Tuesday 25 January 2011

My top 10 Oscar Winning Performances (Best Actor)

As the nominees for this year's Academy Awards are released, with Colin Firth, Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg and James Franco battling it out for the prize, here are my personal 10 favourite performances that were worthy of winning the gong.



10.  Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris in Training Day  (2001)
In three words:  Powerful, horrible, brilliant



9.  Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham in American Beauty  (1999)
In three words:  Middle Aged Everyman




8.  F Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus  (1984)
In three words:  Jealous little bitch



7.  Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets  (1997)
In three words:  Painfully comic awkwardness



6.  Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man  (1988)
In three words:  Autism done brilliantly



5.  Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood  (2007)
In three words:  Powerfully brilliant selfishness



4.  Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs  (1991)
In three words:  Psychotic murdering cannibal



3.  Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather  (1972)
In three words:  Scene stealer extraordinaire 



2.  Al Pacino as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman  (1992)
In three words:  Brilliant blind monster



1.  Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump  (1994)
In three words:  Humbling simple man

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