Monday 17 June 2013

Alternate Best Actor 1980: Results

5. Anthony Hopkins in The Elephant Man- Hopkins gives a good performance making the most out of his relatively simple character and bringing to life the complexities of the character where they exist.

Best Scene: Treves first sees the Elephant Man.
4. Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant- Thompson has a simple but showy role bringing the emotional punch to his courtroom scenes.

Best Scene:  Major J.F. Thomas's summation.
3. Donald Sutherland in Ordinary People- Sutherland gives an understated and moving turn showing the attempt of a man to hold his life as well as his family together after a terrible tragedy.

Best Scene: Calvin confronts Beth.
2. Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant- Woodward gives an excellent performance showing a courageous gentlemanly soldier, whose capable of horrible deeds.

Best Scene: Morant tells the court of rule 303.
1.Tatsuya Nakadai in Kagemusha- Nakadai gives an amazing performance playing two characters brilliantly one a cunning war lord, and the other an impersonator who has a difficult journey of pretending to be the other man. I am going to face all the wraith of meddling with the grand scheme of things and go my own way this year altogether. I have a confession to make which is watching Ordinary People again really made me lose a lot of my enthusiasm for Timothy Hutton's performance. I still think he is great, but actually watching it this time Donald Sutherland left the bigger impression on me. As for Robert De Niro I do believe his performance is tremendous but its never been a performance that I love. Therefore my very personal win goes to Tatsuya Nakadai.

Best Scene: The Lord and Kagemusha meet for the first time. 
Overall Rank:
  1. John Hurt in The Elephant Man
  2. Tatsuya Nakadai in Kagemusha
  3. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
  4. Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant
  5. Donald Sutherland in Ordinary People
  6. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People
  7. Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant
  8. Lee Marvin in The Big Red One 
  9. Anthony Hopkins in The Elephant Man
  10. Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City
  11. John Savage in Inside Moves
  12. Ken Takakura in A Distant Cry of Spring
  13. Anthony Quinn in Lion in the Desert
  14. Naseeruddin Shah in Sparsh
  15. George C. Scott in Changeling
  16. Kurt Russell in Used Cars
  17. Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing
  18. Tommy Lee Jones in Coal Miner's Daughter 
  19. Kris Kristofferson in Heaven's Gate
  20. William Hurt in Altered States 
  21. Hector Alterio in El Nido 
  22. Peter Andorai in Confidence
  23. Hidetaka Yoshioka in A Distant Cry of Spring
  24. Gerard Depardieu in The Last Metro
  25. Paul Le Mat in Melvin and Howard  
  26. Gerard Depardieu in Mon Oncle d'Amerique
  27. Mark Hamill in The Empire Strikes Back 
  28. Brinsley Forde in Babylon
  29. John Travolta in Urban Cowboy 
  30. Walter Matthau in Hopscotch
  31. Ray Sharkey in The Idolmaker 
  32. Marcello Mastroianni in City of Women
  33. Robert Redford in Brubaker
  34. Stacy Keach in The Ninth Configuration
  35. Christopher Reeve in Superman II   
  36. Gerard Depardieu in Loulou
  37. Nicola Zarbo in Palermo or Wolfsburg
  38. Andrzej Seweryn in The Orchestra Conductor
  39. Richard Gere in American Gigolo
  40. Richard Dreyfuss in The Competition
  41. John Belushi in The Blues Brothers
  42. Al Pacino in Cruising
  43. Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time
  44. Jack Nicholson in The Shining    
  45. Woody Allen in Stardust Memories
  46. George C. Scott in The Formula 
  47. Hans van Tongeren in Spetters
  48. Maarten Spanjer in Spetters
  49. Toon Agterberg in Spetters
  50. Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers
  51. Steve Railsback in The Stunt Man
  52. Robert Hays in Airplane
  53. Omero Antonutti in Alexander the Great
  54. Robin Williams in Popeye
  55. Sam J. Jones in Flash Gordon
  56. Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit II
  57. Jack Lemmon in Tribute 
  58. Michael O'Keefe in Caddyshack 
  59. Tom Atkins in The Fog
  60. Leigh McCloskey in Inferno 
  61. Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer
  62. Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon
Next Year: 1980 Supporting

13 comments:

Michael Patison said...

Pretty surprising final ranking. I had expected Hutton to win overall. I guess you didn't like him as much as before once you watched it for Sutherland. For Supporting:
Bryan Brown in Breaker Morant
Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!
Lewis Fitz-Gerald in Breaker Morant
James Earl Jones in The Empire Strikes Back
Harrison Ford in The Empire Strikes Back
Somebody from Caddyshack
Hector Elizondo in American Gigolo
Scott Wilson in The Ninth Configuration
Max von Sydow in Flash Gordon
Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon

Anonymous said...

Harrison Ford in The Empire Strikes Back
Terrence Stamp in Superman II
Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!
Bill Murray, Chevy Chase or Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack
Frank Oz in The Empire Strikes Back

Michael Patison said...

And Tsutomu Yamazaki in Kagemusha if that's what floats your boat.

Robert MacFarlane said...

BRIAN BLESSED in Flash Gordon
Bill Murray in Caddyshack
Tsutomu Yamazaki in Kagemusha
Henry Gibson in The Blues Brothers
Cab Calloway in the Blues Brothers
Terrence Stamp in Superman II "KNNNEEEEEELLLL"

RatedRStar said...

Tsutomu Yamazaki - Kagemusha
Terence Stamp - Superman II
Max Von Sydow - Flash Gordon
Scott Wilson - The Ninth Configuration
Bryan Brown - Breaker Morant

Paoloduncan said...

Harrison Ford - The Empire Strikes Back
Bill Murray - Caddyshack

Anonymous said...

Gene Hackman and Terrence Stamp in Superman 2.

Grady Tripp said...

Dabney Coleman - Nine to Five
Michael Caine - Dressed to Kill
Charles Grodin - Seems Like Old Times

Grady Tripp said...

So... where did Bob Hoskins go? Have you moved him to 1981 for some reason? (I see that you put 1981 in the header, but I still wonder why you reviewed him here without putting him in the overall ranking.)

Maciej said...

1.Leslie Nielsen - Airplane!
2.Scatman Crothers - The Shining
3.Harrison Ford - The Empire Strikes Back
4.Bill Murray - Caddyshack

Louis Morgan said...

Grady Tripp: I reviewed him because I thought his film had an 1980 non festival release, but apparently it did not. I did not include him in the overall ranking because he will be included in 1981 ranking later.

mrripley said...

levon helm coal miner's daughter please a small lovely performance of a doting dad.

Psifonian said...

1. Freddie Jones, The Elephant Man
2. Mark Hamill, The Big Red One
3. Leslie Nielsen, Airplane!
4. Harrison Ford, The Empire Strikes Back
5. John Gielgud, The Elephant Man