best performance

1. Robert De Niro as boxer (Raging Bull)
2. Heath Ledger as The Joker (The Dark Knight)
3. Daniel Day-Lewis as oil-rich titan (There Will Be Blood)

best child performance

• Dillon Freasier as the adopted son (There Will Be Blood)
• Dakota Goyo as the son (Real Steel)

favorite

1. Heath Ledger as The Joker (The Dark Knight)
2. Sterling Hayden as the mad general (Dr. Strangelove)
3. John Carrol Lynch as the suspect (Zodiac)
4. Taraji Hanson as the sniper (Smokin' Aces)
5. Andrew Howard as the Russian gangster (Limitless)

favorite eccentric

Kiefer Sutherland as the doctor (Dark City)

voice talent

Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2 (English translation)

detectives

• two dirty cops (Payback)
• Lennie James (The Next Three Days)
• Julianne Moore (Next)

witch

Naomi Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest)