Top 10 Greatest Performances Ever?

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1. Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood


2. Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight


3. Adrien Brody - The Pianist


4. Naomi Watts - Mulholland Drive


5. Holly Hunter - The Piano


6. Christian Bale - American Psycho


7. Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice


8. Kevin Spacy - American Beauty


9. Renée Jeanne Falconetti - The Passion of Joan of Arc



10. Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man

1. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull


2. Marlon Brando, The Godfather


3. Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood


4. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master


5. Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive


6. Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream


7. Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men


8. Kevin Spacey, American Beauty


9. JK Simmons, Whiplash


10. Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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I'm glad Bale's getting a mention for that role, and it's not incompatible to put him alongside Ledger for me.

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Man, what a sausage fest.

10.) Mark Ruffalo - Zodiac
9.) Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death
8.) Cliff Robertson - Underworld, U.S.A.
7.) Allen Baron - Blast of Silence
6.) Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
5.) Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
4.) Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York
3.) Marlon Brando - The Godfather
2.) Richard Widmark - Night and the City
1.) James Cagney -White Heat

Your List...

In no order:

Forrest Gump: Tom Hanks
Raging Bull: Robert De Niro
Fences: Denzel Washington
Dallas Buyers Club: Matthew McConaughey
There Will Be Blood: Daniel Day-Lewis
The Dark Knight: Heath Ledger
No Country for Old Men: Javier Bardem
The Godfather: Marlon Brando
The Silence of the Lambs: Anthony Hopkins
Sophie's Choice: Meryl Streep

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This varies day to day. Today it's:

1. Ulrich Mühe - The Lives of Others



2. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master




3. Robert de Niro - Raging Bull



4. Michael Shannon - Take Shelter



5. Geza Rohrig - Son of Saul



6. Takashi Shimura - Ikiru



7. Choi Min Sik - Oldboy



8. Liv Ullman - Persona



9. Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning


10. Michelle Williams - Wendy and Lucy

There is no order:

I don't have a definitive top 10, but the immediate ones that come to mind (in no order):

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven
Pacino in The Godfather
Denzel in Fences
DDL in There Will Be Blood
DeNiro in Taxi Driver
Jack Nicholson in Chinatown
Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men
Peter Finch in Network
JK Simmons in Whiplash
Paul Newman in The Verdict

1. Kevin Spacey- Se7en
2. Ellen Burstyn- Requiem For a Dream
3. Tom Hardy- Bronson
4. Benedict Cumberbatch- Hamlet
5. Javier Bardem- No Country For Old Men
6. Daniel Day Lewis- My Left Foot
7. Daniel Day Lewis- There Will Be Blood
8. Bruno Ganz- Downfall
9. Dustin Hoffman- Rain Man
10. Malcolm Mcdowell- A Clockwork Orange

Honourable mention: Heath Ledger’s Joker

1. Michael Caine in Sleuth '72
2. Laurence Olivier in Sleuth '72
3. Tatsuya Nakadai in Ran
4. Joan Fontaine in Suspicion
5. Steve Carrell in Big Short
6. Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter
7. Graham Chapman in Life of Brian
8. Tim Curry in It
9. Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
10. Kang-ho Song in The Good, the Bad, the Weird

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Jack Lemon in Glengarry Glen Ross is also high on my list. Amazing performance.

Heath ledger - tdk
Kirin kiki - still walking
Ddl - there will be blood
Marlon brando - on the waterfront
Peter selers - dr strangelove
George c scott - patton
Tatsuya nakadai - everyw..
Al pacino - the godfather I, II
De niro - taxi driver
Elli walach - the good, the bad and the ugly

Ohhh damn. Forgot to list Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds.

Men

1. The Godfather - Marlon Brando
2. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
3. Dr. Strangelove - Peter Sellers
4. On The Waterfront - Marlon Brando
5. There Will Be Blood - Daniel Day Lewis
6. The Godfather Part II - Al Pacino
7. Silence of the Lambs - Anthony Hopkins
8. My Left Foot - Daniel Day Lewis
9. A Streetcar Named Desire - Marlon Brando
10. Rain Man - Dustin Hoffman

Women

1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard
2. Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter
3. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind
4. Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
5. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
6. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
7. Bette Davis - Jezebel
8. Olivia De Havilland - The Heiress
9. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity
10. Kathy Bates - Misery

Idk if these are the greatest performances (there are too many lauded performances I haven't seen yet to feel I could say that with any authority) but these are definitely the eleven (I couldn't narrow down to ten) performances that most impressed or affected me, in no order:

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will be Blood


Mahershala Ali, Moonlight


Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis


Gong Yoo, Train to Busan


Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight


JK Simmons, Whiplash


Jun Kunimura, The Wailing


Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love


David Oyelowo, Selma


Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station


Naomie Harris, Moonlight

OMG, this is the thing you never open!

Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
Danial Day Lewis - My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood or Gangs of New York (pick one, they all belong in the conversation)
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
Viola Davis - Fences
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
Nicholas Cage - Raising Arizona
Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
Sam Rockwell - Moon
HiIlary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
Alec Gunniess - Bridge on the River Kwai