Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1978: Results

5. Bruce Dern in The Driver - Dern brings the right color to his purposefully minimalist role, finding the character through his eccentric presence.

Best Scene: Ending.

4. Scott Reiniger in Dawn of the Dead - Reiniger delivers the strongest performance in his film, creating a unique and moving arc within a zombie narrative.

Best Scene: "Perfect baby"

3. Barry Bostwick in Movie Movie - Bostwick best realizes the tone of his film, delivering a properly lively musical performance that has the right fun with the approach.

Best Scene: "I just need the Girl"

2. Christopher Plummer in The Silent Partner - Plummer delivers a properly diabolical turn who only hides his most overt psychopathy for a bit of sadism.

Best Scene: "We're partners"

1. Yaphet Kotto in Blue Collar - Good prediction Luke. GM, Tahmeed BRAZINTERMA, John Smith and Calvin. Kotto makes a memorable impression in the film offering so well a vivid sense of his character's camaraderie with his co-stars, but also the sense of his alternative perspective. 

Best Scene: Speech. 

Updated Overall

Next: 1983 Lead

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1978: Bruce Dern in The Driver

Bruce Dern did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying The Detective in The Driver.

The Driver, which follows a, well, driver (Ryan O'Neal) who is a getaway specialist, was much derided in its time. Although I will say unfairly, I mean the technical virtues of the film alone should've guaranteed it some praise, but I'll say it was before its time. As the film exists purposefully as a specifically cinematic piece, and makes no illusions regarding this fact. The overused criticism of "style over substance" too often ignores that style itself can be enough, particularly if it is the intention of the piece. That is the case for the Driver, which I suppose I will defend as a proper strictly cinematic work by director Walter Hill, that could only exist as a film, and does so with spectacular style. Although I will say this approach was in a way perfected in its spiritual successor of Drive, though by adding a bit more direct substance, I still think it stands well as the purest form of this approach. A film that exists through the language of film.

Speaking to the film's minimalist approach is right within the script that names each character as their role, rather than a person. The approach being to make an action picture distilled to its purest form. Bruce Dern is quite simply ideal for this type approach, as the pseudo antagonist to the driver as the detective trying to catch. This is because if the character itself might be limited, you have a performer like Bruce Dern who is quite simply always a character. The challenge presented to Dern being to make something out of a purpose archetype of the dogged detective who do what it takes to catch his man. I will say many a performer likely would've been completely forgettable in this role, but this part is just right for the always at least a little off-beat Dern. This is as in a way one will take notice of the detective, just as we see him passively playing pool in the opening scene, because well it's Bruce Dern. Bruce Dern is more than just casting though, as he is an actor, who importantly doesn't quite approach a scene like anyone else, much in the same way of say a Christopher Walken, his co-nominee from 1978 for the actual Oscar. This as he questions witnesses looking at a lineup, Dern's slightly manic eyes, and posture almost like a pecking bird, offers us a bit more of an indecisive character within the detective. This is technically as the detective is merely just asking questions, but Dern does far more with it than that. Take as he attempts to interrogate the driver after the first heist of the film, and Dern just owns the dialogue he has, and the scene. This in bringing that bit of mania in his expression as he speaks of his wish to catch the "cowboy that's never been caught" with a delighted glee, that creates a greater sense of obsession than is honestly in the dialogue. Dern makes investigation scenes have something extra to them, as he can add that color to any line, even just remarking on the size of a gun, or just in that atypical physical manner of his that skews things just a bit, while still definitely delivering on the direct point of the role. This in bringing a bit more ego in the detective as he lays down his trap, and boasts about his method. One of Dern's best moments being talking directly with the Driver and commenting on the driver's life. Dern has the right degree of fun with it, showing in turn that the detective loves the chase a bit, and gets a kick honestly out of playing the game with the Driver. Dern in a way showing the needed performance even in the Detective's own action scene of sorts, by bringing to life the dogged determination and frustration of the moment as we follow him nearly silently trying to catch a crook. Dern effectively becoming the protagonist in a way, if only for a scene. My favorite moment of his performance though being the ending, helped by a great edit, where the driver goes to attempt to pickup what he thinks is illicit payment to only find himself surrounding by cops lead by the detective. Dern leading with the right smug posture. What's best about it though, as both men find they were had in some way, Dern delivers a slight modesty in his final lines even a sense of understanding in his eyes as they both accept their "loss". Dern makes the most out of the type, he's given here, making more than there is in the right way, as offering essentially the character for the role.

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1978

And the Nominees Were Not:

Barry Bostwick in Movie Movie

Bruce Dern in The Driver

Yaphet Kotto in Blue Collar

Christopher Plummer in The Silent Partner

Scott Reiniger in Dawn of the Dead

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1975: Results

5. Ugo Tognazzi in My Friends - Tognazzi gives a wonderful endearing turn that creates the right dynamic with the titular friends while also creating a undercurrent of pathos within the man.

Best Scene: Death bed of a friend.

4. Bruce Dern in Smile - Dern gives a hilarious yet also somehow moving portrayal of a man who has devised his own form of the American dream that he uses to live life by.

Best Scene: Talking to his friend in prison.

3. Alan Bates in In Celebration - Bates, along with all his co-stars, gives a terrific turn portraying so effectively the desperation in his portrait of a son struggling to find a way to reveal his discontent with his life and family at a reunion.

Best Scene: Can't sleep.

2. Nicol Williamson in The Wilby Conspiracy - Williamson steals his film wholesale through his dynamic and domineering portrayal of a cunning villainy fighting passionately for what he believes in.

Best Scene: Revealing the conspiracy.

1. Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws - Dreyfuss, as with his two main co-stars, gives a great performance that compliments them wonderfully through his off-beat energy while also effectively realizing his own place within the dramatic elements of the film.

Best Scene: Indianapolis reaction.

Updated Overall

Next Year: 1987 lead

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1975: Bruce Dern in Smile

Bruce Dern did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Big Bob Freelander in Smile.

Smile is a fairly enjoyable satire following the ins and outs of a beauty pageant.

Bruce Dern is an actor who has had an especially long and successful career. His idiosyncratic personality has made him an indispensable part of cinema in general, as no one is quite like Bruce Dern, but Bruce Dern. Although it never has seemed like Dern suffered a true lull, unlike many actors, it is fair to say the high point of his career came in the seventies where rather atypical performers like Dern were embraced more so than usual. This allowed Dern frequently higher profiles roles, and larger parts in general. This also gave him the chance to express his rather remarkable range at an actor as even though there is only one Bruce Dern, there is not only one Bruce Dern performance. Smile from the outset an interesting role for Dern to play of Big Bob Freelander, car salesman entrepreneur, who is representative in the film of an all-American businessman, but it goes beyond that as perhaps the representation of the American dream personified.

This being a satire the nature of the American dream obviously isn't that of optimism, however I believe there is a specific choice that Dern takes with this performance. A very intelligence choice in that he chooses, with his own portrayal, to create sympathy for Big Bob, while still allowing for the satire to exist within his work. Now the satire comes from the man who is the car salesman seemingly in all of life. Dern makes use of that one of a kind grin of his as a man so brightly selling you whatever he can as a representative of so much more than just the automobile he happens to be selling. Now before we get to really know Big Bob Dern is is indeed rather amusing in presenting this ever optimistic front of the man. In the way he talks about the upcoming pageant, his business, or even the way he glides around his proper American homestead and family, is that of a walking on certain kind of air. At a cursory glance Dern presents a man just living the dream, and this becomes comical when the veneer of the "good life" is so easy to see through, however Dern keeps that titular smile of a man just so very happy in his existence it would seem.

Dern is a bit fascinating here as becomes a bit of a bright spot within the film, even though there is that level of mockery for Big Bob in the narrative. As through the film we see all the grime beneath the "glamor" of those in and around the pageant. Dern though is just trying to be the smiling face of it all, but Dern as the film progresses slowly reveals that this is more than just a surface comic turn. There's more to Big Bob, than just that smile, though that is an essential facet of who he is. A key in this is that Dern makes that smile genuine to the character, and that every moment he's smiling it's a true to who the man is. Dern doesn't wink around that, but rather shows a man who honestly wants to look at the better side of things. This becomes most evident within the relationship with his best friend Andy (Nicholas Pryor) who is unhappily married to one of the fellow heads of the pageant Brenda (Barbara Feldon). I love how much warmth Dern exudes as he tries to cheer up Andy each time. Dern does so with desperation, but not so much within himself. The desperation rather is towards Bob trying to get Andy on the same page, and he's so wonderfully earnestly desperate in this attempt.

Dern reinforces the idea consistently that Big Bob cares for his friend at every point, even as his methods to cheer him up are taking him to bizarre ritual celebration, or telling him that it is okay to be disappointed with life. In every delivery though Dern accentuates the positive, even when that is quite thin. This is even as Andy says the unthinkable with "Screw the pageant", where Dern's dejected reaction is absolutely hilarious, but also moving in a strange thing as he doesn't put a hint of venom in his retort "what am I suppose to say to that?". Although this is a man being the salesman to his own friend, Dern is terrific by reinforcing the idea at every point that the friendship is real, and his attempt to help authentic, even if problematic. What is maintained in Dern's work at every point is the devotion towards Big Bob's beliefs which includes his faith in the pageant. Again Dern is very funny, by "accident", by keeping this sincerity in the moments of judging where he brings this great seriousness actually in every question when Bob works as a judge. Dern reinforces again that Bob holds his ideals dear, and again this very funny, but also more than a little sad given the triviality of it all. The one element that Dern shows Bob completely shed his smile is after his son is caught attempt to take nude pictures of the pageant contestants. Dern is great in the moment of bringing his son to mandated therapy as he offers a strict severity in his voice reinforcing the disgust and disappointment that offers the right believable limits on Bob's hopeful attitude. Dern gives a delightful turn here as he delivers on realizing the satire at every point, however he doesn't use this to be a one note caricature. He is rather wholly convincing in making Big Bob Freelander worthy of perhaps few chuckles at his expense, but also sympathy for a man so firmly holding onto his view of the American dream.

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1975

And the Nominees Were Not:

Alan Bates in In Celebration

Brian Cox in In Celebration

Bill Owen in In Celebration

Bruce Dern in Smile

Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws

Nicol Williamson in The Wilby Conspiracy

Ugo Tognazzi in My Friends

For Prediction Purposes:

Bates in In Celebration

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1974: Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson, and Roberts Blossom in The Great Gatsby

This adaptation of the Great Gatsby though it could have used a little more vibrant direction, and there is a black hole at the center of it I still found to be a rather compelling film. This is in part due to the screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola but also due to the overall ensemble. Although there is that black hole in the center of it with Robert Redford in the titular role, who despite being well cast seems indifferent to the film, which is rather problematic for Gatsby a man with a passion infused purpose. The rest of the performers though make up for this including two of the main supporting actors of the film, and technically a minor one.

The two major ones though are Bruce Dern who was not Oscar nominated despite being nominated for a Golden Globe for portraying Tom Buchanan the lecherous husband of Daisy (Mia Farrow) the object of Gatsby's affections, and Scott Wilson who was not Oscar nominated as George Wilson the working class husband of the woman, Myrtle (Karen Black), Buchanan is having an affair with. Both roles honestly could have been simplified through the performances. In Dern's case Tom is a truly despicable character who even beyond his lechery indulges in brief physical abuse of his mistress, and espouses on his views on white supremacy. Meanwhile Scott Wilson's George is a fairly simple minded gas station owner who only slowly comes to even realize that his wife his having an affair despite the fact that she and Tom do little to hide it. In both circumstances they avoid any simplicity that lesser performances could have entailed. Dern in no way hides the miserable nature of Tom portraying the vile smugness when espousing his beliefs, and the limited selfishness when berating his mistress. Dern still makes Tom a human being if a vile one. In even his cruel scenes with Myrtle Dern portrays it less as Tom being intentionally sadistic, but rather depicts it the troubling reaction of a spoiled man who is not getting something exactly as he wants it. This is pivotal though in Tom as he does love Myrtle and this is shown in Dern's performance. I also love Dern in the scene where he spends time with Gatsby and Daisy. Again Dern's terrific by not playing into a villain but rather bringing an awkwardness and even shyness in Tom as he tries to hide his distress while struggling with his wife's infidelity. Obviously what Dern brings to the role doesn't make Tom any more sympathetic, even his pains involve a severe hypocrisy but what he does do is create a three dimensional role that could have been a one note villain. This leads to there even being some real power to Dern's performance particularly when a terrible tragedy occurs as Dern realizes the heavy loss in Tom, which doesn't make him a better man, but does show that he's human.

Scott Wilson, as usual really, excels with his brief screentime initially revealing just a real earnestness in his George. Wilson brings the right simplicity of attitude that grants an understanding to his initial blindness. He delivers his early moments just with the proper friendliness of a man of his nature where it would be beyond him to second guess his wife. We don't see him learn of the truth but we do see him after he has discovered it. Wilson is great in revealing just the quiet subdued pain in the man who really doesn't want anyone to know about his foolishness, yet Wilson brings such a palatable distress as the man speaks to finally figuring everything out. Wilson's George ends up carrying out the second most horrific act in the film, however what he does in the role creates a direct sympathy for the poor man's plight. Even when committing the violent act at the end of the film. Wilson is very moving by portraying the sheer weight of the emotional anguish that propels the man to his horrible actions. Again a role that could have just been the fool, or just a plot device. Wilson is neither as he offers a real insight into George's suffering, and makes him a victim rather than a villain.

Roberts Blossom did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Mr. Gatz in The great Gatsby.

My favorite performance in the film though is a rather short one by Roberts Blossom, yes the old man in Home Alone, who offered something rather special to that film as he does the same here. Blossom doesn't appear until the last ten minutes of the film as Gatsby's father with Gatsby's real last name Mr. Gatz. Blossom appears late after the tragic death of his son. What Blossom does here is absolutely remarkable in such short time, and yes I'll admit I have a particular affection whenever an actor can do so much with so little. He appears and underlying to begin with he is wholly heartbreaking in every moment as the loss of his son is felt in every moment of his performance. In every halted breath, and stumbling moment in his physical performance Blossom exudes the sheer grief that the man is suffering through. The extent of his sadness is so well realized as Blossom shows a man just barely keeping it together as he attends his son's funeral. This is not merely a heartbreaking depiction of grief, which it is, but there is such a richness to this portrayal that goes beyond that despite how potent and poignant that aspect of his performance may be. Blossom brings a certain discovering in his depiction realizing the man finding out what it is his son became though with that there is a sense of confusion of the man trying to come to terms with what his son became. Blossom finds that confusion but also a bit of pride as he speaks of his son's ambition and his search for his son. Blossom finds everything that that his son meant to Mr. Gatz, and everything that his loss meant to him. Although he's only onscreen for a few minutes I found his worked resonated more than any other in the film. It went even beyond that because as much as this performance works as such a powerful portrayal of a father's bereavement he also made me care more about Gatsby than Redford ever did. Blossom finds the tragedy of the man who gained everything only to lose it all, and he didn't even play that character. This performance is a testament to what a great character actor like Roberts Blossom can do even in the most minor of roles.

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1989: Results

5. Burt Lancaster in Field of Dreams  - Lancaster gives a moving and memorable performance that was a worthy one to be his last.

Best Scene: Moonlight's introduction.

4. Fred Gwynne in Pet Sematary - Gwynne rises above his film to give an entertaining, but also very affecting performance that finds the right tone for the material.

Best Scene: Jud apologizes for what he has done.

3. Ray McAnally in My Left Foot - McAnally is a great performance by realizing his character as complex father who's capable of cruelty but love as well.

Best Scene: "Mother"

2. Bruce Dern in The 'burbs - Bruce Dern gives a consistently hilarious performance that brings some laughs to every scene he is in.

Best Scene: The Klopeks come back.

1. Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Good Predictions Luke, Jackiboyz, Michael McCarthy, GM, and Anonymous. Connery succeeds completely in playing a part against his usual time giving an extremely enjoyable humorous turn, but at the same time effortlessly turns Henry Jones Sr into the beating heart of the film.

Best Scene: End of the tank chase.

Overall Rank:

1. Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Bruce Dern in The 'burbs
3. Ray McAnally in My Left Foot
4. Hugh O'Conor in My Left Foot
5. Danny Aiello in Do The Right Thing
6. Fred Gwynne in Pet Sematary
7. Ray Liotta in Field of Dreams
8. Derek Jacobi in Henry V
9. Ossie Davis in Do The Right Thing
10. Burt Lancaster in Field of Dreams
11. Andre Braugher in Glory 
12. Beau Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys
13. Morgan Freeman in Glory
14. Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 
15. Peter MacNicol in Ghostbusters II 
16. Ian Holm in Henry V
17. Rick Ducommun in The 'burbs
18. James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams
19. Jerry Orbach in Crimes and Misdemeanors
20. Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future Part II
21. Robert Eddison in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
22. John Turturro in Do the Right Thing
23. Denzel Washington in Glory
24. Ethan Hawke in Dead Poets Society
25. Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters II
26. Danny DeVito in The War of the Roses
27. Willem Dafoe in Born on the Fourth of July
28. Jason Robards in Parenthood
29. John Leguizamo in Casualties of War 
30. Denholm Elliot in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 
31. Michael Biehn in The Abyss
32. Robert Downey Jr. in True Believer
33. Richard Jordan in Romero
34. River Phoenix in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
35. Henry Gibson in The 'burbs 
36. John Mahoney in Say Anything 
37. Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters II
38. Paul Scofield in Henry V
39. John Rhys-Davies in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
40. Corey Feldman in The 'burbs
41. Julian Glover in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
42. Joss Ackland in Lethal Weapon 2
43. Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters II
44. DeForest Kelley in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
45. Kevork Malikyan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
46. Tom Hulce in Parenthood
47. Gale Hansen in Dead Poets Society
48. Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters II
49. Bruno Kirby in When Harry Met Sally
50. Randy Quaid in Christmas Vacation 
51. Giancarlo Esposito in Do The Right Thing
52. Charles Hallahan in True Believer
53. Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets Society
54. Brian Doyle-Murray in Christmas Vacation
55. Raymond J. Barry in Born on the Fourth of July
56. William Hickey in Christmas Vacation
57. Alan Alda in Crimes and Misdemeanors
58. John C. Reilly in Casualties of War 
59. Benecio Del Toro in License To Kill
60. Miko Hughes in Pet Sematary 
61. Joaquin Phoenix in Parenthood
62. Zakes Mokae in A Dry White Season 
63. Keanu Reeves in Parenthood 
64. Sam Waterston in Crimes and Misdemeanors
65. Brian Blessed in Henry V
66. Marlon Brando in A Dry White Season
67. Christian Bale in Henry V
68. Macauley Culkin in Uncle Buck
69. Tom Bower in True Believer
70. Don Patrick Harvey in Casualties of War
71. Robert Davi in License to Kill
72. Brother Theodore in The 'burbs
73. Michael Byrne in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
74. Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society
75. Ian McKellen in Scandal
76. Kurtwood Smith in True Believer
77. George Carlin in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
78. John Randolph in Christmas Vacation
79. Pat Morita in The Karate Kid Part III
80. Michael Gough in Batman
81. Laurence Luckinbill in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
82. Bill Nunn in Do the Right Thing 
83. Rick Ducommun in Little Monsters
84. Samuel L. Jackson in Do the Right Thing 
85. Peter Gallagher in Sex, Lies, and Videotape
86. Jackey Vinson in The Wizard
87. Jurgen Prochnow in A Dry White Season 
88. Robbie Coltrane in Henry V
89. Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy
90. Frank Whaley in Field of Dreams
91. E.G. Marshall in Christmas Vacation
92. Rick Moranis in Parenthood
93. Billy Dee Williams in Batman
94. Alan King in Enemies, A Love Story
95. Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 
96. Martin Kove in The Karate Kid III
97. Thomas F. Wilson in Back to the Future Part II
98. Johnny Galecki in Christmas Vacation
99. Cary Elwes in Glory
100. Abe Vigoda in Look Who's Talking
101. Pat Hingle in Batman
102. Robert Wuhl in Batman 
103. Timothy Busfield in Field of Dreams
104. George Segal in Look Who's Talking
105. Reginald VelJohnson in Turner & Hooch
106. Thomas Ian Griffith in The Karate Kid III
107. Beau Bridges in The Wizard
108. Daniel Stern in Little Monsters
109. Glenn Shadix in Heathers 
110. Frank Whaley in Little Monsters 
111. Scott Paulin in Turner & Hooch 
112. Mickey Rooney in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland 
113. Christian Slater in The Wizard
114. Jay Underwood in Uncle Buck
115. Ben Savage in Little Monsters
116. Brad Greenquist in Pet Sematary
117. Luke Edwards in The Wizard 
118. Frank Whaley in Born on the Fourth of July
119. Will Seltzer in The Wizard
120. Sean Penn in Casualties of War
121. Josh Evans in Born on the Fourth of July

Next Year: 1959 Lead

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1989: Rick Ducommun and Bruce Dern in The 'burbs

Rick Ducommun did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Art Weingartner in The 'burbs.

The 'Burbs is an enjoyable comedy about a group of neighbors in a suburb who suspect their new rarely seen neighbors have a morbid secret.

Rick Ducommun seemed to specialize in slightly comic supporting parts in order to add just a bit of humor to the supporting cast, for example as one of locals in Groundhogs Day. Ducommun's most notable role perhaps came in this film as one of the neighbors of straight man on a stay at home vacation Ray (Tom Hanks). Ducommun plays Art Ray's best friend and the neighbor who is definitely the most sure that there is something going wrong at the home of the mysterious Klopeks. This technically speaking is a fairly standard role for a comedy like this being the far more excitable best friend to our more sensible lead, a mainstay although I do ponder what was the exact first version of it but I digress. Rick Ducommun offers importantly a good version of such a character. He brings a great deal of energy to his performance fitting to Art's obsession with Klopeks. Ducommun makes the enthusiasm feel natural though, and succeeds in making Art endearing rather than off putting which a character like this can easily become in the wrong hands.

Ducommun creates an enjoyable tone for his performance in the early scenes where they are simply examining the Klopeks from a distance and Ray is actually quite skeptical about the notion that there is anything suspect about whatever it is that they are doing in their basement at night. Ducommun keeps Art's manner almost curiously light as he espouses his thoughts on what they definitely are doing, according Art anyways, as though he is a boy who is telling his favorite ghost story. Well Art does basically that when he tells the story of a soda jerk who murdered his family which Ducommun delivers as Art being more than anything a bit excited by the prospect that such a story is going on right across from his house. Ducommun keeps Art as a constant source of a foolish interest in the morbid reality he's just so sure of. Of course one of my favorite moments of his performance is actually when Art kinda turns things on its head when they are actually digging to find something. Ducommun is great as he shows Art basically loses all interest once the fun of the project is lost because there is a requirement for him to do some actual work.

Of course the meat of his performance is with the direct hijinks involved with Art trying to find or witness something out of the ordinary along with Ray. Ducommun and Hanks are quite good together in portraying there various sense of curiosity which is always a bit stronger when it comes to Art's reaction. They are both equally adept though in portraying there freak outs when either something goes wrong or they have found something. The best moment of these of course being when they think they've discovered the femur of their elderly neighbor where both of them scream in a hilarious unison.  Ducommun manages just the right way to work his character though in that he keeps Art likable although he still also does make it so you quite understand why he'd eventually get on Ray's nerves particularly at the end when Ray's finally has had enough leading him to attack Art. Something I quite like the film actually though is that Art in no way learns a lesson by the end, and Ducommun expresses this so well in Art's final absurd monologue about how creeps should not mess with suburbanites. This a good sidekick performance, which I quite like, although don't quite love, unlike perhaps.....

Bruce Dern did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Lieutenant Mark Rumsfield in The 'burbs.

Bruce Dern plays another one of the neighbors in suburb that being Vietnam veteran Lieutenant Mark Rumsfield. Well the moment he appears with the beginning from the theme of Patton playing in the background, you know that it's going to be something memorable. Rumsfield's whole presence in the film is really one of the best elements of the film. After all the hijinks perhaps could have been left to the straight man Ray and his goofy neighbor Art, but the 'burbs decides to throw in a third player into the proceedings. That player being Bruce Dern clearly reprising his Oscar nominated role in Coming Home, well not really, but Dern perhaps plays into that idea just a bit. I mean after all his entrance in this film is not too far from first appearance in that film as gung ho military sort. Bruce Dern is just terrific as he stops out with such unshakable pride to once again raise the American flag on his ground. He's a true soldier well that is until he accidentally steps into dog excrement from his obnoxious elderly neighbor leaving Dern to perfectly lose his resolve and gain the resolve to let the neighbor have it.

What's marvelous here really is that Dern does not really take many steps to adjust his performance for a comedy. Dern might as well be in Coming Home in a way because the intensity he showed in that performance can be seen here as well, although I would argue to a far greater effect. In just some of the early scenes where we get Rumsfield's reaction along with the rest of the neighborhood Dern always manages to come out on top in terms of amount of humor derived through just how intently he glares as a new development appears. Dern is consistently brilliant in his depiction of Rumsfield's whole approach to taking on the Klopeks as he plays it as though Rumsefield is basically getting ready for some sort of black ops mission in the way he watches with the other men, as well as his very serious uncertainty after the other men suffer a bee attack due to attempting to knock on the Klopeks's door. I particularly enjoy just how impressed he is with himself when he has removed a window to break into a house and proudly announces that he did it the "military" way.

The insanity of it all continues of course as the men proceed with their plans which eventually leads them to take the ultimate action which is for Ray and Rumsfield to visit the Klopeks with their wives. Dern is just amazing throughout this sequence because of just how insane he shows Rumsfield to be as he supposedly just hanging out with the Klopeks for a friendly visit. Well Dern makes nothing friendly whatsoever about Rumsfield manner. He's always twisted in some way or another as he seems to be examining every bit of the home as though he's looking for defensive weaknesses or something. Dern keeps the same sort of crazed manner in the way he seems to be as imposing as he can be towards every Klopek member, turning his head in psychotic bent as though Rumsfield seems as though he's going to be interrogating every one of the weird brood. Dern is magnificent as he does bring potent sort of madness he's rather well known for but ups it perhaps just a notch in his depiction of Rumsfield method, I especially like when he questions Ray's manhood, when it appears as though he's backing out on the whole idea.

What works so well about Dern's performance though is when there are the moments where the fact that Rumsfield is not exactly in the military still and for all we know he might not actually have ever seen any action. There's is something incredibly funny about Bruce Dern giving such a driven performance even when Rumsfield at one point with Art is basically asking Ray's wife if Ray can come out and play. The conviction Dern brings to the whole tough vet makes it some comic gold when it perhaps slips for a moment. There is one moment in particular where Dern reveals probably the more truthful side of Rumsfield when he espouses his rather pathetic fears about climbing up a power line because its rather high. Eventual the film leads to when all three of the men concoct their plan to go through the Klopek's entire house while they are out. I have to admit I can't help but laugh throughout the sequence any time the film focuses on Dern and whatever he is doing. He really does not get to say much but every little thing that he does is just a hoot. He also nicely gets to top it all off with his masterful delivery of the immortal line "Hey... Pinocchio! Where are you going?" just before running off to capture one of Klopek's "proving" his obvious military might. I love this performance of Bruce Dern's as he pretty much make use of every second of his screen time to make one memorable character out of Lieutenant Mark Rumsfield.

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1989

And the Nominees Were Not:

Ray McAnally in My Left Foot

Hugh O'Conor in My Left Foot

Bruce Dern in The 'burbs

Rick Ducommun in The 'burbs

Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Burt Lancaster in Field of Dreams

James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams

Fred Gwynne in Pet Sematary  

For the prediction Contest:

McAnally for My Left Foot

Dern for The 'burbs

Lancaster for Field of Dreams 

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1972: Results

5. Ian Bannen in The Offence - Bannen gives an effective portrayal  of the character's damaged state even if he can't fully realize what the writing demands from the character.

Best Scene: The beginning of the interrogation. 

4. Ned Beatty in Deliverance - Beatty has a particularly thankless role that could have easily been a caricature, but realizes a genuine victim through his performance.

Best Scene: Squeal like a Pig

3. Robert Shaw in Young Winston - Shaw, as usual, gives a striking performance first in realizing the quiet command of his character then later his tragic decay.

Best Scene: Lord Randolph fails to deliver his speech in parliament.

2. Eddie Axberg in The New Land - Axberg matches the naturalism of his co-stars and gives a moving depiction of his character's doomed journey.

Best Scene: Robert goes to the brothel.

1. Bruce Dern in The Cowboys - Dern actually gives a my favorite supporting of 1972 as he creates such a memorable pathetic scoundrel as the man who shot the man who shot Liberty Valance.

Best Scene: Asa Watts does the unthinkable. 

Overall Rank:

1. Bruce Dern in The Cowboys
2. Joel Grey in Cabaret
3. James Caan in The Godfather
4. Eddie Axberg in The New Land
5. Robert Shaw in Young Winston
6. Robert Duvall in The Godfather
7. Ned Beatty in Deliverance
8. John Cazale in The Godfather
9. Richard S. Castellano in The Godfather
10. Gene Hackman in Prime Cut
11. Ronny Cox  in Deliverance
12. Alistar Sim in The Ruling Class
13. Clive Revill in Avanti!
14. Nigel Green in The Ruling Class 
15. Barry Foster in Frenzy
16. Eddie Albert in The Heartbreak Kid
17. Alec McCowen in Frenzy
18. Arthur Lowe in The Ruling Class
19. Stacy Keach in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
20. Abe Vigoda in The Godfather
21. Roscoe Lee Browne in The Cowboys
22. Peter Boyle in The Candidate
23. Sterling Hayden in The Godfather
24. Nicholas Colasanto in Fat City
25. Robert Duvall in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
26. Howard da Silva in 1776 
27. Fernando Rey in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie  
28. Tony Roberts in Play It Again, Sam
29. Julien Bertheau in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
30. Ned Beatty in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
31. Edward Andrews in Avanti!
32. Robert Duvall in Joe Kidd 
33. Helmut Griem in Cabaret
34. Alex Rocco in The Godfather
35. Kenneth Mars in What's Up, Doc?
36. Donald Madden in 1776 
37. Paul Winfield in Sounder
38. Jack Albertson in The Poseidon Adventure
39. Melvyn Douglas in The Candidate
40. Gianni Russo in The Godfather
41. Roddy McDowall in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
42. John Marley in The Godfather
43. Anthony Hopkins in Young Winston 
44. Fritz Wepper in Cabaret
45. Anthony Perkins in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
46. Slim Pickens in The Getaway
47. Bill McKinney in Deliverance
48. Red Buttons in The Poseidon Adventure 
49. Jerry Lacy in Play It Again, Sam
50. Ben Johnson in The Getaway
51. Ron Holgate in 1776
52. Arthur O'Connell in The Poseidon Adventure
53. Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward in Deliverance
54. Gregory Walcott in Prime Cut
55. Michael Bryant in The Ruling Class
56. Micheal Murphy in What's Up, Doc?
57. Bernard Bribbins in Frenzy
58. Roddy McDowall in The Poseidon Adventure
59. Ian Holm in Young Winston
60. A Martinez in The Cowboys
61. Harry Andrews in The Ruling Class
62. Al Martino in The Godfather
63. Ruy Guerra in Aguirre, the Wrath of God
64. Ernest Borgnine in The Poseidon Adventure
65. Del Negro in Aguirre, the Wrath of God
66. Don Stroud in Joe Kidd
67. Donald Moffat in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
68. Paul Frankeur in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
69. Jean-Pierre Leaud in Last Tango in Paris
70. William Mervyn in The Ruling Class
71. Roy Poole in 1776
72. James Best in Sounder
73. Ron Rifkin in Silent Running
74. Ken Howard in 1776
75. Cliff Potts in Silent Running
76. John Saxon in Joe Kidd
77. Don Porter in The Candidate

Next Year: 1929 Lead/Supporting

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1972: Bruce Dern in The Cowboys

Bruce Dern did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Asa Watts also known as "Long Hair" in The Cowboys.

The Cowboys is a pretty good western about an aging rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) who takes on relatively young boys as ranch hands when his usual help goes off on the gold rush, although I would say the final act probably should be shown as darker than the film allows it to be.

Bruce Dern first appears just after Wil has started off on the trail with his cow herding boys, and being Bruce Dern it seems unlikely this will be a good thing for the cattle drive. This does necessarily seem to be the case though as Asa Watts first approaches with a few other men just claiming to be looking for a job. Dern presents such an earnestness in Asa as he first inquires about the work and proceeds to claim previous experience with cattle drives. Dern's quite good in the moment and the eagerness he brings to the part would probably fool a man softer than Wil, or at least one less informed about the cattle industry. Wil calls him out on his lie about his experience leaving Asa to admit that he and the other men have recently been released from prison and because of that have not found work anywhere else. Although Dern conveys that there is more to Asa than he is projecting, but he's a terrific sneak here as he seems so genuinely heartbroken as Asa asks if Wil is going to reject them like all the rest did due to their criminal record.

After Wil ignores Asa and his group due to Asa's lying he disappears for some time though the impact Dern makes in his first scene ensures that you know that won't be the last we see of old Asa Watts and his longer hair. Well that comes well into the drive when one of the boys wanders away from the others and walks right into Asa and his men. Dern is great in this scene as he first is so perfectly patronizing to the boy greeting him with a pleasant smile and a rather warm introduction as he greets the boy explaining that he's been following their group in secret the whole time. Obviously the men are not following the drive just looking for a job and the boy needs to be silenced, though apparently child murder is not quite in Asa's line. Dern is particularly proficient in this scene as he's a master of turning a smile of a welcoming man to that of a psychotic in an instance. Dern is incredibly chilling as he brings such a vicious intensity into Asa as he threatens to find and kill the boy no matter what if the boy speaks a word of their presence to Wil. There is no question that the boy will keep his word as Dern makes it something to be assumed through how frightening he is in the scene.

The boy stays silent as he should leaving Asa to eventually make his move to steal the cattle as he successfully catches Wil and the boys off guard. Dern is brilliant in this scene as he moves about in such a cocky stride as Asa as Wil exactly where he wants him. There is such a slimy confidence Dern brings as shows that Asa is quite enjoying the fact that he's gotten one over on one man. Dern also carries a considerable menace, not necessarily physically as the film even seems to clothe him in a certain way to diminish his frame as much as possible, but Dern effectively keeps that psychotic undercurrent in Asa creating a sense of the unpredictability of the man. Dern's good in building this around as he control the scene with him showing Asa soaking up the moment perhaps as much as he can as he acts as though he's a far greater man than he is. Eventually Wil does test Asa by punching him which Asa goes along with until it is obvious he won't win. Asa in turn takes a gun and does the unthinkable in a western he spoilers shoots John Wayne to death. Dern performs the scene so well by making Asa such a weasel as he pulls the trigger in a fearful rage at having lost in a fight with a man who is so many years older than him.

After having done the unthinkable Asa goes off with the cattle leaving Wil mortally wounded with his cowboys. This leaves only one thing the young boys to get brutal violent revenge against Asa and his men, with heroic music playing while they do it. Now to be fair Asa has it coming but still the boys all becoming killers at once is still treated a bit too lightly. Anyway Dern still offers some great love to hate moments for Asa particularly when he captures the only other adult who was with Wil the cook (Roscoe Lee Browne). Dern again brings such unwarranted smug satisfaction in Asa as prepares the cook for a hanging, only to have that look so perfectly wiped off his face when the boys come to the rescue. As much as this is a case where you want to see the villain get his comeuppance Dern actually made me feel a bit sorry for Asa when he does. Asa is injured and Dern retreats to the Asa we saw at the beginning and Dern does the duplicity of his pathetic nature so well that he can fool you into thinking his demise is sad. I rather loved Dern's performance here actually as he creates a memorable villain in just a few scenes, and does so not by being some overly cunning figure, rather by being such low down rotten scum instead.

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1972

And The Nominees Were Not:

Eddie Axberg in The New Land

Ian Bannen in The Offence

Ned Beatty in Deliverance

Bruce Dern in The Cowboys

Robert Shaw in Young Winston

Best Actor 2013: Results

5. Christian Bale in American Hustle- Although the film consistently backhands him Bale tries hard to try to make the film's plot work. I won't say he succeeds but I appreciate the effort.

Best Scene: Irving tells Carmine the truth.

4. Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave- A year where this performance stands in fourth place is a truly great year indeed. Ejiofor gives a powerful performance by truthfully portraying every painful phase of his character's horrible predicament.

Best Scene: Solomon finally returns home.

3. Bruce Dern in Nebraska- Bruce Dern gives a interesting portrayal of the result of one man's life in terms of his physical state and a powerful portrayal of his emotional state.

Best Scene: Woody drives through town.

2. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street- Leonardo DiCaprio might give his best performance with his extremely entertaining and very funny depiction of the sinful behavior of one man.

Best Scene: Lemmon Quaaludes 714

1. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club- Well this year was amazing to say the least and I would not mind if any one of these top four were to take the prize, but if I were to vote I actually would be very tempted to go with Bruce Dern, I would love to see him win. The likely winner though and the one that I will declare as the best of the best goes to Matthew McConaughey's outstanding work in Dallas Buyers Club. It is actually hardest to pick his best scene because every single one of his scenes is remarkable. McConaughey just hits every emotional note of this performance perfectly and gives a truly compelling and believable portrayal of his character's transformation.

Best Scene: Ron comforts Rayon.

Best Actor Ranking:

1. 2013
2. 1962
3. 1939
4. 1964
5. 2002
6. 1978
7. 1965
8. 1970
9. 1974
10. 2012
11. 1976
12. 1954
13. 1966
14. 1982
15. 1960
16. 1983
17. 1967
18. 1979
19. 1955
20. 2011
21. 1986
22. 1973
23. 1972 
24. 1994
25. 1940
26. 1950
27. 1963
28. 1975
29. 1952
30. 1980
31. 1953
32. 1959
33. 1987
34. 1977
35. 1968
36. 2006
37. 1938
38. 1969
39. 1992
40. 1961
41. 1971
42. 1956
43. 1951
44. 1984
45. 1943
46. 1958
47. 1948
48. 1998
49. 1999
50. 1988
51. 1944
52. 1936
53. 1946
54. 1957
55. 2007
56. 2005
57. 1942
58. 1947
59. 1993
60. 1981
61. 1989
62. 1995
63. 2004
64. 1937 
65. 2009
66. 1941
67. 1997
68. 1931
69. 1996
70. 1949
71. 2003 
72. 2010
73. 1990
74. 1945
75. 1985
76. 2001
77. 2008
78. 1991
79. 2000

1. F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
2. Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3. James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 
4. Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story (1999)
5. Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (1960) 
6. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
7. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
8. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989)
9. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954) 
10. Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
11. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)    
12. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
13. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
14. Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973)
15. Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter (1968)
16. Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
17. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
18. Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970)
19. Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982)
20. Laurence Olivier in Sleuth (1972)
21. Peter Finch in Network (1976)
22. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
23. Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)
24. Clark Gable Gone With the Wind (1939)
25. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
26. Ernest Borgnine in Marty (1955)
27. Joaquin Phoenix in The Master (2012)
28. Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
29. Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa (1986)  
30. William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953)
31. Paul Newman in Hud (1963) 
32. Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 
33. James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
34. Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1965)
35. Montgomery Clift in From Here to Eternity (1953)
36. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 
37. Stuart Whitman in The Mark (1961)
38. Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961) 
39. Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)  
40. Jack Lemmon in Days Of Wine And Roses (1962)
41. Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
42. Kirk Douglas in Lust For Life (1956)
43. Laurence Olivier in Richard III (1956)
44. Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker (1965)
45. Tom Hulce in Amadeus (1984)
46. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
47. Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940)
48. Leonardo DiCarpio in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
49. Michael Caine in Alfie (1966)
50. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
51. Giancarlo Giannini in Seven Beauties (1976)
52. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
53. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)
54. Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951)
55. Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall (1937) 
56. Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
57. Jack Nicholson in Ironweed (1987)
58. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
59. Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
60. James Woods in Salvador (1986)
61. Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
62. Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
63. Spencer Tracy in A Bad Day At Black (1955)
64. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
65. Peter O'Toole in Becket (1964)
66. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)
67. Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)
68.  Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
69. Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
70. Bruce Dern in Nebraska (2013)
71. Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
72. James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes Washington (1939)
73. Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek (1964)
74. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
75. Rod Steiger in The Heat of the Night (1967)
76. Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973)
77. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
78. James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) 
79. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
80. Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)
81. Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (1959)
82. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005) 
83. James Dean in East of Eden (1955)
84. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947) 
85. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
86. Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939)
87. Tom Wilkinson in In The Bedroom (2001)
88. Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (2002)
89. Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)
90. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
91. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
92. Richard Harris in This Sporting Life (1963)
93. Albert Finney in Tom Jones (1963) 
94. Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce Italian Style (1962)
95. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
96. Edward Norton in American History X (1998)
97. Demian Bichir in A Better Life (2011)
98. Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar (1953)
99. Robert Donat in The Citadel (1938)
100. Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944)
101. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
102. James Mason in A Star is Born (1954)
103. Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
104. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
105. Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938)
106. Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
107. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
108. Peter Sellers in Being There (1979)
109. Walter Huston The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
110. Michael Caine in Sleuth (1972)
111. Robert Duvall in The Apostle (1997)
112. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
113. Liam Neeson in Schindler's List (1993)
114. Walter Huston in Dodsworth (1936)
115. John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)
116. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
117. Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960)
118. Laurence Olivier in Henry V (1946)
119. Nicolas Cage in Adaptation (2002)
120. Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2009)
121. Kirk Douglas in Champion (1949)
122. Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda (2004)
123. Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1943)
124. Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
125. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
126. Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises (2007)
127. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004)
128. Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 
129. Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York (2002)
130. Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988)
131. William Hurt in Children of Lesser God (1986)
132. Ronald Colman in Bulldog Drummond (1930)
133. Richard Burton in Becket (1964)
134. Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! (1952)
135. Bing Crosby in The Country Girl (1954)
136. Dudley Moore in Arthur (1981)
137. Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
138. Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981) 
139. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
140. Nigel Hawthorne in The Madness of King George (1994)
141. Charles Laughton in A Witness for the Prosecution(1957)
142. John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)
143. Tom Courtenay in The Dresser (1983)
144. Oskar Werner in Ship of Fools (1965)
145. Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
146. Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking (1995)
147. Marcello Mastroianni in A Special Day (1977)
148. William Powell in The Thin Man (1934)
149. Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
150. William Hurt in Broadcast News (1987) 
151. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)
152. Maximilian Schell in The Man in a Glass Booth (1975)
153. Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables (2012) 
154. Alexander Knox in Wilson (1944)
155. Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (1998)
156. Tom Hanks in Cast Away (2000)
157. James Stewart in Harvey (1950)
158. Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
159. Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
160. Robert Duvall in The Great Santini (1980)
161. Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
162. William Holden in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
163. Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010)
164. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
165. Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father (1993) 
166. Cary Grant in Penny Serenade (1941)
167. Leonardo DiCaprio Blood Diamond (2006)
168. John Travolta in Pulp Fiction (1994)
169. Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
170. Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
171. Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
172. Peter Fonda in Ulee's Gold (1997)
173. Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1933)
174. Alan Bates in The Fixer (1968)
175. Anthony Quinn in Wild is the Wind (1957)
176. Albert Finney in The Dresser (1983)
177. Albert Finney in Under The Volcano (1984)
178. Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958)
179. Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958)
180. Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)
181. Sam Waterson in The Killing Fields (1984)
182. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
183. Brad Pitt in Moneyball (2011)
184. Russell Crowe in The Insider (1999)
185. Richard Harris in The Field (1990)
186. Roy Scheider in All that Jazz (1979)
187. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
188. Topol in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
189. Colin Firth in A Single Man (2009)
190. Melvyn Douglas in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
191. Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
192. Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan (1998)
193. Marlon Brando Last Tango in Paris (1973)
194. Peter Finch in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
195. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
196. Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (2006)
197. Richard Jenkins in The Visitor (2008)
198. Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
199. Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin (1992)
200. Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1931)
201. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
202. Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome (1979)
203. Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride (1950)
204. Dan O'Herlihy in Robinson Crusoe (1954)
205. Peter O'Toole in The Ruling Class (1972)
206. Paul Newman in A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
207. Fredric March in A Star is Born (1937)
208. Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996)  
209. Jackie Cooper in Skippy (1931)
210. Arthur Kennedy in Bright Victory (1951)
211. Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (1942)
212. Kirk Douglas in The Bad and The Beautiful (1952)
213. Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom (1945)
214. Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982)
215. James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
216. Montgomery Clift in The Search (1948)
217. Richard Burton in Equus (1977)
218. Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy (1943)
219. William Holden in Network (1976)
220. Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient (1997)
221. William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936)
222. Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968)
223. Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool (1994)
224. Maximilian Schell in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
225. Laurence Olivier in The Boys from Brazil (1978)
226. Ronald Colman in Condemned (1930)
227. Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man (1980)
228. Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989)
229. Laurence Olivier in Othello (1965)
230. Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006)
231. Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1929)
232. Dustin Hoffman in Lenny (1974)
233. Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
234. Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
235. Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
236. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
237. Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
238. Michael Caine in The Quiet American (2002)
239. James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope (1970)
240. Marcello Mastroianni in Dark Eyes (1987)
241. Fredric March in The Royal Family of Broadway (1931)
242. Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983)
243. Al Pacino in ...And Justice for All (1979)
244. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (2009)
245. James Franco in 127 Hours (2010)
246. Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day (1993)
247. Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953)
248. James Dean in Giant (1956)
249. Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City (1981)
250. William Powell in Life With Father (1947)
251. Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
252. Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (1959)
253. Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1930)
254. Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003)
255. Jude Law in Cold Mountain (2003)
256. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
257. Rock Hudson in Giant (1956)
258. Charles Boyer in Algiers (1938)
259. Stephen Rea in The Crying Game (1992)
260. Tom Conti in Reuben, Reuben (1983)
261. Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah (2007)
262. Jack Lemmon in Missing (1982)
263. John Garfield in Body and Soul (1947)
264. Ron Moody in Oliver! (1968)
265. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
266. Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)
267. Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992)
268. Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
269. Charles Boyer in Conquest (1937)
270. Lew Ayres in Johnny Belinda (1948)
271. Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992)
272. Max von Sydow in Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
273. George C. Scott in The Hospital (1971)
274. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
275. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960)
276. Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
277. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
278. Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
279. Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
280. Al Pacino in Serpico (1973)
281. Trevor Howard in Sons and Lovers (1960)
282. Christian Bale in American Hustle (2013)
283. James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
284. David Straithairn in Good Night and Good Luck (2005) 
285. Harrison Ford in Witness (1985)
286. Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver (1988)
287. Ryan O'Neal in Love Story (1970)
288. Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
289. Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
290. Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
291. Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
292. Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
293. Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)
294. Tom Hanks in Big (1988)
295. Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
296. Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
297. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
298. Michael Redgrave in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
299. Richard Barthelmess in the Patent Leather Kid (1928) 
300. Nick Nolte in Affliction (1998)
301. Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
302. Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz (1964)
303. Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
304. Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928)
305. Robert Redford in The Sting (1973)
306. Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
307. James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
308. John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
309. Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets (1997)
310. Paul Muni in The Valiant (1929) 
311. Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page (1931)
312. Denzel Washington in The Hurricane (1999)
313. Dustin Hoffman in Wag the Dog (1997)
314. Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
315. Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)
316. Spencer Tracy in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
317. Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
318. Paul Muni in The Last Angry Man (1959)
319. Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
320. Gregory Peck in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
321. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
322. Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)
323. Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
324. Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd (2007)
325. Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
326. Russell Crowe in Gladiator
327. Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie (1943)
328. Billy Bob Thorton in Sling Blade (1996)
329. Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland (2004)
330. Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
331. Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936)
332. Johnny Depp in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
333. Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
334. Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms (1939)
335. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
336. Franchot Tone in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
337. Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line (2005)
338. John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
339. Paul Winfield in Sounder (1972)
340. Jose Ferrer in Moulin Rouge (1952)
341. Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995)
342. Denzel Washington in Flight (2012)
343. Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
344. Cary Grant in None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
345. Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
346. Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990)
347. Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
348. Frank Sinatra in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
349. Morgan Freeman in Invictus (2009)
350. Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman (1932)
351. Charles Boyer in Fanny (1961)
352. Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993)
353. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
354. James Whitmore in Give 'Em Hell Harry! (1975)
355. Robin Williams in The Fisher King (1991)
356. Ed Harris in Pollock (2000)
357. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
358. Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
359. James Garner in Murphy's Romance (1985)
360. Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (1930)
361. Robert Montgomery in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
362. Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (1976)
363. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
364. George Arliss in The Green Goddess (1930)
365. Gregory Peck in The Yearling (1946)
366. George Clooney in Michael Clayton (2007)
367. Fredric March in Death of a Salesman (1951) 
368. Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
369. Geoffrey Rush in Quills (2000)
370. Walter Matthau in Kotch (1971)
371. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
372. Wallace Beery in The Big House (1930)
373. Paul Newman in Absence of Malice (1981)
374. Frank Morgan in The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
375. Jeff Bridges in True Grit (2010)
376. Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls (2000)
377. Warren Beatty in Reds (1981)
378. Massimo Troisi in The Postman (1995)
379. Dan Dailey in When My Baby Smiles At Me (1948)
380. Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945)
381. Ben Kingsley in The House of Sand and Fog (2003)
382. Robert De Niro in Cape Fear (1991)
383. Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)
384. Nick Nolte in The Prince of Tides (1991)
385. Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
386. Marlon Brando in Sayonara (1957)
387. Laurence Fishburne in What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
388. Richard Burton in The Robe (1953)
389. Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square (1933)
390. Bing Crosby in Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
391. Rex Harrison in Cleopatra (1963)
392. Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and The Sea (1958)
393. Frank Langella Frost/Nixon (2008)
394. Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight (1986)
395. Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
396. Jack Lemmon in Tribute (1980)
397. Javier Bardem in Biutiful (2010)
398. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
399. Woody Harrelson in The People vs Larry Flynt (1996)
400. Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946)  
401. Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991)
402. Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow (2005)
403. Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997)
404. Robin William in Dead Poet's Society (1989)
405. Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
406. George Clooney in Up in The Air (2009)
407. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
408. George Clooney in The Descendants (2011)
409. Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember (1945)
410. Jeff Bridges in Star Man (1984)
411. Spencer Tracy in Captain Courageous (1937) 
412. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
413. Chester Morris in Alibi (1929)
414. Will Smith in Ali (2001)
415. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
416. Sean Penn in I Am Sam (2001)
417. Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves (1990)
418. Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004) 
419. Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
420. Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain (1957)
421. Richard Dix in Cimarron (1931)

1. F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
2. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
3. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
4. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989) 
5. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
6. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
7. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) 
8. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
9. Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973) 
10. Peter Finch in Network (1976)
11. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
12. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
13. Ernest Borgnine Marty (1955)
14. Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)  
15. William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953) 
16. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)  
17. Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
18. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
19. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
20. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
21. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011) 
22. Charles Laughton in The Private life of Henry VIII (1933)
23. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
24. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
25. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2004)
26. Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
27. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
28. Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
29. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
30. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
31. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005)
32. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947)
33. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
34. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
35. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
36. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
37. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
38. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
39. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
40. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
41. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
42. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
43. Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
44. Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981)
45. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
46. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
47. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
48. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
49. Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1931)
50. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
51. James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy
52. Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968)
53. Maximilian Schell in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
54. Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1929)
55. Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
56. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
57. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
58. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
59. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
60. Al Pacino in The Scent of a Woman (1992)
61. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
62. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
63. Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
64. Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
65. Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
66. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
67. James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
68. Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets (1997)
69. Paul Muni in The Story Louis Pasteur (1936)
70. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
71. Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)
72. Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000)
73. Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
74. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
75. John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
76. Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
77. Tom Hanks Philadelphia (1993)
78. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
79. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
80. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
81. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
82. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
83. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
84. Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous (1937)
85. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
86. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
87. Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004)

Supporting Actor Ranking:

1. 1944
2. 1981
3. 1975
4. 2008
5. 1972
6. 1966
7. 1974
8. 1988
9. 1987
10. 1964
11. 1986
12. 1959
13. 1983
14. 1980
15. 1951
16. 1998
17. 1963
18. 1952
19. 1999
20. 1989
21. 2013
22. 1993
23. 1946
24. 1969
25. 1954
26. 1961
27. 2012
28. 2007
29. 1992
30. 1968
31. 1939
32. 1970
33. 1979
34. 1994
35. 2002
36. 1978
37. 2010
38. 1947
39. 1996
40. 1945
41. 1990
42. 1982
43. 1941
44. 1971
45. 2001
46. 1937
47. 1955
48. 1962
49. 1995
50. 1967
51. 1973
52. 2009
53. 2005
54. 2011
55. 1942
56. 2006
57. 1984
58. 1957
59. 1950
60. 1958
61. 2000
62. 1976
63. 2004
64. 1960
65. 1997
66. 1943
67. 1956
68. 1949
69. 1965
70. 1977
71. 1948
72. 1940
73. 1991
74. 1938
75. 2003
76. 1936
77. 1953
78. 1985

1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
2. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
3. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
4. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
5. Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
6. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
7. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
8. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008) 
9. Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)
10. Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
11. Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972)
12. Ralph Fiennes in Schindler' List (1993) 
13. Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master (2012)
14. Rod Steiger in On the Waterfront (1954)
15. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
16. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
17. Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now (1979)  
18. Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
19. Montgomery Clift in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961) 
20. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
21. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
22. Martin Landau in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
23. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
24. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
25. Christopher Walken in Catch Me If You Can (2002)
26. Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
27. Jason Miller in The Exorcist (1973)
28. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
29. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
30. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
31. Jackie Gleason in the Hustler (1961) 
32. Ralph Richardson in The Heiress (1949)
33. Albert Brooks in Broadcast News (1987)
34. Morgan Freeman in Street Smart (1987)
35. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
36. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
37. Jack Nicholson in Reds (1981)
38. Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939
39. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009)
40. William H. Macy in Fargo (1996)
41. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
42. Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips (2013) 
43. Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
44. Lee J. Cobb in On the Waterfront (1954) 
45. Edward Norton in Primal Fear (1996)
46. Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1968)
47. James Mason in The Verdict (1982)
48. Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1942)
49. Karl Malden in On the Waterfront (1954)
50. Burgess Meredith in Day of the Locust (1975)
51. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
52. Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (1947)
53. George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
54. Joe Pesci in Raging Bull (1980)
55. Tom Courtenay in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
56. Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit (1988)
57. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
58. Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976)
59. George C. Scott in The Hustler (1961)
60. Tom Cruise in Magnolia (1999)
61. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980)
62. Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
63. Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis (1951)
64. Pete Postlethwaite in In the Name of the Father (1993)
65. Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
66. John Gielgud in Arthur (1981)
67. Billy Bob Thorton in A Simple Plan (1998)
68. George Segal in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
69. Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
70. Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (1943)
71. Ian Holm in Chariots of Fire (1981)
72. Sam Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983)
73. Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II (1972)
74. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007) 
75. Danny Aiello in Do the Right Thing (1989)
76. James Caan in The Godfather (1972)
77. Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955)
78. Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008)
79. Tommy Lee Jones in JFK (1991)
80. Paul Newman in The Road To Perdition (2002)
81. Robert Shaw in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
82. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)
83. Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
84. Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
85. Burl Ives in The Big Country (1958)
86. Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
87. Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider (1969)
88. Lee Strasberg in The Godfather Part II (1974)
89. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)
90. Brad Dourif in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975)
91. William Hurt in A History of Violence (2005)
92. Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
93. Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
94. Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
95. Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
96. Gene Wilder in The Producers (1968)
97. John Hawkes in Winter's Bone (2010) 
98. Burgess Meredith in Rocky (1976) 
99. Tom Berenger in Platoon (1986)
100. Ian Mckellen in Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
101. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
102. Willem Dafoe in Platoon (1986)
103. Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
104. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
105. Clifton Webb in Laura (1944)
106. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
107. Seymour Cassel in Faces (1968)
108. Thomas Mitchell in The Hurricane (1937)
109. Alec Guinness in Star Wars (1977)
110. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
111. Robert Duvall in A Civil Action (1998)
112. Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington (1944)
113. Hume Cronyn in The Seventh Cross (1944)
114. Jackie Earl Haley in Little Children (2006)
115. Josh Brolin in Milk (2008)
116. Thomas Haden Church in Sideways (2004)
117. Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
118. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt (2008)
119. Charles Coburn in The Green Years (1946)
120. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
121. James Cromwell in Babe (1995)
122. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
123. Ethan Hawke in Training Day (2001)
124. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
125. Claude Rains in Casablanca (1943)
126. Victor McLaglen in The Quiet Man (1952)
127. Terence Stamp in Billy Budd (1962)
128. Richard Farnsworth in Comes A Horseman (1978)
129. Peter Falk in Murder, Inc. (1960) 
130. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
131. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
132. John Gielgud in Becket (1964)
133. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
134. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
135. Michael Chekhov in Spellbound (1945)
136. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
137. Jack Palance in Sudden Fear (1952)
138. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
139. Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady (1964)
140. Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
141. Anthony Perkins in Friendly Persuasion (1956)
142. Rip Torn in Cross Creek (1983)
143. Robert Mitchum in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
144. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
145. River Phoenix in Running on Empty (1988)
146. Justin Henry in Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
147. Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile (1999)
148. Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (1997)
149. John Lithgow in The World According to Garp (1982)
150. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
151. Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
152. Gig Young in Come Fill The Cup (1951)
153. James Mason in Georgy Girl (1966)
154. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
155. Vincent Gardenia in Moonstruck (1987)
156. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
157. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
158. Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights (1997)
159. Klaus Maria Brandauer in Out of Africa (1985)
160. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
161. Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech (2010)
162. Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
163. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
164. John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire (1993) 
165. Martin Landau in Tucker: A Man And His Dream (1988)
166. Gig Young in Teacher's Pet (1958)
167. Jeremy Renner in The Town (2010)
168. Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers (1986)
169. Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
170. Kevin McCarthy in Death of a Salesman (1951)
171. Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
172. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
173. Sal Mineo in Exodus (1960)
174. Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast (2001)
175. Frederic Forrest in The Rose (1979)
176. Kenneth Branagh in My Week With Marilyn (2011)
177. Lee Tracy in The Best Man (1964)
178. Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones (1963)
179. John Huston in The Cardinal (1963)
180. Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians (1959)
181. Robert Ryan in Crossfire (1947)
182. Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture (1971)
183. Max Von Sydow in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
184. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
185. Roy Scheider in The French Connection (1971)
186. Arthur Hunnicutt in The Big Sky (1952)
187. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
188. Bruce Davison in Longtime Companion (1990)
189. Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth (1937)
190. Monty Woolley in Since You Went Away (1944)
191. Elliot Gould in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
192. Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather Part II (1974)
193. Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel (1952)
194. Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
195. Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard (1980)
196. Edmond O'Brien in Seven Days in May (1964)
197. James Whitmore in Battleground (1949)
198. Ed Wynn in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
199. Michael Lerner in Barton Fink (1991)
200. Armin Mueller-Stahl in Shine (1996)
201. Charles Durning in To Be Or Not To Be (1983)  
202. Eddie Albert in The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
203. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
204. John Hurt in Midnight Express (1978)
205. Jack Palance in Shane (1953)
206. Rupert Crosse in The Reivers (1969)
207. Robert Morley in Marie Antoinette (1938)
208. Adolph Caesar in A Soldier's Story (1984)
209. Thomas Gomez in Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
210. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
211. Howard Rollins in Ragtime (1981)
212. John Lithgow in Terms of Endearment (1983)
213. Ed Harris in The Truman Show (1998)
214. Vincent Gardenia in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
215. Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game (1992)
216. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
217. Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets (1997)
218. Matt Dillon in Crash (2005)
219. Christopher Plummer in Beginners (2011)
220. Peter Firth in Equus (1977)
221. Brian Aherne in Juarez (1939)
222. Robert Duvall in The Godfather (1972)
223. Chief Dan George in Little Big Man (1970)
224. Clive Owen in Closer (2004)
225. Michael J. Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
226. Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom (1987)
227. James Coco in Only When I Laugh (1981)
228. Woody Harrelson in The Messsenger (2009)
229. Michael O'Keefe in The Great Santini (1980)
230. Walter Huston in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
231. Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man (2005)
232. Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (2006)
233. Andy Garcia in The Godfather Part III (1990)
234. Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump (1994)
235. Victor Buono in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
236. Tim Roth in Rob Roy (1995)
237. Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton (2007)
238. Robert Preston in Victor Victoria (1982)
239. Arthur Kennedy in Champion (1949)
240. Cecil Kellaway in The Luck of the Irish (1948)
241. Paul Scofield in Quiz Show (1994)
242. Jack Warden in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
243. Arthur Kennedy in Trial (1955)
244. Al Pacino in Dick Tracy (1990)
245. Jack Kruschen in The Apartment (1960)
246. Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno (1974)
247. Alan Alda in The Aviator (2004)
248. Dean Stockwell in Married to The Mob (1988)
249. John C. Reilly in Chicago (2002)
250. Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
251. Frank Finlay in Othello (1965)
252. Robert Strauss in Stalag 17 (1953)
253. Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
254. Chazz Palminteri in Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
255. John Marley in Love Story (1970)
256. Nick Nolte in Warrior (2011)
257. Randy Quaid in The Last Detail (1973)
258. Bruce Dern in Coming Home (1978)
259. Richard S. Castellano in Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
260. Vittorio De Sica in A Farewell to Arms (1957) 
261. Hal Holbrook in Into The Wild (2007)
262. Nick Adams in Twilight of Honor (1963)
263. Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
264. Mickey Rooney in The Black Stallion (1979) 
265. Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda (1948)
266. Pat Morita in The Karate Kid (1984)
267. Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road (2008)
268. Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men (1992)
269. Arthur O'Connell in Picnic (1955)
270. Marlon Brando A Dry White Season (1989)
271. Jack Wild in Oliver! (1968)
272. James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
273. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
274. Brian Donlevy in Beau Geste (1939)
275. Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai (2003)
276. Matt Damon in Invictus (2009)
277. John Houseman in The Paper Chase (1973)
278. Mako in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
279. Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People (1980)
280. Anthony Hopkins in Amistad (1997)
281. John Malkovich in Places in the Heart (1984)
282. Mickey Rooney in The Bold and the Brave (1956)
283. William Bendix in Wake Island (1942)
284. Jack Warden in Shampoo (1975)
285. Alan Arkin in Argo (2012) 
286. Jack Gilford in Save the Tiger (1973)
287. Henry Travers in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
288. Robert Stack in Written on the Wind (1956)
289. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993) 
290. Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat (1942)
291. Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (2009)
292. Walter Brennan in Sergeant York (1941)
293. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln (2012)
294. Roland Young in Topper (1937)
295. David Paymer in Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
296. Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond (2006)
297. Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
298. Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls (2006)
299. Denholm Elliot in A Room With A View (1986)
300. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (1976)
301. Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge (1985)
302. Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
303. Maximilian Schell in Julia (1977)
304. J. Carrol Naish in Sahara (1943)
305. Peter Falk in Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
306. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
307. John Cassavetes in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
308. Jack Palance in City Slickers (1991)
309. Theodore Bikel in The Defiant Ones (1958)
310. Charles Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
311. Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
312. Ned Beatty in Network (1976)
313. J. Carrol Naish in A Medal For Benny (1945)
314. Charles Bickford in The Song of Bernadette (1943)
315. Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880 (1950)
316. Harvey Keitel in Bugsy (1991)
317. Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
318. Albert Bassermann in Foreign Correspondent (1940) 
319. Basil Rathbone in Romeo and Juliet (1936)
320. James Stephenson in The Letter (1940)
321. Alec Baldwin in The Cooler (2003)
322. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (1979)
323. Harry Carey in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 
324. Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator (2000)
325. Anthony Quayle in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
326. Clifton Webb in The Razor's Edge (1946)
327. Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich (2000)
328. Leonard Frey in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
329. William Demarest in The Jolson Story (1946)
330. Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones (2009)
331. Joe Mantell in Marty (1955)
332. Cecil Kellaway in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
333. H.B. Warner in Lost Horizon (1937)
334. Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (1965)
335. Gene Lockhart in Algiers (1938)
336. Jonah Hill in Moneyball (2011)
337. Jamie Foxx in Collateral (2004)
338. Jeff Bridges in The Contender (2000)
339. Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys (1995)
340. John Garfield in Four Daughters (1938)
341. Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools (1965)
342. Graham Greene in Dances With Wolves (1990)
343. Ed Harris in Apollo 13 (1995)
344. Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator (1940)
345. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
346. Arthur Kennedy in Peyton Place (1957)
347. Mark Ruffalo in The Kids are All Right (2010)
348. Ralph Richardson in Greystoke (1984)
349. Djimon Honsou in In America (2003)
350. Benicio Del Toro in 21 Grams (2003)
351. Eddie Albert in Roman Holiday (1953)
352. Bradley Cooper in American Hustle (2013)
353. Burt Young in Rocky (1976)
354. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997)
355. William Gargan in They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
356. Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
357. Ben Kingsley in Bugsy (1991)
358. William Hickey in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
359. Jeff Chandler in Broken Arrow (1950)
360. Dean Jagger in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
361. Oskar Homolka in I Remember Mama (1948)
362. Akim Tamiroff in The General Died at Dawn (1936)
363. Brandon De Wilde in Shane (1953)
364. Akim Tamiroff in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
365. Telly Savalas in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
366. Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place(1957) 
367. Basil Rathbone in If I Were King (1938)
368. Arthur Kennedy in Some Came Running (1958)
369. John Ireland in All the King's Men (1949)
370. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
371. Ed Harris in The Hours (2002)
372. Daniel Massey in Star! (1968)
373. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
374. Leo Genn in Quo Vadis (1951)
375. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
376. John Dall in The Corn is Green (1945)
377. Chill Wills in The Alamo (1960)
378. James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) 
379. Stuart Erwin in Pigskin Parade (1936)
380. Tom Tully in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
381. Ian Bannen in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
382. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
383. Jon Voight in Ali (2001)
384. Jose Ferrer in Joan of Arc (1948)
385. Mischa Auer in My Man Godfrey (1936)
386. Don Murray in Bus Stop (1956)
387. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
388. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)
389. Eric Roberts in Runaway Train (1985) 
390. Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Turning Point (1977)

Actual Winners:

1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
2. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
3. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
4. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
5. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
6. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
7.  Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)
8. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
9. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
10. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
11. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
12. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
13. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
14. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
15. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
16. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
17. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
18. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009) 
19. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
20. Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1968)
21. Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1942)
22. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
23. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
24. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
25. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980)
26. John Gielgud in Arthur (1981)
27. Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
28. Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (1943)
29. Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II (1972)
30. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007) 
31. Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955)
32. Burl Ives in The Big Country (1958)
33. Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
34. Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
35. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
36. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
37. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
38. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
39. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
40. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
41. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
42. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
43. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
44. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
45. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
46. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
47. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
48. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
49. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
50. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
51. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
52. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
53. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
54. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
55. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
56. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
57. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
58. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
59. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
60. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
61. Christopher Plummer in Beginners(2011)
62. John Houseman in The Paper Chase (1973)
63. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993) 
64. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (1976)
65. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
66. Jack Palance in City Slickers (1991)
67. Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
68. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (1979)
69. Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (1965)
70. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
71. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997)
72. Dean Jagger in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
73. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
74. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
75. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
76. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
77. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
78. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)

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