Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1962: Results

5. Robert Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird - Duvall gives a flawless performance that fully realizes his his pivotal character in a matter of 3 minutes.

Best Scene: His only scene. 

4. Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Marvin gives a memorable villainous turn by being the absolute lout bully that Liberty Valance should be.

Best Scene: The duel. 

3. Tatsuya Nakadai in Sanjuro - Nakadai once again offers a worthy adversary for Toshiro Mifune's nameless samurai, but this time surprisingly strikes up a certain underlying connection between the foes.

Best Scene: The duel. 

2. Robert Ryan in Billy Budd - Ryan gives one of his best performances, giving a chilling portrayal of a sadist, but also manages to find the depth within what compels the man.

Best Scene: Billy tries to comfort Claggart. 

1. Peter Sellers in Lolita - Sellers gives an amazing performance as he's absolutely hilarious, but also manages to be surprisingly unnerving in the role at the same time.

Best Scene: Just a normal guy with a normal face.

7. Arthur Kennedy - Kennedy offers the needed two sides to his character the slightly shallow broadcaster, but as well the sardonic man who is well aware of what he is doing.

Best Scene: "I'll take your bloody picture"

6. Anthony Quayle - Quayle brings surprising depth to his role as he quietly portrays the affecting arc of his character, which is to fully understand who Lawrence really was.

Best Scene: The funeral. 

5. Anthony Quinn - Quinn gives an appropriately larger than life performance capturing the grandeur needed for the role, but importantly finds the right nuance when it is needed.

Best Scene: Tayi and Brighton.

4. Jack Hawkins - Hawkins naturally fulfills the role of the proper British General but goes further in his exploration of his character's relationship with Lawrence.

Best Scene: Allenby convinces Lawrence to take up the fight again.

3. Alec Guinness - As per usual Guinness gives strong work successfully disappearing into his role as well as giving a rather captivating portrait of a quiet yet powerful leader.

Best Scene: Faisal is interviewed.

2. Jose Ferrer - A brilliant one scene wonder as he completely realizes his character's disposition and finds the needed subtext of his scene through his performance.

Best Scene: His scene.

1. Claude Rains - Good predictions mcofra7, and Jackiboyz. Rains gives such an excellent performance as he does not waste a second in creating a fascinating depiction of a smooth political operator.

Best Scene: The ending.

Overall Rank:

1. Peter Sellers in Lolita
2. Robert Ryan in Billy Budd
3. Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia
4. Claude Rains in Lawrence of Arabia
5. Tatsuya Nakadai in Sanjuro 
6. Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7. Jose Ferrer in Lawrence of Arabia
8. Brock Peters in To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Alec Guinness in Lawrence of Arabia
10. Robert Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Jack Hawkins in Lawrence of Arabia
12. Charles Bickford in Days of Wine and Roses 
13. Burgess Meredith in Advise & Consent
14. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth 
15. James Gregory in The Manchurian Candidate
16. Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia
17. Melvyn Douglas in Billy Budd
18. Anthony Quayle in Lawrence of Arabia 
19. Charles Laughton in Advise & Consent
20. Karl Malden in Birdman of Alcatraz
21. Lee Montague in Billy Budd
22. Arthur Kennedy in Lawrence of Arabia
23. Lew Ayres in Advise & Consent
24. Frank Overton in To Kill a Mockingbird
25. Joseph Wiseman in Dr. No 
26. David McCallum in Freud
27. Richard Harris in Mutiny on the Bounty  
28. Woody Strode in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 
29. Richard Attenborough in All Night Long 
30. Henry Fonda in Advise & Consent
31. John McGiver in The Manchurian Candidate
32. Jack Klugman in Days of Wine and Roses
33. Rentaro Mikuni in Harakiri
34. David McCallum in Billy Budd
35. Edmond O'Brien in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
36. Michael Redgrave in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
37. Khigh Dheigh in The Manchurian Candidate
38. Paul Rogers in Billy Budd
39. Victor Buono in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 
40. Akira Ishihama in Harakiri
41. Walter Pidgeon in Advise & Consent
42. Robert Brown in Billy Budd
43. Gary Cockrell in Lolita
44. John Carradine in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
45. Yuzo Kayama in Sanjuro
46. John Neville in Billy Budd
47. Jack Kruschen in Cape Fear
48. John Megna in To Kill a Mockingbird 
49. Buddy Hackett in The Music Man 
50. Telly Savalas in Cape Fear
51. Andy Devine in The Man Who Liberty Valance 
52. Martin Balsam in Cape Fear
53. Rip Torn in Sweet Bird of Youth 
54. Takashi Shimura in Sanjuro
55. Hugh Griffith in Mutiny on the Bounty
56. James Anderson in To Kill a Mockingbird
57. Andrew Prine in The Miracle Worker
58. Paul Fix in To Kill a Mockingbird
59. Larry Parks in Freud
60. Wesley Addy in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 
61. Telly Savalas in Birdman of Alcatraz
62. Don Murray in Advise & Consent
63. Edmond O'Brien in Birdman of Alcatraz 
64. Henry Silva in The Manchurian Candidate
65. Victor Jory in The Miracle Worker
66. Jack Lord in Dr. No
67. Ron Howard in The Music Man
68. Keith Mitchell in All Night Long

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