Favourite/Greatest acting performances

[vast]

I love movies for many reasons, but the ones that usually stick with me are the ones where you have a memorable character driven by a great acting performance. Sometimes its just a scene that makes the whole thing too.

Anyway I thought this might be a good idea for the thread. What are your favourite or in your opinion the greatest performances?

I have many, so will be clogging the thread to start with, but here we go.

F Murray Abraham in Amadeus. A left field one to start with. I haven't seen the movie for a long time but this one stays in my mind for some reason, in particular the scene below. On its own it does not look so great but he was brilliant throughout the whole movie and this was sort of the boiling point so speak.

 

[vast]

Two great actors at the top of their game in one scene. I think it speaks for itself.

 

[footyfan1978]

Sherryl Lee in Fire Walk With Me
Tim Robbins in Jacobs Ladder
Tom Hanks in Castaway
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver

 

[Exe Gesis]

Unlikeliest of actors. Not Daniel Day Lewis etc in some academy role. But As n Kutcher in The Butterfly Effect.

 

[Exe Gesis]

*Ashton

 

[JackOutback]

Also a bit of a left field one, but Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte lifted Warrior from Rocky knock-off to phenomenal film.

 

[chefmeister]

Pacino here, hardly says a word but so powerful.

 

[chefmeister]

After Titanic I think anything Leonardo Di Caprio has done is phenomenal.

 

[PhatBoy]

Stallone in Cop Land.

Very underrated movie.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

 

[vast]

After Titanic I think anything Leonardo Di Caprio has done is phenomenal.

His best performance imo came before that in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. Incredible.

 

[vast]

Sean Penn has been great in so many roles like Mystic River, Dead Man Walking etc. But I thought he was really great in The Assassination of Richard Nixon, but there was also cameo by Michael Wincott where he almost steals the show

 

[chefmeister]

His best performance imo came before that in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. Incredible.

Ahh I haven't seen it but thanks for reminding me of Johnny Depp.

His portrayals of the Mad Hatter and Willy Wonka were fantastic.

 

[WireHawk]

Tom Hardy in 'Bronson'
Klaus Kinski in 'Aguirre:The Wrath Of God'
Tom Noonan in 'Manhunter'
Lon Chaney in 'The Unknown'(silent film)

 

[PhatBoy]

I know the movie has never been short of accolades but I thought the acting of Steven Baldwin and Kevin Pollack in Usual Suspects was f***en outstanding

 

[JackOutback]

Not a movie, but I consider Mads Mikkelsen the quitissential Hannibal after the TV show. And when you consider the performance of Anthony Hopkins, the man he is overtaking, that's pretty ******* phenomenal.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Loved Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon

 

[chefmeister]

Sean Penn has been great in so many roles like Mystic River, Dead Man Walking etc. But I thought he was really great in The Assasaination of Richard Nixon, but there was also cameo really by Michael Wincott where he almost steals the show

Sean Penn is one of my faves.

The Thin Red Line
The Falcon & the Snowman
Carlito's Way

all being particularly special performances by him for mine.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Gary Oldman in True Romance

 

[Russian Demon]

For me I'd say Billy Connolly in Her Majesty Mrs Brown.

I really love Brendon Gleeson in In Bruges & Calvary.

 

[Gough]

Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts. He called the whole Trump phenomenon twenty five years ago.

 

[00Stinger]

After Titanic I think anything Leonardo Di Caprio has done is phenomenal.

Whats eating Gilbert Grape?

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[iluvparis]

James Nesbitt as Ivan Cooper in Bloody Sunday is a decent effort

 

[BuddysBiggestFan]

Al Pacino - Scarface
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind

 

[footyfan1978]

Gary Oldman in True Romance

Brad Pitt in True Romance.