DENZEL WASHINGTON (detektyw Keith Frazier)
Glory Edwarda Zwicka - nagroda Akademii®, Cry Freedom Richarda Attenborough - nominacja do Oskara®, Mo’ Better Blues, Man on Fire Tony’ego Scotta, Kandydat (The Manchurian Candidate), Out of Time, Dzień próby (Training Day) - nagroda Akademii®, John Q, Tytani (Remember the Titans), The Hurricane - Złoty Glob, nominacja do Oskara®, Kolekcjoner kości (The Bone Collector), Fallen, Gra o honor (He Got Game), Stan oblężenia (The Siege), Szalona odwaga (Courage Under Fire), Żona pastora (The Preacher’s Wife), Karmazynowy przypływ (Crimson Tide), thriller Zabójcza perfekcja (Virtuosity), W bagnie Los Angeles (Devil in a Blue Dress), Malcolm X - nominacja do Oskara®, Wiele hałasu o nic (Much Ado About Nothing), Mississippi Masala, Filadelfia (Philadelphia) Jonathana Demme, Raport Pelikana (The Pelican Brief), Antwone Fisher - debiut reżyserski, teatr - Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, When the Chickens Came Home to Roost, One Tiger to a Hill, Man and Superman Othello, A Soldier’s Play - nagroda Obie Award, Checkmates, Richard III, Julius Caesar.
CLIVE OWEN (Dalton Russell)
Close My Eyes, Century, Bent, Greenfingers, Gosford Park Roberta Altmana, Beyond Borders, thriller I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Król Artur (King Arthur), Sin City, Bliżej (Closer) - Złoty Glob, nominacja do nagrody Akademii, thriller Wykolejony (Derailed), telewizja - seria Chancer, The Return of the Native, Second Sight, Mystery!, Lorna Doone, An Evening with Gary Lineker, The Echo, Split Second, teatr - Design for Living, Closer w Royal National Theater, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, internet - seria krótkich filmów dla BMW - The Hire - reżyserowanych przez Johna Frankenheimera, Anga Lee, Wong Kar-waia, Guya Ritchie i Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.
JODIE FOSTER (Madeline White)
Oskarżeni (The Accused), thriller Milczenie owiec (The Silence of the Lambs) - dwie nagrody Akademii® dla Najlepszej Aktorki, Taksówkarz (Taxi Driver) - nominacja do Oskara®, Bugsy Malone Alana Parkera, thriller Plan lotu (Flightplan), Bardzo długie zaręczyny (A Very Long Engagement), Azyl (Panic Room) Davida Finchera, Anna i król (Anna and the King), Kontakt (Contact) Roberta Zemeckisa, Nell - nominacja do nagrody Akademii®, Maverick, Sommersby, Shadows and Fog, Siesta, Stealing Home, Five Corners, Tom Sawyer, Foxes, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Blood of Others, Napoleon and Samantha, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Little Man Tate - debiut reżyserski, Home for the Holidays - reżyseria, telewizja - Mayberry RFD, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, My Three Sons, Paper Moon.
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER (Arthur Case)
Stage Struck Sidneya Lumeta, The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would Be King, The Battle of Britain, Waterloo, The Silent Partner, Dragnet, Inside Daisy Clover, Star Trek IV, Malcolm X, Dolores Claiborne, Wilk (Wolf), Dwanaście małp (Twelve Monkeys), Murder by Decree, Somewhere in Time, Informator (The Insider), Piękny umysł (A Beautiful Mind) Rona Howarda, Ararat Atoma Egoyana, Blizzard, Devil’s Throat, Nicholas Nickleby, Alexander Olivera Stone, Skarb narodów (National Treasure), Syriana i The New World, między innymi, teatr - J.B., musical Cyrano - nagroda Tony, Barrymore - nagroda Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, telewizja - Hamlet at Elsinore, Ptaki ciernistych krzewów (The Thorn Birds), Nuremberg, Little Moon of Alban, The Moneychangers.
WILLEM DAFOE (John Darius)
Cień wampira (The Shadow of the Vampire) - nominacja do nagrody Akademii® i Złotego Globu, Spider-Man, Podwodne życie ze Stevem Zissou (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) Wesa Andersona, The Aviator Martina Scorsese, XXX: State of the Union, Before It Had a Name, Manderlay Larsa von Triera, Ripley Underground, Angielski pacjent (The English Patient), Pluton (Platoon) Olivera Stone, Ostatnie kuszenie Chrystusa (The Last Temptation of Christ) Martina Scorsese, Dzikość serca (Wild at Heart) Davida Lyncha, Płonące Mississippi (Mississippi Burning) Alana Parkera, Auto Focus, Affliction, The Clearing, The Reckoning, Animal Factory, American Psycho, The Boondock Saints, eXistenZ Davida Cronenberga, Lulu on the Bridge, New Rose Hotel, Pavilion of Women, Faraway So Close!, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Tom & Viv, Stan zagrożenia (Clear and Present Danger), Urodzony 4 lipca (Born on the Fourth of July), Triumph of the Spirit, White Sands, Żyć i umrzeć w Los Angeles (To Live and Die in L.A.), Streets of Fire i The Loveless.
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR (detektyw Bill Mitchell)
Amistad Stevena Spielberga, Niewidoczni (Dirty Pretty Things) Stephena Frearsa, To właśnie miłość (Love Actually), She Hate Me, Melinda and Melinda Woody Allena, Czterech braci (Four Brothers) Johna Singletona, Serenity, Kinky Boots, Children of Men Alfonso Cuaróna, Tonight at Noon Michaela Almereydy, teatr - Blue/Orange - nominacja do nagrody Laurence Oliviera.
