Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1991: Results

5. Samuel L. Jackson in Jungle Fever- Jackson gives a very good performance playing his crack addict quite effectively, and is easily the best part of his film.

Best Scene: Gator tries to get money from his mother one time too many. 

4. Laurence Fishburne in Boyz N The Hood- Fishburne gives a strong performance portraying both the kind wisdom and the strength of his character's authority in equal measure.

Best Scene: Furious gives his son words to live by. 

3. Ted Levine in The Silence of the Lambs- Levine goes for playing Buffalo Bill as just downright disturbing and succeeds at being so.

Best Scene: You know the line. 

2. Gary Oldman in JFK- Oldman gives a compelling performance as Lee Harvey Oswald that accomplishes making him into a fascinating character despite only appearing in brief and often silent flashbacks.

Best Scene: The flashbacks of Oswald on the day of the assassination. 

1. John Goodman in Barton Fink- My pick of the five and win overall goes to John Goodman for his portrayal here. Goodman is absolutely brilliant in his portrayal that is charming, humorous, heartbreaking and chilling all as the same character.

Best Scene: The Life of the Mind. 

Overall Rank:.

1. John Goodman in Barton Fink
2. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs
3. Gary Oldman in JFK
4. Joe Pesci in JFK
5. Ted Levine in The Silence of the Lambs
6. Tommy Lee Jones in JFK
7. Laurence Fishburne in Boyz N The Hood
8. Donald Sutherland in JFK
9. Samuel L. Jackson in Jungle Fever
10. Robert Patrick in Terminator 2: Judgement Day
11. Ice Cube in Boyz N The Hood
12. Charles Bronson in The Indian Runner
13. Rip Torn in Defending Your Life
14. Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
15. Roy Scheider in Naked Lunch 
16. Jack Lemmon in JFK
17. Harvey Keitel in Thelma and Louise 
18. Tony Shalhoub in Barton Fink
19. Kevin Bacon in JFK 
20. Dustin Hoffman in Hook 
21. Michael Lerner in Barton Fink
22. John Mahoney in Barton Fink
23. William Richert in My Own Private Idaho
24. John Turturro in Jungle Fever
25. Ian Holm in Naked Lunch
26. Cuba Gooding Jr in Boyz N The Hood
27. Michael Rooker in JFK
28. Jon Polito in Barton Fink
29. John Candy in JFK 
30. Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs
31. Joe Mantegna in Bugsy 
32. Lloyd Bridges in Hot Shots!
33. Dan Hedaya in The Addams Family 
34. Dante Basco in Hook
35. Jay O Sanders in JFK
36. Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear
37. Bob Hoskins in Hook 
38. Jack Palance in City Slickers
39. Harvey Keitel in Bugsy
40. Anthony Heald in The Silence of the Lambs
41. Kyle MacLachlan in The Doors
42. Morgan Freeman in Robin Hood: Prince of Theives
43. Bruno Kirby in City Slickers
44. Cary Elwes in Hot Shots!
45. Edward Asner in JFK
46. Ossie Davis in Jungle Fever
47. Joe Don Baker in Cape Fear
48. Michael Jeter in The Fisher King
49. Elliot Gould in Bugsy
50. Rick Moranis in L.A. Story
51. Walter Matthau in JFK
52. Morris Chestnut in Boyz N The Hood 
53. Noble Willingham  in The Last Boy Scout
54. Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise
55. Ben Kingsley in Bugsy
56. Michael Madsen in Thelma and Louise
57. Brian Doyle Murray in JFK
58. Charlie Korsmo in Hook
59. Martin Short in Father of the Bride 
60. Daniel Stern in City Slickers
61. Richard E. Grant in L.A. Story
62. Taylor Negron in The Last Boy Scout
63. Christopher McDonald in Thelma And Louise
64. Anthony Quinn in Jungle Fever
65. Sean Connery in Highlander II
66. Jessie Ferguson in Boyz N The Hood
67. Michael Ironside in Highlander II
68. Spike Lee in Jungle Fever
69. John Candy in Nothing But Trouble
70. Dan Aykroyd in Nothing But Trouble
71. John C. McGinley in Highlander II
72. Jeroen Krabbe in The Prince of Tides
73. Jason Gould in The Prince of Tides

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Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1991: Laurence Fishburne in Boyz N The Hood

Laurence Fishburne did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Jason "Furious" Styles in Boyz N The Hood.

Boyz N The Hood is a very well made film depicting the lives of three black youths in a Los Angeles ghetto.

Laurence Fishburne portrays Furious who is the father of one of the boys Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.). In terms of the film Furious seems to be the only father present in the place. There are other people with children but Fishburne's character is the only one who seems to take the responsibility to be a proper father. Fishburne's performance very much stands out as he creates the only real authority figure in the whole film who actually knows what he is doing. Fishburne importantly right form the get go makes it clear that Furious is going to stand out as a character who stands firm in the film who stands straight up to the task of being a man who will actually do what must be done to make his son turn out right.

Fishburne is very effective in the role by taking a determined straight forward approach with the character of Furious. He realizes quite well who takes a stern approach to raising his son to ensure that his son does not fall to the various problems that face him growing up. Fishburne's performance works because he does not stress just one aspect of Furious as a father but instead combines the elements of the man. Fishburne gets across that Furious is firm, he is unrelenting in his manner and is the powerful presence he should be. There is a clear determination in his performance that always succeeds in getting across the strength of Furious as a man and makes it clear that Furious is a man who will make Tre the man he should be.

Fishburne gets across the stern qualities of Furious well but just as well he gets across that Furious very much loves his son. Fishburne has some natural chemistry with both Gooding Jr. and Desi Arnez Hines II who play the old and young Tre respectively. Fishburne has some well placed warmth in his performance. He shows Furious to always be interested and welcoming in his manner of dealing with his son yet. Fishburne has an energy and he succeeds in making Furious an encouraging figure and a wise one. Fishburne is very good in all of the scenes where Furious delivers one of his sermons because he always succeeds in portraying his knowledge in a firm fashion that always suggests the good intentions within what he says.

This is a strong performance by Fishburne and he stands well as the good stable presence within a film that is anything but otherwise. He meets of the demands of his character very well because he does not make Furious just one type of father. He brings about the firmness and shows exactly why Furious's does succeed with his son and why Tre ends up turning out the right way. He combines the aspects of the authority figure who keeps his sons problematic tendencies in check but as well as caring father to Tre equally well. Fishburne fulfills his role in the film efficiently bringing his character to life, and through his performance showing not only what Furious does for Tre, but as well why it is such a problem that the other boys do not have someone like Furious to look up to.

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Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1991

And the Nominees Were Not:

Gary Oldman in JFK

John Goodman in Barton Fink

Laurence Fishburne in Boyz N' The Hood

Samuel L. Jackson in Jungle Fever

Ted Levine in The Silence of the Lambs

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