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Here are your Oscars 2022 actors power rankings

Wide-open races! A-list actors aplenty! Crowd-pleasing movies ... that can't summon the crowds to please!

This year's Oscar marathon — the ceremony isn't until March 27, so you'll have plenty of time to catch up — has an abundance of appealing faces on the acting side. Who's in the conversation, either for their work or for reasons outside their performances? Let's do some ranking.

15. Ben Affleck, "The Tender Bar"

Affleck makes for an endearing Everyman mentor in this genial coming-of-age movie. Good enough for an Oscar nomination? Suuuure. Why not? And ... you know ... as long as he'd be coming to the ceremony anyway, why not have him bring along old pal

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