Biggest Year of Their Careers (So Far)
Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men, Grindhouse, In the Valley of Elah, American Gangster)
Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia, Transformers)

Best Two-Fers
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah, No Country for Old Men)
Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Denzel Washington (American Gangster, The Great Debaters)
Ryan Gosling (Fracture, Lars and the Real Girl)

Best Three-Fer
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)

Biggest Likely Oscar Winner No One's Heard Of
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Biggest Quashing of A-List Potential
Jessica Alba (Awake, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Good Luck Chuck)

Biggest Pillaging of Indie Cred
Paul Giamatti (The Nanny Diaries, Shoot 'Em Up, Fred Claus)

Most Common Movie Theme
War (Charlie Wilson's War, Lions for Lambs, The Kingdom, Redacted, Grace is Gone, Rescue Dawn)

Most Disappointing Showing for an Oscar Winner
Meryl Streep (Lions for Lambs, Evening)

Coolest Movie Title
Hot Fuzz

Most Surprisingly Lovable
James Marsden (Hairspray, Enchanted)

Wisest Film Choice for a TV Star
Patrick Dempsey, Enchanted
Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up

Unwisest Film Choice for a TV Star
Lauren Graham, Evan Almighty and Because I Said So

Coolest Show to Like
Pushing Daisies

Uncoolest Show to Like
Lost (save for the last few episodes)

You Told Everyone They Had to Watch It, Then It Started to Suck
Heroes
Friday Night Lights
24

Show I'm Completely Divorcing This Year Out of Outrage
Prison Break (It better be the final season, or I'm demanding alimony)

When Numbers Work in Movie Titles
300, 1408, 3:10 to Yuma

When Numbers Don't Work in Movie Titles
Thr3e, The Ten, Reno 911: Miami, 30 Days of Night, P2

Coolest Show on Non-Premium Cable
Mad Men

Coolest Addition to Grey's Anatomy Despite the Departure of Isaiah Washington and Kate Walsh
Brooke Smith (aka Silence of the Lambs victim who lived) as Erica Hahn

Best Title of a TV Show
Dirty Sexy Money (Go ahead, try it in a sentence: "Did you catch Dirty Sexy Money last week?")

Most Disappointing New Show Given Its Cast
Big Shots (Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus, Josh Malina)

Most Disappointing Movie Given Its Cast
Evening (Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Natasha Ricahrdson, Patrick Wilson, Glenn Close)

Most Un-Hyped Departures from a Series
Jorja Fox (CSI)
Stanley Tucci (ER -- Come to think of it, all ER departures these days have been eerily quiet)


Sequels That Hid Their Number So People Wouldn't Remember That They've Already Seen This Bad Movie
Resident Evil: Extinction, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

Sequels That Didn't Care If People Remembered
Saw IV, Rush Hour 3, Spider-Man 3

Oscar Bait That Hasn't Hooked (So Far)
Things We Lost in the Fire, Reservation Road

Quantity Over Quality
Hilary Swank (Freedom Writers, The Reaping, P.S. I Love You)
Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider, Next, National Treasure: Book of Secrets)

Most Employed Actor
Jason Bateman (The Ex, The Kingdom, Juno, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Smokin' Aces)

Natalie Portman Worked in 2007 (Maybe You Missed 'Em)
Goya's Ghosts, Paris Je'Taime, The Darjeeling Limited (in the short film prior), and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium)

And So Did Jennifer Lopez
El Cantante, Bordertown

And the Downward Spiral Continues...
Lindsay Lohan (Georgia Rule, I Know Who Killed Me)


Any you'd like to add?

--Ellen

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