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Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro
They last worked together on the brilliant Traffic, and here Del Toro is given all the autonomy here to work in what is two different films on Che (not performance wise but director style). In this year’s most under appreciated performance, Del Toro loses himself within the role.
Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Mike Leigh and Sally Hawkins
She got her start as a secondary player in All or Nothing (2002) and followed Marsan in Vera Drake, but in 2008, Leigh allowed Sally Hawkins to flourish in a role that showed her comedic and romantic muscles.
Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Mike Leigh and Eddie Marsan
Following up with his supporting role in Leigh's Vera Drake, Eddie Marsan brings to the screen an honest portrayal of a possessive, isolated and deeply hurt man which he simply didn't get enough cred for.
Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Arnaud Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric
In A Christmas Tale, Desplechin works once again with two of his favorites: Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos. This time out, it is Amalric who gets the more of the limelight and of course he finds himself in an unlikable role of an adult son with a major chip on his shoulder. Amalric previously worked with the director on My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument and Kings & Queen.
Top 10: Repeat Offenders in the Coen Bros. and George Clooney
Whenever the Coen bros. need to cast an idiot – they look to George Clooney to fill the shoes. Completing his trilogy of dummies with O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty, Clooney provided comic relief in the zany role of a serial dater who has every reason to be paranoid.
