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a list about performances in movies from 2000- 2009

100. Will Ferrell as Franz Liebkind in The Producers (2005)

99. Jean-Pierre Bacri as Castella in Le goût des autres (The Taste of Others) (2000)

98. Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko (2001)

97.Bill Nighy as Billy Mack in Love Actually (2003)

96. Adam Beach as Pfc. Ira Hayes in Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

95. Björk as Selma Jezkova in Dancer in the Dark (2000)

94. Gael García Bernal as Ángel/Juan/Zahara in La mala educación(Bad Education) (2004)

93. Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People(2002)

92.Bill Murray as Don Johnston in Broken Flowers (2005)

91. Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

90. Bruno Ganz as Fernando Girasole in Pane e tulipani (Bread and Tulips )(2000)

89. Audrey Tautou as Mathilde Donnay in Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement )(2004)

88/87(tie). Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu as Landlord and Landlady of the Pig Sty Alley in Kung Fu Hustle(2004)

86. Simon Pegg as Shaun in Shaun of the Dead(2004)

85. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

84. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Chow Mo-wan in 2046 (2004)

83. Hugh Grant as Will in About a Boy (2002)

82. Jamel Debbouze as Saïd in Indigènes (Days of Glory) (2006)

81. Aamir Khan as Bhuvan in Lagaan (2001)

80. Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello in The Departed (2006)

79/78. (tie) Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as Ray and Ken in In Bruges (2008)

77. Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

76. Sally Hawkins as Pauline "Poppy" Cross in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

75. Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002)

74. Zhang Ziyi as Chiyo Sakamoto in Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

73. Ulrich Mühe as Gerd Wiesler in Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others )(2007)

72. Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot (2000)

71. Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

70. Juliette Binoche as Vianne Rocher in Chocloat (2000)

69. James McAvoy as Robbie Turner in Atonement (2007)

68. Naomi Watts as Cristina Peck in 21 Grams (2003)

67. Choi Min-sik as Oh Dae-su in Oldboy (2003)

66/65. (Tie ) Diego Luna & Gael García Bernal as Tenoch Iturbide& Julio Zapata in Y tu mamá también(2001)

64. Benicio del Toro as Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Che (2008)

63. Christian Bale as Trevor Reznik in The Machinist (2004)

62. Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

61. Al Pacino as Roy Cohn in Angels in America (2003)

60. Javier Bardem as Ramón Sampedro in Mar adentro (the Sea Inside) (2004)

59. Leandro Firmino da Hora as Zé Pequeno (Li'l Zé) in Cidade de Deus( City of God) (2002)

58. Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar in American Splendor (2003)

57. Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler in The Quiet American (2002)

56. Ken Watanabe as Army Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

55. Adam Sandler as Barry Egan in Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

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54. Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

53. Amy Adams as Ashley Johnsten in Junebug (2005)

52. Nicole Kidman as Satine in Moulin Rouge! (2001)

51. Natalie Portman as Alice Ayres in Closer(2004)

50. Gael García Bernal as Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Diarios de motocicleta(2004)

49. Casey Affleck as Robert Ford in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

48. Paul Giamatti as Joe Gould in Cinderella Man (2005)

47. Thomas Haden Church as Jack in Sideways (2004)

46. Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake in Vera Drake (2004)

45. Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

44. Catalina Sandino Moreno as María Álvarez in María llena eres de gracia (Maria Full of Grace) (2004)

43. Edward Norton as Monty Brogan in 25th Hour (2002)

42. Geoffrey Rush as The Marquis de Sade in Quills (2000)

41. Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman in Adaptation (2002)

40. Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang(Downfall)(2004)

39. Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

38. Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby in Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007)

37. Rinko Kikuchi as Chieko in Babel (2006)

36. Kristin Scott Thomas as Juliette Fontaine in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long) (2008)

35. Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai in Eastern Promises (2008)

34. Ken Watanabe as Katsumoto in The Last Samurai (2003)

33. Penélope Cruz as Raimunda in Volver (2006)

32. Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda (2004)

31. Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida (2002)

30. Ellen Burstyn as Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream (2000)

29. Audrey Tautou as Amélie in Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie)(2001)

28. Robert Downey, Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder (2008)

27. Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007)

26. Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald(2004) in Million Dollar Baby

25. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt (2008)

24. Benicio del Toro as Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez in Traffic (2000)

23. Keisha Castle-Hughes as Paikea Apirana in Whale Rider (2003)

22/21. (tie) Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as Jesse and Céline in Before Sunset (2004)

20. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball (2001)

19. David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

18. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

17. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006)

16. Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006)

15. Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002)

14. Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast (2001)

13. Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

12. Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt (2008)

11. Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003)

10. Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler (2008)

9. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (2008)

8. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz in The Reader (2008)

7. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)

6. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005)

5. Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in Cast Away (2001)

4. Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men (2007)

3. Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007)

2. Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight (2008)

1. Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist (2002)

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