Your All-Time Favorite Performances

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


Kate Winslet: Finding Neverland
It's almost impossible for me to choose a favorite performance by Ms. Winslet; I've loved her in everything she's done. But I wanted to buck the trend and choose a film that wasn't Titanic (I almost chose Heavenly Creatures inastead; I haven't sen Revolutionary Road...yet.)


Judith Anderson: Rebecca



Carole Lombard: My Man Godfrey


Josephine Hull: Harvey
Yes, I know thisd is #6, but I couldn't help myself. I love Ms. Hull in this movie, and I couldn't bring myself to drop Dame Anderson.

*I could fill the whole roster with performances by Ms. Hepburn: The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen, A Long Days Journey into Night, Woman of the Year... and on and on).

And there are so many actors and actresses I love who I had to leave off:
Meryl Streep,
Don Cheadle
Jeffrey Wright
Gregory Peck
Cary Grant
Helen Mirren
...and so on

Doesn't shock me at all. I'd guess that at least half of my favorite performances of all time weren't even nominated. He's also one of my favorite actors. I love all the other performances you mentioned, especially Dogfight. I haven't tracked down The Thing Called Love yet, but I'm still trying.

Nice taste.

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FEMALE

Liza Minnelli, Cabaret


Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind


Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Greta Garbo, Queen Christina


Vivien Leigh/Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire

MORE MALE

Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry


Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Gene Hackman, French Connection II

(They used to have the entire cold turkey scene on here. Dammit. Now, they have the entire ending which certainly is in the all-time Top 5 Movie endings for me (but this isn't it.)

Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy

What the hell has happened to YouTube? This is one of the most cliched, embarrassingly rip-off reviews I've ever seen, but it's the only thing on the site which has my fave scene from Midnight Cowboy where Ratso dreams that he can outrun Joe Buck. The whole scene used to be on there!

Rod Steiger, The Pawnbroker


Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider

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Chief Dan George, Little Big Man

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You've got some great choices too, Mark.

Hoffman delivers some of his career-best work in Midnight Cowboy.

This is in response to honeykid's asking about Liza Minnelli who may well have given the greatest female performance I've ever seen in Cabaret. She was also excellent in The Sterile Cuckoo which I believe was called Pookie in the U.K. Check both scenes out and tell me what you think.



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Charlize Theron- monster
Al Pacino- scent of a woman
Sean Penn- dead man walking
Djimosu Honsou (not sure I spelt his name properly)- Amistad
Leonardo Dicarprio- titanic
Tom Hanks- forest grump
Kate Winslet- titanic
Meryl Streep- the devil wears prada
Jim Caviziel- passion of Christ

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Ok I'll name one. Keith Gordon.

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Arnie Cunningham - All of this because some drunk ran over that sh*tter Welch?


Arnie Cunningham- Right up the little tramps @ss!

A RIDICULOUSLY underrated performance. Thanks for not being a slave to popular opinion, and accepting a great piece of acting when you see it.

Leonardo's performance in "Titanic" is one of the best i hv seen for the romance genre movie. its just unforgettable and appealed to me as a person. different folks, different strokes.

Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's and A Nun's Story
Hilary Swank - Boy's don't Cry
Jodie Foster - The Accused
Cary Grant - Charade
Ed Norton - American History X
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski
Sean Penn - Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Bad Boys

Top 10 Favourite Performances

1. Brad Pitt: Fight Club


"How much do you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?"

A masterful performance from Pitt, the best of his career.

2. Robert DeNiro: Cape Fear


"I sentence you to the 9th circle of hell!"

I was not expecting this from DeNiro. A ferocious performance as a vicious psychopath marks the best of his career, in my own opinion of course.

3. Edward Norton: American History X


"This means NOT WELCOME!"

Edward is my favourite actor of all time and this is his best as a reformed Neo Nazi.

4. Bruce Willis: Unbreakable


5. Anthony Hopkins: Silence Of The Lambs


6. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane


7. John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson: Pulp Fiction


8. Kevin Spacey: American Beauty


9. Christian Bale: American Psycho


10. Mel Gibson/Kevin Costner: William Wallace/John Dunbar

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Edward Norton in Primal Fear
Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver
Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull
Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter
Christian Bale in American Psycho
Tom Cruise in Magnolia
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Brad Pitt in Fight Club
Joe Pesci in Goodfellas
Michael Parks in Kill Bill Vol. 2
Ralph Feinnes in Schindler's List

Being your favorite actor, I am a bit surprised that his performance from 25th Hour isn't on your list.

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He was really good in Primal Fear as well.

I just bought 25th Hour a couple of days ago and just haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

Denzel Washington in Man on Fire
James Stewart in Rear Window
Sean Penn in Mystic River
Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven
Will Smith in Pursuit of Happyness
Gary Cooper in High Noon
Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
Marilyn Monroe in Some like it Hot
Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs

Chuck Norris - The Octagon
Steven Seagal - Fire Down Below
JCVD - The Quest
Dolph Lundgren - I Come In Peace

Pauly Shore - Son in Law

Did you see his powerhouse work in Masters Of The Universe?

Ofcourse I have, but I like his acting in I come in peace a lot more.

Jack Palance as the hired gun Wilson in Shane.
James Cagney as Rocky in Angels With Dirty Faces
Marlene Dietrich as the cunning wife in Witness for the Prosecution
Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley (and also for Witness for the Prosecution)
Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre