Alternate Best Actor 1950: Results

5. Marlon Brando in The Men- Brando gives a solid turn but he always seems a bit restricted due to the role.

Best Scene: Ken's emotional outburst at the other Men

4. Toshiro Mifune in Scandal- Far from Mifune's best work but it is a nice charming performance as a fulfills the role a traditional leading man.

Best Scene: Ichiro makes his plea to the court.

3. Edmond O'Brien in D.O.A.- O'Brien is easily the best part of his film as he gives a convincing performance as a man forced to solve his own murder while he is dying.

Best Scene: Bigelow finishes telling his story.

2. Sterling Hayden in The Asphalt Jungle- Hayden doesn't give a hoot style doesn't always work but it certainly does here as the hoodlum Dix particularly due to the modicum of humanity he does bring to the part.

Best Scene:  Dix dreams of the farm as he tries to make it back to it one more time.

1. Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon- Good Prediction Psifonian. Feel free to name a year and a performance of your choice. My favorite this year is without a doubt Mifune's amazing performance here that may be his finest. He goes all out and is absolutely magnetic every second he is onscreen and gives a compelling portrayal of a man through four very different perceptions.

Best Scene:  (Hard to say as I love every minute of it but I'll have to say) The bandit's version of the story.

Overall Rank:

1. Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon
2. Richard Widmark in Night and the City
   
3. James Stewart in Harvey
4. William Holden in Sunset Blvd.
5. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac
6. John Garfield in The Breaking Point
7. Jean Marais in Orpheus
8. Alec Guinness in Last Holiday
   
9. Sterling Hayden in The Asphalt Jungle
10. Edmond O'Brien in D.O.A.
11. Sidney Poitier in No Way Out 
12. Kirk Douglas in Young Man With A Horn
    
13. Toshiro Mifune in Scandal
14. James Stewart in Winchester '73 
15. John Mills in Morning Departure 
16. Stig Olin in To Joy
    
17. Marlon Brando in The Men
18. John Wayne in Rio Grande
19. Richard Widmark in No Way Out 
20. John Dall in Gun Crazy
    
21. James Stewart in Broken Arrow
22. Richard Widmark in Panic in the Streets 
23. Takashi Shimura in Scandal
24. Gregory Peck in The Gunfighter  
25. Joel McCrea in Stars in My Crown
    
26. Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride
27. Robert Newton in Treasure Island
    
28. Dilip Kumar in Babul 
29. Walter Huston in The Furies
    
30. Vincent Price in The Baron of Arizona 
31. Edouard Dermit in Les Enfants Terribles
    
32. Ben Johnson in Wagon Master
33. Dana Andrews in Where the Sidewalk Ends
    
34. Clifton Webb in Cheaper by the Dozen  
35. Alfonso Mejia in Los Olvidados
36. Dan Dailey in When Willie Comes Marching Home
    
37. Richard Todd in Stage Fright 
    
38. Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee
39. Broderick Crawford in Born Yesterday
40. William Holden in Born Yesterday 
    
41. Fred Astaire in Three Little Words 
42. Stewart Granger in King Solomon's Mines
    
43. Burt Lancaster in Mister 880 
44. Harry Carey Jr. in Wagon Master
    
45. Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place 
46. Bobby Driscoll in Treasure Island
    
47. Jimmy Hanley in The Blue Lamp  
48. Red Skeleton in Three Little Words
    
49. Alan Ladd in Captain Carey, U.S.A. 
50. Dirk Bogarde in The Blue Lamp
51. Ronald Reagan in Louisa
    
52. Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story 
53. John Archer in Destination Moon
    

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