FINAL RESULTS September 1998 - May 2001

The Top Ten winners and the percentage of Top Ten votes they received are listed below in each category. If we, the Clive Cussler fans, were to cast a Dirk Pitt movie, the credits would look like this:

INCA GOLD
A Steven Spielberg film
Starring
George Clooney as Dirk Pitt
Sylvester Stallone as Al Giordino
Sean Connery as Admiral Sandecker
Brent Spiner as Hiram Yaeger
Rene Russo as Congresswoman Loren Smith
Dom DeLuise as St. Julien Perlmutter
Jeff Goldblum as Rudi Gunn

The voting looked like this (all votes are rounded):

DIRK PITT
20.1% - George Clooney - A Perfect Storm
18.5% - Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark
13.1% - Mel Gibson - Lethal Weapon
10.8% - Tom Selleck - TV's Magnum, P.I.
9.1% - David James Elliott - TV's J.A.G.
7.5% - Pierce Brosnan - The World Is Not Enough
4.9% - Alec Baldwin - Pearl Harbor
4.2% - Russell Crowe - Gladiator
4.0% - Bruce Willis - The Sixth Sense
4.0% - Val Kilmer - The Saint
3.2% - Kurt Russell - Escape from New York

AL GIORDINO
31.3% - Sylvester Stallone - Rambo
16.1% -  Bruce Willis - The Sixth Sense
9.0% - Danny DeVito - TV's "Taxi"
7.7% - Dennis Franz - TV's "N.Y.P.D. Blue"
7.7% - Tony Danza - TV's "Taxi"
7.1% - Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
5.9% - Robert DeNiro - Casino
4.6% - Antonio Banderas - The Mask of Zorro
4.6% - Bob Hoskins - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
4.6% - Oliver Platt - Flatliners
3.7% - George Clooney - A Perfect Storm
3.4% - Mel Gibson - Lethal Weapon
3.1% - Cheech Marin - TV's Nash Bridges
3.1% - Russell Crowe - Gladiator

ADMIRAL JAMES SANDECKER
50.8% - Sean Connery - Finding Forrester
9.2% - Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
5.9% - Patrick Stewart - TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation
5.3% - James Coburn - Payback
5.0% - Clive Cussler - Grandmaster of Adventure
5.0% - Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark
4.4% - Ed Harris - Apollo 13
4.0% - Rip Torn - TV's The Larry Sanders Show
3.8% - Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal
2.9% - Robert Duvall - Gone in 60 Seconds
2.7% - James Earl Jones - Clear and Present Danger

RUDI GUNN
34.7% - Jeff Goldblum - Jurassic Park
15.0%  - Ed Harris - Apollo 13
12.1% - Sam Neill - Jurassic Park III
10.0% - Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
9.2% - James Spader - Stargate
5.4% - Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
5.0% - Tom Hanks - Castaway
4.6% - Anthony Edwards - TV's E.R.
4.1% - Alec Baldwin - Pearl Harbor
4.1% - David Straitharn - The River Wild
3.7% - James Woods - John Carpenter's Vampires

CONGRESSPERSON LOREN SMITH
27.6% - Rene Russo - The Thomas Crown Affair
24.6% - Sharon Stone - Basic Instinct
10.1% - Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
9.3% - Catherine Zeta-Jones - Traffic
8.9% - Nicole Kidman - Eyes Wide Shut
6.1% - Teri Hatcher - TV's Lois & Clark
5.8% - Sandra Bullock - Miss Congeniality
5.3% - Helen Hunt - Castaway
5.0% - Michelle Pfeiffer - What Lies Beneath
4.5% - Ashley Judd - Double Jeopardy
4.5% - Meg Ryan - Proof of Life

HIRAM YAEGER
38.7% - Brent Spiner - TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation
22.4% - Jeff Goldblum - Jurassic Park
8.1% - Dean Hagland - TV's The Lone Gunmen
7.7% - George Carlin - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
6.1% - Kiefer Sutherland - Dark City
5.3% - James Spader - Stargate
4.5% - Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
4.5% - Nicolas Cage - Gone in 60 Seconds
3.7% - Dennis Miller - Joe Dirt
3.7% - Matthew Broderick - Godzilla
3.2% - Val Kilmer - The Saint

ST. JULIEN PERLMUTTER
30.7% - Dom DeLuise - Hot Stuff
22.6% - John Rhys-Davies - Raiders of the Lost Ark
13.6% - John Goodman - Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou
10.0% - Marlon Brando - The Godfather
9.0% -  James Earl Jones - Clear and Present Danger
3.4% -  Wayne Knight - Jurassic Park
3.1% - Robbie Coltrane - The World Is Not Enough
2.6% - Sean Connery - Finding Forrester
2.4% - Danny DeVito - What's the Worse That Could Happen?
2.2% - Peter Ustinov - Murder on the Orient Express

BEST NOVEL TO MAKE INTO A MOVIE
22.3%-  Inca Gold
18.9% - Sahara
11.0% - Shock Wave
9.7% - Atlantis Found
8.2% - Treasure
5.5% - Flood Tide
5.0% - Dragon
4.5% - Night Probe!
3.5% - The Mediterranean Caper
3.0% - Cyclops
2.7% - Vixen 03
1.9% - Deep Six
1.3% - Iceberg
1.2% - Pacific Vortex
0.9% - Raise the Titanic

BEST DIRECTOR FOR A DIRK PITT MOVIE
55.4% - Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
14.3% - James Cameron - Titanic
7.2% - George Lucas - Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
6.3% - Ron Howard - EdTV
4.6% - John Woo - Mission Impossible II
3.9% - Clive Cussler - Grandmaster of Adventure
2.7% - Michael Bay - Pearl Harbor
2.3% - John McTiernan - The Thomas Crown Affair
1.7% - Richard Donner - Lethal Weapon
1.6% - Ridley Scott - Gladiator

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