Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1975: Results

5. Leon Vitali in Barry Lyndon- Vitali gives a good performance being properly pompous but as well managing to be somewhat sympathetic by showing where his character is coming from.

Best Scene: Bullingdon duels Barry.

4. Charles Durning in A Dog Day Afternoon- Durning doesn't have much of a role, but he makes more than the most of it portraying the method of the police negotiator in a very compelling fashion.

Best Scene: Moretti tries to handle Sonny and the crowd. 

3. Max von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor- Max von Sydow is excellent in his portrayal of the cold calculated killer who we absolutely believe when he says his job is refreshing.

Best Scene: Joubert warns Condor about his possible fate.  

2. John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon- Cazale once again gives a great tragic performance. He is terrific in creating both a danger in that violence bubbling underneath the man, but as well the sadness by earnestly showing just how lost his character is.

Best Scene: Sal asks Sonny if they will really kill the hostages. 

1. Robert Shaw in Jaws- Good Prediction RatedRStar, Michael Patison, and JamDenTel. Although I loved the performances of Max von Sydow, John Cazale, George Burns and Burgess Meredith I did not have to think twice about who would be my choice for the year overall. Robert Shaw is amazing in the role of the Ahab like shark hunter Quint. He is outstanding every moment he is on screen giving an equally entertaining and heartbreaking turn. His delivery of the Indianapolis speech alone should have guaranteed him both an Oscar nomination and an Oscar win.

Best Scene: The Indianapolis monologue. 

Overall Rank:

1. Robert Shaw in Jaws
2. John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon
3. Max von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor
4. Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws
5. Burgess Meredith in The Day of the Locust
6. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys
7. Nicol Williamson in The Wilby Conspiracy
8. Brad Dourif in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. Bill Owen in In Celebration
10. Charles Durning in Dog Day Afternoon
11. Alan Bates in In Celebration
12. Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon
13. Brian Cox in In Celebration
14. Bruce Dern in Smile
15. Ugo Tognazzi in My Friends
16. Donald Sutherland in The Day of the Locust 
17. Claude Dauphin in That Most Important Thing: Love
18. Will Sampson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19. Klaus Kinski in That Most Important Thing: Love
20. Leon Vitali in Barry Lyndon
21. Jacques Dutronc in That Most Important Thing: Love
22. Oliver Reed in Tommy
23. Cliff Robertson in Three Days of the Condor 
24. Fernando Rey in Seven Beauties
25. Dominic Guard in Picnic at Hanging Rock
26. Michael Palin in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
27. Keenan Wynn in Nashville
28. Christopher Lloyd in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
29. Murray Hamilton in Jaws
30. Lance Henriksen in Dog Day Afternoon
31. John Cleese in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
32. Phillppe Noiret in My Friends
33. Eric Idle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
34. Amjad Khan in Sholay
35. Sydney Lassick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
36. Henry Gibson in Nashville
37. William Redfield in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
38. Richard Attenborough in Brannigan
39. John Jarratt in Picnic at Hanging Rock
40. Wojciech Pszoniak in The Promised Land
41. Peter Eyre in Hedda
42. John Houseman in Three Days of the Condor
43. Christopher Plummer in The Man Who Would Be King
44. Graham Chapman in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
45. Jason Robards in A Boy and His Dog  
46. Richard Benjamin in The Sunshine Boys
47. Allen Garfield in Nashville
48. John Houseman in Rollerball
49. Patrick Stewart in Hedda
50. Sully Boyer in Dog Day Afternoon
51. Philippe Leotard in French Connection II
52. Strother Martin in Hard Times
53. James Coburn in Bite the Bullet
54. Saeed Jeffrey in The Man Who Would Be King
55. Bernard Blier in My Friends
56. Robert Duvall in The Killer Elite
57. Ned Beatty in Nashville
58. Bob Hoskins in Inserts
59. Ben Johnson in Bite the Bullet
60. Scatman Crothers in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. Sylvester Stallone in Death Race 2000
62. James Woods in Night Moves
63. Keith Carradine in Nashville
64. William Duell in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
65. Andrzej Seweryn in The Promised Land
66. Saeed Jaffrey in The Wilby Conspiracy
67. William Atherton in The Hindenburg
68. Jack Warden in Shampoo
69. Scott Glenn in Nashville
70. Burt Young in The Killer Elite
71. Harold Gould in Love and Death
72. Bruce Robinson in The Story of Adele H.
73. Jackie Earle Haley in The Day of the Locust
74. Danny DeVito in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
75. Ian Bannen in Bite the Bullet
76. John Huston in The Wind and the Lion
77. Hardy Kruger in Barry Lyndon
78. Michael Murphy in Nashville
79. Fernando Rey in French Connection II
80. Luther Adler in The Man in the Glass Booth 
81. Kenneth Mars in Night Moves
82. Gene Sacks in The Prisoner of Second Avenue
83. George Kennedy in The Eiger Sanction
84. Lawrence Pressman in The Man in the Glass Booth 
85. Patrick Magee in Barry Lyndon
86. James Tolkan in Love and Death
87. James Broderick in Dog Day Afternoon
88. Charles Durning in The Hindenburg
89. Edward Binns in Night Moves
90. Sylvester Stallone in Farewell, My Lovely
91. Harry Dean Stanton in Farewell, My Lovely
92. Robert DoQui in Nashville
93. John Ireland in Farewell, My Lovely
94. Brian Keith in The Wind and the Lion
95. Jack O'Halloran in Farewell, My Lovely
96. Stephen Davies in Inserts
97. Jan-Michel Vincent in Bite the Bullet
98. George Hamilton in Once is Not Enough

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