Favorite Movie Performances

[Wolfpack423]

Most of us like movies on these boards, but there are always some performances that we prefer over others. What are some of your favorites? I have many, but some of them are:

Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham in American Beauty
Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface
Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception
Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Leonardo DiCaprio as William Costigan, Jr. in The Departed
Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill Cutting in Gangs of New York
Mickey Rourke as Randy The Ram Robinson in The Wrestler
Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart
Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin in The Patriot
Jason Isaacs as Col. Tavington in The Patriot
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs
Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels/Andrew Laedis in Shutter Island
Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard in American History X
Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass
Chloe Moretz as Abby in Let Me In
Rachel McAdams as Regina George in Mean Girls
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather
Nicolas Cage as Castor Troy in Face/Off
Willem Dafoe as FBI Agent Paul Smecker in The Boondock Saints
Paul Giamatti as Miles in Sideways
Russel Crowe as Maximus in Gladiator
Al Pacino as John Milton in The Devil's Advocate
Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent Of A Woman



There are several more, but these are some of my favorites. I know some people might scoff at Rachel McAdams or Chloe Moretz, but they did good jobs with these roles.

[Furious Beardsley]

Christian Bale in American Psycho, and Dark Knight
Jake Gyllenhall in Donnie Darko
Viggo Mortensen - LOTR Trilogy
Hugh Jackman - The X-Men movies
Edward Norton - Fight Club
Keanu Reeves - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Chris Farley - Tommy Boy
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man movies, and Sherlock Holmes
Leonardo Dicaprio - Inception
Liam Neeson - Taken
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands
Jason Statham - the Transporter Trilogy
Matt Damon - The Bourne Trilogy

[El Fangel]

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface
Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill Cutting in Gangs of New York
Mickey Rourke as Randy The Ram Robinson in The Wrestler
Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart
Russel Crowe as Maximus in Gladiator
Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight
Viggo Mortenson in LOTR
Liam Nelson or Neeson or whatever in Taken
Clint Eastwood in Torino

Jack Nicholson
Johnny Depp

As I havent seen thes guys play a bad part in a movie, even as meh as Secret Window was, Depp played Morton Rainey to a T

[stultiloquy]

Kevin Spacey as John Doe in Se7en
Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Brandon Lee as Eric Draven in The Crow
Harrison Ford as Han Solo in the original Star Wars Trilogy
Marion Cotillard as Mal in Inception
Audrey Tautou as Amelie Poulain in Amelie

[Fox]

Robin Williams --- John Keating, Dead Poet's Society

Jack Nicholson --- Melvin Uddall, As Good As It Gets

[JimmyMess]

Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice
Johnny Depp as Captain Jack
Mel Gibson as Riggs

[jerichoholicninja]

Peter Sellers playing 3 characters in Dr. Stangelove was pretty fantastic. I think he's the only person to be nominated for best actor for a comedy.

[JimmyMess]

Peter Sellers playing 3 characters in Dr. Stangelove was pretty fantastic. I think he's the only person to be nominated for best actor for a comedy.

Dustin Hoffman won for Tootsie

[Jeritron]

There have been a decent amount nominated for comedies, I believe.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Tom Hanks won for Forrest Gump
Jack Nicholson won for As Good As It Gets
Robin Williams and Bill Murray have both been nominated

Also Dustin Hoffman was nominated for Tootsie but he lost to Ben Kingsley for Gandhi

[Jeritron]

Tom Hanks was nominated for Big as well

[jerichoholicninja]

He must have been the first then. I remember reading something about it on the back of the DVD.

[CSL]

Cuba Gooding Jr. - Boyz N The Hood