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JonZ

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Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead 2
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Some of my favorites:
Robert DeNiro:Godfather2,Raging Bull
Denzel Washington:Malcolm X
Antonio Banderas:4 Rooms
Orsen Welles:Citizen Kane
Jack Nicholson: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Tom Hulce:Amadeus
Al Pacino:Godfather 1 & 2
Nic Cage:Leaving Las Vegas
Ellen Burstyn:Requiem For A Dream
Tom Cruise:Born On The Fourth Of July
Joe Pesci:Goodfellas
George C Scott:Patton,Dr Strangelove("Oh what a bunch of commie bull!"
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Marlon Brando:The Godfather
Jeff Bridges:Big Lebowski
Peter Sellers:Dr Strangelove,Pink Panther movies
Harrison Ford:Raiders Of The Lost Ark
George Clooney: Oh Brother Were Art Thou?
Johnny Depp,Martin Landau:Ed Wood
Anthony Hopkins:Silence Of The Lambs,Nixon
Alec Guiness:Star Wars
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Your political joke is going to get deleted, and perhaps my reply as well, but I have to say that is VERY funny.
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Add Rod Steiger as the redneck sheriff in In the Heat of the Night to the list of all time great movie performances. And in recent years, Denzel Washington as bad cop Alonzo Harris in Training Day was incredible, absolutely mesmerising, you can't keep your eyes off him when he's on screen, great work.:emoji_thumbsup:
 

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Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking, Mystic River, Bad Boys
Robert DeNiro - Awakenings
Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Tim Robbins - Mystic River
Paul Giamatti - American Splendor
Gary Cole - Office Space
Sean Astin - Rudy
Guy Pearce - Memento
Al Pacino - Scarface
Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, The Apostle
Robert Duvall - The Apostle
Brad Davis - Midnight Express
Jesse Bradford - King of the Hill
Derek Luke - Antwone Fisher
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation
Sean Connery - The Untouchables
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Peter Dinklage - The Station Agent
Robin Williams - Awakenings
Anthony LaPaglia - The Guys
 

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Peter Sarsgaard in Shattered Glass, simply amazing. He's deserved every award he's gotten so far.
 

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I've been watching this a bit lately and I'm just amazed at what Daniel Day Lewis is able to do in Gangs of New York. Despite the flaws in the film, his part is just excellent and I can't imagine Bill the Butcher being played any better.
 

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Robert DeNiro- Raging Bull

AL Pacino- Donnie Brasco (very underrated performance)

Johnny Depp- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Audrey Hepburn-Sabrina

Rod Steiger- The Pawnbroker

Peter O'Toole- Lawrence of Arabia

Natalie Portman- Leon

Henry Fonda- Once Upon a Time in the West

Angela Lansbury- The Manchurian Candidate

Kris Kristofferson-Trouble in Mind



We should not forget:

Ernest Borgnine-Marty

Denzel Washington as bad cop Alonzo Harris in Training Day was incredible
Steve, I agree. The movie was just ridiculous. His performance though was one of the best ever. Very frightening
 

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The guy who conducted the polygraph test in Call Northside 777. I realize that he was also the real inventor of the machine, but he was still acting. It's the most realistic and natural performance I've ever seen.

But as far as "real" actors go...I'd have to say Cagney as Cody Jarrett in White Heat. But that's just off the top of my head. I'd give a different answer tomorrow or the next day.
 

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my favorites are

ellen burstyn in requiem for a dream

christopher walken in pulp fiction

chris klein in election

douglas rain (voice) in 2001: a space odyssey

burt reynolds in boogie nights

james cromwell in la confidential

bill murray in rushmore

william fichtner in drowning mona

holmes osborne in donnie darko

luke wilson in the royal tenenbaums

tom cruise in magnolia

william h macy in fargo

tony shalhoub in the man who wasnt there

but i think the best ive seen is

john goodman in barton fink

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Tom Hanks- Forrest Gump

Denzel Washington- Training Day

Ray Liotta- Narc

Jack Nicholson- One flew over the cuckoos nest
 

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Tough to argue with DeNiro and many other performances mentioned. I'll throw out a few foreign language performances that rank with the best ever:
Takashi Shimura as Watanabe in Ikiru
Max Von Sydow in The Virgin Spring
Carlo Battisti in Umberto D
My favorite performance of the last few years was Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York. He was ROBBED of the Oscar last year.
 

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Mine would be:

Robert DeNiro in The Godfather Part II, Heat, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, and Goodfellas. (He needs to work with Scorsese again!)

Marlon Brando in The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, On the Waterfront, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Al Pacino in The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Heat.

Gene Hackman in The Conversation.

About the above, how does Coppola do it?

Renee Marie Falconetti in Passion of Joan of Arc. I've haven't seen the movie in nearly 3 years, but I find myself thinking of her in that movie from time to time.

Charlize Theron in Monster.

Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.

Edward Norton in Primal Fear.

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest.

Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption.

Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.
 

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1. Marlon Brando: Last Tango in Paris

2. Robert DeNiro: Raging Bull

3. Boris Karloff: Bride of Frankenstein
 

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I for one don't think of performances in Gump, Rainman or Gilbert Grape as great acting ... Just me... that is mimic or imitation and all three did good jobs at imitating someone with that affliction with damn good acting thrown in. But for me,,, at least today with 5 minutes thought..

Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver is the most stunning I can think of ... the turmoil and confusion pours out of his eyes...

Robert Duvall... Tender Mercies

and my dark horse.... Alan Arkin Catch - 22
 

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For Actor:

George C. Scott - Patton I think this was the greatest performance of all time.

Honorable Mention goes to Iam McKellan as Gandalf in Fellowship. He makes the perfect Gandalf and the scene where he was with Bilbo in the Hobbit hole and it grew dark when he chastised Bilbo for saying that he wanted the ring for himself was how I imagined it for years when reading the book.

For Actress:

Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca I felt everything her character was feeling just by her expressions.
 

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Wow. Talk about a blast from the past....I originally posted this thread in October of 2001!
And although I still believe that De Niro's performance in Raging Bull is the best ever, I should add that Peter O' Tooles performance in Lawrence of Arabia is a close second! :)
 

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I would add
Robert Downey Jr. in Less than Zero
Rob, I love the new signature. You missed all the wonderful LOA screenshots that Steve Christou posted.
 

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