My Favorite Performances - 2006

as Frank Costello in The Departed

as Frank Ginsberg in Little Miss Sunshine

as Solomon Vandy in Blood Diamond

as Cutter in The Prestige

Runner up:
Jasper in Children of Men

as Saigo in Letters from Iwo Jima

as Robert Angier in The Prestige

as Dignam in The Departed

as Dan Dunne in Half Nelson

as Billy in The Departed

Runner up:
Danny Archer in Blood Diamond

as Owen Davian in Mission: Impossible III

as Jeff Kohlver in Hard Candy

Runner up:
Brad Adamson in Little Children

as Huo Yuanjia in Fearless

as General Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima

as Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking

as Ira Hayes in Flags of Our Fathers

as Borat in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

as Larry Hedges in Little Children

as Harold Crick in Stranger Than Fiction

as Dalton Russell in Inside Man

Runner up:
Theo Faron in Children of Men

as Ronnie J. McGorvey in Little Children

as Richard in Babel

as V in V for Vendetta

as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale

as Rocky Balboa in Rocky Balboa

as Dwayne in Little Miss Sunshine

as Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal

as Chieko Wataya in Babel

as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada

as Drey in Half Nelson

as Hayley Stark in Hard Candy

as Sheba Hart in Notes on a Scandal

Runner up:
Susan in Babel

as Ofelia in Pan's Labyrinth

as Sarah Pierce in Little Children

as Kee in Children of Men

as Sarah in The Prestige

as Karen Eiffel in Stranger Than Fiction

as Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine

as Evey in V for Vendetta

as Madolyn in The Departed

as Sheryl Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine

as Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette

as Park Hyun-seo in The Host

as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale

as Ana Pascal in Stranger Than Fiction

as Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada

as Laura in Brick

as Maddy Bowen in Blood Diamond

Runner up:
Kathy Adamson in Little Children

as Julian in Children of Men

as Madeleine White in Inside Man

as Jan in Factotum