Best acting proformance you have seen?

charmedlife: mine is
1 pacino - scarface
2 de niro - raging bull
3 di caprio - basketball diaries
4 sean penn - i am sam
5 di niro - awakengings
6 heath ledger - dark knight
7 kevin spacey - the usaual suspects
8 di caprio - whats eating gilbert grape
9 gene hackman - crimson tide
10 daniel day lewis - in the name of the father

i have so many but that sounds about right. you dont have to list 10 just the best if you wish

rosie12954: I love the usual suspects and whats eating gilbert grape and both ur picks were spot on!

wattle: I would say di caprio in basketball diaries. My ex was a herion addict and reckons he depicted it spot on.

rosie12954: ahhhh yea...I loved him in that

UneverCanTell: Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange, 1971
Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962
Isabelle Huppert - La Pianiste, 2001

rosie12954: omg I 4 got....Heath Ledger as the Joker...he soooo rocked it!!!

theMirrorConspiracy: Christian Bale in Equilibrium. It was pretty much the reason why he was chosen to play Batman.

Hugh Jackman in The Fountain. Impossible to describe his brilliance in that film.

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream. I dont even understand how someone could put themselves through the torture of acting out that roll.

AnneWats: Will Smith - Seven Pounds
Johnny Depp in anything

artsygurl: i think the preformance in the movie my sister keeper was SADSEST MOIVE EVERRR!!

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MarkinVietnam: Peter Sellers in Lolita--Genius!!
Joe Pesci--Good Fellas
Tom Hanks--Philadelphia
Robert DeNiro--Raging Bull

RipOutYourSpine: Kathy Bates in Misery

OOConfusedLeoOO: i like 8.

theMirrorConspiracy: Robin Williams^ lmao

Don't you mean Tim Robbins

RipOutYourSpine: Monique in precious!!

Jensen408: i dont really like Viggo Mortensen but when i saw the road it changed my views on him as an Acter watch that movie its good

slither84: I think 1)Malcolm McDowell-A Clockwork Orange, 2)Bette Midler-Beaches, 3)Charles Laughton-The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 4)Max Schreck-Nosferatu, 5)Heath Ledger-Batman The Dark Knight are my top 5 best preformances.

sereen: 1- Mel Gibson IN Conspiracy Theory (& many many movies)
2- Al pacion IN Scent Of Woman ( & many many movies)
3- Antonio Banderas IN Assassins.
4- Tom Cruies IN A Few Good Men.
5- Sylvester stallon IN Lock Up.
6-William H. Macy IN Door To Door.
7-William Fichtner IN Prison Break.

...... etc

acadian2: Jack Nicholson = A few good men
Morgan Freeman=Shawshank redemption
Robin Williams= Good Morning Vietnam
Robert De Niro= The Deer Hunter
Cher= Moonstruck
Meryl Streep=Out of Africa

Breakeven: Speaking of Meryl Streep she was great in Sophie's Choice
Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
Edward Norton - American History X
Christian Bale - American Psycho
so many more but these are the ones I think of on the spot.