FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever.

[Wichita Lineman]

https://forumofgames.com/showthread.php?tid=181

I may be doing this the wrong way around but here's the link to a tournament. 

FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever.

Nominations are open....................

[Wichita Lineman]

512 names now on the spreadsheeet so thats about as much as I can handle. Will be working through my plans next few days and hopefully will get it kicked off this week. 

[Neowise]

Tuesday, 12th October, 2021
"I'll leave the nomination phase open for at least a couple of weeks"

Tuesday, 19th October, 2021



closing up now.....       

[Wichita Lineman]

Tuesday, 12th October, 2021
"I'll leave the nomination phase open for at least a couple of weeks"

Tuesday, 19th October, 2021



closing up now.....       

Yeah I thought it would take longer but everyone has responded really well. The work for me only starts now .   It seemed like a good idea at the time!

[Kol]

I've ran a lot of tournaments but I don't think I've ever had that many nominations. This is going to be epic 

[jp liz v1]

I'm excited

[Wichita Lineman]

Welcome to.....


The ‘FOG Best Actor of All Time’ nomination papers are in and all the actors are backstage anxious to get going with knockout competition. With 512 actors to get through it’s going to be a long ride so buckle up.


 
Round 1 will consist of 64 posts with 8 head-to-head match ups in each that you will decide the winners in. In this round, there has been some seeding in that any actor with 2 or more nominations cannot be drawn against another actor selected twice or more. From Round 2 onwards however it’s an open draw and some A listers might find it tougher going then.


My plan is to try to issue at least 3 posts a day but obviously, life, work, and golf might intrude on that so we may have to be flexible on this. I will leave voting on each posted set open for 3 hours (MINIMUM) and will include any votes received on the thread before I post the next set.  So in an ideal world if I post a set at 9, voting will close sometime after 12 (i.e. whenever I post the 2nd set) and then you have another 3 hours or more on set 2 until I post set 3 and so on.




In the early rounds in the event of a tie, I will have the casting vote but I will use a randomizer method from the Quarter Finals onwards.

I’m providing a picture of each actor with a link to his or her IMDB page and I’ve also selected a random trivia item, quote or bio note which hopefully you will find interesting. All bar the photos have been sourced from IMDB so I don’t for one second claim everything is 100% factual. 

Please don’t PM me asking why someone wasn’t nominated – after all there are literally millions of actors worldwide that could have qualified but 512 was as many as I could handle!



The most important thing to remember is that this is for fun.  Now, where did I put that red carpet……………………..

[quickbeam]

Please don’t PM me asking why someone wasn’t nominated – after all there are literally millions of actors worldwide that could have qualified but 512 was as many as I could handle!

Why would someone complain to you that someone wasn't nominated? We were the ones charged with doing the nominating? If someone was left off we only have ourselves to blame!

Looking forward to this. I expect about 90% of my noms will be out in the first round

[Wichita Lineman]

ROUND 1 - MATCHES 1-4

Meg Ryan - She was voted "cutest" girl in school, class secretary, and homecoming queen in her senior year of high school. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000212/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Emilia Clarke - Emilia tattooed three flying dragons on her right wrist after completing the principal photography for Season 8 of Game of Thrones (2011). She did this to celebrate her eight year long journey of playing the character of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones (2011). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3592338/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Winona Ryder - Suffers from aquaphobia due to trauma she suffered at age 12 when she nearly drowned. This caused problems when she had to act in some of the underwater scenes in Alien: Resurrection (1997).   https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000213/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


Robert Wagner - Tells in his biography that when he was in Paris for the shooting of The Longest Day (1962), he made a mistake when, one night, he was about to get back to his hotel. He was drunk and grabbed the man at the desk because the employee did not recognize him. Turned out that he walked into the wrong hotel. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001822/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Michelle Pfeiffer - Met husband-to-be David E. Kelley on a blind date at the Santa Monica, CA, "Chez Jay" restaurant & bar, a location he would use years later for his TV series Goliath (2016). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000201/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Billy Bob Thornton - His paternal grandfather, Otis Thornton, with whom he spent time in his childhood on a small shack in the woods, was a forest ranger. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000671/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Sacha Baron Cohen - Quote - "I'm not going to claim that everything I've done has been for a higher purpose. Yes, some of my comedy - OK, probably half my comedy - has been absolutely juvenile... and the other half completely puerile." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Basil Rathbone - Fought in the British Army during World War I and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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Voting open for at least 3 hours from post time above. Closes once set 2 is posted. 

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Meg Ryan v Emilia Clarke
Winona Ryder v Robert Wagner
Michelle Pfeiffer v Billy Bob Thornton
Sacha Baron Cohen v Basil Rathbone

[cee_jay]

Meg Ryan
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sacha Baron Cohen

[Kol]

Meg Ryan
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sacha Baron Cohen

Same please.


Dont know the last chap so reluctantly going for that other spoof.

[Trigger]

Emilia Clarke
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sacha Baron Cohen

Not a Meg Ryan fan myself and Emilia was excellent in GOT so she's got my vote!

[quickbeam]

Meg Ryan v Emilia Clarke - Meg was in some great films in her day, and it's a shame what she's done to herself. Emilia is far too johnny-comes-lately to be considered.

Winona Ryder v Robert Wagner

Michelle Pfeiffer v Billy Bob Thornton

Sacha Baron Cohen v Basil Rathbone - Sacha is mostly one trick pony, though that trick really is quite good. Basil is an icon of the classic era.

[Zaph]

Meg Ryan
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sacha Baron Cohen

Same please.


Dont know the last chap so reluctantly going for that other spoof.

Before Benedict Cumberbatch came along he was the most famous Sherlock Holmes.


Meg Ryan
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sacha Baron Cohen

[quickbeam]

Before Benedict Cumberbatch came along he was the most famous Sherlock Holmes.

True, though I have never seen any of those films. The first thing I think when I hear him mentioned is his Robin Hood film.

[RSOAPS]

Emilia Clarke
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sacha Baron Cohen

[Zaph]

Before Benedict Cumberbatch came along he was the most famous Sherlock Holmes.

True, though I have never seen any of those films.  The first thing I think when I hear him mentioned is his Robin Hood film.

My grandmother loved him, particularly as Sherlock Holmes, as a result I never remember that he played Robin Hood too.  I was only a kid when I saw his films though, so I couldn't tell you now if he was any good.

[nothing]

Meg Ryan
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Basil Rathbone

[Necro]

Emilia Clarke
Winona Ryder
Billy Bob Thornton
Basil Rathbone (mainly cos I fookin HATE Sacha Baron Cohen)

[ShaneU]

Meg Ryan
Winona Ryder
Billy Bob Thornton
Sacha Baron Cohen

[Wichita Lineman]

So the surprises start already in Round 1 already with the rom com queen Meg Ryan dousing the flames of the dragon queen Emilia Clarke. Winona Ryder gets the first clean sweep of the tournament giving Robert Wagner a bit of a hiding. None of these 8 were nominated more than once. 

Meg Ryan 6 v 3 Emilia Clarke
Winona Ryder 9 v 0 Robert Wagner
Michelle Pfeiffer 7 v 2 Billy Bob Thornton
Sacha Baron Cohen 6 v 3 Basil Rathbone
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ROUND 1 - MATCHES 5-8

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shirley MacLaine - Was close friends with the members of the Rat Pack. She starred with all of them in Ocean's 11 (1960). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Andie McDowell - In her first film (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)), her Southern accent was so heavy that her voice was entirely dubbed by Glenn Close. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000510/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

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Michelle Yeoh - Quote - "I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000706/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Carey Mulligan - Has mentioned that she'd like to do a play every year.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1659547/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Kevin Costner - Once was a bus driver for tours to stars' Hollywood homes. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Cameron Diaz - Went to the same high school at the same time as Snoop Dogg. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000139/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Michael Shannon -   According to a 2014 Hollywood Reporter article, Smokin' Aces (2006) director Joe Carnahan fired Michael Shannon for being rude to a costume designer and replaced him with Chris Pine. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788335/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Lena Headey - Born in Bermuda, her family moved to Huddersfield, Yorkshire, when she was five, and lived there until she was 17.   https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372176/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Voting on post 2 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 3 arrives. 

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Shirley MacLaine v Andie McDowell
Michelle Yeoh v Carey Mulligan
Kevin Costner v Cameron Diaz
Michael Shannon v Lena Headey

[ShaneU]

Shirley MacLaine
Michelle Yeoh
Cameron Diaz
Michael Shannon

[nothing]

Shirley MacLaine
Michelle Yeoh
Cameron Diaz
Lena Headey

[Neowise]

In the early rounds in the event of a tie, I will have the casting vote but I will use a randomizer method from the Quarter Finals onwards.

not sure i get why we should use random in a tourney like this,
if a tie, let them both go through and face off against others, weeding out all the week ones.
I feel thet if yiou have two that are close and the crowd can't pick between them, they are both good candidates to win, and should both progress, both might easily beat off loads of the other competition and meet each other again in the final.

it seems a shame to lose one of two great actors, just because they are up against each other and the crowd cant pick between them.

[cee_jay]

Shirley MacLaine
Michelle Yeoh
Cameron Diaz
Lena Headey

Same as

[Neowise]

Emilia Clarke
Robert Wagner
Billy Bob Thornton
Sacha Baron Cohen

[Neowise]

Andie McDowell
Michelle Yeoh
Cameron Diaz

[Kol]

Shirley MacLaine
Carey Mulligan
Kevin Costner
Michael Shannon

Are we going to see the complete GoT cast including extras?

[quickbeam]

Shirley MacLaine v Andie McDowell
Michelle Yeoh v Carey Mulligan
Kevin Costner v Cameron Diaz
Michael Shannon v Lena Headey

[quickbeam]

Are we going to see the complete GoT cast including extras?

Wondered the exact same

[Zaph]

Shirley MacLaine
Carey Mulligan
Cameron Diaz
Michael Shannon

[Trigger]

Shirley MacLaine
Abstain 
Kevin Costner
Lena Headey

[Necro]

Andie McDowell
Michelle Yeoh
Kevin Costner
Lena Headey

[Wichita Lineman]

Are we going to see the complete GoT cast including extras?

Wondered the exact same

 Peter Dinklage and the one with the red hair are definitely in. Kit Harington and Aidan Gillen as well.

[quickbeam]

Wondered the exact same

 Peter Dinklage and the one with the red hair are definitely in. Kit Harington and Aidan Gillen as well.

Ed Sheeran?

Were they all nominated by the same person?

I hope Sean Bean is included too. Probably the one cast member who actually deserves a nomination.

[ari101]

 Peter Dinklage and the one with the red hair are definitely in. Kit Harington and Aidan Gillen as well.

Ed Sheeran?

Were they all nominated by the same person?

I hope Sean Bean is included too.  Probably the one cast member who actually deserves a nomination.

Haha I assume he means Rose Leslie?

Andie McDowell
Carey Mulligan
Cameron Diaz
Michael Shannon

Some tough choices I'm still not sure about there!

[Necro]

 Peter Dinklage and the one with the red hair are definitely in. Kit Harington and Aidan Gillen as well.

Ed Sheeran?

Were they all nominated by the same person?

I hope Sean Bean is included too.  Probably the one cast member who actually deserves a nomination.

Sophie Turner I'd say (Sansa)

[Wichita Lineman]

Yes it's Sophie Turner. No nods for Sean Bean, I'll add him to my list of surprise omissions. 

[Zaph]

Yes it's Sophie Turner. No nods for Sean Bean, I'll add him to my list of surprise omissions. 

Although it's not as surprising as Aiden Gillen being included!

[Wichita Lineman]

Yes it's Sophie Turner. No nods for Sean Bean, I'll add him to my list of surprise omissions. 

Although it's not as surprising as Aiden Gillen being included!

I met Aidan Gillen at the Dublin International Film Festival a couple of years ago. Sound fella. We had a chat about golf.