Pencho for Best Actor/Supporting Actor
by Pencho15 | created - 25 Aug 2015 | updated - 16 Jan 2023 | PublicWinners and nominees for my personal Pencho award in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories.
Actors by points, a win in best actor means 60 points, a nomination 20. A win in supporting actor means 40 points, a nomination 10. *means a win in actor ° a win in supporting actor:
Daniel Day-Lewis** (120)
Paul Giamatti*° (120)
Morgan Freeman*° (100)
Michael Keaton* (100)
Leonardo DiCaprio° (80)
Viggo Mortensen* (80)
Javier Bardem° (60)
Adrien Brody* (60)
George Clooney° (60)
Colin Firth* (60)
Jake Gyllenhaal* (60)
Frank Langella* (60)
Georges Mélies* (60)
Peyman Moaadi* (60)
Ulrich Mühe* (60)
Jack Nicholson° (60)
Sean Penn* (60)
Robert Redford* (60)
Mark Ruffalo° (60)
Billy Bob Thornton* (60)
Denzel Washington* (60)
Christian Bale° (50)
J.K. Simmons° (50)
Casey Affleck (40)
Ricardo Darín (40)
Clint Eastwood (40)
Michael Fassbender° (40)
Heath Ledger° (40)
Alfred Molina° (40)
Tim Robbins° (40)
Andy Serkis° (40)
Michael Shannon° (40)
Shri Vallabh Vyas° (40)
Kevin Bacon (30)
Jeff Bridges (30)
Michael Caine (30)
Matt Damon (30)
Tommy Lee Jones (30)
Ian McKellen (30)
Peter O'Toole (30)
Clive Owen (30)
Brad Pitt (30)
Mahershala Ali (20)
Lior Ashkenazi (20)
Gregor Bakovic (20)
Paul Bettany (20)
Josh Brolin (20)
Nicolas Cage (20)
Steve Carell (20)
Jim Carrey (20)
Francois Clerc (20)
Bradley Cooper (20)
Russell Crowe (20)
Larry David (20)
Johnny Depp (20)
Bruce Dern (20)
Robert Downey Jr. (20)
Benoit Duval (20)
Joel Edgerton (20)
Jesse Eisenberg (20)
Ralph Fiennes (20)
James Franco (20)
Ben Foster (20)
James Gandolfini (20)
Daniel Giménez Cacho (20)
Ryan Gosling (20)
Gene Hackman (20)
Woody Harrelson (20)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (20)
Hugh Jackman (20)
Aamir Khan (20)
Ben Kingsley (20)
Matthew MaConaughey (20)
Oliver Masucci (20)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (20)
Mads Mikkelsen (20)
Ezra Miller (20)
Mikael Persbrandt (20)
Joaquin Phoenix (20)
Eddie Redmayne (20)
John C. Reilly (20)
Adam Sandler (20)
Toni Servillo (20)
Peter Simonischek (20)
Will Smith (20)
Robert Thomae (20)
Luis Tosar (20)
Jean-Louis Trintignant (20)
Christoph Waltz (20)
Ken Watanabe (20)
Héctor Alterio (10)
Alan Arkin (10)
Paul Blackthorne (10)
Thomas Haden Church (10)
François Damiens (10)
Vincent Cassel (10)
Chris Cooper (10)
Benedict Cumberbacht (10)
Paul Dano (10)
Robert Duvall (10)
Albert Finney (10)
Harrison Ford (10)
Guillermo Francella (10)
Andrew Garfield (10)
Tom Hardy (10)
Jason Butler Harner (10)
Ed Harris (10)
Lucas Hedges (10)
Dwight Henry (10)
Shahab Hosseini (10)
William Hurt (10)
Jeremy Irons (10)
Samuel L. Jackson (10)
Richard Jenkins (10)
Burghart Klaußner (10)
Jared Leto (10)
Sergi López (10)
Ewan McGregor (10)
Drago Milinovic (10)
Liam Neeson (10)
Edward Norton (10)
Dawid Ogrodnik (10)
Christopher Plummer (10)
José María Pou (10)
Geoffrey Rush (10)
Mark Rylance (10)
Rodrigo de la Serna (10)
Stellan Skarsgård (10)
Sylvester Stallone (10)
Stanley Tucci (10)
Mark Wahlberg (10)
1. Denzel Washington
Actor | Fences
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
Best Avtor 2016 for Fences
Nominees:
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Joel Edgerton (Loving)
Michael Keaton (The Founder)
Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
2. Michael Shannon
Actor | Take Shelter
Michael Corbett Shannon was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Geraldine Hine, a lawyer, and Donald Sutherlin Shannon, an accounting professor at DePaul University. His grandfather was entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon.
Shannon began his professional stage career in Chicago. His ...
Best Supporting Actor 2016 for Nocturnal Animals
Nominees:
Mahershala Ali (Free State of Jones)
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
3. Michael Keaton
Actor | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...
Best Actor 2015 for Spotlight
Nominees:
Matt Damon (The Martian)
Oliver Masucci (Er ist wieder da)
Ian McKellen (Mr. Holmes)
Will Smith (Concussion)
4. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
Best Supporting Actor 2015 for Spotlight
Nominees:
Christian Bale (The Big Short)
Tom Hardy (The Revenant)
Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
5. Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor | Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...
Best Actor 2014 for Nightcrawler
Nominees:
Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
6. J.K. Simmons
Actor | Whiplash
J.K. Simmons is an American actor.
He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).
He had ...
Best Supporting Actor in 2014 fro Whiplash
Nominees:
François Damiens (La famille Bélier)
Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Rufallo (Foxcatcher)
7. Robert Redford
Actor | The Natural
Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...
Best Actor 2013 for All is Lost
Nominees:
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
James Gandolfini (Enough Said)
Matthew MaConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Toni Servillo (La Grande Bellezza)
8. Michael Fassbender
Actor | Shame
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
Best Supporting Actor 2013 for 12 Years a Slave
Nominees:
Benedict Cumberbacht (12 Years a Slave)
Harrison Ford (42)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Dawid Ogrodnik (Ida)
9. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
Best Actor 2012 for Lincoln
Nominees:
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Hugh Jackman (Les Miserábles)
Mads Mikkelsen (Jagten)
Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amour)
10. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
Best Supporting Actor 2012 for Django Unchained
Nominees:
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Dwight Henry (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained)
Ewan McGregor (Lo Imposible)
11. Payman Maadi
Actor | Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Peyman Maadi was born in 1972 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. His family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Karaj Azad University. Maadi started his film career as a screenwriter in late 2000s. He is the writer ...
Best Actor 2011 for A Separation
Nominees:
Ryan Gosling (The Ides fo March)
Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Christoph Waltz (Carnage)
12. George Clooney
Actor | The Ides of March
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...
Best Supporting Actor 2011 for The Ides of March
Nominees:
Shahab Hosseini (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
Jeremy Irons (Margin Call)
John C. Reilly (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
Stanley Tucci (Captain America: The First Avenger)
13. Colin Firth
Actor | A Single Man
Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's...
Best Actor 2010 for The King's Speech
Nominees:
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Mikael Persbrandt (Hævnen)
14. Christian Bale
Actor | The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...
Best Supporting Actor 2010 for The Fighter
Nominees:
Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)
15. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
Best Actor 2009 for Invictus
Nominees:
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Ricardo Darín (El Secreto de sus Ojos)
Larry David (Whatever Works)
Ben Foster (The Messenger)
16. Alfred Molina
Actor | Spider-Man 2
Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England. His mother, Giovanna (Bonelli), was an Italian-born cook and cleaner, and his father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish-born waiter and chauffeur. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work includes two major Royal ...
Best Supporting Actor 2009 for An Education
Nominees:
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Guillermo Francella (El Secreto de sus Ojos)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Burghart Klaußner (Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
17. Frank Langella
Actor | Frost/Nixon
Frank Langella was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, to Angelina and Frank A. Langella, a business executive. He is of Italian descent.
A stage and screen actor of extreme versatility, Frank Langella won acclaim on the New York stage in "Seascape" and followed it up with the title role in the Edward Gorey...
Best Actor 2008 for Frost/Nixon
Nominees:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road)
Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man)
Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
Daniel Giménez Cacho (Arráncame la vida)
18. Heath Ledger
Actor | Brokeback Mountain
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...
Best Supporting Actor 2008 for The Dark Knight
Nominees:
Jason Butler Harner (Changeling)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading)
Brad Pitt (Burn After Reading)
19. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
Best Actor 2007 for There Will Be Blood
Nominees:
Cassey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men)
Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
20. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
Best Supporting Actor 2007 for No Country for Old Men
Nominees:
Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises)
Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood)
Woody Harrelson (No Country for Old Men)
J.K. Simmons (Juno)
21. Ulrich Mühe
Actor | Das Leben der Anderen
Ulrich Mühe was born on June 20, 1953 in Grimma, East Germany. He was an actor and director, known for The Lives of Others (2006), Funny Games (1997) and Der letzte Zeuge (1998). He was married to Susanne Lothar, Jenny Gröllmann and Annegret Hahn. He died on July 22, 2007 in Walbeck, Saxony-Anhalt,...
Best Actor in 2006 for Das Leben der Anderen
Nominees:
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed)
Peter O'Toole (Venus)
Clive Owen (Children of Men)
Ken Watanabe (Letters from Iwo Jima)
22. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
Best Supporting Actor in 2006 for The Departed
Nominees:
Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Michael Caine (Children of Men)
Sergi López (El laberinto del fauno)
Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
23. Viggo Mortensen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...
Best Actor 2005 for A History of Violence
Nominees:
Gregor Bakovic (Odgrobadogroba)
Russell Crowe (Cinderella Man)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point)
Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line)
24. Paul Giamatti
Actor | Sideways
Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...
Best Supporting Actor 2005 for Cinderella Man
Nominees:
William Hurt (A History of Violence)
Drago Milinovic (Odgrobadogroba)
Liam Neeson (Batman Begins)
Peter O'Toole (Lassie)
25. Paul Giamatti
Actor | Sideways
Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...
Best Actor 2004 for Sideways
Nominees:
Kevin Bacon (The Woodsman)
Javier Bárdem (Mar Adentro)
Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
26. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
Best Supporting Actor 2004 for Million Dollar Baby
Nominees:
Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)
Clive Owen (Closer)
José María Pou (Mar Adentro)
Rodrigo de la Serna (Diarios de Motocicleta)
27. Sean Penn
Actor | Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...
Best Actor 2003 for Mystic Riber
Nominees:
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Paul Giamatti (American Splendor)
Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog)
Luis Tosar (Te doy mis ojos)
28. Tim Robbins
Actor | Mystic River
Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, ...
Best Supporting Actor 2003 for Mystic River
Nominees:
Kevin Bacon (Mystic River)
Paul Bettany (Dogville)
Albert Finney (Big Fish)
Stellan Skarsgård (Dogville)
29. Adrien Brody
Actor | The Pianist
Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the ...
Best Actor 2002 for The Pianist
Nominees:
Nicolas Cage (Adaptation.)
Michael Caine (The Quiet American)
Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)
Adam Sandler (Punch-Drunk Love)
30. Andy Serkis
Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes
English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), ...
Best Supporting Actor 2002 for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Nominees:
Chris Cooper (Adaptation.)
Ed Harris (The Hours)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Punch-Drunk Love)
John C. Reilly (Chicago)
31. Billy Bob Thornton
Actor | Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased). He is the older brother of James Donald (Jimmy Don) (born in ...
Best Actor 2001 for Mosnter's Ball
Nominees:
Lior Ashkenazi (Hatuna Meuheret)
Ricardo Darín (El hijo de la novia)
Gene Hackman (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Aamir Khan (Lagaan)
32. Shri Vallabh Vyas
Actor | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Shri Vallabh Vyas was an actor, known for Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001), Sarfarosh (1999) and Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007). He was married to Shobha V. Vyas. He died on January 7, 2018 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Best Supporting Actor 2001 for Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Nominees:
Héctor Alterio (El hijo de la novia)
Paul Bettany (A Knight's Tale)
Paul Blackthorne (Lagaan)
Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings)
33. Georges Méliès
Director | À la conquête du pôle
Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, ...
Best Actor 1895-1896 for Una Nuit Terrible
Nominees:
Francois Clerc (L'arroseur arrosé)
Benoit Duval (L'arroseur arrosé)
Robert Thomae (The Execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots)
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