Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Once again, maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, but I was surprised to not find an existing thread for this. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Mine are...

MALE

Marlon Brando in LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)
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Leonardo DiCaprio in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (2008)
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David Thewlis in NAKED (1993)
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Robert De Niro in RAGING BULL (1980)
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Al Pacino in DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)
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Gregory Peck in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
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River Phoenix in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
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James Dean in EAST OF EDEN (1955)
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Peter Lorre in M (1931)
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Orson Welles in CITIZEN KANE (1941)
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FEMALE

Ellen Burstyn in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)
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Bette Davis in WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
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Audrey Hepburn in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1967)
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Naomi Watts in 21 GRAMS (2003)
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Kate Winslet in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (2008)
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Diane Keaton in ANNIE HALL (1977)
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Ellen Page in THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS (2007)
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Elizabeth Taylor in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
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Faye Dunaway in BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
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Kim Novak in VERTIGO (1958)
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Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Johnny Depp - Secret Window
Nicolas Cage - Face/Off
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Ben Foster - Hostage
Anthony Hopkins - Proof

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Gene Hackman in "The Conversation"
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight"
Anthony Perkins in "Psycho"
James Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump"

Some of the best from the movies I've seen.

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

I liked:

Robert DeNiro in Goodfellas.
Will Ferrell in Elf!
Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Harrison Ford in The Fugitive
James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life
Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (and quite a few others)
Cary Grant in People Will Talk
Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear
John Wayne The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Kate Winslet in Titanic
Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark
Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth
Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz
Jean Arthur in Shane

I thought Leo was just as good as Kate in Titanic. He was snubbed by the Academy, in my opinion.

I'm liking the Mitchum, Stewart and Newman love.

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

I thought Kate was only slightly better than Leo in Titanic, but I think she had a little more to with with her character (the way some of the narrations got into Rose's thoughts) but he was a great match for her.

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Fair enough. Have you seen Revolutionary Road?

One that hasn't been mentioned...

Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc

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Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

To answer michaelcorleone. No, I haven't yet. But I've heard that it's terrific and I'd like to.

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Liza Minelli in Cabaret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-24Zm0bjk

I love Sally Bowles, the femme fatale wanna be.

You have to see it. Especially if you're a Titanic fan, and if you like DiCaprio and Winslet together.

My friends and I actually have a Titanic Day every year! I was just talking about it earlier because it is less than a month away from its 4th year.

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

That's really cool. :)

I hear it's being re-released in 3D during the year 2011 or 2012. How amazing would that be?

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

That would be very impressive. We'd would most definately be going! Even though I'm not crazy about 3D

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Me neither, actually... but I missed Titanic in cinemas the first time around, so I wouldn't be missing it again.

Agreed! This is without a doubt River Phoenix's very best screen performance, and it shocks me that he wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award for it. Phoenix achieves perfection in his role as Mike Waters.

A lot of my all time favorite performances come from River.

- Christopher Chambers in Stand By Me
- Danny Pope in Running On Empty
- Birdlace in Dogfight
- James Wright in The Thing Called Love

Re: Your All-Time Favorite Performances
 

Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood) Another stellar performance by a true artist.

The greatest performance I have ever seen in any movie has to go to Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence.


Her depiction of a woman pushed to the limits of sanity was not only powerful, but absolutely frightening and beautiful. I have yet to see another actor, man or woman, top that performance.

I haven't posted here yet because I just can't seem to whittle my list down,

MALE:

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Peter O'Toole: The Lion in Winter

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Brad Pitt: Se7en

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Morgan Freeman: Se7en

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Al Pacino: The Godfather, and The Godfather Part II

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Edward Norton: American History X



FEMALE:

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Katharine Hepburn: The Lion in Winter

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Rachel Weisz: The Constant Gardener