Alternate Best Actor 1975: Results

5. Gene Hackman in Night Moves- Gene Hackman as usual gives a solid performance as a footballer turned private detective who is out of his element, but his best work this year was his heartbreaking reprise of Popeye Doyle in French Connection II.

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:

1. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
2. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon
3. Gene Hackman in French Connection II  
4. Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King
5. Roy Scheider in Jaws  
6. Giancarlo Giannini in Seven Beauties
7. Maximilian Schell in The Man in The Glass Booth
8. Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor 
9. Richard Dreyfuss in Inserts
10. Gene Hackman in Bite the Bullet
11. Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
12. Maxim Munzuk in Dersu Uzala
13. Gene Hackman in Night Moves
14. Robert Mitchum in Farewell, My Lovely
15. Charles Bronson in Hard Times
16. Jack Nicholson in The Passenger 
17. Sean Connery in The Wind and the Lion
18. Jack Lemmon in The Prisoner of Second Avenue 
19. Glynn Turman in Cooley High
    
20. Fabio Testi in That Most Important Thing: Love
21. Rafael Roco in Manila in The Claws of Light
22. Woody Allen in Love and Death
23. William Atherton in The Day of the Locust
24. Don Johnson in A Boy and His Dog
25. Warren Beatty in Shampoo
26. David Hemmings in Deep Red
27. George C. Scott in The Hindenburg
28. Steven Keats in Hester Street
29. Daniel Olbrychski in The Promised Land
30. Tim McIntire in A Boy and His Dog
31. James Caan in Rollerball 
32. James Coburn in Hard Times 
33. John Wayne in Brannigan
34. Dharmendra in Sholay
35. Amitabh Bachchan in Sholay
36. Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs in Cooley High
    
37. Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction
38. Michael Caine in The Wilby Conspiracy
39. Yury Solomin in Dersu Uzala
40. Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys
41. Victor Lanoux in Cousin Cousine
42. Sidney Poitier in The Wilby Conspiracy
43. Ryan O'Neal in Barry Lyndon
44. John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn
45. Barry Bostwick in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
46. Kirk Douglas in Once is Not Enough
47. Paul Hampton in Shivers
48. Roger Daltry in Tommy
49. David Carradine in Death Race 2000
50. James Caan in The Killer Elite

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