Skandies Decade Recap

For those of you arriving late, here's how it went down—again, with an asterisk to the effect that the results won't be final until February, after voters see this year's remaining films and have a chance to revise their ballots. (At this writing it appears that only Inglourious Basterds and Christoph Waltz have any real shot at placing, but you never know.)

Best Films of the Decade

01. Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
02. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
03. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
04. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
05. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
06. The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
07. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
08. 25th Hour (2002, Spike Lee)
09. Yi Yi (A One and a Two…) (2000, Edward Yang)
10. No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
11. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
12. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)
13. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Béla Tarr)
14. Irreversible (2002, Gaspar Noé)
15. Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
16. Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff)
17. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
18. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Joel Coen)
19. Trouble Every Day (2001, Claire Denis)
20. Gerry (2003, Gus Van Sant)

Best Performances of the Decade

01. Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (2007)
02. Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (2005)
03. Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr. (2001)
04. Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (2004)
05. Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (2001)
06. Summer Phoenix, Esther Kahn (2000)
07. Björk, Dancer in the Dark (2000)
08. Laura Dern, Inland Empire (2006)
09. Mathieu Amalric, Kings & Queen (2004)
10. Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York (2002)
11. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (2008)
12. Christian Bale, American Psycho (2000)
13. Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
14. Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
15. Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me (2000)
16. Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (2007)
17. Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World (2005)
18. Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven (2002)
19. Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass (2003)
20. Aurélien Recoing, Time Out (2001)

As ever, the Skandies do reflect to some degree my own taste in movies, if only because I've made an effort to collect at least somewhat like-minded cinephiles. And I must admit that I'm enormously pleased with our choice for the decade's best film, even if it isn't my own personal favorite. (That would be #7.) As it happens, 2000 was the first year in which I started traveling to major film festivals; between Sundance, Cannes and Toronto (plus occasional jaunts to Berlin, Rotterdam and Thessaloniki, and of course NYFF), I saw a goodly percentage of the decade's most significant films at or at least adjacent to their world premiere. And of all those many films, Dogville was the only one that provoked the sort of frenzied, thunderous reaction from the audience that made it seem like an instant classic—the only time I felt like I was experiencing what it must have been like to see the first-ever screening of, say, Apocalypse Now or Last Year at Marienbad. I choose Marienbad—a movie I don't especially like, though I've only seen it once so far—because what I'm talking about transcends personal taste. It's more about knowing you've seen something truly visionary, unprecedented, sui generis. Even Ryan Wu, the most vocal Von Trier skeptic among the August Voting Body (hereafter AVB), had to admit that there was something extraordinary at work, despite his usual reservations. And having also directed what the Skandies deemed the best performance of the '90s ten years ago (Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves, Lars can clearly boast of being the world's greatest film director in these parts without fear of significant contradiction.

Likewise, while I didn't vote for Daniel Day-Lewis myself, I can't complain about his victory—especially since first place in that category was essentially a three-way tie that included Heath Ledger and Naomi Watts. (As noted in the comments, more than 100 points separated Watts from 4th-place finisher Imelda Staunton; precious few points separated 1st from 2nd from 3rd.) They're all indelible performances, and I expect to see all three fare roughly as well in the various other decade surveys that'll surface over the next few months. The rest of the acting results were markedly more idiosyncratic, and not in a D'Angelo Effect kind of way, either—I still think of Summer Phoenix's allegedly deliberately unpolished work as The Esther Con. But none of these 20 turns is what you'd call forgettable, certainly.

Other quick notes and observations:

• Some years are better than others, clearly. Breakdown for the films (by premiere) goes like this:

2000: 4
2001: 4
2002: 2
2003: 3
2004: 2
2005: 1
2006: 0
2007: 4
2008: 0
2009: 0

It's probably just too soon for folks to start thinking of films from the past two years as perennials, but the downturn in 2005 and 2006 was for real. I count only five films from those two years that I consider truly great, and they're decidedly not part of any known consensus: Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Who's Camus Anyway?, The Wayward Cloud, The Prestige, and Time. Others would name different titles, but that's the point: No acknowledged masterworks. Nice save, 2007.

• I'm always concerned—and by "always" I guess I mean "twice so far"—that not dividing the performances by gender will result in a landslide of dudes, simply because male actors still tend to get the bulk of the really juicy roles. But not only did the top 20 split neatly in half in that respect, with ten men and ten women, but the latter made up the bulk of the upper half, even if testosterone ultimately won out this time. (Again, the '90s winner was Emily Watson.) And we—meaning the heavily youngish-male AVB—actually managed to keep our collective libido in check, ignoring smokin' hot previous Skandie Actress winners like Sibel Kekilli and Carice van Houten in favor of the matronly Imelda Staunton and the aging (but, okay, still smokin' hot) Isabelle Huppert, plus Laura Dern and her smeary Laura Dern face (thanks Josh).

• Most surprising result imo: Scorsese, who directed our vote for the best film of the '90s (GoodFellas), gets almost zero support in the aughts, despite having won not only his long-awaited Oscar but also that year's Best Picture Skandie. Just goes to show how pathetic '06 was, I guess.

• Most screwed actor: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who just missed the top 20 due to having votes evenly split between partisans for his work in Mysterious Skin and Brick.

• Of the 45 Skandie "nominees" over 2000–2008 (obviously we don't yet know the five for this year), only three received not a single decade vote: Traffic (remember when people loved that one? no?), Old Joy, and (surprisingly) Syndromes and a Century. (I'm counting Matthew Butcher's nod for Death Proof toward Grindhouse.)

That's about it, I guess. Hope the daily clips were fun—I'll leave 'em up until somebody insists they come down. My thanks to everyone who participated; see you all again very soon for the '09 balloting.

TEN YEARS LATER: By special request, I've reconstructed the individual ballots. Haven't double-checked the math on these, so it's possible that I've made some cut/paste errors (forgetting to change the number of points), but the actual choices should all be correct. However, in doing this, I very belatedly discovered that I'd screwed up the top 20 slightly. What happened was this: I solicited ballots sometime in the late summer of 2009, and eventually (I had totally forgotten this) wound up going ahead and unveiling the tentative results quite early, in November 2009. Probably because other such lists were appearing and I didn't want ours to be ignored due to tardiness. Something I no longer give a shit about. Anyway, I told folks that they could send in revisions at year's end if they wanted to, and that I'd amend the list accordingly. A few people did send in late votes for Inglourious Basterds (and Christoph Waltz), which didn't quite land the film in the top 20. So that was that, I thought. But I neglected to note that Theo Panayides swapped in Basterds for Kill Bill Vol. 1, which should have lost 10 points as a result. So ten years later, I've dropped it from #13 to #17, where it was supposed to have been shifted. Congrats to Werckmeister Harmonies, Irreversible, Zodiac, and Ghost World, all of which move up a notch.

Parenthetical numbers indicate points allotted; if none are present, then the voter specified 10 points apiece for the category. (A lot of folks did this, as you'll see. For the performances in particular.)

Donna Bowman

Memento (15)
Moulin Rouge! (15)
Ratatouille (15)
25th Hour (15)
You Can Count on Me (15)
Capturing the Friedmans (5)
Dancer in the Dark (5)
L'Enfant (5)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (5)
The Prestige (5)

Casey Affleck, Gerry
Christian Bale, Rescue Dawn
Björk, Dancer in the Dark
Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Bill Murray, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

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Matthew Butcher

Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) (25)
Dogville (18)
In the Mood for Love (12)
Turning Gate (10)
Mulholland Drive (8)
Time Out (7)
Death Proof (5)
I'm Not There (5)
Pistol Opera (5)
The Prestige (5)

Bae Doo-na, Linda Linda Linda (20)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (20)
Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love (12)
Mathieu Amalric, Kings & Queen (11)
Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People (10)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (7)
George Clooney, Intolerable Cruelty (5)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (5)
Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me (5)
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (5)

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Dave Cowen

The Rules of Attraction (15)
Southland Tales (15)
Werckmeister Harmonies (15)
Donnie Darko (10)
Ghost World (10)
Synecdoche, New York (10)
Home (7)
Speed Racer (7)
The Saddest Music in the World (6)
Oldboy (5)

Christian Bale, American Psycho (15)
Thora Birch, Ghost World (15)
Bill Murray, Lost in Translation (15)
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (15)
Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People (10)
Julie Delpy, Before Sunset (10)
Robert Downey, Jr., Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (10)
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (5)
Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite (5)
Luke Wilson, The Royal Tenenbaums (5)

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Mike D'Angelo

Memento (30)
The Man Who Wasn't There (12)
Afterschool (11)
Dogville (10)
Silent Light (9)
State and Main (8)
In the Mood for Love (5)
The Prestige (5)
Primer (5)
25th Hour (5)

Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (14)
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (13)
Sylvie Testud, Fear and Trembling (10)
Eric Bana, Chopper (9)
Pascal Greggory, Raja (9)
Scarlett Johansson, Ghost World (9)
Moon So-ri, Oasis (9)
Sam Rockwell, Joshua (9)
Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass (9)
Denzel Washington, Training Day (9)

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Bilge Ebiri

Distant (20)
The New World (20)
25th Hour (20)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (10)
Donnie Darko (5)
In the Mood for Love (5)
Irreversible (5)
Paranoid Park (5)
Red Lights (5)
Synecdoche, New York (5)

Christian Bale, The New World (15)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York (15)
Sibel Kekilli, Head-On (15)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (15)
Michelle Williams, Me Without You (15)
Vincent Cassel, Irreversible (5)
Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love (5)
Tom Hanks, Cast Away (5)
Edward Norton, 25th Hour (5)
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (5)

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Bryant Frazer

Mulholland Drive (25)
There Will Be Blood (20)
Ratatouille (15)
Dogville (10)
Brokeback Mountain (5)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (5)
A History of Violence (5)
In the Mood for Love (5)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (5)
Spirited Away (5)

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (25)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (20)
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (20)
Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love (10)
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America [etc.] (5)
Johnny Depp, Public Enemies (5)
Anna Faris, [Smiley Face] (5)
Ed Harris, A History of Violence (5)
Nicole Kidman, Dogville (5)
Mickey Rourke, Frank Miller's Sin City (5)

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Alex Fung

Irreversible (15)
No Country for Old Men (14)
There Will Be Blood (14)
Grizzly Man (12)
Dogville (11)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (10)
The Host (7)
Rachel Getting Married (7)
Caché (5)
Memento (5)

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (23)
Anna Faris, Just Friends (18)
Emmanuelle Devos, Gilles' Wife (12)
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (10)
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky (8)
Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass (8)
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary (6)
Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream (5)
Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me (5)
Denzel Washington, Training Day (5)

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Skander Halim

Ghost World (15)
Caché (13)
AI (9)
Far From Heaven (9)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (9)
Inglourious Basterds (9)
Inland Empire (9)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (9)
Twentynine Palms (9)
Werckmeister Harmonies (9)

Christian Bale, American Psycho
Nicolas Cage, Adaptation.
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Laura Dern, Inland Empire
Ryan Gosling, The Believer
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Evan Rachel Wood, Pretty Persuasion

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Jeremy Heilman

Punch-Drunk Love (16)
Dogville (12)
The New World (12)
There Will Be Blood (12)
Werckmeister Harmonies (12)
Tropical Malady (8)
Before Sunset (7)
Dancer in the Dark (7)
I'm Not There (7)
Elephant (6)

Björk, Dancer in the Dark
Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Zooey Deschanel, All the Real Girls
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
Nicole Kidman, Dogville
Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive

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Sky Hirschkron

Tale of Cinema (13)
Lorna's Silence (12)
Primer (12)
Mutual Appreciation (11)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (10)
Esther Kahn (10)
Woman on the Beach (10)
Waking Life (8)
Ballast (7)
Turning Gate (7)

Summer Phoenix, Esther Kahn (15)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (12)
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (11)
Marina Hands, Lady Chatterley (10)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (10)
Julianne Nicholson, Flannel Pajamas (10)
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds (9)
Stefano Cassetti, Roberto Succo (8)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brick (8)
Pascal Greggory, Raja (7)

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Rachel Jacobson

Dancer in the Dark (18)
Talk to Her (17)
The New World (16)
Children of Men (9)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (9)
Capturing the Friedmans (8)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (7)
Cowards Bend the Knee (6)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (5)
The Five Obstructions (5)

Björk, Dancer in the Dark (18)
Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World (17)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (15)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (15)
Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me (10)
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (5)
Emmanuelle Devos, Gilles' Wife (5)
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (5)
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (5)
Ray Winstone, The Proposition (5)

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Don Marks

Amélie
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Girl on the Bridge
In the Mood for Love
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Linda Linda Linda
No Country for Old Men
Synecdoche, New York
Time Out

Daniel Auteuil, Girl on the Bridge
Bae Doo-na, Linda Linda Linda
Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love
Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love
Aurélien Recoing, Time Out
Geoffrey Rush, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Audrey Tautou, Amélie

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Jeff McCloud

Trouble Every Day (30)
Inglourious Basterds (20)
Regular Lovers (10)
The Royal Tenenbaums (10)
The Brown Bunny (5)
In the Mood for Love (5)
Jackass the Movie (5)
Millennium Mambo (5)
Reflections of Evil (5)
The Way of the Gun (5)

Béatrice Dalle, Trouble Every Day (20)
Gwyneth Paltrow, The Royal Tenenbaums (20)
Laura Dern, Inland Empire (15)
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (15)
Vincent Gallo, Trouble Every Day (5)
Isabelle Huppert, Ma mère (5)
Isabelle Huppert, Time of the Wolf (5)
Summer Phoenix, Esther Kahn (5)
Tilda Swinton, Julia (5)
Owen Wilson, The Royal Tenenbaums (5)

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Victor Morton

Time Out (19)
Dogville (13)
L'Enfant (13)
Memento (13)
Capturing the Friedmans (7)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (7)
Grizzly Man (7)
The Piano Teacher (7)
Silent Light (7)
Songs From the Second Floor (7)

Olivier Gourmet, The Son (14)
Russell Crowe, Cinderella Man (13)
Björk, Dancer in the Dark (12)
Aurélien Recoing, Time Out (11)
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (10)
Simon Pegg, Hot Fuzz (10)
Maia Morgenstern, The Passion of the Christ (9)
Ryan Gosling, The Believer (8)
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (7)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (6)

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Greg Murphy

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (15)

Mulholland Drive (15)

There Will Be Blood (15)

Y tu mamá también (15)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (10)

Memento (10)

Adaptation. (5)

The Departed (5)

Dogville (5)

Michael Clayton (5)


Nicolas Cage, Adaptation.

Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain

Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me

Sean Penn, Milk

Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass

Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There

Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive

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Noel Murray

No Country for Old Men (20)
The Royal Tenenbaums (20)
There Will Be Blood (20)
The Prestige (10)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (5)
Morvern Callar (5)
A Prairie Home Companion (5)
The Squid and the Whale (5)
25th Hour (5)
United 93 (5)

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (20)
Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me (15)
Nicolas Cage, Adaptation. (10)
Nicole Kidman, Margot at the Wedding (10)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (10)
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (10)
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (10)
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (5)
Paul Giamatti, American Splendor (5)
Natalie Press, My Summer of Love (5)

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Nictate

Dogville (23)
No Country for Old Men (17)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (12)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (12)
Ghost World (7)
Late Marriage (7)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (7)
Irreversible (5)
State and Main (5)
Synecdoche, New York (5)

Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose (21)
Ronit Elkabetz, Late Marriage (15)
Mathieu Amalric, Kings & Queen (12)
George Clooney, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (12)
Brian Geraghty, The Hurt Locker (12)
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (8)
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson (5)
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (5)
Parker Posey, Broken English (5)
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton (5)

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Charles Odell

Dogville (15)
Mulholland Drive (15)
Brokeback Mountain (10)
Far From Heaven (10)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (10)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (10)
Silent Light (10)
There Will Be Blood (10)
The Dark Knight (5)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (5)

Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (18)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (16)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (16)
Campbell Scott, The Secret Lives of Dentists (10)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (10)
Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There (10)
Jeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine (5)
Valérie Lemercier, Avenue Montaigne (5)
Tilda Swinton, Julia (5)
Lambert Wilson, Not on the Lips (5)

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Jason Overbeck

All the Real Girls
Before Sunset
A Christmas Tale
Dogville
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Kings & Queen
The New World
Punch-Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood

Mathieu Amalric, Kings & Queen
Angela Bettis, May
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Anna Faris, [Smiley Face]
Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Almost Famous
Nick Nolte, Clean
Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 1
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive

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Theo Panayides

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Capturing the Friedmans
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In the City of Sylvia
Inglourious Basterds
Inland Empire
Irreversible
The Man Who Wasn't There
Memento
Tropical Malady

Mathieu Amalric, Kings & Queen
Lucas Black, All the Pretty Horses
Daniel Day-Lewis, The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Laura Dern, Inland Empire
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brick
Pascal Greggory, Raja
Hafsia Herzi, The Secret of the Grain
Danny Huston, IVANSXTC
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
Sylvie Testud, Fear and Trembling

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Mark Pittillo

Mulholland Drive (16)
The Man Who Wasn't There (14)
Dogville (13)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (11)
Ghost World (10)
Gerry (9)
Tropical Malady (8)
Late Marriage (7)
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) (7)
Talk to Her (5)

Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (16)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (15)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (13)
Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There (12)
Thora Birch, Ghost World (9)
Chris Cooper, Adaptation. (9)
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (8)
Robert Downey, Jr., Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (7)
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 2 (6)
Eric Bana, Chopper (5)

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Matt Prigge

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (22)
In the Mood for Love (17)
The Prestige (12)
Trouble Every Day (10)
Devils on the Doorstep (8)
Zodiac (8)
Songs From the Second Floor (7)
The New World (6)
Kings & Queen (5)
25th Hour (5)

Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (22)
Laura Dern, Inland Empire (17)
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (12)
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (10)
Mathieu Amalric, Kings & Queen (8)
Nick Nolte, Clean (8)
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop (7)
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (6)
Robert Downey, Jr., Zodiac (5)
Song Kang-ho, The Good, the Bad, the Weird (5)

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Zach Ralston

Requiem for a Dream (18)
Gerry (17)
Femme Fatale (14)
The Way of the Gun (12)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (9)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (8)
25th Hour (7)
In the Mood for Love (5)
Synecdoche, New York (5)
Y tu mamá también (5)

Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream (20)
Colin Farrell, Tigerland (16)
Tom Cruise, Vanilla Sky (12)
Billy Bob Thornton, Bad Santa (12)
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (10)
Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love (8)
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 2 (7)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin (5)
Tom Hanks, Cast Away (5)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Owning Mahowny (5)

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Peter Reiher

Spirited Away (20)
Hero (15)
The Lives of Others (15)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (15)
25th Hour (10)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (5)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (5)
The New World (5)
WALL•E (5)
Werckmeister Harmonies (5)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York (20)
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (20)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (15)
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (10)
Andy Serkis, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (8)
Edward Norton, 25th Hour (6)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (6)
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges (5)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (5)
Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World (5)

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Scott Renshaw

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (23)
Before Sunset (19)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (15)
Brokeback Mountain (9)
Kung Fu Hustle (7)
No Country for Old Men (6)
WALL•E (6)
Brick (5)
Memento (5)
My Kid Could Paint That (5)

Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (15)
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (14)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York (13)
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America [etc.] (12)
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (12)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (12)
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (7)
Johannes Krisch, Revanche (5)
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (5)
Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass (5)

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Vadim Rizov

I ♥ Huckabees
Import Export
In the City of Sylvia
Last Days
Mutual Appreciation
Mysterious Skin
The Squid and the Whale
There Will Be Blood
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...)
Zodiac

Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon
Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
Robert Downey, Jr., Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War
Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger
Michael Shannon, Shotgun Stories
Billy Bob Thornton, Bad Santa
Owen Wilson, Shanghai Noon

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Joshua Rothkopf

Mulholland Drive (28)
Zodiac (22)
Lilya 4-ever (10)
25th Hour (10)
Before Sunset (5)
Brokeback Mountain (5)
The Five Obstructions (5)
Together (5)
The Wrestler (5)
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) (5)

Oksana Akinshina, Lilya 4-ever (25)
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (20)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (15)
Christian Bale, American Psycho (10)
Jack Black, The School of Rock (5)
Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People (5)
Robert Downey, Jr., Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (5)
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways (5)
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky (5)
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (5)

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Dan Sallitt

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (12)
Michael Clayton (12)
Esther Kahn (11)
Night and Day (10)
Vera Drake (10)
Fat Girl (9)
Late Marriage (9)
L'Enfant (9)
Raja (9)
The Tracey Fragments (9)

Summer Phoenix, Esther Kahn (15)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (13)
Danny Huston, IVANSXTC (11)
Greta Gerwig, Hannah Takes the Stairs (11)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brick (10)
Jérémie Renier, L'Enfant (9)
Hossein Emadeddin, Crimson Gold (8)
Zoe Kazan, The Exploding Girl (8)
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake (8)
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War (7)

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Missy Schwartz

In the Mood for Love (18)
Gerry (17)
Silent Light (12)
Before Sunset (10)
Hunger (10)
The Departed (8)
I'm Not There (8)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (7)
No Country for Old Men (5)
United 93 (5)

Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (16)
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There (15)
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (13)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (13)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin (12)
Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others (12)
Paul Giamatti, American Splendor (5)
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson (5)
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven (5)
Thomas Turgoose, This Is England (5)

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Michael Sicinski

Bamako
Blissfully Yours
Dogville
In the Mood for Love
Irreversible
Regular Lovers
The Son
Still Life
Werckmeister Harmonies
When It Was Blue

Laura Dern, Inland Empire
Olivier Gourmet, The Son
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar
Issey Ogata, The Sun
Aurélien Recoing, Time Out
Ventura, Colossal Youth
Jürgen Vogel, The Free Will
Luisa Williams, Day Night Day Night

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Chris Stults

The New World (30)
Tropical Malady (15)
Esther Kahn (10)
In the Mood for Love (9)
When It Was Blue (8)
Dogville (7)
Trouble Every Day (6)
Before Sunset (5)
25th Hour (5)
Tale of Cinema (5)

Summer Phoenix, Esther Kahn (25)
Emmanuelle Devos, Gilles' Wife (12)
Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World (12)
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (12)
Danny Huston, IVANSXTC (8)
Gretchen Mol, The Notorious Bettie Page (8)
Nick Nolte, The Good Thief (8)
Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale (5)
Guillaume Depardieu, The Duchess of Langeais (5)
Luminita Gheorghiu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (5)

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Scott Tobias

Before Sunset
Dogville
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In the Mood for Love
The Man Who Wasn't There
There Will Be Blood
25th Hour
WALL•E
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...)
Zodiac

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive

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Froilan Vispo

Mulholland Drive (20)
Silent Light (20)
Battle Royale (15)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (10)
The Piano Teacher (10)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (5)
Devils on the Doorstep (5)
Irreversible (5)
Memento (5)
Songs From the Second Floor (5)

Eric Bana, Chopper
Björk, Dancer in the Dark
Steve Coogan, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Summer Phoenix, Esther Kahn
Aurélien Recoing, Time Out
Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive

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Daniel Waters

Battle Royale (22)
City of God (22)
In the Mood for Love (11)
Love Exposure (9)
Caché (7)
Synecdoche, New York (7)
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) (7)
Dogville (5)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (5)
Oldboy (5)

Christian Bale, American Psycho (22)
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (22)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (11)
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (9)
Björk, Dancer in the Dark (7)
Nicolas Cage, Adaptation. (7)
Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others (7)
Emily Blunt, My Summer of Love (5)
Emmanuelle Devos, Read My Lips (5)
AnnaSophia Robb, Bridge to Terabithia (5)

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Ryan Wu

In the Mood for Love (22)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (20)
Friday Night (14)
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) (10)
Kings & Queen (7)
Mulholland Drive (7)
The Dark Knight (5)
Far From Heaven (5)
Ghost World (5)
I ♥ Huckabees (5)

Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven (18)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (14)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (14)
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (11)
Mathieu Amalric, Kings & Queen (8)
Russell Crowe, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (7)
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher (7)
Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me (7)
Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger (7)
Carice van Houten, Black Book (7)

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