Best Scene for the French Connection II: Doyle suffers withdrawal.
4. Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show- Curry gives a delightful entertaining strange performance that is by far the highlight of his film.
Best Scene: "Sweet Transvestite"
3. Roy Scheider in Jaws- Scheider gives a great reactive performance that amplifies the intensity of his film by being a very human guide and who we can relate to.
Best Scene: Chief Brody sees the Shark attack.
1. Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King- I find it almost impossible to separate these performances as they both amplify each other through their impeccable chemistry and together they create two marvelous characters that end up both being very entertaining as well as rather heartbreaking as well. As for the year itself I feel like kicking myself for my placement for any one of the top seven performances because I love all of them. I hate putting Hackman as low as he is because I love that performance. This is just a tremendous year and all seven of my top seven would be a worthy winners.
Best Scene: Danny apologizes to Peachy.
Overall Rank:
- Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
- Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon
- Gene Hackman in French Connection II
- Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King
- Roy Scheider in Jaws
- Giancarlo Giannini in Seven Beauties
- Maximilian Schell in The Man in The Glass Booth
- Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor
- Richard Dreyfuss in Inserts
- Gene Hackman in Bite the Bullet
- Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Maxim Munzuk in Dersu Uzala
- Gene Hackman in Night Moves
- Robert Mitchum in Farewell, My Lovely
- Charles Bronson in Hard Times
- Jack Nicholson in The Passenger
- Sean Connery in The Wind and the Lion
- Jack Lemmon in The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- Glynn Turman in Cooley High
- Fabio Testi in That Most Important Thing: Love
- Rafael Roco in Manila in The Claws of Light
- Woody Allen in Love and Death
- William Atherton in The Day of the Locust
- Don Johnson in A Boy and His Dog
- Warren Beatty in Shampoo
- David Hemmings in Deep Red
- George C. Scott in The Hindenburg
- Steven Keats in Hester Street
- Daniel Olbrychski in The Promised Land
- Tim McIntire in A Boy and His Dog
- James Caan in Rollerball
- James Coburn in Hard Times
- John Wayne in Brannigan
- Dharmendra in Sholay
- Amitabh Bachchan in Sholay
- Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs in Cooley High
- Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction
- Michael Caine in The Wilby Conspiracy
- Yury Solomin in Dersu Uzala
- Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys
- Victor Lanoux in Cousin Cousine
- Sidney Poitier in The Wilby Conspiracy
- Ryan O'Neal in Barry Lyndon
- John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn
- Barry Bostwick in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Kirk Douglas in Once is Not Enough
- Paul Hampton in Shivers
- Roger Daltry in Tommy
- David Carradine in Death Race 2000
- James Caan in The Killer Elite
5 comments:
1948 Lead?
Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre
James Stewart in Rope (unless you consider him supporting)
John Wayne and/or Montgomery Clift in Red River
Lamberto Maggiorani in Bicycle Thieves
Orson Welles in Macbeth
Alec Guinness in Oliver Twist (again, unless you consider him supporting)
Takashi Shimura and/or Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel
Ray Milland in The Big Clock
I'm sure there's more, I'm just too lazy to list anymore right now.
For 1948 Lead:
Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madra
Montgomery Clift in Red River
Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours
Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol
Anton Walbrook in The Red Shoes
John Wayne in Red River
O hope you do Alec Guinness in Oliver Twist
I really hope you do John Dall (my win as leading actor in 1948) and Farley Granger in Rope! I consider James Stewart supporting in that film.
I consider Hackman's performance in The French Connection II the best of that year overall, just perfect, I can't believe he was overlooked for two perfect performances two years in a row.
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