Friday, September 18, 2020

Top 50 Male Performances of the Decade

All right, so yesterday we counted down the list of my Top 50 films of the 2010's as part of our (nine months late) decade wrap-up.  We're going to continue on this train today with male cinematic performances.  It got too convoluted trying to keep men-and-women together (also, gender imbalance became a problem), so I decided to go Top 50 male performances, lead & supporting together.  Below are the charming fellas that made the 2010's a great cinematic decade:


50. Michael Caine (Youth)


49. Brad Pitt (Killing Them Softly)


48. Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)


47. Jason Statham (Spy)


46. Kieran Culkin (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)


45. Jacob Tremblay (Room)


44. Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)


43. Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)


42. Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year)


41. Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)


40. Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)


39. Ben Schnetzer (Pride)


38. Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)


37. Tyler Hoechlin (Everybody Wants Some!)


36. Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats)


35. Joe Pesci (The Irishman)


34. Al Pacino (The Irishman)


33. Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)


32. Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)


31. Joaquin Phoenix (Her)


30. Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)


29. Ryan Gosling (Drive)


28. Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)


27. Sylvester Stallone (Creed)


26. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)


25. Adam Driver (Marriage Story)


24. Channing Tatum (Magic Mike)


23. Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)


22. Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some!)


21. Hunter McCracken (The Tree of Life)


20. Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina)


19. Ryan Gosling (First Man)


18. Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name)


17. John Huston (The Other Side of the Wind)


16. Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete)


15. Brad Pitt (Ad Astra)


14. Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)


13. Garrett Hedlund (On the Road)


12. Josh O'Connor (God's Own Country)


11. Michael Fassbender (Shame)


10. Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)


9. Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine)


8. Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name)


7. Franz Rogowski (Transit)


6. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)


5. Tom Cullen (Weekend)


4. Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)


3. Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)


2. Brad Pitt (The Tree of Life)


1. Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)

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