Sunday 23 June 2013

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1980: Results

5. Mark Hamill in The Big Red One- Hamill plays his character well and has stand out moments even within the vignette nature of the film.

Best Scene: The Concentration Camp.
4. Harrison Ford in The Empire Strikes Back- Ford gives one of his best action hero performances making Han Solo the great hero he should be.

Best Scene: "I Know".
3. Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!- Nielsen gives an one note performance of utter comedic brilliance, being incredibly funny by playing his part as deadly serious as possible.

Best Scene: "I am serious and don't call me Shirley".
2. Bryan Brown in Breaker Morant- Brown gives an effective performance finding his own place in the film as the soldier whose rough exterior hides a deeper sadness.

Best Scene: Hancock writes his farewell letter to his wife.
1. Tsutomu Yamazaki in Kagemusha- Good Prediction Maciej. Well I've come to the conclusion that Tsutomu Yamazaki is the greatest actor to have a Wikipedia page with no more than three sentences. Once again he delivers an incredible supporting performance. He always finds a way to stand out even when he is in a group of actors. Yamazaki gives a great supporting performance that plays off of and supports Tatsuya Nakadai's lead performance beautifully.

Best Scene: Nobukado predicts the fate of Kagemusha.
Overall Rank:
  1. Joe Pesci in Raging Bull
  2. Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man
  3. Tsutomu Yamzaki in Kagemusha
  4. Scott Wilson in The Ninth Configuration
  5. Bryan Brown in Breaker Morant
  6. Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!
  7. Harrison Ford in The Empire Strikes Back
  8. Mark Hamill in The Big Red One
  9. Freddie Jones in The Elephant Man 
  10. Robert Stack in Airplane! 
  11. Jason Miller in The Ninth Configuration
  12. Christopher Walken in Heaven's Gate
  13. Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon  
  14. Yaphet Kotto in Brubaker
  15. John Gielgud in The Orchestra Director
  16. Oliver Reed in Lion of the Desert
  17. Bill Murray in Caddyshack
  18. Lewis Fitz-Gerald in Breaker Morant
  19. Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard
  20. James Earl Jones in The Empire Strikes Back 
  21. John Gielgud in The Elephant Man 
  22. Jack Warden in Used Cars
  23. Gene Hackman in Superman II 
  24. Frank Oz in The Empire Strikes Back
  25. David Carradine in The Long Riders
  26. Lloyd Bridges in Airplane! 
  27. Harvey Keitel in Bad Timing
  28. John Hurt in Heaven's Gate 
  29. Vittorio Gassman in  La Terrazza
  30. Keith Carradine in The Long Riders
  31. Levon Helm in Coal Miner's Daughter
  32. Max von Sydow in Flash Gordon  
  33. Jean-Louis Trintignant in La Terrazza
  34. Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back 
  35. Ugo Tognazzi in La Terrazza
  36. Om Puri in Sparsh 
  37. Marcello Mastroianni in La Terrazza
  38. Richard Farnsworth in Resurrection 
  39. Sam Waterston in Heaven's Gate
  40. Timothy Dalton in Flash Gordon
  41. Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill    
  42. Jean Poiret in The Last Metro
  43. Stacy Keach in The Long Riders
  44. Roberts Blossom in Resurrection
  45. Henry Gibson in The Blues Brothers 
  46. Hal Holbrook in The Fog
  47. Terence Stamp in Superman II 
  48. Jeff Bridges in Heaven's Gate 
  49. David Morse in Inside Moves
  50. Scatman Crothers in The Shining
  51. Cab Calloway in The Blues Brothers
  52. Philip Stone in The Shining
  53. Peter Graves in Airplane! 
  54. Melvyn Douglas in Changeling
  55. Ed Flanders in The Ninth Configuration
  56. John Candy in The Blues Brothers
  57. Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People
  58. Joe Spinell in The Ninth Configuration
  59. Harold Russell in Inside Moves
  60. Bill Henderson in Inside Moves
  61. Bert Remsen in Inside Moves
  62. Randy Quaid in The Long Riders
  63. Denholm in Elliott in Bad Timing
  64. Christopher Plummer in Somewhere in Time
  65. Paul Sorvino in Cruising
  66. Ned Beatty in Hopscotch
  67. Frank Vincent in Raging Bull 
  68. Morgan Freeman in Brubaker 
  69. Neville Brand in The Ninth Configuration
  70. Dennis Quaid in The Long Riders
  71. Herbert Lom in Hopscotch 
  72. David Keith in Brubaker
  73. Allen Garfield in The Stunt Man 
  74. John Houseman in The Fog
  75. Sam Shepard in Resurrection
  76. Robert Carradine in The Big Red One 
  77. John Gielgud in Lion of the Desert
  78. Sam Wanamaker in The Competition
  79. James Keach in The Long Riders
  80. Paul McCrane in Fame
  81. Kenichi Hagiwara in Kagemusha 
  82. Siegfried Rauch in The Big Red One
  83. Topol in Flash Gordon 
  84. Leo McKern in Blue Lagoon
  85. Kevin McCarthy in Private Benjamin
  86. Chevy Chase in Caddyshack
  87. Keith Gordon in Dressed to Kill  
  88. Peter Gallagher in The Idolmaker
  89. Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack
  90. Anthony Daniels in The Empire Strikes Back
  91. Dennis Franz in Dressed to Kill
  92. Danny Lloyd in The Shining 
  93. Alex Rocco in The Stunt Man
  94. Bob Balaban in Altered States
  95. Jinpachi Nezu in Kagemusha 
  96. Barry Miller in Fame
  97. Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit II
  98. John Marley in Tribute 
  99. Armand Assante in Private Benjamin
  100. Ted Knight in Caddyshack
  101. Jerry Reed in Smokey and the Bandit II 
  102. Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer
  103. Stephen Stucker in Airplane!
  104. Charles Haid in Altered States
  105. Robby Benson in Tribute
  106. John Adames in Gloria
Next Year: 1952 lead

25 comments:

Michael Patison said...

Michael Denison in The Importance of Being Earnest
Michael Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest
Spencer Tracy in Pat and Mike
John Wayne in The Quiet Man

Anonymous said...

Suggestions for 1952
John Wayne in The Quiet Man
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Takashi Shimura in Ikiru
Michael Redgrave in The Imortance of Being Earnest
Orson Welles in Othello

Maciej said...

Hurray! :D

Ok, so my request would be the inclusion of Jonathan Pryce's incredible performance in "Carrington" for '95 leading actor.

Robert MacFarlane said...

John Wayne in The Quiet Man
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Takashi Shimura in Ikiru
Michael Denison in The Importance of Being Earnest
Michael Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest

RatedRStar said...

John Wayne - The Quiet Man
James Mason - 5 Fingers
Takashi Shimura - Ikiru
Orson Welles - Othello
Michael Redgrave - The Importance Of Being Earnest

RatedRStar said...

I feel kinda privileged to have John Waynes characters last name in The Quiet Man =D.

Michael Patison said...

I completely didn't think about Shimura in Ikiru.

RatedRStar said...

I think with certain years its usually easier for a few comments to go on first if your not sure or cant remember certain nominees so that when you see others putting nominees down you kinda go " oh ye him I totally forgot about him" =D.

Robert MacFarlane said...

For the record, if you review anyone in The Importance of Being Earnest, I'd prefer if you review Denison over Redgrave. Denison is less of a name, for sure. He's also the funnier of the two.

RatedRStar said...

ive never seen Importance to be fair lol the other four I mentioned were the only ones id seen so I had to quickly mention a 5th nominee so lol =D.

Michael Patison said...

I haven't seen the Redgrave version, but I have seen the version with Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, and Judi Dench (I think it was a 2002 release) and I thought both lead male roles to be of approximately equal comedic value.

Robert MacFarlane said...

Disagree there. I thought Everett ATE Firth. Huh. Maybe I just like the role of Algernon more.

Michael Patison said...

Some others might be:
Carlo Battisti in Umberto D.
Dirk Bogarde in Hunted
Charlie Chaplin in Limelight
Claude Dauphin in Le Plaisir
Kirk Douglas in The Big Sky
Alec Guinness in The Card/The Promoter
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Burt Lancaster in Come Back, Little Sheba
James Mason in 5 Fingers
Ray Milland in The Thief
Laurence Olivier in Carrie
Gregory Peck in The Snows of Kilimanjaro
GĂ©rard Philipe in Les Belles de nuit
Georges Poujouly in Forbidden Games
Ralph Richardson in The Sound Barrier
Gilbert Roland in My Six Convicts
Robert Ryan in Clash by Night
Alberto Sordi in The White Sheik
James Stewart in Bend of the River
Leopoldo Trieste in The White Sheik
Orson Welles in Othello

Also, this is a supporting performance, and I have absolutely no idea how good or bad it is as I've never seen it, but I didn't want to forget it:
Toshiro Mifune in The Life of Oharu

Michael Patison said...

I didn't say anything about the performances, I meant the parts themselves. I actually preferred Everett as well. I meant that the parts, as written, seemed to me to be of more or less equal comedic value. That being said, I could have judged that poorly or it could just be that Algernon has been better performed in both cases.

RatedRStar said...

Louis, you know when you decide the nominees, what factors do you usually take into account, and for some reason whenever the nominees appear I always imagine Louis being like a wise old monk announcing the nominees like the academy do lol haha =D.

Michael Patison said...

To tack on to RatedRStar's comment, how much time to you spend looking at films in a given year to figure out which performances to review? Also, how many performances do you usually have selected to review before you see our recommendations?

Robert MacFarlane said...

@Michael: Yeah, in both cases the actors revel in the role of Algernon. Where Everett played it more deadpan and portrayed him as a lovable rogue, Denison basically portrayed Algernon as a troll and damn proud of it. Both resulted in the most laughs.

RatedRStar said...

also this is for everyone, does anybody get really upset like I do when a performance doesn't get nominated for an Oscar, does anybody like, take it to heart like I do and get almost, like depressed about it lol.

Louis Morgan said...

RatedRStar, Michael: You would not want an old monk to reveal his tricks would you?

Seriously though I take in a number of factors to determine the five. One always being my perceived choice for the year (that can often change through the course of the reviews though). I of course take everyone's suggestions, and recommendations. I always also try to keep in mind the major perceived snubs, I don't always do that though if I feel it is an uninteresting performance though. I usually include a performance if it is considered all time great. I usually research the roles/films a bit to see which ones interest me the most, or to see if it is a particularly interesting role for a certain performer.

I don't know the exact amount of time, but when I feel comfortable with a set of five. I usually only have only one or two that I am sure I will pick before seeing everyone's recommendations.

Mark said...

Louis, how wuld you rank James Earl Jones' performance in TESB among all voice over performances? For me, I think it's the greatest of them all, though I'm biased because Darth Vader is one of my favorite movie characters.

Louis Morgan said...

Well his vocal performance is definitely a good one that is why I ranked him 14 here, but I haven't really thought about my favorite voice over performances.

Robert MacFarlane said...

In terms of voice acting, I have a VERY high opinion for Robby Benson's work in Beauty and the Beast. It wasn't just the shock value of hearing a 70's/80's heart-throb who's screen work usually was mediocre at best do THAT voice. It was the fact that he found every nuance, every pitch to find the humanity in his character.

Similarly, I recommend the recently deceased James Gandolfini's voice work as Carol in Where the Wild Things Are. While I have some issues with the film itself (Just how appropriate is it to analyze Sendak's book as a dark metaphor?) Gandolifini's work was excellent. Another example of an actor finding every single nuance in the character without ever showing his face.

Grady Tripp said...

You used to rate Peter O'Toole's performance ****, but now he's **** 1/2? (Just comparing results!)

Louis Morgan said...

Change from looking at him from a lead performance to a supporting one.

Grady Tripp said...

Oh, of course! I should've guessed that. Keep up the good work!