Best Supporting Actor 1960: Results

5. Chill Wills in The Alamo- Wills may be everyone's cousin, and the cast be praying harder for him to win this than actual people who were praying for their lives, but that does not stop his performance from being completely forgettable.

4. Jack Kruschen in The Apartment- Kruschen gives a good humorous performance which is a nice little part of a great film.

3. Sal Mineo in Exodus- Mineo manages to stand out when he can in his role, and shows all the right passion and anger into his role that is unfortunately pushed into the background much of the time. He also has an absolutely terrific scene that shows a little more to his character, unfortunately I feel the film underused Mineo preventing this from being a great performance.

2. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus- Ustinov role is small, but I feel he gives an incredibly enjoyable performance anyways. He always adds a nice humorous charming presence to his film despite his performance being quite small.  

1. Peter Falk in Murder, Inc.- Falk performance is in an almost terrible film. Falk unlike the rest of the film gives an interesting realistic and effective portrait of a violent gangster who quietly gets what he wants most of the time, but uses brief intense violence when he faces too much resistance.

Deserving Performances:
Charles Laughton in Spartacus
Laurence Olivier in Spartacus
Eli Wallach in The Magnificent Seven
Fred MacMurray in The Apartment

Best Supporting Actor 1960: Jack Kruschen in The Apartment

Jack Kruschen received his only Oscar nomination for portraying Doctor Dreyfuss in The Apartment.

Doctor Dreyfuss is the neighbor of C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon). Baxter lends his apartment to higher ups at the company he works at.  Dreyfuss does not know this believing the drinking, the women, and the noise all are Baxter's doings. Dreyfuss gives the occasional humorous remark to Baxter that his "life style" is not going to lead to good things. Kruschen adds a nice little bit of humor here and there well, not sticking out too much, but still adding to the film.

Kruschen has a bigger moment though when Dreyfuss must aid Baxter with a rather serious situation. Kruschen is good here, add the proper amount of weight to the scene actually while still infusing it with a little bit of humor at the same time. Kruschen never does all that much though overall as Dreyfuss but I do think he portrays the part as well as anyone possibly could. I like his performance it adds just a little more to an already great film. His performance is again not amazing but it certainly is good.

Best Supporting Actor 1960

And the Nominees Were:

Sal Mineo in Exodus

Chill Wills in The Alamo

Peter Ustinov in Spartacus

Jack Kruschen in The Apartment

Peter Falk in Murder, Inc.

I think I will have to give this one to Chill Wills because I do believe I am his cousin.