Unforgiven1998

Yea I have done a few of these before, but onto 1992 best supporting actor. Who do you think was the best out of the nominees?

Jaye Davidson- The Crying Game
Gene Hackman- Unforgiven (winner)
Jack Nicholson- A Few Good Men
Al Pacino- Glengarry Glen Ross
David Paymer- Mr Saturday Night

I think the academy got it right. I hear a lot of people say Jaye Davidson deserved to win, but I think hes overrated in The Crying Game. It seemed like a performance that may have looked like it deserved to win at the time but I dont think it holds up well. I think he took a nomination that should have gone to Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross

islandclaws

Those are some great actors up there, but Gene Hackman is the fucking man. Totally deserved it.

Geofferson

Hard to argue w/ Jack's performance, although I was happy w/ how it ended up.

PopcornTreeCt

Al Pacino

conscience

Love Jack and his performance is seriously iconic (compated to Hackman), but I've got to go with Hackman. Amazing performance in a great film.

Unforgiven1998

Do you think its the speech that is more iconic than his performance? I mean Jack was brilliant, but I always felt that the speech was more iconic as oppossed to the character

Hokeyboy

Pacino was great in Glengarry but... over Baldwin? Ridiculous

Unforgiven1998

Jack Lemmon was robbed of a nomination for the same film. Not sure what category I would put him in though

Double_Oh_7

I think it's a combination. "You can't handle the truth!" Would those words reverberate to this day if they had been spoken by a lesser actor?

Hokeyboy

He was the best of an already amazing lot of actors in that film. I'd say Best Actor, easy. When he was on the phone with a lead, pretending to be talking to his bullshit secretary, equally parts snake-oil salesman and desparation... perfection.

I mean, he wasn't screaming his way through the part like Pacino in "Scent of a Woman", but we can't have it all. Where would we put it?

Unforgiven1998

I wish I could give him the win for lead, I give the lead win to Denzel Washington in Malcolm X, his career best performance. 1992 is a really underrated year for acting. I love that scene on the phone, anytime he's arguing with Spacey is pure gold

davidh777

I object to the poll because it includes full movie titles instead of first initials only

Charlie Goose

Hackman was terrific and deserved it out of that group.

Pacino was Pacino, completely over the top and a near-parody of what he used to be. Although I do enjoy his filthy rant at Kevin Spacey.

Jaye Davidson was good only because he played a convinving woman. I already knew the surprise before seeing it, but my wife didn't and she was like WTF!

Nicholson was one-note, but he did it well.

Never saw Mr Saturday Night.

jfoobar

I never saw Mr. Saturday Night either but Paymer is a wonderful actor so I suspect that his performance was worthy of the nomination.

Of the remaining four...yeah, Hackman. I think Charlie Goose pretty much nailed the reasons why. Nicholson chewed a lot of scenery but it wasn't really an Oscar-worthy performance. I would actually even go so far as to say that it wasn't even worthy of a nomination.

But then, I have always felt that Nicholson was actually miscast for that role anyway.

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wm lopez

Gene has given that performance before like in QUICK & DEAD.
It wasn't really much to it.
Now Jack N. you never seen him act like that.
He's always plays a fun guy.
I voted for Jack.
Al did his shouting bit and I'm sick of it.

MoviePage

Are you really for real?

Eh, forget it.

Unforgiven1998

Hackman did Unforgiven before he did The Quick and the Dead

Solid Snake

just saw Unforgiven1998 quoting him and was about to respond to the OP of that quote...till I saw it was wm lopez...fuck that. I'm not going to teach the mentally challenged.

Unforgiven1998

I think Duvall may have been better in the Nicholson role in A Few Good Men

wm lopez

Yes, I know.
I ment to say he's given that bad guy performance before just like Jack's given that OFOTCN performance many times and that's how we know Jack.
So his FEW GOOD MEN performance stands out.

MrTerrific

Gene Hackman for sure!

GoldenJCJ

davidh777 spoke to soon. I had to IMDB Nicholson to realize what the fuck "OFOTCN" was.