Best Acting Performances in Film History (in progress)

AfterHours · 2018-03-09T03:27:31-05:00

Note: Just getting this started before working on it a bit more. Recommendations welcome. For my criteria, go here: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15503 The selections are based on my criteria, applied to acting. In short, when evaluating a performance, I tend to most strongly consider the following: (a) How creative/singular is the character (its psychology, traits, expressions, actions, personality characteristics), and how creative/singular is the actor's portrayal? How much does it stand out for its time? All time? Is it so extraordinary as to be inimitable? (b) How expressively amazing is the performance? To what degree does the performance express the state(s) of mind and/or emotion(s) (whether subtle or obvious, introverted or extroverted) of the character? How much conviction or immersion is being expressed? How compelling, powerful, moving and/or affecting (etc) is the performance? The higher the ranking, the greater degree its collaboration will tend to be of those factors. These tend to hold much more weight than the detailed accuracy or precise realism of the performance alone. Best Acting Performances in Film History (in progress) Isabelle Adjani - Possession - Andrzej Zulawski (1981) Laura Dern - Inland Empire - David Lynch (2006) Orson Welles - Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941) James Stewart - Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958) Renee Falconetti - The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928) Bette Davis - What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? - Robert Aldrich (1962) Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950) Bette Davis - Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte - Robert Aldrich (1965) Robert DeNiro - Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976) Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci (1972) Warren Oates - Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Sam Peckinpah (1974) Martin Sheen - Badlands - Terrence Malick (1973) Andy Griffith - A Face in the Crowd - Elia Kazan (1957) Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis (1995) Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves - Lars Von Trier (1996) Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes (1974) Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (1951) Denis Lavant - Holy Motors - Leos Carax (2012) Bibi Andersson - Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966) Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980) Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick (1971) Takashi Shimura - Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa (1952) James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946) Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954) Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) Klaus Kinski - Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Werner Herzog (1972) Monica Vitti - L'Avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni (1960) Gibson Gowland - Greed - Erich Von Stroheim (1924) Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Martin Scorsese (1974) Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin (1940) Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski (1968) Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (1951) Anthony Perkins - Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960) Philip Seymour Hoffman - Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman (2008) Gene Hackman - The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Aleksey Kravchenko - Come and See - Elim Klimov (1985) Alexander Kaidanovsky - Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) Erland Josephson - The Sacrifice - Andrei Tarkovsky (1986) Orson Welles - Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles (1965) Catherine Deneuve - Belle de Jour - Luis Bunuel (1967) Lee Marvin - Point Blank - John Boorman (1967) Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965) Mia Farrow - Secret Ceremony - Joseph Losey (1968) Potential Additions - Not Ranked/Undecided Parviz Parastui - The Willow Tree - Majid Majidi (2005) Charlize Theron - Monster - Patty Jenkins (2003) Mohsen Ramezani - The Color of Paradise - Majid Majidi (1999) David Thewlis - Naked - Mike Leigh (1993) Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme (1991) Michael Gambon - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Peter Greenaway (1989) Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan (1989) Dennis Hopper - Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986) Harry Dean Stanton - Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders (1984) Robert DeNiro - King of Comedy - Martin Scorsese (1983) Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Faye Dunaway - Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974) Jack Nicholson - Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974) Al Pacino - The Godfather, Part 2 - Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Marlon Brando - The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (1972) Al Pacino - The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (1972) George C. Scott - Patton - Franklin Schaffner (1970) Jack Nicholson - The Passenger - Michelangelo Antonioni (1968) Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick (1964) Kyôko Kishida - Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964) Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962) Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass - Elia Kazan (1961) Orson Welles - Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958) Glenn Ford - The Big Heat - Fritz Lang (1953) Machiko Kyo - Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (1950) Toshiro Mifune - Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (1950) Bette Davis - All About Eve - Joseph Mankiewicz (1950) Humphrey Bogart - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston (1946) James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington - Frank Capra (1939) Peter Lorre - M - Fritz Lang (1931) Brigitte Helm - Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1926) *Various Katherine Hepburn performances* *Various Lawrence Olivier performances* *Various Charlie Chaplin performances*

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