Alternate Best Actor 1964: Results

5. Vincent Price - The Masque of the Red Death - Although in the end the performance is largely just an entertaining diabolical turn from Price, what complexities inherent in the character he does exploit.

Best Scene: Describing his views.

4. Ivan Dixon in Nothing But a Man - Dixon gives a powerful low key depiction of a man just trying to get back and live his life.

Best Scene: Ending

3. Eiji Okada in Woman in the Dunes - Okada properly humanizes the allegorical scenario his character is in. A powerful portrayal of a man going down a strange but oddly tangible path. 

Best Scene: "performing" for the crowd.

2. Saro Urzì in Seduced and Abandoned - Urzì gives a hilarious and compelling portrayal of the intense pressure of a father trying to maintain his family's "dignity" at any cost.

Best Scene: Pregnancy test.

1. Innokenty Smoktunovsky in Hamlet - Good predictions Calvin, Tahmeed, Lucas Stephen, Matt, Glenn, Thomas, David, Omar, Matthew, and Luke  Smoktunovsky gives one of the greatest cinematic Hamlets, granting a compelling portrayal of a particularly cunning and internalized version of the vengeful prince.

Best Scene: The Ghost.

Updated Overall

Next: 1964 Supporting, though probably won't be a lineup.