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As we aproach the day that Hollywood engages in it annual self-love fest I would like to give my choices.

Best Actor-

George Clooney

Michael Clayton

As Michael Clayton, George Clooney portrays a fixer at a powerful law firm who finds himself in danger when he investigates his colleagues’ actions in a controversial lawsuit.

ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for George Clooney. He was previously nominated for:

• GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. (2005) — Nominee, Directing
• GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. (2005) — Nominee, Writing (Original)
• SYRIANA (2005) — Winner, Actor in a Supporting Role

FILM SYNOPSIS

When one of the star attorneys at a powerful corporate law firm suffers a guilt-fueled breakdown that threatens to derail a planned merger, the firm’s fixer, Michael Clayton, is called in to take care of the situation. As he delves into the facts behind the multimillion dollar lawsuit at the center of the conflict, Michael finds himself making moral and ethical decisions that will place his life in danger.

As a person on my list of people that I’d like to punch in the face I couldn’t care less.

Daniel Day-Lewis

There Will Be Blood

NOMINATED ROLE

As Daniel Plainview, Daniel Day-Lewis plays a ruthless California oilman who will stop at nothing to achieve wealth and power.

ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Daniel Day-Lewis. He was previously nominated for:

• GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) — Nominee, Actor in a Leading Role
• IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (1993) — Nominee, Actor in a Leading Role
• MY LEFT FOOT (1989) — Winner, Actor in a Leading Role

FILM SYNOPSIS

In his ruthless pursuit of wealth, misanthropic oilman Daniel Plainview tricks a local farmer into signing away his valuable drilling rights and rejects his own son, H.W., when the boy loses his hearing in an accident. As he becomes increasingly isolated and unstable, Daniel places his trust in a vagrant claiming to be his half-brother, and finds his position unsettled by H.W.’s return and the growing popularity of the farmer’s son, now an evangelical preacher.

This guy is entertaining in everything that I see him in. Plus he always has a cool mustache! In my book mustache=Oscar.

Johnny Depp

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

NOMINATED ROLE

Johnny Depp plays Sweeney Todd, a barber in Victorian London who embarks on a murderous plan of revenge against the corrupt judge who ruined his life.

ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the third Academy Award nomination for Johnny Depp. He was previously nominated for:

• FINDING NEVERLAND (2004) — Nominee, Actor in a Leading Role
• PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) — Nominee, Actor in a Leading Role

FILM SYNOPSIS

In nineteenth-century London, barber Sweeney Todd seeks revenge on the corrupt judge who had him falsely arrested and sent to Australia in an attempt to steal Sweeney’s wife. When his plan to kill the judge goes awry, Sweeney begins to murder his clients indiscriminately, with the help of his neighbor, Mrs. Lovett, who disposes of his victims by baking them into meat pies.

I have never seen this guy in a role I didn’t like. Hes creepy and cooky, mysterious and spooky.

Holy crap, he is the Adams’ family!

Tommy Lee Jones

In the Valley of Elah

NOMINATED ROLE

Tommy Lee Jones plays Hank Deerfield, a Vietnam veteran who searches for his missing son in the wake of the young man’s return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the third Academy Award nomination for Tommy Lee Jones. He was previously nominated for:

• THE FUGITIVE (1993) — Winner, Actor in a Supporting Role
• JFK (1991) — Nominee, Actor in a Supporting Role

FILM SYNOPSIS

Vietnam vet Hank Deerfield learns that his son, Mike, is missing from his army unit, recently returned from Iraq. When he travels to the unit’s New Mexico base, however, he finds his son’s fellow soldiers unwilling to answer his questions and the local police–with the exception of Detective Emily Sanders–uninterested in pursuing the case.

I have nothing bad to say about this guy, other than his face look like a catchers mit.

Viggo Mortensen

Eastern Promises

NOMINATED ROLE

As Nikolai, Viggo Mortensen plays the ambitious driver and henchman of a Russian mobster, who favors him over his own son.

ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the first Academy Award nomination for Viggo Mortensen.

FILM SYNOPSIS

Anna, a midwife at a London hospital, finds herself entangled in the dangerous world of the Russian mafia when she attempts to translate the diary of a young girl who has died in childbirth. At the center of the violent organization is Semyon, an older man of deceptive warmth and charm, Kirill, his unstable son, and Nikolai, Semyon’s capable and self-assured driver who seems certain to rise within the gang’s ranks.

Ok, how cool would it be to walk in a room and declare “I am Viggo”?

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