Friday 18 October 2013

Alternate Best Actor 1944: Results

5. Eddie Bracken in Hail the Conquering Hero-Bracken gives an enjoyable performance and handles his final dramatic speech well, but his best performance of the year was in the other Preston Sturges comedy he starred in.

Best Scene: The "hero" tells the truth.
4. Peter Lorre in The Mask of Dimitrios- Lorre really does not have a character so it is to his testament that he still gives an effective and enjoyable performance.

Best Scene: Cornelius finds the smuggler in his room.
3. Ray Milland in Ministry of Fear- Milland leads this thriller effectively throughout and delivers when needing to delve in his character's dark background.

Best Scene: Stephen tells about how he murdered his wife.
2. Edward G. Robinson in The Woman in the Window- Robinson gives a subdued and effective performance as the lead in a noir who is frankly to old for a noir.

Best Scene: The professor tries to come up with a way to kill a blackmailer.
1. Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity- Good Prediction Michael Patison, JackiBoyz, RatedRStar and moviefilm. (I should note I allowed the correct prediction apply in terms of Milland whether your prediction correctly placed him for The Uninvited or Ministry of Fear) MacMurray wins this year without a second thought as his portrayal of the insurance salesman whose lusts get the better for him stands easily as the strongest leading performance of the year.

Best Scene: Keyes lights the match of Neff.
Overall Rank:
  1. Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity
  2. Laird Cregar in The Lodger
  3. Laurence Olivier in Henry V
  4. Charles Boyer in Gaslight
  5. Alexander Knox in None Shall Escape
  6. Alexander Knox in Wilson
  7. Edward G. Robinson in The Woman in the Window
  8. Ray Milland in Ministry of Fear
  9. Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington
  10. Errol Flynn in Uncertain Glory 
  11. Charles Laughton in The Suspect
  12. Gregory Peck in The Keys to the Kingdom 
  13. Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not 
  14. Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet
  15. Robert Newton in This Happy Breed 
  16. William Powell in The Thin Man Goes Home 
  17. Fredric March in The Adventures of Mark Twain
  18. Alf Kjellin in Torment
  19. Paul Lukas in Uncertain Glory
  20. Charles Vanel in Le Ciel Est à Vous
  21. Van Johnson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
  22. Peter Lorre in The Mask of Dimitrios
  23. Ray Milland in The Uninvited 
  24. Eddie Bracken in Hail the Conquering Hero
  25. Pedro Armendariz in Maria Candelaria
  26. Dana Andrews in Laura 
  27. Ray Milland in Till We Meet Again
  28. John Carradine in Bluebeard
  29. Luciano De Ambrosis in The Children Are Watching Us
  30. Nikolai Cherkasov in Ivan The Terrible Part I 
  31. Dennis Price in A Canterbury Tale
  32. Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace 
  33. Clive Brook in On Approval
  34. Ronald Culver in On Approval
  35. George Sanders in The Lodger 
  36. John Sweet in A Canterbury Tale
  37. Spencer Tracy in The Seventh Cross
  38. Bing Crosby in Going My Way
  39. Cary Grant in None but the Lonely Heart
  40. Mickey Rooney in National Velvet
  41. Robert Young in The Canterville Ghost
  42. Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Parkington
  43. Zachary Scott in The Mask of Dimitrios
Next Year: 1944 Supporting

24 comments:

RatedRStar said...

eh lol? im a bit confused, I think I got my prediction wrong didn't I.

RatedRStar said...

oh wait I guess I didn't cause of The Uninvited, ah well thanks lol =D, um my request is gonna be

Jean Marais -Beauty And The Beast (Best Actor 1946)

RatedRStar said...

Peter Lorre - Arsenic And Old Lace
William Bendix - Lifeboat
Edward G Robinson - Double Indeminity
William Demarest - The Miracle Of Morgans Creek
Sydney Greenstreet - The Mask Of Dimitrios

JackiBoyz said...

oh sweet my request is Burt Lancaster for supporting 83 in Local Hero.

Edward G Robinson - Double Indeminity
Peter Lorre - Arsenic And Old Lace
William Bendix - Lifeboat
John Hodiak - Lifeboat
William Demarest - Hail The Conquering Hero

Michael Patison said...

William Bendix in Lifeboat
Laird Cregar in The Lodger
William Demarest in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Van Johnson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Peter Lorre in Arsenic and Old Lace
Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity
Robert Walker in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

As for my request, I'll go with Donald Sutherland in Without Limits in 1998 Supporting. It's probably just a 4-star performance, but I think it's great.

RatedRStar said...

The Lodger might be an interesting film to check out, looks disturbing lol.

Michael Patison said...

I also forgot Sydney Greenstreet in The Mask of Dimitrios, but it looks like others got that one mentioned.

Mark said...

Something I've always wondered, not just from Louis but from everyone. What is the best Lead Actor performance you've seen, nominated or not? For me it's Robert De Niro in Raging Bull.

JackiBoyz said...

mines would be a tie between Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.

Robert MacFarlane said...

For me it would be Case Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Yes, I know he was put in Supporting, and I will call bullshit on that until I die.

Michael Patison said...

Almost positive Louis is going to say F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus, and I'm going to have to agree with him there.

Louis Morgan said...

Michael Patison: You called it.

RatedRStar said...

um I don't no if im honest who id choose lol, I could give an easy answer which would be quite biased lol.

Matt Mustin said...

I don't know about LEAD, but my favourite SUPPORTING performance is probably Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.

RatedRStar said...

I guess mines would be William Hurt in Kiss Of The Spider Woman by default.

RatedRStar said...

what about supporting, whos everyones favourite supporting performance.

Michael Patison said...

My favorite Supporting is most certainly George Sanders in All About Eve.

Off the top of my head, I think my second favorite is Philippe Noiret in Cinema Paradiso.

Louis Morgan said...

Robert Shaw in Jaws

Mark said...

Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction

Edward L. said...

Mine are as follows:

Leading: Olivier Gourmet in Le Fils
Supporting: Robert Shaw in Jaws

Louis Morgan said...

RatedRStar: I'm actually watching The Lodger right now, Cregar's great but I'd put him in lead.

Robert MacFarlane said...

Supporting would be Martin Landau in Ed Wood for me. Seriously, that's the performance that made me love acting.

Louis Morgan said...

Landau would be an absurdly strong number 2 for me.

moviefilm said...

So, my request is Tobey Maguire for Brothers. He was considered leading for the awards race, but I consider him supporting. So I'll leave it on you, Louis. :)
And my favourite performances:
leading actor: Robert De Niro - Awakenings or Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
leading actress: Ellen Burstan - Requiem for a Dream
supporting actor: (Extremely hard to choose one) Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
supporting actress: Mo'Nique - Precious and Anne Ramsey - Throw Momma from the Train