续年度最好的二十五部电影排行榜之后，Digital Spy又给出了本年最好的十二大表演

12 best performances of 2014
By Emma Dibdin and Simon Reynolds
Saturday, Dec 27 2014, 09:00 GMT
Christmas is over, and New Year's is bearing down upon us like a predatory alien seductress or a savagely ruthless photojournalist (take your pick).
You've already seen our list of the 25 best movies of the year so far, and now it's time to single out the actors and actresses who made the biggest impression on us in 2014.
Below are Digital Spy's 12 favourite big-screen performances of the year.

1. Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)【第一这位是谁不用介绍了吧】
Perhaps the most instantly iconic movie character of the year, Nightcrawler's Lou Bloom is the walking embodiment of naked ambition. A drifter determined to carve himself out a career, Lou stalks the streets of LA in search of grisly crime scenes to capture on camera, selling the footage on to the highest bidding news outfit. 【这应该今年最具代表性的电影角色了吧，杰克.吉伦哈尔的路.布鲁姆就是活生生赤裸野心的具体表现。作为一个立志成就一翻事业的流浪汉，路游荡于洛杉矶大街小巷，只为拍到血腥罪案片段，然后将其卖给出价最高的新闻机构】
As the film's title implies, Lou is closer to predatory animal than man, Jake Gyllenhaal's wolfish smile and gaunt physique turning him wraithlike in his ruthless determination to succeed at all costs. It's a physically and psychologically transformative turn that you can't take your eyes off of, equally compelling and repellent. 【正如片名所暗示，路更像是掠夺成性的动物，杰克.吉伦哈尔带着狼性的微笑和削瘦的外形让他看上去瘦得像鬼，为了成功不惜一切。这种从精神和肉体上完完全全的转变让观众移不开眼，既让人厌恶又忍不住为他喝彩。】

2. Scarlett Johansson (Under the Skin)【斯嘉丽.约翰逊（皮囊之下）】
2014 has been a career-redefining year for Scarlett Johansson, with roles in Spike Jonze's Her, Luc Besson's Lucy and Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier solidifying her status as both critical darling and box office dynamite.
But it was Jonathan Glazer's queasily gorgeous sci-fi Under The Skin that gave Johansson her most captivating role to date. Playing a predatory alien who takes human form in order to lure men to their disturbingly abstract doom, Johansson was utterly mesmerising in what came close to a silent performance. She's convincingly unnerving and otherworldly, yet also vulnerable as her character gradually becomes changed by the humanity she feeds on.
3. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)【本尼迪克特.康伯巴奇（模拟游戏）】
Playing an asocial genius who alienates those around him is well within Benedict Cumberbatch's wheelhouse, and yet his turn as the pioneering and persecuted Alan Turing is still utterly different from any he's given before.
It's the performances that hold The Imitation Game together despite its often clumsy script, and Cumberbatch segues beautifully between humour and pathos as Turing's tragic story is chronicled. Believably cerebral yet profoundly human, this performance earns every bit of the Best Actor buzz it's gathering.

4. Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)【罗莎曼德.派克（消失的爱人）】
Rosamund Pike established herself as a dependable supporting star after breaking through in 2002 Bond film Die Another Day, but things changed dramatically for the Brit actress this year thanks to her role in David Fincher's Gone Girl.
Fans who tore through Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel were keen to see how Pike brought the complex, psychologically scarred Amy Dunne to life. She delivered in style, turning in an ice-in-the-veins portrayal of a manipulative sociopath always one step ahead of the game. An Academy Award nomination surely awaits.
5. Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)【安迪.瑟克斯（猩球黎明）】
The debate surrounding the value of actors working in performance capture surfaced again this summer when Andy Serkis delivered a stunning turn as Caesar in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Building on the work of the blockbuster's predecessor Rise, director Matt Reeves married cutting edge visual effects with emotional, heart-wrenching work from Serkis as the foundation. Humanity bled through the pixels, making this the most compelling 'assisted performance' we've seen to-date. Serkis has displayed a true mastery of this specific form of acting through Gollum and Caesar – isn't it about time we start taking him seriously?

8. Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)【奥斯卡.伊萨克（醉乡民谣）】
Acting, singing, guitar-playing, cat-wrangling… Oscar Isaac's breakthrough performance as a down-at-heel folk singer in the Coen brothers' latest is a quadruple threat at the very least.
And that's understating the depth and detail of what Isaac is doing here. Llewyn is a bitter, acerbic and prickly character, potentially difficult to warm to. The songs he plays are his only real moments of emotional exposure, and Isaac injects every performance with such soulful pathos that you feel for him against the odds.
9. Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)【玛丽昂.歌迪亚（两天一夜）】
Marion Cotillard always does her most compelling work in her native tongue, and the Dardenne brothers' emotionally rich blue-collar drama is a showcase for her.
Having been made redundant after an absence from work, Cotillard's troubled Sandra has one weekend to convince her co-workers to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. Cotillard captures the numbness and paralysis of depression with a rare level of depth, her face endlessly fascinating to watch as she reacts to every new challenge her humbling situation produces.

10. Brendan Gleeson (Calvary)【布莱丹.格里森（神父有难）】
Brendan Gleeson and director John Michael McDonagh established a strong working relationship on The Guard, and the duo went even better for their follow-up Calvary.
Gleeson plays a priest threatened with murder by a man in his confessional booth, and the subsequent days see him attempting to serve the community as best he can and reconcile with his estranged daughter. McDonagh's film plays out like an epic Irish Western, with Gleeson utterly magnetic at its heart. This was one of the great under-the-radar highlights of 2014.
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11. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)【莱昂纳多.迪卡普里奥（华尔街之狼）】
Ellen's star-packed selfie may have been the headline moment of this year's Oscars, but it's easy to forget that the internet went into full-on meltdown when Leonardo DiCaprio was overlooked again for the Best Actor Academy Award.
In his fifth collaboration with Martin Scorsese he was sensational as Jordan Belfort, the stockbroker whose New York boiler rooms rinsed millions from unsuspecting investors. DiCaprio threw everything into the role, showing us a man with ruthless ambition, drive and energy. The highlight? Probably the drug-addled Belfort's attempts to crawl into his sports car. Who knew Leo had these slapstick skills in him?
12. Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)【雷夫.范恩斯（布达佩斯大饭店）】
The pairing of Wes Anderson and Ralph Fiennes seemed like an odd mix when we first heard about The Grand Budapest Hotel, but it was a partnership that delivered in spectacular fashion.
As Monsieur Gustave H, the concierge at the titular hotel, Fiennes brought wit, charm and wry humour to a fastidious and ultra-committed character. His aloof charisma sparked well with the naivety of young Zero (played brilliantly by Tony Revolori), making this the best character Fiennes has played in years. What we'd give to see a Gustave H spin-off movie…

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