Brenda Flicker's win, although deserved, was classic coattails win.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
I finally saw Sling Blade last year; it doesn't move at all! The movie only really picks up whenever Dwight Yoakam and John Ritter enter.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
yoakam's fucken great in it! now that's a guy who never really gets his due. still a hard movie to put in context w/rest of billy bob's career (well maybe not so hard considering all the pretty horses)
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Yoakam should've gotten a supporting nod.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
Irons, Duvall & Nolte (affliction) are the only ones I rate highly
― buzza, Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
awww @ Cronenberg getting a little ovation in the Irons clip. (Dead Ringers is probably my fave of his.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
still gutted and baffled that Ray Winstone wasn't even nominated for Nil By Mouth. just about wipes the floor with this lot.
― piscesx, Saturday, 10 September 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
eastwood imo
― Lamp, Saturday, 10 September 2011 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
Cage's winning film impressed hetero men who've seen too much porn.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
d/ling now
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 September 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 18 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Vote, you hippies.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
Jeremy Irons - Reversal of FortuneAnthony Hopkins - The Silence of the LambsDenzel Washington - Malcolm XDaniel Day-Lewis - In The Name of the FatherRobert Duvall - The ApostleRussell Crowe - The Insider
would be my shortlist. voted for irons in the end.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
he's right though that he shoulda won for dead ringers.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
jess and I in mindmeld shockah
I want an audio recording of all of Irons' monologues from ROF ("All Sunny ate for dinnah was a sohn-DAY").
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
Reversal of Fortune[ is one of my favorite courtroom movies, despite a sorely underused Anabella Sciorra (I guess Hollywood had room for only one Italian-American young actress after Marisa Tomei won her Oscar two years later).
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the LambsSean Penn - Dead Man WalkingEdward Norton Woody
Voted Hopkins
― ᒓᴥᒔ (ENBB), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Joe Pesci's wasnt the shortest speech though:Hitchcock just said thank you.still waiting for the guy who would say only "thanks" - or- say nothing
― nostormo, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
Of those I've seen, Cage, Day-Lewis, Penn (DMW), Nolte, Harrelson, Washington, Hopkins (SOTL) and Hawthorne. Never saw Reversal of Fortune, but sounds like I should.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Monday, 19 September 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
whoa!
A pretty good top five.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Wow--never would have guessed Farnsworth would win.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know Eastwood's perf had defenders -- he's at best not bad; prefer him in In the Line of Fire.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
Hopkins working way harder in that movie than Karloff or Rathbone. (in 20 mins' screen time)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
last time he worked hard in anything
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
he worked as hard as Nixon did.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Dick a way more convincing cannibal.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
Watching Reversal of Fortune again, I'm amazed Oscar went with the black comedy/farcical role.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrxenZhf78I
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 December 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link
Scrolling through this, I feel it necessary to clarify that my second-place Nolte vote was for Affliction, not for the one where he cried a lot.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
I tried settling the matter.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link