Andy Robinson wasn't nominated for an Oscar for Dirty Harry?

I agree that Anthony Hopkins is great, but I think there is room to discuss distinct subsets of psycho killers and their portrayals. I'd say that Hannibal Lecter belongs to a disjoint set of highly cultured psychopaths who can be charming one minute and disembowel someone the next. Scorpio belongs to another set of psychos whose drive to kill has little to do with an intellectualized disdain for inferiors. He's more the standard nutjob who was probably abused by a priest, completely ignored by women, and beaten up in school by kids of various stripes (probably black kids given his choice of victims). He eventually takes pleasure in snuffing out the lives of his perceived antagonists. Very different than the Lecter type. So, what I'd say in my defense of Andy Robinson's performance (namely, that I think it's top of the line) is that he did a great job within the context of that type of psychopath. Given that Scorpio is in so many ways has far fewer nuances, I think a case could be made that Robinson had the tougher job of making interesting a more straightforward character archetype. When it comes down to it I'd prefer not to compare Hopkins and Robinson in these roles and just say that they were both great playing very different psychos.