Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk To Me
Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs Of New York
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Gene Hackman, The Royal Tenenbaums
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Irfan Khan, The Namesake
Issei Ogata, Yi Yi
Jack Black, High Fidelity
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
James Franco, Pineapple Express
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
John C. Reilly, Step Brothers
Judah Friedlander, American Splendor
Mathieu Amalric, A Christmas Tale
Peter Capaldi, In The Loop
Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass
Ray Winstone, The Proposition
Teruyuki Kagawa, Devils on the Doorstep
Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days