Grierson & Leitch's 2014 In Review: The Best Forgotten Performances

Yes, most people have already written their Top 10 movie lists for 2014. We're saving ours for the last week of the year, but while we wait for this full, rich, and weird movie year to end, we're going to start looking back at certain highlights. Today, it's our favorite forgotten performances. Tomorrow: the year's worst films. Grierson
Chadwick Boseman in Get on Up
Heading into the summer, Oscar prognosticators were sure they'd found a definite Best Actor nominee here. After all, Get on Up director Tate Taylor's last film, 2011's The Help, was nominated for Best Picture and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Octavia Spencer. Plus, a biopic about James Brown would certainly be high-profile, and the trailers suggested that star Chadwick …