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