My Favorite Performances of 2015 (Male)

Commandant - Beasts of No Nation
"All of you that have never been listened to before and have seen your family killed, huh, you now have something that stands for you. You now have something that stands for you!"

Alejandro - Sicario
"You should move to a small town where the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf. And this is the land of wolves now."

Rocky Balboa - Creed
"Time takes everybody out; time's undefeated."

Steve Jobs - Steve Jobs
"The two most significant events of the twentieth century: the Allies win the war, and this."

Honorable Mentions:
Silas Selleck - Slow West

David - The Lobster
"I hope she dies right away... On second thought, I hope she suffers quite a bit before she dies. I just hope her pathetic screams can't be heard from my room, because I was thinking about having a lie down, and I need peace and quiet. I was playing golf, and the last thing I need is some woman dying slowly and loudly."

Hugh Glass - The Revenant
"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe... keep breathing."

Nathan - Ex Machina
"One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction."

Honorable Mentions:
Poe Dameron - Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Sheriff Chris Mannix - The Hateful Eight
"As my first and final act as the Sheriff of Red Rock, I sentence you, Daisy Domergue, to hang by the neck until dead!"

Darcy - Green Room
"Now Gentlemen and Ladies. Whatever you saw or did... Is no longer my concern. But let's be clear... this won't end well."

Nux - Mad Max: Fury Road
"Oh, what a day... what a lovely day!"

Adonis Johnson - Creed
"A great fighter once said, "It ain't about how hard you can hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.""

William - The Witch
"We will conquer this wilderness. It will not consume us."

John Fitzgerald - The Revenant
"You came all this way just for your revenge, huh? Did you enjoy it, Glass?... 'Cause there ain't nothin' gon' bring your boy back."

Honorable Mentions:
Reggie Kray / Ron Kray - Legend
Max Rockatansky - Mad Max: Fury Road

Agu - Beasts of No Nation
"I saw terrible things... and I did terrible things. So if I'm talking to you, it will make me sad and it will make you too sad. In this life... I just want to be happy in this life. If I'm telling this to you... you will think that... I am some sort of beast... or devil. I am all of these things... but I also having mother... father... brother and sister once. They loved me."

Rick Ford - Spy
"Nothing kills me. I'm immune to 179 different types of poison. I know because I ingested them all at once when I was deep undercover in an underground poison-ingesting crime ring."

Major Marquis Warren - The Hateful Eight
"Move a little strange, you're gonna get a bullet. Not a warning, not a question... A bullet!"

Mike Rezendes - Spotlight
"It's time, Robby! It's time! They knew and they let it happen! To KIDS! Okay? It could have been you, it could have been me, it could have been any of us. We gotta nail these scumbags! We gotta show people that nobody can get away with this; Not a priest, or a cardinal or a freaking pope!"

Pat - Green Room
"It's funny. You were so scary at night."

Sheriff Kretzer - Cop Car
"Boys I know you can hear me. You are in a whole lot of trouble."

Jim Farrell - Brooklyn
"We don't really know anything of the rest of the world. We must seem very backward to you now."

Honorable Mentions:
Captain Andrew Henry - The Revenant
General Hux - Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Harge Aird - Carol
"Dammit! I put nothing past women like you, Carol."

Danny - Results
"Did I have a shot with you? This is sort of important."

Ove - A Man Called Ove
"One thing is certain though: Whatever we do in this life, no one gets out of it alive."

Chicory - Bone Tomahawk
"You know, I know the world's supposed to be round, but I'm not so sure about this part."

Eazy-E - Straight Outta Compton
"They want N.W.A, let's give em N.W.A."