No, this post is not about Emmy Rossum wowing the Parisian set with her sappy
"Think of Me" debutante number in
Phantom of the Opera. It's rather about individual line readings. My winners for this year are posted
at the website. Now, awardage is not an exact science of course and I'm sure that I forgot some really worthy contenders --or I leave them out because it's impossible to select one line because every reading is a gem (see Daryl Hannah in
Kill Bill, Vol 2 among others) or every line is classic (Brad Bird as Edna Mode in
The Incredibles) but since I get a surprising amount of mail about this category every year I thought I'd just explain how I come up with the nominees.
It's a simple matter of things that get trapped in my head. Sometimes it's just a great line that the actor in question delivers perfectly. Sometimes it's an absolute throwaway that the actor makes memorable solely by their delivery. Mostly it's just a matter of things that get stuck, like mini mpegs in my head ...The voices I hear (accurately and with precision like the movie is still playing) in my head when I think about the movies.
