LonoMyth's Kid Actor Spotlight presents the...
The results are in! The top ten places (11 fellas in all) are represented in this montage (click thumbnail to get fullsize image):
For those that don't know, this poll was conducted over the last two weeks of 1997. Visitors were asked to vote on their 5 favorite kid celebrities based on their work in 1997.
I want to thank everyone who sent in a ballot. I am amazed and pleased that we had a bigger turnout this year than last.
Seventy-four ballots were received (63 complete, 11 partial), and a total of 1,018 points were spread out over 102 mentioned boy actors and singers. In the end, I had to give partial ballots (those containing less than 5 names) less weight than full ones, since this was statisically more fair to the rest of the pack.
I had thought it was virtually impossible for the top finisher of last year to repeat with such a margin this year, but once again, David Gallagher managed to somehow surpass his earlier win by posting an even bigger margin of victory. Wow, David - way to go!
The big surprise was Kevin Zegers, who held on to second place through the entire polling period, finishing 29 spots higher than last year.
The rest of the placings were viciously competetive, changing wildly in the last 3 days.
Here are the complete results:
Place/points 1997 1996 Rank Name
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1 (116 points) 1 David Gallagher
2 (64 points) 31 (+29) Kevin Zegers
3 (50 points) 3 Jonathan Taylor Thomas
4 (36 points) 10 (+6) Erik von Detten
5 (35 points) 4 (-1) Elijah Wood
6 (30 points) -- Zachary Hanson
7 (29 points) -- Taylor Hanson
8 (26 points) 41 (+33) Zachery Ty Bryan
9 (24 points) 31 (+22) Miko Hughes
10 (23 points) 14 (+4) Lucas Black
60 (+50) Taran Noah Smith
12 (22 points) -- Brendon Ryan Barrett
13 (20 points) 20 (+7) Joseph Gordon-Levitt
7 (-13) Eric Lloyd
14 (+1) Joseph Mazzello
16 (19 points) 2 (-14) Michael Galeota
17 (16 points) 51 (+34) Alex D. Linz
18 (15 points) 51 (+33) Rider Strong
19 (13 points) 41 (+22) Blake Heron
80 (+61) Jake Lloyd
21 (12 points) -- Aaron Carter
26 (+5) Frankie J. Galasso
-- Adam Hann-Byrd
24 (+3) Haley Joel Osment
25 (11 points) 9 (-16) Wesley Barker
26 (+1) Matthew Lawrence
27 (10 points) 4 (-23) Anthony Way
28 ( 9 points) -- Nick Carter
4 (-24) Brad Renfro
17 (-11) Jason James Richter
60 (+32) Olivier Tuninier
32 ( 8 points) 26 (-6) Justin Berfield
16 (-16) Zachary Browne
51 (+19) Mason Gamble
12 (-20) Keegan MacIntosh
-- Tahj Mowry
37 ( 7 points) -- Jay Baruchel
-- Blake Foster
-- Isaac Hanson
-- Jonny Lang
-- Lee Norris
-- Dylan Provenchar
43 ( 6 points) -- Ben Brock
-- Jordan Brower
-- Michael Caloz
-- Joseph Cross
-- Georges DuFresne
-- Brandon Hammond
-- Nathan Lawrence
31 (-12) Jonathan Lipnicki
41 (-2) Courtland Mead
-- Ryan Merriman
-- Ben Savage
-- Mario Yedidia
55 ( 5 points) 31 (-24) Zane Carney
-- Justin Cooper
26 (-29) Jonathan Jackson
60 (+5) Vincent Kartheiser
-- Tyler Kyte
31 (-24) Brock Pierce
-- Justin Jon Ross
-- Danny Tamborelli
-- Shawn Toovey
69 (+14) Zbych Trofimuik
41 (-14) Phillip van Dyke
10 (-45) Geoffrey Wigdor
51 (-4) Joey Zimmerman
68 ( 4 points) -- Vincent Berry
-- Sam Huntington
60 (-8) Eddie Karr
-- Trenton Knight
60 (-8) Dave Moffatt
17 (-51) Jake Richardson
-- Tyrone Savage
-- William Snape
-- Cole/Dylan Sprouse
-- Alex Trench
78 ( 3 points) 31 (-47) Andrew Ducote
-- Michael Finigeurra
-- Cameron Finley
-- Jesse Littlejohn
-- Clint Moffatt
-- Jacob Reynolds
-- Corey Sevier
-- Jantje Smit
69 (-9) Gregory Smith
-- Tyler Thompson
-- Prince William Windsor
89 ( 2 points) -- Brendan Fletcher
-- Ben Gould
69 (-20) Andrew Lawrence
-- Jamyang Wangchuk
93 ( 1 point) -- Spencer Breslin
-- Ben Cook
69 (-24) Bug Hall
-- Jeremy Foley
-- David Krumholtz
41 (-52) Scott Moffatt
-- Austin O'Brien
-- Greg Raposo
-- Benjamin Salisbury
-- Arjay Smith
