Post by sai on Jan 28, 2007 11:12:57 GMT -5
My picks are based on UK screening dates
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Auteuil: Hidden
Patrick Wilson: Hard Candy / Little Children
Bae Yong-joon: April Snow
Ali Suleman: Paradise Now
Joseph Gordon Levitt: Brick
Winner: JOSEPH GORDON LEVITT
From the little kid of Third Rock From The Sun and (immense guilty pleasure) 10 Things I Hate About You this was another storming leading performance, announcing that Mysterious Skin was no fluke and he's one of the leading young talents in Hollywood. Bogie would be prourd of this performance as high school age PI Brendan.
BEST ACTRESS
Ellen Page: Hard Candy
Son Ye-jin: April Snow
Lee Young Ae: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Kate Winslet: Little Children
Deborah Francois: The Page Turner
Winner(s): ELLEN PAGE / DEBORAH FRANCOIS
Ellen Page
Deborah Francois
In an exceptional year It was hard not to have a five way tie between these performances. I can't narrow it further than Page and Francois. The roles are utterly different. Page is verbose, upfront, immediately striking as Hayley Stark. Francois, on the other hand, is icily composed, restrained and quiet in her acting. Both fail to strike a single false note.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jackie Earle Haley: Little Children
Lukas Haas: Brick
James Woods: Pretty Persuasion
Peter Sarsgaard: Jarhead
Alan Arkin: Little Miss Sunshine
Winner: JACKIE EARLE HALEY
It would have been so easy for Haley to botch this part. It's easy to overplay, it's easy (and understandable) to portray Ronnie as a monster. He doesn't. Instead he makes us care about this lonely, sad, damaged man. He gives Ronnie reality and dignity, a huge achievement.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Michelle Williams: Brokeback Mountain
Maggie Gyllenhaal: Stranger Than Fiction
Charlotte Rampling: Lemming
Abigail Breslin: Little Miss Sunshine
Catherine Frot: The Page Turner
Winner(s): CHARLOTTE RAMPLING / ABIGAIL BRESLIN
Charlotte Rampling
Abigail Breslin
Again, two performances from opposite ends of the spectrum. Rampling's hillariously bitchy turn in Lemming nicks the film with her chilly delivery of withering one liners and her enduring sex appeal (at 61 she's the sexiest thing that appeared in Basic Instinct 2 by a long chalk) sets the plot, and the red blooded males in the audience, racing.
Abigail Breslin, on the other hand, invests Best Picture contender Little Miss Sunshine with a boundless charm befitting the title all while holding her own with an excellent cast at the top of their game.
CAMEO OF THE YEAR
For a performance that wouldn't otherwise get mentioned. I can think of just one of note.
JANE ADAMS: Little Children
I love Jane Adams. Whenever she pops up in a movie I am cheered because I know even if the film itself sucks we're going to see at least one great piece of acting. Her role in Little Children lasts barely five minutes but in that time she creates a complete and complex person, makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you want to see a movie all about her character. Wonderful.
Do reply with your own picks, or any thoughts on my lsits.
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Auteuil: Hidden
Patrick Wilson: Hard Candy / Little Children
Bae Yong-joon: April Snow
Ali Suleman: Paradise Now
Joseph Gordon Levitt: Brick
Winner: JOSEPH GORDON LEVITT
From the little kid of Third Rock From The Sun and (immense guilty pleasure) 10 Things I Hate About You this was another storming leading performance, announcing that Mysterious Skin was no fluke and he's one of the leading young talents in Hollywood. Bogie would be prourd of this performance as high school age PI Brendan.
BEST ACTRESS
Ellen Page: Hard Candy
Son Ye-jin: April Snow
Lee Young Ae: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Kate Winslet: Little Children
Deborah Francois: The Page Turner
Winner(s): ELLEN PAGE / DEBORAH FRANCOIS
Ellen Page
Deborah Francois
In an exceptional year It was hard not to have a five way tie between these performances. I can't narrow it further than Page and Francois. The roles are utterly different. Page is verbose, upfront, immediately striking as Hayley Stark. Francois, on the other hand, is icily composed, restrained and quiet in her acting. Both fail to strike a single false note.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jackie Earle Haley: Little Children
Lukas Haas: Brick
James Woods: Pretty Persuasion
Peter Sarsgaard: Jarhead
Alan Arkin: Little Miss Sunshine
Winner: JACKIE EARLE HALEY
It would have been so easy for Haley to botch this part. It's easy to overplay, it's easy (and understandable) to portray Ronnie as a monster. He doesn't. Instead he makes us care about this lonely, sad, damaged man. He gives Ronnie reality and dignity, a huge achievement.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Michelle Williams: Brokeback Mountain
Maggie Gyllenhaal: Stranger Than Fiction
Charlotte Rampling: Lemming
Abigail Breslin: Little Miss Sunshine
Catherine Frot: The Page Turner
Winner(s): CHARLOTTE RAMPLING / ABIGAIL BRESLIN
Charlotte Rampling
Abigail Breslin
Again, two performances from opposite ends of the spectrum. Rampling's hillariously bitchy turn in Lemming nicks the film with her chilly delivery of withering one liners and her enduring sex appeal (at 61 she's the sexiest thing that appeared in Basic Instinct 2 by a long chalk) sets the plot, and the red blooded males in the audience, racing.
Abigail Breslin, on the other hand, invests Best Picture contender Little Miss Sunshine with a boundless charm befitting the title all while holding her own with an excellent cast at the top of their game.
CAMEO OF THE YEAR
For a performance that wouldn't otherwise get mentioned. I can think of just one of note.
JANE ADAMS: Little Children
I love Jane Adams. Whenever she pops up in a movie I am cheered because I know even if the film itself sucks we're going to see at least one great piece of acting. Her role in Little Children lasts barely five minutes but in that time she creates a complete and complex person, makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you want to see a movie all about her character. Wonderful.
Do reply with your own picks, or any thoughts on my lsits.
