Your Top 3 Performances for Your Top 10 Actors

[Boom]

Bored at work. Humor me.

Christian Bale
American Psycho
The Fighter
Hostiles

Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs of New York
Lincoln
There Will Be Blood

Gary Oldman
JFK
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sid & Nancy

Heath Ledger
Brokeback Mountain
The Dark Knight
Monster's Ball

Joaquin Phoenix
Her
The Master
You Were Never Really Here

Leonardo DiCaprio
The Aviator
The Departed
The Wolf of Wall Street

Mark Ruffalo
Foxcatcher
Spotlight
Zodiac

Philip Seymour Hoffman
A Most Wanted Man
Capote
The Master

Tom Hardy
Bronson
Locke
Warrior

Viggo Mortensen
A History of Violence
Eastern Promises
The Road

 

[Spider-Fan]

I will have to mull this over. I don't really have favorite actors really. I am more of a directors guy.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Okay....this is a doozy of a thread....(please do one for actresses as well, thanks)

Jimmy Stewart
Vertigo
It's a Wonderful Life
The Philadelphia Story

Christian Bale
The Machinist
Empire of the Sun
Hostiles

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Magnolia
Mission Impossible III
Synecdoche, New York

Tom Hanks
Philadelphia
Big
Saving Private Ryan

Cary Grant
North by Northwest
An Affair to Remember
Only Angels Have Wings

Jeff Bridges
Tron
Starman
The Fabulous Baker Boys

Terrance Stamp
Superman II
Young Guns
The Limey

Domhnall Gleeson
About Time
The Little Stranger
Ex Machina

James McAvoy
Atonement
Atomic Blonde
Arthur Christmas

Ed Norton
25th Hour
Fight Club
Primal Fear

 

[Schlosser85]

I’d have to think about others, but offhand:

Tom Hardy

1. Bronson
2. Legend
3. Warrior

 

[scarlet-witch]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin, Brick, Snowden
Paul Dano - There Will Be Blood, L.I.E, Love & Mercy
Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman, Paterson, The Last Jedi
Christian Bale - American Psycho, The Fighter, The Machinist
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight, Brokeback Mountain, Candy
Lakeith Stanfield - Short Term 12, Sorry To Bother You, Get Out
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master, Doubt, Happiness
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Captain Fantastic
Michael Shannon - Take Shelter, Midnight Special, Revolutionary Road
Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out, Sicario, The Fades

 

[MadderMaximus]

Actor Ranking is in no particular order, but the performances are per actor.

Kurt Russell
Escape From New York, The Thing, Death Proof

Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs Of New York, There Will Be Blood, Last Of The Mohicans

Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, As Good As it Gets

Robert DeNiro
Raging Bull, The Godfather pt 2, Taxi Driver

Kevin Bacon
Sleepers, Murder In The First, Stir Of Echoes

Samuel L. Jackson
Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight, Unbreakable

Denzel Washington
Fences, Training Day, Philadelphia

Peter Lorre
M, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon

Anthony Perkins
Psycho, Les Miserable, Edge of Sanity

Harrison Ford
The Fugitive, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner 2049

This list may not even actually be my top 10, they're just the first to really come to mind that I could think of 3 performances I loved.

 

[Ninjablade]

Off the top of my head in no particular order:

Leonardo DiCaprio:

1. Catch Me if You Can
2. Inception
3. Wolf of Wall Street

Christian Bale:

1. The Prestige
2. American Psycho
3. Vice

Tom Cruise:

1. Jerry Maguire
2. Tropic Thunder
3. Edge of Tomorrow

Jake Gyllenhaal:

1. Nightcrawler (still a little mad he didn't get a nom for this)
2. Donnie Darko
3. Prisoners

Andrew Garfield:

1. The Social Network
2. Never Let Me Go
3. Hacksaw Ridge

Hugh Jackman:

1. Logan
2. The Prestige
3. Prisoners

I'd have to think it over some more. Some of those might change and I'd need to think of more actors, but those are all the first that come to mind.

 

[David H.]

Spoiler

Bobby

1. Taxi Driver
2. The King of Comedy
3. Once Upon a Time in America

Al

1. Godfather Part II
2. Serpico
3. Dog Day Afternoon

Harry Dean Stanton

1. Paris, Texas
2. Repo Man
3. The Last Temptation of Christ

Toshiro Mifune

1. Throne of Blood
2. High and Low
3. Seven Samurai

PSH

1. Synecdoche, New York
2. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
3. Charlie Wilson’s War

Denzel

1. Malcolm X
2. Devil in a Blue Dress
3. Inside Man (one of the great “movie star” performances but I hardly ever see it mentioned.)

Day Man

1. Gangs of New York
2. Lincoln
3. There Will Be Blood

Oscar Isaac

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. A Most Violent Year
3. Ex Machina

Joaquin

1. Her
2. The Master
3. Two Lovers

Jack Lemmon

1. Days of Wine and Roses
2. Glengarry Glen Ross
3. The Apartment

 

[Mandon Knight]

Gah !!! How could I forget Kurt Russell in my list....

The Thing
Tombstone
The Hateful Eight

 

[MadderMaximus]

Gah !!! How could I forget Kurt Russell in my list....

The Thing
Tombstone
The Hateful Eight

He's probably my MVP actor, I can enjoy the guy in anything. Even his worst rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes, Soldier :P