Best Scene: Welles's outburst on stage.
4. Nicholas Tse in Bodyguards and Assassins - A fairly simple and small role, but Tse makes his character very endearing and in turn makes his final scene very moving.
Best Scene: Si tries to slow the assassin down.
3. Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank- Fassbender combines the right amount of sleaze and charm to his character, although this is not his best performance from 2009.
Best Scene: Connor takes advantage of Mia.
2. Peter Capaldi in In The Loop - Capaldi gives a extremely entertaining and properly intense performance as the foul mouthed fixer Malcolm Tucker. Every scene he is in is a treat, and when the film asks a little more of him Capaldi is more than up to the task.
Best Scene: Malcolm's introduction.
1. Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Watchmen- Good Predictions Koook and Kevin. The film adaptation of Watchmen did not get everything right but one thing it did which was genius was casting Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Comedian. The Comedian is a complex character and Morgan does not simplify any aspect of him. He gives a powerful performance that is unflinching in the realization of a brute, but also manages to believably allow the man some charm with a semblance of a soul somewhere in him.
Best Scene: The Watchmen's meeting.
Overall Ranking:
- Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
- Fred Melamed in A Serious Man
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Watchmen
- Paul Schneider in Bright Star
- Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen
- Guillermo Francella in The Secret in Their Eyes
- Peter Capaldi in In The Loop
- August Diehl in Inglorious Basterds
- Tom Hollander in In The Loop
- Robert Duvall in The Road
- James Gandolfini in Where the Wild Things Are
- Michael Fassbender in Inglorious Basterds
- Pablo Rago in The Secret in Their Eyes
- Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank
- Adel Bencherif in A Prophet
- Denis Menochet in Inglourious Basterds
- Fan Wei in The City of Life and Death
- Won Bin in Mother
- Timothy Spall in The Damned United
- Shahab Hosseini in About Elly
- Sam Neill in Skin
- Daniel Bruhl in Inglourious Basterds
- Javier Godino in The Secret in Their Eyes
- David Rasche in In The Loop
- Klaus Maria Brandauer in Tetro
- Adam Arkin in A Serious Man
- Paul Higgins in In The Loop
- Nicholas Tse in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Niels Arestrup in A Prophet
- Stanley Tucci in Julie & Julia
- Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Zhang Fengyi in Red Cliff Part II
- Woody Harrelson in Zombieland
- Nakaizumi Hideo in City of Life and Death
- Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles
- Hilmi Sözer in Jerichow
- Boman Irani in 3 Idiots
- Tom Waits in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Billy Crudup in Public Enemies
- Woody Harrelson in The Messenger
- Jin Goo in Mother
- Michael Gambon in The Half-Blood Prince
- Steve Buscemi in The Messenger
- Anupam Kher in Wake Up Side
- Takeshi Kaneshiro in Red Cliff Part II
- Colin Farrell in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Hichem Yacoubi in A Prophet
- John Malkovich in The Great Buck Howard
- Brendan Gleeson in Secret of Kells
- Omi Vaidya in 3 Idiots
- James Caan in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Richard Sammel in Inglorious Basterds
- Michael K. Williams in The Road
- Chris Cooper in Where the Wild Things Are
- Peter Sarsgaard in An Education
- Verne Troyer in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Wang Xueqi in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Paul Dano in Where the Wild Things Are
- Mark Strong in Sherlock Holmes
- Jim Broadbent in The Half-Blood Prince
- Wallace Wolodarksy in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Keith David in The Princess and the Frog
- Omar Doom in Inglourious Basterds
- James Gandolfini in In The Loop
- Fyvush Finkel in A Serious Man
- Hrant Alianak in Pontypool
- Kevin Spacey in Moon
- Sam Shepard in Brothers
- David Strathairn in Cold Souls
- John Paisley in City of Life and Death
- Mick Lally in The Secret of Kells
- Michael-Leon Wooley in The Princess and the Frog
- Allen Lewis Rickman in A Serious Man
- Rüdiger Vogler in OSS 117: Lost in Rio
- Jason Schwartzman in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes
- Alan Rickman in The Half-Blood Prince
- Val Kilmer in Bad Lieutenant
- Donnie Yen in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Karl Urban in Star Trek
- Colm Meaney in The Damned United
- Zach Woods in In The Loop
- Peyman Mooadi in About Elly
- Tom Felton in The Half-Blood Prince
- Shea Whigham in Bad Lieutenant
- Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds
- Saber Abar in About Elly
- Chris Addison in In The Loop
- Brad Dourif in Bad Lieutenant
- Robbie Coltrane in The Half-Blood Prince
- B.J. Novak in Inglourious Basterds
- Robbie Coltrane in The Brothers Bloom
- Alfred Molina in An Education
- Willem Dafoe in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Mani Haghighi in About Elly
- Bill Murray in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Matt Damon in Invictus
- Maximilian Schell in The Brothers Bloom
- Til Schweiger in Inglourious Basterds
- Xzibit in Bad Lieutenant
- Guy Pearce in The Road
- David James in District 9
- Ernst Jacobi in The White Ribbon
- Michael Gambon in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Benoit Poelvoorde in Coco Before Chanel
- Sven-Bertil Taube in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Jason Bateman in State of Play
- Eric Anderson in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Steve Coogan in In The Loop
- Peter Haber in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- Mengke Bateer in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Scott Bakula in The Informant!
- Christian Friedel in The White Ribbon
- Simon Pegg in Star Trek
- Peter Bartlett in The Princess and the Frog
- Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
- Patrick Wilson in Watchmen
- Ben Affleck in State of Play
- Jim Cummings in the Princess and the Frog
- Gedeon Burkhard in Inglourious Basterds
- Liam Cunningham in Harry Brown
- Burghart Klaußner in The White Ribbon
- Eric Bana in Star Trek
- David Thewlis in The Half-Blood Prince
- Oliver Platt in 2012
- Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Ben Mendelsohn in Knowing
- Danny Huston in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Gregoire Colin in 35 Shots of Rum
- Ben Cross in Star Trek
- Tom Hanks in The Great Buck Howard
- Ulrich Tukur in The White Ribbon
- Eric Tsang in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Michael Rapaport in Big Fan
- Andrew Garfield in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Christos Stergioglou in Dogtooth
- Christos Passalis in Dogtooth
- Richard Kind in A Serious Man
- Zhang Hanyu in Bodyguards and Assassins
- J.K. Simmons in Up in the Air
- Kevin Corrigan in big Fan
- Robert Duvall in Crazy Heart
- Christian Bale in Public Enemies
- Stephen Lang in Avatar
- Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
- Billy Crudup in Watchmen
- Michael Imperioli in The Lovely Bones
- Walton Goggins in That Evening Sun
- Eddie Marsan in Me and Orson Welles
- Wang Po-chieh in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Leon Lai in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Paul Schneider in Away We Go
- Gary Oldman in A Christmas Carol
- Matt Servitto in Big Fan
- Rupert Grint in The Half-Blood Prince
- Hu Jun in Bodyguards and Assassins
- Mike Myers in Inglourious Basterds
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Nowhere Boy
- Jim Gaffigan in Away We Go
- Eli Roth in Inglourious Basterds
- Johnny Depp in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Jason Bateman in Up in the Air
- Chris Messina in Julie & Julia
- Colin Farrell in Crazy Heart
- Jude Law in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Paul Giamatti in The Last Station
- Alessandro Nivola in Coco Before Chanel
- Colin Firth in A Christmas Carol
- Jonah Hill in Funny People
- James Tupper in Me and Orson Welles
- Woody Harrelson in 2012
- Justin Bartha in The Hangover
- Ben Chaplin in Me and Orson Welles
- Ray McKinnon in That Evening Sun
- Leo Bill in Me and Orson Welles
- Nicholas Hoult in A Single Man
- Geoffrey Arend in 500 Days of Summer
- Robert Wisden in Watchmen
- Matthew Goode in Watchmen
- Anton Yelchin in Star Trek
- Rob Riggle in The Hangover
- Ken Jeong in The Hangover
25 comments:
Alright, my official request is Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate for 1962 Lead.
Louis: Your rating & thoughts on:
Timothy Spall in The Damned United
Sarsgaard & Molina in An Education
Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins Wolverine
Eric Bana in Star Trek
Stephen Lang in Avatar
Oldman & Firth in A Christmas Carol
Louis: Where would you rank Morgan & Haley in your Top Ten Comic Book/Graphic Novel Movie Performances.
Anthony Perkins - Goodbye Again
Clark Gable - The Misfits
Dirk Bogarde - Victim
Toshiro Mifune - Yojimbo
James Cagney - One,Two,Three
Mifune - Yojimbo
That's all I could say
Nicholas Tse =D =D =D.
Also, ratings and thoughts on Steve Buscemi in The Messenger and Karl Urban in Star Trek?
@Louis: Which is your favorite performance so far from Game Of Thrones
@RatedRStar: Since you liked Nicholas Tse and thought he was deserving of his win, who would you have chosen as the 2013 Hong Kong Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor
@koook160: What did you make of Angela Lansbury and Frank Sinatra in The Manchurian Candidiate
Toshiro Mifune-Yojimbo
Anthony Perkins-Goodbye Again
Sidney Poitier-A Raisin in the Sun
Dirk Bogarde-Victim
Peter Finch-No Love for Johnnie
Clark Gable-The Misfits
Actually haven't seen Goodbye Again, but I'm such a Perkins fan I gotta put it out there.
Oh sweet lord, 1961 is FULL of gems!
Beatty / Splendor in the Grass
Bogarde / Victim
Mastroianni / La Notte
Poitier / A Raisin in the Sun
Salvatori / Rocco and His Brothers
Salvatori gives my favorite male performance of all time, easily!
@JackiBoyz: Lansburry was fucking amazing and Sinatra was alright. The only thing superior about that stupid remake is Washington was better Marco.
The Manchurian Candidate is the only film I've seen where I thought Sinatra was decent.
He was good, but overshadowed by Harvey and Lansbury. Washington was the only thing I really liked about the sequel, though I think I may be too dismissive of Schreiber. I'm trying not to compare him to Harvey, but it's difficult not to.
Spall - 4(He's really good at this type of role where he plays the quiet good man among more emotional sorts. He plays off Sheen well, and adds some honest heart to the film)
Sarsgaard - 3.5(I prefer Fassbender's take on this type character, but Sarsgaard is also pretty good at being charming with an underlying sleaze)
Molina - 3(I thought he was fine for the most part, but I do find there was much more that could have been done with the character than his fairly broad routine)
Schreiber - 3(Again a terrible film but I did enjoy his weird way of being over the top while seeming to underplay the role at the same time)
Bana - 3(Yes he's over the top, but I find that technically is fitting for a Star Trek villain that is suppose to be interacting with the original series)
Lang - 2.5(I suppose he's the best part but that really does not matter)
Oldman - 2.5(The motion capture is such a hindrance in this film as Oldman's face seems so awkwardly planted on all his characters. I really would to like have seen a live action Oldman playing Marley or actually I'd prefer him for Scrooge especially over Carrey, but this film did him no favors in any regard. I really don't want even say more as the whole setup was so poor to begin with)
Firth - 2(Again his face is awkwardly used although not as badly as Oldman's. Even past that I found his Fred just kinda dull where he's the character you should try to make endearing)
Morgan and Haley would be #2 and #3 just behind Ledger.
Matt:
Buscemi - 3.5(A re-watch could move him up a bit actually. Anyway I found his two scenes very moving as he just gave such a natural depiction of grief)
Urban - 3(I always wanted more of him in both films as I thought he did a great job of replicating DeForest Kelly in a comedic way without becoming too absurd)
JackiBoyz: I'd say either Peter Dinklage or Charles Dance.
I'm not too familiar with 1961. The only thing I can think of is Richard Beymer in West Side Story.
For 1961 the only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned is Keir Dullea in David and Lisa.
My winning request is Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone for 2007 Best Actor
And I made a mistake for my previous request for Ulrich Muhe in The Lives of Others. He should be for 2006, not 2007
Richard Beymer??? Please God no. I loooooove West Side Story but that man had zero charisma in a role where that was really all he needed. I honestly hope he finishes last.
Louis, are you caught up with Thrones or not? Dinklage was my MVP for seasons 1 and 2, but his weak storyline and Dance's fantastic performances during 3 made him my easy MVP of the season.
As for 1961:
Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie
Clark Gable in The Misfits
Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo
Anthony Perkins in The Trial
Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
Some others (I guess?):
Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass
Jean-Paul Belmondo in A Woman Is a Woman
Horst Bollmann in The Miracle of Father Malachia
Alec Guinness in A Majority of One
Anthony Quinn in Barabbas
Marcello Mastroianni in La Notte
I'll suggest...
Warren Beatty, Splendor in the Grass (and DEFINITELY Pat Hingle for Supporting)
James Cagney, One, Two, Three
Clark Gable, The Misfits
Toshire Mifune, Yojimbo
Sidney Poitier, A Raisin in the Sun
What a weird year. Good on the surface, kind of weak when you really dig into it.
@JackiBoyz: Tong Dawei in American Dreams In China and Nick Cheung in Unbeatable.
The only 2 that come to my mind are:
Warren Beatty - Splendor in the Grass
Clark Gable - The Misfits
Also, Max von Sydow gave a really good performance in Through a Glass Darkly, but I'm not sure I'd call him a lead.
This year feels so barren, that I can already predict the winner. I'll be absolutely stunned if Mifune doesn't win.
Michael: I'm not quite all the way caught up, but I'm getting there.
I'd also suggest Jonah Hill in Cyrus. Hill has a unique acting style of his own, and though both he and Seth Rogen are talented actors, Hill is generally taken more seriously as an actor and allowed more dramatic roles.
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