Powering through the series where I list my top 10 acting performances by year. Remember, the top 10 isn't so much a list of the top 10 best acting performances, per se, but more me playing favourites to actors and actresses I really dig, as well as performances that gave me the feels. You know, to quote Family Guy, 'all the things that make us, laugh and cry'. Which is ironic because a certain prominent member of the Family Guy cast is on this list. It's almost like I set up my own joke, isn't it?
If you're wondering why no performances from Lincoln or The Master are on the list, it's because I haven't seen those films. If you're wondering why none from Silver Linings Playbook is on, that'll be because I despise that dishonest movie with every bone in my body, and cannot abide Jennifer Lawrence's hammy, OTT, shrill performance in it, which was not an accurate portrayal of a woman with mental health issues at all, so much so, that the mental health community had backlash about her acting in it. There, I said it. J-law did not deserve to win that goddamn Oscar. The lady who I have listed first should have received the award instead, for what was, in my opinion, one of the best acting performances of all time.
If you're wondering why no performances from Lincoln or The Master are on the list, it's because I haven't seen those films.
09. Kristen Stewart, On the Road
08. Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
07. Jonah Hill, 21 Jump Street
06. Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
01. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
A couple of stats...
By Gender
Gals: 7
Dudes: 3
By BBFC certificate
18: 1
15: 4
12A: 5 (my favourite is Beast of the Southern Wild's warning: 'Contains moderate threat, injury detail and potentially dangerous behaviour')
Shameless favouritism (people who've been on before)
Keira Knightley: 8th in 2014 for The Imitation Game
Leonardo DiCaprio: 2nd in 2006 (for The Depahted; hi Scorsese!) and 9th (Blood Diamond) although that list was constructed a l-o-n-g time ago and would be subject to change, 2nd in 2010 (Shutter Island; another Scorsese collab!), 2nd in 2013 (The Wolf of Wall Street; directed by some Martin Scorsese bloke I haven't heard of)
Jessica Chastain: 10th in 2014 (for A Most Violent Year)
Jessica Chastain: 10th in 2014 (for A Most Violent Year)
Jonah Hill: 3rd in 2014 (for 22 Jump Street; the sequel to the film he's on this list for. I'm pretty brazen with my Jonah fangirling), 9th in 2013 (The Wolf of Wall Street)
1 comment:
Jlaw did not win that Oscar for acting talent. She gives new meaning to the phrase 'casting couch'
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