From left are Jeff Bridges for 'True Grit', Jesse Eisenberg for 'The Social Network', Colin Firth for 'The King's Speech', Javier Bardem for 'Biutiful' and James Franco for '127 Hours'.
Although skakespeare drew from seneca, and brecht from shakespeare, even more immediate was the influence of griffith on ford or ford on bergman or bergman on allen.