Alternate Best Actor 1963: Results

5. Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2-  Mastroianni gives a good performance but he is always overshadowed by the man he is suppose to be portraying. 

Best Scene: Guido speaks with his wife.

4. Steve McQueen in The Great Escape- McQueen as the Cooler King is all about the cool which he brings in his trademark fashion.

Best Scene: Hilts goes to retrieve his ball.

3. Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar- Courtenay gives a complex and entertaining performance as a man who lies to hide his insecurities.

Best Scene: Billy tries to speak with his mother after his grandmother's death.

2. Dirk Bogarde in The Servant- Bogarde gives a brilliant performance showing the layers come off of what seems to be just a normal unassuming butler.

Best Scene: The Sevant reveals his true nature to his employer.

1. Toshiro Mifune in High and Low- This year came down between Bogarde and Mifune for me. It comes very close for me as I do love Bogarde performance, but I will go with Mifune's work which I found the most moving of all the performances this year. Mifune gives a poignant performance as a man who chooses to do good no matter how much harm it will cause. His portrayal of the moral decision moral on fuels the entire film and Mifune made it so I remembered even during the second half of the film in which he only occasionally appears.

Best Scene: King Gondo makes his final decision on the ransom.

Overall Rank:

1. Paul Newman in Hud
2. Toshiro Mifune in High and Low
3. Richard Harris in This Sporting Life
4. Burt Lancaster in The Leopard
5. Dirk Bogarde in The Servant
6. Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar
   
7. Patrick McGoohan in Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
   
8. Sean Connery in From Russia With Love
9. Gunnar Björnstrand in Winter Light
10. Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
11. Richard Attenborough in The Great Escape 
12. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field
13. Albert Finney in Tom Jones
14. Cary Grant in Charade 
15. Kazuo Hasegawa in An Actor’s Revenge
16. Laurence Olivier in Uncle Vanya
17. Marcello Mastroianni in The Organizer 
18. Michael Redgrave in Uncle Vanya
19. Maurice Ronet in The Fire Within
20. Patrick McGoohan in The Three Lives of Thomasina
21. Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
22. Alberto Sordi in Il Diavolo
23. Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 
24. Raizo Ichikawa in The Third Shadow Warrior
25. James Fox in The Servant 
26. Charlton Heston in 55 Days At Peking
27. Gregory Peck in Captain Newman M.D. 
28. Steve McQueen in Love With a Proper Stranger
29. John Wayne in Donovan's Reef 
30. Rod Taylor in The Birds
31. Jean-Paul Belmondo in Magnet of Doom
32. Jackie Gleason in Soldier in the Rain
33. Nino Manfredi in The Executioner
34. Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor
35. Burt Lancaster in A Child is Waiting
36. Oliver Reed in Paranoiac 
37. Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie
38. Jack Lemmon in Irma La Douce 
39. Jean-Pierrie Kerien in Muriel
40. John Wayne in McLintock!
41. Alexander Davion in Paranoiac
42. Jackie Gleason in Papa's Delicate Condition
43. James Garner in Move Over Darling
44. Michel Piccoli in Contempt
45. Steve McQueen in Soldier in the Rain
46. Stathis Giallelis in America America  
47. James Aubrey in Lord of the Flies
48. Fred MacMurray in Son of Flubber
49. Todd Armstrong in Jason and the Argonauts
50. Peter Breck in Shock Corridor
51. Tom Tryon in The Cardinal 
52. Richard Chamberlain in Twilight of Honor 
53. Richard Burton in The V.I.P.s 
54. Claude Mann in Bay of Angels
55. David Niven in The Pink Panther 
56. Channing Pollock in Judex
57. Richard Burton in Cleopatra
58. Rex Harrison in Cleopatra

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