Directors Star Turns! A Movie Tournament! (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

Welcome to Star Turns - A Movie Tournament.

What's it all about? Well, in this tourney we'll be voting on the greatest star-making performance in a film.


The List

1. [*]Almost Famous - Kate Hudson
   [*]Amadeus - F. Murray Abraham
   [*]Amelie - Audrey Tautou
   [*]Back to the Future - Michael J. Fox
   [*]Basic Instinct - Sharon Stone
   [*]Bonnie and Clyde - Warren Beatty
   [*]Bull Durham - Tim Robbins
   [*]Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Robert Redford
   [*]Casablanca - Ingrid Bergman
   [*]Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart
   [*]Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
   [*]A Clockwork Orange - Malcolm McDowell
   [*]Coal Miner's Daughter - Sissy Spacek
   [*]The Deer Hunter - Christopher Walken
   [*]Die Hard - Alan Rickman
   [*]The Doors - Val Kilmer
   [*]Dracula - Bela Lugosi
   [*]Dr. No - Sean Connery
   [*]East of Eden - James Dean
   [*]Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Sean Penn
   [*]Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Matthew Broderick
   [*]A Fistful of Dollars - Clint Eastwood
   [*]The 400 Blows - Jean-Pierre Leaud
   [*]Frankenstein - Boris Karloff
   [*]Gandhi - Ben Kingsley
   [*]The Godfather - Al Pacino
   [*]The Godfather Part II - Robert DeNiro
   [*]The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman
   [*]Easy Rider - Jack Nicholson
   [*]Escape from New York - Kurt Russell
   [*]Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Jennifer Jason Leigh
   [*]Heathers - Christian Slater
   [*]Jaws - Richard Dreyfuss
   [*]L.A. Confidential - Guy Pearce
   [*]Lawrence of Arabia - Peter O'Toole
   [*]Little Caesar - Edward G. Robinson
   [*]Mad Max - Mel Gibson
   [*]The Man in the Moon - Reese Witherspoon
   [*]Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews
   [*]The Matrix - Carrie-Anne Moss
   [*]Misery - Kathy Bates
   [*]Mulholland Dr. - Naomi Watts
   [*]Primal Fear - Edward Norton
   [*]The Professional - Natalie Portman
   [*]Psycho - Anthony Perkins
   [*]Pulp Fiction - Samuel L. Jackson
   [*]Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
   [*]Rashomon - Toshiro Mifune
   [*]Risky Buisness - Tom Cruise
   [*]Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
   [*]The Seventh Seal - Max Von Sydow
   [*]The Silence of the Lambs - Anthony Hopkins
   [*]The Sixth Sense - Haley Joel Osment
   [*]Star Wars - Carrie Fisher
2. Star Wars - Harrison Ford******
   [*]Star Wars - Mark Hamill
   [*]A Streetcar Named Desire - Marlon Brando
   [*]Street Smart - Morgan Freeman
   [*]Superman - Christopher Reeve
   [*]Taxi Driver - Jodie Foster
   [*]The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenneger
   [*]The Untouchables - Andy Garcia
   [*]The Usual Suspects - Kevin Spacey
   [*]The World According to Garp - John Lithgow

 

[ErikG]

Nominate:

Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Arnold Schwarzenneger (The Terminator)

 

[Justin_S]

I nominate:

Naomi Watts (MULHOLLAND DR.)- I have loved this very talented and as gorgeous as humanly possible actress since I first saw her in TANK GIRL and CHILDREN OF THE CORN IV, but I think her performance in Lynch's masterpiece is her best, and also what is getting her more recognized now.

 

[Ric Bagoly]

Second

Penn

Arnold

Nominate-

Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider

Val Kilmer - The Doors

Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange

Chris Cooper - American Beauty

 

[ErikG]

Nominate:

Tom Cruise (Top Gun)


Second:

Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider
Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange

 

[SteveGon]

Great picks! Keep 'em coming!

Countdown until Bergeron noms Natalie Portman for The Professional...

 

[Kirk Tsai]

Sharon Stone for Basic Instinct
Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire
Al Pacino for The Godfather
Sly Stallone for Rocky

 

[Angelo.M]

ziyi zhang, crouching tiger, hidden dragon
mark ruffalo, you can count on me
kevin spacey, the usual suspects
guy pearce, l.a. confidential

 

[SteveGon]

Throwing out a few noms myself to help things along:

Die Hard - Alan Rickman
The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman
Lawrence of Arabia - Peter O'Toole
Star Wars - Harrison Ford
Street Smart - Morgan Freeman



I'll add more later as I think of them.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Nominate:
The Seventh Seal - Max von Sydow
Taxi Driver - Jodie Foster
Amelie - Audrey Tatou
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles

Third:
A Clockwork Orange - Malcolm McDowell
Easy Rider - Jack Nicholson
The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenneger

Second:
The Godfather - Al Pacino
The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman

 

[Brook K]

Not sure if I'll take part in this one, but I'll throw out some noms

Jean-Pierre Leaud - The 400 Blows
Catherine Deneuve - The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
Emily Watson - Breaking The Waves
Toshiro Mifune - Rashomon

2nd Max Von Sydow

 

[Evan Case]

Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
Bela Lugosi - Dracula
James Cagney - The Public Enemy
Sean Connery - Dr. No

Evan

 

[Evan Case]

Second: Welles, Brando, O'Toole, Ford

Third: Hoffman, Pacino

 

[Agee Bassett]

Nominate
Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights
Edward G. Robinson - Little Caesar
Veronica Lake - Sullivan's Travels
Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe

Third
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia

 

[SteveGon]

List updated.

I added to the noms list:

Mad Max - Mel Gibson
To Have and Have Not - Lauren Bacall

 

[Jeff Gross]

Nominate
Robert De Niro - Godfather: Part II
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
Rusell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
Kate Hudson - Almost Famous

Second
American Beauty - Chris Cooper
L.A. Confidential - Guy Pearce
Mulholland Dr. - Naomi Watts
The Usual Suspects - Kevin Spacey

Third
A Streetcar Named Desire - Marlon Brando*

 

[SteveGon]

Since Rice ain't here, I'll add The Man in the Moon - Reese Witherspoon, and Manon of the Spring - Emmanuelle Beart.

 

[LukeB]

Nominate:
Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
Hayley Mills - Pollyanna
Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Tom Hanks - Big (his launch is debatable)

 

[Elizabeth S]

Nominate:

American Gigolo - Richard Gere
The Deer Hunter - Christopher Walken
Psycho - Anthony Perkins
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Robert Redford

Second:

The Man in the Moon - Reese Witherspoon
Basic Instinct - Sharon Stone
Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
Amelie - Audrey Tautou

Third:

L.A. Confidential - Guy Pearce
Star Wars - Harrison Ford

 

[Jeff Gross]

Third
Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
Amelie - Audrey Tautou