Favourite/Greatest acting performances

[footyfan1978]

Gary Oldman in True Romance

and Dracula

 

[Red Black and Blue]

and Dracula

and The Professional, The Fifth Element, Hannibal, s**t even loved him in Air Force One. Certainly can't accused him of be one note.

 

[footyfan1978]

Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Daniel Dale Lewis in just about anything.
In the Name of the Father.
Gangs of New York one that comes to mind too.
There Will Be Blood.

The guy takes method acting too far for his own good.

 

[Shell]

Hopkins- SOTL. won best actor, very little screen time but you wouldn't know it.

And Ledger in Brokeback. Heart breaking

 

[footyfan1978]

Mickey Rourke
Barfly or Angel Heart.

Loved his work.

 

[vast]

Mickey Rourke
Barfly or Angel Heart.

Loved his work.

King of the Monologue.

 

[PhatBoy]

James Cromwell in LA Confidential.

Mind you everyone in that movie was f***ing amazing

 

[raskolnikov]

John Hurt in The Elephant Man

 

[footyfan1978]

and 1984

 

[RelaxMax]

Fonzie in that episode where he jumped the shark

That was amazing












I'll show myself out

 

[darklake]

Louise Fletcher deservedly won
an Oscar for the portrayal of
Nurse Ratched in
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Scary.
Jack was good too!

 

[00Stinger]

Dustin Hoffman in Rainman

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[Carbine Chaos]

Love Kevin Spacey and the shifts in his character in American Beauty.

 

[Percel]

ruffalo in spotlight, so desperate to get to the truth

 

[Marlowe]

Harry Dean Stanton - Paris, Texas

Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher

David Thewlis - Naked

Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven

Michael Fassbender - Hunger

Nicolas Cage - Snake Eyes

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence

Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria

Kurt Russell - Escape from New York


Bonus: the kid in Come and See whose hair turned grey just from making the movie.

 

[Shell]

Dustin Hoffman in Rainman

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Lol this post reminds me of Kate Winslet in Extras: "You know what you have to do to get a bloody Oscar- play someone in the Holocaust- Oscars coming out their asses. That or play a mental"


Another one: Tom Hanks in Philadelphia.

 

[Kong]

Matthew McConaughey: True Detective
Christoph Waltz: Inglourious Basterds
Christian Bale: The Fighter

 

[vast]

To throw a non-dramatic role into the mix.

Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura. The film would not have worked without his briliiance

 

[Shell]

To throw a non-dramatic role into the mix.

Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura. The film would not have worked without his briliiance

Comedy roles need more recognition imho.

Would have picked Carrey for Liar Liar tho.

 

[JackOutback]

Hayley Joel Osmont in Sixth Sense; watching it back, his performance still gave me chills. Unbelievable performance from a kid.

 

[Russian Demon]

Lol this post reminds me of Kate Winslet in Extras: "You know what you have to do to get a bloody Oscar- play someone in the Holocaust- Oscars coming out their asses. That or play a mental"


Another one: Tom Hanks in Philadelphia.

Never go full *.

 

[NSWCROW]

The Falcon & the Snowman
.

Great movie that not enough Aussies have seen or heard of.

2 that come to my mind right away that copped award snubs -

Jake Gyllenhall in NIGHTCRAWLER
Freddie Highmore in BATES MOTEL ( Series )

 

[RelaxMax]

Most of the actors from the movie Awakenings

 

[RobbyRoy]

I think the OP nailed it, F. Murray Abraham delivers one of the greatest I've ever seen. Others:

- George C. Scott in Patton
- Joaquin Phoenix and PSH in The Master
- DDL in There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York
- Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver, The King of New York and Raging Bull
- Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For a Dream
- Mickey Rourke in The Wrester
- Chris Cooper in Adaptation
- Tom Cruise in Magnolia
- Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather I and II
- Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Midnight Cowboy and Kramer vs Kramer
- Paul Newman in Hud and Cool Hand Luke
- Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Bette Davis in All About Eve
- Roger Livesay in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James and Manchester By the Sea

Forgetting heaps here I think...

 

[footyfan1978]

I think the OP nailed it, F. Murray Abraham delivers one of the greatest I've ever seen. Others:

- George C. Scott in Patton
- Joaquin Phoenix and PSH in The Master
- DDL in There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York
- Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver, The King of New York and Raging Bull
- Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For a Dream
- Mickey Rourke in The Wrester
- Chris Cooper in Adaptation
- Tom Cruise in Magnolia
- Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather I and II
- Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Midnight Cowboy and Kramer vs Kramer
- Paul Newman in Hud and Cool Hand Luke
- Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Bette Davis in All About Eve
- Roger Livesay in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James and Manchester By the Sea

Forgetting heaps here I think...

Decent list.
Glad someone mentioned Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke as that is one of the special one from before our times that crossed my mind yesterday.
Dicraprio like Winslet and De Niro is special in so many of them.
Most amazing ones to me and maybe also the most disturbing at same time are De Niro in Taxi Driver and Sheryl Lee in Fire Walk With Me. They played both roles so on the edge and just compelling the whole movie.