Alternate Best Actor 1999: Results

5. Brad Pitt in Fight Club-Brad Pitt gives a good enough performance that is charismatic enough although not to the level the film suggests his character should be.

Best Scene: "Hit me as hard as you can"

4. Edward Norton in Fight Club- Norton, in the less showy role of the two leads of the film, gives the more consistent performance effectively portraying his character's strange journey through the film.

Best Scene: The Narrator tries to go to the police.

3. Forest Whitaker in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai- Whitaker performance is all about creating the style of the samurai which he handles wonderfully well. 

Best Scene: Ghost Dog takes down the gangsters.

2. Guy Pearce in Ravenous- Pearce is very effective by being the sane man among the insanity.

Best Scene: Captain Boyd sees his new commanding officer.

1. Jim Carrey in Man on the Moon- Jim Carrey proves himself a master mimic as he becomes Andy Kaufman and every character he played.

Best Scene: Andy's first time doing the foreigner. 

Overall Rank:

1. Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story
2. Jim Carrey in Man on the Moon
3. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense
4. Guy Pearce in Ravenous
5. Forest Whitaker in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
6. Edward Norton in Fight Club
7. Russell Crowe in The Insider
8. Tom Hanks in The Green Mile
9. Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense
10. Ron Livingston in Office Space
11. Al Pacino in The Insider
12. Mel Gibson in Payback
13. Brad Pitt in Fight Club
14. Terence Stamp in The Limey
15. Kevin Spacey in America Beauty
16. Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley
17. Keanu Reeves in The Matrix
18. John Cusack in Being John Malkovich
19. Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow
20. Eddie Murphy in Life
21. Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You 
22. Matthew Broderick in Election 
23. Jake Gyllenhaal in October Sky
24. Brendan Fraser in The Mummy
25. Ben Stiller in Mystery Men
26. Billy Crystal in Analyze This
27. Robert De Niro in Analyze This
28. Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest
29. Tom Hanks in Toy Story 2
30. Tim Allen in Toy Story 2
31. Denzel Washington in The Hurricane
32. Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown
33. Pierce Brosnan in The World is Not Enough
34. Martin Lawrence in Life
35. Liam Neeson in The Phantom Menace
36. Arnold Schwarzenegger in End of Days
37. Devon Sawa in Idle Hands
38. Joseph Gordon-Levitt 10 Things I Hate About You
39. Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
40. Thomas Jane in Deep Blue Sea 
41. Martin Lawrence in Blue Streak
42. Tobey Maguire in The Cider House Rules
43. Adam Sandler in Big Daddy
44. Sean Patrick Flanery in Simply Irresistible
45. Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace

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