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What's the best performance by an actor and/or actress in a movie?

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Sorry if this has been done here before.

One of my favorite performances was Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will be Blood". He was incredible in my opinion and completely transformative to his role as a ruthless oil pioneer.

Would love to hear your opinions and maybe get some ideas of different movies to watch in the future.
 
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Al Pacino in Scent of a woman. Clark Gable- Gone with the Wind. Gregory Peck- To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jodie Foster- Silence of the Lambs. And there are probably more.
 
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Garnet chicken said:
Al Pacino in Scent of a woman. Clark Gable- Gone with the Wind. Gregory Peck- To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jodie Foster- Silence of the Lambs. And there are probably more.
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Pacino in "Scent of a Woman?" He's a caricature of himself, overacting at every opportunity. I'd have put that performance on a list of "Worst Ever", but so be it.
 
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Jack Nicholson...Joker
Jodie Foster ... Silence of the lambs
Jackie Gleason. Smokie and the Bandit
Denzel Washington... Training Day
 
roosterbell said:
Sorry if this has been done here before.

One of my favorite performances was Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will be Blood". He was incredible in my opinion and completely transformative to his role as a ruthless oil pioneer.

Would love to hear your opinions and maybe get some ideas of different movies to watch in the future.
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I thought William H Macy was fantastic in Fargo.
 
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roosterbell said:
Sorry if this has been done here before.

One of my favorite performances was Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will be Blood". He was incredible in my opinion and completely transformative to his role as a ruthless oil pioneer.

Would love to hear your opinions and maybe get some ideas of different movies to watch in the future.
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Heath Ledger as the Joker.
 
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Levon Helm playing Old Gun specialist Mr. Rate in Shooter. If you don’t know who I’m referring to YouTube link is below.

 
George C. Scott....channels Patton.

Bruno Ganz in "Downfall" as Adolf Hitler. Even gets the accent right. Maybe best pure performance I have ever seen. If you are a WWII Buff and haven't seen this, what are you waiting on?

Tom Hanks Private Ryan.

Leonardo de Caprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator.

Bill Murray in Lost in Translation.
 
Bill Murray in What About Bob?
Russell Crowe in Gladiator
Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator
Kurt Russell in Captain Ron
Tom Hanks in Apollo 13
Jack Palance & Billy Crystal in City Slickers
Daniel Stern in Home Alone
Will Ferrell in Step Brothers
Val Kilmer in Tombstone

Seriously, I don’t pretend to know good acting when I see it. But I loved those movies.
 
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roosterbell said:
Sorry if this has been done here before.

One of my favorite performances was Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will be Blood". He was incredible in my opinion and completely transformative to his role as a ruthless oil pioneer.

Would love to hear your opinions and maybe get some ideas of different movies to watch in the future.
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Andy Griffith in "A Face in the Crowd". If you only know him for The Andy Griffith Show or Matlock, this will be a shock to the system. His performance will make you despise him within the first fifteen minutes of the movie. He should have won the Best Actor Oscar for that performance.
 
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Andy Griffith in "A Face in the Crowd". If you only know him for The Andy Griffith Show or Matlock, this will be a shock to the system. His performance will make you despise him within the first fifteen minutes of the movie. He should have won the Best Actor Oscar for that performance.
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There was a lot more to Andy Griffith than met the eye.
 
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roosterbell said:
Sorry if this has been done here before.

One of my favorite performances was Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will be Blood". He was incredible in my opinion and completely transformative to his role as a ruthless oil pioneer.

Would love to hear your opinions and maybe get some ideas of different movies to watch in the future.
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My favorite performances that I have seen. Not in order.

Natalie Wood/Warren Beatty - Splendor in The Grass
Sidney Poitier The Heat Of The Night
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
Paul Henried - Casablanca
Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
Kathryn Hepburn - On Golden Pond
Richard Gere/Lewis Gossette Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman
Montgomery Clift - A Place In The Sun
Paul Newman - Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Tom Hanks -Philadelphia
Denzel Washington - Glory
Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning
Edward G Robinson/Humphrey Bogart - Key Largo
 
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Garnet chicken said:
Al Pacino in Scent of a woman. Clark Gable- Gone with the Wind. Gregory Peck- To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jodie Foster- Silence of the Lambs. And there are probably more.
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i thought Pacino's ridiculous overacting was terrible in Scent of a Woman. Now Gable, Foster, etc were certainly good
 
Denzel Washington- Malcolm X “should have won an Oscar”
Russell Crowe- Beautiful Mind
Leo - Wolf of Wall Street
Heath Ledger- Dark Knight
Joe Pesci - Casino
Jack Nicholson - Few Good Men
Viggio Mortenson - LOTR
Val Kilmer - The Doors
Charlize Theron- Monster
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
R Lee Ermey- Full Metal Jacket
 
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Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.

You can see the character arc unfolding and how it changes Walt, while not changing who he is fundamentally.

HMs to Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds. Hard to take an unassuming and even goofy personality like Colonel Hans Landa and turn him into one of the most terrifying men in the German Army.

Brad Pitt in Fight Club (honestly, all the subtleties in this film deserve a better breakdown than I could give here, and Pitt really sells that he is the alter ego of a psychotically broken man)

Liam Neeson in the Grey. A terribly stressful movie about survival in the wild after a plane crash. I couldn't watch it a second time. It was just one of those that hits you in the feels and keeps wrenching that knife deeper.

Jamie Fox in Django Unchained.

Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York. Sure There will be Blood was one of the greatest movies ever, and his performance there was notable. And everyone else in this thread has listed it. I thought I'd go a different route. Bill the Butcher was a great character and was brought to life by Lewis as he dug deep and even in such an over the top movie, he managed to make Bill a believable character.
 
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Rollerdude123 said:
My favorite performances that I have seen. Not in order.

Natalie Wood/Warren Beatty - Splendor in The Grass
Sidney Poitier The Heat Of The Night
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
Paul Henried - Casablanca
Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
Kathryn Hepburn - On Golden Pond
Richard Gere/Lewis Gossette Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman
Montgomery Clift - A Place In The Sun
Paul Newman - Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Tom Hanks -Philadelphia
Denzel Washington - Glory
Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning
Edward G Robinson/Humphrey Bogart - Key Largo
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That's a good list.
 
Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mtn.
Russell Crowe in LA Confidential
Guy Pearce in LA Confidential
Guy Pearce in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Bette Davis in Now Voyager
Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress
Montgomery Clift in The Heiress
Liza Minnelli in Cabaret
Honorable Mention-Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Seven Year Itch
 
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