But first! A tie in third place!
Matthew McConaughey (actor, quite a lot of films) [49 points / 7 votes]
Scoot McNairy (actor, Killing Them Softly and Argo) [49 points / 7 votes]
Second place:
Channing Tatum (actor/producer/writer/generally busy guy) [72 points / 11 votes]
And your winner...
Quvenzhané Wallis (actor, Beasts of the Southern Wild) [80 points / 14 votes]
"Quvenzhane Wallis (pronounced kwa-van-je-nay) landed the coveted role of Hushpuppy in Benh Zeitlin's elemental fable Beasts of the Southern Wild four years ago over hundreds of other hopefuls at the age of 5. Realizing that the cut-off age was 6, her mother made claim that she was a year older, and the ruse went undetected, to the great benefit of the subsequent film. Wallis plays the resilient daughter of a hot-tempered, alcoholic father named Wink, who both live in extreme squalor in a weather-ravaged lowland of the Louisiana Bayou. The expressive youth, wiry and with gold-tinted spiked hair may be an amateur performer, but she's both natural and charismatic, as she carries the film's formidable emotional and physical weight on her little shoulders. Innocence is transformed by a baptism through fire, as Hushpuppy cooks her own food, tends to the animals, and conducts imaginary conversations with her absent mother who she claims 'swam away.' Wallis is never self-aware, and she is the moral conscious of the film, accentuated by the film's haunting narration by her persona. An emphatic and precocious young girl, her astounding success (dozens of Breakthrough and Breakout citations nationwide, and at nine years old the youngest person ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award) has re-written the very essence of the Cinderella story." -- Sam Juliano
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