Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2010: Results

5. Sam Rockwell in Conviction- Rockwell gives the best performance in his film giving some poignancy to his character's situation even though the power of his performance is limited by the film's problems.

4. Andrew Garfield in The Social Network- Garfield plays the emotions of his role a little to heavily at times but still gives an effective performance with a few stand out moments.

3. Chow Yun-Fat in Let the Bullets Fly- Yun-Fat gives a very entertaining villainous turn even if he could have brought just a little more menace to his role. 

2. Pierce Brosnan in The Ghost Writer- Brosnan gives a strong performance effectively creating the different faces of a career politicians with too many secrets.

1. Ben Mendelsohn in Animal Kingdom- Good Prediction Fisti. This might not be a great year for great performances as I don't give anyone a five, but it is a great year for good performances. My personal winner came down to the two criminal uncles of Mendelsohn and John Hawkes in Winter's Bone.

Overall Rank:

1. John Hawkes in Winter's Bone
2. Ben Mendelsohn in Animal Kingdom
3. Ben Kingsley in Shutter Island
4. Cillian Murphy in Inception
5. Pete Postlethwaite in The Town
6. Pierce Brosnan in The Ghost Writer
7. Ted Levine in Shutter Island
8. Barry Pepper in True Grit 
9. Joel Edgerton in Animal Kingdom
10. Jackie Earle Haley in Shutter Island 
11. Chow Yun-Fat in Let The Bullets Fly 
12. Jeremy Renner in The Town
13. Guy Pearce in Animal Kingdom
14. David O'Hara in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
15. Jon Hamm in The Town
16. Andrew Garfield in The Social Network
17. Max von Sydow in Shutter Island
18. John Malkovich in RED
19. Sam Rockwell in Iron Man 2  
20. Armie Hammer in The Social Network 
21. Bill Murray in Get Low 
22. Sam Rockwell in Conviction
23. Ken Watanabe in Inception
24. Ned Beatty in Toy Story 3 
25. Guy Pearce in The King's Speech 
26. Jack McGee in The Fighter
27. Sullivan Stapleton in Animal Kingdom
28. Nicolas Cage in Kick-Ass
29. Jason Schwartzman in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
30. Tom Hardy in Inception
31. Mark Strong in Kick-Ass
32. Chris Evans in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
33. Michael Keaton in Toy Story 3
34. Kieran Culkin in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
35. Mark Ruffalo in Shutter Island 
36. Brandon Routh in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
37. Michael Keaton in The Other Guys 
38. Lucas Black in Get Low
39. Chris Cooper in The Town
40. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Inception
41. Garret Dillahunt in Winter's Bone 
42. John Carroll Lynch in Shutter Island
43. Mickey O'Keefe in The Fighter
44. Vincent Cassel in Black Swan
45. Mark Webber in Scott Pilgrim vs the World
46. Matt Damon in True Grit
47. Luke Ford in Animal Kingdom
48. Bill Cobbs in Get Low
49. Choi Moo-sung in I Saw the Devil
50. Brian Cox in RED
51. Pete Postlethwaite in Inception
52. Tom Wilkinson in The Ghost Writer
53. Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2
54. Ray Winstone in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
55. Karl Urban in RED
56. Rupert Grint in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 
57. Mickey Rourke in The Expendables 
58. Paolo Bonacelli in The American 
59. Robert Pugh in The Ghost Writer
60. Andrew Garfield in Never Let Me Go
61. Michael Caine in Inception
62. Michael Gambon in The King's Speech
63. Morgan Freeman in RED
64. Tom Berenger in Inception
65. Justin Timberlake in The Social Network 
66. David Zayas in The Expendables
67. Dileep Rao in Inception
68. Eric Roberts in The Expendables
69. Jackie Chan in The Karate Kid
70. Christopher Mintz-Plasse in Kick-Ass  
71. Peter Gallagher in Conviction 
72. Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are Alright
73. Derek Jacobi in The King's Speech
74. Josh Hutcherson in The Kids Are Alright
75. Josh Brolin in True Grit
76. Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2
77. Ben Barnes in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 
78. Brandon T. Jackson in Percy Jackson
79. Timothy Spall in The King's Speech
80. The Rest of the Cast of the Expendables

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