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Best Actor
Last Update: November 22, 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
 SCORE CHANGE

1
Peter O'Toole
Venus
 91 +1

2 Forest Whitaker
The Last King of Scottland
 89 -1
3 Will Smith
The Pursuit of Happyness
 85 =
4 Leonardo DiCaprio
The Departed
 76 =

5 Ryan Gosling
Half Nelson
 61 +2
6 George Clooney
The Good German
 51 =
7 Matt Damon
The Good Shepherd
 51 -2

8 Leonardo DiCaprio
Blood Diamond

46

 +1
9 Derek Luke
Catch a Fire
 45 -1
10 Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat
 43 +6
11 Jude Law
Breaking and Entering
 31 +4
12 Jamie Foxx
Dreamgirls
 30 =
 
13 Nicolas Cage
World Trade Center
 30 =

14 Richard Griffiths
The History Boys
 26 -4
15 Patrick Wilson
Little Children
 26 -4
16 Matt Damon
The Departed
 25 +2
17 Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima
 25 +32
18 Aaron Eckhart
Thank You For Smoking
 23 -1
 
19 Christian Bale
The Prestige
 22 +1
20 Will Farrell Stranger
Than Fiction
 22 +1
21 Clive Owen
Children of Men
 20 +6
22 Brad Pitt
Babel
 18 -3
23 Dominic Cooper
The History Boys
 17 +14
 
24 Hugh Jackman
The Fountain
 17 +14
25 Jack Nicholson
The Departed
 17 +26
26 Edward Norton
The Painted Veil
 17 +2
27 Ed Harris
Copying Beethoven
 17 -13
28 Christian Bale
Harsh Times
 15 -4
 
29 Sean Penn
All the King's Men
 14 -1
30 Robin Williams
Man of the Year
 14 +17
31 Stellan Skarsgård
Goya's Ghosts
 14 -3
32 Ben Affleck
Hollywoodland
 14 +28
33 Greg Kinnear
Little Miss Sunshine
 13 +13
 
34 Johnny Depp
The Pirates of the Carribean II
 13 +18
35 Hugh Jackman
The Prestige
 13 +24
36 Russell Crowe
A Good Year
 13 -11
37 Michael Sheen
The Queen
 13 -12
38 Ben Sliney
United 93
 13 NEW!
 
39 Javier Bardem
Goya's Ghosts
 12 -11
40 Kevin Kline
Trade
 12 -12
41 Gael García Bernal
The Science of Sleep
 12 -13
42 Morgan Freeman
10 Items or Less
 12 -4
43 Laurence Fishburne
Akeelah and the Bee
 12 -5
 
44 Robert Downey, Jr.
Fur
 12 -6
45 Matt Dillon
Factotum
 12 -7
46 Guy Pearce
The Proposition
 12 -8
47 Denzel Washington
The Inside Man
 12 -9
48 Patrick Wilson
Hard Candy
 12 -10

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