Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1966: Results

5. Richard Crenna in The Sand Pebbles- Crenna gives a solid performance that seems to create a more complex character then the film even wanted.

Best Scene: The captain tries to prevent a mutiny.

4. Orson Welles in A Man For All Seasons- Welles in one scene gives complex portrait of Cardinal Wolsey that is worthy of the complex man.

Best Scene: Wolsey tries to persuade More to support the King's divorce.

3. Richard Attenborough in The Sand Pebbles- Attenborough gives a moving performance that effectively conveys his character story almost entirely in his physical performance.

Best Scene: Frenchy talks to Maily for the last time.

2. John Hurt in A Man For All Seasons- John Hurt is the perfect weasel informant here by showing the motivation of what makes such a man.

Best Scene: Richard Rich testifies against Thomas More.

1. Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly- Good Prediction Mark feel free to name a year and a performance. This year came down to the comedic and almost leading work of Walter Matthau against Lee Van Cleef's classic villainous turn. Like Wallach against Nakadai this was not an easy choice but I have to choose one so I am going Van Cleef's chilling performance as the titular Bad.

Best Scene: Angel Eyes has Tuco tortured.

Overall Rank:

1. Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie
3. John Hurt in A Man For All Seasons
4. George Segal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
5. Robert Shaw in A Man For All Seasons
6. Will Geer in Seconds
7. Richard Attenborough in The Sand Pebbles
8. John Randolph in Seconds
9. Murray Hamilton in Seconds
10. Paul Meurisse in Le Deuxième Souffle
11. Orson Welles in A Man For All Seasons
12. John Mills in The Family Way
13. Toshiro Mifune in The Sword of Doom 
14. Richard Crenna in The Sand Pebbles
15. Frank Gorshin in Batman 
16. Aldo Giuffrè in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly  
17. Sergei Bandarchuk in War and Peace Part II
18. Nikolai Sergeyev in Andrei Rublev 
19. Gunnar Bjornstrand in Here is Your Life
20. Burgess Meredith in Batman  
21. Nikolia Burlyayev in Andrei Rublev
22. James Mason in Georgy Girl 
23. Ralph Richardson in The Wrong Box
24. Donald Pleasence in Fantastic Voyage
25. Leo McKern in A Man For All Seasons
26. Maximilian Schell in The Deadly Affair 
27. Ivan Lapikov in Andrei Rublev
28. Jack Palance in The Professionals  
29. Jeff Corey in Seconds
30. John Saxon in The Appaloosa
31. Michael Hordern in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum  
32. Khigh Dhiegh in Seconds 
33. Marcel Bozzuffi in Le Deuxième Souffle
34. Denholm Elliot in Alfie  
35. Gene Hackman in Hawaii
36. Wolfgang Kieling in Torn Curtain
37. Vasily Lanovoy in War and Peace Part II
38. Ralph Bellamy in The Professionals
39. Eiji Okada in The Face of Another 
40. Peter O'Toole in The Bible 
41. Max von Sydow in Here is Your Life
42. Wesley Addy in Seconds
43. Eli Wallach in How to Steal A Million
44. Nigel Davenport in A Man For All Seasons
45. Cesar Romero in Batman
46. Hugh Griffith in How To Steal A Million
47. Robert Ryan in The Professionals 
48. Orson Welles in Is Paris Burning?
49. Cliff Osmond in The Fortune Cookie  
50. John Huston in The Bible 
51. Rip Torn in You're A Big Boy Now
52. Arthur Hill in Harper
53. Yuzo Kayama in The Sword of Doom 
54. John Mills in The Wrong Box
55. Antonio Molino Rojo in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
56. Ichiro Nakatani in The Sword of Doom
57. Woody Strode in The Professionals
58. Luigi Pistilli in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
59. Corin Redgrave in A Man For All Seasons  
60. Dudley Moore in The Wrong Box
61. Antonio Casas in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
62. Mako in The Sand Pebbles
63. Richard Harris Hawaii
64. Laurence Olivier in Khartoum
65. Phil Silvers in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 
66. Mario Brega in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
67. Oscar Homolka in Funeral in Berlin
68. Cyril Cusack in Fahrenheit 451  
69. Jack Gilford in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
70. Ned Glass in The Fortune Cookie
71. Buster Keaton in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 
72. James Caan in El Dorado
73. Ralph Richardson in Khartoum
74. Alfie Bass in Alfie 
75. Alan Bates in Georgy Girl 
76. Arthur Hunnicut in El Dorado
77. Simon Oakland in The Sand Pebbles 
78. Robert Duvall in The Chase
79. John Comer in The Family Way
80. Strother Martin in Harper
81. François Lafarge in Au Hasard Balthazar
82. Michael Crawford in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 
83. Neil Hamilton in Batman
84. James Hong in The Sand Pebbles  
85. Vyacheslave Tikhonov in War and Peace Part II
86. Colin Blakeley in A Man For All Seasons
87. Reginald Denny in Batman
88. Peter Bowles in Blow-Up
89. Charles Boyer in How to Steal A Million 
90. Herbert Lom in Gambit
91. Alan Napier in Batman 
92. Michael Parks in The Bible
93. Richard Harris in The Bible
94. George C. Scott in The Bible
95. Robert Wagner in Harper
96. Hal Holbrook in The Group
97. Arthur Kennedy in Fantastic Voyage
98. Edmond O'Brien in Fantastic Voyage
99. Bill Owen in Georgy Girl
100. Stafford Repp in Batman
101. Murray Head in The Family Way
102. Richard Johnson in Khartoum
103. Cyril Luckham in A Man For All Seasons
104. Graham Stark in Alfie 
105. Ron Rich in The Fortune Cookie 
106. Arthur O'Connell in Fantastic Voyage
107. Geoffrey Keen in Born Free 
108. William Redfield in Fantastic Voyage
109. E.G. Marshall in The Chase
110. Charles Robinson in The Sand Pebbles

Next Year: 1987 lead