Your favourite acting performances?

[MessiahDecoy123]

Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood.

I'm not a huge fan of the movie as a whole but damn was his acting captivating.

Amazing performance.

 

[gwynplaine]

Daniel Day Lewis in In the name of the father.

James Mason in Lolita.

Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac.

Peter Sellers in Being There.

John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon/ Godfather 2.

Robert Mitchum and Lilian Gish in The Night of the Hunter.

Glenn Close and Malkovitch in Dangerous Liaisons.

Anthony Perkins in Psycho.

Anthony Hopkins (and Emma Thompson) in Remains of the day/Magic/Silence.

Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.

Sean Penn in Sweet Lowdown/Carlito's way.

Robert Shaw in everything.

And many, many more. But I'll stop here for now.

 

[[A]]

Anthony Perkins in Psycho.

Ahead of his time.

 

[gwynplaine]

Ahead of his time.

Yes, indeed. And I thought it was genius on Hitch's part to cast a sort of teen heartthrob, Perkins, as Norman, where in the book he is closer to a "Rod Steiger" type. Come to think of it, kind of a little bit what Nolan did with Heath Ledger.

And speaking about great acting performances, Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night.

 

[gwynplaine]

Heath ledger in Candy.

 

[Dr Strange]

James Dean - East Of Eden.

 

[gwynplaine]

Ryan O'Neal in Barry Lyndon.

 

[gwynplaine]

Viggo in The Road. Didn't care for the movie that much though.

Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds. Probably one of the best acting performances I've ever seen.

Melanie Laurant as Shosanna Dreyfus in Inglorious Basterds.

Michael Fassbender as Lt Archie Hicox in Inglorious Basterds.

 

[nite-owl]

Speaking of Fassbender his performance in Hunger was superb.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Haven't seen that yet. It's about the IRA hunger strike right?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Haven't seen that yet. It's about the IRA hunger strike right?

 

[gwynplaine]

Edit.

 

[nite-owl]

Haven't seen that yet. It's about the IRA hunger strike right?

Yes.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Anton Yelchin in Terminator: Salvation.

Probably the best thing about the movie and easily the most only likable character.

 

[Dark Victory]

Jonathan Pryce - Brazil
Christian Bale - American Psycho
Andy Serkis - Gollum and King Kong
Ahnuld - T-800
Brad Pitt - Tyler Durden, Aldo Raine and the Pikey
Tom Cruise - Vanilla Sky
Gong Li - Raise the Red Lantern
Ulrich Muhe - Lives of Others
Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham, King Kong(1933)
Javier Bardem - Anton Chigurh
Stephen Root - Milton
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Christopher Waltz - Hans Landa
Gary Oldman - Leon
Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List and In Bruges
Kevin Spacey - Seven and the Usual Suspects
Nick Nolte - Thin Red Line
Harvey Keitel - Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction
Jack Nicholson - The Shining
Adrien Brody - The Pianist
R. Lee Ermey - Full Metal Jacket
John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
Nick Frost - Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz

 

[gwynplaine]

^ Pretty Good List.

Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs/The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari.

 

[nite-owl]

John Wayne in The Searchers

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Nic Cage-Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

 

[gwynplaine]

John Wayne in The Searchers

One of my favorites too and, if needed, proof that The Duke was not just a movie star but also a very good actor, which some people tend to forget sometimes.

 

[[A]]

Nic Cage-Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

The iguanas, same movie

 

[Ace of Knaves]

You know that! HEEEEYY HOOOO HEEEEY HOOOO AH AH AHHHH

 

[gwynplaine]

_ Martin Landau in Crime and Misdemeanor and of course Ed Wood.
_ Peter Lorre in M.
_ Dean Martin In Rio Bravo.
_ Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

There's a reason why this-http://www.amazon.com/MostlyPosters...?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1263602700&sr=8-14-hangs over my bed.

 

[gwynplaine]

Cool picture. I want one.