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Post by dadsburgers on May 18, 2021 2:18:16 GMT
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Post by countjohn on May 18, 2021 2:31:21 GMT
For a sec I thought Gyllenhaal was nominated for Donnie Darko since you included him, which would have been epic and weird.
Anyway, I'll take Crowe over Denzel by a hair. This was a really good year for BA.
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 18, 2021 2:55:33 GMT
Russell Crowe
He's not good but The Insider and A Beautiful Mind, but he killed it in those two. There was no better actor from 1999-2001. It's essentially a brief 3 year run..... did not expect he would just go off the map so fast like that. In 2001, it seemed like his steam could not be stopped. In 2003, class spent a full session debating how he doesn't appear like a Navy captain. But then he just went away and could not resurrect himself with a role good enough that anyone cares.
2 nods/2 wins
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Post by pupdurcs on May 18, 2021 2:57:37 GMT
The guy who won.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 18, 2021 3:16:43 GMT
either Wilkinson or Washington. Sticking with Wilkinson for now but I have to rewatch both of those movies soon. Crowe does not hold up unfortunately. Rewatched A Beautiful Mind yesterday and it's quite weak. I'll always have a soft spot for it because I first watched it when I was a cinema virgin in my early-mid teens and just realizing how much movies meant to me. But yeah, it's not that good, and Crowe's whimsical fidgetiness has aged badly indeed. Don't remember enough about Donnie Darko to say about Gyllenhaal. Don't remember liking it but I watched that as a cinema virgin too back when movies were put in parts on youtube.  Mitchell is fabulous. |
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Post by sirchuck23 on May 18, 2021 4:15:35 GMT
the guy in my profile pic of course.
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Post by TerryMontana on May 18, 2021 5:18:27 GMT
Russell Crowe.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 18, 2021 6:13:01 GMT
Crowe - Inspired in a terrible movie, where his instincts cut against his director - which is usually a mess. The only real flaw in what he does is the beginning as the world's oldest grad student and a certain dramatic dead end inherent in the script
Washington - For once he's actually funny (here at least) ..........and he dominates while bouncing 100 mph fastballs off the head of flavorless vanilla wafer (here at least) Ethan Hawke and he goes far off script too - it's exciting - "off the page" acting. I'll take this over much of his other "great" work - the turgid Man On Fire, the partially terrific but incomplete portrayal of American Gangster etc ................this belongs in his all-time top 3 ....
Wilkinson - Something of a "perfect" performance in a variation on a simmering, rotting dread. It's brilliant in control and in how he conveys it but also in how deep it runs - a performance with a genuine arc.
Wilkinson > slightly ahead of Washington > who's slightly ahead of Crowe for me......
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Post by HELENA MARIA on May 18, 2021 6:26:50 GMT
Tom Wilkinson who's my BLA winner for that year  |
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Post by wilcinema on May 18, 2021 10:15:19 GMT
Tom Wilkinson for sure. John Cameron Mitchell is sensational though.
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Post by DanQuixote on May 18, 2021 10:19:59 GMT
Of the ones you mentioned? Wilkinson.
My 2001 win is Gene Hackman for The Royal Tenenbaums though.
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Post by Sharbs on May 18, 2021 15:17:37 GMT
I haven't seen Hedwig, but I'm excited to in the next month or two for AMARA stuff. Crowe, Wilkinson, Denzel are on a different level than JakeG. I'll go with Crowe. That perfoemnace along with Jack's in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are the first that gave me some kind of appreciation for acting as a profession/art in my early teens.
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Post by stephen on May 18, 2021 15:21:17 GMT
I probably would vote Wilkinson, if only because I feel the margin among him, Crowe and Washington are so thin anyway and he's the only Oscar-less one of the trinity and I think he was deserving of some love for that turn. But yeah, Hackman's my win.
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Post by Brother Fease on May 19, 2021 10:43:36 GMT
Denzel Washington all the way. My order would be Washington, Crowe, Smith, Penn, and then Wilkinson. Washington's performance was easily the best and showed his range as an actor. The performance required him to use new notes. On top of that, Alzono Harris is one of the greatest movie villains of all-time. He was extremely funny, manipulative, and used his facial expression to convey his deeper intention.
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Post by futuretrunks on May 25, 2021 22:31:05 GMT
Denzel. I very much like Wilkinson (and Spacek, and Tomei, and Stahl) in that movie, but sheesh. He's arguably better in Michael Clayton, and still not as good as Denzel in TD.
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Post by JangoB on May 25, 2021 22:39:03 GMT
Out of these: Crowe.
Overall: Billy Bob Thornton in "The Man Who Wasn't There".
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Post by cheesecake on May 26, 2021 0:33:35 GMT
Wilkinson of both yours and the Oscar nominees.
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