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Best Actor
Last Update: December 6 , 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
SCORE CHANGE

1
Peter O'Toole
Venus
94 =

2 Forest Whitaker
The Last King of Scottland
87 =
3 Will Smith
The Pursuit of Happyness
85 =
4 Leonardo DiCaprio
The Departed
71 =

5 Ryan Gosling
Half Nelson
69 =

6 Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima
44 +11
7 Leonardo DiCaprio
Blood Diamond
41 +1
8 George Clooney
The Good German
40 -2
9 Matt Damon
The Good Shepherd
39 -2
10 Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat
38 =
 
11 Derek Luke
Catch a Fire
37 -2
12 Jamie Foxx
Dreamgirls
33 =

13 Aaron Eckhart
Thank You For Smoking
28 +5
14 Nicolas Cage
World Trade Center
27 -1
15 Jude Law
Breaking and Entering
25 -4
16 Patrick Wilson
Little Children
25 -1
17 Will Farrell
Stranger Than Fiction
24 +3
 
18 Edward Norton
The Painted Veil
24 +8
19 Ed Harris
Copying Beethoven
20 +8
20 Matt Damon
The Departed
20 -4
21 Richard Griffiths
The History Boys
20 -7
22 Christian Bale
Harsh Times
17 +6
 
23 Christian Bale
The Prestige
17 -4
24 Hugh Jackman
The Fountain
17 =
25 Clive Owen
Children of Men
17 -4
26 Dominic Cooper
The History Boys
16 -3
27 Jack Nicholson
The Departed
15 -2
 
28 Michael Sheen
The Queen
14 +9
29 Greg Kinnear
Little Miss Sunshine
14 +4
30 Patrick Wilson
Hard Candy
14 +18
31 Denzel Washington
The Inside Man
14 +16
32 Guy Pearce
The Proposition
14 +14
 
33 Matt Dillon
Factotum
14 +12
34 Robert Downey, Jr.
Fur
14 +10
35 Laurence Fishburne
Akeelah and the Bee
14 +8
36 Morgan Freeman
10 Items or Less
14 +6
37 Joshua Jackson
Aurora Borealis
14 NEW!
 
38 Toby Jones
Infamous
13 +16
39 Ryan Phillippe
Flags of Our Fathers
13 +14
40 Ewan McGregor
Miss Potter
12 +20
41 Robin Williams
Man of the Year
12 -11
42 Forest Whitaker
American Gun
11 NEW!
 
43 Joseph Cross
Running With Scissors
11 NEW!
44 Cillian Murphy
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
11 +18
45 Johnny Depp
The Pirates of the Carribean II
11 -11

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