The List:

• Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
• Jonah Hill – Moneyball
• Nick Nolte – Warrior
• Christopher Plummer – Beginners
• Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Hooray for:

Nolte, who has been an underdog in this category.  Good to see he wasn’t forgotten.  Also, Jonah Hill!!

Where the hell is:

• Ben Kingsley for Hugo (all the noms for that movie, and not one for its best performance?)
• Alan Rickman for Harry Potter (come on, he was fantastic)
• Andy Serkis for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (someday, Oscar voters will realize how good this guy is)
• Viggo Mortensen for A Dangerous Method (no love for that movie, for some reason)

Instead of:

Branagh, who was terribly miscast as Laurence Olivier in Marilyn

My prediction:

This is Plummer’s to lose.  And about time, too!