Al Pacino:
Carlito's Way (At times menacing, other times heartbreakingly tender. As much as I love him in Scent Of A Woman, he deserved the Oscar for Carlito's Way even more)
Jack Nicholson:
The Crossing Guard (I feel like this performance gets WAY overlooked. He was utterly spellbinding in this role)
Elisha Cuthbert:
The Girl Next Door (She plays one of the most captivating love interests I've ever seen. I know it's just a light romantic comedy, but her presence made it stand out as something worth a look. And I don't just mean in terms of, uuh... physics.)
Ida Lupino:
They Drive By Night (Watched this movie for Bogart, Lupino ended up making the biggest impression on me. She's brilliant in it!)
Vincent Price:
The Last Man On Earth (The most sensitive and heartfelt performance of his career)
Orson Welles:
The Stranger (One of the scariest depictions of a nazi on film)
Kiefer Sutherland:
Eye For An Eye (Speaking of scary... yikes. Sutherland plays an utterly sickening serial killer/rapist masterfully.)
Sidney Poitier:
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (The only award that seemed to notice him at all was Fotogramas de Plata)
Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint should both have gotten some attention for North By Northwest.
Carlito's Way (At times menacing, other times heartbreakingly tender. As much as I love him in Scent Of A Woman, he deserved the Oscar for Carlito's Way even more)
Jack Nicholson:
The Crossing Guard (I feel like this performance gets WAY overlooked. He was utterly spellbinding in this role)
Elisha Cuthbert:
The Girl Next Door (She plays one of the most captivating love interests I've ever seen. I know it's just a light romantic comedy, but her presence made it stand out as something worth a look. And I don't just mean in terms of, uuh... physics.)
Ida Lupino:
They Drive By Night (Watched this movie for Bogart, Lupino ended up making the biggest impression on me. She's brilliant in it!)
Vincent Price:
The Last Man On Earth (The most sensitive and heartfelt performance of his career)
Orson Welles:
The Stranger (One of the scariest depictions of a nazi on film)
Kiefer Sutherland:
Eye For An Eye (Speaking of scary... yikes. Sutherland plays an utterly sickening serial killer/rapist masterfully.)
Sidney Poitier:
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (The only award that seemed to notice him at all was Fotogramas de Plata)
Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint should both have gotten some attention for North By Northwest.
Elisha Cuthbert was great in The Girl Next Door, but Oscar-worthy? The only performance that came close toOscar-worthy in that movie came from Timothy Olyphant. As for Carlito's Way, I thought Sean Penn was more Oscar worthy than Pacino.