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"MMMMMmmmmm" ... "mmmmmMMMMM" ... "MMMMMMMMMM" ... "That's f'ing amazing."
9. Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
9. Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
If you play a heroin-addicted grandfather who gets kicked out of an assisted living center - only to teach your seven-year-old granddaughter a striptease for the talent portion of a youth beauty pageant - how can you NOT make this Top Ten list?
8. Robert Downy Jr. - Tropic Thunder
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Very well may be the best comedic performance of the decade.
7. John C. Reilly - Chicago
"A human being's made of more than air
With all that bulk, you're bound to see him there.
Unless that human bein' next to you
Is unimpressive, undistinguished you-know-who."
He's not Mr. Cellophane here; in fact, he's quite the opposite. While every role in Chicago was a show-stopper; people weren't talking about the no-longer-pregnant Zeta-Jones, the awkwardly-sexy Zellweger, or the gerbil-loving Gere. No, they were talking about the guy who people may have recognized, but could never put a finger on. The "what's-his-name" guy who played a pit-crew chief in Days of Thunder, Dirk Diggler's porno sidekick in Boogie Nights, and George Clooney's drunken fisherman buddy in The Perfect Storm. It was the guy who appeared in 3 Best-picture-nominated films (Chicago, The Hours, and Gangs of New York) and a very another underrated flick (The Good Girl) in 2002 alone. It was the guy who stole the show by playing the guy nobody knows. To John C. Reilly.
6. Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
Speaking of someone who literally stole the show; Mark Wahlberg has less than 10 minutes of screen time in a 2 hr, 30 min movie, yet he's the one you're quoting after the credits roll. With sleeves rolled up and a smirk on his face, Sgt. Dignam is the no-nonsense smart-ass who invented trash-talking. He's the hot-shot you always want on yourside, even if his methods of persuasion are a bit unorthodox...
"Alright, our people are out there, but you'll never see 'em. They're like f'ing Indians."
"My theory on feds is they're like mushrooms: feed em sh't and keep 'em in the dark."
5. Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
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4. Casey Affleck - The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
It's almost painful to watch him - his awkwardness parallells the unbareable. Perhaps that is why his character is so emotionally burdened, so eager to be understood. You know your life sucks when you kill America's most wanted outlaw, and go down in history as a traitor and a coward...
3. Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
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If I told you she's really Australian, you'd call me a "freakin lie-ahh!" This woman is so Boston, it's not even funny. And that's good news, because Gone Baby Gone is not a funny movie. As a drug-dealing, insubordinate mother whose daugher is abducted during a cocain binge, Amy Ryan reminds us of all the people we're not looking to see in our home-town-visit over the holidays. You know who I'm talking about; the people who were so caught up in being part of the "cool crowd" in high school that they spend the rest of their life trying desperately to re-live the glory days while ironically defending the choice not to pursue the talents that made them cool in the first place (examples in movies: Napoleon Dynamite's Uncle Rico, Peter Sarsgaard's grave-digging pothead in Garden State, all of Eminem's friends in 8 Mile, and Steve Stifler). You can tell Amy Ryan's Helene McCready was the hot chick in high school who made a couple wrong decisions along the way, yet can't admit to anyone that her life is falling apart. Even when her daughter is abducted, she hesitates in coming clean; and even when her daugher is returned, she almost goes on a date without thinking of hiring a babysitter. What makes Ryan's portrayal of Helene McCready so convincing is her ability to let us sympethize for her. Although she's so inept at child-rearing, she wins the moral battle of the movie, which states every mother is entitled to raise her own child, no matter how screwed up she may be.
2. Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Pure crazy. Pure genius. Pure evil. Definitely not the man you'd ever want to see in person.
1. Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
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You've seen the movie, so I'll spoil you the analysis. Quite possibly the best supporting performance of all time.
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