Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1975: Results

5. Leon Vitali in Barry Lyndon- Vitali gives a good performance being properly pompous but as well managing to be somewhat sympathetic by showing where his character is coming from.

Best Scene: Bullingdon duels Barry.

4. Charles Durning in A Dog Day Afternoon- Durning doesn't have much of a role, but he makes more than the most of it portraying the method of the police negotiator in a very compelling fashion.

Best Scene: Moretti tries to handle Sonny and the crowd. 

3. Max von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor- Max von Sydow is excellent in his portrayal of the cold calculated killer who we absolutely believe when he says his job is refreshing.

Best Scene: Joubert warns Condor about his possible fate.  

2. John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon- Cazale once again gives a great tragic performance. He is terrific in creating both a danger in that violence bubbling underneath the man, but as well the sadness by earnestly showing just how lost his character is.

Best Scene: Sal asks Sonny if they will really kill the hostages. 

1. Robert Shaw in Jaws- Good Prediction RatedRStar, Michael Patison, and JamDenTel. Although I loved the performances of Max von Sydow, John Cazale, George Burns and Burgess Meredith I did not have to think twice about who would be my choice for the year overall. Robert Shaw is amazing in the role of the Ahab like shark hunter Quint. He is outstanding every moment he is on screen giving an equally entertaining and heartbreaking turn. His delivery of the Indianapolis speech alone should have guaranteed him both an Oscar nomination and an Oscar win.

Best Scene: The Indianapolis monologue. 

Overall Rank:

1. Robert Shaw in Jaws
2. John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon
3. Max von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor
4. Burgess Meredith in The Day of the Locust
5. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys
6. Brad Dourif in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws
8. Charles Durning in Dog Day Afternoon
9. Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon
10. Donald Sutherland in The Day of the Locust 
11. Will Sampson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12. Leon Vitali in Barry Lyndon
13. Cliff Robertson in Three Days of the Condor 
14. Fernando Rey in Seven Beauties
15. Keenan Wynn in Nashville
16. Christopher Lloyd in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
17. Lance Henriksen in Dog Day Afternoon
18. Henry Gibson in Nashville
19. John Houseman in Three Days of the Condor
20. William Redfield in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. Christopher Plummer in The Man Who Would Be King 
22. Richard Benjamin in The Sunshine Boys
23. Allen Garfield in Nashville
24. John Houseman in Rollerball
25. Sully Boyer in Dog Day Afternoon
26. Philippe Leotard in French Connection II
27. Saeed Jeffrey in The Man Who Would Be King
28. Ned Beatty in Nashville
29. Sydney Lassick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
30. James Woods in Night Moves
31. Keith Carradine in Nashville
32. Jack Warden in Shampoo
33. Scott Glenn in Nashville
34. Jackie Earle Haley in The Day of the Locust
35. Hardy Kruger in Barry Lyndon
36. Michael Murphy in Nashville
37. Murray Hamilton in Jaws
38. Fernando Rey in French Connection II
39. Kenneth Mars in Night Moves
40. Patrick Magee in Barry Lyndon
41. Danny DeVito in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
42. James Broderick in Dog Day Afternoon
43. William Duell in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
44. Luther Adler in The Man in the Glass Booth 
45. Scatman Crothers in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
46. Edward Binns in Night Moves
47. Robert DoQui in Nashville
48. Lawrence Pressman in The Man in the Glass Booth 

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