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Post by therealcomicman117 on May 17, 2020 23:10:42 GMT
2002 - Tom Hanks
1993 - Denzel Washington
1995 - Gene Hackman
1948 - Humphrey Bogart
1989 - Morgan Freeman
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Post by DanQuixote on May 17, 2020 23:34:29 GMT
I nominate Philip Seymour Hoffman three times in 2007 alone. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, The Savages and Charlie Wilson's War.
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Post by Mattsby on May 18, 2020 0:32:52 GMT
1990: Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and Home Alone. I call '90 and raise you '92. First off, he also did Betsy's Wedding in '90 which is awful (he gets out-acted by Burt Young, just sayin). '92 there's Home Alone 2 ("Better say every prayer you ever heard, kid") - and another hilarious Leo Getz perf in LW3 ("This look like a dumdum wound? Ah shit") - and his notched-down period-pic lead in The Public Eye (surprisingly gentle perf especially his scenes opposite Barbara Hershey) - and an absolute blast in My Cousin Vinny..... Also, n/s but didn't realize he did an ep of Tales from the Crypt, also '92....
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Post by Mattsby on May 18, 2020 0:40:51 GMT
Peter Sellers - 1964 Also love his '62 and '73 - but this is his best year. Dr Strangelove is a major, major perf(s) and if I recall correctly back in the IMDb days it might've topped an all-time Lead Actor poll? Or at least was incredibly high up. A Shot in the Dark as the iconic Clouseau is marvelously funny. World of Henry Orient is strong, underrated supporting perf where he's villainous and amusingly switches accents intentionally inside the role. And there's Carol for Another Christmas as Imperial Me (aka Trump) which is, I'm serious, one of the best single-scene perfs in cinema history.
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Post by futuretrunks on May 18, 2020 0:47:08 GMT
He's better in Lolita.
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Post by Mattsby on May 18, 2020 1:08:46 GMT
Love that perf too - there are scenes where he's so clever and funny in what he's doing and improvising, with rapid off-the-cuff remarks, you can't picture another actor doing it. And you can watch the scenes on loop... Like the ping pong scene and the porch scene "I get so carried away being so normal and everything." Also from '62 - he's excellent in Only Two Can Play, a Billy Wilder esque comedy. And I haven't seen Waltz from the Toreadors yet.
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Post by flasuss on May 18, 2020 4:36:37 GMT
Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 2007 & 2008- Doubt, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Synedoche, New York, The Savages, Charlie Wilson's War- deserves a mention.
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Post by jimmalone on May 18, 2020 6:45:09 GMT
And nobody has mentioned probably the most impressive single year in combined critical and commercial succes by film actor (so succesful, that he probably cancelled himself out in Oscar voting at nomination time): Sidney Poitier 1967
The number 1 box office star of 1967, starred in 3 critical and commercial smash hits with acclaimed performances in all of them..., Look Who's Coming To Dinner, In The Heat Of The Night and To Sir With Love.Probably the most baffling exclusion for an actor having a great year I can think of. Even if they weren't willing to give him a second Oscar, with everything going on at the time culturally, you'd think they would've at least recognized him somewhere. It doesn't even feel like vote-splitting; it feels like a very pointed message when you look at it. I always thought that this was due pretty much to vote splitting. Cause there really seems no consensus anywhere, what Poitiers best performance that year was. All have different favourites. And then he was splitting votes not only with himself, but probably also with Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night.
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Post by jimmalone on May 18, 2020 6:54:06 GMT
Gerard Depardieu in 1990 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1993 were two of the first names that popped into my head, but I have the feeling I'm forgetting somebody. Oh and yes I also agree about Brando in 1972.
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Post by demille on May 18, 2020 7:12:44 GMT
Claudette Colbert, 1934
Greta Garbo, 1926, 1928, 1932
Barbara Stanwyck, 1941
Edward G. Robinson, 1944
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Post by pacinoyes on May 18, 2020 10:34:00 GMT
pacinoyes - I think Close is much more comparable to the British Dames (Dench, Mirren, Smith) than she is to Streep or Lange or Fonda for this very reason. There is no other A-List American actress who works all three mediums as often or as well as she does - it's very British! The thing that kills me about Close who I've compared in work ethic to Olivier for Godsakes - and I don't really do that for anybody - is how any actress can be at her acclaimed level and yet as undervalued as her too .........I don't even know if that's the right word. In the next 10+ years a lot of US actresses (and male actors!)- heck not even just US - Blanchett for one - are going to make very high profile Triple Crown runs and they'll get in too. I always say this but the Acting Triple Crown will be the acting barometer at some point (I may not live to see it but it will!) - it will not be "number of Oscars or Oscar nominations" it will be much broader and more comprehensive....... and Close basically cleared that path for US actresses and conceivably could have/should have been in the Triple Crown club 25 years prior. When I look at that list and do not see Judi Dench or Close on it I feel vaguely nauseous - Dench because all her UK rivals have it (wtf, cruel) and Close because she has no real US rivals at all in this regard - in her consistent commitment to all 3 mediums (wtf, cruel again!).
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 13:03:59 GMT
pacinoyes - I think Close is much more comparable to the British Dames (Dench, Mirren, Smith) than she is to Streep or Lange or Fonda for this very reason. There is no other A-List American actress who works all three mediums as often or as well as she does - it's very British! The thing that kills me about Close who I've compared in work ethic to Olivier for Godsakes - and I don't really do that for anybody - is how any actress can be at her acclaimed level and yet as undervalued as her too .........I don't even know if that's the right word. In the next 10+ years a lot of US actresses (and male actors!)- heck not even just US - Blanchett for one - are going to make very high profile Triple Crown runs and they'll get in too. I always say this but the Acting Triple Crown will be the acting barometer at some point (I may not live to see it but it will!) - it will not be "number of Oscars or Oscar nominations" it will be much broader and more comprehensive....... and Close basically cleared that path for US actresses and conceivably could have/should have been in the Triple Crown club 25 years prior. When I look at that list and do not see Judi Dench or Close on it I feel vaguely nauseous - Dench because all her UK rivals have it (wtf, cruel) and Close because she has no real US rivals at all in this regard - in her consistent commitment to all 3 mediums (wtf, cruel again!). As Parker Posey's character said in For Your Consideration, "I don't act for trophies." Yes, it would be awesome if Close could win an Oscar or if Dench could win an Emmy, but they really don't need them to be revered as all-time greats. Great art is its own reward.
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Post by omarfr9 on May 18, 2020 13:06:42 GMT
Isuzu Yamada in 1957; she got to work twice for Kurosawa (Throne of Blood and The Lower Depths) and once for both Kobayashi (Black River) and Ozu (Tokyo Twilight) and delivered four memorable performances. I rather loved her both in Throne of Blood and Tokyo Twilight where she portrayed two characters that have caused suffering to other people but in different ways. Yamada’s approaches are quite the opposite; as Lady Macbeth she gives a chillingly effective portrayal of her character's ruthless and manipulative nature. In Tokyo Twilight Yamada gives a less stylised and more subdued work, as she makes her character oddly sympathetic, and pulls of a surprisingly moving portrayal of a mother who was not prepared for motherhood.
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Post by Mattsby on May 19, 2020 20:19:33 GMT
Two for 1976 -
Peter Falk - who did Mikey and Nicky (to me, an all-timer perf) , Murder by Death (laugh out loud comedic part) , and five Columbo eps (all feature length of course, and includes Now You See Him which is among the series best). Also a not-so-good TVM weeper called Griffin and Phoenix but he at least gives a solidly charming sadly romantic perf there.
Jodie Foster - well, for child actors this has gotta take the cake. Taxi Driver, and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane - two really great perfs especially the latter. Also pops up in Bugsy Malone and n/s but the original Freaky Friday.
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Post by jakesully on May 21, 2020 19:45:11 GMT
Maika Monroe in 2014 (It Follows, The Guest). Two good horror films in one year solidified her as one of the best "scream queens" out there currently working today. I dig her.
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Post by sirjeremy on May 22, 2020 9:10:27 GMT
Born 113 years today, Laurence Olivier had several great performances in one yea periods, my favourite being 1960 (Spartacus, The Entertainer).
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Post by Mattsby on May 23, 2020 18:06:27 GMT
Anna Magnani - 1960 All-timer supporting perf in The Fugitive Kind opposite Brando & one of the funniest perfs (ever?) in The Passionate Thief opposite Totò and Ben Gazzara as a deluded trio roaming Rome on New Years Eve.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 12, 2020 17:58:18 GMT
How about underappreciated years? Christopher Walken , 2012. Seven Psychopaths, A Late Quartet, Stand Up Guys. All three released in the last quarter of the year, and I think all three screened at TIFF too. Acting opposite Pacino and PSH and others - they are three very good, very moving perfs. He's quite funny but with surprising depth in Stand Up Guys and Seven Psychopaths (who can ever forget the way he says "hallucinogens"). And he exudes intelligence and dignity in A Late Quartet - the way he says "shame on you" to Mark Ivanir or, better, the quiet way he says "wow" when learning of his illness - that expression he made popularly imitable in SNL's The Continental that I watched a hundred times as a kid - now he makes that expression inevitable and heartbreaking. Out of those three movies , he only received one single San Diego critics nomination for Psychopaths; that's it.
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Post by dadsburgers on Jun 12, 2020 19:01:33 GMT
Jessica Chastain, 2011: The Help, The Tree of Life, Take Shelter (and I believe a couple of others as well) Lucas Hedges, 2017-2019: Lady Bird, Three Billboards, Ben Is Back, Mid90s, Boy Erased, Honey Boy, Waves
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Post by wattsnew on Jun 19, 2020 5:17:35 GMT
Naomi Watts 2014 & 2007
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Post by Allenism on Jun 19, 2020 15:09:14 GMT
^And it's been hot garbage otherwise.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jul 19, 2020 15:40:52 GMT
Who had a better year than Peter Sellers in 1964?Here's my 1964 Best Actor Lineup: 1. Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove 2. George Peppard - The Carpetbaggers 3. Peter Sellers - The Pink Panther 4. Peter Sellers - The World of Henry Orient 5. Peter Sellers - A Shot in the Dark
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 17:08:37 GMT
Have we mentioned Grace Kelly in 1954? An Oscar win for The Country Girl in addition to starring in two Hitchcock all-timers: Dial M for Murder and Rear Window.
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 19, 2020 20:52:10 GMT
James Spader - 1993 - The Music of Chance & Dream Lover. I'm cheating bc Dream Lover was released in '94 but premiered '93. He filmed them one after the other and they're really incredibly different. Even though he has that awesome '85-'90 stretch, these might be his two best perfs; Dream Lover with Madchen Amick, all consuming erotic despair, angled sexiness, possessed envy - and Music is almost like watching a play, he's a hilarious blabbermouth Italian, a charismatic mess who somewhat recalls peak Dustin Hoffman. Two really great, buzzing, fascinating perfs....
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Post by Sharbs on Jul 20, 2020 0:10:46 GMT
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