BEST ACTOR NOMINEES:
I want to make myself clear when discussing this award: Every actor nominated in this category has done phenomenal work for the film they were nominated for. Don’t think that the rest aren’t that good if they don’t win the award. This was a difficult decision for me and probably the most complicated of any awards, other than the Movie of the Year award. Whoever wins this award only won by a minuscule margin.
- Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank (“The Truman Show”)
- Russell Crowe as Maximus Meridius (“Gladiator”)
- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa (“Rocky”)
- Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes (“Chinatown”)
- Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire (“Jerry Maguire”)
- Javier Bardem as Chigurh (“No Country for Old Men”)
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom (“Nightcrawler”)
- Eddie Redmayne as Steven Hawking (“The Theory of Everything”)
- Jude Law as Robinson (“Black Sea”)
- Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson (“Birdman: Or [The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance]”)
- Clint Eastwood as Blondie (“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”)
- Brad Pitt as Billy Beane (“Moneyball”)
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