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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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