# Oscar ballot: Best Actor

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-ballot-best-actor/809918>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 2, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-ballot-best-actor/809918 "2018-03-02T19:30:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-ballot-best-actor/809918/1 "2018-03-02T19:30:37Z")

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Who would get your vote for Best Actor?

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-ballot-best-actor/809918/2 "2018-03-03T23:59:53Z")

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bump

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-ballot-best-actor/809918/3 "2018-03-04T09:44:50Z")

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Gotta go with Oldman. He’s the first actor outside of the usual suspects that really got Churchill (and the others are all dead anyway, except for Toby Jones, who was creditable but not on Oldman’s level).

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**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-ballot-best-actor/809918/4 "2018-03-04T20:08:18Z")

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If DDL wins, I will slit my wrists. Oldman all the way.

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**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-ballot-best-actor/809918/5 "2018-03-05T00:34:02Z")

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Daniel Day-Lewis. I really don’t want to vote “yet another one” for DDL, but of the performances I saw, his was the most revelatory over the course of the film, like a slowly opening puzzle box of personality.