Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1950: Results

5. Louis Calhern in The Asphalt Jungle- I hate to put Calhern fifth as I really liked everyone in this line up. Calhern gives an effective performance bringing a nice complexity to his role as an amoral lawyer.

Best Scene: Emmerich tries to double cross the Doc.

4. Alastair Sim in Stage Fright-Sim gives an entertaining performance that up shows the entire film around him.

Best Scene: Eve Gill brings Johnathan to Commodore Gill's home.

3. Takashi Shimura in Rashomon- Shimura performance gives an interesting and moving performance as a seemingly moralistic woodcutter who might be hiding something himself.

Best Scene: The woodcutter is called out by the commoner.

2. Richard Attenborough in Morning Departure- Richard Attenborough gives a very strong turn being appropriately intense as a man who goes to extremes due to fear, but as well quite tender as the very same man who finds courage within himself.

Best Scene: The remaining crew play a game of cards.

1. Masayuki Mori in Rashomon- Good Prediction Psifonian feel free to name another year and performance to go with it. Mori gives an incredible performance giving four different perceptions of the same doomed man. He is able to be chilling then heartbreaking, brave then cowardly, and his reserved style here works perfectly in creating a very memorable dynamic with Toshiro Mifune's flamboyant turn. I will keep Sanders as the winner for the moment but I will say he is on thin ice. I will have to get around to watching All About Eve again as that will make or break his placement over Mori.

Best Scene: The samurai tells his version of the story.

Overall Rank:

1. George Sanders in All About Eve
2. Masayuki Mori in Rashomon
3. Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle
4. François Périer in Orpheus
5. Richard Attenborough in Morning Departure
6. Takashi Shimura in Rashomon
7. Alastair Sim in Stage Fright
8. Louis Calhern in The Asphalt Jungle
9. Anton Walbrook in La Ronde
   
10. Minoru Chiaki in Rashomon 
11. Victor Sjorstrom in To Joy
    
12. Francis L. Sullivan in Night and the City
    
13. Sessue Hayakawa in Three Came Home 
14. Juano Hernandez in Young Man With A Horn
15. Alec Guinness in The Mudlark
    
16. Edmund Gwenn in Louisa
    
17. Luis Van Rooten in Cinderella  
18. Herbert Lom in Night and the City
19. Ward Bond in Wagon Master
    
20. Charles Coburn in Louisa
21. Kichijiro Ueda in Rashomon
22. Juano Hernandez in The Breaking Point
    
23. Stanislaus Zbyszko in Night and the City
24. Wallace Ford in The Breaking Point
    
25. James Whitmore in The Asphalt Jungle  
26. Jack Warner in The Blue Lamp
    
27. Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Blvd.
28. Juano Hernandez in Stars in My Crown
    
29. George Cole in Morning Departure 
30. Karl Malden in Where the Sidewalk Ends
    
31. Cecil B. DeMille in Sunset Blvd.
32. Mario Vitale in Stromboli 
33. Ivan Desny in Madeleine
    
34. Hugh Marlowe in Night and the City 
35. Michael Brennan in Morning Departure
36. Marc Lawrence in The Asphalt Jungle
37. Nigel Patrick in Morning Departure
38. Jack Webb in The Men  
39. Denis O'Dea in Treasure Island
    
40. Everett Sloane in The Men 
41. Gary Merrill in Where the Sidewalk Ends
    
42. Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880
43. Richard Erdman in The Men
44. Stephen McNally in Winchester '73
45. Millard Mitchell in The Gunfighter
46. Jack Palance in Panic in the Streets
47. Wendell Corey in The Furies
    
48. Cecil Kellaway in Harvey 
49. John McIntire in Winchester 73'
50. Anthony Caruso in The Asphalt Jungle
51. Miles Malleson in Stage Fright
52. Jack Hawkins in Morning Departure
53. Zero Mostel in Panic in the Streets 
54. Basil Sidney in Treasure Island
    
55. Stephen McNally in No Way Out
56. Brad Dexter in The Asphalt Jungle
57. Wallace Ford in Harvey
58. Karl Malden in The Gunfighter
59. Barry Kelley in The Asphalt Jungle
60. Will Geer in Winchester '73
61. Paul Douglas in Panic in The Streets
62. Millard Mitchell in Winchester '73 
63. Tod Andrews in Outrage
    
64. Luther Adler in D.O.A 
65. Norman Woodland in Madeleine
    
66. Michael Wilding in Stage Fright
67. Patric Knowles in Three Came Home
68. Jeff Chandler in Broken Arrow  
69. Robert Clarke in Outrage
    
70. William Prince in Cyrano de Bergerac
71. Hugh Marlowe in All About Eve 
72. Richard Carlson in King Solomon's Mine
    
73. Charles Drake in Harvey
74. Skip Homeier in The Gunfighter
75. Gary Merrill in All About Eve
76. Charles Drake in Winchester '73
77. John McIntire in The Asphalt Jungle
78. Neville Brand in D.O.A.
79. Gregory Ratoff in All About Eve

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