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Best Actor
Last Update: November 8, 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
SCORE CHANGE

1
Forest Whitaker
The Last King of Scottland
92 =

2
Peter O'Toole
Venus
89 =

3
Will Smith
The Pursuit of Happyness
63 +2
4
Leonardo DiCaprio
The Departed
63 -1
5
Matt Damon
The Good Shepherd
54 +1
6
George Clooney
The Good German
53 -2
7
Ryan Gosling
Half Nelson
51 +2
 
8
Derek Luke
Catch a Fire
45 =

9
Leonardo DiCaprio
Blood Diamond
44 -2
10
Richard Griffiths
The History Boys
32 +1

11
Patrick Wilson
Little Children
28 +4
12
Jamie Foxx
Dreamgirls
28 +2
13
Nicolas Cage
World Trade Center
28 =
14
Ed Harris
Copying Beethoven
27 +3
15
Jude Law
Breaking and Entering
26 +1
 
16
Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat
26 +3
17
Aaron Eckhart
Thank You For Smoking
22 +1
18
Matt Damon
The Departed
22 +4
19
Brad Pitt
Babel
22 -7
20
Christian Bale
The Prestige
20 +15
 
21
Will Farrell
Stranger Than Fiction
20 -1
22 Ryan Phillippe
Flags of Our Fathers

18 +3
23
Toby Jones
Infamous
17 +9
24
Christian Bale
Harsh Times
16 +3
25
Russell Crowe
A Good Year
15 -4
 
26
Michael Sheen
The Queen
15 +8
27
Clive Owen
Children of Men
15 -4
28
Sean Penn
All the King's Men
13 -4
28
Javier Bardem
Goya's Ghosts
13 =
28
Kevin Kline
Trade
13 =
 
28
Stellan Skarsgård
Goya's Ghosts
13 =
28
Gael García Bernal
The Science of Sleep
13 =
28
Edward Norton
The Painted Veil
13 +25
28
Hugh Jackman
Scoop
13 +9
28
James McAvoy
The Last King of Scotland
13 +9
 
28
Mickey Rourke
Killshot
13 +9
37
Dominic Cooper
The History Boys
13 +6
38
Hugh Jackman
The Fountain
12 -12
38
Laurence Fishburne
Akeelah and the Bee
12 -3
38
Robert Downey, Jr.
Fur
12 +6
 
38
Morgan Freeman
10 Items or Less
12 +6
38
Matt Dillon
Factotum
12 +6
38
Guy Pearce
The Proposition
12 +6
38
Denzel Washington
The Inside Man
12 +6
38
Patrick Wilson
Hard Candy
12 +6
 
46
Greg Kinnear
Little Miss Sunshine
12 -2
47
Robin Williams
Man of the Year
12 -10
48
Guy Pearce
Factory Girl
12 +9
49
Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima
11 +16
50
Edward Norton
The Illusionist
11 +8
 
51
Jack Nicholson
The Departed
11 -41

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