My Favorite Performances of 2014 (Male)

Terence Fletcher - Whiplash
"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job"."

Louis Bloom - Nightcrawler
"I'd like to think if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life."

M. Gustave - The Grand Budapest Hotel
"You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, fuck it."

Nick Dunne - Gone Girl
"What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?"

Riggan - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
"People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Selma
"Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe."

Honorable Mentions:
D.A. Lawrence - A Most Violent Year

Father James Lavelle - Calvary
"I've always felt there's something inherently psychopathic about joining the army in peace time, as far as I'm concerned people join the army to find out what its like to kill someone. I hardly think that's an inclination that should be encouraged in modern society, do you?"

Honorable Mentions:
General Brigham - Edge of Tomorrow

Abel Morales - A Most Violent Year
"When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life, and that I can't do."

Cooper - Interstellar
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt."

Larry "Doc" Sportello - Inherent Vice
"Are you emotionally involved? With the boat?"

Rick - Nightcrawler
"Okay. Well, I'm Rick, of course. I took three buses to get here. I finished high school. I need a job. I'll do just about anything. That's me. Hire Rick."

Cam Stuart - Infinitely Polar Bear
"Any of you kids have a light?"

Honorable Mentions:
David Schultz - Foxcatcher
Dan - Begin Again

Jerry / Mr. Whiskers / Bosco / Deer / Bunny Monkey / Fish - The Voices
"You remember last week when you said that there was an invisible line that separates good from evil and you'd thought you crossed it and I said no no no you're a good boy?... I've changed my opinion."

Vladislav - What We Do in the Shadows
"I think of it like this. If you are going to eat a sandwich, you would just enjoy it more if you knew no one had fucked it."

Nils Dickman - In Order of Disappearance
"Ingvar was not a drug addict."

"David" - The Guest
"You did the right thing. I don't blame you."

Honorable Mentions:
Kenny Kristo - A Walk Among the Tombstones

John du Pont - The Guest
"Coach is the father. Coach is a mentor. Coach has great power on athlete's life."

Einar - Blind

Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen - Inherent Vice
"Chotto, Kenichiro, Dozo! Motto panukeiku... motto panukeiku! MOTTO PANUKEIKU!"

Mike Shiner - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
"Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige."

Honorable Mentions:
Henckels - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Mark Schultz - Foxcatcher
"I just don't wanna let you down."

Tomas - Force Majeure

Richard Dane - Cold in July
"You're gonna kill your own son?"

Rama - The Raid 2: Berandal
"No... I'm done."

Andrew - Whiplash
"I'll cue you in!"