Monday 4 February 2013

Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor 2012: Results


5. Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook- De Niro is very supporting here usually being part of a group but he plays his role as well as anyone probably could infusing a lot of energy and heart in the role something he has not done in quite some time. Having said that though this is far cry from his early days such as his performance in Mean Streets for example. 
4. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln- The more I think about this performance the less I like it. He is reasonably entertaining in his scenes of insulting others, but honestly he is more of Tommy Lee Jones the Radical Republican than Thaddeus Stevens the Radical Republican. I think if he did less Jonisms, something he did reduce in JFK, he could have made the character more his own, and his last scene probably would have been much better as well.
3. Alan Arkin does not do much here more than say one liners in his crusty old man sort of way. He does it well but there is not at lot to it.
2. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained- Waltz gives an extremely entertaining turn he basically making his picture. He brings life to every scene and probably is the actor who knows how to bring the most out of Quentin Tarantino's dialogue more than any other actor.
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master- This year came out down to the two performances that you could easily say are leads in their films. Although I loved Waltz's performance I find I can give this win easily to Hoffman. His turn as cult leader Lancaster Dodd is something certainly fascinating to watch as he dissects this man in such a complex compelling fashion.

5. Denzel Washington in Flight- Washington although tries never overcomes the weakness of his film leaving him in an awkward position.
4. Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables- Jackman gives a fairly overt performance in that his emotions are overt. This works well for the film and his character which is a film of big emotions, and a character whose whole point is that he must be genuine.
3. Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook- Bradley Cooper shows himself to be a very capable actor. He gives a strong leading performance that is both a charming funny turn, but as well a moving portrait of mentally troubled man.
2. Daniel Day-Lewis-This was a difficult choice for me as both Day-Lewis and Phoenix would be outstanding worthy winners in so many years. The performances could not be more different in both scale and style. Both are incredible in their characterizations though. I have to choose one and for the moment my choice is Day-Lewis for his remarkable portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Day-Lewis realizes this character marvelously and somehow makes a human character of his Lincoln but still manages to make it believable that he would create such a legacy.
1. Joaquin Phoenix in The Master- This is a performance that is easy to hate, but I loved it. Phoenix goes out on one big limb with his wild performance here that is perfectly fitting of his insane unpredictable character.
Best Actor Ranking:
  1. 1962
  2. 1939
  3. 1964
  4. 2002
  5. 1978
  6. 1965
  7. 1970
  8. 1974
  9. 2012
  10. 1976
  11. 1954
  12. 1966
  13. 1982
  14. 1960
  15. 1983
  16. 1967
  17. 1979
  18. 1955
  19. 2011
  20. 1986
  21. 1973
  22. 1972 
  23. 1994
  24. 1940
  25. 1950
  26. 1963
  27. 1975
  28. 1952
  29. 1980
  30. 1953
  31. 1959
  32. 1987
  33. 1977
  34. 1968
  35. 2006
  36. 1938
  37. 1969
  38. 1992
  39. 1961
  40. 1971
  41. 1956
  42. 1951
  43. 1984
  44. 1943
  45. 1958
  46. 1948
  47. 1998
  48. 1999
  49. 1988
  50. 1944
  51. 1936
  52. 1946
  53. 1957
  54. 2007
  55. 2005
  56. 1942
  57. 1947
  58. 1993
  59. 1981
  60. 1989
  61. 1995
  62. 2004
  63. 1937 
  64. 2009
  65. 1941
  66. 1997
  67. 1931
  68. 1996
  69. 1949
  70. 2003 
  71. 2010
  72. 1990
  73. 1945
  74. 1985
  75. 2001
  76. 2008
  77. 1991
  78. 2000
  1. F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
  2. Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  3. James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 
  4. Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story (1999)
  5. Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (1960) 
  6. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
  7. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989)
  8. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  9. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
  10. Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  11. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  12. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)    
  13. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
  14. Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973)
  15. Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter (1968)
  16. Montgomery Clift in From Here to Eternity (1953)
  17. Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  18. Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970)
  19. Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982)
  20. Laurence Olivier in Sleuth (1972)
  21. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
  22. Giancarlo Giannini in Seven Beauties (1976)
  23. Peter Finch in Network (1976)
  24. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
  25. Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)
  26. Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  27. Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951)
  28. Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1965)
  29. James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  30. Clark Gable Gone With the Wind (1939)
  31. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
  32. Ernest Borgnine in Marty (1955)
  33. Joaquin Phoenix in The Master (2012)
  34. Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
  35. Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker (1965)
  36. Kirk Douglas in Lust For Life (1956)
  37. Laurence Olivier in Richard III (1956) 
  38. Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) 
  39. Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall (1937)
  40. Stuart Whitman in The Mark (1961)
  41. Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961) 
  42. William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953)
  43. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
  44. Paul Newman in Hud (1963)
  45. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
  46. Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940)
  47. Michael Caine in Alfie (1966)
  48. Jack Lemmon in Days Of Wine And Roses (1962)
  49. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947)
  50. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  51. Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973) 
  52. Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
  53. Jack Nicholson in Ironweed (1987)
  54. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005)
  55. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
  56. Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)
  57. Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
  58. Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  59. Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (1959)
  60. Spencer Tracy in A Bad Day At Black (1955)
  61. Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek (1964)
  62. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
  63. Peter O'Toole in Becket (1964)
  64. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
  65. Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)
  66. Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
  67. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)
  68. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)
  69. Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa (1986)
  70. Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
  71. Tom Hulce in Amadeus (1984)
  72. James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes Washington (1939)
  73. Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
  74. Rod Steiger in The Heat of the Night (1967)
  75. Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
  76. James Woods in Salvador (1986)
  77. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  78. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
  79. James Dean in East of Eden (1955)
  80. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
  81. Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939)
  82. Edward Norton in American History X (1998)
  83. Tom Wilkinson in In The Bedroom (2001)
  84. Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (2002)
  85. Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)
  86. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
  87. Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
  88. Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking (1995)
  89. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
  90. Richard Harris in This Sporting Life (1963)
  91. Albert Finney in Tom Jones (1963) 
  92. Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce Italian Style (1962)
  93. James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
  94. Richard Burton in Becket (1964)
  95. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
  96. Demian Bichir in A Better Life (2011)
  97. Robert Donat in The Citadel (1938)
  98. Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944)
  99. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  100. James Mason in A Star is Born (1954)
  101. Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
  102. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
  103. Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938)
  104. Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  105. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
  106. Peter Sellers in Being There (1979)
  107. Walter Huston The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  108. Michael Caine in Sleuth (1972)
  109. Robert Duvall in The Apostle (1997)
  110. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  111. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
  112. Liam Neeson in Schindler's List (1993)
  113. Walter Huston in Dodsworth (1936)
  114. John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)
  115.  Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
  116. Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960)
  117. Laurence Olivier in Henry V (1946)
  118. Nicolas Cage in Adaptation (2002)
  119. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
  120. Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2009)
  121. Kirk Douglas in Champion (1949)
  122. Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  123. Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables (2012)
  124. Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
  125. Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  126. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
  127. Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises (2007)
  128. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004)
  129. Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 
  130. Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York (2002)
  131. Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988)
  132. William Hurt in Children of Lesser God (1986)
  133. Ronald Colman in Bulldog Drummond (1930)
  134. Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! (1952)
  135. Bing Crosby in The Country Girl (1954)
  136. Dudley Moore in Arthur (1981)
  137. Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
  138. Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981) 
  139. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
  140. Nigel Hawthorne in The Madness of King George (1994)
  141. Charles Laughton in A Witness for the Prosecution(1957)
  142. John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  143. Tom Courtenay in The Dresser (1983)
  144. Oskar Werner in Ship of Fools (1965)
  145. Marcello Mastroianni in A Special Day (1977)
  146. Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
  147. William Powell in The Thin Man (1934)
  148. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)
  149. Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar (1953)
  150. Maximilian Schell in The Man in a Glass Booth (1975)
  151. Alexander Knox in Wilson (1944)
  152. Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (1998)
  153. Tom Hanks in Cast Away (2000)
  154. James Stewart in Harvey (1950)
  155. Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
  156. Robert Duvall in The Great Santini (1980)
  157. Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  158. William Holden in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  159. Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010)
  160. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
  161. Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father (1993) 
  162. Cary Grant in Penny Serenade (1941)
  163. Leonardo DiCaprio Blood Diamond (2006)
  164. John Travolta in Pulp Fiction (1994)
  165. Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  166. Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  167. Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  168. Peter Fonda in Ulee's Gold (1997)
  169. Alan Bates in The Fixer (1968)
  170. Anthony Quinn in Wild is the Wind (1957)
  171. Albert Finney in The Dresser (1983)
  172. Albert Finney in Under The Volcano (1984)
  173. Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958)
  174. Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)
  175. Sam Waterson in The Killing Fields (1984)
  176. Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958)
  177. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
  178. Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1943)
  179. Brad Pitt in Moneyball (2011)
  180. Russell Crowe in The Insider (1999)
  181. Richard Harris in The Field (1990)
  182. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
  183. Topol in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
  184. Colin Firth in A Single Man (2009)
  185. Melvyn Douglas in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
  186. Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  187. Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  188. Marlon Brando Last Tango in Paris (1973)
  189. Peter Finch in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
  190. Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (2006)
  191. Richard Jenkins in The Visitor (2008)
  192. Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  193. Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin (1992)
  194. Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1931)
  195. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
  196. Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome (1979)
  197. Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride (1950)
  198. Dan O'Herlihy in Robinson Crusoe (1954)
  199. Peter O'Toole in The Ruling Class (1972)
  200. Paul Newman in A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  201. Roy Scheider in All that Jazz (1979)
  202. Fredric March in A Star is Born (1937)
  203. Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996)  
  204. Jackie Cooper in Skippy (1931)
  205. Arthur Kennedy in Bright Victory (1951)
  206. Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (1942)
  207. Kirk Douglas in The Bad and The Beautiful (1952)
  208. Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom (1945)
  209. Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982)
  210. James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  211. Montgomery Clift in The Search (1948)
  212. Richard Burton in Equus (1977)
  213. Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy (1943)
  214. William Holden in Network (1976)
  215. Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1933)
  216. Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient (1997)
  217. William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936)
  218. Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968)
  219. Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool (1994)
  220. Maximilian Schell in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
  221. Laurence Olivier in The Boys from Brazil (1978)
  222. Ronald Colman in Condemned (1930)
  223. Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man (1980)
  224. Laurence Olivier in Othello (1965)
  225. Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006)
  226. Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989)
  227. Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1929)
  228. Dustin Hoffman in Lenny (1974)
  229. Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  230. Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  231. Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  232. Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  233. Michael Caine in The Quiet American (2002)
  234. James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope (1970)
  235. Marcello Mastroianni in Dark Eyes (1987)
  236. Fredric March in The Royal Family of Broadway (1931)
  237. Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983)
  238. Al Pacino in ...And Justice for All (1979)
  239. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (2009)
  240. James Franco in 127 Hours (2010)
  241. Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day (1993)
  242. Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953)
  243. James Dean in Giant (1956)
  244. Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City (1981)
  245. William Powell in Life With Father (1947)
  246. Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  247. Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (1959)
  248. Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1930)
  249. Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003)
  250. Jude Law in Cold Mountain (2003)
  251. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
  252. Rock Hudson in Giant (1956)
  253. Charles Boyer in Algiers (1938)
  254. Stephen Rea in The Crying Game (1992)
  255. Tom Conti in Reuben, Reuben (1983)
  256. Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah (2007)
  257. Jack Lemmon in Missing (1982)
  258. John Garfield in Body and Soul (1947)
  259. Ron Moody in Oliver! (1968)
  260. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
  261. Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)
  262. Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992)
  263. Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
  264. Charles Boyer in Conquest (1937)
  265. Lew Ayres in Johnny Belinda (1948)
  266. Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992)
  267. Max von Sydow in Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
  268. William Hurt in Broadcast News (1987)
  269. George C. Scott in The Hospital (1971)
  270. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
  271. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960)
  272. Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)
  273. Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
  274. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
  275. Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
  276. Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  277. Al Pacino in Serpico (1973)
  278. Trevor Howard in Sons and Lovers (1960)
  279. James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
  280. David Straithairn in Good Night and Good Luck (2005) 
  281. Harrison Ford in Witness (1985)
  282. Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver (1988)
  283. Ryan O'Neal in Love Story (1970)
  284. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
  285. Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  286. Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
  287. Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
  288. Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
  289. Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
  290. Tom Hanks in Big (1988)
  291. Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
  292. Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
  293. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
  294. Michael Redgrave in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
  295. Richard Barthelmess in the Patent Leather Kid (1928) 
  296. Nick Nolte in Affliction (1998)
  297. Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
  298. Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz (1964)
  299. Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  300. Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928)
  301. Robert Redford in The Sting (1973)
  302. Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
  303. James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  304. John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
  305. Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets (1997)
  306. Paul Muni in The Valiant (1929) 
  307. Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page (1931)
  308. Denzel Washington in The Hurricane (1999)
  309. Dustin Hoffman in Wag the Dog (1997)
  310. Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
  311. Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)
  312. Spencer Tracy in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
  313. Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
  314. Paul Muni in The Last Angry Man (1959)
  315. Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
  316. Gregory Peck in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
  317. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
  318. Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)
  319. Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
  320. Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd (2007)
  321. Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  322. Russell Crowe in Gladiator
  323. Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie (1943)
  324. Billy Bob Thorton in Sling Blade (1996)
  325. Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland (2004)
  326. Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
  327. Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936)
  328. Johnny Depp in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  329. Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
  330. Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms (1939)
  331. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
  332. Franchot Tone in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  333. Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line (2005)
  334. John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
  335. Paul Winfield in Sounder (1972)
  336. Jose Ferrer in Moulin Rouge (1952)
  337. Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995)
  338. Denzel Washington in Flight (2012)
  339. Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
  340. Cary Grant in None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
  341. Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
  342. Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990)
  343. Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
  344. Frank Sinatra in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
  345. Morgan Freeman in Invictus (2009)
  346. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
  347. Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman (1932)
  348. Charles Boyer in Fanny (1961)
  349. Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993)
  350. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
  351. James Whitmore in Give 'Em Hell Harry! (1975)
  352. Robin Williams in The Fisher King (1991)
  353. Ed Harris in Pollock (2000)
  354. Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
  355. James Garner in Murphy's Romance (1985)
  356. Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (1930)
  357. Robert Montgomery in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
  358. Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (1976)
  359. George Arliss in The Green Goddess (1930)
  360. Gregory Peck in The Yearling (1946)
  361. George Clooney in Michael Clayton (2007)
  362. Fredric March in Death of a Salesman (1951) 
  363. Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  364. Geoffrey Rush in Quills (2000)
  365. Walter Matthau in Kotch (1971)
  366. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
  367. Wallace Beery in The Big House (1930)
  368. Paul Newman in Absence of Malice (1981)
  369. Frank Morgan in The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
  370. Jeff Bridges in True Grit (2010)
  371. Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls (2000)
  372. Warren Beatty in Reds (1981)
  373. Massimo Troisi in The Postman (1995)
  374. Dan Dailey in When My Baby Smiles At Me (1948)
  375. Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945)
  376. Ben Kingsley in The House of Sand and Fog (2003)
  377. Robert De Niro in Cape Fear (1991)
  378. Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)
  379. Nick Nolte in The Prince of Tides (1991)
  380. Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
  381. Marlon Brando in Sayonara (1957)
  382. Laurence Fishburne in What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
  383. Richard Burton in The Robe (1953)
  384. Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square (1933)
  385. Bing Crosby in Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
  386. Rex Harrison in Cleopatra (1963)
  387. Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and The Sea (1958)
  388. Frank Langella Frost/Nixon (2008)
  389. Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight (1986)
  390. Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
  391. Jack Lemmon in Tribute (1980)
  392. Javier Bardem in Biutiful (2010)
  393. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
  394. Woody Harrelson in The People vs Larry Flynt (1996)
  395. Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946)  
  396. Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991)
  397. Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow (2005)
  398. Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997)
  399. Robin William in Dead Poet's Society (1989)
  400. Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
  401. George Clooney in Up in The Air (2009)
  402. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
  403. George Clooney in The Descendants (2011)
  404. Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember (1945)
  405. Jeff Bridges in Star Man (1984)
  406. Spencer Tracy in Captain Courageous (1937) 
  407. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
  408. Chester Morris in Alibi (1929)
  409. Will Smith in Ali (2001)
  410. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
  411. Sean Penn in I Am Sam (2001)
  412. Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves (1990)
  413. Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004) 
  414. Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
  415. Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain (1957)
  416. Richard Dix in Cimarron (1931)
  1. F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
  2. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
  3. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  4. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989) 
  5. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
  6. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
  7. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
  8. Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973) 
  9. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
  10. Peter Finch in Network (1976)
  11. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
  12. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
  13. Ernest Borgnine Marty (1955)
  14. Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012) 
  15. William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953)
  16. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
  17. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
  18. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947)
  19. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  20. Charles Laughton in The Private life of Henry VIII (1933)
  21. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005)
  22. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
  23. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
  24. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
  25. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)
  26. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2004)
  27. Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
  28. Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  29. Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  30. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  31. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
  32. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
  33. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
  34. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
  35. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
  36. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  37. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
  38. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
  39. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  40. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
  41. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
  42. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
  43. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
  44. Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
  45. Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981)
  46. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
  47. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
  48. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
  49. Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1931)
  50. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
  51. James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy
  52. Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968)
  53. Maximilian Schell in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
  54. Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1929)
  55. Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  56. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
  57. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
  58. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
  59. Al Pacino in The Scent of a Woman (1992)
  60. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
  61. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
  62. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
  63. Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
  64. Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
  65. Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
  66. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
  67. James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  68. Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets (1997)
  69. Paul Muni in The Story Louis Pasteur (1936)
  70. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
  71. Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)
  72. Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000)
  73. Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
  74. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
  75. John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
  76. Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
  77. Tom Hanks Philadelphia (1993)
  78. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
  79. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
  80. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
  81. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
  82. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
  83. Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous (1937)
  84. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
  85. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
  86. Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004)
Supporting Actor Ranking:
  1. 1944
  2. 1981
  3. 1975
  4. 2008
  5. 1972
  6. 1966
  7. 1974
  8. 1988
  9. 1987
  10. 1964
  11. 1986
  12. 1959
  13. 1983
  14. 1980
  15. 1951
  16. 1998
  17. 1963
  18. 1952
  19. 1999
  20. 1989
  21. 1993
  22. 1946
  23. 1969
  24. 1954
  25. 1961
  26. 2012
  27. 2007
  28. 1992
  29. 1968
  30. 1939
  31. 1970
  32. 1979
  33. 1994
  34. 2002
  35. 1978
  36. 2010
  37. 1947
  38. 1996
  39. 1945
  40. 1990
  41. 1982
  42. 1941
  43. 1971
  44. 2001
  45. 1937
  46. 1955
  47. 1962
  48. 1995
  49. 1967
  50. 1973
  51. 2009
  52. 2005
  53. 2011
  54. 1942
  55. 2006
  56. 1984
  57. 1957
  58. 1950
  59. 1958
  60. 2000
  61. 1976
  62. 2004
  63. 1960
  64. 1997
  65. 1943
  66. 1956
  67. 1949
  68. 1965
  69. 1977
  70. 1948
  71. 1940
  72. 1991
  73. 1938
  74. 2003
  75. 1936
  76. 1953
  77. 1985
  1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
  2. Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972)
  3. Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  4. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
  5. Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)
  6. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
  7. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
  8. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
  9. Ralph Fiennes in Schindler' List (1993) 
  10. Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
  11. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
  12. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
  13. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
  14. Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master (2012)
  15. Rod Steiger in On the Waterfront (1954)
  16. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
  17. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
  18. Edward Norton in Primal Fear (1996)
  19. William H. Macy in Fargo (1996)
  20. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)
  21. Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
  22. Jackie Gleason in the Hustler (1961) 
  23. Martin Landau in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
  24. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
  25. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
  26. Christopher Walken in Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  27. Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  28. Jason Miller in The Exorcist (1973)
  29. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  30. Ralph Richardson in The Heiress (1949)
  31. Albert Brooks in Broadcast News (1987)
  32. Morgan Freeman in Street Smart (1987)
  33. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  34. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
  35. Jack Nicholson in Reds (1981)
  36. Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939
  37. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009)
  38. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
  39. Lee J. Cobb in On the Waterfront (1954) 
  40. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  41. Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1968)
  42. James Mason in The Verdict (1982)
  43. Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1942)
  44. Karl Malden in On the Waterfront (1954)
  45. Burgess Meredith in Day of the Locust (1975)
  46. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
  47. Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (1947)
  48. George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  49. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  50. Joe Pesci in Raging Bull (1980)
  51. Tom Courtenay in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  52. Montgomery Clift in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961) 
  53. Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit (1988)
  54. Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now (1979)  
  55. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
  56. Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976)
  57. George C. Scott in The Hustler (1961)
  58. Tom Cruise in Magnolia (1999)
  59. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980)
  60. Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
  61. Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis (1951)
  62. Pete Postlethwaite in In the Name of the Father (1993)
  63. Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  64. John Gielgud in Arthur (1981)
  65. Billy Bob Thorton in A Simple Plan (1998)
  66. George Segal in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
  67. Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
  68. Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (1943)
  69. Ian Holm in Chariots of Fire (1981)
  70. Sam Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983)
  71. Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II (1972)
  72. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007) 
  73. Danny Aiello in Do the Right Thing (1989)
  74. James Caan in The Godfather (1972)
  75. Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955)
  76. Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008)
  77. Tommy Lee Jones in JFK (1991)
  78. Paul Newman in The Road To Perdition (2002)
  79. Robert Shaw in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  80. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)
  81. Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  82. Burl Ives in The Big Country (1958)
  83. Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
  84. Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider (1969)
  85. Lee Strasberg in The Godfather Part II (1974)
  86. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)
  87. Brad Dourif in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975)
  88. William Hurt in A History of Violence (2005)
  89. Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
  90. Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
  91. Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
  92. Gene Wilder in The Producers (1968)
  93. John Hawkes in Winter's Bone (2010) 
  94. Burgess Meredith in Rocky (1976) 
  95. Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  96. Ian Mckellen in Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  97. Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  98. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  99. Clifton Webb in Laura (1944)
  100. Tom Berenger in Platoon (1986)
  101. Willem Dafoe in Platoon (1986)
  102. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
  103. Justin Henry in Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979) 
  104. Seymour Cassel in Faces (1968)
  105. Thomas Mitchell in The Hurricane (1937)
  106. Alec Guinness in Star Wars (1977)
  107. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
  108. Robert Duvall in A Civil Action (1998)
  109. Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington (1944)
  110. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
  111. Hume Cronyn in The Seventh Cross (1944)
  112. Jackie Earl Haley in Little Children (2006)
  113. Josh Brolin in Milk (2008)
  114. Thomas Haden Church in Sideways (2004)
  115. Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  116. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt (2008)
  117. Charles Coburn in The Green Years (1946)
  118. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
  119. James Cromwell in Babe (1995)
  120. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  121. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
  122. Claude Rains in Casablanca (1943)
  123. Victor McLaglen in The Quiet Man (1952)
  124. Terence Stamp in Billy Budd (1962)
  125. Richard Farnsworth in Comes A Horseman (1978)
  126. Peter Falk in Murder, Inc. (1960) 
  127. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
  128. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
  129. John Gielgud in Becket (1964)
  130. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
  131. Ethan Hawke in Training Day (2001)
  132. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
  133. Michael Chekhov in Spellbound (1945)
  134. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  135. Jack Palance in Sudden Fear (1952)
  136. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
  137. Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady (1964)
  138. Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
  139. Anthony Perkins in Friendly Persuasion (1956)
  140. Rip Torn in Cross Creek (1983)
  141. Robert Mitchum in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
  142. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  143. River Phoenix in Running on Empty (1988)
  144. Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile (1999)
  145. John Lithgow in The World According to Garp (1982)
  146. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
  147. Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
  148. Gig Young in Come Fill The Cup (1951)
  149. James Mason in Georgy Girl (1966)
  150. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
  151. Vincent Gardenia in Moonstruck (1987)
  152. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
  153. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
  154. Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights (1997)
  155. Klaus Maria Brandauer in Out of Africa (1985)
  156. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
  157. Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech (2010)
  158. Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
  159. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  160. John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire (1993) 
  161. Martin Landau in Tucker: A Man And His Dream (1988)
  162. Gig Young in Teacher's Pet (1958)
  163. Jeremy Renner in The Town (2010)
  164. Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers (1986)
  165. Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
  166. Kevin McCarthy in Death of a Salesman (1951)
  167. Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  168. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
  169. Sal Mineo in Exodus (1960)
  170. Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast (2001)
  171. Frederic Forrest in The Rose (1979)
  172. Kenneth Branagh in My Week With Marilyn (2011)
  173. Lee Tracy in The Best Man (1964)
  174. Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones (1963)
  175. John Huston in The Cardinal (1963)
  176. Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians (1959)
  177. Robert Ryan in Crossfire (1947)
  178. Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture (1971)
  179. Max Von Sydow in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
  180. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
  181. Roy Scheider in The French Connection (1971)
  182. Arthur Hunnicutt in The Big Sky (1952)
  183. Charles Durning in To Be Or Not To Be (1983) 
  184. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
  185. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
  186. Bruce Davison in Longtime Companion (1990)
  187. Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth (1937)
  188. Monty Woolley in Since You Went Away (1944)
  189. Elliot Gould in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
  190. Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather Part II (1974)
  191. Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel (1952)
  192. Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  193. Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard (1980)
  194. Edmond O'Brien in Seven Days in May (1964)
  195. James Whitmore in Battleground (1949)
  196. Ed Wynn in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  197. Michael Lerner in Barton Fink (1991)
  198. Armin Mueller-Stahl in Shine (1996)
  199. Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (1997)
  200. Eddie Albert in The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
  201. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  202. John Hurt in Midnight Express (1978)
  203. Rupert Crosse in The Reivers (1969)
  204. Robert Morley in Marie Antoinette (1938)
  205. Adolph Caesar in A Soldier's Story (1984)
  206. Thomas Gomez in Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
  207. Howard Rollins in Ragtime (1981)
  208. John Lithgow in Terms of Endearment (1983)
  209. Ed Harris in The Truman Show (1998)
  210. Vincent Gardenia in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
  211. Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game (1992)
  212. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
  213. Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets (1997)
  214. Matt Dillon in Crash (2005)
  215. Christopher Plummer in Beginners (2011)
  216. Peter Firth in Equus (1977)
  217. Brian Aherne in Juarez (1939)
  218. Robert Duvall in The Godfather (1972)
  219. Chief Dan George in Little Big Man (1970)
  220. Clive Owen in Closer (2004)
  221. Michael J. Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  222. Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom (1987)
  223. James Coco in Only When I Laugh (1981)
  224. Woody Harrelson in The Messsenger (2009)
  225. Michael O'Keefe in The Great Santini (1980)
  226. Walter Huston in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  227. Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man (2005)
  228. Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls (2006) 
  229. Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (2006)
  230. Andy Garcia in The Godfather Part III (1990)
  231. Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump (1994)
  232. Victor Buono in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  233. Tim Roth in Rob Roy (1995)
  234. Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton (2007)
  235. Robert Preston in Victor Victoria (1982)
  236. Arthur Kennedy in Champion (1949)
  237. Cecil Kellaway in The Luck of the Irish (1948)
  238. Paul Scofield in Quiz Show (1994)
  239. Jack Warden in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  240. Arthur Kennedy in Trial (1955)
  241. Al Pacino in Dick Tracy (1990)
  242. Jack Kruschen in The Apartment (1960)
  243. Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno (1974)
  244. Alan Alda in The Aviator (2004)
  245. Dean Stockwell in Married to The Mob (1988)
  246. John C. Reilly in Chicago (2002)
  247. Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  248. Frank Finlay in Othello (1965)
  249. Jack Palance in Shane (1953)
  250. Robert Strauss in Stalag 17 (1953)
  251. Chazz Palminteri in Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
  252. John Marley in Love Story (1970)
  253. Nick Nolte in Warrior (2011)
  254. Randy Quaid in The Last Detail (1973)
  255. Bruce Dern in Coming Home (1978)
  256. Richard S. Castellano in Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
  257. Vittorio De Sica in A Farewell to Arms (1957) 
  258. Hal Holbrook in Into The Wild (2007)
  259. Nick Adams in Twilight of Honor (1963)
  260. Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  261. Mickey Rooney in The Black Stallion (1979) 
  262. Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda (1948)
  263. Pat Morita in The Karate Kid (1984)
  264. Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road (2008)
  265. Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men (1992)
  266. Arthur O'Connell in Picnic (1955)
  267. Marlon Brando A Dry White Season (1989)
  268. Jack Wild in Oliver! (1968)
  269. James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
  270. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
  271. Brian Donlevy in Beau Geste (1939)
  272. Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai (2003)
  273. Matt Damon in Invictus (2009)
  274. John Houseman in The Paper Chase (1973)
  275. Mako in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
  276. Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People (1980)
  277. Anthony Hopkins in Amistad (1997)
  278. John Malkovich in Places in the Heart (1984)
  279. Mickey Rooney in The Bold and the Brave (1956)
  280. William Bendix in Wake Island (1942)
  281. Jack Warden in Shampoo (1975)
  282. Alan Arkin in Argo (2012) 
  283. Jack Gilford in Save the Tiger (1973)
  284. Henry Travers in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  285. Robert Stack in Written on the Wind (1956)
  286. Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones (2009)
  287. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993) 
  288. Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat (1942)
  289. Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (2009)
  290. Walter Brennan in Sergeant York (1941)
  291. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln (2012)
  292. Roland Young in Topper (1937)
  293. David Paymer in Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
  294. Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond (2006)
  295. Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
  296. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  297. Denholm Elliot in A Room With A View (1986)
  298. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (1976)
  299. Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge (1985)
  300. Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
  301. Maximilian Schell in Julia (1977)
  302. J. Carrol Naish in Sahara (1943)
  303. Peter Falk in Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
  304. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
  305. John Cassavetes in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  306. Jack Palance in City Slickers (1991)
  307. Theodore Bikel in The Defiant Ones (1958)
  308. Charles Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
  309. Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
  310. Ned Beatty in Network (1976)
  311. J. Carrol Naish in A Medal For Benny (1945)
  312. Charles Bickford in The Song of Bernadette (1943)
  313. Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880 (1950)
  314. Harvey Keitel in Bugsy (1991)
  315. Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  316. Albert Bassermann in Foreign Correspondent (1940) 
  317. Basil Rathbone in Romeo and Juliet (1936)
  318. James Stephenson in The Letter (1940)
  319. Alec Baldwin in The Cooler (2003)
  320. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (1979)
  321. Harry Carey in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 
  322. Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator (2000)
  323. Anthony Quayle in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
  324. Clifton Webb in The Razor's Edge (1946)
  325. Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich (2000)
  326. Leonard Frey in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
  327. William Demarest in The Jolson Story (1946)
  328. Joe Mantell in Marty (1955)
  329. Cecil Kellaway in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  330. H.B. Warner in Lost Horizon (1937)
  331. Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (1965)
  332. Gene Lockhart in Algiers (1938)
  333. Jonah Hill in Moneyball (2011)
  334. Jamie Foxx in Collateral (2004)
  335. Jeff Bridges in The Contender (2000)
  336. Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys (1995)
  337. John Garfield in Four Daughters (1938)
  338. Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools (1965)
  339. Graham Greene in Dances With Wolves (1990)
  340. Ed Harris in Apollo 13 (1995)
  341. Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator (1940)
  342. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
  343. Arthur Kennedy in Peyton Place (1957)
  344. Mark Ruffalo in The Kids are All Right (2010)
  345. Ralph Richardson in Greystoke (1984)
  346. Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place(1957)
  347. Djimon Honsou in In America (2003)
  348. Benicio Del Toro in 21 Grams (2003)
  349. Burt Young in Rocky (1976)
  350. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997)
  351. William Gargan in They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
  352. Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
  353. Ben Kingsley in Bugsy (1991)
  354. William Hickey in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
  355. Jeff Chandler in Broken Arrow (1950)
  356. Dean Jagger in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
  357. Oskar Homolka in I Remember Mama (1948)
  358. Akim Tamiroff in The General Died at Dawn (1936)
  359. Brandon De Wilde in Shane (1953)
  360. Akim Tamiroff in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  361. Telly Savalas in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  362. Basil Rathbone in If I Were King (1938)
  363. Arthur Kennedy in Some Came Running (1958)
  364. John Ireland in All the King's Men (1949)
  365. Ed Harris in The Hours (2002)
  366. Daniel Massey in Star! (1968)
  367. Eddie Albert in Roman Holiday (1953)
  368. Leo Genn in Quo Vadis (1951)
  369. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
  370. John Dall in The Corn is Green (1945)
  371. Chill Wills in The Alamo (1960)
  372. James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) 
  373. Stuart Erwin in Pigskin Parade (1936)
  374. Tom Tully in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
  375. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)
  376. Ian Bannen in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
  377. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
  378. Jon Voight in Ali (2001)
  379. Jose Ferrer in Joan of Arc (1948)
  380. Mischa Auer in My Man Godfrey (1936)
  381. Don Murray in Bus Stop (1956)
  382. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
  383. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
  384. Eric Roberts in Runaway Train (1985) 
  385. Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Turning Point (1977)
Actual Winners:

  1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
  2. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
  3. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
  4. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
  5. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
  6. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
  7. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
  8. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
  9. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
  10. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
  11. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)
  12. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
  13. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
  14. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  15. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  16. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
  17. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009) 
  18. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
  19. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  20. Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1968)
  21. Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1942)
  22. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
  23. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  24. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
  25. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980)
  26. John Gielgud in Arthur (1981)
  27. Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
  28. Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (1943)
  29. Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II (1972)
  30. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007) 
  31. Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955)
  32. Burl Ives in The Big Country (1958)
  33. Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
  34. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  35. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
  36. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
  37. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
  38. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
  39. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  40. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
  41. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
  42. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
  43. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
  44. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
  45. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  46. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
  47. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  48. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
  49. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
  50. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
  51. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
  52. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
  53. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  54. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
  55. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
  56. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
  57. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
  58. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  59. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
  60. Christopher Plummer in Beginners(2011)
  61. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  62. John Houseman in The Paper Chase (1973)
  63. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993) 
  64. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (1976)
  65. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
  66. Jack Palance in City Slickers (1991)
  67. Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
  68. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (1979)
  69. Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (1965)
  70. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
  71. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997)
  72. Dean Jagger in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
  73. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
  74. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)
  75. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
  76. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
  77. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
Best Actor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZU3Do9qAWE
Best Supporting Actor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FEAisrGcMQ

Next Year: Supporting 2012

19 comments:

Mark said...

Wow, The Master must be really good, then. Is it your favorite movie of 2012?

RatedRStar said...

Joaquin Phoenix is higher rated than Richard Burton in Whos Afraid Of Virginia Wolf, WHATTTT LOL.

Anonymous said...

Ok for supporting
Leo in Django
Sam in django
Dwight Henry
James Spader- Lincoln

RatedRStar said...

Javier Bardem - Skyfall
Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
Ezra Miller - Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Sam Rockwell - Seven Psychopaths
Albert Finney - Skyfall

Robert MacFarlane said...

Some suggestions:

Sam Rockwell in Seven Psychopaths
Christopher Walken in Psychopaths
Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained
Nate Parker in Arbitrage (steals the show right from under Gere)
Ben Whishaw in Cloud Atlas
Pierce Gagnon in Looper
Tom Waits in Seven Psychopaths

Anonymous said...

Interesting rankings. Now I really need to see The Master
Suggestions for Alternate Supporting 2012:
Javier Bardem in Skyfall
Samuel L. Jackson in Django Unchained
Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained
David Strathairn in Lincoln
Dwight Henry in Beast of the Southern Wild

Lezlie said...

Hi!

Some options:

Javier Bardem - Skyfall
Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
Samuel L. Jackson - Django Unchained
Dwight Henry - Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Strathairn - Lincoln
Michael Fassbender - Prometheus (I know his not among your favourites this year, yet, I'm still interested)

Lezlie said...

Oh!

How could I forgot Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises. I think his performance was rather odd, any thoughts on him anyone?

RatedRStar said...

I thought Hardy was fine and I understood his voice compared to others to didnt, I thought his role was kinda limited aside from punching Batman and doing some speeches lol, I also disliked his death scene which seemed rushed.

Michael Patison said...

For 2012:
Javier Bardem in Skyfall
Albert Finney in Skyfall
Everybody but especially Rockwell in Seven Psychopaths
Michael Pena in End of Watch
Dwight Henry in Beasts of the Southern Wild
Bruce Willis in Moonrise Kingdom
McConaughey in Magic Mike or Bernie

Michael Patison said...

Also Miller in Perks
Jackson and DiCaprio in Django
Redmayne in Les Mis
Strathairn and Spader in Lincoln

Maciej said...

David Stratharin - Lincoln
Eddie Redmayne - Les Miserables (after seeing him in MWwM I'd never say he'd appear in my reccomendations...)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Django
Samuel L. Jackson - Django
Javier Bardem - Skyfall
Dwight Henry - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Louis Morgan said...

Mark: It's definitely one of my favorites. The fact that Flight was nominated in screenplay over it is ridiculous.

RatedRStar: Yes I love to torture, just kidding. I honestly did not expect to like Phoenix all that much.

Lezlie: Hardy was properly physical in the role, and I liked the less refined George Sanders voice. I am not going to review him though simply because I would not have much to say besides that.

All of the other recommendations will be of course be kept in consideration.

Michael Patison said...

On a completely unrelated note, what did everybody thing about the score to Lincoln. I'm listening to it again and still can get over how thoroughly un-John Williams it is. A good portion of it is so much quieter, especially than stuff like War Horse, and the parts that aren't are just amazing. I also love how many of general themes he adapts from Aaron Copland's characteristic sound.

Also, what other score's did y'all enjoy this year? I also loved Beasts of the Southern Wild, Skyfall, Cloud Atlas, and The Master (Jonny Greenwood snubbed again).

Robert MacFarlane said...

Beasts, Cloud Atlas, and The Master are my favorites. Of course, all were snubbed. The Academy has zero taste in music. If they did, Scott Pilgrim would have took up every original song slot in 2010.

Okay, maybe that's just me.

Louis Morgan said...

Yes, Lincoln's score is the best he's done in quite some time.

Michael Patison said...

I still need to see Scott Pilgrim (I know, shoot me), but I think that probably is just you. Nevertheless, I agree that the music department of the Academy generally has no good taste. They also have really stupid rules. I mean, how the hell was Drive not eligible last year? It had the 3rd best score of the year after The Artist and TGwtDT. At least they're better at picking scores in general than they are at picking songs.

They are really horrendous at picking songs. I actually liked pretty much everything they picked for 2010 and would've nominated all but Coming Home, though I don't really know what from Scott Pilgrim I would nominate (for reasons I've already stated). I loved the song from How to Train Your Dragon, so that'd be on there for sure.

dinasztie said...

I have to disagree here. Coopre for me is Actor though I appreciate DDL. I'm not that fond of PSH as this kind of fraud really upsets me. And I loved TLJ's performance, which I found essential to the movie's tone. Undecided if it's him, Waltz or De Niro for me.

Louis Morgan said...

I don't like category fraud, but since I feel Hoffman and Waltz are by far the best I would prefer that they commit it for the winner.