Your Favorite Performances by Your Favorite Actor

My favorite actor is Robert DeNiro.

1. Raging Bull
2. Taxi Driver
3. The King of Comedy
4. The Godfather Part II
5. Cape Fear

Cary Grant


(Whose birthday starts in a few hours and I've been celebrating all weekend )

These are favorite performances, not necessairly films.

His Girl Friday
None but the Lonely Heart
People Will Talk
Bringing Up Baby
Notorious

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Denzel Washington

1. Man on Fire
2. Inside Man
3. Deja Vu
4. The Hurricane
5. Antwone Fisher

Edward Norton



Best Movies Include:



Have not yet seen, but expecting it's good from reputation:

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"George, this is a little too much for me. Escaped convicts, fugitive sex... I've got a cockfight to focus on."

I also like Robert De Niro in these films.

I just re-watched 25th Hour the other night. The first time I saw it was in the theater when it first came out. It's a pretty good movie...has some nice Spike Lee touches to it, Rosario Dawson is as hot as can be, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman does his usual disturbing weirdo schtick. I also like Barry Pepper's character in this, and it makes me wonder why he never became a bigger star.

Audrey Hepburn

Here are my one dozen favorites in order.

1) Breakfast At Tiffany's
2) Roman Holiday
3) Wait Until Dark
4) War and Peace
5) The Nun's Story
6) Sabrina
7) Charade
8) The Unforgiven
9) Two For the Road
10) Love In the Afternoon
11) The Children's Hour
12) Robin and Marian

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"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter." - Ernest Hemingway

Obviously my favorite actress is Rachel McAdams

Favorite Performances
1. The Lucky Ones
2. State of Play
3. Wedding Crashers
4. Sherlock Holmes
5. Red Eye

I've only seen 3 movies of Rachel McAdams but my favorite one of hers was The Notebook. Great performance.

Top Five Joaquin Phoenix Performances


1.

As "The Abbe du Coulmier" in Quills


2.

As "Lewis McBride" in Return to Paradise

3.

As "Commodus" in Gladiator

4.

As "Doug Holt" in Inventing the Abbotts

5.

As "Toby N. Tucker" in U Turn

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One of my modern day favorite actors in one of my favorite films There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview

Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Performances



Contrary to popular belief, I don't watch his movies over and over again nonstop, and some I haven't seen in awhile, so I can't say this is a great judgement from me, but here goes nothing:

1. Jarhead
2. Zodiac
3. The Good Girl
4. Brothers
5. Proof
6. October Sky
7. Brokeback Mountain
8. Donnie Darko
9. Moonlight Mile
10. Bubble Boy
11. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
12. The Day After Tomorrow

I have yet to see Love and Other Drugs (waiting for the March 1st Blu-ray release), Rendition, Highway and all the other stuff he's done.

Why I thought Jake in Prince of Persia would be your favourite performance...

Prince of Persia doesn't have much going for it besides Jake.

I just picked up Rendition. So I have more Jake to experience now.

So many favourite actors I have. For this occasion, I will go with Joseph Gordon Levitt in:

1. BRICK

2. MYSTERIOUS SKIN



3. MANIC




4. The Lookout



5. 500 Days Of Summer



Fantastic actor in my eyes. Up there with Paddy Considine, Denzel Washington and Vincent Cassel. Ryan Gosling is not too far behind too.

Paul Newman
(a close 2nd to Cary)



(Whose birthday starts in a few hours )

These are favorite performances, not necessairly films.

Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Hud
The Hustler/The Color of Money
The Verdict