Best of the Best: Best Actor

1998 through 2007

Best of the Best: Best Actor

Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
1
2%
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
3
7%
Russell Crowe - Gladiator
1
2%
Denzel Washington - Training Day
0
No votes
Adrien Brody - The Pianist
12
29%
Sean Penn - Mystic River
3
7%
Jamie Foxx - Ray
0
No votes
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
3
7%
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
0
No votes
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
18
44%
 
Total votes: 41

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And exactly how many sword-and-sandal movies have there been in the last 25 years against which to compare Gladiator?

Russell Crowe is no Steve Reeves. Hell, he's not even Gordon Scott.
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I just thought he was great. It's true that there haven't been a lot of these types of movies, but Kingdom of Heaven, Troy and Dragonheart might qualify.

Wow... we're a bunch of racists. Three black Best Actor winners, and they're the ONLY three without a single vote. Even Russell Crowe and Roberto Benigni got a vote each. For shame.
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It has nothing to with racism. The performances, while good, were not the best of the decade.




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MovieWes wrote:Wow... we're a bunch of racists. Three black Best Actor winners, and they're the ONLY three without a single vote. Even Russell Crowe and Roberto Benigni got a vote each. For shame.

I guess of the three, only Whitaker is mentionable (heaven forbid someone votes for Foxx!!), and he's below the standards the rest set?




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Wow... we're a bunch of racists. Three black Best Actor winners, and they're the ONLY three without a single vote. Even Russell Crowe and Roberto Benigni got a vote each. For shame.



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criddic3 wrote:Russell Crowe, one of the best actors working today, who made Gladiator work better than any sword-and-sandal epic in the last twenty-five years or so that wasn't also mythical fantasy.
And exactly how many sword-and-sandal movies have there been in the last 25 years against which to compare Gladiator?

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1. Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
2. Adrien Brody, The Pianist
3. Russell Crowe, Gladiator
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Russell Crowe, one of the best actors working today, who made Gladiator work better than any sword-and-sandal epic in the last twenty-five years or so that wasn't also mythical fantasy.

I liked Penn and Washington, but didn't award them myself.
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Adrien Brody, and not just for being a hot Jew.
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Bog wrote:*cough Jennifer Hudson cough*
Best of her year. I didn't vote for her for best of the decade, so step off.
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Really tough choice for me between Day-Lewis and Brody, two performances, worlds apart. I give it to Brody because I usually favor subtler performances if at all possible and while Day-Lewis is masterful, the quiet bravado of Adrien Brody is even more affecting and without soliloquy.
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*cough Jennifer Hudson cough*
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Wow. I'm just amazed at how many people liked the thoroughly unimpressive job Adrien Brody did in the Pianist. What an middling performance. That is has been elevated to a form of art is thoroughly disturbing.
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I really had a tough time choosing between Sean Penn and Adrien Brody, and finally I chose Penn and almost immediately regretted my decision, then I saw that I was the first one to vote for Penn, so I'm glad. I wanted Bill Murray to win the Academy Award and Penn deserved recognition for Dead Man Walking, as Aakash said, but I think it's a perfect performance that impresses with how the character infuriates me.
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Brody
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Daniel Day-Lewis, with Adrien Brody very close behind.
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Post by Akash »

Daniel Day-Lewis just narrowly edges out Sean Penn for me. Though if it was Dead Man Walking, Penn would win easily. I'm fine with Benigni, Washington, Brody and Whitaker even though I would have voted for McKellan, Wilkinson, Day-Lewis and Gosling in their respective years. It's a pity Hoffman won because Ledger would have been right up there with Penn and Day-Lewis for the best of the best.



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