Golden Globe Best Actor Drama Poll Series: 1965

[klariso]

Previous round's results:

1. Al Pacino, "The Godfather" - 35 votes
2. Marlon Brando, "The Godfather" -23 votes
3. Michael Caine, "Sleuth" - 3 votes
4. Laurence Olivier, "Sleuth" - 2 votes
5. Jon Voight, "Deliverance" - 1 vote

Winner Masterlist: (in bold, the same pick as the HFPA)
1950: José Ferrer, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
1951: Fredric March, "Death of a Salesman"
1952: Gary Cooper, "High Noon"
1956: Kirk Douglas, "Lust for Life"
1957: Alec Guinness, "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1958: Sidney Poitier, "The Defiant Ones"
1959: Fredric March, "Middle of the Night"
1960: Burt Lancaster, "Elmer Gantry"
1962: Gregory Peck, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
1963: Paul Newman, "Hud"
1964: Peter O'Toole, "Becket"
1966: Richard Burton, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1967: Paul Newman, "Cool Hand Luke
1968: Peter O'Toole, "The Lion in Winter"
1969: Jon Voight, "Midnight Cowboy
1970: George C. Scott, "Patton"
1971: Malcolm McDowell, "A Clockwork Orange"
1972: Al Pacino, "The Godfather"
1973: Al Pacino, "Serpico"
1974: Al Pacino, "The Godfather Part II"
1976: Robert De Niro, "Taxi Driver"
1977: Marcello Mastroianni, "A Special Day"
1978: Robert De Niro, "The Deer Hunter"
1979: Dustin Hoffman, "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1980: Robert De Niro, "Raging Bull"
1981: Burt Lancaster, "Atlantic City"
1982: Paul Newman, "The Verdict"
1983: Al Pacino, "Scarface"
1984: F. Murray Abraham, "Amadeus"
1985: William Hurt, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and Raul Julia, "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
1986: Bob Hoskins, "Mona Lisa"
1988: Forest Whitaker, "Bird"
1989: Daniel Day-Lewis, "My Left Foot"
1990: Jeremy Irons, "Reversal of Fortune"
1991: Anthony Hopkins, "The Silence of the Lambs"
1993: Anthony Hopkins, "The Remains of the Day"
1994: Paul Newman, "Nobody's Fool"
1995: Sean Penn, "Dead Man Walking"
1996: Woody Harrelson, "The People vs. Larry Flynt"
1997: Peter Fonda, "Ulee's Gold"
1998: Ian McKellen, "Gods and Monsters"
1999: Richard Farnsworth, "The Straight Story"
2000: Javier Bardem, "Before Night Falls"
2001: Denzel Washington, "Training Day"
2003: Russell Crowe, "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"
2004: Don Cheadle, "Hotel Rwanda"
2005: Heath Ledger, "Brokeback Mountain"
2006: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
2008: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
2010: Jesse Eisenberg, "The Social Network"
2011: Michael Fassbender, "Shame"
2012: Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
2013: Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
2014: Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler"
2015: Michael Fassbender, " Steve Jobs"
2017: Timothée Chalamet, "Call Me by Your Name"
2018: Bradley Cooper, "A Star Is Born"
2019: Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory"
2021: Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Power of the Dog

The HFPA's pick this year is Omar Sharif.


Rex Harrison, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"


Sidney Poitier, "A Patch of Blue"


Omar Sharif, "Doctor Zhivago"


Rod Steiger, "The Pawnbroker"


Oskar Werner, "Ship of Fools"

[CitizenKian]

Anyone who hasn't seen The Pawnbroker should sit this one out. Devastating performance by Steiger, an all-timer for sure!

[McTeague]

Oof. Probably nobody.

[GeorgeEastman]

Sharif but Poitier is great too, never cared for Steiger there.

[Peppin]

Won't vote, but Sharif here is one of my favorite leading male performances.

[Cooper]

A Patch of Blue is my favorite film and performance from Sidney Poitier.

[francesco-natale]

My heart said Poitier too, immediatly, but I really like Werner too.

[The Dark Poet]

I love Poitier so much, but he really doesn't do much in A Patch of Blue this man did so much better work (including The Slender Thread this very year), and this is one of the few times I'm fine with him being snubbed, especially since the film isn't particularly good, and Shelley Winters gives one of the worst Supporting Actress winning performances ever, beaten only by Estelle Parsons two years later.

This should have been Steiger's time to win the Oscar. His 1967 win (for a supporting role) clearly a make-up win for losing here. Absolutely brilliant work that breaks my heart every time I see it.

[Hoster1]

Omar Sharif and Sidney Poitier being snubbed at Oscars the same year that they nominate THIS:

[The Dark Poet]

Omar Sharif and Sidney Poitier being snubbed at Oscars the same year that they nominate THIS:

Absolutely repulsive nomination, and I normally love Olivier.

[CitizenKian]

Omar Sharif and Sidney Poitier being snubbed at Oscars the same year that they nominate THIS:

Iconic tbh

[McTeague]

Seriously. I can never resist watching that Othello trainwreck when people post those videos. I maintain the acting itself is even more depraved than the blackface. Even if he were not in black face and if he were playing a white character, the acting would be crimes against humanity. THE HAND AND ARM WAVING (AND HEAP SHAKING!?!?) between minute 4:49 and 5:00 is perhaps the vilest 10 seconds of acting in history. Perhaps tied with that monologue in which he crosses eyes for whatever reason. And perhaps tied with Kate Winslet performances, too.

[The Dark Poet]

Seriously. I can never resist watching that Othello trainwreck when people post those videos. I maintain the acting itself is even more depraved than the blackface. Even if he were not in black face and if he were playing a white character, the acting would be crimes against humanity. THE HAND AND ARM WAVING (AND HEAP SHAKING!?!?) between minute 4:49 and 5:00 is perhaps the vilest 10 seconds of acting in history. Perhaps tied with that monologue in which he crosses eyes for whatever reason. And perhaps tied with Kate Winslet performances, too.

Manila Luzon, her impact!

[TaranofPrydain]

Omar Sharif and Sidney Poitier being snubbed at Oscars the same year that they nominate THIS:

It's remarkable how good Frank Finley and Maggie Smith were in that film considering that they had to deal with acting opposite that.

[Habsburg]

Two really outstanding performances, and HABSY™ solves the issue with truth:

Best Actor: Rod Steiger, in The Pawnbroker
Best Supporting Actor: Oskar Werner, in The Ship of Fools

No one is lead in The Ship of Fools (Signoret wins in supporting as well)



I love Sharif as Zhivago more than most, however he'd still be far behind these two.