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 ex…

Alternate Best Actor 1964: Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

Vincent Price did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death.  The Masque of the Red Death follows a diabolical Prince as he holds a party in his ca…

Alternate Best Actor 1964: Innokenty Smoktunovsky & Christopher Plummer in Hamlet (at Elsinore)

Innokenty Smoktunovsky did not receive an Oscar nomination and Christopher Plummer received an Emmy nomination for portraying the titular prince of Denmark in Hamlet (at Elsinore).  Hamlet is one of …

Alternate Best Actor 1964: Saro Urzì in Seduced and Abandoned

Saro Urzì did not receive an Oscar nomination, despite winning CANNES, for portraying Don Vincenzo Ascalone in Seduced and Abandoned.  Seduced and Abandoned is Pietro Germi's followup to his most…

Alternate Best Actor 1964: Eiji Okada in Woman in the Dunes

Eiji Okada did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Niki Junpei in Woman in the Dunes.   Woman in the Dunes is a masterful film about a school teacher becoming trapped in a dwelling at the …

Alternate Best Actor 1964: Ivan Dixon in Nothing But a Man

Ivan Dixon did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Duff Anderson in Nothing But a Man.  Nothing But a Man is a remarkable film, particularly due to the era in which it was made, following …

Alternate Best Actor 1964

And the Nominees Were Not: Innokenty Smoktunovsky in Hamlet   Ivan Dixon in Nothing But a Man   Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death Eiji Okada in Woman in the Dunes   Saro Urzì in Seduced an…