Alternate Best Actor 1996: Results

5. Leonard DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet - DiCaprio does not have the language down but he does bring the right passion and enthusiasm although it is hard see through that direction.

Best Scene: Romeo's death monologue.

4. Chris Cooper in Lone Star- Cooper seems right as the quiet convicted Sheriff, but he's suppose to be uncomfortable with his job which isn't expressed very well.

Best Scene: Sam talks to his old flame.

3. Liam Neeson in Michael Collins- Collins is made to be an absolute hero here, and the film outright rejects any scenes to give a greater complexity to see him, but Neeson does bring the right power and passion to the part.

Best Scene: Collins attempts to defend the treaty.

2. Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting - McGregor gives a nicely charismatic portrayal, and meets any challenge in store for him.

Best Scene: Renton goes Cold Turkey

1. Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet - Although I was skeptical about Branagh approach to the prince of Denmark, he successfully won me over with his flamboyant portrayal of Hamlet. He creates an understanding in the insanity, but as well brings his performance down when needed and to great effect. For the overall win it came down to the men whose plan goes horribly wrong, I decided to go with the car salesman.

Best Scene: The duel.

Overall Rank:

1. William H. Macy in Fargo
2. Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet
3. Timothy Spall in Secrets & Lies
4. James Woods in Killer: A Journal of Murder 
5. Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting
6. Daniel Day-Lewis in The Crucible
7. Liam Neeson in Michael Collins
8. Matthew McConaughey in A Time to Kill
9. Mel Gibson in Ransom
10. Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
11. Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient
12. Noah Taylor in Shine 
13. Luke Wilson in Bottle Rocket 
14. Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor
15. Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: First Contact
16. Richard Gere in Primal Fear
17. Owen Wilson in Bottle Rocket
18. Stanley Tucci in Big Night
19. Nathan Lane in The Birdcage 
20. Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible
21. Tom Everett Scott in That Thing You Do 
22. Jon Favreau in Swingers
23. Tony Shalhoub in Big Night
24. Tom Hulce in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
25. Geoffrey Rush in Shine
26. Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade
27. Michael J. Fox in The Frighteners
28. John Travolta in Phenomenon
29. Antonio Banderas in Evita
30. Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy
31. Sean Connery in The Rock
32. Woody Harrelson in Kingpin
33. Sean Connery in Dragonheart
34. Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore
35. Dennis Quiad in Dragonheart
36. Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Eraser  
37. Chris Cooper in Lone Star
38. Bill Murray in Larger Than Life 
39. Joseph Perrino in Sleepers
40. Robin Williams in The Birdcage
41. Nicolas Cage in The Rock
42. Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet 
43. Bill Pullman in Independence Day
44. Jason Patric in Sleepers
45. Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness 
46. Michael Keaton in Multiplicity
47. Steve Martin in Sgt. Bilko
48. Randy Quaid in Kingpin
49. Blake Heron in Shiloh
50. Sylvester Stallone in Daylight
51. Will Smith in Independence Day
52. Woody Harrelson in The People vs. Larry Flynt
53. Bill Paxton in Twister
54. Chris Farley in Black Sheep
55. Leslie Nielsen in Spy Hard 
56. Kelsey Grammer in Down Periscope
57. Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks!
58. Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction
59. Vincent Kartheiser in Alaska
60. Alec Baldwin in Ghosts of Mississippi
61. Jon Lovitz in High School High
62. David Spade in Black Sheep
63. Matthew Broderick in The Cable Guy
64. Robin Williams in Jack
65. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Jingle All The Way
66. Tom Arnold in The Stupids
67. Michael Jordan in Space Jam
68. Sinbad in First Kid
69. Jeffrey Nording in D3
70. Billy Zane in The Phantom
71. Robert Sean Leonard in Killer: A Journal of Murder
72. Joshua Jackson in D3
73. Jason Alexander in Dunston Checks In 
74. Brock Pierce in First Kid
75. Francis Capra in Kazaam
76. Shaquille O'Neal in Kazaam
77. Eric Lloyd in Dunston Checks In
78. Stephen Baldwin in Bio-Dome
79. Pauly Shore in Bio-Dome

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Alternate Best Actor 1996: Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet

Leonard DiCaprio did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.

Well making my rather hasty change from the disqualified Philip Baker Hall in Hard Eight to DiCaprio, I must now watch film, I mean what's the worst that could happen.....having watched it aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why didn't I do Day-Lewis in the Crucible.....sob...sob. Anyway I did not like it. I did not like it one bit, you could say I hated it hated it a lot from that opening TV broadcast followed by Baz Luhrmann's choice to zoom in and then zoom out over and over again, because if you do it several times it makes it less annoying, no wait no it doesn't. Then I noticed that Luhrmann decided to shoot it like an over the top comedy, except it's not remotely funny, which is a bit of problem.

What about the acting though, well ...... Well the film chooses to keep with the Bard's original words for the most part. The words of Shakespeare here are often treated like taking a symphony by Beethoven and play through poorly tuned instruments, or maybe cooking a great recipe with stale foodstuffs. Well many of the actors are bordering on causing rapid ear bleeding with their butchering of the words, that would be ill fitting even in a thirty second comedy bit. There is some relief found in the Friar Laurence equivalent Father Lawrence played by one of the best character actors of the 90's Pete Postlethwaite who understands the words, but even modernizes his technique slightly yet smoothly. That is not the case for any other actor really, but luckily for DiCaprio though he is not one of the instruments that is completely out of tune.

DiCaprio really does not have the language down and it does undercut every scene he is in to at least some degree. The film is fundamentally wrong when the language cuts down any emotion rather than ever amplify it. That is not all that undercuts his performance though as there is consistently Luhrmann's obnoxious gimmicky direction in every scene such a turning Mercutio's death apparently into an upcoming apocalypse or putting a cheesy 90's love song in every love scene between Romeo and Juliet. No matter what even if DiCaprio were to do something right Luhrmann would not really make any use of it anyway. This basically is almost a pointless endeavor by Leonardo DiCaprio, but to be fair in terms of when you think of a Romeo DiCaprio definitely is someone who fits the bill.

DiCaprio isn't really bad here, his delivery of the monologues is rather rusty but not terrible. He is enthusiastic in his performance and his very emotional style of performance is not wrong for Romeo as I think a necessary to show the fact that Romeo does not really think things out to much. With all that is against him though it hardly is able to produce much of anything no matter how much passion he does put in it. DiCaprio throws himself into being Romeo for sure, and I appreciate that effort he obviously shows throughout but never has so much passion meant so little for me. Romeo as a character is no Hamlet to be sure, and all you really need is some charm and that passion for him to fulfill the need of the part. DiCaprio does perhaps do this, but I never saw it through Luhrmann's direction.

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Alternate Best Actor 1996

And The Nominees Were Not:

Liam Neeson in Michael Collins

Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet

Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet

Chris Cooper in Lone Star

Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting 

Blast I hate it when that happens, but it appears Hard Eight received no public release until 1997, so here's a quick replacement to allow for some more Shakespearean comparisons which is usually fun. 

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Best Actor 2013: Results

5. Christian Bale in American Hustle- Although the film consistently backhands him Bale tries hard to try to make the films plot work. I won't say he succeeds but I appreciate the effort.

Best Scene: Irving tells Carmine the truth.

4. Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave- A year where this performance stands in fourth place is a truly great year indeed. Ejiofor gives a powerful performance by truthfully portraying every painful phase of his character's horrible predicament.

Best Scene: Solomon finally returns home.

3. Bruce Dern in Nebraska- Bruce Dern gives a interesting portrayal of the result of one man's life in terms of his physical state and a powerful portrayal of his emotional state.

Best Scene: Woody drives through town.

2. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street- Leonardo DiCaprio might give his best performance with his extremely entertaining and very funny depiction of the sinful behavior of one man.

Best Scene: Lemmon Quaaludes 714

1. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club- Well this year was amazing to say the least and I would not mind if any one of these top four were to take the prize, but if I were to vote I actually would be very tempted to go with Bruce Dern, I would love to see him win. The likely winner though and the one that I will declare as the best of the best goes to Matthew McConaughey's outstanding work in Dallas Buyers Club. It is actually hardest to pick his best scene because every single one of his scenes is remarkable. McConaughey just hits every emotional note of this performance perfectly and gives a truly compelling and believable portrayal of his character's transformation.

Best Scene: Ron comforts Rayon.

Best Actor Ranking:

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

Supporting Actor Ranking:

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

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Best Actor 2013: Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street

Leonardo DiCaprio received his fourth Oscar nomination for portraying Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a very entertaining film about the debauchery and crimes of a wall street broker. It technically did not need to be three hours, but since I enjoyed it all the way through I did not mind.

The Wolf of Wall Street is basically a comedic remake of Goodfellas as both films tell the story of one man's venture into a sinful life, and they basically follow a similar path in terms of high and lows. In both films it is not really the story of a protagonist who is slowly corrupted rather both are the stories are about men who pretty much want to be corrupted. Something rather interesting though is that despite Goodfellas being about mobsters who regularly murdered people Henry Hill as played by Ray Liotta actually has far more authentic emotions than Jordan Belfort ever has, aside from one very brief moment with his first wife early in the film, Belfort is one shallow man as portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. That might sound like I'm criticizing DiCaprio, but I'm not.

This is a very rare Oscar nomination for lead actor because DiCaprio actually gives an entirely comic performance, even a scene that might seem serious in terms of conception tends to still be completely comedic as it is played out in the film. DiCaprio goes for broke by showing Belfort to be the hollow man, and just going all the way with that concept without looking back once. Except for that one brief moment where Belfort lost his first job and DiCaprio let's us see just a little bit of honest concern in the man, there is technically nothing to Belfort as a man other than his want and desire for more money, and any sort of pleasures he can get whether it is from drinking, taking every drug that he can seem to find, or indulging in every type of sex with a woman he can come up with.

I'll get to the comedy in a minute but I'd like to start with just the creation of Belfort method as a wall street broker. DiCaprio has a great intensity with his portrayal of this but not the intensity that would make you ever scared of him, at least in the traditional sense, but that intensity that personifies his insatiable thirst for more money. DiCaprio makes Belfort the false salesman but he does it oh so perfectly by making that falseness technically part of the appeal of what the man seems to be offering. DiCaprio brings all the right bravado in his scenes as the salesman as Belfort is really screwing the person over yet he makes the offer just sound so great, because he seems to be so absolutely sure about it. DiCaprio makes the passion in Belfort both truthful and completely fake at the same time.

DiCaprio continues this quite effectively when he has any of his scenes where Belfort seems to be trying to rally his troops to do what else other than continue to make money. DiCaprio again has such a terrific balance in his creation of what Belfort is doing. DiCaprio definitely shows that Belfort is giving his all with his screaming at the top of his lungs through his microphone to say just how awesome he thinks his own company and he is, as well DiCaprio has the non-stop enthusiasm that only reinforces properly why his employees would think he is so cool, but as well why so many would want to work to Belfort. There is such a lack of any genuine feeling though and DiCaprio is great because through his own performance he creates the egg that Belfort's whole world was, pretty but completely empty.

Now enough of that though because the true greatness of DiCaprio's performance is just how funny he is here. DiCaprio kind of does wink at the audience since Belfort does not mind directly speaking the audience from time to time, but in terms of playing Belfor DiCaprio never stops to laugh at the character himself. Instead DiCaprio goes all the way with Belfort and revels in all that Belfort that does, no matter what it may be. DiCaprio's work here is pretty glorious really as he never hesitates in to get whatever he can out of any scene. DiCaprio is great with his line deliveries in just how little feeling he can give, and this lack of feeling can even make Jordan's telling of the death of some of his friends as comedic because he's just so nonchalant about it.

What I love about DiCaprio's work here is that he doesn't ever try to make the material serious in anyway and is so good in indulging in Belfort's antics. DiCaprio's great because of just how casual, and frankly relaxed in the role. I  have been a little more forgiving of DiCaprio most recent dramatic efforts than some, but his work here suggests that this is where he should be. DiCaprio makes Belfort man who does not find anything to be even slightly bashful about and anything he does he just does. What is also great is that DiCaprio does make Belfort quite a doofus, and is hilarious because Belfort as a man who thinks he's a genius as well. One of my favorite moments of DiCaprio's is when he tries to act like a true cutthroat in front of the F.B.I. agent investigating him, DiCaprio first portrays Belfort as so obvious in his foolish attempt though, and quite naturally devolves into some rather childish insults.

As much as I enjoy DiCaprio's line deliveries and his narration there is nothing that compares to the physical aspect of his performance. DiCaprio is rather on fire in the way he injects an incredible energy to every scene he is in and his movement exemplify the whole idea of Belfort's method toward life. This is particularly true of course for his drug habit and DiCaprio's performance is worthy of comparison to Ray Liotta depiction of a drugged up addict. DiCaprio's though is of course twisted slightly for the sake of comedy particularly in the randomness of Belfort's behavior that DiCaprio does so brilliantly. DiCaprio just really is on in pretty much every frame, and never fails to make the most out of Belfort's insanity by pretty much showing just how insane it is thorough his equally insane portrayal of it.

Although there is plenty of great moments based upon DiCaprio's use of his body in this film, that dance routine at Belfort's wedding is a particular highlight, the best moment in this regard though is without a doubt  when Belfort takes too many Lemmon Quaaludes and attempts to get home because he needs to stop his business partner from using the phone. DiCaprio perhaps has never been better than in his, Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot inspired, portrayal of the drugs affect. Frankly I could not stop laughing from DiCaprio's depiction of Belfort's attempt to crawl and mumble his way home. The scene is pure comedic gold, and DiCaprio's performance of the scene is flawless deriving laughter from pretty much every movement in the funniest scene of 2013.

Jordan Belfort is not a likable character really by any measure not only because of his indulgences and illegal actions involving his stock broker firm, but as well he does not mind some wife beating now again either. DiCaprio is magnetic here of course, but he does not try to make us like Jordan Belfort in attempt to make the film watchable. No, what DiCaprio does instead is make it so very easy to laugh at the various exploits of Belfort that it is extremely easy to watch him throughout the film. DiCaprio excels so much here that I would say his true calling seems to be as a comedic actor after all. In fact, since this one was so good, I would not mind seeing DiCaprio and Scorsese tackle a few more pseudo remakes of Scorsese's films with a heavily comedic bent. This is a great performance by Leonardo DiCarpio and one of the amusing ever nominated for an Oscar.

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Best Actor 2013

And the Nominees Are:

Christian Bale in American Hustle

Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave

Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club

Bruce Dern in Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street

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