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Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon. I've never seen a play transferred to film so well before, and it's in large part due to the Richard Nixon role played beautifully by Frank Langella. It wasn't an impression, either (though the voice was there). Langella created a more confident, larger-than-life and yet still broken and corrupt man and it worked beautifully with the story.
Ken Watanabe in Letters from Iwo Jima was truly heartbreaking. His role as the general put in charge of holding that which was impossible to hold was brave and stoic, but also sad and regretful. You could tell he placed the weight of every single Japanese soldier on that island on his shoulders and felt every death. Ken has to be one of the greatest actors alive.
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