in blog/board world... I tried to be as objective as possible, which means you'll see actors and actresses I really like in the Overrated section and such... and note these are blogs/boards, not the Academy, in which case some of these would shift around a lot
Overrated
Johnny Depp
Cate Blanchett
Parker Posey
Emily Blunt
Anne Hathaway
Annette Bening
Gael Garcia Bernal
Keira Knightley
James McAvoy
Anthony Hopkins
Ben Kingsley
Marlon Brando
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jake Gyllenhaal
James Dean
Ryan Gosling
Heath Ledger (pre-BBM. Yeah, he was great, but dammit, you're a Pro-keback. Stop pretending you gave him the Oscar for Monster's Ball back in 2001.)
Ewan McGregor
River Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix
Jim Carrey
Gary Oldman
Sean Penn
Audrey Hepburn (I LOVE her. but GREAT actress? no.)
Vivien Leigh
Julianne Moore
Uma Thurman
Diane Keaton
Rachel McAdams
Helena Bonham Carter
Eva Green
Susan Sarandon
Naomi Watts
Ziyi Zhang
Tilda Swinton
Thora Birch
Winona Ryder
Michelle Pfeiffer
Toni Collette (though I adore her to all hell)
Patricia Clarkson
Underrated
Kevin Bacon
Alec Baldwin
Richard Burton
Steve Buscemi
Steve Carell
Michael Caine
Russell Crowe
Tom Cruise (okay, he's BATSHIT CRAZY. But when he wants to be, he's a really terrific actor, and everyone forgot that)
Colin Firth
Topher Grace
Alec Guinness
Tom Hanks (nobody likes him just cuz he won two Oscars)
Ed Harris
Dustin Hoffman (everyone's like BLAH BLAH BLAH NICHOLSON or BLAH BLAH BLAH PACINO or BLAH BLAH BLAH DE NIRO and poor Dustin gets ignored)
William Holden
Jack Lemmon
Steve Martin
Robert Mitchum
Sidney Poitier
Alan Rickman
Tim Robbins
Rod Steiger
Bruce Willis
Jeffrey Wright, love of my life
Ben Affleck (you know what? HE CAN ACT. HE REALLY CAN.)
Ian Holm
Anthony LaPaglia
Zero Mostel
Bill Nighy
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hilary Swank
Rosario Dawson
Jennifer Garner
LAURA LINNEY
Samantha Morton
Gwyneth Paltrow
Thelma Ritter
Elisabeth Shue
Judy Davis
Kirsten Dunst
Anna Faris
Mia Farrow
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Diane Lane
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Christina Ricci
Eva Marie Sant
Lily Tomlin
Dianne Wiest
Charlize Theron
Weirdly Both Underrated and Overrated
Al Pacino
Jack Nicholson
Robert De Niro
Nicole Kidman
Scarlett Johansson
Natalie Portman
Kathy Bates
Imelda Staunton
Frances McDormand
Catherine O'Hara
Judi Dench
Maggie Smith
Laura Dern
Katharine Hepburn
Gong Li
Worthy of the Worship
Liv Ullmann
Bette Davis
Kate Winslet
Ralph Fiennes
Daniel Day-Lewis
Helen Mirren
Meryl Streep
Edward Norton
Bruce Campbell
Robert Downey Jr.
Bill Murray
Liam Neeson
Paul Newman
Denzel Washington
Gregory Peck
Peter O'Toole
Jodie Foster
Glenn Close
Holly Hunter
Elizabeth Taylor
Reese Witherspoon
