Alternate Best Actor 1958: Results

I decided not to review Christopher Lee in Dracula since he definitely was not lead. If you predicted the four in the correct order I've given you the win.

4. Zbigniew Cybulski in Ashes and Diamonds - Cybulski gives a solid portrayal, even infusing some James Dean mannerisms naturally, of a young devoted soldier who slowly sees there is potentially more to life, even if I do feel his performance is overshadowed by the film as a whole.

Best Scene: Maciek expresses his hesitations to his superior.

3. Toshiro Mifune in The Hidden Fortress - Mifune gives one of his simplistic leading turns in a Kurosawa film, but nevertheless it is a rousing portrayal of heroics.

Best Scene: The General charges to stop the enemy's pursuit.

2. Alec Guinness in The Horse's Mouth - Guinness gives a great performance that is both a hilarious and oddly poignant depiction of a strange artist.

Best Scene: Jimson and Coker in the boat at night.

1. James Stewart in Vertigo- Good Predictions JackiBoyz, mcofra7, RatedRStar, Connor Olen, and Michael McCarthy. Stewart gives perhaps his darkest and certainly one of his best performances. Stewart's portrayal is an uncompromising and truly haunting depiction of a man overwhelmed by obsession and fear. 

Best Scene: Scottie sees Madeleine "resurrected".

Overall Rank:

1. James Stewart in Vertigo
2. Alec Guinness in The Horse's Mouth
3. Toshiro Mifune in The Hidden Fortress 
4. Paul Newman in The Long, Hot Summer
5. Toshiro Mifune in The Rickshaw Man 
6. Clark Gable in Teacher's Pet
7. Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones
8. Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones
9. Zbigniew Cybulski in Ashes and Diamonds
10. David Niven in Separate Tables
11. Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
12. Clark Gable in Run Silent Run Deep
13. Burt Lancaster in Run Silent Run Deep
14. Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah
15. Montgomery Clift in The Young Lions
16. Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil
17. John Mills in Dunkirk
18. Minoru Chiaki in The Hidden Fortress
19. Kamatari Fujimara in The Hidden Fortress
20. Peter Cushing in Horror of Dracula
21. Bernard Lee in Dunkirk
22. Burt Lancaster in Separate Tables
23. Steve McQueen in The Blob
24. Kenneth Moore in A Night to Remember
25. Dean Martin in The Young Lions
26. Montgomery Clift in Lonelyhearts
27. Gregory Peck in The Big Country  
28. Frank Sinatra in Some Came Running
29. Tony Curtis in Vikings
30. Kirk Douglas in Vikings 
31. Rossano Brazzi in South Pacific
32. Marlon Brando in The Young Lions
33. Yul Brynner in The Brothers Karamazov 
34. John Kerr in South Pacific
35. Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea
36. Tab Hunter in Damn Yankees
37. Louis Jourdan in Gigi

Next Year: 1958 Supporting