Movies: Best Actor Tournament- Semifinals - VOTING CLOSED

[Trap Jesus]

Please consider:

- Acting talent
- Movie/TV selection/filmography

Jack Nicholson won the tournament of 256 actors and now will go up against 63 other HF-nominated actors that were not in the original tournament.

Original Tournament Final:

Movies: - Best Actor Tournament (FINALS) - JACK NICHOLSON WINS

Bracket

GROUP STAGE

Spoiler

Group A

Jack Nicholson	Gary Oldman
Marion Cotillard	Bruce Campbell

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Group B

Katharine Hepburn	Christopher Plummer
Sidney Poitier	Ben Foster

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Group C

Ingrid Bergman	Joe Pesci
John Wayne	Steve Buscemi

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Group D

Daniel Day Lewis	Laura Dern
Henry Fonda	Donald Sutherland

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Group E

Marlon Brando	Philip Seymour Hoffman
Casey Affleck	Harvey Keitel

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Group F

Sean Penn	Kathy Bates
Juliette Binoche	Paul Giamatti

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Group G

Gene Hackman	Javier Bardem
Sam Rockwell	Tom Hardy

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Group H

Frances McDormand	George C. Scott
Christopher Walken	Charlie Chaplin

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Group I

Sally Field	Helen Mirren
Sean Connery	Mickey Rourke

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Group J

Christoph Waltz	Alec Guinness
Peter O'Toole	Vincent Gallo

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Group K

Laurence Olivier	Clark Gable
Warren Beatty	Toshiro Mifune

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Group L

Sissy Spacek	Humphrey Bogart
Michelle Williams	Maggie Cheung

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Group M

Judi Dench	Joaquin Phoenix
Gena Rowlands	Tony Leung

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Group N

Ellen Burstyn	Julianne Moore
Peter Sellers	Gong Li

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Group O

Audrey Hepburn	Robert Duvall
Cary Grant	Song Kang-ho

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Group P

Gregory Peck	James Stewart
James Dean	Max Von Sydow

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[kihei]

Brando and Day Lewis for me.

 

[NyQuil]

Brando and Day Lewis for me.

I went with Nicholson over Brando. Not sure why as Jack has become a bit of a caricature of himself.

I just loved him in Chinatown and Easy Rider.

 

[Trap Jesus]

Brando and Day Lewis for me.

I'd put both DDL and PSH over Nicholson but I still take him vs. Brando. I think Nicholson has more lows than Brando with some of his more recent work, but I think there's just too much amazing work in the 70s/80s to ignore.

 

[Don'tcry4mejanhrdina]

I'd put both DDL and PSH over Nicholson but I still take him vs. Brando. I think Nicholson has more lows than Brando with some of his more recent work, but I think there's just too much amazing work in the 70s/80s to ignore.

Possibly so, but Brando did do The Island of Dr. Moreau. Even being in a Adam Sandler movie isn't sinking to that level of suck.

 

[NyQuil]

Possibly so, but Brando did do The Island of Dr. Moreau. Even being in a Adam Sandler movie isn't sinking to that level of suck.

Are you kidding? That's his best film.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Tough to go against DDL here, who probably takes it on ability alone. But I just have a personal soft spot for PSH's filmography.
I just love that he can pull off this:
As equally well as this:

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Even being in a Adam Sandler movie isn't sinking to that level of suck.

Plus he did gift us with an all-timer gif from that movie, so it ended up being a net positive anyway.

 

[Don'tcry4mejanhrdina]

I just watched Along Came Polly again the other day, actually. Pretty impressive when you can steal a scene from the world's greatest actor, Alec Baldwin.

 

[NyQuil]

It's Christmas Day for you folks, because here is NINE MINUTES of footage which is EXCLUSIVELY PSH in his most iconic role, Dusty from Twister.

 

[kihei]

It is worth noting that Nicholson and Brando costarred in a Western, Missouri Breaks, in 1976. Brando, with one of the greatest totally bonkers performances ever, absolutely blew Nicholson off the screen and into little tiny pieces. There wasn't really much Jack could do, because Marlon stole every scene with his expressionistic approach to character, just sucked all the oxygen out of the room with the broadest performance immaginable. I think it had a big effect on Nicholson who took an over-the-top expressionistic approach in his next two movies Goin' South and The Shining, and occasionally ramped it up afterwards, in A Few Good Men, for instance. I don't think any of those performances would have been quite the same if he hadn't gotten rolled over by Brando in full crazy man mode.

 

[izzy]

My god PSH has had the toughest matchups in this poll

 

[Trap Jesus]

My god PSH has had the toughest matchups in this poll

Yeah he started in Brando's group so started out in the 17-32 range for the reseeding.

 

[EXTRAS]

I know PSH has had much better roles but I've always had a soft spot for him in the talented Mr Ripley. Still voted DDL.

Went Brando over Nicholson fairly easily.

 

[kihei]

I know PSH has had much better roles but I've always had a soft spot for him in the talented Mr Ripley. Still voted DDL.

Went Brando over Nicholson fairly easily.

Me, too. But people seem not to watch old movies anymore, so some of his best work--On the Waterfront; A Streetcar Named Desire: Julius Caesar; The Young Lions--just doesn't get seen anymore. I think Brando gave the greatest performance that I have ever seen in Last Tango in Paris, so all in all it was an easy choice.

 

[Voight]

Tough to go against DDL here, who probably takes it on ability alone. But I just have a personal soft spot for PSH's filmography.
I just love that he can pull off this:
As equally well as this:

Loved his performance in Charlie Wilsons War

 

[kihei]

wow, just wow.

 

[Trap Jesus]

PSH's delivery of the line "pig f***" in this scene is one of my all-time favorites. From ~4:17 on. He's so mannered even when he starts getting heated and then just can't hold back any more and lets it slip out.

 

[kihei]

A movie of his that doesn't get talked about much is A Most Wanted Man (2014). It was his last movie, not counting Hunger Games releases, and flew way under the radar. It's a terrific performance. Definitely recommended to those who haven't seen it.

 

[Trap Jesus]

I'll be putting the final up Sunday-Tuesday

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I actually picked PSH over Day-Lewis because it was encouraged to take filmography into account.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Underrated PSH that hasn't been mentioned yet: the equally underrated film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead by Sidney Lumet.

 

[DaaaaB's]

Underrated PSH that hasn't been mentioned yet: the equally underrated film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead by Sidney Lumet.

I was just going to post this. Great movie by a great director and PSH was excellent in it.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Loved his performance in Charlie Wilsons War

That was a fun movie until Julia Roberts showed up.