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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:34 pm
by Hustler
Bridges is the sentimental candidate. Firth should win.
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:09 pm
by Big Magilla
As I said quoting Katharine Hepburn in the Best Actress thread, the right actors win Oscars for the wrong movies.
Jeff Bridges will likely win this year for Crazy Heart, but he's more apt to be remembered for other, better films. Conversely, George Clooney who gives by far his best performance in Up in the Air will be remembered for that film long after the one he won his Oscar for is forgotten. Wait, I think it already has been.
I voted for Clooney.
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:37 am
by rudeboy
I really want Jeff Bridges to win the Oscar, but as Crazy Heart isn't out here yet I went with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, narrowly over Viggo Mortensen.
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:58 am
by Reza
kaytodd wrote:And I think Matt has been unfairly overlooked by the Academy more than once, especially when Leo was nominated for The Departed.
Leo was not nominated for The Departed. It was for Blood Diamond.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:15 pm
by kaytodd
He will probably not even get nominated, but I had to show support for Matt Damon in The Informant!. One of the most pleasant surprises I had at the movies this year was seeing how Matt and Soderbergh made that character one of the year's most complex and interesting. And I think Matt has been unfairly overlooked by the Academy more than once, especially when Leo was nominated for The Departed.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:55 pm
by Sabin
Stuhlbarg, with Joaquin Phoenix for Two Lovers as runner-up.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:35 pm
by Damien
Joseph Gordon-Levitt by a whisker over Jeff Bridges.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:24 pm
by Eric
What DWS said. Null vote.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:33 pm
by rolotomasi99
Colin Firth all the way.
Of the actors listed here, I have only seen the performances of Clooney, Copley, Firth, Freeman, and Renner. Mortensen's performance is the only one I am still looking forward to seeing, but I doubt any of the folks listed here whom I have not seen will change my support for Firth.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:54 pm
by dreaMaker
Jeff Bridges, of course. 
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:53 pm
by dws1982
Joaquin Phoenix for Two Lovers. Charles Berling for Summer Hours. Robin Williams for World's Greatest Dad. Moritz Bleibtreu in The Baader Meinhof Complex. Kevin Bacon in Taking Chance. And I put it with my 2008 films, but a lot have put it with 2009: Michael Fassbender in Hunger.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:43 pm
by Big Magilla
Again, as with Best Actress, not who we think will win, but who we think should win this year's Best Actor Oscar.