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est actor<br />
tribute.<strong>ca</strong><br />
user picks:<br />
Johnny Depp*<br />
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber<br />
of Fleet Street<br />
Working for the sixth time with<br />
favored director Tim Burton on<br />
Sweeney Todd, Depp reveals that he<br />
<strong>ca</strong>n not only act, but <strong>ca</strong>n sing like a<br />
gritty rock star. Although the blood<br />
baths Depp instigates in this film will<br />
s<strong>ca</strong>re some A<strong>ca</strong>demy voters, they<br />
won’t be able to ignore the fact that<br />
he makes a psychopathic mass murderer<br />
seem warm and sympathetic—<br />
something only the elusive Depp<br />
could accomplish.This marks Depp’s<br />
third Os<strong>ca</strong>r nod in this <strong>ca</strong>tegory.<br />
Daniel Day-Lewis*<br />
There Will Be Blood<br />
Johnny Depp*<br />
28%<br />
Daniel Day-Lewis*<br />
22%<br />
Viggo Mortensen<br />
19%<br />
George Clooney<br />
16%<br />
Tommy Lee Jones<br />
15%<br />
* Golden Globe winner<br />
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interviews with Viggo Mortensen,<br />
George Clooney and Tommy Lee<br />
Jones at tribute.<strong>ca</strong><br />
Viggo Mortensen<br />
Eastern Promises<br />
Daniel Day-Lewis has only<br />
done eight movies in the last<br />
18 years since he won his<br />
Os<strong>ca</strong>r for My Left Foot, but he<br />
chooses roles with remarkable<br />
discernment and his characters<br />
are impossible to forget.<br />
Many say he’s outdone<br />
himself with his portrayal of<br />
the cruel and cunning selfmade<br />
oil baron, Daniel Plainview. His recent Golden Globe<br />
win, along with the buzz about his intense performance<br />
makes him a top contender in this <strong>ca</strong>tegory and one who’ll<br />
be hard to beat.<br />
George Clooney<br />
Michael Clayton<br />
Is there anything this popular<br />
actor/writer/producer/real<br />
estate developer and international<br />
playboy <strong>ca</strong>n’t do? He’s<br />
no stranger to Os<strong>ca</strong>r, winning<br />
last year’s Best Supporting<br />
Actor for the politi<strong>ca</strong>l drama<br />
Syriana.His work this year in<br />
the title role of Michael<br />
Clayton may be his best yet.<br />
In the film, Clooney plays a “fixer” for a large New York<br />
law firm, whose conscience is challenged as he becomes<br />
involved in a massive lawsuit, a murder and financial ruin.<br />
But will it be enough to earn him the top prize?<br />
Although Viggo Mortensen<br />
speaks five languages fluently,<br />
Russian is not one of them,and<br />
he went to great lengths to<br />
absolutely master the accent<br />
and the criminal culture for<br />
director David Cronenberg’s<br />
latest offering. He endured a<br />
physi<strong>ca</strong>lly challenging role to<br />
believably play Nikolai, a<br />
Russian mobster with one foot pre<strong>ca</strong>riously planted on<br />
both sides of the law. Some say that Mortensen boasts the<br />
year’s most memorable, cutting-edge scene (the bathhouse<br />
brawl) that may violently force the A<strong>ca</strong>demy to take notice.<br />
Tommy Lee Jones<br />
In the Valley of Elah<br />
This may be one of the best<br />
performances of Tommy Lee<br />
Jones’s <strong>ca</strong>reer. And being<br />
directed by one of the best,<br />
Paul Haggis, no doubt played<br />
a part in Jones being able to<br />
successfully pull off a wartype<br />
film. Jones plays Hank<br />
Deerfield, a long-retired Army<br />
MP whose soldier son goes<br />
AWOL after his latest tour of duty in Iraq. Nice solid job,<br />
but with Daniel Day-Lewis as the favorite, his chance of<br />
winning is slim.Jones has three Os<strong>ca</strong>r nods to his name and<br />
one Os<strong>ca</strong>r win for The Fugitive in 1994.<br />
—Lisa Johnson<br />
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<strong>Tribute</strong> FEBRUARY <strong>2008</strong><br />
www.tribute.<strong>ca</strong>
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