Top 10 acting performances

[JTB31]

What would be your top 10 performances of all time. Here are mine not in this exact order.

1.Charlize Theron: Monster
2.Tom Hanks: Forest Gump
3.Tom Hanks:Philadelphia
4.Tom Hanks:Saving Private Ryan
5.Jack Nicholson: A Few good men
6.Matt Damon: Good Will Hunting
7.Cuba Gooding JR: Jerry Maguire
8.Marisa Tomei: My Cousin Vinny
9.Kate Winslet: Titanic
10.Edward Norton: American History X

[Kris P Lettus]

The lack of Johnny Depp's name makes your list null and void..

[JTB31]

Darn I knew I would of forgotten some obvious ones.

I would put Edward scissorhands up there. I haven't watched all that many Johnny Depp movies because alot of the roles he has played is just not my type of movie..like the Pirates series.

[Bad Company]

lol Titanic. BAN

[Jeritron]

Christian Bale deserves points for The Machinist. Maybe not top 10, or his on screen performance, but his transforming into a role and that dedication. DAMN!

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Christian Bale deserves points for The Machinist. Maybe not top 10, or his on screen performance, but his transforming into a role and that dedication. DAMN!

And figuring his next role was Batman, even more damn!

Tom Hanks was amazing in The Terminal
Andy Lau is amazing in The Departed trilogy
Leo Dicaprio in The Aviator and in Catch me if you Can.
Both Mogran Freeman and Tim Robbins in Shawshank Redemption
I loved Edward Norton and Robbin Williams in Death to Smoochy
Toshio Mifune in Seven Samurai
Takashi Shimura in Ikiru.

These really aren't in any order, I'm just naming great performances.

[Requiem]

No particular order..

Leonardo Decaprio - The Departed
Both Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club
As said above somewhere, definitely Christian Bale in The Machinist.. his dedication to that role was insane. Just seems like he really loves what he does.
Christian Bale - The Prestige
Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe - American Gangster.. both were amazing in that movie.
Both Russel Crowe and Christian Bale in 3:10 to Yuma

Actually, pretty much anything Denzel has done. Same for Edward Norton. Both are just superb actors.

Mel Gibson - Braveheart (who can forget this classic powerful performance.. easily his best role ever)

Yeah, that's all I got. Really having a hard time even thinking of movies at the moment.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Not a remarkabel movie, but Ed Norton pretending to be a retard in The Score was amazing.

[ClockShot]

What would be your top 10 performances of all time. Here are mine not in this exact order.


8.Marisa Tomei: My Cousin Vinny

:wtf:

As much as I love Marisa Tomei, she seems kinda weird on that list of yours.

My picks.

Tom Cruise - A Few Good Men
Matt Damon - The Departed
Tony Leung - Infernal Affairs
Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
Leo Dicaprio - Tie. Between G.O.N.Y and The Departed.
Denzel Washington - *Insert anyone of his movies here*

There's plenty more to add. I was thinking about adding Jet Li for Hero, but I passed on it.

[Jura]

I didn't think anyone else has seen The Machinist besides me. Yeah he looked terrible in that movie and then once you see him in the flashback when he was healthy it's even more shocking to have something to compare it to.

[RP]

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[Renaissance man]

Willem Dafoe- boondock saints

[ct2k]

Daniel Day Lewis is pretty astonishingly good in most of his roles

[Fox]

Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets

Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans

Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Danny DeVito in Batman Returns

Joe Pesci in Goodfellas

Marlon Brando in The Godfather

Al Pacino in Scarface

Robert Englund in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator

Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs

[ClockShot]

Daniel Day Lewis is pretty astonishingly good in most of his roles

Pretty pumped for There Will Be Blood.

Thanks for the reminder.

[loopydate]

Claude Rains - Casablanca
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence Of The Lambs
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Gregory Peck - To Kill A Mockingbird
Tim Roth - Reservoir Dogs
Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men

I'm sure there are more, but these come to mind now.

[#1-norm-fan]

Jack Nicholson - "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
Dustin Hoffman - "Rain Man"
Joey Lauren Adams - "Chasing Amy"
Tom Hanks - "Forrest Gump"
Jim Carrey - "Man on the Moon"
Michael Keaton - "Night Shift"
Michael Douglas - "Falling Down"
Nicholas Cage - "Leaving Las Vegas"
Adam Sandler - "Punch-Drunk Love"
Bill Murray - "Lost in Translation"

[Mr Regal]

This thread started off is a strange fashion. However some of the performances mentioned are astonishing. I really don't have the time to think up the top ten I have ever seen.

Have to go with Bale in the Machinist though, Marlon Brando in Apocolypse Now and Johnny Depp in Fear and loathing. Also just watch American Gangster and Denzel is fucking outstanding in it. Also Ed Norton in American HistoryX.

[YOUR Hero]

Peter O'Toole : Lawrence of Arabia

[XL]

Think Denzel's performance in 'Training Day' needs a specific mention.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

I wasn't a fan of the movie, but Tim Robbins in War of the Worlds was downright creepy.

[Zen v.W.o.]

Viggo Mortensen in practically any movie he's been in.

Jack Nicholson in One flew over the cuckoo's nest and the shining.

Edward Norton in "american history x"

Roddy Piper in "They Live".

[MTH15]

1. Mel Gibson
2.MAtt Damon
3.Bill Cosby
4. Johnny Knoxville
5. Steve-0
6. Ben Affleck
7. George CLoony
8. Guy that plays spongebob
9. Adam Sandler
10. ROB SCHNIEDER

[Shisen Kopf]

1. Mel Gibson
2.MAtt Damon
3.Bill Cosby
4. Johnny Knoxville
5. Steve-0
6. Ben Affleck
7. George CLoony
8. Guy that plays spongebob
9. Adam Sandler
10. ROB SCHNIEDER


you forgot Tom Green in Freddy Got Finger, the best movie of all time

But heres how my top 10 is

1-Tom Green
2-Keenan
3-David Spade
4-Justin Timberlake
5-Anna Nicole Smith
6-Paris Hilton
7-Lindsey Lohan
8-The guy who pays the Sherminator in American Pie
9-Adam Sandler
10-Charlton Heston, barely makes the list, no way as good as the Sherminator

[94 SVT Cobra]

i still think jack nicholsons performance as the joker in the first batman movie was amazingly well done, i saw it as a child and thought it was so real. twenty years later i see the movie again and realized how damn good he did that part.

"i am out here throwing my dirty money to you people, and where is the batman? at home washing his tights"

[RBM]

I'm too lazy to name a bunch right now, but one that stood out in particular as I was thinking about it.

Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream.

Can't believe she didn't win the Oscar for that role.

[IC Champion]

Pacino - Donnie Brasco

[Avenger]

DiCaprio in Blood Diamond.

Not an amazing film but his performance is unbelievable. He was that character.

[Avenger]

Will Smith needs a career defining role

[Avenger]

Gene Hackman in The Conversation!!!!

What a performance.

[Fox]

Will Smith needs a career defining role

The problem with Will Smith is that he's really only good at playing Will Smith.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I didn't think anyone else has seen The Machinist besides me. Yeah he looked terrible in that movie and then once you see him in the flashback when he was healthy it's even more shocking to have something to compare it to.

I think a few people have seen it actually, and Christian Bale just does not look like Christian Bale in it. The man is tremendous.

[El Fangel]

Christian Bale deserves points for Batman Begins. Maybe not top 10, or his on screen performance, but his transforming into a role and that dedication. DAMN!