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Poll: The 25 Best Film Performances of the 2000s?

A poll by rubyfruit76
According to the online magazine Paste, the below performances in movies were the 25 best between 2000 and 2010. The magazine's selections were widely supported: for just one example, all but three of these performances were nominated for Oscars, and most of those won. Of the following 25 widely acclaimed performances, which is your favorite?

(Paste included the following caveat: "We only selected our favorite from each actor so that Daniel Day-Lewis, Kate Winslet, Sean Penn and Philip Seymour Hoffman didn’t simply dominate the list.")

After voting, discuss here.

Results of 1,340 votes:

  1. 1.

    Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)

     
    Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in 'There Will Be Blood'
  2. 2.

    Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

     
    Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'
  3. 3.

    Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)

     
    Adrian Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman in 'The Pianist'
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