Best Actor 2011
by InTheMoodForFilm | created - 24 Dec 2011 | updated - 31 Dec 2012 | PublicMy personal ballot for the category of best performance by an actor in a leading role.
1. 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 ...
For "Shame"
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 ...
For "Take Shelter"
3. Peter Mullan
Actor | The Magdalene Sisters
He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. As he wasn't admitted to the National Film School, he decided to dedicate himself to acting, and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television. Fame came with the parts he played in such...
For "Tyrannosaur"
4. Hunter McCracken
Actor | The Tree of Life
Hunter McCracken joined a limited and interesting group of non-professional actors whose first acting gig came on the hands of the great Terrence Malick and his masterpieces, along with Linda Manz in the acclaimed Days of Heaven (1978) and Q'orianka Kilcher in The New World (2005). All of them have...
For "The Tree of Life"
5. Tom Cullen
Actor | Weekend
Thomas Cullen is a Welsh actor and director. He had roles in the independent film Weekend (2011), as Anthony Foyle, Viscount Gillingham in the television series Downton Abbey, and as Sir Landry in the historical drama series Knightfall. Cullen was born in Aberystwyth. He is the son of two writers. ...
For "Weekend"
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