Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2022: Results

5. Mark Rylance in Bones and All - Rylance gives a truly bizarre performance that worked for me even though I didn't love it. 

Best Scene: Sully's second appearance. 

4. Nicholas Hoult in The Menu - Hoult gives a wholly hilarious performance that is properly out of line with much of what is going on with the film but wholly into the idea of food. 

Best Scene: "Tyler's Bullshit"

3. Eddie Redmayne in The Good Nurse - Redmayne gives his career best performance by creating a calmly disturbing portrait of a killer. 

Best Scene: No one stopped me. 

2. Albrecht Schuch in All Quiet on the Western Front - Schuch gives a wonderful portrayal filled with warmth and heartbreak as a soldier who has found a way to exist within a terrible position. 

Best Scene: A letter from home. 

1. Paul Dano in The Fabelmans - Good predictions Tahmeed, Robert, Tim Razor and RatedRStar, Dano gives his career best performance, giving such a quiet yet deeply moving portrayal of a loving father who nonetheless struggles with his family. 

Best Scene: The photo. 

Overall:

1. Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Paul Dano in The Fabelmans
3. Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Albrecht Schuch in All Quiet on the Western Front
5. Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin 
6. Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway - 5
   
7. Wagner Moura in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
8. Eddie Redmayne in The Good Nurse
9. Nicholas Hoult in The Menu
10. Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans 
11. John Turturro in The Batman 
12. Anthony Hopkins in Armageddon Time
13. Ethan Hawke in The Black Phone 
14. Claes Bang in The Northman
15. David Bradley in Pinocchio - 4.5
16. David Lynch in The Fabelmans
17. Michael Stuhlbarg in Bones and All
18. John Mulaney in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
19. Mark Rylance in Bones and All
20. Steven Yeun in Nope
21. Theo Rossi in Emily The Criminal
22. Jeffrey Wright in The Batman
23. Harry Melling in The Pale Blue Eye
24. Edward Norton in The Glass Onion
25. Marc Maron in To Leslie
26. Go Kyung-pyo in Decision to Leave
27. Seth Rogen in The Fabelmans
28. James Hong in Everything Everywhere All At Once
29. Andrew Bennett in The Quiet Girl
30. Colin Farrell in The Batman
31. Pedro Pascal in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
32. Im Seung-soo in Broker
33. Julian Glover in Tar
34. Jalyn Hall in Till
35. Val Kilmer in Top Gun: Maverick
36. Paul Dano in The Batman 
37. Paul Mescal in God's Creature
38. Gary Lydon in The Banshees of Inisherin 
39. Zlatko Burić in Triangle of Sadness
40. Johnny Flynn in The Outfit 
41. Fionn Whitehead in Emily
42. Jaylin Webb in Armageddon Time 
    
43. Benny Safdie in Stars At Noon
44. Michael Kenneth Williams in Breaking
45. Wes Studi in A Love Song - 4
46. Kevin McCann in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
47. David Pearse in The Banshees of Inisherin
48. John Leguizamo in The Menu
49. Russell Harvard in Causeway
50. Willem Dafoe in The Northman
    
51. Bokeem Woodbine in The Inspection
52. Harvey Guillen in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
53. Ethan Hawke in The Northman
54. Raul Castillo in The Inspection
55. Daniel Bruhl in All Quiet on the Western Front
56. Paul Adelstein in The Menu
57. Samson Kayo in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
58. Noah Emmerich in The Good Nurse
59. Christian Bale in Thor: Love & Thunder
60. Jack Black in Weird
61. Andrew Scott in Catherine Called Birdy
62. Miles Teller in Top Gun: Maverick
63. Pat Shortt in The Banshees of Inisherin
64. Michael Wincott in Nope
65. Reed Birney in The Menu
66. Sebastian Chacon in Emergency
67. Ray Winstone in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
68. Alan Corduner in Tar
69. Aaron Hilmer in All Quiet on the Western Front
70. Moritz Klaus in All Quiet on the Western Front
71. Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson in Godland
72. Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Bullet Train
73. Brian Tyree Henry in Bullet Train
74. Mateo Zoryan Francis-DeFord in The Fabelmans
75. Harry Shum Jr. in Everything Everywhere All At Once
76. Rhys Ifans in The Phantom of the Open
77. Adam Aalderks in The Menu
78. Jon Kenny in The Banshees of Inisherin 
79. Cliff Curtis in Murina
80. Oakes Fegley in The Fabelmans 
81. Hiroyuki Sanada in Bullet Train
82. David Gordon Green in Bones and All
83. Rob Yang in The Menu
84. Arturo Castro in The Menu
85. Mark St. Cyr in The Menu
86. Tom Burke in Living
87. Ewan McGregor in Pinnochio
88. Russell Brand in Death on the Nile
89. Brandon Perea in Nope
90. Dylan O'Brien in The Outfit
91. Glenn Powell in Top Gun: Maverick
92. Nnamdi Asomugha in The Good Nurse 
93. Justin H. Min in After Yang 
94. Leon Lučev in Murina
95. Jovan Adepo in Babylon
96. Christoph Waltz in Pinocchio
97. Benedict Wong in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 
98. Russell Crowe in Thor: Love & Thunder
99. Keegan Michael-Key in Wendell and Wild
100. Jordan Peele in Wendell and Wild
101. Adrien Brody in Blonde
102. Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
103. Tim Roth in Resurrection
104. Paapa Essiedu in Men 
105. Bobby Cannavale in Blonde
106. Woody Harrelson in Triangle of Sadness
107. Harris Dickinson in See How They Run
108. Toby Huss in Weird
109. Frankie Faison in Till
110. Dave Bautista in The Glass Onion
111. Russell Crowe in The Greatest Beer Run Ever
112. Rainn Wilson in Weird
113. Toby Maguire in Babylon
114. Andy Serkis in The Batman
115. Pete Sohn in Lightyear
116. James Hong in Wendell and Wild
117. Adrien Brody in See How They Run
118. Henry Winkler in On The Count of Three
119. Jake Davies in The Phantom of the Open 
120. Alex Sharp in Living
121. Luis Zahera in As Bestas
122. Jacob Lohmann in Godland
123. Jude Law in Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore
124. Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore 
125. Willem Dafoe in Dead For A Dollar - 3.5
126. John Slattery in Confess Fletch
127. Toby Jones in Empire of Light
128. Jeremy Strong in Armageddon Time
129. Pierce Brosnan in Black Adam
130. Jason Isaacs in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
131. Andre Holland in Bones and All
132. Lukas Haas in Babylon
133. Ed Harris in Top Gun: Maverick
134. Sam Rechner in The Fabelmans 
135. Lee Pace in Bodies Bodies Bodies
136. Bashir Salahuddin in Top Gun: Maverick
137. Weird Al in Weird
138. Gustav Lindh in The Northman
139. Stephen Lang in Avatar: The Way of Water
140. Clifton Collins Jr. in After Yang
141. Tenoch Huerta in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
142. Tom Burke in The Wonder
143. Park Young-woo in Decision to Leave
144. David Corenswet in Pearl
145. Christian & Jonah Lees in The Phantom of the Open
146. Billy Bob Thornton in The Gray Man
147. Ving Rhames in Wendell and Wild
148. James Hong in Turning Red
149. Martin Henderson in X
150. Chiwetel Ejiofor in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness  
151. Lewis Pullman in Top Gun: Maverick 
152. Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Elvis
153. Dakota Beavers in Prey
154. Mark Addy in The Lost King
155. Winston Duke in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
156. Austin Abrams in Do Revenge
157. Andre Braugher in She Said
158. Freddie Fox in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
159. Pete Davidson in Bodies Bodies Bodies
160. Mark Strong in Tar
161. Robert De Niro in Amsterdam
162. Toby Jones in The Wonder
163. Jared Harris in The Sea Beast
164. Kyle MacLaclan in Confess Fletch
165. Scott Mescudi in X
166. Toby Jones in The Pale Blue Eye
167. Ciaran Hinds in The Wonder
168. Owen Teague in To Leslie
169. Seo Hyun-woo in Decision to Leave
170. Don McKeller in Crimes of the Future
171. Zack Ward in A Christmas Story Christmas
172. Ben Foster in Emancipation
173. Adrian Dunbar in Emily
174. Joel Edgerton in Thirteen Lives
175. Scott Speedman in Crimes of the Future
176. Harry Lloyd in The Lost King
177. Steve Coogan in The Lost King
178. Patrick Page in Spirited
179. Don Cheadle in White Noise
180. Simon McBurney in The Pale Blue Eye
181. Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic World Dominion
182. Michael Smiley in The Silent Twins
183. Josh Pais in Funny Pages
184. Richard Roxburgh in Elvis - 3
185. Mads Mikkelsen in Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore
186. Lambert Wilson in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
187. Ray Stevenson in RRR
188. John Boyega in The Woman King
189. Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
190. Simon Russell Beale in The Outfit
191. Brian D'Arcy James in The Cathedral
192. Tom Bateman in Death on the Nile
193. Thomas Sadoski in Devotion
194. Garrett Dillahunt in Ambulance 
195. David Wenham in Elivs
196. Paco Leon in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 
197. Kodi Smit-McPhee in Elvis
198. Cliff Curtis in Avatar: The Way of Water
199. Jon Hamm in Top Gun: Maverick 
     
200. Aldis Hodge in Black Adam
201. David Oyelowo in See How They Run
202. Sam Neill in Jurassic World Dominion
203. Michael Shannon in Bullet Train 
     
204. Mathias Schoenaerts in Amsterdam
205. Leslie Odom Jr. in The Glass Onion
206. Jimmy Odukoya in The Woman King 
207. Anthony Hopkins in The Son
208. Owen Campbell in X - 2.5
209. R.D. Robb in A Christmas Story Christmas
210. Ben Whishaw - Women Talking 
211. Bill Murray in The Greatest Beer Run Ever
212. Keir O'Donnell in Ambulance 
     
213. Chris Evans in The Gray Man
214. Ike Barinholtz in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
215. Martin Freeman in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
216. Brad Garrett in Cha Cha Real Smooth
217. Stephen Root in To Leslie
218. Scott Schwartz in A Christmas Story Christmas
219. Taika Waititi in Lightyear
     
220. Colin Firth in Empire of Light
221. Campbell Scott in Jurassic World Dominion
222. Brendan Cowell in Avatar: The Way of Water
223. Hero Fiennes Tiffin in The Woman King 
224. BD Wong in Jurassic World Dominion 
225. Matthew Mahar in Funny Pages - 2
226. Regé-Jean Page in The Gray Man
227. Chris Rock in Amsterdam
228. Justice Smith in Jurassic World Dominion
229. Xavier Samuel in Blonde
230. Evan Williams in Blonde
231. James Ransone in The Black Phone
232. Rami Malek in Amsterdam
233. Mike Myers in Amsterdam
234. Armie Hammer in Death on the Nile 
235. Taika Waititi in Thor: Love & Thunder
     
236. Ty Simpkins in The Whale
237. Jack Champion in Avatar: The Way of Water - 1.5
238. Hamish Linklater in Dead For a Dollar
239. Tom Hanks in Elvis 
240. Harry Styles in Don't Worry Darling
241. Zen McGrath in The Son - 1

Next: 2022 Lead 

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2022: Eddie Redmayne in The Good Nurse

Eddie Redmayne did not receive an Oscar nomination, despite receiving a BAFTA and SAG nomination, for portraying Charles Cullen in The Good Nurse. 

The Good Nurse follows the investigation into the mysterious death of hospital patients that eventually involves a concerned nurse Amy (Jessica Chastain) and her new coworker. 

So let's talk about Eddie Redmayne a bit, an actor who certainly is idiosyncratic and I can like, however, might be one of the most unpredictable in terms of whatever it is you are going to get from one of his performances. So naturally, I came into this film, about a true story of a serial killer nurse hidden away by uncaring hospital administrations, with a bit of trepidation to see what exactly Redmayne was going to bring. And despite playing a serial killer, for much of the film, this is one of Redmayne's most restrained performances. And I'd say it would've been very easy to overplay this role, as we very early on know he's the killer and the question is how much or how little should one should play the hand of the psychopathy of a man who intentionally poisons patients for the sake of it. And from the opening scene, Redmayne actually plays this idea very much in the margins, and in those margins, he is disturbed by not being an obvious red flag.  

When Chastain's Amy first meets Cullen, Redmayne doesn't show someone who is immediately or obviously concerning. Redmayne mostly shows Cullen to be affable enough if just a bit withdrawn in his way as the new nurse. Oddly enough it features one of Redmayne's most natural-sounding American accents, as it seems attuned well to the character with this kind of very low speaking voice of someone who doesn't exactly demand other's attention. Redmayne's friendly conversations with Chastain even have a decent sort of worker chemistry with one another. Again Redmayne is very natural in just projecting a bit of baggage as he speaks of his own kids and rarely being able to see them, but even that he develops as trying to share it best he can. Even when helping Amy hide her own health issue, to not lose her job, Redmayne's delivery is caring enough as he helps her through it and reassures her. He presents enough of just a normal human's concern, even warmth, and care between the two. Redmayne naturally enough presents Cullen, as a bit sullen but nothing seems more than that. 

Redmayne shows the man who very much is existing within legal society. He doesn't fully hide that there may be something wrong with Cullen, but he in no way makes him an obvious killer. The only scenes early on that grant any sense to Cullen's nature are ones of Cullen looking over his victims, scenes that again I think could've been way overplayed very easily but Redmayne stays very subtle in them. In the opening scene of looking at his victim, there are just little glints of a strange satisfaction on Redmayne's face, nothing so obvious as pure joy, but just some hint of whatever is going on with him. The only history we know is Cullen saw his own mother die in a hospital in a particularly unpleasant way, which Redmayne speaks of with a hushed trauma. It's something that seems to linger but he doesn't even express this in an overt way. The same is true as he cleans the body of his victim, where Redmayne is very quietly disturbing, by just suggesting this sort of strange calm, but almost too calm in the man as it isn't a detached calm, it is almost treating the dead creates the calm. 

What Redmayne uses for much of the film is the context to do the work, and effectively so. When later on you know the truth about Cullen, the creepy factor comes from often that Cullen is so casual despite what he is purposefully doing the whole time. The killer is in him but hardly needs to show himself. Eventually, Cullen is fired, more so for the hospital to be rid of responsibility rather than trying to get him caught, and Amy, who caught onto his killings, is trying to catch him via a wire with the police over lunch. This scene is some brilliant work from Redmayne because, for most of the scene, he's just casually chatting as really a normal person with Chastain and nothing unusual. When Amy steps one step too far, revealing her hand, Redmayne's minor change in expression is absolutely chilling as his eyes start peering and there just is suddenly this loss in any sense of their former relationship, revealing the man that killed so many people. That failure leaves the police to arrest however they need a confession since all the evidence against him is circumstantial. This leads to Redmayne's one big scene, however, in this instance it is big but it works for him. As Redmayne, the whole time in the scene shows the game of Cullen attempting to hide away his psychopathy under interrogation, and his progressively louder and more intense delivery of "I can't" at the request to confess, is striking in itself essentially revealing the real insanity that the man is holding in as there is so much violence in him. However, what I think is actually more chilling is the moment right after where, Redmayne pulls it in, and refashions his face to "normalcy" portraying so effectively a psychopath putting on the show by not acting insane after the outburst. In his final scene, where he confesses fully to Amy, though is more disturbing actually because Redmayne is so quiet in the clarity he delivers every line. The casualness of talking about the death without any real concern, as though it is a list of things he did during the day. The hollowness of the way he says "they didn't stop me", Redmayne is truly unnerving by the blithe indifference of it, as though killing was something he simply did. Eddie Redmayne delivers his best performance here by granting a low key but very potent depiction of evil that thrived from indifference. 

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2022

 And the Nominees Were Not:

Eddie Redmayne in The Good Nurse

Albrecht Schuch in All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul Dano in The Fabelmans

Nicholas Hoult in The Menu

Mark Rylance in Bones and All

CANCELLED: WACKY WORLD OF WISEAU: Oscar Nominees Edition

And They Are:

Nicolas Cage in Deadfall

Nicolas Cage in The Wicker Man

John Travolta in Battlefield Earth

Jon Voight in Anaconda

Eddie Redmayne in Hick

Now for prediction purposes they should be ranked from most Wiseaus worthy to least Wiseaus worthy.

Best Actor 2015: Results

5. Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl - Redmayne gives a downright terrible performance simplifying the character into separate turns, one as a bland nothing and the other as a ridiculous caricature.

4. Bryan Cranston in Trumbo - Cranston hams it up just a bit in the early portion of the film, but eventually settles in to give a fairly effective portrayal of whatever the film needs Trumbo to be.

Best Scene: His speech.

3. Matt Damon in The Martian - Damon effectively gives his character's situation the needed dramatic weight, and is decent in portraying his character's jokey optimism, though I did find his shtick to become grating after awhile.

Best Scene: The Launch

2. Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs - Fassbender gives an engaging and intriguing performance as he builds his characterization around the variations within the facade of Jobs. 

Best Scene: His second talk with Sculley.

1. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant - DiCaprio gives a great performance, finding nuance within his minimalist character, which works so well in tandem with the film's grand scope and vision.

Best Scene: Glass discovers his son.

Next Year: 2015 Supporting

Best Actor 2015: Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Eddie Redmayne received his second Oscar nomination for portraying Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.

The Danish Girl is a downright terrible film due to many reasons really, but in part because of a seemingly very thin understanding of its subject matter. 

Eddie Redmayne having won the Oscar for portraying Stephen Hawking as a person going through difficult physical changes, once again does this in The Danish Girl though this time the most extreme physical changes are purposefully chosen by his character. Of course, like The Theory of Everything, everything starts out in an average enough fashion as Redmayne plays Einar Wegener as a painter who is happily married to his wife, also a painter, Gerda (Alicia Vikander). There is nothing notable about Einar in Redmayne's hands. He basically keeps to a coy smile or two and that pseudo Hugh Grant style of speaking in slight jumbled way while blinking quite a lot. The most notable thing about him is his relationship with his wife, which is not really atypical they just evidently love each other, and I'll grant that Redmayne and Vikander have enough chemistry to make that believable. Redmayne though almost seems to strive to have nothing of note about him as he mostly keeps to some particularly blank reactionary glances in his scenes with Vikander, and to her credit she seems to be striving to create some sort of dynamic in their relationship. For most of his early scenes Redmayne is content with keeping Einar a man without substance. He has no motivations, very few emotions, no history, he might as well be a lump of clay ready to be molded by the story I suppose.

Now there are a few indications suggesting that there's something up with Einar, and those are the scenes where he is looking at women's clothing, or there's the first time where he wears a dress. Redmayne is a bit atrocious in these scenes. In the moments where he is glaring at the clothes he gives this psychotic intensity as though he's planning on murdering them later, and then when he puts on the clothes he acts as though he's suddenly been entranced by a spell. Redmayne's performance, as well as the film, both seem to suggest that Einar's personal joruney is all started just because of a fascination with women's wear, since Redmayne offers no other indications anywhere else. If there's some dresses around there's something up with Einar, when there's not he's perfectly content to be well just kind of a boring. Redmayne by making these moments so detached and separate actually seems to imply as though Lili is not who Einar truly is, but rather that Einar suffers from Dissociative identity disorder with Lili being a different personality entirely. To be fair the film itself treats it such. When there is a possibility of some sort of connection to be made, Redmayne wastes it though by instead instantly becoming a teary eyed troubled soul, which he portrays in a most overwrought fashion.

After one extremely poorly thought out sequence of looking in the mirror, with music that sounds like its out of a horror thriller, Lili has taken control. I hate to describe it as such, but that's the way the film decides to approach the matter. Redmayne plays it as though he's being taken over with just a side effect of a sudden illness, which Redmayne plays up for all its worth, and it comes off just absurd. Eventually the film becomes tired of the looks of longing and the same pained expressions allowing Redmayne to purely be Lili. Now maybe that's where this thing could have gotten interesting I suppose, even if Redmayne leading up to it was rather ineffective. The problem is though Redmayne is also quite awful in his depiction of Lili. He decides to portray Lili specifically as some sort of delicate flower in human form. Redmayne goes all the way with this, with his constantly slightly tilted head, his frequent fluttering of his eyes as though he's actually doing a parody of what a woman acts like. Redmanye sort of attempts to make his voice pitched higher in some scenes but he's extremely inconsistency in this attempt that it is more distracting than anything else. Of course this is all surface, important to be sure, but perhaps there's something more when Redmayne looks deeper into the character.

Well there's a bit of problem because Lili has no character. This was a similair issue I had with his character in The Theory of Everything but compared to this, that film featured a complex portrait of Stephen Hawking. There is nothing to Lili which the film itself seems to admit with the line "I want to be woman not a painter", so guess that just means all there is to Lili is womanhood in the broadest of broad senses. That in itself is a bit of a problem due to Redmayne basically already going about making a stereotype of a woman with every over the top mannerism he gives to Lili. The more one sees of Lili the more ridiculous Redmayne's act becomes as every little twitch and slight smile are so poorly conceived. The idea of Lili just being this artificial delicate flower becomes all the more prominent at the end of the film when one of Lili's operations goes wrong. Redmayne can't even die in a way that seems natural. With every one of his coughs and damaged expressions he seems to specifically want to present Lili's death as though Lili was this pure thing just too good for this world. Lili does not die in any real pain, Redmayne makes this that special sort of pain that one usually only sees when Bugs Bunny is pretending to die. The scene is suppose to be heartbreaking but it ended up being laughable because of Redmayne's ludicrous approach. Almost everything about this depiction was poorly thought out. The whole notion of the split personality is already a very questionable simplification, but hey it does give Redmayne a chance to give two bad performances. One as Einar, a bland man who is content in his blandness, the other being Lili, a caricature of a woman content with being such.

Best Actor 2015

And the Nominees Are:

Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant

Matt Damon in The Martian

Bryan Cranston in Trumbo

Best Actor 2014: Results

5. Steve Carell in Foxcatcher - Steve Carell unfortunately portrays his character as an obvious psychopath when a subtler approach likely would have been more effective. His performance is not without merit, but even the best elements are hurt due to his work being fundamentally flawed.

Best Scene: John du Pont does a training session while his mother watches.

4. Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything - His film's depiction of Stephen Hawking might be a bit inadequate, but Redmayne's performance never is. He gives an especially remarkable and convincing depiction of the decay caused Hawking's disease.

Best Scene: At dinner with Jane and Jonathan.

3. Bradley Cooper in American Sniper - Like Redmayne his film does leave something to be desired. Bradley Cooper though elevates his material by giving a powerful portrayal of the toll of war on a both on the battlefield and at home.

Best Scene: His first kill.

2. Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game - The film demands that Cumberbatch be a delightful eccentric genius and a tragic suicide. Cumberbatch mends these differing tones by being an endearing hero, and a heartbreaking victim. 

Best Scene: Turing after his chemical castration.

1. Micheal Keaton in Birdman - Good Prediction mcofra7. Michael Keaton easily stood above his competition for me with his great portrayal of a superhero actor proving himself. Whether the allusion is intentional or not, Keaton certainly proves himself here. He guides the film brilliantly with his multifaceted performance that meets every challenge presented to him. He attains greatness with this entertaining and truly inspiring work.

Best Scene: Kinda all of them, but I'll say....Riggan's flight of fancy.

Best Actor Ranking:

1. 2013
2. 1962
3. 1939
4. 1964
5. 2002
6. 1978
7. 1965
8. 1974
9. 2014
10. 1970
11. 2012
12. 1976
13. 1954
14. 1966
15. 1982
16. 1960
17. 1983
18. 1967
19. 1979
20. 1955
21. 2011
22. 1986
23. 1973
24. 1972 
25. 1994
26. 1940
27. 1950
28. 1963
29. 1975
30. 1952
31. 1980
32. 1953
33. 1959
34. 1987
35. 1977
36. 1968
37. 2006
38. 1938
39. 1969
40. 1992
41. 1961
42. 1971
43. 1956
44. 1951
45. 1984
46. 1943
47. 1958
48. 1948
49. 1998
50. 1999
51. 1988
52. 1944
53. 1936
54. 1946
55. 1957
56. 2007
57. 2005
58. 1942
59. 1947
60. 1993
61. 1981
62. 1989
63. 1995
64. 2004
65. 1937 
66. 2009
67. 1941
68. 1997
69. 1931
70. 1996
71. 1949
72. 2003 
73. 2010
74. 1990
75. 1945
76. 1985
77. 2001
78. 2008
79. 1991
80. 2000

1. F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
2. Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3. James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 
4. Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story (1999)
5. Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (1960) 
6. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
7. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
8. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989)
9. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954) 
10. Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
11. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)    
12. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
13. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
14. Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973)
15. Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter (1968)
16. Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
17. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
18. Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970)
19. Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982)
20. Laurence Olivier in Sleuth (1972)
21. Peter Finch in Network (1976)
22. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
23. Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)
24. Clark Gable Gone With the Wind (1939)
25. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
26. Ernest Borgnine in Marty (1955)
27. Joaquin Phoenix in The Master (2012)
28. Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
29. Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa (1986)  
30. William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953)
31. Paul Newman in Hud (1963) 
32. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)  
33. Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 
34. James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
35. Michael Keaton in Birdman (2014)
36. Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1965)
37. Montgomery Clift in From Here to Eternity (1953)
38. Stuart Whitman in The Mark (1961)
39. Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961) 
40. Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)  
41. Jack Lemmon in Days Of Wine And Roses (1962)
42. Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
43. Kirk Douglas in Lust For Life (1956)
44. Laurence Olivier in Richard III (1956)
45. Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker (1965)
46. Tom Hulce in Amadeus (1984)
47. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
48. Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940)
49. Leonardo DiCarpio in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
50. James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) 
51. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)
52. Michael Caine in Alfie (1966)
53. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
54. Giancarlo Giannini in Seven Beauties (1976)
55. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
56. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)
57. Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951)
58. Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall (1937) 
59. Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
60. Jack Nicholson in Ironweed (1987)
61. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
62. Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
63. James Woods in Salvador (1986)
64. Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
65. Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
66. Spencer Tracy in A Bad Day At Black (1955)
67. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
68. Peter O'Toole in Becket (1964)
69. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)
70. Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)
71.  Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
72. Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
73. Bruce Dern in Nebraska (2013)
74. Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
75. James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes Washington (1939)
76. Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek (1964)
77. Walter Huston The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
78. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
79. Rod Steiger in The Heat of the Night (1967)
80. Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973)
81. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
82. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
83. Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (1959)
84. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005) 
85. James Dean in East of Eden (1955)
86. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947) 
87. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
88. Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939)
89. Tom Wilkinson in In The Bedroom (2001)
90. Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (2002)
91. Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)
92. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
93. Richard Harris in This Sporting Life (1963)
94. Albert Finney in Tom Jones (1963) 
95. Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce Italian Style (1962)
96. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
97. Edward Norton in American History X (1998)
98. Demian Bichir in A Better Life (2011)
99. Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar (1953)
100. Robert Donat in The Citadel (1938)
101. Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944)
102. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
103. James Mason in A Star is Born (1954)
104. Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
105. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
106. Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938)
107. Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
108. Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)
109. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
110. Peter Sellers in Being There (1979)
111. Michael Caine in Sleuth (1972)
112. Robert Duvall in The Apostle (1997)
113. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
114. Liam Neeson in Schindler's List (1993)
115. Walter Huston in Dodsworth (1936)
116. John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)
117. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
118. Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960)
119. Laurence Olivier in Henry V (1946)
120. Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014)
121. Nicolas Cage in Adaptation (2002)
122. Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2009)
123. Kirk Douglas in Champion (1949)
124. Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda (2004)
125. Tom Courtenay in The Dresser (1983)
126. Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1943)
127. Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
128. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
129. Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises (2007)
130. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004)
131. Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 
132. Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York (2002)
133. Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988)
134. Bradley Cooper in American Sniper (2014)
135. William Hurt in Children of Lesser God (1986)
136. Ronald Colman in Bulldog Drummond (1930)
137. Richard Burton in Becket (1964)
138. Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! (1952)
139. Bing Crosby in The Country Girl (1954)
140. Dudley Moore in Arthur (1981)
141. Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
142. Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981) 
143. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
144. Nigel Hawthorne in The Madness of King George (1994)
145. Charles Laughton in A Witness for the Prosecution(1957)
146. John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)
147. Oskar Werner in Ship of Fools (1965)
148. Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
149. Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking (1995)
150. Marcello Mastroianni in A Special Day (1977)
151. William Powell in The Thin Man (1934)
152. Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (1942)
153. William Hurt in Broadcast News (1987) 
154. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)
155. Maximilian Schell in The Man in a Glass Booth (1975)
156. Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables (2012) 
157. Alexander Knox in Wilson (1944)
158. Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (1998)
159. Tom Hanks in Cast Away (2000)
160. James Stewart in Harvey (1950)
161. Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
162. Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
163. Robert Duvall in The Great Santini (1980)
164. Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
165. William Holden in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
166. Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010)
167. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
168. Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father (1993) 
169. Leonardo DiCaprio Blood Diamond (2006)
170. John Travolta in Pulp Fiction (1994)
171. Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
172. Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
173. Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
174. Peter Fonda in Ulee's Gold (1997)
175. Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1933)
176. Alan Bates in The Fixer (1968)
177. Anthony Quinn in Wild is the Wind (1957)
178. Albert Finney in The Dresser (1983)
179. Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything (2014)
180. Albert Finney in Under The Volcano (1984)
181. Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958)
182. Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958)
183. Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)
184. Sam Waterson in The Killing Fields (1984)
185. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
186. Brad Pitt in Moneyball (2011)
187. Russell Crowe in The Insider (1999)
188. Richard Harris in The Field (1990)
189. Roy Scheider in All that Jazz (1979)
190. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
191. Topol in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
192. Colin Firth in A Single Man (2009)
193. Melvyn Douglas in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
194. Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
195. Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan (1998)
196. Marlon Brando Last Tango in Paris (1973)
197. Peter Finch in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
198. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
199. Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (2006)
200. Richard Jenkins in The Visitor (2008)
201. Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
202. Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin (1992)
203. Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1931)
204. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
205. Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome (1979)
206. Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride (1950)
207. Dan O'Herlihy in Robinson Crusoe (1954)
208. Peter O'Toole in The Ruling Class (1972)
209. Paul Newman in A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
210. Fredric March in A Star is Born (1937)
211. Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996)  
212. Jackie Cooper in Skippy (1931)
213. Arthur Kennedy in Bright Victory (1951)
214. Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (1942)
215. Kirk Douglas in The Bad and The Beautiful (1952)
216. Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom (1945)
217. Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982)
218. James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
219. Montgomery Clift in The Search (1948)
220. Richard Burton in Equus (1977)
221. Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy (1943)
222. William Holden in Network (1976)
223. Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient (1997)
224. William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936)
225. Cary Grant in Penny Serenade (1941)
226. Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968)
227. Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool (1994)
228. Maximilian Schell in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
229. Laurence Olivier in The Boys from Brazil (1978)
230. Ronald Colman in Condemned (1930)
231. Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man (1980)
232. Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989)
233. Laurence Olivier in Othello (1965)
234. Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006)
235. Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1929)
236. Dustin Hoffman in Lenny (1974)
237. Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
238. Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
239. Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
240. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
241. Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
242. Michael Caine in The Quiet American (2002)
243. James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope (1970)
244. Marcello Mastroianni in Dark Eyes (1987)
245. Fredric March in The Royal Family of Broadway (1931)
246. Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983)
247. Al Pacino in ...And Justice for All (1979)
248. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (2009)
249. James Franco in 127 Hours (2010)
250. Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day (1993)
251. Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953)
252. James Dean in Giant (1956)
253. Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City (1981)
254. William Powell in Life With Father (1947)
255. Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
256. Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (1959)
257. Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1930)
258. Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003)
259. Jude Law in Cold Mountain (2003)
260. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
261. Rock Hudson in Giant (1956)
262. Charles Boyer in Algiers (1938)
263. Stephen Rea in The Crying Game (1992)
264. Tom Conti in Reuben, Reuben (1983)
265. Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah (2007)
266. Jack Lemmon in Missing (1982)
267. John Garfield in Body and Soul (1947)
268. Ron Moody in Oliver! (1968)
269. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
270. Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)
271. Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992)
272. Russell Crowe in Gladiator
273. Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
274. Charles Boyer in Conquest (1937)
275. Lew Ayres in Johnny Belinda (1948)
276. Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992)
277. Max von Sydow in Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
278. George C. Scott in The Hospital (1971)
279. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
280. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960)
281. Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
282. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
283. Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
284. Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
285. Al Pacino in Serpico (1973)
286. Trevor Howard in Sons and Lovers (1960)
287. Christian Bale in American Hustle (2013)
288. James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
289. David Straithairn in Good Night and Good Luck (2005) 
290. Harrison Ford in Witness (1985)
291. Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver (1988)
292. Ryan O'Neal in Love Story (1970)
293. Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
294. Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
295. Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
296. Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
297. Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
298. Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)
299. Tom Hanks in Big (1988)
300. Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
301. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
302. Michael Redgrave in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
303. Richard Barthelmess in the Patent Leather Kid (1928) 
304. Nick Nolte in Affliction (1998)
305. Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz (1964)
306. Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
307. Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928)
308. Robert Redford in The Sting (1973)
309. Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
310. James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
311. John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
312. Steve Carell in Foxcatcher (2014)
313. Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets (1997)
314. Paul Muni in The Valiant (1929) 
315. Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page (1931)
316. Denzel Washington in The Hurricane (1999)
317. Dustin Hoffman in Wag the Dog (1997)
318. Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
319. Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)
320. Spencer Tracy in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
321. Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
322. Billy Bob Thorton in Sling Blade (1996)
323. Paul Muni in The Last Angry Man (1959)
324. Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
325. Gregory Peck in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
326. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
327. Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)
328. Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
329. Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd (2007)
330. Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
331. Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie (1943)
332. Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
333. Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland (2004)
334.  Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
335. Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
336. Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936)
337. Johnny Depp in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
338. Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
339. Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms (1939)
340. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
341. Franchot Tone in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
342. Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line (2005)
343. John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
344. Paul Winfield in Sounder (1972)
345. Jose Ferrer in Moulin Rouge (1952)
346. Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995)
347. Denzel Washington in Flight (2012)
348. Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
349. Cary Grant in None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
350. Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
351. Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990)
352. Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
353. Frank Sinatra in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
354. Morgan Freeman in Invictus (2009)
355. Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman (1932)
356. Charles Boyer in Fanny (1961)
357. Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993)
358. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
359. James Whitmore in Give 'Em Hell Harry! (1975)
360. Robin Williams in The Fisher King (1991)
361. Ed Harris in Pollock (2000)
362. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
363. Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
364. James Garner in Murphy's Romance (1985)
365. Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (1930)
366. Robert Montgomery in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
367. Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (1976)
368. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
369. George Arliss in The Green Goddess (1930)
370. Gregory Peck in The Yearling (1946)
371. George Clooney in Michael Clayton (2007)
372. Fredric March in Death of a Salesman (1951) 
373. Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
374. Geoffrey Rush in Quills (2000)
375. Walter Matthau in Kotch (1971)
376. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
377. Wallace Beery in The Big House (1930)
378. Paul Newman in Absence of Malice (1981)
379. Frank Morgan in The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
380. Jeff Bridges in True Grit (2010)
381. Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls (2000)
382. Warren Beatty in Reds (1981)
383. Massimo Troisi in The Postman (1995)
384. Dan Dailey in When My Baby Smiles At Me (1948)
385. Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945)
386. Ben Kingsley in The House of Sand and Fog (2003)
387. Robert De Niro in Cape Fear (1991)
388. Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)
389. Nick Nolte in The Prince of Tides (1991)
390. Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
391. Marlon Brando in Sayonara (1957)
392. Laurence Fishburne in What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
393. Richard Burton in The Robe (1953)
394. Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square (1933)
395. Bing Crosby in Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
396. Rex Harrison in Cleopatra (1963)
397. Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and The Sea (1958)
398. Frank Langella Frost/Nixon (2008)
399. Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight (1986)
400. Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
401. Jack Lemmon in Tribute (1980)
402. Javier Bardem in Biutiful (2010)
403. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
404. Woody Harrelson in The People vs Larry Flynt (1996)
405. Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946)  
406. Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991)
407. Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow (2005)
408. Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997)
409. Robin William in Dead Poet's Society (1989)
410. Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
411. George Clooney in Up in The Air (2009)
412. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
413. George Clooney in The Descendants (2011)
414. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
415. Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember (1945)
416. Jeff Bridges in Star Man (1984)
417. Spencer Tracy in Captain Courageous (1937) 
418. Chester Morris in Alibi (1929)
419. Will Smith in Ali (2001)
420. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
421. Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves (1990)
422. Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004) 
423. Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
424. Sean Penn in I Am Sam (2001)
425. Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain (1957)
426. Richard Dix in Cimarron (1931)

1. F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984)
2. Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
3. William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 
4. Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot (1989) 
5. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
6. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
7. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) 
8. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
9. Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (1973) 
10. Peter Finch in Network (1976)
11. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948)
12. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)
13. Ernest Borgnine Marty (1955)
14. Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)  
15. William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953) 
16. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)  
17. Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
18. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)
19. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007) 
20. Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
21. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
22. Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011) 
23. Charles Laughton in The Private life of Henry VIII (1933)
24. Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
25. Art Carney in Harry and Tonto (1974)
26. Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2004)
27. Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)
28. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
29. Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
30. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
31. Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
32. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005)
33. Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947)
34. Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978)
35. Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963)
36. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (1971)
37. Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
38. Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
39. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)
40. Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)
41. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982)
42. Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
43. Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
44. Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981)
45. Jose Ferrer in Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
46. Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything (2014)
47. Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)
48. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
49. David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
50. Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul (1931)
51. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952)
52. James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy
53. Cliff Robertson in Charly (1968)
54. Maximilian Schell in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
55. Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona (1929)
56. Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
57. Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
58. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
59. Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
60. Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964)
61. Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000)
62. Al Pacino in The Scent of a Woman (1992)
63. Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949)
64. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999)
65. Geoffrey Rush in Shine (1996)
66. Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977)
67. Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1986)
68. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988)
69. James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
70. Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets (1997)
71. Paul Muni in The Story Louis Pasteur (1936)
72. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)
73. Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)
74. Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944)
75. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938)
76. John Wayne in True Grit (1969)
77. Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951)
78. Tom Hanks Philadelphia (1993)
79. George Arliss in Disraeli (1930)
80. Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)
81. Sean Penn in Mystic River (2003)
82. Sean Penn in Milk (2008)
83. Wallace Beery in The Champ (1932)
84. Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
85. Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)
86. Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous (1937)
87. Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
88. Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004)

Supporting Actor Ranking:

1. 2014
2. 1944
3. 1981
4. 1975
5. 2008
6. 1972
7. 1966
8. 1974
9. 1988
10. 1987
11. 1964
12. 1986
13. 1959
14. 1983
15. 1980
16. 1951
17. 1998
18. 1963
19. 1952
20. 1999
21. 1989
22. 2013
23. 1993
24. 1946
25. 1969
26. 1954
27. 1961
28. 2012
29. 2007
30. 1992
31. 1968
32. 1939
33. 1970
34. 1979
35. 1994
36. 2002
37. 1978
38. 2010
39. 1947
40. 1996
41. 1945
42. 1990
43. 1982
44. 1941
45. 1971
46. 2001
47. 1937
48. 1955
49. 1962
50. 1995
51. 1967
52. 1973
53. 2009
54. 2005
55. 2011
56. 1942
57. 2006
58. 1984
59. 1957
60. 1950
61. 1958
62. 2000
63. 1976
64. 2004
65. 1960
66. 1997
67. 1943
68. 1956
69. 1949
70. 1965
71. 1977
72. 1948
73. 1940
74. 1991
75. 1938
76. 2003
77. 1936
78. 1953
79. 1985

1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
2. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
3. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
4. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
5. Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
6. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
7. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
8. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008) 
9. Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)
10. Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
11. Ralph Fiennes in Schindler' List (1993) 
12. Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master (2012)
13. Rod Steiger in On the Waterfront (1954)
14. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
15. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
16. Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now (1979)  
17. Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
18. Montgomery Clift in Judgment At Nuremberg (1961) 
19. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
20. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
21. Martin Landau in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
22. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
23. Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972)
24. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
25. Christopher Walken in Catch Me If You Can (2002)
26. Jason Miller in The Exorcist (1973)
27. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
28. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
29. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
30. J.K. Simmons in Whiplash (2014)
31. Jackie Gleason in the Hustler (1961) 
32. Ralph Richardson in The Heiress (1949)
33. Albert Brooks in Broadcast News (1987)
34. Morgan Freeman in Street Smart (1987)
35. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
36. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
37. Jack Nicholson in Reds (1981)
38. Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939
39. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009)
40. William H. Macy in Fargo (1996)
41. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
42. Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips (2013) 
43. Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
44. Lee J. Cobb in On the Waterfront (1954) 
45. Edward Norton in Primal Fear (1996)
46. Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1968)
47. James Mason in The Verdict (1982)
48. Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1942)
49. Karl Malden in On the Waterfront (1954)
50. Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
51. Burgess Meredith in Day of the Locust (1975)
52. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
53. Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (1947)
54. George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
55. Joe Pesci in Raging Bull (1980)
56. Tom Courtenay in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
57. Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit (1988)
58. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
59. Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976)
60. George C. Scott in The Hustler (1961)
61. Tom Cruise in Magnolia (1999)
62. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980)
63. Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
64. Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis (1951)
65. Pete Postlethwaite in In the Name of the Father (1993)
66. Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
67. John Gielgud in Arthur (1981)
68. Billy Bob Thorton in A Simple Plan (1998)
69. George Segal in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
70. Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
71. Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (1943)
72. Ian Holm in Chariots of Fire (1981)
73. Sam Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983)
74. Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II (1972)
75. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007) 
76. Danny Aiello in Do the Right Thing (1989)
77. Edward Norton in Birdman (2014)
78. Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955)
79. Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008)
80. Tommy Lee Jones in JFK (1991)
81. Paul Newman in The Road To Perdition (2002)
82. Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
83. Robert Shaw in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
84. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)
85. James Caan in The Godfather (1972)
86. Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
87. Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
88. Burl Ives in The Big Country (1958)
89. Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider (1969)
90. Lee Strasberg in The Godfather Part II (1974)
91. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)
92. Brad Dourif in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975)
93. William Hurt in A History of Violence (2005)
94. Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
95. Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
96. Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
97. Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
98. Gene Wilder in The Producers (1968)
99. Mark Ruffalo in Foxcatcher (2014)
100. John Hawkes in Winter's Bone (2010) 
101. Burgess Meredith in Rocky (1976) 
102. Tom Berenger in Platoon (1986)
103. Ian Mckellen in Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
104. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
105. Ethan Hawke in Boyhood (2014)
106. Willem Dafoe in Platoon (1986)
107. Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
108. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
109. Clifton Webb in Laura (1944)
110. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
111. Seymour Cassel in Faces (1968)
112. Thomas Mitchell in The Hurricane (1937)
113. Alec Guinness in Star Wars (1977)
114. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
115. Robert Duvall in A Civil Action (1998)
116. Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington (1944)
117. Hume Cronyn in The Seventh Cross (1944)
118. Jackie Earl Haley in Little Children (2006)
119. Josh Brolin in Milk (2008)
120. Thomas Haden Church in Sideways (2004)
121. Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
122. Charles Coburn in The Green Years (1946)
123. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
124. James Cromwell in Babe (1995)
125. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
126. Ethan Hawke in Training Day (2001)
127. Robert Duvall in The Judge (2014)
128. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
129. Claude Rains in Casablanca (1943)
130. Victor McLaglen in The Quiet Man (1952)
131. Terence Stamp in Billy Budd (1962)
132. Richard Farnsworth in Comes A Horseman (1978)
133. Peter Falk in Murder, Inc. (1960) 
134. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
135. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
136. John Gielgud in Becket (1964)
137. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
138. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
139. Michael Chekhov in Spellbound (1945)
140. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
141. Jack Palance in Sudden Fear (1952)
142. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
143. Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady (1964)
144. Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
145. Anthony Perkins in Friendly Persuasion (1956)
146. Rip Torn in Cross Creek (1983)
147. Robert Mitchum in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
148. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
149. River Phoenix in Running on Empty (1988)
150. Justin Henry in Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
151. Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile (1999)
152. Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (1997)
153. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt (2008)
154. John Lithgow in The World According to Garp (1982)
155. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
156. Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
157. Gig Young in Come Fill The Cup (1951)
158. James Mason in Georgy Girl (1966)
159. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
160. Vincent Gardenia in Moonstruck (1987)
161. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
162. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
163. Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights (1997)
164. Klaus Maria Brandauer in Out of Africa (1985)
165. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
166. Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech (2010)
167. Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
168. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
169. John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire (1993) 
170. Martin Landau in Tucker: A Man And His Dream (1988)
171. Gig Young in Teacher's Pet (1958)
172. Jeremy Renner in The Town (2010)
173. Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers (1986)
174. Robert Duvall in The Godfather (1972)
175. Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
176. Kevin McCarthy in Death of a Salesman (1951)
177. Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
178. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
179. Sal Mineo in Exodus (1960)
180. Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast (2001)
181. Frederic Forrest in The Rose (1979)
182. Kenneth Branagh in My Week With Marilyn (2011)
183. Lee Tracy in The Best Man (1964)
184. Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones (1963)
185. John Huston in The Cardinal (1963)
186. Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians (1959)
187. Robert Ryan in Crossfire (1947)
188. Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture (1971)
189. Max Von Sydow in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
190. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
191. Roy Scheider in The French Connection (1971)
192. Arthur Hunnicutt in The Big Sky (1952)
193. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
194. Bruce Davison in Longtime Companion (1990)
195. Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth (1937)
196. Monty Woolley in Since You Went Away (1944)
197. Elliot Gould in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
198. Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather Part II (1974)
199. Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel (1952)
200. Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
201. Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard (1980)
202. Edmond O'Brien in Seven Days in May (1964)
203. James Whitmore in Battleground (1949)
204. Ed Wynn in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
205. Michael Lerner in Barton Fink (1991)
206. Armin Mueller-Stahl in Shine (1996)
207. Charles Durning in To Be Or Not To Be (1983)  
208. Eddie Albert in The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
209. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
210. John Hurt in Midnight Express (1978)
211. Jack Palance in Shane (1953)
212. Rupert Crosse in The Reivers (1969)
213. Robert Morley in Marie Antoinette (1938)
214. Adolph Caesar in A Soldier's Story (1984)
215. Thomas Gomez in Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
216. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
217. Howard Rollins in Ragtime (1981)
218. John Lithgow in Terms of Endearment (1983)
219. Ed Harris in The Truman Show (1998)
220. Vincent Gardenia in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
221. Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game (1992)
222. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
223. Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets (1997)
224. Matt Dillon in Crash (2005)
225. Christopher Plummer in Beginners (2011)
226. Peter Firth in Equus (1977)
227. Brian Aherne in Juarez (1939)
228. Chief Dan George in Little Big Man (1970)
229. Clive Owen in Closer (2004)
230. Michael J. Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
231. Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom (1987)
232. James Coco in Only When I Laugh (1981)
233. Woody Harrelson in The Messsenger (2009)
234. Michael O'Keefe in The Great Santini (1980)
235. Walter Huston in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
236. Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man (2005)
237. Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (2006)
238. Andy Garcia in The Godfather Part III (1990)
239. Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump (1994)
240. Victor Buono in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
241. Tim Roth in Rob Roy (1995)
242. Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton (2007)
243. Robert Preston in Victor Victoria (1982)
244. Bruce Dern in Coming Home (1978)
245. Arthur Kennedy in Champion (1949)
246. Cecil Kellaway in The Luck of the Irish (1948)
247. Paul Scofield in Quiz Show (1994)
248. Jack Warden in Heaven Can Wait (1978)
249. Arthur Kennedy in Trial (1955)
250. Al Pacino in Dick Tracy (1990)
251. Jack Kruschen in The Apartment (1960)
252. Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno (1974)
253. Alan Alda in The Aviator (2004)
254. Dean Stockwell in Married to The Mob (1988)
255. John C. Reilly in Chicago (2002)
256. Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
257. Frank Finlay in Othello (1965)
258. Robert Strauss in Stalag 17 (1953)
259. Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
260. Chazz Palminteri in Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
261. John Marley in Love Story (1970)
262. Nick Nolte in Warrior (2011)
263. Randy Quaid in The Last Detail (1973)
264. Richard S. Castellano in Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
265. Vittorio De Sica in A Farewell to Arms (1957) 
266. Hal Holbrook in Into The Wild (2007)
267. Nick Adams in Twilight of Honor (1963)
268. Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
269. Mickey Rooney in The Black Stallion (1979) 
270. Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda (1948)
271. Pat Morita in The Karate Kid (1984)
272. Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road (2008)
273. Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men (1992)
274. Arthur O'Connell in Picnic (1955)
275. Marlon Brando A Dry White Season (1989)
276. Jack Wild in Oliver! (1968)
277. James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
278. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
279. Brian Donlevy in Beau Geste (1939)
280. Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai (2003)
281. Matt Damon in Invictus (2009)
282. John Houseman in The Paper Chase (1973)
283. Mako in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
284. Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People (1980)
285. Anthony Hopkins in Amistad (1997)
286. John Malkovich in Places in the Heart (1984)
287. Mickey Rooney in The Bold and the Brave (1956)
288. William Bendix in Wake Island (1942)
289. Jack Warden in Shampoo (1975)
290. Alan Arkin in Argo (2012) 
291. Jack Gilford in Save the Tiger (1973)
292. Henry Travers in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
293. Robert Stack in Written on the Wind (1956)
294. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993) 
295. Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat (1942)
296. Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (2009)
297. Walter Brennan in Sergeant York (1941)
298. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln (2012)
299. Roland Young in Topper (1937)
300. David Paymer in Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
301. Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond (2006)
302. Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
303. Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls (2006)
304. Denholm Elliot in A Room With A View (1986)
305. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (1976)
306. Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge (1985)
307. Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
308. Maximilian Schell in Julia (1977)
309. J. Carrol Naish in Sahara (1943)
310. Peter Falk in Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
311. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
312. John Cassavetes in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
313. Jack Palance in City Slickers (1991)
314. Theodore Bikel in The Defiant Ones (1958)
315. Charles Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
316. Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
317. Ned Beatty in Network (1976)
318. J. Carrol Naish in A Medal For Benny (1945)
319. Charles Bickford in The Song of Bernadette (1943)
320. Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880 (1950)
321. Harvey Keitel in Bugsy (1991)
322. Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
323. Albert Bassermann in Foreign Correspondent (1940) 
324. Basil Rathbone in Romeo and Juliet (1936)
325. James Stephenson in The Letter (1940)
326. Alec Baldwin in The Cooler (2003)
327. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (1979)
328. Harry Carey in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 
329. Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator (2000)
330. Anthony Quayle in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
331. Clifton Webb in The Razor's Edge (1946)
332. Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich (2000)
333. Leonard Frey in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
334. William Demarest in The Jolson Story (1946)
335. Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones (2009)
336. Joe Mantell in Marty (1955)
337. Cecil Kellaway in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
338. H.B. Warner in Lost Horizon (1937)
339. Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (1965)
340. Gene Lockhart in Algiers (1938)
341. Jonah Hill in Moneyball (2011)
342. Jamie Foxx in Collateral (2004)
343. Jeff Bridges in The Contender (2000)
344. Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys (1995)
345. John Garfield in Four Daughters (1938)
346. Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools (1965)
347. Graham Greene in Dances With Wolves (1990)
348. Ed Harris in Apollo 13 (1995)
349. Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator (1940)
350. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
351. Arthur Kennedy in Peyton Place (1957)
352. Mark Ruffalo in The Kids are All Right (2010)
353. Ralph Richardson in Greystoke (1984)
354. Djimon Honsou in In America (2003)
355. Benicio Del Toro in 21 Grams (2003)
356. Eddie Albert in Roman Holiday (1953)
357. Bradley Cooper in American Hustle (2013)
358. Burt Young in Rocky (1976)
359. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997)
360. William Gargan in They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
361. Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
362. Ben Kingsley in Bugsy (1991)
363. William Hickey in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
364. Jeff Chandler in Broken Arrow (1950)
365. Dean Jagger in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
366. Oskar Homolka in I Remember Mama (1948)
367. Akim Tamiroff in The General Died at Dawn (1936)
368. Brandon De Wilde in Shane (1953)
369. Akim Tamiroff in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
370. Telly Savalas in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
371. Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place(1957) 
372. Basil Rathbone in If I Were King (1938)
373. Arthur Kennedy in Some Came Running (1958)
374. John Ireland in All the King's Men (1949)
375. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
376. Ed Harris in The Hours (2002)
377. Daniel Massey in Star! (1968)
378. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
379. Leo Genn in Quo Vadis (1951)
380. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
381. John Dall in The Corn is Green (1945)
382. Chill Wills in The Alamo (1960)
383. James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) 
384. Stuart Erwin in Pigskin Parade (1936)
385. Tom Tully in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
386. Ian Bannen in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
387. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
388. Jon Voight in Ali (2001)
389. Jose Ferrer in Joan of Arc (1948)
390. Mischa Auer in My Man Godfrey (1936)
391. Don Murray in Bus Stop (1956)
392. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
393. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)
394. Eric Roberts in Runaway Train (1985) 
395. Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Turning Point (1977)

Actual Winners:

1. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994)
2. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978)
3. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984)
4. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
5. James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
6. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)
7.  Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)
8. George Sanders in All About Eve (1950)
9. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (1939)
10. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963)
11. Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964)
12. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
13. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (1944)
14. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
15. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
16. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
17. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012)
18. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds (2009) 
19. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1963)
20. Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1968)
21. Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1942)
22. George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975)
23. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
24. J.K. Simmons in Whiplash (2014)
25. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)
26. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980)
27. John Gielgud in Arthur (1981)
28. Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
29. Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (1943)
30. Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II (1972)
31. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (2007) 
32. Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955)
33. Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
34. Burl Ives in The Big Country (1958)
35. Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
36. James Coburn in Affliction (1998)
37. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
38. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
39. Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (1956)
40. John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
41. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
42. Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
43. Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (1952)
44. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)
45. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic (2000)
46. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959)
47. Joseph Schilderkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
48. Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010)
49. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
50. Lou Gosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
51. Walter Brennan in Kentucky (1938)
52. Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001)
53. Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936) 
54. Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
55. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
56. Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
57. Jason Robards in Julia (1977)
58. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)
59. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
60. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (1983)
61. Denzel Washington in Glory (1989)
62. Christopher Plummer in Beginners(2011)
63. John Houseman in The Paper Chase (1973)
64. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993) 
65. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (1976)
66. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
67. Jack Palance in City Slickers (1991)
68. Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
69. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (1979)
70. Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (1965)
71. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
72. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997)
73. Dean Jagger in Twelve O'clock High (1949)
74. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
75. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)
76. George Clooney in Syriana (2005)
77. George Chakiris in West Side Story (1961)
78. Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985)
79. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)

 Next Year: 2014 Lead

Best Actor 2014: Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything

Eddie Redmayne won his Oscar from his first Oscar nomination for portraying Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

The Theory of Everything is an okay though very standard, and excessively respectful telling of the life of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

Eddie Redmayne is not a favorite actor of mine, and he has given at least one downright terrible performance in The Good Shepherd. Even his best work prior to playing Hawking, Les Miserables, still came with a few odd facial reactions to bring his performance down, which I suppose was a trademark of his early performances. Thankfully the odd reactions are gone in his performance as Stephen Hawking, although that might be due to one reason, but I will get to that later on in this review. The film begins with Stephen Hawking working towards his doctoral thesis while beginning a romance with a fellow student Jane (Felicity Jones). Redmayne performance is relatively simple in these scenes. He has a nice enough charm in his performance that is naturally part of his whole somewhat shy and retiring academic type. In addition Redmayne and Jones are good together. They project a natural sweetness in the romance between Stephen and Jane which works quite well in an understated sort of fashion.

Despite being called the Theory of Everything, there is not a great deal of time spent in having Redmayne actually try to portray any sort of genius in Hawking. It is not that Redmayne avoids portraying this or is in anyway inadequate at this, but rather the way the film chooses to present this. There basically is the standard scene of writing on the chalkboard and that's about it. Even the theories when presented are for the most part explained by other characters rather than Hawking. Redmayne is convincing in the little he has to do, but the film asks very little of him in this regard. What the film does focus on is when Stephen Hawking is diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and told he has only two years to live. Redmayne is very effective in portraying Hawking's initial reaction. He expresses well the way Hawking withdraws into almost nothing into his depression, and is very good as he lashes out expressing Hawking's anger over the lot in life he has been given. Along with his emotional distress though Hawking begins to show the signs of the disease.

The physical and verbal depiction of Hawking's disease easily could have easily lead to some terrible overacting. Well thankfully that is not that case here. Redmayne takes Hawking's speech, before he eventually loses his voice due to surgery, and is very effective in how he slurs his delivery that becomes more intense as well as less comprehensible. Redmayne makes it feel absolutely genuine and does well to never use it to a point in which he over accentuates it. Redmayne is equally good in portraying the loss of his physical abilities as he starts to lose his ability to walk and move freely. Redmayne effectively shows going from a limp, as well as some difficultly in maneuvering normally, to the point of not even being able to keep his body in the right shape. Redmayne does not let being put in the wheelchair finish his performance either. He still shows how it frankly does not stop as he can't sit up, and he even loses his ability to keep his mouth straight, perhaps that spares us the strange reactions. To be fair though every body contortion feels genuine in Redmayne's performance and he most of all is terrific in portraying exactly what the disease does to him over time.

Now portraying Hawking's disability is the highlight of Redmayne's performance. He is good though in portraying early on how Jane's involvement in his life causes him to develop a passion to work and live again. He also importantly never portrays that to be the end of Hawking's depression though as it returns brutally when Hawking loses his ability to speak. There is also one scene where Jane has her future second husband come over to their house, and Redmayne is very effective at first by expressing Hawking's dismay at this development. Of course even this is brushed aside when Hawking just views him as someone there to help. The problem is other than those few things Hawking is not developed into all that much of a character. He has his theories, his wife, and his disability and unfortunately they kind of call it a day. The film refuses to ever portray Hawking in much of a negative light, and leaves him in the end to be a bit too simplistic of a character. This is all the writing though and not at all Redmayne's fault. When there is a chance for depth, Redmayne takes it, there unfortunately are few of them.

For awhile the film even kinda shoves Hawking aside mostly to view how Jane sees him, which sure it gives Jones some time to shine, and keeps Hawking as too much of a constant. The biggest failure in this regard is the depiction of Hawking's relationship with his second wife. They portray her as kinda a problematic usurper, but seem to purposefully avoid putting any blame onto Hawking in these scenes. The film instead just makes it something he just has to do, which is unfortunate because it does kind of go around the fact that Hawking leaves Jane by his own volition. Redmayne is great in the goodbye scene as he is moving in portraying Hawking's emotional breakdown, it's a shame the film was not able to make it mean little more. Almost all of my complaints though are really due to the screenplay not Eddie Redmayne's performance. Redmayne gives a very good performance and there are times that he is exceptional, in fact the overarching way in which he becomes Hawking certainly is that. I would have liked if the film had let him delve a bit more into the man past simply his accomplishments and his disability, nevertheless this is truly fine work by Eddie Redmayne.