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I also have an idea of revisiting the decade lists without simply juggling the exact same titles. Best Performances.
I am sure Yoda could tweak his list mechanism to vote not for a movie but one or more performances within a movie. You would get some of the exact same movies represented, of course. Great movies usually contain great performances. But it would also allow us to highlight great performances in OK films that you might not otherwise vote for and also to highlight the kinds of performances that things like The Oscars tend to overlook. If you want to vote for Robin Williams' voice performance in Aladdin or one of Andy Serkis' motion-capture performances, this would be your chance. And you could certainly vote for more than one performance from a film. If you wanted to vote for Daniel-Day Lewis and Paul Dano from There Will Be Blood, go ahead!
The thought came to be during the MoFo Top 100 of the 2000s. The movie Sexy Beast is an OK Noir-ish little Brit flick, probably wasn't going to be in contention of cracking many people's ballots. BUT, if you ask for the best performances of that decade Ben Kingsley's wonderfully monstrous Don Logan from Sexy Beast leaps right out as a top contender. The movie itself, little chance of making the collective, but the performance...heck yeah!
Logistically I think the ballots would need to be different. Having seen how these questions of Best Performance are generally answered here and other message boards there is a HUGE male bias. Partially because so many American films are centered around male characters. No need to divide between lead and supporting but maybe each ballot has the Top 20 male and Top 20 female performances and the lists are presented in parallel? Two male and two female reveals each day, essentially get a Top 200 for each decade? Or do 50 Male and 50 Female?
Details to be worked out, but it would be a different angle on the decade lists.
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