Best Scene: The Lieutenant watches the soul dance.
4. Sam Rockwell in Moon - Rockwell gives two great performances here and creates a genuine moving depiction of two men who have more in common than they would like.
Best Scene: Old Sam tells New Sam to go instead.
3. Tom Hardy in Bronson - Hardy gives an amazing and incredibly magnetic performance that brings to life his very strange and violent character in a compelling fashion.
Best Scene: Bronson's "performance" in regards to the sanitarium.
2. Sharlto Copley in District 9- Sharlto Copley gives one of the greatest feature debut performances of all time in his complex, poignant and surprisingly believable depiction of the transformation from a bureaucrat to a half alien freedom fighter.
Best Scene: Wickus is used as a guinea pig by his own company.
1. Viggo Mortensen in The Road- This was a great year for leading performances and it is real shame that the academy could not be bothered to drift out of traditional baity fair to recognize any of these performances. Although I loved all five of these performances the one that left the most lasting impact on me was Mortensen's performance. He gives his best performance with his heartbreaking and almost painfully realistic portrayal of a single man trying to save his son in the horrible conditions of a post-apocalyptic world.
Best Scene: The man says goodbye to the boy.
Overall Rank:
- Viggo Mortensen in The Road
- Sharlto Copley in District 9
- Tom Hardy in Bronson
- Ricardo Darin in The Secret in Their Eyes
- Tahar Rahim in A Prophet
- Sam Rockwell in Moon
- Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man
- Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant
- Ben Foster in The Messenger
- Stephen McHattie in Pontypool
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nowhere Boy
- Michael Sheen in The Damned United
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mary and Max
- Ben Whishaw in Bright Star
- Filippo Timi in Vincere
- Jean Dujardin in OSS 117: Lost in Rio
- Patton Oswalt in Big Fan
- Hal Holbrook in That Evening Sun
- Alex Descas in 35 Shots of Rum
- Colin Firth in A Single Man
- Paul Giamatti in Cold Souls
- Mark Ruffalo in The Brothers Bloom
- Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
- Matt Damon in The Informant!
- Vincent Gallo in Tetro
- Alden Ehrenreich in Tetro
- Luis Tosar in Cell 211
- Alberto Ammann in Cell 211
- Sébastien Huberdeau in Polytechnique
- Song Kang-ho in Thirst
- Aamir Khan in 3 Idiots
- Robin Williams in World's Greatest Dad
- Michael Caine in Harry Brown
- Maxim Gaudette in Polytechnique
- Adrien Brody in The Brothers Bloom
- Jake Gyllenhaal in Brothers
- Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road
- Ranbir Kapoor in Wake Up Sid
- Jared Leto in Mr. Nobody
- Vincent Lindon in Mademoiselle Chambon
- Willem Dafoe in Antichrist
- Benno Fürmann in Jerichow
- Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes
- Tony Leung Ka-fai in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Johnny Depp in Public Enemies
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 500 Days of Summer
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai in Red Cliff Part 2
- Christopher Plummer in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Max Records in Where The Wild Things Are
- Barry Humphries in Mary and Max
- Bruno Campos in The Princess and the Frog
- Russell Crowe in State of Play
- Ed Asner in UP
- Michael Nyqvist in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Wyatt Cenac in Medicine for Melancholy
- R. Madhavan in 3 Idiots
- Sharman Joshi in 3 Idiots
- Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre
- George Clooney in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Zachary Quinto in Star Trek
- Evan McGuire in The Secret of Kells
- Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland
- Chris Pine in Star Trek
- Chiwetel Ejiofor in 2012
- Lluís Homar in Broken Embraces
- Jason Palmer in Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
- Bill Hader in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine
- Adam Sandler in Funny People
- Daniel Radcliffe in The Half-Blood Prince
- Hugh Jackman in X-Men Origins Wolverine
- Morgan Freeman in Invictus
- Rupert Friend in The Young Victoria
- James McAvoy in The Last Station
- Tobey Maguire in Brothers
- Colin Hanks in The Great Buck Howard
- Bradley Cooper in The Hangover
- Nicolas Cage in Knowing
- Jim Carrey in A Christmas Carol
- Mark Wahlberg in The Lovely Bones
- Seth Rogen in Funny People
- George Clooney in Up in The Air
- John Cusack in 2012
- Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles
- Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover
- Ed Helms in The Hangover
- Sam Worthington in Avatar
- John Krasinski in Away We Go
- Quinton Aaron in The Blind Side
24 comments:
Louis: Ratings & Thoughts on
Michael Caine in Harry Brown
Russell Crowe in State of Play
Ed Asner in UP
Pine & Quinto in Star Trek
Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland
Ejiofor & Cusack in 2012
Hugh Jackman in Origins: Wolverine
Jim Carrey in A Christmas Carol
Mark Wahlberg in The Lovely Bones
Suggestions for 09' Supporting
Michael Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds & Fish Tank ( Please review both)
Peter Capaldi in In The Loop
Jackie Earle Haley & Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Watchmen ( Both Reviewed in One Post)
Nicholas Tse in Bodyguards & Assassins
Woody Harrelson in Zombieland
Louis: In the My nominations page, You accidentally put Rockwell at 3 instead of 4.
Nicholas Tse - Bodyguards And Assassins (One Of My Winning Requests)
Michael Fassbender - Inglorious Basterds
Michael Fassbender - Fish Tank
Christian Mckay - Me And Orson Welles
Peter Capaldi - In The Loop
In the My Nominations page, you left out Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker
Suggestions for '09 Supporting
Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
Christian McKay, Me And Orson Welles
Alfred Molina, An Education
Kodi-Smitt McPhee, The Road
Stanley Tucci, Julie & Julia
What did you make to The Damned United, Louis?.
Connor: Jeremy Renner has only been in one top ten, which was for The Hurt Locker in the Overall Rankings for '08.
Michael Fassbender - Inglorious Basterds
Michael Fassbender - Fish Tank
Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Watchmen
Peter Capaldi - In The Loop
James Gandolfini - In The Loop
Jackie Earle Haley - Watchmen
It's Viggo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Watchmen. All I gotta say.
Peter Capaldi in In the Loop
James Gandolfini in Where the Wild Things Are
Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen
Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Watchmen
Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank
Michael Fassbender-Fish Tank & Inglourious Basterds
Jackie Earle Haley & Jeffrey Dean Morgan-Watchmen
Peter Capaldi & Tom Hollander- In the Loop (Really liked Capaldi but personally thought Hollander was funnier)
Peter Sarsgaard-An Education
Zach Galifianakis-The Hangover (Say what you want but in the first movie I think he created a very entertaining, likable and unique character. I think he deserves a review just as much as John Candy did for PT&A.)
Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
Jeff Bridges - The Men who Stare at Goats
Kevin Spacey - The Men who Stare at Goats
Jackie Earle Haley - Watchmen
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Watchmen
I just want to say I'd rank Wahlberg last. I like him, but he was awful in the already awful Lovely Bones.
Please, review Woody Harrelson in Zombieland, if possible :D Dnag I should've had requested it last time.
Peter Capaldi in In the Loop
Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank
Michael Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds
Leonard Proxauf in The White Ribbon
Peter Sarsgaard in An Education
Nicholas Tse in Bodyguards and Assassins
Others:
Zack Galifianakis in The Hangover
James Gandolfini in In the Loop
Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen
Woody Harrelson in Zombieland
Tom Hollander in In the Loop
Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles
Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Watchmen
David O'Hara in Jack Said
Stanley Tucci in Julie & Julia
Michael Patison: What were your thoughts on
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon
So, anyone else see and hate Amazing Spider-Man 2 as much as me?
Koook160: What were your thoughts on it.
It's fucking awful. At least Spider-Man 3 was laughably bad. This one is infuriating. I actually feel like it wasted my time. The plot is nonsensical, characters are horribly written, and the acting outside of Garfield, Stone, and (to a lesser extent) Scott and Field are pretty bad.
Luke: I actually have seen neither. I've heard great things about Proxauf which is why I recommended him. The White Ribbon is pretty much at the top of my foreign language films to watch list if Kurosawa and Bergman movies are removed. I do want to see The Prophet, but I'm not nearly as intent upon seeing it.
Louis, I'm trying to watch The Entertainer for a class of mine. Where have you watched it in the past?
Caine - 4(Caine carries the film more than admirably showing that he's still got plenty of that intensity he used so well in Get Carter)
Crowe - 3(He does a solid enough job here, it's not one of his very best but he's good)
Asner - 3(A good bit of voice work balancing well the heavy drama involving the oldman's past and the more comedic moments that follow)
Quinto - 3(What made Leonard Nimoy performance work so well in the original Star Trek was that he actually played the unemotional character in honestly a dead pan comedic fashion. Quinto takes the more standard approach in this regard but he still does a far more than adequate job in following Nimoy's footsteps)
Pine - 3(Shatner is a bit tricky to follow for obvious reasons, and Pine probably did well not to really try to copy him in any way. He's good though bringing the right energy and charisma needed for Kirk)
Eisenberg - 3(He's enjoyable enough here even though I definitely feel that he was overshadowed by his co-star throughout)
Cusack - 2(Cusack's got some bad material to begin with, but I honestly I really don't care for him in roles like this)
Ejiofor - 3(In terms of the material Ejiofor's in the same boat as Cusack, but though he's far from great he does his best to try to add some weight to the proceeding)
Jackman - 2.5(The film is extra terrible but one thing I'll give Jackman's Wolverine is that's he's very consistent in the part)
Carrey - 2(The two ghosts that speak come off as terribly annoying and really damage the power of the story. I really hated his Scrooge which was far too over the top. Also when you get right down to it is just a bad Alastair Sim imitation, and if you're going to imitate a Scrooge don't imitate the master)
Wahlberg - 2(He does try but unfortunately he fails to overcome the shortcomings of the film making his character's grief never achieve the right poignancy, and the attempts at humor, so poorly place by Jackson, are embarrassing)
Anonymous: I thought the Damned United was a pretty good subversion of the usual sports movie, and Hooper does a better job of directing than with either of his Oscar nominated works.
Michael Patison: A local station where I live actually plays it it every so often.
Didn't understand how you could rank Tobey Maguire below Jake Gyllenhaal in Brothers! Maguire gave such a brilliant performance, whereas Gyllenhaal did nothing!
Gyllenhaal has far less of a character, but I thought he did more with it.
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