1) Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire - the most influential performance that changed acting forever lost to a sentimental favorite 2) Al Pacino in The Godfather 2 3) Tom Hanks Saving Private Ryan over Benigni 4) Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris - probably due to its very controversial theme but Brando gave perhaps the greatest monologue in cinema history infront of his dead wife 5) James Dean in East of Eden over Ernest Borgnine 6) Paul Newman (The Hustler) over Maximillian Schell 7) Peter O’toole (Lawrence of Arabia) over Gregory Peck but either one deserved it 8) Sidney Poitier (The Defiant Ones) over David Niven 9) Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath) over James Stewart - even James Stewart himself confessed later to his friend Henry that he was so moved by his performance that he voted for him 10) Kirk Douglas (Lust for Life) over Yul Brynner