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)


Leonardo DiCaprio in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (2008)


David Thewlis in NAKED (1993)


Robert De Niro in RAGING BULL (1980)


Al Pacino in DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)


Gregory Peck in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)


River Phoenix in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)


James Dean in EAST OF EDEN (1955)


Peter Lorre in M (1931)


Orson Welles in CITIZEN KANE (1941)



FEMALE

Ellen Burstyn in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)


Bette Davis in WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)


Audrey Hepburn in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1967)


Naomi Watts in 21 GRAMS (2003)


Kate Winslet in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (2008)


Diane Keaton in ANNIE HALL (1977)


Ellen Page in THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS (2007)



Elizabeth Taylor in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)


Faye Dunaway in BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)


Kim Novak in VERTIGO (1958)

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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

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.

I liked:

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

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

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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.

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.

Fair enough. Have you seen Revolutionary Road?

One that hasn't been mentioned...

Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc

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

Liza Minelli in Cabaret



I love Sally Bowles, the femme fatale wanna be.

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Louise Vale first woman to play Jane Eyre in the flickers.

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.

That's really cool.

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

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

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

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.

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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

-Stan Brakhage

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

MALE:


Peter O'Toole: The Lion in Winter


Brad Pitt: Se7en


Morgan Freeman: Se7en


Al Pacino: The Godfather, and The Godfather Part II


Edward Norton: American History X



FEMALE:


Katharine Hepburn: The Lion in Winter


Rachel Weisz: The Constant Gardener