Best Scene: How to behave when pulled over.
9. Peter Bogdonavich in The Other Side of the Wind - Bogdonavich's performance, 40 years in its making, is a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of the vulnerable ego of a man who built his own legacy by imitating his mentor.
Best Scene: Trying to tell Hanneford the truth.
8. Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk - Henry gives the highlight of his banner year in his moving portrayal of essentially memory both those of a loving friendship and a harrowing traumatic experience.
Best Scene: His scene.
7. Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience - Nivola disappears into his role as one of the pillars of a Jewish community and gives a particularly powerful portrayal of a man coming to terms with his beliefs and how they relate to his friendship and his marriage.
Best Scene: "Choose"
6. Linus Roache in Mandy - Roache gives an amazing turn capturing both the hilarity and the horror of a wannabe prophet with severe delusions and pathetic desperation.
Best Scene: Presenting himself.
5. Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite - Hoult once again is given a meaty role and once again makes the most of it in his masterful portrayal of a vicious wit and ambition.
Best Scene: Abigail's Offer.
4. Russell Crowe in Boy Erased - Crowe gives one of his best performances in his nuanced portrayal of a father failing then slowly learning to understand his homosexual son.
Best Scene: Ford Dealership.
3. Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Waits delivers a wonderful one man show that creates such an empathetic journey in one man's search for gold.
Best Scene: "You Didn't Hit Nothin' Important"
2. Steven Yeun in Burning - Yeun gives a masterful portrayal of an egotistical detachment that creates a most unnerving sort of possible evil.
Best Scene: Burning Greenhouses.
1. Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale - Good prediction Michael McCarthy, and AnonymousBridges takes the top spot overall for me as he delivers one of his best performances. This is giving a thoroughly engaging turn in giving so much life to every facet of his character from the various levels of the facade he puts on, the camaraderie he finds, and most of all his absolutely heartbreaking depiction of a man with dementia.
Best Scene: Describing his memory loss.
Overall Ranking:
- Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale
- Steven Yeun in Burning
- Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Lewis Pullman in Bad Times At the El Royale
- Russell Crowe in Boy Erased
- Tim Blake Nelson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite
- Linus Roache in Mandy
- Lily Franky in Shoplifters
- Bill Heck in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - 4.5
- Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience
- Jonathan Pryce in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
- Harry Melling in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Jonjo O'Neill in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Grainger Hines in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk
- Peter Bogdonavich in The Other Side of the Wind
- Daniel Kaluuya in Widows
- Chris Hemsworth in Avengers: Infinity War
- Robert Forster in What They Had
- Anton Yelchin in Thoroughbreds
- Russell Hornsby in The Hate You Give
- Josh Brolin in Avenges: Infinity War
- Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther
- Jesse Plemons in Game Night - 4
- Mark Rylance in Ready Player One
- Riz Ahmed in The Sisters Brothers
- Kairi Jō in Shoplifters
- Sam Elliott in A Star is Born
- Dolph Lundgren in Creed II
- Florian Munteanu in Creed II
- Josh Brolin in Deadpool 2
- Josh Hamilton in Eighth Grade
- James Smith in The Favourite
- Brian Tyree Henry in Widows
- Gabriel Byrne in Hereditary
- Liev Schreiber in Isle of Dogs
- Sylvester Stallone in Creed II
- Tom Waits in The Old Man and the Gun
- Sean Harris in Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Armie Hammer in Sorry to Bother You
- Wyatt Russell in Overlord
- Cameron Mitchell in The Other Side of the Wind
- Richard Brake in Mandy
- Topher Grace in Blackkklansman
- Dave Bautista in Hotel Artemis
- Ron Livingston in Tully
- Ben Whishaw in Mary Poppins Returns
- Robert Downey Jr. in Avengers: Infinity War
- Adam Driver in Blackkklansman
- Jake Johnson in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
- Christian Slater in The Wife
- Matthew McConaughey in White Boy Rick
- Ed Helms in Chappaquiddick
- Benedict Cumberbatch in Avengers: Infinity War
- Harry Belafonte in Blackkklansman
- Paul Bettany in Avengers: Infinity War
- Joel Edgerton in Boy Erased - 3.5
- Sebastian Stan in Destroyer
- Jake Gyllenhaal in Wild Life
- Tom Holland in Avengers: Infinity War
- Kyle Chandler in Game Night
- Joe Alwyn in The Favourite
- Sterling K. Brown in Black Panther
- Mads Mikkelsen in At Eternity's Gate
- Bruno Ganz in The House That Jack Built
- Jon Hamm in Bad Times At the El Royale
- Steve Buscemi in Nancy
- Edoardo Pesce in Dogman
- Masaharu Fukuyama in Mirai
- Michael Shannon in What They Had
- Bradley Cooper in Avengers: Infinity War
- Bruce Dern in Chappaquiddick
- F. Murray Abraham in Isle of Dogs
- Lin Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns
- Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Julian Dennison in Deadpool 2
- Brendan Gleeson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Norman Foster in The Other Side of the Wind
- Edward Norton in Isle of Dogs
- Jeff Goldblum in Isle of Dogs
- Bill Murray in Isle of Dogs
- Bob Balaban in Isle of Dogs
- Chelcie Ross in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in Avengers: Infinity War
- Andrew Dice Clay in A Star is Born
- Jude Law in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- Cedric the Entertainer in First Reformed
- Anthony Welsh in Journeyman
- Jason Clarke in First Man
- Brian Tyree Henry in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
- Ben Mendelsohn in Ready Player One
- Bill Camp in Wild Life
- Jasper Paakkonen in Blackkklansman
- Paul Stewart in The Other Side of the Wind
- Stephen Root in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Colin Farrell in Widows
- Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Returns
- Corey Hawkins in Blackkklansman
- Stephen Dillane in The Outlaw King
- Nicolas Cage in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
- James Franco in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Steven Yeun in Sorry to Bother You
- Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Rob Delaney in Deadpool 2
- Gregory Sierra in The Other Side of the Wind
- Ned Dennehy in Mandy
- Saul Rubinek in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Noah Jupe in A Quiet Place
- Paul Sparks in Thoroughbreds
- Joe Alwyn in Boy Erased
- Willie Watson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Mark Ruffalo in Avenges: Infinity War
- Rupert Friend in At Eternity's Gate
- T.J. Miller in Deadpool 2
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Outlaw King
- Colman Domingo in If Beale Street Could Talk
- Flea in Boy Erased
- Michael Beach in If Beale Street Could Talk
- Trevante Rhodes in Bird Box
- Michael Douglas in Ant-Man and the Wasp
- J.K. Simmons in The Front Runner
- Jeff Goldblum in Hotel Artemis
- Bill Duke in Mandy - 3
- Rory Cochrane in White Boy Rick
- Jeffrey Donovan in Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- Tom Hiddleston in Avengers: Infinity War
- Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Tamuera Morrison in Aquaman
- Blake Jenner in American Animals
- John Leguizamo in Nancy
- Chris Evans in Avengers: Infinity War
- Roland Møller in Papillon
- Corey Stoll in First Man
- Winston Duke in Black Panther
- Benedict Wong in Avengers: Infinity War
- Dave Chappelle in A Star is Born
- Liev Schreiber in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
- Kevin J. O'Connor in Widows
- Tom Hollander in A Private War
- Dave Bautista in Avengers: Infinity War
- Ted Danson in Hearts Beat Loud
- Steve Buscemi in Lean on Pete
- Alfred Molina in The Front Runner
- Edmond O'Brien in The Other Side of the Wind
- Lamorne Morris in Game Night
- Udo Kier in American Animals
- John Magaro in Overlord
- Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- John Mulaney in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
- Steve Zahn in Lean on Pete
- Tom Hollander in Bird Box
- Ryan Eggold in Blackkklansman
- Pedro Pascal in If Beale Street Could Talk
- Mahershala Ali Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
- Allan Corduner in Disobedience
- Lukas Haas in Widows
- Danny Glover in Sorry to Bother You
- Pilou Asbaek in Overlord
- Brad Bird in Incredibles 2
- Liam Neeson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Travis Fimmel in Lean on Pete
- Sebastian Koch in Never Look Away
- Chris Hemsworth in Bad Times At the El Royale
- Tom Hollander in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Alec Baldwin in Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Harvey Keitel in Isle of Dogs
- Paul Walter Hauser in Blackkklansman
- Liam Neeson in Widows
- Sebastian Stan in Avengers: Infinity War
- Jamie Dornan in A Private War
- David Krumholtz in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Mark Gatiss in The Favourite
- Woody Harrelson in Solo
- John Malkovich in Bird Box
- Wood Harris in Creed II
- Yorick van Wageningen in Papillon
- Clancy Brown in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Algee Smith in The Hate U Give
- Chadwick Boseman in Avengers: Infinity War
- Russell Hornsby in Creed II
- Jon Øigarden in 22 July
- Bruce Dern in White Boy Rick
- Xavier Dolan in Boy Erased
- Garrett Dillahunt in Widows
- Alec Baldwin in Blackkklansman
- Brian Tyree Henry in White Boy Rick
- Billy Howle in Outlaw King
- Joseph Mazzello in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Stellan Skarsgard in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
- Sam Rockwell in Vice
- David Kross in Sorry to Bother You
- Kyle Chandler in First Man
- James LeGros in Support the Girls
- Danny Glover in The Old Man and the Gun
- Gwilym Lee in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Terry Crews in Sorry to Bother You
- Forrest Whittaker in Black Panther
- Billy Magnussen in Game Night
- Walton Goggins in Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Tyler Perry in Vice
- Courtney B. Vance in Ben is Back
- Patton Oswalt in Sorry to Bother You
- Wayne Knight in Blindspotting
- Colin Firth in Mary Poppins Returns
- Mandy Patinkin in Life Itself
- Laurence Fishburne in Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Jonah Hill in Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot
- Bob Odenkirk in Incredibles 2
- Ben Kingsley in Operation Finale
- Don Cheadle in Avengers: Infinity War
- Donald Glover in Solo
- Clancy Brown in Chappaquiddick
- Jack Lowden in Mary Queen of Scots
- John Cena in Bumblebee
- Stacy Keach in Gotti
- Benedict Wong in Annihilation - 2.5
- Robert Duvall in Widows
- Willem Dafoe in Aquaman
- Will Patton in Halloween
- Jude Law in Vox Lux
- Joe Alwyn in Mary Queen of Scots
- Nick Kroll in Operation Finale
- Timothy Hutton in Beautiful Boy
- Gen Hoshino in Mirai
- Anthony Mackie in Avengers: Infinity War
- Jake Gyllenhaal in The Sisters Brothers
- Henry Golding in A Simple Favor
- Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- Yahya Abdul-Manteen II in Aquaman
- Jim Gaffigan in Chappaquiddick
- Jack Black in Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot
- Stanley Tucci in A Private War
- Xavier Dolan in Bad Times At The El Royale
- Ben Falcone in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Bob Random in The Other Side of the Wind
- Daniel Kaluuya in Black Panther
- Ezra Miller in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- Mark Duplass in Tully
- Jared Abrahamson in American Animals
- Common in The Hate U Give
- John Ortiz in Bumblebee
- Ben Hardy in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Paul Bettany in Solo
- Dimitar Marinov in Green Book
- Andy Serkis in Black Panther
- Chris Pratt in Avengers: Infinity War
- Patrick Wilson in Aquaman
- Oscar Issac in At Eternity's Gate
- Martin Freeman in Black Panther
- Rufus Jones in Stan & Ollie
- Dolph Lundgren in Aquaman
- Dave Franco in If Beale Street Could Talk
- Anthony Mackie in The Hate You Give
- Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- Mamoudou Athie in The Front Runner
- Aidan Gillen in Bohemian Rhapsody
- K.J. Apa in The Hate U Give
- Antonio Banderas in Life Itself
- Jorge Lendeborg Jr. in Bumblebee
- Danny Huston in Stan & Ollie - 2
- James Cromwell in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Joe Alwyn in Operation Finale
- Riz Ahmed in Venom
- Steve Carell in Vice
- Ted Levine in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Guy Pearce in Mary Queen of Scots
- Jimmy O. Yang in Crazy Rich Asians
- David Gyasi in Annihilation
- Toby Jones in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Michael Pena in Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Justin Theroux in Mute
- Ken Jeong in Crazy Rich Asians - 1.5
- Jefferson Hall in Halloween
- Alex Monner in Life Itself
- Allen Leech in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Haluk Bilginer in Halloween
- Benedict Hardie in Upgrade
- Rafi Gavron in A Star is Born
- Harrison Gilbertson in Upgrade
- David Tennant in Mary Queen of Scots
- Charlie Day in Hotel Artemis
- Max Irons in The Wife
- Oscar Isaac in Life Itself
- Harry Lloyd in The Wife
- Oscar Isaac in Annihilation
- Shea Whigham in Vice - 1
- Spencer LoFranco in Gotti
- Jesse Plemons in Vice
- Mike Myers in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Justice Smith in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
- Toby Kebbell in Destroyer
- Rafe Spall in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
27 comments:
Bridges for the win!
And I like the little touch with the ratings next to each actor
Good idea Louis. :)
Louis: Ratings and thoughts on the rest of your 4.5, 4 and 3.5s.
And thoughts on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and rating & thoughts on Driver.
Louis: your thoughts on The House That Jack Built and the ratings and thoughts on the cast?
Louis: I do not know if you've done it yet, but what are the most overrated directors for you?
Really pleased to see a win for Bridges, honestly, and I can't really argue against the rest of the top 10, either.
Also, I just thought I'd mention that my review of Lady Gaga is now posted:
https://leadactorawards.blogspot.com/
Sorry for the delay. Call it...um...technical difficulties.
Louis: Lastly, your Female rankings with ratings. 5s to your lowest 4.
And ratings and thoughts on any other Lead Actor performances you would give a 4 or 4.5 to.
Louis: Do you prefer Bridges in El Royale or Hell or High Water?
Ryan Gosing in First Man
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed
Ben Foster in Leave No Trace
Robert Redford in The Old Man & the Gun
Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You
Jakob Cerdergren in The Guilty
Yoon Ah-in in Burning
John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan in Stan and Ollie
John C. Reilly in The Sisters Brothers
Hawke
Gosling
Redford
Huston
Reilly with Phoenix and Coogan
Cedergren
Yoo
Fonte
Stanfield
Foster/Hedges
Anonymous: He gave that list once before. I think you can find it if you look for it. I remember Soderbergh, Ron Howard, and Jonathan Demme being on it.
Louis
What are the Overall Rating for Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actress in 2018?
PS = I hope you do not forget two great performances from last year: actress Karine Teles in Loving and actor Matt Dillon in The House That Jack Built.
I originally read that score as a minus one lol on the overall xD, wouldnt have been surprised.
Not much point in suggesting anyone, never is whenever its the current movie year since I think the lineup speaks for itself.
Anonymous: Found it!
http://actoroscar.blogspot.com/2015/07/alternate-best-supporting-actor-1989_11.html?m=1
Louis: Could I also get ratings and thoughts on the non-saves.
For Lead.
Louis: I so wanna see Buster Scruggs having finally seen that trailer for it, only disappointment is that you said Tyne Daly gives the weakest performance in a strong field of performances, gah I have fond memories of watching Cagney and Lacey when I was younger lol so good.
Thoughts on Lundgren, Munteanu and Hammer.
Gosling
Hawke
Cage (please)
Reilly w/ Phoenix & Coogan
Foster (both, though I'd understand if you just go with Leave No Trace)
Yoo-Ah In
Redford
Stanfield
Hedges
Wolff (hopefully, since it seems you consider him Lead)
Also, love that Top 5.
Amazing top 5 and glad to see Bridges with a win.
Louis: If anything changed, your updated top 10 supporting performances of the decade.
Gosling
Yoo-Ah In
Hawke
Cage
Reilly/Phoenix & Coogan
Foster (Leave No Trace)
Redford
Huston
Cedergren
Hedges
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Ben Foster – Leave No Trace
Yoo Ah-In – Burning
Jakob Cedergren – The Guilty
Ryan Gosling – First Man
Brady Jandreau – The Rider
John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix – The Sisters Brothers
John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan – Stan & Ollie
Zain Al Rafeea – Capernaum
Nicolas Cage – Mandy
Lakeith Stanfield – Sorry to Bother You
John Huston – The Other Side of the Wind
Marcello Fonte – Dogman
Robert Redford – The Old Man and the Gun
Alex Wolff – Hereditary
Louis: You left out the Hotel Artemis cast.
I think you mean Danny Huston in Stan & Ollie ;) As for Lead, Gosling is the only certainty I want in. Everyone else pick as you please.
Luke:
The film itself is a sad disappointment. I actually liked it for the first hour or so, but its plot ends up becoming a strict repetition. It is far to akin to really The Baron of Munchhausen but not nearly as fun. It tries instead to become something about artistic representation to which it completely loses itself again and again. It's a shame as none of it really ends up coming together other than the secondary titular character. That performance carries the film, but it's to its detriment that he's really a supporting character.
Pryce - (Pryce is an utter delight here and does evoke John Neville as the Baron in sort of embracing the larger than life style of his character so beautifully. Pryce's work has this marvelous grandiose energy that just is winning every moment he is on screen. He is hilarious but also really brings such a conviction in the heroic demeanor of the character. He creates such a striking character through it and it is a shame he's supporting as he's the one thing that kept me going through the film's rougher patches. Pryce's work though is consistently powerful portrayal of a most sincere delusion of grandeur. This is as he makes every grand pose, every heroic declaration exactly as they should be though refined with a certain daffiness fitting to a mad man.)
Driver - 3.5(Driver gives a fine straight man performance, and in a way you can kind of see him going for 90's era Depp, who originally played the part. In he brings a similar comic near detachment to the part, that actually is pretty effective for the most part. The problem is the film doesn't really know what to do with his character beyond just having him go through the same repetitive scenario again and again. Driver is good with what he has but it unfortunately does not do enough with him.)
Forster - (Forster gives a moving portrayal of the gruff father as to be expected honestly, and thankfully has far less of a caricature to work with than was the case with the Descendants. Forster's very good though in finding the blunt attitude of his character though finding enough nuance in his confrontational scenes to always be able to show where there is a sense of love for his kids, even if it is very specifically shown. His best moments though are in his reactions to his wife where Forster is heartbreaking by actually being so unassuming in reflecting the very quite dismay in his wife's dementia. He shows though it well as trying to put on the bright optimism even as he struggles to maintain the show.)
Lundgren & Munteanu - (These two together are a special ingredient in making Creed a terrific sequel, as it is one element that is superior to the standard brawler that was the opponent in the first film. It is pretty amazing as Lundgren really delivers a convincing portrayal of bitterness along with Munteanu who manages to show the rage of the character fueled by that influence. His best scene though is with the special cameo and it is amazing as he manages to be rather heartbreaking in the moment. Lundgren is that himself in the final fight as he makes the towel scene such a powerful one as he manages to produce such a genuine reaction in the moment.)
Russell - (Wow, like John David Washington, Russell's got his old man's charisma. He also can funnel it into his swagger and never feel like a copy of his old man, he rather just feels like his old man. It is pretty marvelous actually as he delivers that sort of sardonic Kurt Russell turn from a Carpenter film himself, and just feels that it is exactly as it should be. If they are remaking Escape from NY (don't) Russell certainly is a fit for Snake.)
Hammer - (Hammer does a great sleazeball slick routine. I like in his early scenes though as he presents such a good PR face in his sort of impassioned delivery of what he's trying to accomplish with his work, hollow as it is. He's then great by throwing out any pomp or circumstance in the whole thing by really laying on the sleaze at every point, particularly the way his delivery accentuates the horse member featured in his proposition.)
Shannon - (Always nice to see him not as a maniac for once. Shannon gives a fine turn here in portraying the pent up frustrations of the son who is just struggling to do the right thing with an earned exasperation. He does well in showing how others could see his character as a villain, but manages to show at every turn the honest devotion within those frustrations.)
Rhodes - (I have to admit I found whole film pretty disposable but he certainly gives a nice charismatic turn.)
Omar:
Ganz gives a striking a lurid performance, I'm going to get into far more of that possibly to the dismay of all, but one must do what one must do.
Matt:
Not Sure.
Brazinterma:
I'm going to try to watch Destroyer and few others first.
RatedRStar:
Oh she's more than fine, just process of elimination in a way, as no one gives a bad performance in that film.
Charles:
1. Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths
2. Ben Foster in Hell or High Water
3. Tom Hardy in The Revenant
4. Mark Strong in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
5. Nicholas Hoult in Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale
7. Sylvester Stallone in Creed
8. Sam Neill in Hunt for the Wilderpeople
9. Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
10. Steven Yeun in Burning
You have Tom Hollander for Bird Box twice.
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