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

Next Year: 1987 lead