5. Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love- Rush is not bad, but besides a few somewhat comedic moment there just is not much to his performance.
4. Ed Harris in The Truman Show- Harris gives a consistently stoic performance that actually is an interesting but not amazing depiction of a pretentious artist who has delusions of grandeur.
3. Robert Duvall in A Civil Action- Robert Duvall is a strong performance
as the legal adversary for this film. He creates an effective and unique
opponent in just how calm he is throughout the film.
2. James Coburn in Affliction- James Coburn gives an effective performance
that brings to life the cruelty, as well as the weakness of his
character extremely well.
1. Billy Bob Thornton in A Simple Plan- Thornton easily wins this year for me in his heartbreaking portrait of a simple man who is always trying to do the right thing, but has a very hard time figuring out what the right thing ever is.
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Regarding deserving performances, what did you think of John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Giovanni Ribisi (Saving Private Ryan) and Elias Koteas (The Thin Red Line)?
I simply forgot to add the deserving performances when I posted, and yes I find Goodman, and Ribisi to both be very good. I saw The Thin Red Line about ten years ago so I really need a refresher.
Have you seen Without Limits? It's a great running movie about Steve Prefontaine, but outside of that it's not anything spectacular. I do think that Donald Sutherland was really good (he got a GG nom) as Billy Crudup's coach.
I haven't seen that one.
Haha, I was assuming that you would put John Goodman's performance in the Big Lebowski as either a deserving performance or an alternative nomination, I honestly didn't think you would do it, but I was wrong. Also I kind of see why his performance was deserving.
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