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Based on Oscar eligibility and the films I've seen:

27-28: James Murray, The Crowd
28-29: Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr.
29-30: Ronald Colman, Condemned
30-31: Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul
31-32: Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
32-33: Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
34: John Barrymore, Twentieth Century
35: Charles Laughton, Mutiny on the Bounty
36: William Powell, My Man Godfrey
37: Cary Grant, The Awful Truth
38: James Cagney, Angels With Dirty Faces
39: James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
40: Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath
41: Gary Cooper, Meet John Doe
42: James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy (2)
43: Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
44: Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity
45: Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
46: James Stewart, It’s A Wonderful Life (2)
47: Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley
48: Humphrey Bogart, Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2)
49: James Cagney, White Heat (3)
50: Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride
51: Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire
52: John Wayne, The Quiet Man
53: Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity
54: Marlon Brando, On The Waterfront (2)
55: James Dean, Rebel Without A Cause
56: Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life
57: Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd
58: James Stewart, Vertigo (3)
59: Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot
60: Anthony Perkins, Psycho
61: Paul Newman, The Hustler
62: Gregory Peck, To Kill A Mockingbird
63: Paul Newman, Hud (2)
64: Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
65: Rod Steiger, The Pawnbroker
66: Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
67: Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke (3)
68: Peter O’Toole, The Lion in Winter
69: Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy
70: Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces
71: Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
72: Al Pacino, The Godfather
73: Marlon Brando, The Last Tango in Paris (3)
74: Al Pacino, The Godfather Part II (2)
75: Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2) & Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon (3)
76: Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver
77: Richard Dreyfuss, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
78: Jon Voight, Coming Home
79: Jack Lemmon, The China Syndrome (2)
80: Robert De Niro, Raging Bull (2)
81: Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond (2)
82: Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie (2)
83: Tom Courtenay, The Dresser
84: F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
85: William Hurt, The Kiss of the Spider Woman
86: Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa
87: Michael Douglas, Fatal Attraction
88: Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers
89: Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot
90: Ray Liotta, Goodfellas
91: Warren Beatty, Bugsy
92: Denzel Washington, Malcom X
93: Robin Williams, Mrs. Doubtfire
94: Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
95: Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking
96: Eddie Murphy, The Nutty Professor
97: Robert Duvall, The Apostle
98: Edward Norton, American History X
99: Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story
00: Tom Hanks, Castaway (2)
01: Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind
02: Adrian Brody, The Pianist
03: Johnny Depp: The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
04: Jamie Foxx, Ray
05: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
06: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
07: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (2)
08: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
09: Colin Firth, A Single Man
10: Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
11: Michael Fassbender, Shame
12: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln (3)
13: Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips (3)
14: Michael Keaton, Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
15: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant (2)
16: Denzel Washington, Fences (2)
17: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
18: Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
19: Adam Driver, Marriage Story
20: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
21: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
22: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
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1930: Pierre Alcover (La petite Lise)
1931: Tokihiko Okada (The Lady and the Beard)
1932: Herbert Marshall (Trouble in Paradise)
1933: Tatsuo Saitō (Each Night I Dream)
1934: Geymond Vital (Rapt)
1935: Takeshi Sakamoto (An Inn in Tokyo)
1936: William Powell (Libeled Lady)
1937: Jun Yokoyama (Children in the Wind)
1938: Jean Gabin (Port of Shadows)
1939: Jean Gabin (Le jour se lève)

1940: James Stewart (The Shop Around the Corner)
1941: Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
1942: Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
1943: Roger Livesey (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
1944: Eddie Bracken (The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek)
1945: Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise)
1946: James Stewart (It’s a Wonderful Life)
1947: Trevor Howard (They Made Me a Fugitive)
1948: Van Heflin (Act of Violence)
1949: Robert Ryan (The Set-Up)

1950: Humphrey Bogart (In a Lonely Place)
1951: John Garfield (He Ran All the Way)
1952: Robert Ryan (On Dangerous Ground)
1953: Trevor Howard (The Heart of the Matter)
1954: Gunnar Björnstrand (A Lesson in Love)
1955: James Dean (East of Eden)
1956: Dinos Iliopoulos (O Drakos)
1957: Tony Curtis (Sweet Smell of Success)
1958: James Stewart (Vertigo)
1959: Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows)

1960: Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
1961: Sandro Panseri (Il posto)
1962: Chishū Ryū (An Autumn Afternoon)
1963: Nino Manfredi (The Executioner)
1964: Ivan Dixon (Nothing But a Man)
1965: Rentarō Mikuni (Straits of Hunger)
1966: Per Oscarsson (Hunger)
1967: Robert Liensol (Soleil Ô)
1968: Sérgio Hingst (The Bedroom)
1969: Nelson Villagra (Jackal of Nahueltoro)

1970: Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces)
1971: Richard Attenborough (10 Rillington Place)
1972: Claudio Brook (Castle of Purity)
1973: Martin Sheen (Badlands)
1974: Jacques Spiesser (Un homme qui dort)
1975: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Fox and His Friends)
1976: Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
1977: Boris Plotnikov (The Ascent)
1978: Ken Robertson (Nighthawks)
1979: Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now)

1980: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
1981: Bruno Lawrence (Smash Palace)
1982: Toshinori Omi (Exchange Students)
1983: Vincent Spano (Baby It’s You)
1984: Avtandil Makharadze (Repentance)
1985: Aleksei Kravchenko (Come and See)
1986: Rentarō Mikuni (The Human Promise)
1987: Sergey Shakurov (Friend)
1988: Lương Hữu Minh (Travelling Circus)
1989: Pavel Nazarov (Freeze, Die, Come to Life!)

1990: Hossain Sabzian (Close-Up)
1991: Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992: Stephen Rea (The Crying Game)
1993: David Thewlis (Naked)
1994: Zbigniew Zamachowski (Three Colours: White)
1995: Yoshinori Okada (Like Grains of Sand)
1996: Nathan Lane (The Birdcage)
1997: Tony Leung (Happy Together)
1998: Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters)
1999: Sol Kyung-gu (Peppermint Candy)

2000: Eric Bana (Chopper)
2001: Adrien Michaux (Toutes les nuits)
2002: Leonardo DiCaprio (Catch Me If You Can)
2003: Luis Tosar (Take My Eyes)
2004: Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2005: Ralph Fiennes (The Constant Gardener)
2006: Kengō Kora (M)
2007: Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz)
2008: Joaquin Phoenix (Two Lovers)
2009: Lars Eidinger (Everyone Else)

2010: Dan Byrd (Norman)
2011: Thomas Schubert (Breathing)
2012: Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
2013: Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now)
2014: Antoine Olivier-Pilon (Mommy)
2015: Jacob Tremblay (Room)
2016: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
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Big Magilla wrote:It was a flop on its original release and not shown outside of Italy. It has only recently been shown in the U.S. at the 2012 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival. TCM then showed it. It has, as far as I can tell, never been released on home video. IMDb. has only four reviews, albeit all positive.
It's in the Criterion Collection, for the record.
It's not in any of their current Rossellini box sets. Is this coming soon from Criterion?
If you have Hulu Plus, you have access to many, many of the Criterion films.
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Oh yes, The Messiah was also shown in cinemas.

I don't know exactly why Rossellini didn't like General Della Rovere, which is certainly a masterpiece and was, at the time but even today, an extremely popular, successful movie. I guess that he didn't feel that it was a "personal" project, considering the strong personalities involved (star Vittorio De Sica, screenwriter Indro Montanelli...). Yet it's one of his best movies.

The same can't be said about Anima Nera, I'm afraid. Let me know what you think when you see it - it may also be that it needs to de re-discovered (I saw it many years ago and my opinion on it could be different now, too - back then I was certainly quite disappointed).

I've met and talked to several friends of Rossellini's. They agree that he was a man with a great (and very emotional) intelligence, but not necessarily the best judge of his own work. And for example another movie which is far from perfect is the Sandra Milo vehicle Vanina Vanina - but then in this case it's possible that the hands of the producer damaged it.
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ITALIANO wrote:Yes, it was a flop in Italy when it first came out, and I've never had a chance to see it on tv. (Rossellini's later movies, of course, were made directly for tv and have been shown often on that medium since).

Still, The Machine That Kills Bad People (love the English title!) is at least famous - if little seen. I'd say that the most obscure Rossellini movies (though I have seen them) - and definitely not his best, even if the first is interesting - are Fear, his last movie with Bergman, made in Germany, and Anima Nera, based on a popular (and back then "shocking") play, with two big stars (Vittorio Gassman and Eleonora Rossi Drago), and a complete failure, in every way. Rossellini never made another film for the big screen after this one.
There was The Messiah ... although its distribution was extremely limited and was never totally finished, if I recall.

I do think Anima Nera may be the Rossellini that people talk about the least (it's also one of the few I haven't seen, though I think I did acquire a copy sometime recently). It was funny that it was one of the two films RR essentially disowned, given the the other one was the great Il generale della Rovere ...
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Yes, it was a flop in Italy when it first came out, and I've never had a chance to see it on tv. (Rossellini's later movies, of course, were made directly for tv and have been shown often on that medium since).

Still, The Machine That Kills Bad People (love the English title!) is at least famous - if little seen. I'd say that the most obscure Rossellini movies (though I have seen them) - and definitely not his best, even if the first is interesting - are Fear, his last movie with Bergman, made in Germany, and Anima Nera, based on a popular (and back then "shocking") play, with two big stars (Vittorio Gassman and Eleonora Rossi Drago), and a complete failure, in every way. Rossellini never made another film for the big screen after this one.
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Big Magilla wrote:It was a flop on its original release and not shown outside of Italy. It has only recently been shown in the U.S. at the 2012 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival. TCM then showed it. It has, as far as I can tell, never been released on home video. IMDb. has only four reviews, albeit all positive.
It's in the Criterion Collection, for the record.
It's not in any of their current Rossellini box sets. Is this coming soon from Criterion?
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Big Magilla wrote:It was a flop on its original release and not shown outside of Italy. It has only recently been shown in the U.S. at the 2012 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival. TCM then showed it. It has, as far as I can tell, never been released on home video. IMDb. has only four reviews, albeit all positive.
It's in the Criterion Collection, for the record.
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It was a flop on its original release and not shown outside of Italy. It has only recently been shown in the U.S. at the 2012 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival. TCM then showed it. It has, as far as I can tell, never been released on home video. IMDb. has only four reviews, albeit all positive.
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Is that really the rarest Rossellini? I've seen it too.

I'm still waiting for opportunities to see (subtitled) copies of La lotta dell'uomo per la sua sopravvivenza or Acts of the Apostles ...
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I don't have contempt for you - or anyone else :D ... I just envy you now, because you have seen the rarest Rossellini movie - one which even I have never seen...
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ITALIANO wrote:
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ITALIANO wrote:I was shocked, too. But I guess this board is mostly for lovers of American cinema (and in some ways of America itself).

I've never done these lists. But if I did, I guess that maybe only almost 1/4 of MY winners would be from English-language movies (which is alot, considering that it's only TWO countries).
Marco now I'm very curious to see all the foreign actors on your list.

Ditto Uri.

Ah but some wouldn't be foreign - Italian actors would be on the list, too. :wink:

I'm not patient enough, I'm afraid - these things just aren't for me. But I guess that any serious Best Actor list should include, in no particular order, Marcello Mastroianni, Max Von Sydow, Toshiro Mifune, Toto', Jean Gabin, Gerard Philipe, Jean Louis Trintignant, Fernando Rey, Gian Maria Volonte', Jean Louis Trintignant, Giancarlo Giannini, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Javier Bardem, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Michel Serrault, Erland Josephson, Klaus Maria Brandauer, so many others.
If it'll heal any contempt you have towards me, I think Gennaro Pisano should have won in 1952 for Rossellini's The Machine That Kills Bad People.
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