50. Hisashi Igawa in Ran
51. Jack Gilford in Cocoon 
52. Leo McKern in Ladyhawke 
53. Jonathan Stark in Fright Night 
54. Hector Alterio in The Official Story
55. Sam Elliott in Mask 
56. Daisuke Ryu in Ran 
57. David Ogden Stiers in Better Off Dead
58. Christopher Walken in A View To Kill
59. Adolph Caesar in The Color Purple 
60. John Hurt in The Black Cauldron
    
61. John Kapelos in The Breakfast Club
62. Charles Napier in Rambo First Blood Part II 
63. Gordon Jackson in The Shooting Party
64. Richard Crenna in Rambo First Blood Part II 
65. Freddie Jones in Young Sherlock Holmes
66. Derrick Branche in My Beautiful Laundrette 
    
67. Armin Mueller-Stahl in Colonel Redl 
68. Sean Barrett in Return to Oz
    
69. Nigle Hawthorne in The Black Cauldron 
70. Brian Henson in Return to Oz
    
71. Roger Ashton-Griffiths in Young Sherlock Holmes
72. John Russell in Pale Rider
73. Jinpachi Nezu in Ran
74. Akira Terao in Ran 
    
75. Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge
76. Freddie Jones in The Black Cauldron
    
77. Will Patton in After Hours 
78. Edward Fox in The Shooting Party
79. Robert Sampson in Re-Animator
80. Michael Moriarty in Pale Rider 
81. James Cromwell in Explorers
82. Tommy Chong in After Hours
83. Cheech Marin in After Hours
84. Danny Glover in Witness
85. Dennis Dun in Year of the Dragon
86. Chris Penn in Pale Rider 
87. Robert Picardo in Explorers
88. Robert Hardy in The Shooting Party  
89. Richard Dysart in Pale Rider
90. Peter Coyote in Jagged Edge 
91. Raymond J. Barry in Year of the Dragon
92. Dolph Lundgren in Rocky IV 
93. Pat Hingle in The Falcon and the Snowman 
94. Peter Gallagher in Dreamchild 
95. Anthony  Higgins in Young Sherlock Holmes
96. Richard Dysart in Mask  
97. William Hickey in Prizzi's Honor
98. Don Ameche in Cocoon
99. Burt Young in Rocky IV
100. John Wood in Ladyhawke
101. John Lithgow in Santa Clause
102. Steve Guttenberg in Cocoon 
103. John Byner in The Black Cauldron
     
104. Eric Roberts in Runaway Train

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