Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1958: Results

5. Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula - Lee is menacing with his vicious depiction of Dracula, but the film barely gives him anything to do. 

Best Scene: Dracula attacks.

4. Robert Donat in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness- The part is ripe for embarrassment but Donat avoids it by giving a likable and honest performance that avoids the pitfalls of such a part. 

Best Scene: The Mandarin's message to his people as the Japanese invade.

3. Richard Attenborough in Dunkirk- The film limits him too much but Attenborough still shines by giving humanity to the character of a man who profits from a war he does not support.

Best Scene: Holden helps his wife test out the infant gas mask.

2. Burl Ives in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Ives is fantastic as Big Daddy bringing the larger than life presence needed for such a character, but along with the genuine depth needed.

Best Scene: Big Daddy recounts the death of his own father.

1. Orson Welles in Touch of Evil - Good Predictions Kooo160, Mark, Michael Patison, RatedRStar, and Michael McCarthy. Technically I should give this to Ives if I was doing on who had the best year overall, and I also should do it if I rated it by Humphrey Bogart's measurement of acting which is rating two actors in the same role. Well Welles played a rip off of Big Daddy in a Long Hot Summer, and Ives wipes the floor with Welles if you compare those performances. I only go by the individual performances themselves though, and although it is close, the supporting performance that left the greatest impact on me was Welles's portrayal of Hank Quinlan. It's a great depiction of dirty cop, not just because he brings the menace and the decay of such a character, but also because he turns it into a tragic portrait of a potentially great man who has lost his way.

Best Scene: Quinlan visits Tanya

Overall Rank:

1. Orson Welles in Touch of Evil
2. Burl Ives in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3. Burl Ives in The Big Country
4. Richard Attenborough in Dunkirk
5. Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov
6. Gig Young in Teacher's Pet
7. Robert Donat in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
8. Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula
9. Ray Walston in Damn Yankees
10. Joseph Calleia in Touch of Evil
11. Lon Chaney Jr. in The Defiant Ones
12. Maximilian Schell in The Long Lions
13. Robert Ryan in Lonelyhearts
14. Dennis Weaver in Touch of Evil
15. Susumu Fujita in The Hidden Fortress
16. Adam Pawlikowski in Ashes and Diamonds
17. Ernest Thesiger in The Horse's Mouth
18. Ernest Borgnine in The Vikings
19. Ray Walston in South Pacific
20. Akim Tamiroff in Touch of Evil
21. Richard Basehart in The Brothers Karamazov
22. Valetin de Vargas in Touch of Evil
23. Tom Helmore in Vertigo
24. Mike Morgan in The Horse's Mouth
25. Robert Shafer in Damn Yankees
26. Chuck Connors in The Big Country
27. Takashi Shimura in The Hidden Fortress
28. Theodore Bikel in The Defiant Ones
29. Don Rickles in Run Silent Run Deep
30. Rod Taylor in Separate Tables
31. John Carradine in The Last Hurrah
32. Jack Warden in Run Silent Run Deep
33. James Donald in The Vikings
34. Orson Welles in The Long, Hot Summer
35. Albert Salmi in The Brothers Karamazov
36. Michael Gough in The Horse's Mouth
37. Charlton Heston in The Big Country
38. Basil Rathbone in The Last Hurrah
39. Michael Gough in Horror of Dracula
40. Pat O'Brien in The Last Hurrah
41. Stephen Chase in The Blob
42. Brad Dexter in Run Silent Run Deep
43. Robert Fields in The Blob
44. Lee Van Cleef in The Long Lions
45. Dean Martin in Some Came Running
46. John Benson in The Blob
47. Jack Carson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
48. John Van Eyssen in Horror of Dracula
49. Nick Adams in Teacher's Pet
50. Ray Collins in Touch of Evil
51. James Bonnet in The Blob
52. Arthur Kennedy in Some Came Running 
53. Earl Rowe in The Blob
54. Maurice Chevalier in Gigi
55. Jeffrey Hunter in The Last Hurrah
56. Charles McGraw in The Defiant Ones
57. Alfonso Bedoya in The Big Country
58. Larry Gates in Some Came Running
59. Curt Jurgens in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
60. Charles Bickford in The Big Country
61. Felipe Pazos Jr. in The Old Man and the Sea
62. Keith Almoney in The Blob
63. Anthony Franciosa in The Long, Hot Summer

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