Best Actor

My top choices in the order I would place them on my Academy ballot if I were allowed to vote:

ROMAIN DURIS, The Beat That My Heart Skipped

COLIN FARRELL, The New World

LOU TAYLOR PUCCI, Thumbsucker

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, Capote

HEATH LEDGER, Brokeback Mountain

Runners-up: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jarhead; Damien Nguyen, The Beautiful Country; Daniel Day-Lewis, The Ballad of Jack and Rose; Russell Crowe, Cinderella Man; Peter Sarsgaard, The Dying Gaul; Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line.

Related: My Best Actor picks for 2004