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And the Winners Are....Dateline: 14th November, 2004According to a sample of visitors to the BTG, the best actor (male or female, of any nationality) over fifty is... da DAH! ... Alan Rickman. He is followed - but not closely, for Rickman gained more than five times as many points as his closest rival - by Ian McKellen, and just two points behind him is Judi Dench. Trailing her by twelve points are, jointly, Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith, with Derek Jacobi a mere point behind. One vote, which arrived to late to be counted, would not have made any difference to the placings but would have brought Dench one point closer to McKellen. In a parallel poll of BTG reviewers, Dame Judi came out on top, four points ahead of McKellen who was, again, four points ahead of Michael Gambon, himself a single point ahead of Antony Sher. In all, readers voted for 74 actors whilst reviewers selected 19. The top ten places in both polls were:
* Because of the small number of voters, there are too many receiving the same number of votes to list them all. What conclusions do we draw from all this? Basically that BTG visitors think very differently from the readers of Empire magaine whose top actor over fifty poll started it all! What is interesting is the fact that BTG visitors gave Anthony Hopkins, who was top of the Brits in the Empire poll, a mere two points. De Niro and Pacino, who were top of the Empire poll, did quite well, being 9th and 7th repectively, but the other Americans who were in the Empire top ten just managed to accumulate eleven points between them. BTG visitors, incidentally, did not give Peter O'Toole, Gene Hackman or Clint Eastwood a single vote. The full list of those who received at least one point in the vsitors' poll is: Alan Rickman, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon, Patrick Stewart, Al Pacino, Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, Greg Hicks, Paul Scofield, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Howard, John Hurt, Glenn Close, Jenny Agutter, Edward Petherbridge, Meryl Streep, Albert Finney, William Gaunt, Christopher Ravenscroft, Brian Cox, George Baker, Diana Rigg, Michael Pennington. Jonathan Pryce, Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Anton Lesser, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lee, Richard Harris, Harrison Ford, Fiona Shaw, Emma Thompson, Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Burke, Corin Redgrave, Geraldine McEwan, Charles Dance, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Antony Sher, Roberto Bengini, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Walken, Roger Rees, Christopher Plummer, Clive Wood, Morgan Freeman, Lily Tomlin, David Troughton, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Dale, Billy Dee Williams, Bill Murray. Stuart Damon, Jeremy Irons, Tim Pigott-Smith, Zoe Wanamaker, Eileen Atkins, Ray Winstone, Bernard Hepton, Kevin Spacey, Vanessa Redgrave. The influence of TV and film is obvious but not so great as with the Empire poll. And those who gained at least one point from the Reviewers were: Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Michael Gambon, Antony Sher, Julie Walters, Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Michael Kitchen, Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw, Om Puri, Zoe Wanamaker, Anna Massey, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Michael Sheen, Kevin Spacey, Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong.
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