• Brat Pitt (The Counselor)
• Channing Tatum (Blink Twice)
• Clive Owen (Closer)
• Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
• David Straithairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)
• Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
• Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)
• Hugh Jackman (Prisoners)
• Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
• Jet Li (The Warlords)
• Joaquin Phoenix (Joker: Folie à Deux)
• Jonathan Pryce (The Wife)
• John Carroll Lynch (Zodiac)
• John Malkovich (Changeling)
• Jon Voigt (The Rainmaker)
• Kerry Washington (I Think I Love My Wife)
• Kirsten Dunst (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
• Laurence Fishburne (Mystic River)
• Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
• Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)
• Natalie Portman (May December)
• Nicole Kidman (Birth); also favorite-of-career; honorable mention (Rabbit Hole)
• Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
• Rosario Dawson (Seven Pounds)
• Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction)
• Sandra Oh (Rabbit Hole)
• Tom Wilkinson (Good People)
• Will Smith (Ali); also favorite-of-career
• Woody Harrelson (Seven Pounds)

related: favorite-of-career performances