Golden Globe Best Actor Drama Poll Series: 2012

[Cooper]

I don’t love the movie but the acting is phenomenal. Phoenix, Hoffman, and Adams all deserved to win in their categories.

I will certainly keep my expectations in check. If there's an actual plot and characters who aren't annoying as cluck, it'll be a Masterpiece compared to Licorice Pizza.

Iconic

There it is!

[oliksa]

Wait the tweet is real? Omg this is brillant

[mysteryfan04]

Iconic

She and Hawkes were so great in that movie.

[The Dark Poet]

She and Hawkes were so great in that movie.

They both should've won. Hawkes was better than anyone in the eventual lineup

[nike290]

Eww Phoenix winning this. A very good actor who indulges in his worst tendencies here.

Day-Lewis should be winning this in a landslide. All the biopic/Oscar bait stuff is what people put on it. If you look at the work, it is next-level good: generous, funny, introspective, fiercely intelligent.

[Eduardo Zuckerberg]

His Lincoln is anemic I'm afraid. The character itself is not very interesting.

This is Phoenix at his best. People throw out "Brando" left and right and I think what Phoenix achieves here is what that loose term implies to the fullest. It's an intense and potent brew that could spill over at any minute but Phoenix masterfully contains it and the electricity of his performance feels organic, especially in tandem with PSH's performance. A wonderful pas de deux from both.

[mysteryfan04]

Day-Lewis should be winning this in a landslide. All the biopic/Oscar bait stuff is what people put on it. If you look at the work, it is next-level good: generous, funny, introspective, fiercely intelligent.

[Jali]

Daniel Day-Muni doesn't deserve to be winning this poll or any poll, unless we are talking about The boxer or Gangs of New York.

[CitizenKian]

Some of y’all are overthinking thsis way too much. The Master has always been Joaquin’s peak, not to mention perhaps the best performance of his contemporaries as well.

[DameOctaviaSpencer]

They both should've won. Hawkes was better than anyone in the eventual lineup

Sad, that Hunt wasn't better than Hathaway.

[McTeague]

Daniel Day-Muni doesn't deserve to be winning this poll or any poll, unless we are talking about The boxer or Gangs of New York.

[mysteryfan04]

Daniel Day-Muni doesn't deserve to be winning this poll or any poll, unless we are talking about The boxer or Gangs of New York.

Or There Will Be Blood or Lincoln or Phantom Thread or In the Name of the Father.

[McTeague]

Or There Will Be Blood or Lincoln or Phantom Thread or In the Name of the Father.

If you like dated overacting!

[Balthier]

If you like dated overacting!

Isn't that precisely what he does in almost every movie, including Gangs of New York?

I'm not defending him, though. He relies a LOT on this "whoops, look, the best actor of your generation is retiring, but not before I'm able to shoot another awards-prestige movie!" bait for his own good (I bet he thought Nine, in retrospect, was such a revolutionary career-movie, lol), but I find him particularly subdued in Phantom Thread.
Probably perhaps due to the role's introspective nature, but oh well, at least we were spared of his shouts in the end. One of his best performances, nonetheless.

[nike290]

If you like dated overacting!

Funny, that's what I consider Phoenix's work in THE MASTER... and JOKER, two sides of the same coin, really.