#01 Michael Redgrave in Dead of Night (1945)#02 Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
#03 Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)
#04 John Lithgow in The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
#05 Boris Karloff in The Body Snatcher (1945)
#06 Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
#07 Peter Lorre in Mad Love (1933)
#08 Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)
#09 Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
#10 Ernest Thesiger in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
#11 Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (1986)
#12 Fredric March in Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1932)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)
#02 Spencer Tracy in Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1941)
#03 Marcia Gay Harden in The Mist (2007)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN SCI-FI MOVIES
#01 Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (1986)#02 Henry Thomas in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
#03 Sarah Snook in Predestination (2014)
#04 Jeff Bridges in Starman (1984)
#05 Haley Joel Osment in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
#06 Sam Rockwell in Moon (2009)
#07 Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
#08 Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
#09 Jodie Foster in Contact (1997)
#10 Vincent D'Onofrio in Men in Black (1997)
#11 Michael Fassbender in Prometheus (2012)
#12 Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin (2013)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man (1999)
#02 Jack Johnson in Lost in Space (1998)
#03 Frances O'Connor in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN SUPERHERO MOVIES
#01 Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)#02 Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man (2008)
#03 Christopher Reeve in Superman (1978)
#04 Hugh Jackman in Logan (2017)
#05 Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992)
#06 Chloe Grace Moretz in Kick-Ass (2010)
#07 Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen (2009)
#08 J.K. Simmons in Spider-Man (2002)
#09 Danny DeVito in Batman Returns (1992)
#10 Patrick Stewart in Logan (2017)
#11 Samuel L. Jackson in Unbreakable (2000)
#12 Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3 (2013)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES: HEROES...
#01 Ioan Gruffudd & Jessica Alba & Chris Evans & Michael Chiklis in Fantastic Four (2005)
#02 Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider (2007)
#03 Matt Salinger in Captain America (1990)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES: VILLAINS...
#01 Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman and Robin (1997)
#02 Richard Pryor in Superman III (1983)
#03 Jesse Eisenberg in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN FANTASY MOVIES
#01 James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)#02 Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (1993)
#03 Steve Martin in All of Me (1984)
#04 Roland Young in Topper (1937)
#05 Rex Harrison in The Ghost & Mrs Muir (1947)
#06 John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich (1999)
#07 Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice (1988)
#08 James Gleason in Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941)
#09 Margaret Rutherford in Blithe Spirit (1945)
#10 Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands (1990)
#11 Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
#12 Tom Hanks in Big (1988)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
#02 Victoria Tennant in All of Me (1984)
#03 Mildred Natwick in The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN WESTERNS
#01 John Wayne in The Searchers (1956)#02 Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
#03 Tommy Lee Jones in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
#04 Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine (1946)
#05 Dana Andrews in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
#06 Anthony Quinn in Warlock (1959)
#07 Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)
#08 John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
#09 Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1941)
#10 Richard Farnsworth in The Grey Fox (1982)
#11 James Stewart in Destry Rides Again (1939)
#12 Jason Robards Jr in The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
AND...THREE FAVOURITE FEMALE PERFORMANCES...
#01 Diane Cilento in Hombre (1967)
#02 Suzi Amis in The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
#03 Gail Russell in Angel and the Badman (1947)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY PERFORMANCES...
#01 Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez & Estelita Rodriguez in Rio Bravo (1959)
#02 Charles Winninger in Destry Rides Again (1939)
#03 James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PORTRAYALS OF SERIAL KILLERS
#01 Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler (1968)#02 Charlize Theron in Monster (2003)
#03 Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
#04 Richard Attenborough in 10 Rillington Place (1971)
#05 Kevin Spacey in Seven (1995)
#06 Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
#07 Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom (1994)
#08 Bob Hoskins in Felicia's Journey (1999)
#09 Shirley Stoler in The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
#10 Daniel Henshall in Snowtown (2011)
#11 Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (1955)
#12 Laird Cregar in The Lodger (1944)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Rod Steiger in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
#02 Harry Connick Jr in Copycat (1995)
#03 Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill (1980)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN MUSICALS
#01 Jean Hagen in Singin' in the Rain (1952)#02 Liza Minnelli in Cabaret (1972)
#03 Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
#04 Judy Garland in A Star is Born (1954)
#05 Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon (1953)
#06 The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night (1964)
#07 Gene Kelly in For Me and My Gal (1942)
#08 Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972)
#09 Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
#10 Ron Moody in Oliver! (1968)
#11 Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
#12 J. Evan Bonifant in Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933)
#02 Russell Crowe in Les Miserables (2012)
#03 Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! (2008)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN WWII FILMS
#01 Montgomery Clift in From Here to Eternity (1953)#02 Michael Caine in Too Late the Hero (1970)
#03 George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
#04 James Mason in The Desert Fox (1951)
#05 Virginia McKenna in Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)
#06 Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (2009)
#07 Michael Redgrave in The Dam Busters (1954)
#08 Paul Scofield in The Train (1964)
#09 Colin Firth in The Railway Man (2013)
#10 James Coburn in Cross of Iron (1977)
#11 George Segal in King Rat (1965)
#12 Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express (1965)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Dwight Schultz in Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
#02 Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker in Above and Beyond (1952)
#03 Sophie Nelisse in The Book Thief (2013)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES
#01 Cary Grant in North By Northwest (1959)#02 Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
#03 Judith Anderson in Rebecca (1940)
#04 Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train (1951)
#05 Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
#06 Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)
#07 Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)
#08 Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
#09 Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (1935)
#10 Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956)
#11 Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
#12 Grace Kelly in Rear Window (1954)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Anne Baxter in I Confess (1953)
#02 Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940)
#03 Barry Foster in Frenzy (1972)
THE DOZEN BIGGEST OSCAR TRAVESTIES: BEST ACTOR
#01 1974: Art Carney in Harry and Tonto BEAT nominee Jack Nicholson in Chinatown??#02 1936: Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur BEAT nominees William Powell in My Man Godfrey AND Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town AND Walter Huston in Dodsworth??
#03 1998: Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful BEAT nominee Edward Norton in American History X??
#04 1959: Charlton Heston in Ben Hur BEAT nominee Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot??
#05 1992: Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman BEAT nominees Denzel Washington in Malcolm X AND Robert Downey Jr in Chaplin??
#06 2011: Jean Dujardin in The Artist BEAT nominee Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy??
#07 1940: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story BEAT nominee Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath??
#08 1944: Bing Crosby in Going My Way BEAT nominee Charles Boyer in Gaslight??
#09 1930/31: Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul BEAT nominee Fredric March in The Royal Family of Broadway??
#10 1938: Spencer Tracy in Boys Town BEAT nominee James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces??
#11 1935: Victor McLaglen in The Informer BEAT nominee Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty??
#12 1961: Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg BEAT Paul Newman in The Hustler??
THE DOZEN BIGGEST OSCAR TRAVESTIES: BEST ACTRESS
#01 1954: Grace Kelly in The Country Girl BEAT nominee Judy Garland in A Star is Born??#02 1986: Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God BEAT nominee Sigourney Weaver in Aliens??
#03 1998: Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love BEAT nominee Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth??
#04 1936: Louise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld BEAT nominee Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey??
#05 1940: Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle BEAT nominees Bette Davis in The Letter AND Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story AND Joan Fontaine in Rebecca??
#06 1937: Louise Rainer in The Good Earth BEAT nominees Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth AND Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born AND Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas??
#07 1960: Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 BEAT nominees Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello AND Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment??
#08 1967: Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner BEAT nominee Edith Evans in The Whisperers??
#09 1997: Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets BEAT nominees Julie Christie in Afterglow AND Helena Bonham Carter in The Wings of the Dove??
#10 2005: Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line BEAT nominee Felicity Huffman in Transamerica??
#11 1990: Kathy Bates in Misery BEAT nominee Anjelica Huston in The Grifters??
#12 2001: Halle Berry in Monster's Ball BEAT nominee Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary??
THE DOZEN BIGGEST OSCAR TRAVESTIES: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
#01 1946: Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives BEAT nominee Claude Rains in Notorious??#02 1999: Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules BEAT nominee Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense??
#03 1996: Cuba Gooding Jr in Jerry Maguire BEAT nominee William H. Macy in Fargo??
#04 1944: Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way BEAT nominee Clifton Webb in Laura??
#05 1961: George Chakiris in West Side Story BEAT nominee George C. Scott in The Hustler??
#06 1975: George Burns in The Sunshine Boys BEAT nominee Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon??
#07 1985: Don Ameche in Cocoon BEAT nominee William Hickey in Prizzi's Honour??
#08 1967: George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke BEAT nominee Gene Hackman in Bonnie & Clyde??
#09 1979: Melvyn Douglas in Being There BEAT nominee Mickey Rooney in The Black Stallion??
#10 1991: Jack Palance in City Slickers BEAT nominee Tommy Lee Jones in JFK??
#11 1986: Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters BEAT nominees Tom Berenger AND Willem Dafoe in Platoon??
#12 1984: Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields BEAT nominee John Malkovich in Places in the Heart??
THE DOZEN BIGGEST OSCAR TRAVESTIES: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
#01 1936: Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse BEAT nominee Alice Brady in My Man Godfrey??#02 1960: Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry BEAT nominee Janet Leigh in Psycho??
#03 1942: Teresa Wright in Mrs Miniver BEAT nominee Agnes Moorehead in The Magnificent Ambersons??
#04 1952: Gloria Grahame in The Bad and the Beautiful BEAT nominee Jean Hagen in Singin' in the Rain??
#05 1970: Helen Hayes in Airport BEAT nominees Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces AND Lee Grant in The Landlord??
#06 1993: Anna Paquin in The Piano BEAT nominee Rosie Perez in Fearless?
#07 2007: Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton BEAT nominees Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone AND Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There??
#08 1956: Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind BEAT nominee Mildred Dunnock in Baby Doll??
#09 1998: Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love BEAT nominee Kathy Bates in Primary Colours??
#10 1946: Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge BEAT nominee Ethel Barrymore in The Spiral Staircase??
#11 1939: Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind BEAT nominee Geraldine Fitzgerald in Wuthering Heights??
#12 1944: Ethel Barrymore in None But the Lonely Heart BEAT nominee Angela Lansbury in Gaslight??
VASTLY OVERRATED PERFORMANCES BY A DOZEN GOLDEN-AGE-OF-HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARS
:: Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (1956):: Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
:: James Cagney in The Public Enemy (1931)
:: Gary Cooper in Ball of Fire (1940)
:: Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945)
:: Bette Davis in The Little Foxes (1941)
:: Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
:: Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
:: Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond (1981)
:: Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939)
:: James Stewart in Vertigo (1958)
:: Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
VASTLY UNDERRATED PERFORMANCES BY THE SAME DOZEN GOLDEN-AGE-OF-HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARS
:: Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958):: Humphrey Bogart in Knock On Any Door (1949)
:: James Cagney in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
:: Gary Cooper in They Came to Cordura (1959)
:: Joan Crawford in Flamingo Road (1949)
:: Bette Davis in The Anniversary (1968)
:: Henry Fonda in Fort Apache (1948)
:: Cary Grant in In Name Only (1939)
:: Katharine Hepburn in A Delicate Balance (1973)
:: Laurence Olivier in Carrie (1952)
:: James Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
:: Spencer Tracy in The Seventh Cross (1944)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PORTRAYALS OF CLASSIC 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS
#02 Robert Newton as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1950)
#03 Edna May Oliver as Aunt Betsey in David Copperfield (1935)
#04 Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
#05 Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1951)
#06 Katharine Hepburn as Jo March in Little Women (1933)
#07 Peter Lorre as Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment (1935)
#08 Laurence Olivier as Mr Darcy in Pride & Prejudice (1940)
#09 Finlay Currie as Magwitch in Great Expectations (1946)
#10 Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility (1995)
#11 Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
#12 James Mason as Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956)
#02 June Allyson as Jo March in Little Women (1949)
#03 Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PORTRAYALS OF GREAT ARTISTS
#01 Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life (1956) [Vincent van Gogh]#02 Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There (2007) [Bob Dylan]
#03 Robert Downey Jr in Chaplin (1992) [Charlie Chaplin]
#04 James Cagney in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) [Lon Chaney]
#05 Ed Harris in Pollock (2000) [Jackson Pollock]
#06 Errol Flynn in Too Much Too Soon (1958) [John Barrymore]
#07 Jim Broadbent & Allan Corduner in Topsy-Turvy (1999) [Gilbert & Sullivan]
#08 Peter Finch in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) [Oscar Wilde]
#09 Anthony Hopkins in Shadowlands (1993) [C.S. Lewis]
#10 Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story (1978) [Buddy Holly]
#11 Timothy Spall in Mr Turner (2014) [J.M.W. Turner]
#12 Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (2009) [Leo Tolstoy]
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Richard Gere in I'm Not There (2007) [Bob Dylan]
#02 Colin Firth in Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) [Johannes Vermeer]
#03 Nicole Kidman in The Hours (2002) [Virginia Woolf]
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES IN DISASTER MOVIES
#01 Ian Holm in The Sweet Hereafter (1997)#02 Jeff Bridges in Fearless (1993)
#03 Denzel Washington in Flight (2012)
#04 Henry Fonda in Fail-Safe (1964)
#05 Richard Attenborough in Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
#06 Tom Holland in The Impossible (2012)
#07 Thomas Mitchell in The Hurricane (1937)
#08 Myrna Loy in The Rains Came (1939)
#09 Ed Harris in Apollo 13 (1995)
#10 Maureen Stapleton in Airport (1970)
#11 Kenneth More in A Night to Remember (1958)
#12 Spencer Tracy in The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
...THERE ARE FAR TOO MANY CRAPPY PERFORMANCES IN THESE KIND OF MOVIES FOR ME TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF LISTING ONLY THREE...
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES BY ADULTS IN KIDS FILMS
#01 Robert Newton in Treasure Island (1950)#02 Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
#03 Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
#04 Mickey Rooney in The Black Stallion (1979)
#05 Lionel Barrymore in Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
#06 Jane Wyman in The Yearling (1946)
#07 Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
#08 Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday (2003)
#09 Harry Dean Stanton in Where the Lilies Bloom (1974)
#10 Dustin Hoffman in Hook (1991)
#11 Sacha Baron Cohen in Hugo (2011)
#12 Paul Lukas in Kim (1950)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Peter Lind Hayes in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
#02 Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (1964)
#03 Billie Burke in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PORTRAYALS OF GANGSTERS
#01 Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast (2000)#02 James Cagney in White Heat (1949)
#03 Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (1947)
#04 Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971)
#05 Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo (1948)
#06 Lee Marvin in Point Blank (1967)
#07 Ben Mendelsohn in Animal Kingdom (2010)
#08 Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra (1941)
#09 Dustin Hoffman in Straight Time (1978)
#10 Pat Hingle in The Grifters (1990)
#11 Al Pacino in Carlito's Way (1993)
#12 Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock (1947)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)
#02 Robert De Niro in Analyze This (1999)
#03 Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition (2002)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PORTRAYALS OF LAWYERS
#01 Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982)#02 Henry Fonda in Young Mr Lincoln (1939)
#03 Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
#04 Robert Morley & Wilfred Hyde-White in Libel (1959)
#05 James Stephenson in The Letter (1940)
#06 Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960)
#07 Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
#08 Susan Sarandon in The Client (1994)
#09 Bud Tingwell in The Castle (1997)
#10 Robert Donat in The Winslow Boy (1948)
#11 Matt Damon in The Rainmaker (1997)
#12 Dirk Bogarde in Victim (1961)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Bob Balaban in Absence of Malice (1981)
#02 Dustin Hoffman in Sleepers (1996)
#03 Ron Silver in Reversal of Fortune (1990)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES BY AUSTRALIAN ACTORS IN AUSTRALIAN MOVIES
#01 Sarah Snook in Predestination (2014) #02 David Wenham in Gettin' Square (2003)
#03 John Meillon in The Fourth Wish (1976)
#04 Ben Mendelsohn in Animal Kingdom (2010)
#05 Judy Davis in My Brilliant Career (1978)
#06 Jacqueline McKenzie in Angel Baby (1995)
#07 Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm (1989)
#08 Hugo Weaving in Last Ride (2009)
#09 Helen Morse in Caddie (1976)
#10 Kristina Nehm in The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
#11 Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant (1980)
#12 Toni Collette in Japanese Story (2003)
...AND THREE TRULY CRAPPY ONES...
#01 Alwyn Kurtz in The Earthling (1980)
#02 Terry Camilleri in The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
#03 Bert Newton in Fatty Finn (1980)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 1930's
:: Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)
:: Claudette Colbert in Midnight (1939)
:: Henry Fonda in Young Mr Lincoln (1939)
:: Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933)
:: Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
:: Katharine Hepburn in Little Women (1933)
:: Carole Lombard in Nothing Sacred (1937)
:: Paul Muni in I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
:: Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar (1931)
:: Ginger Rogers in Stage Door (1937)
:: Barbara Stanwyck in The Miracle Woman (1931)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931)
:: Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet (1936)
:: Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette (1938)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 1940's
:: Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946):: James Cagney in White Heat (1949)
:: Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946)
:: Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra (1941)
:: Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
:: Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
:: Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
:: Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine (1946)
:: Michael Redgrave in Dead of Night (1945)
:: Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday (1940)
:: Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941)
:: John Wayne in Red River (1948)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Greer Garson in Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
:: Rosalind Russell in Sister Kenny (1946)
:: Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember (1945)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 1950's
:: Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success (1957):: Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole (1951)
:: Cary Grant in North By Northwest (1959)
:: Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
:: Kay Kendall in Genevieve (1953)
:: James Mason in The Desert Fox (1951)
:: Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (1955)
:: Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959)
:: Michael Redgrave in The Browning Version (1951)
:: Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train (1951)
:: John Wayne in The Quiet Man (1952)
:: John Wayne in The Searchers (1956)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Robert Strauss in Stalag 17 (1953)
:: Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
:: Shelley Winters in A Place in the Sun (1951)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 1960's
:: Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago (1965):: Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler (1968)
:: Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
:: Albert Finney in Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (1960)
:: Richard Harris in This Sporting Life (1963)
:: Lee Marvin in Point Blank (1967)
:: Steve McQueen in Bullitt (1968)
:: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962)
:: Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
:: Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
:: Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love (1967)
:: Peter Sellers in Lolita (1962)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Estelle Parsons in Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
:: Thelma Ritter in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
:: Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 (1960)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 1970's
:: Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971):: John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
:: Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
:: Robert De Niro in Mean Streets (1973)
:: Robert Duvall in Tomorrow (1972)
:: Ruth Gordon in Harold & Maude (1971)
:: Gene Hackman in The Conversation (1974)
:: Dustin Hoffman in Straight Time (1978)
:: Angela Lansbury in Death on the Nile (1978)
:: Robert Mitchum in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
:: Christopher Reeve in Superman (1978)
:: Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Ann-Margret in Tommy (1975)
:: Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class (1973)
:: Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 1980's
:: Sean Connery in Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (1989):: Albert Finney in Shoot the Moon (1982)
:: Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
:: William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist (1988)
:: Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers (1988)
:: Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon (1982)
:: Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice (1988)
:: John Lithgow in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
:: Steve Martin in All of Me (1984)
:: Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
:: Christopher Walken in The Dead Zone (1983)
:: Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Jane Fonda in On Golden Pond (1981)
:: Jack Lemmon in Missing (1982)
:: Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark / Evil Angels (1988)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 1990's
:: Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski (1998):: Morgan Freeman in Seven (1995)
:: Nicole Kidman in To Die For (1995)
:: Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
:: Shirley MacLaine in Guarding Tess (1994)
:: Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (1993)
:: Al Pacino in Carlito's Way (1993)
:: Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco (1997)
:: Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992)
:: John C. Reilly in Magnolia (1999)
:: Kevin Spacey in Seven (1995)
:: John Travolta in Primary Colours (1998)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Robert Benigni in Life is Beautiful (1998)
:: Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (1999)
:: Richard Dreyfuss in Mr Holland's Opus (1995)
A DOZEN CLASSIC PERFORMANCES WHICH WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR: 2000's
:: Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys (2000):: Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man (2008)
:: Paul Giamatti in American Splendor (2003)
:: Paul Giamatti in Sideways (2004)
:: Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
:: Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen (2009)
:: Haley Joel Osment in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
:: Ellen Page in Hard Candy (2005)
:: Guy Pearce in Memento (2000)
:: Sam Rockwell in Moon (2009)
:: Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive (2001)
:: Renee Zellweger in Nurse Betty (2000)
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES WHICH WERE...
:: Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider (2003)
:: Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich (2000)
:: Morgan Freeman in Invictus (2009)
A DOZEN FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES BY ACTORS WHO WERE IN THEIR SEVENTIES AT THE TIME
#01 Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story (1999) [Age: 79]#02 Edith Evans in The Whisperers (1967) [79]
#03 Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby (2004) [74]
#04 Sydney Greenstreet in Flamingo Road (1949) [70]
#05 Margaret Rutherford in Murder Most Foul (1964) [72]
#06 Fredric March in The Iceman Cometh (1973) [76]
#07 John Gielgud in Arthur (1981) [77]
#08 Ruth Gordon in Harold & Maude (1971) [75]
#09 Laurence Olivier in The Boys from Brazil (1978) [71]
#10 Lionel Barrymore in Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) [71]
#11 Charles Coburn in Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952) [75]
#12 James Mason in The Shooting Party (1985) [76]
...AND THREE CRAPPY ONES BY THOSE WHO HAD REACHED THEIR USE-BY DATE...
#01 Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond (1981) [74]
#02 Woody Allen in Scoop (2006) [71]
#03 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Ghost Story (1981) [72]
