Alternate Best Actor 1983: Results

5. Al Pacino in Scarface - The film treats too many sides of his character too thinly, but Pacino manages to give a rather effective flamboyant performance.

Best Scene: "Say Hello To My Little Friend"

4. Ken Ogata in The Ballad of Narayama - Ogata gives a very quiet but powerful portrayal of the emotions of a very stoic man.

Best Scene: It begins to snow.

3. Peter Billingsley in A Christmas Story - Billingsley's gives a very funny performance that compliments the film's narration particularly well.

Best Scene: Seeing Santa.

2. James Woods in Videodrome -Woods, as usual, gives a very energetic performance, and manages to keep a certain humanity in the film no matter how strange it gets.

Best Scene: "Long live the new flesh"

1. Christopher Walken in The Dead Zone - Christopher Walken proves once again whenever he's really challenged in a role he absolutely delivers. The challenge of his role here is technically not the complexity, his character is purposefully average in most ways, but never making his character seem simple. It's a great performance that deserves mention alongside his work in The Deer Hunter.

Best Scene: Johnny meets his old girlfriend's husband.

Overall Rank:

1. Tom Courtenay in The Dresser
2. Christopher Walken in The Dead Zone
3. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies
4. Gerard Depardieu in Danton
5. Wojciech Pszoniak in Danton
6. David Bowie in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
7. James Woods in Videodrome 
8. Ben Kingsley in Betrayal 
9. Alan Bates in The Return of the Soldier
10. Peter Billingsley in A Christmas Story
11. Albert Finney in The Dresser
12. Om Puri in Ardh Satya
13. Tom Conti in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 
14. Jeroen Krabbe in The Fourth Man
15. Jeremy Irons in Betrayal
16. Ken Ogata in The Ballad of Narayama 
17. Keith Gordon in Christine 
18. Gene Hackman in Eureka
19. Tom Conti in Reuben, Reuben 
20. David Villalpando in El Norte
21. Eddie Murphy in Trading Places
22. Tom Cruise in Risky Business   
23. Anthony Perkins in Psycho II
24. Charles Martin Smith in Never Cry Wolf
25. Jean-Louis Trintignant in Confidentially Yours 
26. Bruno Ganz in In the White City
27. Al Pacino in Scarface   
28. Mark Hamill in The Return of the Jedi
29. Erwin Leder in Angst
30. Gene Hackman in Uncommon Valor
31. Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact 
32. Mel Brooks in To Be Or Not To Be
33. Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places  
34. Michael Caine in Educating Rita 
35. Omero Antonutti in El Sur
36. Kevin Kline in The Pirates of Penzance 
37. Paco de Lucia in Carmen 
38. Michael Keaton in Mr. Mom
39. William Hurt in Gorky Park
40. Anthony Higgins in The Draughtman's Contract
41. Ross Harris in Testament 
42. Oleg Yankovsky in Nostalgia
43. Peter Riegert in Local Hero
44. Matthew Broderick in WarGames
45. Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again
46. Nick Nolte in Under Fire 
47. Woody Allen in Zelig 
48. Jonathan Pryce in The Ploughman's Lunch
49. Christian Patey in L'Argent
50. Rutger Hauer in Eureka 
51. Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains
52. Rodney Dangerfield in Easy Money 
53. Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl
54. Mandy Patinkin in Yentl 
55. Jackie Chan in Project A
56. John Stockwell in Christine
57. Eric Roberts in Star 80
58. Sean Penn in Bad Boys
59. Matt Dillon in Rumble Fish
60. Alan Arkin in The Return of Captain Invincible
61. Timothy Hutton in Daniel  
62. Vidal Peterson in Something Wicked This Way Comes
63. Shawn Carson in Something Wicked This Way Comes
64. Christopher Reeve in Superman III 
65. C. Thomas Howell in The Outsiders
66. Chevy Chase in National Lampoon's Vacation
67. Llan Mitchell-Smith in Daniel
68. Nicholas Gledhill in Careful, He Might Hear You
69. Norman Chui in Duel to the Death
70. Rex Smith in The Pirates of Penzance
71. John Travolta in Staying Alive
72. Richard Gere in Honorary Consul 
73. Richard Pryor in Superman III 
74. Desi Arnaz Jr. in House of Long Shadows
75. Dennis Quiad in Jaws 3-D
76. Roger Moore in Octopussy

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