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Lead or Supporting? #27: Peter Finch in Network

posted 8 years ago by markok56
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It's turn for couple of ensemble movies with no clear leads or clear supportings. I'm really interested what you guys think about it.

Robert De Niro in Awakenings - LEAD 10:5
Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society - TIE 8:8
Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook - LEAD 22:10
Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line - LEAD. 13:8
Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs(1991) - SUPPORTING. 19:12
Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night(1967) - LEAD 15:0
Nicole Kidman in The Hours(2002) - LEAD 20:6
Lauren Bacall in To Have and To Have Not(1944) - LEAD 5:1
Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects(1995) - SUPPORTING 9:7
Tom Hardy in The Revenant(2015) - SUPPORTING 20:1
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada(2006) - SUPPORTING 23:6
Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock(2000) - SUPPORTING 8:4
Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained(2012) - SUPPORTING 19:18
Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy(1969) - SUPPORTING 5:3
Jennifer Connelly in A Beautuful Mind(2001) - SUPPORTING 13:1
Jessica Lange in Tootsie(1982) - SUPPORTING 12:4

Ensemble Movies *1: Fargo(1996) - LEAD:Frances McDormand and William H.Macy ; SUPPORTNG:Buscemi,Presnell,Stormare
Ensemble Movies *2: Once Upon a Time in the West(1968) - LEAD:Charles Bronson ; SUPPORTING:Cardinale,Fonda,Robards
Ensemble Movies *3: Inglorious Basterds(2009) - SUPPORTING:Laurent,Pitt;Waltz
Ensemble Movies *4: Blood Simple(1984) - LEAD:Frances Mcdormand and John Getz ; SUPPORTING:Hedaya,Walsh
Ensemble Movies *5: Being John Malkovich(1999) - LEAD:John Cusack ; SUPPORTING:Diaz,Keener,Malkovich
Ensemble Movies *6: No Country For Old Men(2007) - LEAD:Josh Brolin ; SUPPORTING:Jones,Bardem
Ensemble Movies *7: The Exorcist(2007) - LEAD:Ellen Burstyn and Jason Miller ; SUPPORTING: Blair,Cobb,Van Sydow
Ensemble Movies *8: Burn After Reading(2008) - SUPPORTING:McDormand,Clooney,Malkovich,Pitt,Swinton,Pitt
Ensemble Movies *9: Reservoir Dogs(1992) - LEAD:Harvey Keitel ; SUPPORTING:Roth,Buscemi,Madsen,Tierney,Penn
Ensemble Movies *10:Magnolia(1999) - SUPPORTING: Moore,Cruise,Robards,Hoffman

Peter Finch in Network(1976) - ??

[–] markok56 8 years ago

Supporting

[–] Ser_Stephen_Seaworth 8 years ago

Lead. It is, after all, "the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."

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[–] Taran_of_Prydain 8 years ago

Supporting

[–] jamesh5 8 years ago

Lead but if I had to list them he'd be the #3 lead.

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[–] comicman117 8 years ago

Supporting.

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[–] RecordBreaker84 8 years ago

Supporting

[–] Hierarch_Hemmelfart 8 years ago

Supporting.

Maybe he comes down her chimney.

[–] sesquick-seabag 8 years ago

Debatable/borderline-ish but I'll say he's leading. His character is central and the absences are not more than Brando's (or even Pacino) in The Godfather, which leaves me puzzled as to what you all imagine the difference to be.