Alternate Best Actor 1980: Results

5. Anthony Hopkins in The Elephant Man- Hopkins gives a good performance making the most out of his relatively simple character and bringing to life the complexities of the character where they exist.

Best Scene: Treves first sees the Elephant Man.

4. Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant- Thompson has a simple but showy role bringing the emotional punch to his courtroom scenes.

Best Scene:  Major J.F. Thomas's summation.

3. Donald Sutherland in Ordinary People- Sutherland gives an understated and moving turn showing the attempt of a man to hold his life as well as his family together after a terrible tragedy.

Best Scene: Calvin confronts Beth.

2. Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant- Woodward gives an excellent performance showing a courageous gentlemanly soldier, whose capable of horrible deeds.

Best Scene: Morant tells the court of rule 303.

1.Tatsuya Nakadai in Kagemusha- Nakadai gives an amazing performance playing two characters brilliantly one a cunning war lord, and the other an impersonator who has a difficult journey of pretending to be the other man. I am going to face all the wraith of meddling with the grand scheme of things and go my own way this year altogether. I have a confession to make which is watching Ordinary People again really made me lose a lot of my enthusiasm for Timothy Hutton's performance. I still think he is great, but actually watching it this time Donald Sutherland left the bigger impression on me. As for Robert De Niro I do believe his performance is tremendous but its never been a performance that I love. Therefore my very personal win goes to Tatsuya Nakadai.

Best Scene: The Lord and Kagemusha meet for the first time. 

Overall Rank:

1. Tatsuya Nakadai in Kagemusha
2. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
3. Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant
4. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People
5. Donald Sutherland in Ordinary People
6. John Hurt in The Elephant Man
7. Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant
8. Lee Marvin in The Big Red One
9. Anthony Hopkins in The Elephant Man
10. George C. Scott in Changeling
11. Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City
12. Tommy Lee Jones in Coal Miner's Daughter
13. William Hurt in Altered States
14. Paul Le Mat in Melvin and Howard 
15. Mark Hamill in The Empire Strikes Back
16. Christopher Reeve in Superman II 
17. John Belushi in The Blues Brothers
18. Jack Nicholson in The Shining   
19. Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers
20. Steve Railsback in The Stunt Man
21. Robert Hays in Airplane
22. Robin Williams in Popeye
23. Sam J. Jones in Flash Gordon
24. Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit II
25. Jack Lemmon in Tribute 
26. Michael O'Keefe in Caddyshack

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