Alternate Best Actor 1966: Results

5. Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451- Werner gives a fairly effective performance as a man who goes to a cog in the machine to a free thinker but the power of his work is somewhat muted when the director basically takes over for him at the end of the film.

Best Scene: Montag confronts his wife and her friends.

4. David Hemmings in Blow-Up- Hemmings gives a good performance as a photographer in a haze who is forced to drift out of it when he discovers something unusual in a photograph.

Best Scene: Thomas tries to tell his agent about the murder. 

3. James Mason in The Deadly Affair- James Mason gives a great and surprisingly emotionally charged performance as a government agent who lives through too many double crosses in both his professional and private life.

Best Scene: Dobbs figures out who his wife's most current affair is with.

2. Tatsuya Nakadai in The Sword of Doom- See Wallach's summary.

Best Scene: Ryunosuke "confronts" his past.

1. Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly- Good Prediction Psifonian. Well this was not an easy choice to make as this year came down to Eli Wallach's and Tatsuya Nakadai's performances for me. Both are brilliant very physical performances that both excel in leading films even though they technically play reprehensible characters, in Nakadai's case extremely reprehensible. They are both outstanding in very different ways with Wallach giving a hilarious and very entertaining performance, and Nakdai is absolutely magnetic while being uncompromising in his depiction of the evil nature of his character. To try to decide between the two I re-watched my favorite scenes of each of their performances well that did not help either only reassuring the fact that I love both of their performances. I have to choose one though therefore I choose Wallach... I guess for the moment right now at this second.

Best Scene: Tuco meets with his brother.

Overall Rank:

1. Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. Tatsuya Nakadai in The Sword of Doom
3. Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
4. Michael Caine in Alfie
5. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons
6. James Mason in The Deadly Affair
7. Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
8. Tatsuya Nakadai in The Face of Another
9. Peter O'Toole in How To Steal a Million
10. David Hemmings in Blow-Up
11. Lee Marvin in The Professionals
12. Burt Lancaster in The Professionals
13. Adam West in Batman
14. Jack Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie
15. Jean-Louis Trintignant in A Man and a Woman
16. Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451 
17. Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles
18. Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
19. Charlton Heston in Khartoum
20. Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
21. Franco Nero in Django
22. Carl Reiner in The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming

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