The Oscars seem to dictate what we consider to be the best acting performances, but I’m not sure everyone will agree with that. What’s the best performance you’ve seen in a film.
I loved James Mcvoy in Filth and Tom Cruise in Interview with a vampire.
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17-04-2020 11:31 PM #1
Brilliant acting performances in films
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17-04-2020 11:41 PM #2
James McAvoy is great, thought he was outstanding in Split too.
I struggle to think of my all time favourite performance, but as far as big screen debuts go, Zack Gottsagen in The Peanut Butter Falcon is hard to top. Wonderful performance, a lot of improv too, a complete and utter natural.
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17-04-2020 11:59 PM #4
Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate.
However, his portrayal of Michael Corleone is the benchmark for any actor.
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18-04-2020 05:20 PM #8
Rod Steiger in the Heat Of The Night. Gene Hackman in just about every film he was ever in. Brian cox been great for years, only started to be appreciated recently.
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In recent years, I really love Leo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in Once Upon a time in Hollywood. Wasn’t my favourite on first viewing but it gets better every watch IMO.
So many examples for Christian Bale too. Most recent examples being the Le Mans film and also his transformation into Dick Cheney for Vice.
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18-04-2020 06:22 AM #10
People may laugh at this one but possibly my favourite acting performance of all time is Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone "I'm your huckleberry"
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18-04-2020 07:17 AM #11
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18-04-2020 07:24 AM #13
Jim Carrey in the Truman Show. I was convinced after watching it that it was Oscar winning stuff but of course he was snubbed by them because he's a mere comedian. Ed Harris did win best supporting actor which must have felt like a slap in the face for Carrey.
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Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men is one of my favourite performances. He was the absolute stand out in that film, he was nominated for a few awards but was completely snubbed at the Oscars. He was also brilliant in Milk the following year as well and got recognised as such for that.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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18-04-2020 08:51 AM #18
Scarlett Johansen. She owned the screen in both Marriage Story and JoJo Rabbit last year, I'm not sure why she gets snubbed for Oscars and BAFTAs, I suppose being beautiful and eye wateringly rich can distract from what a good actor she is.
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18-04-2020 06:41 PM #20
Donald Sutherland in 'Ordinary People', increasingly and desperately trying to keep his family together in crisis.
Ellen Burstyn in 'Requiem For A Dream', tragic, sad, poignant and bordering on physically painful to watch.
Peter Sellers in either 'Being There' or 'Dr Strangelove' - the first he plays an idiot savant and his timing and humour is perfect and deadpan, the second he plays three very different characters in the one film.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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20-04-2020 03:53 AM #21
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18-04-2020 07:38 AM #22
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Anytime Jack Cassidy was in Columbo.
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18-04-2020 10:03 PM #24
Heath Ledger as the Joker was very good.
Just watched Silence of the Lambs for only the second time. Foster and Hopkins both excellent in that.
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I think Leonardo DiCaprio is fantastic in almost every movie I've seen him in. He was good in Django unchained but Christophe waltz was amazing in both that and inglorious.
Eddie redmayne in theory of everything was imo exceptional
Remi malik in bohemian rhapsody was unbelievably brilliant
Tom hanks in Philadelphia.
Dustin Hoffman in rainman.
Kevin Spacey (is it ok to say this 😂) in American beauty
Ralph fiennes and Liam neeson in Schindler's list.
As a fan of the Harry potter books, Alan rickman nailed professor Snape and more.
Robin Williams in one hour photo, and also both him and Matt Damon (still can't say his name without think of team America) were great in good will hunting.
Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis in Kalifornia. Juliette Lewis and woody harleson in natural born killers also.Last edited by Hibee87; 19-04-2020 at 12:46 AM.
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20-04-2020 01:53 AM #26
If I say "Heath Ledger as The Joker" will a big alarm got off, QI style for giving an obvious answer?!!
Also Vigo Mortensen as Aragorn in LOTR trilogy.
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20-04-2020 08:15 AM #28
Garry Oldman is great in most things he's done. Fantastic in Leon, brilliant.
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