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Dramatic Actor in a Comedic Role (cont.)
16 points: Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie (Doug B)
After the shock and hilarity of Dustin In A Dress wears off, the film—and the role—takes a more romantic/dramatic turn. It’s one of the all-time great movies, with excellent performances, but Hoffman’s well-rounded role shifts away from the funny as the movie rolls on, and becomes less comedic as it grows more poignant and more dramatic.
17 points: John C. Reilly, Step Brothers (Hooter311)
JCR’s Dale Doback suffers a few points, because he’d done a few comedies before (the fine Talladega Nights, the overlong and overbearing Dewey Cox, the brilliant “Steve Brule” on Adult Swim), and by the time Step Brothers was released, I didn't think of him strictly as a dramatic actor anymore. But I think Step Brothers is one of the funniest films of the last decade, and John C. Reilly is one of the three major reasons why (along with Will Farrell and their ridiculous chemistry together). I can’t imagine having this much fun at a job.
18 points: Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year (Timschochet)
Though it’s been a regular fixture on tv for three decades, I’d never actually seen this movie in its entirety until it was time to judge. As a film, I think it’s brilliant, and Peter O’Toole is genius in his role as a washed-up, pissed-off, drunken actor. But the pick suffers a bit, for one major reason: Peter O’Toole has always been funny. He’d been wonderful in comedies for decades before this, and for all his Shakespearean, David Lean-sian work, the guy’s been cracking up talk-show hosts, interviewers, and audiences in real life and on screen his whole career. Still, he’s so good in this . . .
19 points: Jeff Daniels, Dumb & Dumber (Kumerica)
Incidentally, this was my pick, and the first performance I thought of when the category was introduced. Jeff Daniels is a revelation in D&D. Up until Dumb & Dumber’s release, Daniels had played milquetoast, affable everymen with everyday issues in some dramas ranging great to forgettable. But with Harry Dunne, he transformed and stood toe-to-toe with Jim Carey in his prime. And for hilarious as Carey was, it was Daniel’s Harry that stole this movie for me—and much of that is because I never saw it coming from the actor. Many find this movie too stupid to get through, but its base humor and the over-the-top hilarity of Carey/Daniels had me rolling throughout, and they still do.
20 points: Leslie Nielsen, Airplane (JWB)
I think some folks might get upset that this is so low. Nielsen, like Jeff Daniels, was always considered a more milquetoast operator before the release of Airplane, and his role in this shifted the trajectory of his career and how he’s remembered. But suffer here he does, not because he isn’t brilliant—he is—but because he’s simply one of several amazingly funny parts of a hilarious and classic whole.
16 points: Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie (Doug B)
After the shock and hilarity of Dustin In A Dress wears off, the film—and the role—takes a more romantic/dramatic turn. It’s one of the all-time great movies, with excellent performances, but Hoffman’s well-rounded role shifts away from the funny as the movie rolls on, and becomes less comedic as it grows more poignant and more dramatic.
17 points: John C. Reilly, Step Brothers (Hooter311)
JCR’s Dale Doback suffers a few points, because he’d done a few comedies before (the fine Talladega Nights, the overlong and overbearing Dewey Cox, the brilliant “Steve Brule” on Adult Swim), and by the time Step Brothers was released, I didn't think of him strictly as a dramatic actor anymore. But I think Step Brothers is one of the funniest films of the last decade, and John C. Reilly is one of the three major reasons why (along with Will Farrell and their ridiculous chemistry together). I can’t imagine having this much fun at a job.
18 points: Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year (Timschochet)
Though it’s been a regular fixture on tv for three decades, I’d never actually seen this movie in its entirety until it was time to judge. As a film, I think it’s brilliant, and Peter O’Toole is genius in his role as a washed-up, pissed-off, drunken actor. But the pick suffers a bit, for one major reason: Peter O’Toole has always been funny. He’d been wonderful in comedies for decades before this, and for all his Shakespearean, David Lean-sian work, the guy’s been cracking up talk-show hosts, interviewers, and audiences in real life and on screen his whole career. Still, he’s so good in this . . .
19 points: Jeff Daniels, Dumb & Dumber (Kumerica)
Incidentally, this was my pick, and the first performance I thought of when the category was introduced. Jeff Daniels is a revelation in D&D. Up until Dumb & Dumber’s release, Daniels had played milquetoast, affable everymen with everyday issues in some dramas ranging great to forgettable. But with Harry Dunne, he transformed and stood toe-to-toe with Jim Carey in his prime. And for hilarious as Carey was, it was Daniel’s Harry that stole this movie for me—and much of that is because I never saw it coming from the actor. Many find this movie too stupid to get through, but its base humor and the over-the-top hilarity of Carey/Daniels had me rolling throughout, and they still do.
20 points: Leslie Nielsen, Airplane (JWB)
I think some folks might get upset that this is so low. Nielsen, like Jeff Daniels, was always considered a more milquetoast operator before the release of Airplane, and his role in this shifted the trajectory of his career and how he’s remembered. But suffer here he does, not because he isn’t brilliant—he is—but because he’s simply one of several amazingly funny parts of a hilarious and classic whole.
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I can't think of any actor that gets more consumed with being every inch of their character than DDL, can anyone else?
I can do it, too. Or AA and I can do it together and come to a consensus or go with an average. 
