Sunday, 7 February 2016

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2015: Results

10. Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation - Elba gives a charismatic performance as a godlike military commander, even if his character gets progressively less interesting as the film proceeds.

Best Scene: The Commandant prepares the men to attack. 
9. Stanley Tucci in Spotlight - Tucci, much like the majority of the cast of spotlight, gives a realistic portrayal of a man in the film's story, and only stands when it aids this story.

Best Scene: "You don't know the half of it"
8. Adam Driver in Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Driver creates a most unusual yet still very effective and complex villain

Best Scene: Kylo and Han.
7. Emory Cohen in Brooklyn - Cohen gives an extremely charming performance that is essential the film's success, as he flawlessly avoids the various potential pitfalls of his technically simplistic character.

Best Scene: Tony and Ellis the night after the dinner with Tony's family. 
6. Michael Sheen in Far From the Madding Crowd - Sheen gives a very moving performance in his portrayal of a man whose emotions reveal themselves, for better or worse, after being shown a hint of love.

Best Scene: Boldwood joins Bathsheba in song. 
5. Benicio Del Toro in Sicario - Del Toro is appropriately chilling in his depiction of a cold killer, yet is particularly compelling in revealing the man behind the actions.

Best Scene: A family dinner.
4. Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina - Isaac is wildly entertaining yet also appropriately enigmatic as his odd tech genius who he plays as though he's a real BRO at heart.

Best Scene: "Have you tried dancing with her?"
3. Walton Goggins in The Hateful Eight - Goggins gives quite the impressive performance, as he's hilarious, incisive, and somehow makes a friendship between a racist Sheriff and a black bounty hunter believable.

Best Scene: Reading the Lincoln Letter. 
2. Richard Jenkins in Bone Tomahawk - Jenkins is completely unrecognizable in his funny yet heartbreaking portrayal of a real old timer of the old west.

Best Scene: The flea circus. 
1. Nicholas Hoult in Mad Max: Fury Road - Good prediction Psifonian. This year is simply amazing, and having to choose between them is absurdly difficult. I could go so many different ways for my winner, since I love all these performances. I could go with any performance in my top 12 and they'd be deserving. My top two came down to the two performances that I've found myself quoting the most incidentally. I could easily switch at any time. Hoult is outstanding in his compelling and entertaining portrayal of zealotry, then is quite heartbreaking in his depiction of a loss of this blindness.  

Best Scene: A promised trip to Valhalla. 
Overall Rank:
  1. Tom Hardy in The Revenant
  2. Nicholas Hoult in Mad Max: Fury Road
  3. Sylvester Stallone in Creed
  4. Richard Jenkins in Bone Tomahawk
  5. Walton Goggins in The Hateful Eight
  6. Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies
  7. Samuel L. Jackson in The Hateful Eight
  8. Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina
  9. Benicio Del Toro in Sicario
  10. Michael Sheen in Far From The Madding Crowd
  11. Emory Cohen in Brooklyn
  12. Kurt Russell in The Hateful Eight 
  13. Bruce Dern in The Hateful Eight 
  14. Michael Angarano in The Stanford Prison Experiment
  15. Matthew Fox in Bone Tomahawk
  16. Adam Driver in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  17. Harrison Ford in Star Wars: The Force Awakens 
  18. Sam Elliot in Grandma
  19. Stanley Tucci in Spotlight
  20. Josh Brolin in Sicario
  21. Matthias Schoenaerts in Far From The Madding Crowd
  22. Liev Schreiber in Spotlight
  23. Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation
  24. Michael Keaton in Spotlight
  25. Tim Roth in The Hateful Eight
  26. Joel Edgerton in The Gift
  27. Jeff Daniels in Steve Jobs
  28. Roland Møller in Land of Mine
  29. Ethan Hawke in 10,000 Saints
  30. Jan Bijvoet in Embrace of the Serpent
  31. Michael Shannon in 99 Homes 
  32. Toby Jones in Tale of Tales
  33. Tom Noonan in Anomalisa 
  34. Jason Statham in Spy
  35. Will Poulter in The Revenant 
  36. Brian d'Arcy James in Spotlight 
  37. Richard Kind in Inside Out
  38. Louis C.K. in Trumbo
  39. Domhnall Gleeson in The Revenant
  40. Michael Madsen in The Hateful Eight 
  41. Rory Cochrane in Black Mass 
  42. James Parks in The Hateful Eight 
  43. Brendan Gleeson in In The Heart of the Sea
  44. Billy Crudup in The Stanford Prison Experiment
  45. Peter Sarsgaard in Black Mass
  46. Sean Harris in Macbeth 
  47. Demian Bichir in The Hateful Eight 
  48. Louis Hofmann in Land of Mine
  49. W. Earl Brown in Black Mass
  50. Hugo Weaving in The Dressmaker
  51. David Morse in Concussion
  52. Liev Schreiber in Pawn Sacrifice 
  53. Paul Giamatti in Straight Outta Compton
  54. Tye Sheridan in The Stanford Prison Experiment
  55. Hugh Keays-Byrne in Mad Max: Fury Road
  56. John Cusack in Chi-Raq
  57. Chiwetel Ejiofor in The Martian 
  58. Dave Bautista in Spectre
  59. Jeremy Renner in Avengers: Age of Ultron
  60. Seth Rogen in Steve Jobs 
  61. Peter Sarsgaard in Pawn Sacrifice
  62. Michael Douglas in Ant-Man
  63. David Harbour in Black Mass
  64. Forrest Goodluck in The Revenant
  65. Oscar Isaac in Star Wars: The Force Awakens  
  66. Billy Crudup in Spotlight
  67. Domhnall Gleeson in Brooklyn
  68. Sean Bean in The Martian
  69. Paul Dano in Youth
  70. Luigi Sciamanna in Embrace of the Serpent
  71. Mark Strong in Kingsman: The Secret Service 
  72. Jeff Daniels in The Martian
  73. Nathan Jones in Mad Max: Fury Road
  74. Richard Jenkins in Spotlight
  75. Tom Hardy in London Road 
  76. Jack Reynor in Macbeth
  77. Jim Beaver in Crimson Peak
  78. Jim Broadbent in Brooklyn
  79. John Goodman in Trumbo
  80. Josh Helman in Mad Max: Fury Road 
  81. Lewis Black in Inside Out 
  82. Brendan Gleeson in Suffragette 
  83. Peter Mullan in Sunset Song
  84. Michael Stuhlbarg in Trumbo
  85. Bill Camp in Love & Mercy
  86. Jon Gries in Faults
  87. Arthur Redcloud in The Revenant
  88. Lourenço Mutarelli in The Second Mother
  89. Mikhail Gorevoy in Bridge of Spies
  90. Tom McCamus in Room
  91. Mark Rylance in The Gunman
  92. Corey Stoll in Black Mass 
  93. Samuel L. Jackson in Chi-Raq
  94. Domhnall Gleeson in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  95. Neal Huff in Spotlight  
  96. Chris Ellis in Faults
  97. Jurgen Prochnow in Remember
  98. Kit Harington in Testament of Youth
  99. Vincent Cassel in Tale of Tales
  100. Paddy Considine in Macbeth
  101. Ben Whishaw in Spectre
  102. Bruno Ganz in Remember
  103. Jude Law in Spy
  104. Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
  105. Kurt Russell in Furious 7
  106. Harvey Keitel in Youth 
  107. Martin Landau in Remember
  108. Cory Michael Smith in Carol
  109. Sylvester Groth in The Man From Uncle
  110. Chris O'Dowd in The Program
  111. Albert Brooks in Concussion
  112. Brionne Davis in Embrace of the Serpent
  113. James Spader in Avengers: Age of Ultron
  114. John Slattery in Spotlight
  115. Ben Whishaw in The Lobster 
  116. Franz Rogowski in Victoria
  117. Michael Cyril Creighton in Spotlight 
  118. Milo Parker in Mr. Holmes 
  119. Paddy Considine in Child 44
  120. David Arquette in Bone Tomahawk
  121. Colin Morgan in Testament of Youth 
  122. Colin Quinn in Trainwreck
  123. Benedict Wong in The Martian 
  124. Alan Rickman in A Little Chaos
  125. Kurt Egyiawan in Beasts of No Nation 
  126. Jeffrey Donovan in Sicario 
  127. Josh Brolin Everest
  128. Christian Berkel in Trumbo
  129. Tom Holland in In The Heart of the Sea 
  130. Forest Whitaker in Southpaw
  131. Angus Sampson in Mad Max: Fury Road
  132. Ralph Fiennes in Spectre
  133. Kobina Amissa-Sam in Beasts of No Nation
  134. Ryan Gosling in the Big Short
  135. Ron Livingston in James White
  136. Stacy Keach in Truth 
  137. Christopher Plummer in Danny Collins
  138. Bradley Cooper in Joy 
  139. Jesse Plemons in Black Mass
  140. John Hawkes in Everest
  141. Bobby Cannavale in Danny Collins
  142. Taron Egerton in Testament of Youth
  143. Sebastian Koch in Bridge of Spies 
  144. Paul Giamatti in Love & Mercy
  145. Brad Pitt in The Big Short 
  146. James Badge Dale in The Walk 
  147. Ben Mendelsohn in Slow West
  148. Corey Stoll in Ant-Man
  149. Stephen Root in Trumbo
  150. Wesley Snipes in Chi-Raq
  151. John C. Reilly in The Lobster
  152. Robert Downey Jr. in Avengers: Age of Ultron
  153. Alec Baldwin in Concussion
  154. Jamey Sheridan in Spotlight
  155. Christian Bale in The Big Short
  156. Taron Egerton in Legend 
  157. Jason Statham in Furious 7
  158. Sid Haig in Bone Tomahawk 
  159. Jeremy Strong in The Big Short 
  160. Scott Shepherd in Bridge of Spies
  161. Kyle Chandler in Carol 
  162. Steve Carell in The Big Short
  163. Derek Jacobi in Cinderella 
  164. Jake Weary in It Follows
  165. Jake Gyllenhaal in Everest
  166. Kevin Bacon in Black Mass
  167. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in Trumbo
  168. Hugh Grant in The Man From Uncle 
  169. Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
  170. Jeremy Renner in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
  171. Bill Hader in Inside Out 
  172. Bobby Cannavale in Spy 
  173. Harry Lennix in Chi-Raq
  174. Dwayne Johnson in Furious 7
  175. Jesse Plemons in The Program
  176. Javier Bardem in The Gunman
  177. Ed Harris in Run All Night 
  178. Dave Chappelle in Chi-Raq
  179. Chris Evans in Avengers: Age of Ultron
  180. Sean Bridgers in Room 
  181. Kid Cudi in James White 
  182. Jim Broadbent in The Woman in the Van
  183. Michael Stuhlbarg in Steve Jobs 
  184. Norman Lloyd in Trainwreck 
  185. Robert Redford in Truth
  186. Nonso Anozie in Cinderella
  187. Bobby Cannavale in Ant-Man
  188. Mark Ruffalo in Avengers: Age of Ultron
  189. Graham McTavish in Creed 
  190. Ben Whishaw in In the Heart of the Sea
  191. Rory McCann in Slow West
  192. David Thewlis in Legend
  193. David Thewlis in Macbeth
  194. Ben Whishaw in The Danish Girl
  195. Keir Gilchrist in It Follows 
  196. John C. Reilly in Tale of Tales
  197. Channing Tatum in The Hateful Eight
  198. Jon Bernthal in Sicario
  199. John Magaro in The Big Short
  200. Finn Wittrock in The Big Short
  201. Chris Hemsworth in Avengers: Age of Ultron 
  202. Hiroyuki Sanada in Mr. Holmes
  203. Ezra Miller in The Stanford Prison Experiment
  204. Matthias Schoenaerts in The Danish Girl
  205. Daniel Bruhl in Woman in Gold
  206. William H. Macy in Room 
  207. Michael Stuhlbarg in Pawn Sacrifice
  208. Edgar Ramirez in Joy
  209. Dennis Quaid in Truth
  210. Michael Caine in Kingsman: The Secret Service 
  211. Charlie Hunnam in Crimson Peak 
  212. Benedict Cumberbatch in Black Mass 
  213. Donald Glover in The Martian 
  214. Sean Bean in Jupiter Ascending
  215. Sean Harris in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
  216. Ty Simpkins Jurassic World 
  217. Michael Pena in Ant-Man
  218. Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Avengers: Age of Ultron
  219. Ben Kingsley in The Walk
  220. Adam Scott in Black Mass
  221. Ben Whishaw in Suffragette
  222. Alexander Skarsgard in The Diary of a Teenage Girl
  223. Andy Serkis in Star Wars: The Force Awakens 
  224. Common in Run All Night
  225. Robert De Niro in Joy
  226. Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight 
  227. Samuel L. Jackson in Kingsman: The Secret Service 
  228. Michael Pena in The Martian 
  229. John Cena in Trainwreck
  230. Tony Bellew in Creed
  231. John Magaro in Carol
  232. Nick Robinson in Jurassic World
  233. Lebron James in Trainwreck 
  234. Curtis Jackson in Southpaw
  235. Anthony Bourdain in The Big Short
  236. Hugh Jackman in Chappie 
  237. Barry Otto in The Dressmaker
  238. Vincent D'Onofrio in Jurassic World
  239. Liam Hemsworth in the Dressmaker
  240. Richard Thaler in The Big Short 
  241. Miguel Gomez in Southpaw
  242. Austin Stowell in Bridge of Spies
  243. David Dastmalchian in Ant-Man 
  244. Christoph Waltz in Spectre
  245. David James Elliot in Trumbo
  246. Dean O'Gorman in Trumbo 
  247. Adam DeVine in The Intern
  248. Nat Wolff in The Intern
  249. Anders Holm in The Intern
  250. Caleb Landry Jones in Heaven Knows What
  251. Andrew Rannells in The Intern
  252. B.D. Wong in Jurassic World
  253. Douglas Booth in Jupiter Ascending
  254. Nat Wolff in Grandma 
  255. Emile Hirsch in 10,000 Saints
  256. Tom Sturridge in Far From the Madding Crowd 
  257. Jose Pablo Cantillo in Chappie
  258. Ninja in Chappie 
  259. Joel Kinnaman in Child 44
  260. Topher Grace in Truth
  261. Guillaume Canet in The Program
  262. Quentin Tarantino in The Hateful Eight
  263. Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending
Next Year: 2015 Lead (Please name and rank the top three you'd like to see reviewed)

43 comments:

Luke Higham said...

1. Attah
2. Fassbender
3. Hardy

Luke Higham said...

I'm so happy, that Hardy's your winner. :)

Anonymous said...

1. McKellen
2. Fassbender
3. Hardy

Anonymous said...

1. McKellen
2. Attah
3. Segel

Luke Higham said...

Louis: Can I have your ratings and thoughts on McCarthy, Byrne and Statham in Spy.

mcofra7 said...

I didn't expect to see Anthony Bourdain in the lineup:)

Luke Higham said...

Louis: Does your 4s end with Sean Harris in Macbeth.

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Anonymous said...

John Smith:

Félix de Givry-Eden

Ulrik Munther/The Here After (My favorite performance of the year, trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJW3nYIhX4)

Segel

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

1.Segel
2.Hardy
3.Tremblay

mcofra7 said...

1. Fassbender
2. Segel
3. Hardy

Michael Patison said...

1. Hardy
2. McKellen
3. Tremblay

Psifonian said...

Jacob Tremblay
Ben Foster
Paul Dano
John Cusack
Michael B. Jordan
Johnny Depp
Tom Hardy
Tom Courtenay
Michael Fassbender
Abraham Attah

Michael McCarthy said...

I was really hoping for Hoult, but Hardy's a great choice too.

1. Segel
2. Tremblay
3. Hardy

For what it's worth, my honorable mentions are Fassbender, Depp and Russell.

Robert MacFarlane said...

Once again, because Bateman and Mendelsohn are requests and you gave your thoughts and rating on Reynolds:

1. Jordan
2. Courtenay
3. Segel

Alternates include the Love and Mercy duo and the Compton 3.

Luke Higham said...

Louis: For your Nominations page, Michael Sheen has 2.
2009 Lead Actor: The Damned United - #8
2015 Supporting Actor: Far From The Madding Crowd - #10

GM said...

Hoult is my favorite, but I am happy Hardy has a win.

1. Tremblay
2. Jordan
3. Courtenay

Anonymous said...

1.Foster
2.Hardy
3.Depp

Calvin Law said...

1. McKellen
2. Segel
3. Jordan

Kinda wished Hoult won but Hardy is a great choice.

Calvin Law said...

Surprisingly pleased to see Stallone at #3 :D

Calvin Law said...

Also Sturridge is way too high ;)

Matt Mustin said...

"Anthony Bourdain in The Big Short". Ha, that's awesome.

Alex Marqués said...

1.Tremblay
2.McKellen
3.Depp

Calvin Law said...

As for my predictions for the winners, pretty certain Hardy, Fassbender and Dicaprio are making the top 5. Remaining 2 places could be any of McKellen, Segel, Courtenay, or Tremble.

Calvin Law said...

*Tremblay

Calvin Law said...

Or even Bateman, Mendhelson.

RatedRStar said...

I have this man at the top of my interests simply because I have no idea whether you liked him or not, plus I think Black Mass was a one off and Depp will go back to the current Depp as opposed to the old one so expect Depp to stay on 3 Oscar noms for the time being.

1. Johnny Depp
2. Tom Hardy
3. Ian McKellen

Calvin Law said...

I would certainly be very interested to see a Depp review. I remember Louis saying he was saving Damon and Depp not only because they could be nominated, and wonder if Depp's gone up or down, like Damon, in his books.

Anonymous said...

1. Michael Caine in Youth (5/5)
2. Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes
3. Jason Micthell in Straight Outta Compton (4/5)

Henri Charter said...

Where is Michael Shannon placed?He gave one of the best performances of the year

Anonymous said...

1. Jordan
2. Fassbender
3. Tremblay

Luke Higham said...

Louis: I'm changing my preferences, as my hopes for Attah are futile.

1. Fassbender
2. Hardy
3. McKellen

Anonymous said...

1. Attah
2. Foster
3. McKellen

Luke Higham said...

Anonymous: Thank you.

1. Attah
2. Fassbender
3. Hardy

Luke Higham said...

I just realized, Courtenay might miss out.

Lineup Prediction
Mendelsohn
Bateman
Hardy
Fassbender
McKellen
Foster
Segel
Jordan
Tremblay
Attah

Luke Higham said...

Louis: Can I have your ratings and thoughts for each performance that didn't make the lineup.

Anonymous said...

Louis: I know you already gave me your thoughts for Heston in Apes and Soylent Green and McQueen and Robinson in The Cincinnati Kid, but you forgot the ratings. What are your ratings for these four performances?

Louis Morgan said...

Luke:

McCarthy - 3.5(Her performance went a bit like the film's as a whole for me in that I really liked it for the first hour or so, but then it just kind of ran out of gas, mostly I think because the action itself wasn't done in a particularly funny way. McCarthy I found enjoyable in being just sort of friendly while being a master spy. I found her fake tough act less amusing I must admit, though I still liked her just fine)

Byrne - 3(I suppose I'll commit slight blasphemy in that I did not love this performance I liked it just fine, but I guess I never found her spoiled brat routine THAT funny.)

Statham - 4(Very funny since he plays it so straight as though his hapless "hero" is indeed the usual Statham badass. I could listen to him list of his various awesome achieves all day. Every line of his was made pure gold by Statham's appropriately extreme delivery)

Anonymous:

4 for Robinson. 3 for the rest.

John R. said...

1. Depp
2. Foster
3. Tremblay

Anonymous said...

DEPP IN BLACK MASS!

Anonymous said...

Louis: Although he was never considered for the role, do you think that Massey would work as Father Mapple?

Louis Morgan said...

I think he would have worked well in that part.

Alex Marqués said...

I'm really interested about the possible lineup.