Alternate Best Supporting 1948: Results

5. Lionel Barrymore in Key Largo- Barrymore gives a good performance who brings appropriate weight to the situations of his film.

Best Scene: Temple literally stands up to Rocco. 

4. Robert Ryan in Act of Violence- A limited but effective turn of man filled with hate but also haunted by horrors.

Best Scene: Joe tells about his connection with Frank. 

3. James Stewart in Rope- Although he was miscast Stewart though still gives it his all and manages to still deliver an effective turn.

Best Scene: Cadell sees what his theories has created. 

2. Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo- The role fits like a glove and Robinson properly delivers as the villainous gangster.

Best Scene: Rocco tries to ignore the hurricane. 

1. Alec Guinness in Oliver Twist- Guinness is almost invisible in his role as Fagin through his natural depiction of the character's age and particular manner. He only adds to through his ability to be warm and charming while being an evil schemer.

Best Scene: Fagin catches Oliver looking at his treasure chest. 

Overall Rank:

1. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. Robert Donat in The Winslow Boy
3. Alec Guinness in Oliver Twist
4. Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo
5. James Stewart in Rope
6. Ralph Richardson in Anna Karenina 
7. Lionel Barrymore in Key Largo
8. Ward Bond in Fort Apache 
9. William Hartnell in Brighton Rock
10. Thomas Gomez in Force of Evil
11. Cedric Hardwicke in The Winslow Boy
12. Pat O'Brien in The Boy with the Green Hair
13. Marcel Andre in Les Parents Terribles
14. Richard Widmark in The Street With No Name
15. Alastair Sim in London Belongs to Me
16. Enzo Staiola in Bicycle Thieves
17. Richard Conte in Call Northside 777
18. Walter Brennan in Blood on the Moon
19. Pedro Armendariz in 3 Godfathers
20. Charles Laughton in The Big Clock
21. Lon Chaney Jr. in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 
22. George Macready in The Big Clock
23. Richard Widmark in Yellow Sky
24. Ernst Pittschau in Germany, Year Zero
25. Bela Lugosi in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 
26. Cecil Kellaway in The Luck of the Irish
27. Richard Haydn in Sitting Pretty 
28. James Barton in Yellow Sky
29. Dan O'Herlihy in Macbeth
30. Denis O'Dea in The Fallen Idol
31. Robert Preston in Blood on the Moon
32. Jack Hawkins in The Fallen Idol
33. Melvyn Douglas in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
34. Basil Sydney in Hamlet 
35. Leo Genn in The Snake Pit  
36. Reisaburo Yamamoto in Drunken Angel
37. Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda
38. Erich Gühne in Germany, Year Zero
39. Walter Brennan in Red River
40. Henry Stephenson in Oliver Twist
41. Stanley Holloway in Hamlet 
42. Marcel Journet in Letter From an Unknown Woman
43. Thomas Gomez in Key Largo  
44. Bruce Bennett in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
45. Marius Goring in The Red Shoes
46. Victor McLaglen in Fort Apache
47. Lee J. Cobb in Call Northside 777
48. Cedric Hardwicke in Rope  
49. Louis Jourdan in Letter From an Unknown Woman
50. Victor Mature in Cry of the City
51. Ward Bond in 3 Godfathers
52. Mark Stevens in The Snake Pit
53. Edgar Kennedy in Unfaithfully Yours
54. David Wayne in Portrait of Jennie
55. Terence Morgan in Hamlet
56. Anthony Newley in Oliver Twist 
57. Millard Mitchell in A Foreign Affair
58. Burt Lancaster in Sorry Wrong Number
59. Robert Newton in Oliver Twist
60. Felix Aylmer in Hamlet
61. Walter Burke in The Naked City
62. Francis L. Sullivan in Oliver Twist
63. Roddy McDowall in Macbeth 
64. Lionel Strander in Unfaithfully Yours 
65. Robert Ryan in The Boy with the Green Hair
66. Norman Wooland in Hamlet
67. Bernard Miles in The Guinea Pig
68. Stephen McNally in Johnny Belinda 
69. Harry Lewis in Key Largo
70. Alfonso Bodoya in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
71. Alan Napier in Johnny Belinda
72. John Rodney in Key Largo
73. Ed Begley in Sorry Wrong Number
74. Barton MacLane in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 
75. Harry Carey Jr. in 3 Godfathers
76. Paul Fix in Force of Evil 
77. Lloyd Nolan in The Street With No Name
78. John Ireland in Red River
79. Monte Blue in Key Largo
80. Oskar Homolka in I Remember Mama
81. Jose Ferrer in Joan of Arc
82. John Agar in Fort Apache
83. Glenn Strange in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
84. Douglas Dick in Rope
85. Frank Ferguson in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
86. Kieron Moore in Anna Karenina

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