…CCH Pounder, for her work in The Shield.

For at least three decades now, she has been one of Hollywood’s best kept secrets. And, apart from her Emmy nominations for ER in 1994, and The Shield, in 2002, she has gotten little general recognition.

It’s about time she is given the chance to step up, and wear the laurels she most rightly deserves.

Update: Oh, and honorable mention to Michael Jace, for best cover of Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction. I can think of little more terrifying than someone reciting Biblical prophecy, while he’s got a gun to my head.