Poor Josh Brolin



In any other year Josh Brolin would win the Oscar for his masterful, sanguinary performance in No Country For Old Men. Unfortunately, this is the year that Daniel-Day Lewis left semi-retirement to give a superhuman performance. Before that Brolin was considered a boytoy for the more serious and gifted actor, Diane Lane.

No one will say that now with his back-to-back Oscar worthy performances in American Gangster and No Country, but it would have been inspirational if he went all the way. But he won't. Because no one -- perhaps ever -- has done a more unnaturally brilliant job of transforming himself into someone else than Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood.