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Best Actor
Last Update: December 27 , 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
SCORE CHANGE

1
Peter O'Toole
Venus
95 +1

2 Forest Whitaker
The Last King of Scottland
85 -1
3 Will Smith
The Pursuit of Happyness
81 =
4 Leonardo DiCaprio
The Departed
75 =

5 Ryan Gosling
Half Nelson
61 =
6 Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat
57 +4

7 Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima
46 -1
8 Leonardo DiCaprio
Blood Diamond
43 -1
9 Derek Luke
Catch a Fire
33 +2
10 Matt Damon
The Good Shepherd
33 -1
11 Aaron Eckhart
Thank You For Smoking
32 +2

12 George Clooney
The Good German
29 -4
13 Edward Norton
The Painted Veil
29 +5
14 Patrick Wilson
Little Children
26 +2
15 Nicolas Cage
World Trade Center
26 -1
16 Jamie Foxx
Dreamgirls
23 -4
 
17 Richard Griffiths
The History Boys
23 +4
18 Jude Law
Breaking and Entering
23 -3
19 Clive Owen
Children of Men
22 +6
20 Will Farrell
Stranger Than Fiction
21 -3
21 Christian Bale
The Prestige
19 +2
 
22 Ed Harris
Copying Beethoven
18 -3
23 Matt Damon
The Departed
18 -3
24 Johnny Depp
The Pirates of the Carribean
17 +21
25 Dominic Cooper
The History Boys
16 +1
26 Greg Kinnear
Little Miss Sunshine
16 +3
 
27 Chiwetel Ejiofor
Kinky Boots
15 NEW!
28 Christian Bale
Harsh Times
15 -6
29 Ewan McGregor
Miss Potter
15 +11
30 Toby Jones
Infamous
14 +8
31 Ryan Phillippe
Flags of Our Fathers
14 +8
 
32 Hugh Jackman
The Fountain
14 -8
33 Joseph Cross
Running With Scissors
13 +10
34 Joshua Jackson
Aurora Borealis
13 +3
35 Guy Pearce
The Proposition
13 -3
36 Michael Sheen
The Queen
13 -8

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