Alternate Best Actor 1966: Results

5. Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451- Werner gives a fairly effective performance as a man who goes to a cog in the machine to a free thinker but the power of his work is somewhat muted when the director basically takes over for him at the end of the film.

Best Scene: Montag confronts his wife and her friends.

4. David Hemmings in Blow-Up- Hemmings gives a good performance as a photographer in a haze who is forced to drift out of it when he discovers something unusual in a photograph.

Best Scene: Thomas tries to tell his agent about the murder. 

3. James Mason in The Deadly Affair- James Mason gives a great and surprisingly emotionally charged performance as a government agent who lives through too many double crosses in both his professional and private life.

Best Scene: Dobbs figures out who his wife's most current affair is with.

2. Tatsuya Nakadai in The Sword of Doom- See Wallach's summary.

Best Scene: Ryunosuke "confronts" his past.

1. Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly- Good Prediction Psifonian. Well this was not an easy choice to make as this year came down to Eli Wallach's and Tatsuya Nakadai's performances for me. Both are brilliant very physical performances that both excel in leading films even though they technically play reprehensible characters, in Nakadai's case extremely reprehensible. They are both outstanding in very different ways with Wallach giving a hilarious and very entertaining performance, and Nakdai is absolutely magnetic while being uncompromising in his depiction of the evil nature of his character. To try to decide between the two I re-watched my favorite scenes of each of their performances well that did not help either only reassuring the fact that I love both of their performances. I have to choose one though therefore I choose Wallach... I guess for the moment right now at this second.

Best Scene: Tuco meets with his brother.

Overall Rank:

1. Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. Tatsuya Nakadai in The Sword of Doom
3. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons
4. Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
5. Rock Hudson in Seconds
6. Uttam Kumar in Nayak
7. Michael Caine in Alfie
8. Per Oscarsson in Hunger
9. Donald Pleasence in Cul-de-Sac
10. Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
11. Tatsuya Nakadai in The Face of Another 
12. Sergei Bondarchuk in War and Peace Part I
13. Peter O'Toole in How To Steal a Million
14. David Hemmings in Blow-Up 
15. Lee Marvin in The Professionals
16. Robert Mitchum in El Dorado 
17. Max von Sydow in Hawaii 
18. Lino Ventura in Le Deuxieme Souffle
19. David Warner - Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment 
20. Roddy McDowall in Lord Love a Duck
21. Burt Lancaster in The Professionals
22. Jean Martin in The Battle of Algiers
23. Paul Newman in Harper
24. Vyacheslav Tikhonov in War and Peace Part I
25. Anatoly Solonitsyn in Andrei Rublev
26. Eddie Axberg in Here is Your Life
27. Adam West in Batman
28. Jack Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie
29. Jean-Louis Trintignant in A Man and a Woman
30. Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451  
31. Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles
32. Lee Van Cleef in The Big Gundown 
33. Michael Caine in Funeral in Berlin
34. Václav Neckář in Closely Watched Trains
35. Lionel Strander in Cul-de-Sac 
36. Michael Caine in Gambit
37. Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
38. Tomas Millan in The Big Gundown 
39. James Garner in Grand Prix
40. Yves Montand in Grand Prix
41. Brahim Hadjadj in The Battle of Algiers
42. Charlton Heston in Khartoum
43. John Wayne El Dorado
44. Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
45. Robert Redford in The Chase
46. Peter Cook in The Wrong Box 
47. Marlon Brandon in The Appaloosa
48. Michael Caine in The Wrong Box 
49. Marlon Brando in The Chase
50. Franco Nero in Django
51. Carl Reiner in The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming 
52. Paul Newman in Torn Curtain
53. James Garner in A Man Could Get Killed
54. Peter Kastner in You're a Big Boy Now 
55. Stephen Boyd in Fantastic Voyage
56. Bill Travers in Born Free

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