Your Top 5 Favourite Acting Performances
 

Hopefully this will be different enough not to seem repetitive – I just thought it was an interesting angle on the subject :).

I don't know mine off the top of my head but I thought 5 was a nice easy number for people to think up.

Top 10 Performances
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1. Mads Mikkelsen as Lucas in The Hunt (2012)
2. Anne Parillaud as Nikita in Nikita (1990)
3. Adele Exarchopoulos as Adele in Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)
4. Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
5. Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist (2002)
6. Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990)
7. Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler (2014)
8. John Goodman as Howard in 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
9. Nicolas Cage as Joe in Joe (2013)
10. Tom Hardy as Charles Bronson/ Michael Peterson in Bronson (2008)

I still want to see that. I saw him recently in The Door, which was unusual because he was dubbed in German. At least in Denmark he could dub it with his own voice.

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Acting Performances
 

Isabelle Adjani | Possession
Gena Rowlands | A Woman Under The Influence
Gloria Swanson | Sunset Boulevard

Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood
Kirk Douglas | Ace In The Hole
Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Acting Performances
 

Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Wolf of Wall Street
Robert DeNiro | Taxi Driver
Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets
Humphrey Bogart | Casablanca
Adrien Brody | The Pianist

01.Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
02.Vivien Leigh - Gone With The Wind
03.Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
04.Robert Deniro - Taxi Driver/The King of Comedy
05.Humphrey Bogart - The Treasure of The Sierra Madre

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Acting Performances
 

1.Leonardo Dicaprio -Whats eating Gilbert Grape
2.Ellen Burstyn-Requiem for a dream
3.Anthony Perkins-Psyco
4.Leonardo Dicaprio-Basketball Diaries
5.Michael Fassbender-shame

(special mention: jennifer lopez-u turn,Angelina jolie-gia/changeling,elin dahlstrøm-****ing åmål)

MovieGal, is that you? :eek:

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Joaquin Phoenix asTheodore Twomley, Her

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Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade, Quills

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John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig Robinson, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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Kevin Costner as Butch Haynes, A Perfect World

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Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, Django Unchained

Honorable Mentions: Joaquin Phoenix in pretty much anything, Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, Tom Hardy in Bronson, Samuel L. Jackson in Black Snake Moan, James Dean in East of Eden, John Turturro in The Big Lebowski, Ben Foster in 3:10 to Yuma

I'm sure I'm missing some, but that's off the top of my head.

-Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's list.
-Gary Oldman as Stansfield in Leon: The Professional.
-Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl and as Nina Sayers in Black Swan.
-Eddie Redmayne as Einar Wegner in The Danish Girl.
-Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan in The Departed and as Jordon Belfort in Wolf of the Wall Street.
-Micheal Keaton as Riggan in Birdman.
-Russel Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Acting Performances
 

One that really stands out above the rest would be from the show This is England '90 episode 3. When Lol tells her sister about being abused by their Dad. It felt like I was watching a real family. That scene destroyed me. I was beaten to a pulp and left blubbering in a corner. It was great.

Is that Vicky McClure? I get the impression she's very good; striking-looking as well. I remember her in A Room for Romeo Brass.

It is and she is. :D

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Acting Performances
 

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1- Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard in American History X
2- Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining
3- Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean
4- Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight
5- Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men

Honorable Mentions:
Tom Hardy as Ivan Locke in Locke
Malcolm McDowell as Alex Delarge in A Clockwork Orange
Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws
Edward Norton as Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Acting Performances
 

oh yeah,agree with edward in American history x and ralph fiennes in schindlers list aswell.

I made a rod for my own back with this one ;):p. It's really difficult trying to think of a top five and I'm not restricting it to just films either.

1: Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes

Having thought about it, Brett's genius performance kept coming to mind, so I'm happy to put him in number 1 spot. I often mention that what fascinates me is the precise control he showed over his expressions, which seems to be unrivalled. He's the definitive Holmes for good reason :p.

1. Jenna Coleman in Doctor Who - Face The Raven
Purely for the way she delivers the line 'Let me be brave, let me be brave, let me be brave' when basically facing her death.
2. David Tennant in The End of Time Part 2. The regeneration scene still makes me cry.
3. Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables. People always go for Anne Hathaway but I thought Hugh Jackman was a fantastic Jean Valjean. His death was very emotional.
4. Kate McKinnon in Ghostbusters (2016). She was the highlight of the film for me. Wonderfully quirky.
5. Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. There's a reason why his performance as Captain Jack Sparrow is so iconic. He's very engaging to watch.

2: Micha Bergese in The Company of Wolves

Particularly for my favourite ever film scene, where Rosaleen meets the Huntsman. This was just perfect casting, especially with Bergese bringing the physicality of a dancer to the character. He also does some great things in close-ups.

She looks good – I'd like to see what she does with it.