My Favorite Performances of 2022 (Male)

Pádraic Súilleabháin - The Banshees of Inisherin
"I am not putting me donkey outside when I'm sad, okay?"

Honorable Mentions:
Jake - After Yang
The Penguin - The Batman
John Volanthen - Thirteen Lives

Colm Doherty - The Banshees of Inisherin
"I do worry sometimes I might just be entertaining myself while staving off the inevitable."

Lito - A Love Song
"You still play?"

Jang Hae-joon - Decision to Leave

Chef Slowik - The Menu
"Ask yourselves, this entire evening, why didn't you all try harder to fight back? To get out of here? Honestly, you probably could have. Something to think about."

Waymond Wang - Everything Everywhere All at Once
"So, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."

Charlie - The Whale
"I need to know that I have done one right thing with my life!"

Danny Sharp - AmbuLAnce
"My brother didn't do nothing, he was a good man. But I'm not!"

Sully - Bones and All
"Life is never dully with Sully."

Dimitry - Triangle of Sadness
"I have a joke: 'Do you know how to tell a communist? It's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And do you know how to tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.' Ha-ha!"

Tyler - The Menu
"You don't think Chef is mad at me, do you?"

Dominic Kearney - The Banshees of Inisherin
"Shh. Daddy'll kill us if we wake him when he's been wanking."

Honorable Mentions:
The Joker - The Batman

Elvis Presley - Elvis
"I'm gonna be forty soon, and nobody's gonna remember me."

OJ Haywood - Nope
"Nope."

Quentin Sellers - Vengeance
"I'd probably say that nobody writes anything. All we do is translate. So if you ever get stuck and you don't know what to say... just listen. Even to the silences. Listen as hard as you can to the world around you and... repeat back what you hear. That translation, that's your voice."

Lee - Bones and All
"We'll live with them, be normal for a while."

Amleth - The Northman
"Hate is all I've ever know. I wish I could be free of it."

The Djinn - Three Thousand Years of Longing
"There is no human, nor angel, nor demon, who wouldn't grasp at the chance to fulfil their deepest longings. And I am saddled with the one who claims to want nothing at all? Alithea Binnie, you are a liar!"

Youcef - Emily the Criminal
"In the next hour you will make 200 cash... but you have to do something illegal."

Chuck - I Love My Dad
"Yeah we talk about life and stuff. Its not like I'm trying to see his dick."

Ricky 'Jupe' Park - Nope
"What if I told you that today you'll leave here different. I'm talking to you. Right here, you are going to witness an absolute spectacle. So what happens next? You ready? ARE YOU READY?"

Thomas - Sick of Myself
"What kind of porn are you watching in broad daylight?"

Burt Fabelman - The Fabelmans
"You can't just love something, you also have to take care of it."

Honorable Mentions:
The Riddler - The Batman

Carl - Triangle of Sadness
"The thing is, Yaya, I like to take you for dinner. I enjoy paying for you. But there comes a point where I do feel used."

Honorable Mentions:
Richard Attenborough - See How They Run

AJ - Barbarian
"I can get away, but you're gonna have to slow her down."