Your 3 favorite performances from your 10 favorite actors

I feel like this section of the forum doesn't get a lot of attention, so I thought I would make a thread to try to make it a bit more active.

Rules are simple: Take your 10 favorite actors and choose the three performances that you like the most from them.

The actors are not ranked, but their performances are. You can rank your actors if you want.

I shall start!

Edward Norton as:
1. The Narrator in Fight Club
2. Derek Vinyard in American History X
3. Mike Shiner in Birdman

Al Pacino as:
1. Michael Corleone in The Godfather
2. Tony Montana in Scarface
3. Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon

Mel Gibson as:
1. William Wallace in Braveheart
2. Benjamin Martin in The Patriot
3. Max Rockatansky in Mad Max

Brad Pitt as:
1. Tyler Durden in Fight Club
2. David Mills in Seven
3. Jesse James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Jake Gyllenhaal as:
1. Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko
2. Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler
3. Detective Loki in Prisoners

William Holden as:
1. Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch
2. Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard

Leonardo DiCaprio as:
1. Billy Costigan in The Departed
2. Danny Archer in Blood Diamond
3. Calvin J. Candie in Django Unchained

Tom Cruise as:
1. Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai
2. Dr. William Harford in Eyes Wide Shut
3. I'm really having trouble choosing between the 2 so it's a tie between: Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire and Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

James Coburn as:
1. Sergeant Rolf Steiner in Cross of Iron
2. Glen Whitehouse in Affliction
3. Britt in The Magnificent Seven

Guy Pearce as:
1. Leonard Shelby in Memento
2. Ed Exley in L.A. Confidential
3. Eric in The Rover

Robert Deniro:
1.The King of Comedy
2.Taxi Driver
3.Raging Bull

Humphrey Bogart:
1.The Treasure of The Sierre Madre
2.The Maltese Falcon
3.Casablanca

Cary Grant:
1.His Girl Friday
2.North By Northwest
3.Bringing Up Baby

Klaus Kinski
1.Aguirre
2.Nosferatu
3.Woyzeck

Toshiro Mifune
1.Yojimbo
2.Rashomon
3.Seven Samurai

Jack Nicholson
1.Five Easy Pieces
2.Chinatown
3(tie) One Flew and About Schmidt

Peter O'Toole
1.Lawrence of Arabia
2.Venus
3.My Favourite Year

Dustin Hoffman
1.Midnight Cowboy
2.The Graduate
3.Straw Dogs

Joaquin Phoenix
1.The Master
2.Her
3.Inherent Vice

All Pacino
1.Dog Day Afternoon
2.The Godfather Part 2
3.The Godfather

Great picks Camo! Even though I decided to leave them out, I am a fan of both Robert De Niro (still haven't seen The King of Comedy though) and Dustin Hoffman (all three of those performances are fantastic!) and Peter O'toole is a legend just from Lawrence of Arabia!

Lawrence of Arabia is my favourite ever performance

I'll go in the best order I can-

John Belushi
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
Neighbors

Jack Nicholson
Chinatown
The Shining
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Robert De Niro
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Raging Bull

Clint Eastwood
Every Which Way but Loose
The Gauntlet
Dirty Harry

Nicolas Cage
Leaving Las Vegas
Joe
Kiss of Death

Dustin Hoffman
Straight Time
Little Big Man
All the President's Men

Al Pacino
The Godfather
Carlito's Way
Dog Day Afternoon

Toshiro Mifune
The Seven Samurai
High and Low
Rashomon

Marlon Brando
One-Eyed Jacks
A Streetcar Named Desire
On the Waterfront*

Harvey Keitel
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
Reservoir Dogs

That is completely understandable.

Props to Nicholson, Bogart, and Mifune also; and of course Pacino. Haven't seen enough from Grant, Klinski, or Phoenix unfortunately.

Great choices Cricket! Brando is a legend of course, and Keitel is amazing.

Ed Norton:
1- Derek Vinyard - American History X
2- Aaron Stampler - Primal Fear
3- Monty Brogan - 25th Hour

Jack Nicholson:
1- Jack Torrance - The Shining
2- R.P. McMurphy - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
3- J.J. Gittes - Chinatown

Jake Gyllenhaal:
1- Lou Bloom - Nightcrawler
2- Robert Graysmith - Zodiac
3- Donnie Darko - Donnie Darko

Ethan Hawke:
1- Ellison Oswalt - Sinister
2- Jesse - Before Sunrise
3- Jake Hoyt - Training Day

Leonardo DiCaprio:
1- Danny Archer - Blood Diamond
2- Jordan Belfort - Wolf Of Wall Street
3- Teddy Daniels - Shutter Island

Johnny Depp:
1- Jack Sparrow - Pirates Of The Caribbean
2- Raoul Duke - Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
3- Mort Rainey - Secret Window

Christian Bale:
1- Dicky Eklund - The Fighter
2- Trevor Reznik - The Machinist
3- Alfred Borden - The Prestige

Kevin Spacey:
1- Lester Burnham - American Beauty
2- Verbal - Usual Suspects
3- John Doe - Se7en

Mark Wahlberg:
1- Micky Ward - The Fighter
2- Dirk Diggler - Boogie Nights
3- Dignam - The Departed

Tom Hardy:
1- Ivan Locke - Locke
2- Tommy Conlon - Warrior
3- John Fitzgerald - The Revenant

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Jack Nicholson
1. The Shining
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Batman (1989)

Al Pacino
1. The Godfather
2. Dog Day Afternoon
3. Scarface

Robert DeNiro
1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. Goodfellas

Henry Fonda
1. 12 Angry Men
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. Fail-Safe

Brad Pitt
1. Fight Club
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Inglourious Basterds

Leo DiCaprio
1. Gangs of New York
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Django Unchained

Kevin Spacey
1. American Beauty
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Seven

Honorable Mention: House of Cards (TV Show)

Lee van Cleef
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. For a Few Dollars More
3. The Big Gundown

Ed Norton
1. American History X
2. Fight Club
3. Birdman

Samuel L. Jackson
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Die Hard 3
3. Django Unchained

Very good choices Derek Vinyard! Especially Norton, even though I've never really "ranked" my favorite actors he'd quite possibly be in the number 1 spot. Primal Fear is great, but for some reason I could never get into 25th Hour.

I'm a fan of Kevin Spacey also, and I do like Hawke, Depp, and Bale also.

Great picks neiba, especially Henry Fonda, he's definitely a legend!

Everyone's had excellent picks so far, can't wait to see what all the others look like!

Jennifer Lawrence
1.) Silver Linings Playbook
2.) Winter's Bone
3.) American Hustle

George Clooney
1.) O Brother Where Art Thou
2.) Out of Sight
3.) Up In The Air

Joesph Gordon-Levitt
1.) 50/50
2.) The Lookout
3.) 500 Days Of Summer

Leonardo DiCaprio
1.) Catch Me If You Can
2.) Wolf of Wall Street
3.) Blood Diamond

Brad Pitt
1.) Inglorious Bastards
2.) Snatch
3.) Troy

Tom Hanks
1.) Forrest Gump
2.) Catch Me If You Can
3.) Saving Private Ryan

Jack Nicholson
1.) As Good As It Gets
2.) The Departed
3.) The Shinning

Natalie Portman
1.) V For Vendetta
2.) Black Swan
3.) Leon

Scarlett Johansson
1.) Lost In Translation
2.) Don Jon
3.) Her

Christian Bale
1.) American Psycho
2.) The Prestige
3.) 3:10 to Yuma

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101 Favorite Movies (2019)

James Stewart

- Rope
- Rear Window
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Gary Oldman

- Leon: The Professional
- Tinker Tailer Solider Spy
- True Romance

Robert DeNiro

- Taxi Driver
- Raging Bull
- The Godfather Part 2

Henry Fonda

- 12 Angry Men
- Grapes of Wrath
- How the West was Won

Johnny Depp

- Ed Wood/Edward Scissorhands
- Dead Man
- Pirates of the Caribbean

Takashi Shimura

- Rashomon
- Ikiru
- Yojimbo

Philip Seymour Hoffman

- Capote
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- The Big Lebowski

Jacques Tati

- Playtime
- Mon Uncle
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday

Marcello Mastroianni

- 8 1/2
- La Dolce Vita
- Divorce Italian Style

Jack Nicholson

- The Shining
- Chinatown
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Jack Nicholson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining
As Good As It Gets


Charlie Chaplin

Modern Times
The Great Dictator
Gold Rush


Toshiro Mifune

Throne of Blood
Seven Samurai
Red Beard


Utpal Dutta

Sriman Prithviraj
Hirak Rajar Deshe (The Kingdom of Diamonds)
Gol Maal


Robert De Niro

Cape Fear
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver


Rabi Ghosh

Galpo Holeo Sotti
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha)
Aranyer Dinratri (Days and Nights in the Forest)


Tulsi Chakroborty

Parash Pathar (The Philosopher's Stone)
Sare Chuattor
Pather Panchali (The Song of the Little Road)


Daniel Dey Lewis

There Will Be Blood
My Left Foot
Lincoln


Nasiruddin Shah

Paar
Sparsh
Masoom


Marcello Mastroianni

Marriage Italian Style
Eight and Half
La Dolce Vita

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Have you seen Chaplin's later films? His performances in Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight are some of my favorite performances in cinema for many reasons.

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I have, but actually that was quite some time ago...need to see them again, specially Monsieur Verdoux.

His last four films are my favorite of his actually. I like Chaplin's silent comedies, but I love his late career, self-critical masterpieces. Verdoux is my probably my favorite though I feel as though I've only scratched the surface of A Countess from Hong Kong so far.

Joaquin Phoenix

1. Theodore Twomley, Her
2. The Abbe de Coulmier, Quills
3. Commodus, Gladiator

Leonardo DiCaprio

1. Billy Costigan, The Departed
2. Frank Abignale, Jr, Catch Me If You Can
3. Calvin Candie, Django Unchained

Russell Crowe

1. Maximus, Gladiator
2. Ben Wade, 3:10 to Yuma
3. Hando, Romper Stomper

Johnny Depp

1. Edward Scissorhands
2. John Wilmot, The Libertine
3. Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean series

Bruce Campbell

1. Sebastian Haff/Elvis, Bubba Ho-Tep
2. Ash, Army of Darkness
3. Jack Stiles, Jack of All Trades (TV Show)

Kevin Costner

1. Butch Haynes, A Perfect World
2. Lieutenant John Dunbar, Dances With Wolves
3. Jake, Silverado

John Cusack

1. Craig Schwartz, Being John Malkovich
2. Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven
3. Martin Blank, Grosse Point Blank

Victor Mature

1. Demetrius, The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators
2. Nick Bianco, Kiss of Death
3. Frankie Christopher, I Wake Up Screaming

Tom Hanks

1. Andrew Beckett, Philadelphia
2. Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
3. Paul Edgecomb, The Green Mile

Brendan Fraser

1. Linkovich Chomofsky, Encino Man
2. Monty Kesller, With Honors
3. David Greene, School Ties


Choosing my favorite Joaquin Phoenix performances was really tough. There were so many others I could have put in that #3 position. Also really tough to choose 10 actors. I could easily replace any of the bottom three with Samuel L. Jackson, John Malkovich, Kevin Spacey or Steve Buscemi.

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I'll do this in stages as I'm trying to think who my 10 favourite actors are. I'll start with my favourite:

1: Daniel Auteuil:

as Lagardère in Le Bossu/The Hunchback
as Xavier Lombard in The Lost Son
as François Pignon in Le Placard/The Closet

2: Gary Oldman:

as Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element
as Stansfield in Léon