10 Great Performances That Were Overshadowed By Their Co-Stars

4. Josh Brolin - No Country For Old Men

Overshadowed By: Javier Bardem No Country For Old Men nabbed the prestigious Best Picture Academy Award back in 2007, beating out Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood - a movie we've already mentioned on this list - in the process. Both pictures were excellent, of course, though No Country For Old Men presumably had the edge because it was slightly more mainstream (yes, slightly) - it was also propelled to victory by way of Javier Bardem's iconic performance as a terrifying hitman with an awful haircut who would stop at absolutely nothing to get the job done. Still, the movie's central character is one Llewelyn Moss, who Josh Brolin plays with skill and hard-assed determination, in a great and masterful performance that was greatly overlooked by movie-goers (and the Academy) who were too fixated on Bardem's baddy to take notice. Brolin successfully manages to make Moss quiet and broody but not in way so that we don't side with him during his attempts to dodge death. You might even argue the same happened with Tommy Lee Jones, who was great here also, but found himself obscured beneath Chigurh's shadow similarly.