Sunday 9 February 2014

Best Actor 2013: Results

5. Christian Bale in American Hustle- Although the film consistently backhands him Bale tries hard to try to make the film's plot work. I won't say he succeeds but I appreciate the effort.

Best Scene: Irving tells Carmine the truth.
4. Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave- A year where this performance stands in fourth place is a truly great year indeed. Ejiofor gives a powerful performance by truthfully portraying every painful phase of his character's horrible predicament.

Best Scene: Solomon finally returns home.
3. Bruce Dern in Nebraska- Bruce Dern gives a interesting portrayal of the result of one man's life in terms of his physical state and a powerful portrayal of his emotional state.

Best Scene: Woody drives through town.
2. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street- Leonardo DiCaprio might give his best performance with his extremely entertaining and very funny depiction of the sinful behavior of one man.

Best Scene: Lemmon Quaaludes 714
1. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club- Well this year was amazing to say the least and I would not mind if any one of these top four were to take the prize, but if I were to vote I actually would be very tempted to go with Bruce Dern, I would love to see him win. The likely winner though and the one that I will declare as the best of the best goes to Matthew McConaughey's outstanding work in Dallas Buyers Club. It is actually hardest to pick his best scene because every single one of his scenes is remarkable. McConaughey just hits every emotional note of this performance perfectly and gives a truly compelling and believable portrayal of his character's transformation.

Best Scene: Ron comforts Rayon.
Best Actor Ranking:
  1. 2013
  2. 1962
  3. 1939
  4. 1964
  5. 2002
  6. 1978
  7. 1965
  8. 1970
  9. 1974
  10. 2012
  11. 1976
  12. 1954
  13. 1966
  14. 1982
  15. 1960
  16. 1983
  17. 1967
  18. 1979
  19. 1955
  20. 2011
  21. 1986
  22. 1973
  23. 1972 
  24. 1994
  25. 1940
  26. 1950
  27. 1963
  28. 1975
  29. 1952
  30. 1980
  31. 1953
  32. 1959
  33. 1987
  34. 1977
  35. 1968
  36. 2006
  37. 1938
  38. 1969
  39. 1992
  40. 1961
  41. 1971
  42. 1956
  43. 1951
  44. 1984
  45. 1943
  46. 1958
  47. 1948
  48. 1998
  49. 1999
  50. 1988
  51. 1944
  52. 1936
  53. 1946
  54. 1957
  55. 2007
  56. 2005
  57. 1942
  58. 1947
  59. 1993
  60. 1981
  61. 1989
  62. 1995
  63. 2004
  64. 1937 
  65. 2009
  66. 1941
  67. 1997
  68. 1931
  69. 1996
  70. 1949
  71. 2003 
  72. 2010
  73. 1990
  74. 1945
  75. 1985
  76. 2001
  77. 2008
  78. 1991
  79. 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. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  7. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
  8. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989)
  9. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954) 
  10. Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  11. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)    
  12. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
  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. Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  17. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  18. Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970)
  19. Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982)
  20. Laurence Olivier in Sleuth (1972)
  21. Peter Finch in Network (1976)
  22. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
  23. Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)
  24. Clark Gable Gone With the Wind (1939)
  25. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
  26. Ernest Borgnine in Marty (1955)
  27. Joaquin Phoenix in The Master (2012)
  28. Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
  29. Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa (1986)  
  30. William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953)
  31. Paul Newman in Hud (1963) 
  32. Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 
  33. James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  34. Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1965)
  35. Montgomery Clift in From Here to Eternity (1953)
  36. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 
  37. Stuart Whitman in The Mark (1961)
  38. Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961) 
  39. Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)  
  40. Jack Lemmon in Days Of Wine And Roses (1962)
  41. Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
  42. Kirk Douglas in Lust For Life (1956)
  43. Laurence Olivier in Richard III (1956)
  44. Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker (1965)
  45. Tom Hulce in Amadeus (1984)
  46. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
  47. Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940)
  48. Leonardo DiCarpio in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  49. Michael Caine in Alfie (1966)
  50. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  51. Giancarlo Giannini in Seven Beauties (1976)
  52. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
  53. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)
  54. Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951)
  55. Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall (1937) 
  56. Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
  57. Jack Nicholson in Ironweed (1987)
  58. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
  59. Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
  60. James Woods in Salvador (1986)
  61. Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
  62. Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  63. Spencer Tracy in A Bad Day At Black (1955)
  64. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
  65. Peter O'Toole in Becket (1964)
  66. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)
  67. Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)
  68.  Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
  69. Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
  70. Bruce Dern in Nebraska (2013)
  71. Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
  72. James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes Washington (1939)
  73. Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek (1964)
  74. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
  75. Rod Steiger in The Heat of the Night (1967)
  76. Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973)
  77. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  78. James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) 
  79. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
  80. Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)
  81. Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (1959)
  82. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005) 
  83. James Dean in East of Eden (1955)
  84. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947) 
  85. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
  86. Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939)
  87. Tom Wilkinson in In The Bedroom (2001)
  88. Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (2002)
  89. Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)
  90. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
  91. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
  92. Richard Harris in This Sporting Life (1963)
  93. Albert Finney in Tom Jones (1963) 
  94. Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce Italian Style (1962)
  95. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
  96. Edward Norton in American History X (1998)
  97. Demian Bichir in A Better Life (2011)
  98. Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar (1953)
  99. Robert Donat in The Citadel (1938)
  100. Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944)
  101. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  102. James Mason in A Star is Born (1954)
  103. Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
  104. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
  105. Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938)
  106. Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  107. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
  108. Peter Sellers in Being There (1979)
  109. Walter Huston The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  110. Michael Caine in Sleuth (1972)
  111. Robert Duvall in The Apostle (1997)
  112. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
  113. Liam Neeson in Schindler's List (1993)
  114. Walter Huston in Dodsworth (1936)
  115. John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)
  116. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
  117. Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960)
  118. Laurence Olivier in Henry V (1946)
  119. Nicolas Cage in Adaptation (2002)
  120. Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2009)
  121. Kirk Douglas in Champion (1949)
  122. Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  123. Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1943)
  124. Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  125. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
  126. Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises (2007)
  127. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004)
  128. Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 
  129. Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York (2002)
  130. Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988)
  131. William Hurt in Children of Lesser God (1986)
  132. Ronald Colman in Bulldog Drummond (1930)
  133. Richard Burton in Becket (1964)
  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. Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
  146. Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking (1995)
  147. Marcello Mastroianni in A Special Day (1977)
  148. William Powell in The Thin Man (1934)
  149. Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
  150. William Hurt in Broadcast News (1987) 
  151. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)
  152. Maximilian Schell in The Man in a Glass Booth (1975)
  153. Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables (2012) 
  154. Alexander Knox in Wilson (1944)
  155. Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (1998)
  156. Tom Hanks in Cast Away (2000)
  157. James Stewart in Harvey (1950)
  158. Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
  159. Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  160. Robert Duvall in The Great Santini (1980)
  161. Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  162. William Holden in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  163. Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010)
  164. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
  165. Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father (1993) 
  166. Cary Grant in Penny Serenade (1941)
  167. Leonardo DiCaprio Blood Diamond (2006)
  168. John Travolta in Pulp Fiction (1994)
  169. Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  170. Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
  171. Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  172. Peter Fonda in Ulee's Gold (1997)
  173. Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1933)
  174. Alan Bates in The Fixer (1968)
  175. Anthony Quinn in Wild is the Wind (1957)
  176. Albert Finney in The Dresser (1983)
  177. Albert Finney in Under The Volcano (1984)
  178. Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958)
  179. Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958)
  180. Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)
  181. Sam Waterson in The Killing Fields (1984)
  182. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
  183. Brad Pitt in Moneyball (2011)
  184. Russell Crowe in The Insider (1999)
  185. Richard Harris in The Field (1990)
  186. Roy Scheider in All that Jazz (1979)
  187. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
  188. Topol in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
  189. Colin Firth in A Single Man (2009)
  190. Melvyn Douglas in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
  191. Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  192. Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  193. Marlon Brando Last Tango in Paris (1973)
  194. Peter Finch in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
  195. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
  196. Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (2006)
  197. Richard Jenkins in The Visitor (2008)
  198. Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  199. Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin (1992)
  200. Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1931)
  201. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
  202. Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome (1979)
  203. Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride (1950)
  204. Dan O'Herlihy in Robinson Crusoe (1954)
  205. Peter O'Toole in The Ruling Class (1972)
  206. Paul Newman in A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  207. Fredric March in A Star is Born (1937)
  208. Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996)  
  209. Jackie Cooper in Skippy (1931)
  210. Arthur Kennedy in Bright Victory (1951)
  211. Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (1942)
  212. Kirk Douglas in The Bad and The Beautiful (1952)
  213. Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom (1945)
  214. Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982)
  215. James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  216. Montgomery Clift in The Search (1948)
  217. Richard Burton in Equus (1977)
  218. Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy (1943)
  219. William Holden in Network (1976)
  220. Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient (1997)
  221. William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936)
  222. Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968)
  223. Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool (1994)
  224. Maximilian Schell in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
  225. Laurence Olivier in The Boys from Brazil (1978)
  226. Ronald Colman in Condemned (1930)
  227. Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man (1980)
  228. Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989)
  229. Laurence Olivier in Othello (1965)
  230. Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006)
  231. Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1929)
  232. Dustin Hoffman in Lenny (1974)
  233. Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  234. Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  235. Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  236. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  237. Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  238. Michael Caine in The Quiet American (2002)
  239. James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope (1970)
  240. Marcello Mastroianni in Dark Eyes (1987)
  241. Fredric March in The Royal Family of Broadway (1931)
  242. Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983)
  243. Al Pacino in ...And Justice for All (1979)
  244. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (2009)
  245. James Franco in 127 Hours (2010)
  246. Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day (1993)
  247. Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953)
  248. James Dean in Giant (1956)
  249. Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City (1981)
  250. William Powell in Life With Father (1947)
  251. Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  252. Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (1959)
  253. Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1930)
  254. Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003)
  255. Jude Law in Cold Mountain (2003)
  256. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
  257. Rock Hudson in Giant (1956)
  258. Charles Boyer in Algiers (1938)
  259. Stephen Rea in The Crying Game (1992)
  260. Tom Conti in Reuben, Reuben (1983)
  261. Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah (2007)
  262. Jack Lemmon in Missing (1982)
  263. John Garfield in Body and Soul (1947)
  264. Ron Moody in Oliver! (1968)
  265. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
  266. Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)
  267. Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992)
  268. Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
  269. Charles Boyer in Conquest (1937)
  270. Lew Ayres in Johnny Belinda (1948)
  271. Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992)
  272. Max von Sydow in Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
  273. George C. Scott in The Hospital (1971)
  274. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
  275. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960)
  276. Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
  277. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
  278. Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
  279. Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  280. Al Pacino in Serpico (1973)
  281. Trevor Howard in Sons and Lovers (1960)
  282. Christian Bale in American Hustle (2013)
  283. James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
  284. David Straithairn in Good Night and Good Luck (2005) 
  285. Harrison Ford in Witness (1985)
  286. Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver (1988)
  287. Ryan O'Neal in Love Story (1970)
  288. Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  289. Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
  290. Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
  291. Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
  292. Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
  293. Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)
  294. Tom Hanks in Big (1988)
  295. Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
  296. Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
  297. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
  298. Michael Redgrave in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
  299. Richard Barthelmess in the Patent Leather Kid (1928) 
  300. Nick Nolte in Affliction (1998)
  301. Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
  302. Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz (1964)
  303. Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  304. Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928)
  305. Robert Redford in The Sting (1973)
  306. Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
  307. James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  308. John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
  309. Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets (1997)
  310. Paul Muni in The Valiant (1929) 
  311. Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page (1931)
  312. Denzel Washington in The Hurricane (1999)
  313. Dustin Hoffman in Wag the Dog (1997)
  314. Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
  315. Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)
  316. Spencer Tracy in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
  317. Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
  318. Paul Muni in The Last Angry Man (1959)
  319. Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
  320. Gregory Peck in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
  321. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
  322. Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)
  323. Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
  324. Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd (2007)
  325. Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  326. Russell Crowe in Gladiator
  327. Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie (1943)
  328. Billy Bob Thorton in Sling Blade (1996)
  329. Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland (2004)
  330. Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
  331. Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936)
  332. Johnny Depp in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  333. Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
  334. Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms (1939)
  335. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
  336. Franchot Tone in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  337. Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line (2005)
  338. John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
  339. Paul Winfield in Sounder (1972)
  340. Jose Ferrer in Moulin Rouge (1952)
  341. Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995)
  342. Denzel Washington in Flight (2012)
  343. Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
  344. Cary Grant in None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
  345. Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
  346. Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990)
  347. Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
  348. Frank Sinatra in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
  349. Morgan Freeman in Invictus (2009)
  350. Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman (1932)
  351. Charles Boyer in Fanny (1961)
  352. Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993)
  353. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
  354. James Whitmore in Give 'Em Hell Harry! (1975)
  355. Robin Williams in The Fisher King (1991)
  356. Ed Harris in Pollock (2000)
  357. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
  358. Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
  359. James Garner in Murphy's Romance (1985)
  360. Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (1930)
  361. Robert Montgomery in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
  362. Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (1976)
  363. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
  364. George Arliss in The Green Goddess (1930)
  365. Gregory Peck in The Yearling (1946)
  366. George Clooney in Michael Clayton (2007)
  367. Fredric March in Death of a Salesman (1951) 
  368. Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  369. Geoffrey Rush in Quills (2000)
  370. Walter Matthau in Kotch (1971)
  371. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
  372. Wallace Beery in The Big House (1930)
  373. Paul Newman in Absence of Malice (1981)
  374. Frank Morgan in The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
  375. Jeff Bridges in True Grit (2010)
  376. Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls (2000)
  377. Warren Beatty in Reds (1981)
  378. Massimo Troisi in The Postman (1995)
  379. Dan Dailey in When My Baby Smiles At Me (1948)
  380. Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945)
  381. Ben Kingsley in The House of Sand and Fog (2003)
  382. Robert De Niro in Cape Fear (1991)
  383. Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)
  384. Nick Nolte in The Prince of Tides (1991)
  385. Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
  386. Marlon Brando in Sayonara (1957)
  387. Laurence Fishburne in What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
  388. Richard Burton in The Robe (1953)
  389. Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square (1933)
  390. Bing Crosby in Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
  391. Rex Harrison in Cleopatra (1963)
  392. Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and The Sea (1958)
  393. Frank Langella Frost/Nixon (2008)
  394. Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight (1986)
  395. Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
  396. Jack Lemmon in Tribute (1980)
  397. Javier Bardem in Biutiful (2010)
  398. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
  399. Woody Harrelson in The People vs Larry Flynt (1996)
  400. Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946)  
  401. Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991)
  402. Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow (2005)
  403. Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997)
  404. Robin William in Dead Poet's Society (1989)
  405. Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
  406. George Clooney in Up in The Air (2009)
  407. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
  408. George Clooney in The Descendants (2011)
  409. Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember (1945)
  410. Jeff Bridges in Star Man (1984)
  411. Spencer Tracy in Captain Courageous (1937) 
  412. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
  413. Chester Morris in Alibi (1929)
  414. Will Smith in Ali (2001)
  415. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
  416. Sean Penn in I Am Sam (2001)
  417. Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves (1990)
  418. Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004) 
  419. Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
  420. Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain (1957)
  421. Richard Dix in Cimarron (1931)
  1. F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
  2. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  3. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
  4. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989) 
  5. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
  6. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
  7. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) 
  8. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
  9. Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973) 
  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. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)  
  17. Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  18. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
  19. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  20. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
  21. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011) 
  22. Charles Laughton in The Private life of Henry VIII (1933)
  23. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
  24. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
  25. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2004)
  26. Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
  27. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
  28. Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  29. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  30. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
  31. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005)
  32. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947)
  33. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
  34. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
  35. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
  36. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
  37. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  38. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
  39. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
  40. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
  41. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
  42. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
  43. Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
  44. Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981)
  45. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
  46. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
  47. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
  48. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
  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. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  57. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
  58. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
  59. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
  60. Al Pacino in The Scent of a Woman (1992)
  61. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
  62. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
  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. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
  79. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
  80. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
  81. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
  82. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
  83. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
  84. Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous (1937)
  85. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
  86. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
  87. 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. 2013
  22. 1993
  23. 1946
  24. 1969
  25. 1954
  26. 1961
  27. 2012
  28. 2007
  29. 1992
  30. 1968
  31. 1939
  32. 1970
  33. 1979
  34. 1994
  35. 2002
  36. 1978
  37. 2010
  38. 1947
  39. 1996
  40. 1945
  41. 1990
  42. 1982
  43. 1941
  44. 1971
  45. 2001
  46. 1937
  47. 1955
  48. 1962
  49. 1995
  50. 1967
  51. 1973
  52. 2009
  53. 2005
  54. 2011
  55. 1942
  56. 2006
  57. 1984
  58. 1957
  59. 1950
  60. 1958
  61. 2000
  62. 1976
  63. 2004
  64. 1960
  65. 1997
  66. 1943
  67. 1956
  68. 1949
  69. 1965
  70. 1977
  71. 1948
  72. 1940
  73. 1991
  74. 1938
  75. 2003
  76. 1936
  77. 1953
  78. 1985
  1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
  2. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
  3. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
  4. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
  5. Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  6. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
  7. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
  8. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008) 
  9. Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)
  10. Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
  11. Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972)
  12. Ralph Fiennes in Schindler' List (1993) 
  13. Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master (2012)
  14. Rod Steiger in On the Waterfront (1954)
  15. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
  16. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
  17. Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now (1979)  
  18. Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
  19. Montgomery Clift in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961) 
  20. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
  21. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
  22. Martin Landau in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
  23. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
  24. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
  25. Christopher Walken in Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  26. Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  27. Jason Miller in The Exorcist (1973)
  28. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  29. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  30. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  31. Jackie Gleason in the Hustler (1961) 
  32. Ralph Richardson in The Heiress (1949)
  33. Albert Brooks in Broadcast News (1987)
  34. Morgan Freeman in Street Smart (1987)
  35. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  36. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
  37. Jack Nicholson in Reds (1981)
  38. Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939
  39. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009)
  40. William H. Macy in Fargo (1996)
  41. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
  42. Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips (2013) 
  43. Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
  44. Lee J. Cobb in On the Waterfront (1954) 
  45. Edward Norton in Primal Fear (1996)
  46. Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1968)
  47. James Mason in The Verdict (1982)
  48. Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1942)
  49. Karl Malden in On the Waterfront (1954)
  50. Burgess Meredith in Day of the Locust (1975)
  51. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
  52. Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (1947)
  53. George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  54. Joe Pesci in Raging Bull (1980)
  55. Tom Courtenay in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  56. Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit (1988)
  57. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
  58. Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976)
  59. George C. Scott in The Hustler (1961)
  60. Tom Cruise in Magnolia (1999)
  61. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980)
  62. Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
  63. Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis (1951)
  64. Pete Postlethwaite in In the Name of the Father (1993)
  65. Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  66. John Gielgud in Arthur (1981)
  67. Billy Bob Thorton in A Simple Plan (1998)
  68. George Segal in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
  69. Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
  70. Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (1943)
  71. Ian Holm in Chariots of Fire (1981)
  72. Sam Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983)
  73. Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II (1972)
  74. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007) 
  75. Danny Aiello in Do the Right Thing (1989)
  76. James Caan in The Godfather (1972)
  77. Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955)
  78. Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008)
  79. Tommy Lee Jones in JFK (1991)
  80. Paul Newman in The Road To Perdition (2002)
  81. Robert Shaw in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  82. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)
  83. Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  84. Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  85. Burl Ives in The Big Country (1958)
  86. Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
  87. Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider (1969)
  88. Lee Strasberg in The Godfather Part II (1974)
  89. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)
  90. Brad Dourif in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975)
  91. William Hurt in A History of Violence (2005)
  92. Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
  93. Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  94. Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
  95. Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
  96. Gene Wilder in The Producers (1968)
  97. John Hawkes in Winter's Bone (2010) 
  98. Burgess Meredith in Rocky (1976) 
  99. Tom Berenger in Platoon (1986)
  100. Ian Mckellen in Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  101. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
  102. Willem Dafoe in Platoon (1986)
  103. Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  104. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  105. Clifton Webb in Laura (1944)
  106. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
  107. Seymour Cassel in Faces (1968)
  108. Thomas Mitchell in The Hurricane (1937)
  109. Alec Guinness in Star Wars (1977)
  110. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
  111. Robert Duvall in A Civil Action (1998)
  112. Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington (1944)
  113. Hume Cronyn in The Seventh Cross (1944)
  114. Jackie Earl Haley in Little Children (2006)
  115. Josh Brolin in Milk (2008)
  116. Thomas Haden Church in Sideways (2004)
  117. Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  118. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt (2008)
  119. Charles Coburn in The Green Years (1946)
  120. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
  121. James Cromwell in Babe (1995)
  122. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  123. Ethan Hawke in Training Day (2001)
  124. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
  125. Claude Rains in Casablanca (1943)
  126. Victor McLaglen in The Quiet Man (1952)
  127. Terence Stamp in Billy Budd (1962)
  128. Richard Farnsworth in Comes A Horseman (1978)
  129. Peter Falk in Murder, Inc. (1960) 
  130. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
  131. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
  132. John Gielgud in Becket (1964)
  133. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
  134. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
  135. Michael Chekhov in Spellbound (1945)
  136. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  137. Jack Palance in Sudden Fear (1952)
  138. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
  139. Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady (1964)
  140. Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
  141. Anthony Perkins in Friendly Persuasion (1956)
  142. Rip Torn in Cross Creek (1983)
  143. Robert Mitchum in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
  144. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  145. River Phoenix in Running on Empty (1988)
  146. Justin Henry in Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
  147. Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile (1999)
  148. Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (1997)
  149. John Lithgow in The World According to Garp (1982)
  150. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
  151. Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
  152. Gig Young in Come Fill The Cup (1951)
  153. James Mason in Georgy Girl (1966)
  154. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
  155. Vincent Gardenia in Moonstruck (1987)
  156. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
  157. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
  158. Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights (1997)
  159. Klaus Maria Brandauer in Out of Africa (1985)
  160. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
  161. Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech (2010)
  162. Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
  163. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  164. John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire (1993) 
  165. Martin Landau in Tucker: A Man And His Dream (1988)
  166. Gig Young in Teacher's Pet (1958)
  167. Jeremy Renner in The Town (2010)
  168. Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers (1986)
  169. Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
  170. Kevin McCarthy in Death of a Salesman (1951)
  171. Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  172. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
  173. Sal Mineo in Exodus (1960)
  174. Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast (2001)
  175. Frederic Forrest in The Rose (1979)
  176. Kenneth Branagh in My Week With Marilyn (2011)
  177. Lee Tracy in The Best Man (1964)
  178. Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones (1963)
  179. John Huston in The Cardinal (1963)
  180. Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians (1959)
  181. Robert Ryan in Crossfire (1947)
  182. Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture (1971)
  183. Max Von Sydow in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
  184. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
  185. Roy Scheider in The French Connection (1971)
  186. Arthur Hunnicutt in The Big Sky (1952)
  187. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
  188. Bruce Davison in Longtime Companion (1990)
  189. Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth (1937)
  190. Monty Woolley in Since You Went Away (1944)
  191. Elliot Gould in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
  192. Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather Part II (1974)
  193. Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel (1952)
  194. Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  195. Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard (1980)
  196. Edmond O'Brien in Seven Days in May (1964)
  197. James Whitmore in Battleground (1949)
  198. Ed Wynn in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  199. Michael Lerner in Barton Fink (1991)
  200. Armin Mueller-Stahl in Shine (1996)
  201. Charles Durning in To Be Or Not To Be (1983)  
  202. Eddie Albert in The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
  203. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  204. John Hurt in Midnight Express (1978)
  205. Jack Palance in Shane (1953)
  206. Rupert Crosse in The Reivers (1969)
  207. Robert Morley in Marie Antoinette (1938)
  208. Adolph Caesar in A Soldier's Story (1984)
  209. Thomas Gomez in Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
  210. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
  211. Howard Rollins in Ragtime (1981)
  212. John Lithgow in Terms of Endearment (1983)
  213. Ed Harris in The Truman Show (1998)
  214. Vincent Gardenia in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
  215. Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game (1992)
  216. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
  217. Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets (1997)
  218. Matt Dillon in Crash (2005)
  219. Christopher Plummer in Beginners (2011)
  220. Peter Firth in Equus (1977)
  221. Brian Aherne in Juarez (1939)
  222. Robert Duvall in The Godfather (1972)
  223. Chief Dan George in Little Big Man (1970)
  224. Clive Owen in Closer (2004)
  225. Michael J. Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  226. Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom (1987)
  227. James Coco in Only When I Laugh (1981)
  228. Woody Harrelson in The Messsenger (2009)
  229. Michael O'Keefe in The Great Santini (1980)
  230. Walter Huston in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  231. Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man (2005)
  232. Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (2006)
  233. Andy Garcia in The Godfather Part III (1990)
  234. Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump (1994)
  235. Victor Buono in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  236. Tim Roth in Rob Roy (1995)
  237. Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton (2007)
  238. Robert Preston in Victor Victoria (1982)
  239. Arthur Kennedy in Champion (1949)
  240. Cecil Kellaway in The Luck of the Irish (1948)
  241. Paul Scofield in Quiz Show (1994)
  242. Jack Warden in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  243. Arthur Kennedy in Trial (1955)
  244. Al Pacino in Dick Tracy (1990)
  245. Jack Kruschen in The Apartment (1960)
  246. Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno (1974)
  247. Alan Alda in The Aviator (2004)
  248. Dean Stockwell in Married to The Mob (1988)
  249. John C. Reilly in Chicago (2002)
  250. Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  251. Frank Finlay in Othello (1965)
  252. Robert Strauss in Stalag 17 (1953)
  253. Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  254. Chazz Palminteri in Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
  255. John Marley in Love Story (1970)
  256. Nick Nolte in Warrior (2011)
  257. Randy Quaid in The Last Detail (1973)
  258. Bruce Dern in Coming Home (1978)
  259. Richard S. Castellano in Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
  260. Vittorio De Sica in A Farewell to Arms (1957) 
  261. Hal Holbrook in Into The Wild (2007)
  262. Nick Adams in Twilight of Honor (1963)
  263. Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  264. Mickey Rooney in The Black Stallion (1979) 
  265. Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda (1948)
  266. Pat Morita in The Karate Kid (1984)
  267. Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road (2008)
  268. Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men (1992)
  269. Arthur O'Connell in Picnic (1955)
  270. Marlon Brando A Dry White Season (1989)
  271. Jack Wild in Oliver! (1968)
  272. James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
  273. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
  274. Brian Donlevy in Beau Geste (1939)
  275. Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai (2003)
  276. Matt Damon in Invictus (2009)
  277. John Houseman in The Paper Chase (1973)
  278. Mako in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
  279. Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People (1980)
  280. Anthony Hopkins in Amistad (1997)
  281. John Malkovich in Places in the Heart (1984)
  282. Mickey Rooney in The Bold and the Brave (1956)
  283. William Bendix in Wake Island (1942)
  284. Jack Warden in Shampoo (1975)
  285. Alan Arkin in Argo (2012) 
  286. Jack Gilford in Save the Tiger (1973)
  287. Henry Travers in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  288. Robert Stack in Written on the Wind (1956)
  289. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993) 
  290. Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat (1942)
  291. Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (2009)
  292. Walter Brennan in Sergeant York (1941)
  293. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln (2012)
  294. Roland Young in Topper (1937)
  295. David Paymer in Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
  296. Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond (2006)
  297. Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
  298. Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls (2006)
  299. Denholm Elliot in A Room With A View (1986)
  300. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (1976)
  301. Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge (1985)
  302. Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
  303. Maximilian Schell in Julia (1977)
  304. J. Carrol Naish in Sahara (1943)
  305. Peter Falk in Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
  306. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
  307. John Cassavetes in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  308. Jack Palance in City Slickers (1991)
  309. Theodore Bikel in The Defiant Ones (1958)
  310. Charles Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
  311. Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
  312. Ned Beatty in Network (1976)
  313. J. Carrol Naish in A Medal For Benny (1945)
  314. Charles Bickford in The Song of Bernadette (1943)
  315. Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880 (1950)
  316. Harvey Keitel in Bugsy (1991)
  317. Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  318. Albert Bassermann in Foreign Correspondent (1940) 
  319. Basil Rathbone in Romeo and Juliet (1936)
  320. James Stephenson in The Letter (1940)
  321. Alec Baldwin in The Cooler (2003)
  322. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (1979)
  323. Harry Carey in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 
  324. Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator (2000)
  325. Anthony Quayle in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
  326. Clifton Webb in The Razor's Edge (1946)
  327. Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich (2000)
  328. Leonard Frey in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
  329. William Demarest in The Jolson Story (1946)
  330. Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones (2009)
  331. Joe Mantell in Marty (1955)
  332. Cecil Kellaway in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  333. H.B. Warner in Lost Horizon (1937)
  334. Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (1965)
  335. Gene Lockhart in Algiers (1938)
  336. Jonah Hill in Moneyball (2011)
  337. Jamie Foxx in Collateral (2004)
  338. Jeff Bridges in The Contender (2000)
  339. Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys (1995)
  340. John Garfield in Four Daughters (1938)
  341. Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools (1965)
  342. Graham Greene in Dances With Wolves (1990)
  343. Ed Harris in Apollo 13 (1995)
  344. Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator (1940)
  345. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
  346. Arthur Kennedy in Peyton Place (1957)
  347. Mark Ruffalo in The Kids are All Right (2010)
  348. Ralph Richardson in Greystoke (1984)
  349. Djimon Honsou in In America (2003)
  350. Benicio Del Toro in 21 Grams (2003)
  351. Eddie Albert in Roman Holiday (1953)
  352. Bradley Cooper in American Hustle (2013)
  353. Burt Young in Rocky (1976)
  354. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997)
  355. William Gargan in They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
  356. Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
  357. Ben Kingsley in Bugsy (1991)
  358. William Hickey in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
  359. Jeff Chandler in Broken Arrow (1950)
  360. Dean Jagger in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
  361. Oskar Homolka in I Remember Mama (1948)
  362. Akim Tamiroff in The General Died at Dawn (1936)
  363. Brandon De Wilde in Shane (1953)
  364. Akim Tamiroff in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  365. Telly Savalas in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  366. Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place(1957) 
  367. Basil Rathbone in If I Were King (1938)
  368. Arthur Kennedy in Some Came Running (1958)
  369. John Ireland in All the King's Men (1949)
  370. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  371. Ed Harris in The Hours (2002)
  372. Daniel Massey in Star! (1968)
  373. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
  374. Leo Genn in Quo Vadis (1951)
  375. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
  376. John Dall in The Corn is Green (1945)
  377. Chill Wills in The Alamo (1960)
  378. James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) 
  379. Stuart Erwin in Pigskin Parade (1936)
  380. Tom Tully in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
  381. Ian Bannen in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
  382. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
  383. Jon Voight in Ali (2001)
  384. Jose Ferrer in Joan of Arc (1948)
  385. Mischa Auer in My Man Godfrey (1936)
  386. Don Murray in Bus Stop (1956)
  387. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
  388. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)
  389. Eric Roberts in Runaway Train (1985) 
  390. Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Turning Point (1977)
Actual Winners:
  1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
  2. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
  3. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
  4. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
  5. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
  6. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
  7.  Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)
  8. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
  9. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
  10. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
  11. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
  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. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  17. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
  18. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009) 
  19. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
  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. Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  35. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
  36. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  37. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
  38. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
  39. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
  40. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  41. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
  42. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
  43. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
  44. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
  45. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
  46. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  47. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
  48. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  49. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
  50. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
  51. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
  52. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
  53. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
  54. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  55. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
  56. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
  57. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
  58. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  59. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
  60. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
  61. Christopher Plummer in Beginners(2011)
  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. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  74. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
  75. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
  76. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
  77. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
  78. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)
 Next Year: 2013 Lead

26 comments:

Luke Higham said...

Louis: what lead performances from 2013, received only a four from you.

RatedRStar said...

You would have voted for Dern lol wow im surprised.

Michael B Jordan - Fruitvale Station
Joaquin Phoenix - Her
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
Oscar Issac - Inside Llewyn Davis
Jake Gllyenhal - Prisoners

I was gonna vote Daniel Bruhl but its a bit fucking pointless now.

Luke Higham said...

Phoenix
Isaac
Hanks
Redford
Gyllenhaal

Luke Higham said...

But for this year, I would like Louis to have 8 instead of just 5, considering how brilliant the quality of performances have been this year.

joe burns said...

Yes! I was fearing Dicaprio would win, so much suspense as I went down your post,but I"m so glad McConaughey won! He is amazing in every way!

I also think that Dern"s chances got slimmer after SAG. Even if he wins BAFTA, I don"t think it"ll be enough to really win. From what you"ve said, it"s a quiter performance and those don"t win that often.

Maciej said...

Oscar Isaacs - "Inside Llewyn Davis"
Tom Hanks - "Captain Phillips"
Chris Hemsworth - "Rush"
Daniel Bruhl - "Rush"
Joaquin Phoenix - "Her"

Michael McCarthy said...

I'm predicting-

Joaquin Phoenix-Her
Oscar Isaac-Inside Llewyn Davis
Tom Hanks-Captain Phillips
Jake Gyllenhaal-Prisoners
Robert Redford-All is Lost

I would also like to see a review for Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station.

Michael Patison said...

Jake Gyllenhaal in Prisoners
Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips
Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis
Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station
Robert Redford in All Is Lost

Michael Patison said...

Duh! How could I forget RatedRStar's favorite?
Joaquin Phoenix in Her

Michael McCarthy said...

Other possibilities-

Will Forte-Nebraska
Steve Coogan-Philomena
Jude Law-Side Effects

Michael Patison said...

Steve Coogan should definitely not be taken lightly. I thought he was terrific (though I'd only see Louis giving him a 4)

RatedRStar said...

I have only voted Phoenix simply because of Bruhls spoiler, I still think he is a cunt who I hope never gets another oscar nomination ever.

Michael McCarthy said...

Michael: Agreed, this was by far his most sensitive performance.

Matt Mustin said...

Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips
Jake Gyllenhaal in Prisoners
Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis
Robert Redford in All Is Lost
Joaquin Phoenix in Her

Michael Patison said...

RatedRStar: Did you even see Her? If you have, then I hope you agree he was tremendous and natural and effortless. You should base comments on nominations based on work alone, especially when there have been potentially far worse actors than him in terms of personality and actions (i.e. Robert Blake)

Matt Mustin said...

Michael Patison: Yeah, I don't get his vitriol for Phoenix at all. I mean, yeah he's an asshole, so what? So was Marlon Brando.

Robert MacFarlane said...

My recommendations

Bradley Cooper in The Place Beyond the Pines (please give him a second shot)
Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis
Jake Gyllenhaal in Prisoners
Joaquin Phoenix in Her
Ethan Hawke in Before Midnight

MRRIPLEY said...

HUGH JACKMAN PRISONERS OR MICHAEL SHANNON THE ICEMAN.

Luke Higham said...

Michael Patison: Can you predict what ratings, louis may give to:

Phoenix
Isaac
Redford
Hanks
Gyllenhaal
B.Jordan

Luke Higham said...

Also Louis, said in previous posts, he would be reviewing Hanks, Isaac, Phoenix, Redford & someone else for his 5th spot.

MRRipley: Shannon got a 4.5 & Louis said Jackman's performance was overblown.

Michael Patison said...

I haven't seen Redford or Jordan yet, but I'll do the others:
Gyllenhaal-4.5
Hanks-5 (but a 4.5 is entirely possible)
Isaac-5 (but a 4.5 is possible considering that's what Louis typically gives to people who are terrific in their portrayal of multiple faces of the same emotion)
Phoenix-5

dshultz said...

Oh my glory. 2013 has bumped 1962 off of the top spot. I never thought this would happen, but it's great to see the acting strength that the Oscars have been recognizing the past 3 or so years. I'm very happy McConaughey won. It's not often you feel a man's entire life through a performance, and he really brought it.

Anonymous said...

Would you be equally happy for a win for Ejiofor, Dern, DiCarpio, or McCounaghey?

Luke Higham said...

Anonymous: I would certainly, although my pick is Ejiofor. He may have the least complex performance out of the top four & would say that Mcconaughey & Dicaprio were better, But his film hit me the hardest.

Dern would be equal with Chiwetel.

Louis Morgan said...

Anonymous: Yes as any one of them would be a deserving win.

dinasztie said...

I'm sad that you didn't go with Dern or DiCaprio even though MM is a worthy choice.

But what a year! I even like Bale, but if they had nominated Hanks instead, this would be a craaaaaazy category.