Best Actor of All ime Tournament

[Guest ShamRock]

I figured we might as well have one since a couple of people started the favorite movie tournament and best movie tournament. This is a 64 actor/actress tournament and you can nominate up to 10 actors. Nominations end Monday afternoon.

 

My nominees:

Robert De Niro

Al Pacino

Marlon Brando

Edward Norton

Kevin Spacey

Russell Crowe

Gary Oldman

Gregory Peck

Morgan Freeman

Denzel Washington

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

EDIT: changing nominations to account for misinterpretation of the rules.

[spiny norman 0]

So many tournaments.

 

John Cazale (the most underrated actor ever)

Harrison Ford

Meryl Streep

Cate Blanchett

Bette Davis

Audrey Hepburn

Nicole Kidman

[ArkhamGlobe 0]

I'll nominate the following:

 

James Mason

Klaus Kinski

Gene Hackman

Toshiro Mifune

James Woods

Buster Keaton (and I'm dead serious here)

Lee Marvin

Harry Dean Stanton

 

EDIT: How the hell could I forget Robert Mitchum? I should slap myself.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Paul Newman

 

not too into these threads...but you gotta have Newman

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Daniel Motherfucking Day Lewis.

 

Put his name on the ballot as such.

[Jebus 0]

Jack Nicholson

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

John Wayne and Elvis

[Nighthawk 0]

That guy who was in that one movie.

[Angelus 0]

That guy who was in that one movie.

Casey Affleck ?

[Boner Kawanger 0]

This won't fail miserably or end in a disappointment, I'm sure.

[Guest JumpinJackFlash]

Great Classic Actors Who Deserve to Be in This Tournament and their Best Performance:

 

James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

William Holden (Stalag 17)

James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

Claude Rains (Casablanca)

Steve Mcqueen (Great Escape)

Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath)

Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)

Gene Kelly (Singin' in the Rain)

Charlton Heston (Ben Hur)

Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)

James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause)

Charlie Chaplin (The Gold Rush)

Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity)

The Marx Brothers (Duck Soup)

Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned...)

George C. Scott (The Hustler)

[DCMaximo 0]

Gregory Peck

Tom Hanks

Bill Murray

William H Macy

Robert Mitchum

Audrey Hepburn

Anthony Hopkins

Morgan Freeman

[Mecha Mummy 0]

Toshiro Mifune. Period.

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

Toshiro Mifune. Period.

Beat me to it.

 

Edit: ArkhamGlobe also beat me to it. Damn, I'm stupid.

[Nighthawk 0]

Like he would win, anyway.

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

I assume we're talking male actors and not female actresses here.

 

Boris Karloff

Clark Gable

Frank Sinatra

Sidney Poiter

James Garner

Don Knotts

Anthony Quinn

Tony Curtis

Kirk Douglas

Lee Marvin

Rod Steiger

Clint Eastwood

Sean Connery

Montgomery Clift

Rory Calhoun

[The Mandarin 0]

Jack Nicholson getting the same amount of votes as James Woods is sad.

 

My picks (in no order):

Jack Nicholson

Dustin Hoffman

Tim Robbins

Morgan Freeman

Robert DeNiro

Ray Liotta (hey, Joe Pesci got a vote)

Tom Hanks

Meryl Streep

Sissy Spacek(!)

..Henry Winkler

William H. Macy

Jeff Daniels

and yes, Tom Cruise.

[spiny norman 0]

I assume we're talking male actors and not female actresses here.

No, if you look at the first post it says actors/actresses.

 

But for some reason people find it difficult to judge the merits of a female performance and thus do not rate them as being amongst the greatest of all time. Aside from me, two other people nominated women. I will be shocked if any woman, bar maybe Meryl Streep, make it past the second round.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Just a question: were we supposed to nominate our top 10 regardless of what others before us said, or simply add 10 names that hadn't been nominated yet? Because if it's the first option then I am going to edit my choices. My 10 nominations weren't my overall top 10 by any means.

[Guest ShamRock]

Just a question: were we supposed to nominate our top 10 regardless of what others before us said, or simply add 10 names that hadn't been nominated yet? Because if it's the first option then I am going to edit my choices. My 10 nominations weren't my overall top 10 by any means.

The first option.

[Masked Man of Mystery 0]

I don't normally go and say "these are my top fav actors" but here are some people I'd like to nominate:

Clint Eastwood

Orson Welles

Bela Lugosi

Bruce Lee

Jackie Chan

Patrick Stewart

Dang, I watch too much anime, if I think of anyone else, I'll add them later

[Ravenbomb 0]

Billy Crudup

Kiefer Sutherland

"Beat" Takeshi

Robert De Niro

Marlon Brando

Al Pacino

Kevin Spacey

Toshiro Mifune

Peter Lorre

Humphrey Bogart

Charlie Chaplain

Robert Duval

Daniel Day-Lewis

Henry Fonda

Jimmy Stewart

[Guest JMA]

Sean Penn

Malcolm McDowell

Gene Hackman

Michael Douglas

Martin Sheen

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Just a question: were we supposed to nominate our top 10 regardless of what others before us said, or simply add 10 names that hadn't been nominated yet? Because if it's the first option then I am going to edit my choices. My 10 nominations weren't my overall top 10 by any means.

The first option.

OK. With that in mind:

 

Kevin Spacey

Robert Deniro

Al Pacino

Humphrey Bogart

Russell Crowe

Daniel Day Lewis

Morgan Freeman

Tom Hanks

Dustin Hoffman

Robert Redford

[Crimson G 0]

Kevin Spacey

Sean Connery

Robert Duvall

Robert DeNiro

Al Pacino

Marlon Brando

 

That's all you really need. Sean Connery should win, hands down.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

No one's cooler than John Wayne. Hell with versatility, the man has an on-screen persona that can't truly be duplicated.

[caboose 0]

Everyone I would have voted for, has been nominated but I haven't seen anyone bote for...

 

...John Malkovitch yet!

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

I think you should do a seperate tournament for actresses. It will probably go better.

 

If you want all overall favorites to gauge seedings, here would be mine

 

Paul Newman

John Wayne

Cary Grant

Humphrey Bogart

James Garner

Katherine Hepburn

Jack Nicholson

Audrey Hepburn

Boris Karloff

Orson Welles

[2GOLD 0]

Huh, who to pick who to pick:

 

Paul Newman

John Wayne

Cary Grant

Humphrey Bogart

James Garner

Harrison Ford

Jack Nicholson

Audrey Hepburn

Denzel Washington

Tom Hanks

 

 

DeNiro and Pacino would be on this list, but Pacino has become his Scent of a Woman character which is getting annoying and DeNiro just doesn't seem to read the scripts he is agreeing too. And Connery can never be forgiven for some of his last few movies.