Best Scene: The Concentration Camp.
Best Scene: "I Know".
Best Scene: "I am serious and don't call me Shirley".
Best Scene: Hancock writes his farewell letter to his wife.
Best Scene: Nobukado predicts the fate of Kagemusha.
- Joe Pesci in Raging Bull
- Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man
- Tsutomu Yamzaki in Kagemusha
- Scott Wilson in The Ninth Configuration
- Bryan Brown in Breaker Morant
- Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!
- Harrison Ford in The Empire Strikes Back
- Mark Hamill in The Big Red One
- Freddie Jones in The Elephant Man
- Robert Stack in Airplane!
- Jason Miller in The Ninth Configuration
- Christopher Walken in Heaven's Gate
- Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon
- Yaphet Kotto in Brubaker
- John Gielgud in The Orchestra Director
- Oliver Reed in Lion of the Desert
- Bill Murray in Caddyshack
- Lewis Fitz-Gerald in Breaker Morant
- Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard
- James Earl Jones in The Empire Strikes Back
- John Gielgud in The Elephant Man
- Jack Warden in Used Cars
- Gene Hackman in Superman II
- Frank Oz in The Empire Strikes Back
- David Carradine in The Long Riders
- Lloyd Bridges in Airplane!
- Harvey Keitel in Bad Timing
- John Hurt in Heaven's Gate
- Vittorio Gassman in La Terrazza
- Keith Carradine in The Long Riders
- Levon Helm in Coal Miner's Daughter
- Max von Sydow in Flash Gordon
- Jean-Louis Trintignant in La Terrazza
- Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back
- Ugo Tognazzi in La Terrazza
- Om Puri in Sparsh
- Marcello Mastroianni in La Terrazza
- Richard Farnsworth in Resurrection
- Sam Waterston in Heaven's Gate
- Timothy Dalton in Flash Gordon
- Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill
- Jean Poiret in The Last Metro
- Stacy Keach in The Long Riders
- Roberts Blossom in Resurrection
- Henry Gibson in The Blues Brothers
- Hal Holbrook in The Fog
- Terence Stamp in Superman II
- Jeff Bridges in Heaven's Gate
- David Morse in Inside Moves
- Scatman Crothers in The Shining
- Cab Calloway in The Blues Brothers
- Philip Stone in The Shining
- Peter Graves in Airplane!
- Melvyn Douglas in Changeling
- Ed Flanders in The Ninth Configuration
- John Candy in The Blues Brothers
- Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People
- Joe Spinell in The Ninth Configuration
- Harold Russell in Inside Moves
- Bill Henderson in Inside Moves
- Bert Remsen in Inside Moves
- Randy Quaid in The Long Riders
- Denholm in Elliott in Bad Timing
- Christopher Plummer in Somewhere in Time
- Paul Sorvino in Cruising
- Ned Beatty in Hopscotch
- Frank Vincent in Raging Bull
- Morgan Freeman in Brubaker
- Neville Brand in The Ninth Configuration
- Dennis Quaid in The Long Riders
- Herbert Lom in Hopscotch
- David Keith in Brubaker
- Allen Garfield in The Stunt Man
- John Houseman in The Fog
- Sam Shepard in Resurrection
- Robert Carradine in The Big Red One
- John Gielgud in Lion of the Desert
- Sam Wanamaker in The Competition
- James Keach in The Long Riders
- Paul McCrane in Fame
- Kenichi Hagiwara in Kagemusha
- Siegfried Rauch in The Big Red One
- Topol in Flash Gordon
- Leo McKern in Blue Lagoon
- Kevin McCarthy in Private Benjamin
- Chevy Chase in Caddyshack
- Keith Gordon in Dressed to Kill
- Peter Gallagher in The Idolmaker
- Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack
- Anthony Daniels in The Empire Strikes Back
- Dennis Franz in Dressed to Kill
- Danny Lloyd in The Shining
- Alex Rocco in The Stunt Man
- Bob Balaban in Altered States
- Jinpachi Nezu in Kagemusha
- Barry Miller in Fame
- Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit II
- John Marley in Tribute
- Armand Assante in Private Benjamin
- Ted Knight in Caddyshack
- Jerry Reed in Smokey and the Bandit II
- Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer
- Stephen Stucker in Airplane!
- Charles Haid in Altered States
- Robby Benson in Tribute
- John Adames in Gloria
25 comments:
Michael Denison in The Importance of Being Earnest
Michael Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest
Spencer Tracy in Pat and Mike
John Wayne in The Quiet Man
Suggestions for 1952
John Wayne in The Quiet Man
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Takashi Shimura in Ikiru
Michael Redgrave in The Imortance of Being Earnest
Orson Welles in Othello
Hurray! :D
Ok, so my request would be the inclusion of Jonathan Pryce's incredible performance in "Carrington" for '95 leading actor.
John Wayne in The Quiet Man
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Takashi Shimura in Ikiru
Michael Denison in The Importance of Being Earnest
Michael Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest
John Wayne - The Quiet Man
James Mason - 5 Fingers
Takashi Shimura - Ikiru
Orson Welles - Othello
Michael Redgrave - The Importance Of Being Earnest
I feel kinda privileged to have John Waynes characters last name in The Quiet Man =D.
I completely didn't think about Shimura in Ikiru.
I think with certain years its usually easier for a few comments to go on first if your not sure or cant remember certain nominees so that when you see others putting nominees down you kinda go " oh ye him I totally forgot about him" =D.
For the record, if you review anyone in The Importance of Being Earnest, I'd prefer if you review Denison over Redgrave. Denison is less of a name, for sure. He's also the funnier of the two.
ive never seen Importance to be fair lol the other four I mentioned were the only ones id seen so I had to quickly mention a 5th nominee so lol =D.
I haven't seen the Redgrave version, but I have seen the version with Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, and Judi Dench (I think it was a 2002 release) and I thought both lead male roles to be of approximately equal comedic value.
Disagree there. I thought Everett ATE Firth. Huh. Maybe I just like the role of Algernon more.
Some others might be:
Carlo Battisti in Umberto D.
Dirk Bogarde in Hunted
Charlie Chaplin in Limelight
Claude Dauphin in Le Plaisir
Kirk Douglas in The Big Sky
Alec Guinness in The Card/The Promoter
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Burt Lancaster in Come Back, Little Sheba
James Mason in 5 Fingers
Ray Milland in The Thief
Laurence Olivier in Carrie
Gregory Peck in The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Gérard Philipe in Les Belles de nuit
Georges Poujouly in Forbidden Games
Ralph Richardson in The Sound Barrier
Gilbert Roland in My Six Convicts
Robert Ryan in Clash by Night
Alberto Sordi in The White Sheik
James Stewart in Bend of the River
Leopoldo Trieste in The White Sheik
Orson Welles in Othello
Also, this is a supporting performance, and I have absolutely no idea how good or bad it is as I've never seen it, but I didn't want to forget it:
Toshiro Mifune in The Life of Oharu
I didn't say anything about the performances, I meant the parts themselves. I actually preferred Everett as well. I meant that the parts, as written, seemed to me to be of more or less equal comedic value. That being said, I could have judged that poorly or it could just be that Algernon has been better performed in both cases.
Louis, you know when you decide the nominees, what factors do you usually take into account, and for some reason whenever the nominees appear I always imagine Louis being like a wise old monk announcing the nominees like the academy do lol haha =D.
To tack on to RatedRStar's comment, how much time to you spend looking at films in a given year to figure out which performances to review? Also, how many performances do you usually have selected to review before you see our recommendations?
@Michael: Yeah, in both cases the actors revel in the role of Algernon. Where Everett played it more deadpan and portrayed him as a lovable rogue, Denison basically portrayed Algernon as a troll and damn proud of it. Both resulted in the most laughs.
also this is for everyone, does anybody get really upset like I do when a performance doesn't get nominated for an Oscar, does anybody like, take it to heart like I do and get almost, like depressed about it lol.
RatedRStar, Michael: You would not want an old monk to reveal his tricks would you?
Seriously though I take in a number of factors to determine the five. One always being my perceived choice for the year (that can often change through the course of the reviews though). I of course take everyone's suggestions, and recommendations. I always also try to keep in mind the major perceived snubs, I don't always do that though if I feel it is an uninteresting performance though. I usually include a performance if it is considered all time great. I usually research the roles/films a bit to see which ones interest me the most, or to see if it is a particularly interesting role for a certain performer.
I don't know the exact amount of time, but when I feel comfortable with a set of five. I usually only have only one or two that I am sure I will pick before seeing everyone's recommendations.
Louis, how wuld you rank James Earl Jones' performance in TESB among all voice over performances? For me, I think it's the greatest of them all, though I'm biased because Darth Vader is one of my favorite movie characters.
Well his vocal performance is definitely a good one that is why I ranked him 14 here, but I haven't really thought about my favorite voice over performances.
In terms of voice acting, I have a VERY high opinion for Robby Benson's work in Beauty and the Beast. It wasn't just the shock value of hearing a 70's/80's heart-throb who's screen work usually was mediocre at best do THAT voice. It was the fact that he found every nuance, every pitch to find the humanity in his character.
Similarly, I recommend the recently deceased James Gandolfini's voice work as Carol in Where the Wild Things Are. While I have some issues with the film itself (Just how appropriate is it to analyze Sendak's book as a dark metaphor?) Gandolifini's work was excellent. Another example of an actor finding every single nuance in the character without ever showing his face.
You used to rate Peter O'Toole's performance ****, but now he's **** 1/2? (Just comparing results!)
Change from looking at him from a lead performance to a supporting one.
Oh, of course! I should've guessed that. Keep up the good work!
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