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

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