Best acting performances

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Post your top five performances, I am in the mood to have my mind blown. :)

Your criteria can be anything you like, such as having entertained you, or generated much emotion, etc.

Post the actor, the character they play and the movie.

For me, in no particular order:

1) Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
2) Gary Oldman as Stansfield in Léon
3) Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey Lebowski/the Dude in the Big Lebowski
4) Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus as Lincoln Osiris in Tropic Thunder
5) Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins in Changeling

I haven't seen that many films, and they fade from my memory, hence why all of these a recent performances... I hope you can all do better than me. :p
 
Stanley Baker - Hell Drivers.
Sean Penn - Bad Boys.
Richard Burton - The Medusa Touch.
Jeff Bridges - The Vanishing.
Johnny Depp - Captain Jack Sparrow of Course. :D


Just off the top of my head.
 
Italian footballers when they get tackled.:p

De Niro - Jake La Motta (Raging Bull) Michael Vronsky (The Deer Hunter)
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone (The Godfather tilogy).
Daniel Day Lewis - Christy Brown (My Left Foot) Bill The Butcher (Gangs Of New York)
Charlize Theron - Eileen Wuornos (Monster)
Sir Anthony Hopkinks - Hannibal Lecter (The Silence Of The Lambs)
 
Off the top of my head:

Dylan Baker - Happiness [takes some balls to play a non-cartoony paedophile]
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote [owned the character. Owned.]
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver [quietly menacing, obviously]
Joe Pesci - Goodfellas [as above, only louder]
James Stewart - It's A Wonderful Life [not really just for IAWL; when other actors were enunciating their lines with stage-taught precision, he was among the first to exploit stammering and hesitating as a way of grounding a character in real life. Way ahead of his time, was Jimmy.]

I could think of loads more, I'm sure. William H Macy and Peter Stormare in Fargo, for instance. Or Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men. Hmm. Lots of Coen Brothers films are going to be mentioned here, I'm sure.
 
My choices:

Heath Leger's Joker.
Christolph Waltz In inglorious Bas******
Russell Crowe's Gladiator
Peter Sellers roles in Dr. Strangelove
& finally... (Drum roll please)

the Drill Sargent in Full Metal Jacket (Lee Ermey??)
 
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Robert DeNiro - Taxi Driver
Al Pacino - The Godfather
F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
 
Stephen Graham - This is England
Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
Ralph Fiennes - In Bruges
Robert DeNiro - Goodfellas/Cape Fear/Taxi Driver
Jack Nicholson - The Shining
 
agree with most of the above

De Niro. Raging Bull & The Deer Hunter
Al Pacino. The Godfather Trilogy
Daniel Day Lewis. My Left Foot & Gangs Of New York
Jack Nicholson. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Tom Hanks. Forrest Gump and Philidelphia
 
I'll give you a top three as I would need time to think about anything more than that:

Henry Fonda - Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine in Casablanca
Orson Welles - Harry Lime in The Third Man

Not for nothing are these three of the all time great films that I've ever seen. In each case it's for the power and intensity that they bring to the role, if you've watched them then try to imagine someone else playing those characters and I think you'd struggle.
 
Kevin Spacey - Usual Suspects
Tim Robbins -The Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
 
Liam Neeson - Schindlers List
James Stewart - Vertigo/Rear Window
Jack Lemon - The Appartment
 
Robert De Niro - Heat
Denzel Washington - American Gangster
Robert De Niro/Jean Reno - Ronin
Jean Reno - Leon
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby

Reason is they just inspire with there roles!
 
think mine has changed over the years as i have watched more films

before i would have said de niro pachino in a lot but de niro does a lot of same roles and has annoying habbits that once noticed drives you crackers :p pachino does it aswell. also when hes not great he seems to get louder and louder as film progressess :D

Joe Pesci - Goodfellas awesome
ben kingsley - sexy beast
Kevin Spacey - Usual Suspects
Sir Anthony Hopkinks - Hannibal Lecter
Daniel Day Lewis - gangs of new york (without his performance would have been dire)
 
Denzel Washington - Training Day
Sean Penn - Mystic River
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Vincent Gallo - Essential Killing

Would agree with the chap above that Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men needs to be on the list.
 
H. Bogart - Rick (Casablanca)
C. Waltz - The Jew Hunter (Inglorious Bas*****)
D. Lewis - Bill The Butcher (Gangs Of New York)
D. Washington - Detective Alonzo Harris (Training Day)
A. Pacino - Frank Slade (Scent of a Woman)
 
cymatty said:
Kevin Spacey - Usual Suspects
Tim Robbins -The Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
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I watched Shawshank the other night aswell :)

Agree with Morgan Freeman.

Also:

Heath Ledger as Joker in The Dark Knight
Denzel Washington as Detective in Training Day
Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception
Dustin Hoffman as Raymond in Rain Man

Was trying to pick somethat hadn't been said already. Repeats are my faves :)
 
1. Johnny Depp ~ Hunter.S.Thompson(AKA Raoul Duke) ~ Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
2. Alec Guinness ~ Obi Wan Kenobi ~ Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
3. Daniel Day Lewis ~ Bill The Butcher ~ Gangs Of New York
4. Harold Perrineau ~ Mercutio ~ Romeo + Juliet
5. Bryan Cranston ~ Walter White ~ Breaking Bad
 
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