Favorite All-Time Film Performances...26-49

Next batch of performances. Hope you enjoy!

49. (*tie) Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, Fargo


49. (tie) William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard, Fargo


47. (*tie) Lisa Kudrow as Lucia DeLury, The Opposite of Sex


47. (*tie) Joan Allen as Betty Parker, Pleasantville


46. Ingrid Bergman as Charlotte Andergast, Autumn Sonata


44. (*tie) Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy and Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest



43. Marisa Berenson as Lady Lyndon, Barry Lyndon


41. (*tie) Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein and Marty Feldman as Igor, Young Frankenstein


40. Maribel Verdú as Luisa Cortés, Y tu mamá también


38. (*tie) Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner, Pollock


38. (*tie) Benicio del Toro as Javier Rodriguez, Traffic


37. Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake, Vera Drake


36. Lupe Ontiveros as Carmen Garcia, Real Women Have Curves


34. (*tie) Debra Winger as Emma Horton and Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway, Terms of Endearment


33. Haley Joel Osment as David, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence


32. Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, The 400 Blows


31. Tom Wilkinson as Matt Fowler, In the Bedroom


30. Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie, California Suite


29. Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte, Lost in Translation


28. Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck Lane, Shattered Glass


27. Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown, My Left Foot


26. Glenn Close as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, Dangerous Liaisons

Favorite All-Time Film Performances...Bottom 50

Since I started this little list last year, I haven't had a chance to finish writing it. Well, unfortunately, I'm not going to have much time to complete it as much as I wanted to...but I still have the list done (without write-ups). So I'm just going to post the bottom 50 tonight and hopefully I'll get the rest up sometime this week.

Quick review of the ones that have been posted already.
100. Chalo Gonzalez as Tio Tomas, Quinceañera
99. Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter, It's a Wonderful Life
98. Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels, Tootsie
97. Stockard Channing as Rizzo, Grease
95. (*tie) Madeline Kahn as Miss Trixie Delight and Tatum O’Neal as Addie, Paper Moon
94. Thelma Ritter as Birdie, All About Eve
93. Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz

And the next ones...

92. Jaime Bell as Billy Elliot, Billy Elliot


91. Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper, The Last Picture Show


90. Tim Robbins as Griffin Mill, The Player


88. (*tie) Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker, Scream


88. (*tie) Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Batman Returns


87. Jeff Bridges as Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, The Big Lebowski


86. Sigourney Weaver as Janey Carver, The Ice Storm


85. Alessio Boni as Matteo Carati, The Best of Youth


84. George Sanders as Addison DeWitt, All About Eve


83. Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown, Singin' in the Rain


82. Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins


81. Norma Aleandro as Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez, The Official Story


80. Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, Cast Away


79. Emma Thompson as Karen, Love, Actually


78. Rosie Perez as Carla Rodrigo, Fearless


77. Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne, Some Like It Hot


76. Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, The Graduate


75. F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri, Amadeus


74. Kathleen Turner as Matty Walker, Body Heat


73. Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan, The Year of Living Dangerously


72. Julia Roberts as Anna, Closer


71. Gael García Bernal as Ángel/Juan/Zahara, Bad Education


70. Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum, The Royal Tenenbaums


69. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, Breakfast At Tiffany's


68. Keisha Castle-Hughes as Paikea Apirana, Whale Rider


67. Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin, The Manchurian Candidate


66. Timothy Hutton as Conrad, Ordinary People


65. Campbell Scott as Roger Swanson, Roger Dodger


64. Claire Danes as Mirabelle, Shopgirl


63. Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz


62. John Malkovich as John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich


61. Rita Moreno as Anita, West Side Story


60. Robin Williams as The Genie, Aladdin


59. Judi Dench as Barbara Covett, Notes on a Scandal


58. Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver


57. Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, Ed Wood


56. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, The Queen


55. Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath, The Piano


54. Art Carney as Harry Coombes, Harry and Tonto


53. Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle, The Constant Gardener


52. James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson, Vertigo


51. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Casablanca

Final Emmy Predictions (Winners)

A lot of commentary is up on the podcast. This is just as straight rundown of my predicted winners (and how the rest stack up in terms of upset potential).

Best Drama Series:
1. Mad Men
2. The Good Wife
3. Lost
4. Breaking Bad
5. Dexter
6. True Blood

Best Actor - Drama Series:
1. Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
2. Hugh Laurie, House
3. Jon Hamm, Mad Men
4. Matthew Fox, Lost
5. Michael C. Hall, Dexter
6. Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights

Best Actress - Drama Series:
1. Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
2. January Jones, Mad Men
3. Glenn Close, Damages
4. Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
5. Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
6. Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series:
1. Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age
2. Terry O'Quinn, Lost
3. Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
4. Michael Emerson, Lost
5. Martin Short, Damages
6. John Slattery, Mad Men

Best Supporting Actress - Drama Series:
1. Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
2. Sharon Gless, Burn Notice
3. Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
4. Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
5. Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
6. Rose Byrne, Damages

Best Writing - Drama Series:
1. Mad Men - "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." - Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner
2. The Good Wife - "Pilot" - Michelle King & Robert King
3. Lost - "The End" - Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
4. Mad Men - "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" - Robin Veith & Matthew Weiner
5. Friday Night Lights - "The Son" - Rolin Jones

Best Directing - Drama Series:
1. Lost - "The End" - Jack Bender
2. Mad Men - "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" - Lesli Linka Glatter
3. Dexter - "The Getaway" - Steve Shill
4. Breaking Bad - "One Minute" - Michelle MacLaren
5. Treme - "Do You Know What It Means" - Agnieszka Holland

Best Comedy Series:
1. Modern Family
2. Glee
3. 30 Rock
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
5. Nurse Jackie
6. The Office

Best Actor - Comedy Series:
1. Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
2. Tony Shalhoub, Monk
3. Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
4. Steve Carell, The Office
5. Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
6. Matthew Morrison, Glee

Best Actress - Comedy Series:
1. Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
2. Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
3. Toni Collette, United States of Tara
4. Tina Fey, 30 Rock
5. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
6. Lea Michele, Glee

Best Supporting Actor - Comedy Series:
1. Chris Colfer, Glee
2. Ty Burrell, Modern Family
3. Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
4. Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
5. Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
6. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family

Best Supporting Actress - Comedy Series:
1. Jane Lynch, Glee
2. Julie Bowen, Modern Family
3. Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
4. Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
5. Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
6. Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men

Best Writing - Comedy Series:
1. Modern Family - "Pilot" - Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd
2. Glee - "Pilot" - Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk & Ryan Murphy
3. 30 Rock - "Anna Howard Shaw Day" - Matt Hubbard
4. The Office - "Niagara" - Greg Daniels & Mindy Kaling
5. 30 Rock - "Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter" - Kay Cannon & Tina Fey

Best Directing - Comedy Series:
1. Glee - "Wheels" - Paris Barclay
2. Modern Family - "Pilot" - Jason Winer
3. Glee - "Pilot" - Ryan Murphy
4. Nurse Jackie - "Pilot" - Allen Coulter
5. 30 Rock - "I Do Do" - Don Scardino

Best Made for Television Movie:
1. Temple Grandin
2. The Special Relationship
3. You Don't Know Jack
4. Georgia O'Keeffe
5. Moonshot
6. Endgame

Best Miniseries:
1. The Pacific
2. Return to Cranford

Best Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries:
1. Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack
2. Dennis Quaid, The Special Relationship
3. Jeff Bridges, A Dog Year
4. Michael Sheen, The Special Relationship
5. Ian McKellen, The Prisoner

Best Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries:
1. Claire Danes, Temple Grandin
2. Hope Davis, The Special Relationship
3. Judi Dench, Return to Cranford
4. Joan Allen, Georgia O'Keeffe
5. Maggie Smith, Capturing Mary

Best Supporting Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries:
1. Patrick Stewart, Hamlet
2. Jonathan Pryce, Return to Cranford
3. David Strathairn, Temple Grandin
4. John Goodman, You Don't Know Jack
5. Michael Gambon, Emma

Best Supporting Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries:
1. Susan Sarandon, You Don't Know Jack
2. Julia Ormond, Temple Grandin
3. Brenda Vaccaro, You Don't Know Jack
4. Catherine O'Hara, Temple Grandin
5. Kathy Bates, Alice

Best Writing - TV Movie/Miniseries:
1. Temple Grandin - William Merritt Johnson & Christopher Morgan
2. The Pacific - "Part Ten" - Bruce C. McKenna & Robert Schenkkan
3. The Special Relationship - Peter Morgan
4. The Pacific - "Part Eight" - Michelle Ashford & Robert Schenkkan
5. You Don't Know Jack - Adam Mazer

Best Directing - TV Movie/Miniseries:
1. The Pacific - "Part Nine" - Tim Van Patten
2. Temple Grandin - Mick Jackson
3. You Don't Know Jack - Barry Levinson
4. The Pacific - "Part Eight" - David Nutter & Jeremy Podeswa
5. Georgia O'Keeffe - Bob Balaban

Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series:
1. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
2. Saturday Night Live
3. The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
4. The Colbert Report
5. Real Time with Bill Maher

Best Writing - Variety, Music or Comedy Special:
1. Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me
2. Bill Maher: ...But I'm Not Wrong
3. The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
4. The 63rd Annual Tony Awards
5. The Kennedy Center Honors

Best Directing - Variety, Music or Comedy Special:
1. Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony - Bucky Gunts
2. The 63rd Annual Tony Awards - Glenn Weiss
3. The Kennedy Center Honors - Louis J. Horvitz
4. The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert - Joel Gallen
5. In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement - Ron de Moraes

Best Reality-Competition Program:
1. The Amazing Race
2. Project Runway
3. Top Chef
4. American Idol
5. Dancing with the Stars

How Many Right?

Here's how I did on my predictions...

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series:
2. Neil Patrick Harris, Glee

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series:
1. John Lithgow, Dexter

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series:
1. Betty White, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series:
4. Ann-Margret, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program:
1. Jeff Probst, Survivor

Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Special:
1. The Kennedy Center Honors

Outstanding Voice-Over Performance:
5. Anne Hathaway, The Simpsons

Outstanding Animated Program:
4. Prep & Landing

Outstanding Short-format Animated Program:
1. Robot Chicken

Outstanding Art Direction For A Multi-Camera Series:
Since this is an area award, over 50% of the voters felt that none of the five nominees deserved the award. Wow.

Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series:
1. The Tudors

Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries Or Movie:
1. The Pacific

Outstanding Art Direction For Variety, Music Or Nonfiction Programming:
3. 82nd Annual Academy Awards

Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series:
1. Modern Family

Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series:
2. Mad Men

Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special:
1. The Pacific

Outstanding Choreography:
1. So You Think You Can Dance "Gravity/Addiction, Koop Island Blues, One"

Outstanding Cinematography For A Half-Hour Series:
3. Weeds

Outstanding Cinematography For A One Hour Series:
4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigations

Outstanding Cinematography For A Miniseries Or Movie:
5. Return to Cranford

Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming:
4. Deadliest Catch

Outstanding Cinematography For Reality Programming:
3. Survivor

Outstanding Commercial:
2. The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, Old Spice Body Wash

Outstanding Costumes For A Series:
3. The Tudors

Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special:
1. Return to Cranford

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series:
1. Lost

Outstanding Picture Editing For A Comedy Series (Single Or Multi-Camera):
1. Modern Family “Pilot”

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie:
5. Temple Grandin

Outstanding Short-Form Picture Editing:
2. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Outstanding Picture Editing For A Special (Single Or Multi-Camera):
2. The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert

Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming:
5. By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

Outstanding Picture Editing For Reality Programming:
4. Intervention

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series:
1. Mad Men

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special:
2. Dancing with the Stars

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Miniseries Or A Movie:
2. Emma

Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Nonfiction:
1. The Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience

Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Fiction:
3. Star Wars: Uncut

Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic, Multi-Camera) For Variety, Music Or Comedy Programming:
1. Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

Outstanding Main Title Design:
3. Bored to Death

Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic):
4. Grey's Anatomy

Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic):
1. Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries Or A Movie (Non-Prosthetic):
3. The Pacific

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special:
1. The Pacific
4. Grey's Anatomy

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score):
2. 24

Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score):
1. The Pacific

Outstanding Music Direction:
5. Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics:
1. Monk

Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music:
4. Nurse Jackie

Outstanding Special Class Programs:
2. 63rd Annual Tony Awards

Outstanding Children's Program:
5. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie

Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program:
2. Nick News With Linda Ellerbee - The Face Of Courage: Kids Living With Cancer

Outstanding Nonfiction Special:
5. Teddy: In His Own Words

Outstanding Nonfiction Series:
3. The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Outstanding Reality Program:
1. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking:
2. Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series:
2. 24

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special:
1. The Pacific

Outstanding Sound Editing For Nonfiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera):
4. America The Story of Us

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour):
2. Glee

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie:
2. The Pacific Part Two

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation:
1. Modern Family
4. Entourage

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Or Music Series Or Special:
2. The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
3. The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards

Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming:
3. Deadliest Catch

Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series:
5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special:
3. The Pacific Part Five

Outstanding Stunt Coordination:
4. FlashForward

Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Series:
4. Dancing with the Stars

Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special:
3. The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concery

Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series:
3. The Colbert Report

Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming:
2. The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series:
1. Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming:
2. My Lai