Top Ten (Male Actors ) of the DECADE. ( most consistent anyway)

1. Phillip Seymour Hoffman (deserves the title as most profound, most consistent actor of the decade) - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, The Savages, Capote, Doubt, Charlie Wilson's War, Synecdoche - New York (hated hated hated the movie but admired the performance still)

2. Sean Penn - The Assassination of Richard Nixon (too disturbing for most but quite comforting to me and my brother), Milk, Mystic River.

3. Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York, Nine.

4. Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight, Monster's Ball.

5. Viggo Mortensen - The History of Violence, Eastern Promises, The Road

6. George Clooney - Up in the Air, Michael Clayton, Burn After Reading.

7. Tom Wilkenson - In The Bedroom, (TV films but so amazing) Recount & Normal.

8. Ben Kinsley - Sexy Beast, The House of Sand and Fog, You Kill Me, Elegy.

9. Matt Damon - The Informant, The Departed, Invictus.

10. Michael Shannon - Bug, Revolutionary Road, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

*** Honorees: Forrest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed, Revolutionary Road, Gangs of New York. Russell Crowe - Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind ( Then after this one - he went from actor to egoistical movie star) Paul Giamatti - Sideways, American Splendor. Jeff Daniaels - The Squid and The Whale, Michael Douglas - Wonder Boys. Liam Neeson - Kinsey, Taken. Peter Sarsgard (should never do PR - comes off as an arrogant jerk) - Shattered Glass, An Education, Kinsey.

Top Ten (Female Actors ) Performances of the DECADE.

Difficult - God knows, I love my girls!

1. Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose ( The clear standout performance of the decade.)

2. Laura Linney - The Savages / You Can Count on Me / The Squid and The Whale

3. Kate Winslet - Little Children/ The Reader

4. Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada / Julie & Julia

5. Dame Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal

6. Amy Adams - Junebug / Doubt / Enchanted

7. Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones's Diary / Chicago

8. Marcia Gay Harden - Pollack / Mystic River / The Dead Girl

9. Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone / Capote

10. Sissy Spacek - In The Bedroom