Post subject: Movie PPPoll: Best Acting Performances
I don't know if we did this already but if not well spank my ass & let's get this started for the next poll. I guess for rules, there won't be many, film has to be at least 40 minutes and... yeah what the hay uncredited cameos are fine, they're often the most enjoyable part of the movie (unless it's Zoolander) BUT GIVE SPOILER WARNINGS. I'm open to negotiation for any of these. So yeah start with your lists or just ignore this P(oll) P(oll) P(otato) and let it die in the ether. But c'mon have fun.
EDIT: Oh yeah from 5 min up to 100 selections, any number but of course I prefer increments of 5 (easier to calculate)
1. Robert Shaw... The Birthday Party
2. Maggie Smith... The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3. Brad Davis... Midnight Express
4. Ellen Burstyn ... Requiem for a Dream
5. Eric Roberts ... Star 80
6. Kim Stanley... Seance on a Wet Afternoon
7. Richard Attenborough ... Seance on a Wet Afternoon
8. Edith Evans... The Whisperers.
9. Sidney Tafler...The Birthday Party
10. Daniel Day-Lewis... Gangs of New York
11. Sissy Spacek...3 Women
12. Rod Steiger... No Way to treat a Lady
14. Richard Harris... This Sporting Life
15. Rachel Roberts ... This Sporting Life
16. Shelley Duvall... 3 Women
17. Gene Hackman... Bonnie and Clyde
18. Estelle Parsons... Bonnie and Clyde
19. Marlon Brando ... A Streetcar Named Desire
20. Imelda Staunton ... Vera Drake
21. Scott Wilson... In Cold Blood
22. Ellen Burstyn... The Exorcist
23. Edward Norton... Primal Fear
24. Maggie Smith... The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
25. Vivien Leigh...A Streetcar Named Desire
26. Gary Oldman... Prick Up Your Ears
27. Alfred Molina... Prick Up Your Ears
28. Eric Portman... The Whisperers
29. Judi Dench... Notes on a Scandal
30. Bibi Andersson... Persona
31. Judith Anderson... Rebecca
32. Dirk Bogarde... The Servant
33. James Fox... The Servant
34. Shelley Duvall... The Shining
35. Marlon Brando... Reflections in a Golden Eye
36. Max von Sydow... The Passion of Anna
37. Jane Fonda... They Shoot Horses Don't They?
38. David Bradley... Kes
39. Sandy Dennis... Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
40. Malcolm McDowell...A Clockwork Orange
41. Dirk Bogarde.... Death in Venice
42. David Thewlis ... Naked
43. Donald Sutherland... Day of the Locust
44. Patrick Magee ... The Birthday Party
45. Adrien Brody... Summer of Sam
46. Tom Wilkinson ... In the Bedroom
47. Meryl Streep... Ironweed
48. Jon Voight... Midnight Cowboy
49. John Savage.... The Onion Field
50. Darrell Larson.... Mike's Murder
51. Matthew McConaughey.... Dallas Buyers Club
52. Max von Sydow... The Exorcist
53. Ryan Gosling... Drive
54. Geraldine Page... Summer and Smoke
55. Orson Welles... Citizen Kane
56. John Hurt... Midnight Express
57. Christopher Walken... The Deer Hunter
58. Agnes Moorehead... The Magnificent Ambersons
59. Adolph Caesar... A Soldier's Story
60. Dirk Bogarde... Accident
61. Burgess Meredith... Day of the Locust
62. Fred MacMurray... Double Indemnity
63. Rod Steiger... The Loved One
64. Peter Sellers... Lolita
65. Russell Crowe... LA Confidential
66. Scott Wilson... The Ninth Configuration
67. James Mason... Lolita
68. Johnny Depp... Edward Scissorhands
69. Tommy Lee Jones... Eyes of Laura Mars
70. Faye Dunaway... Chinatown
71. Robert Shaw... The Caretaker
72. Paul Newman ... Pocket Money
73. Elliott Gould... The Long Goodbye
74. Donald Pleasence... The Caretaker
75. Geraldine Page... The Day of the Locust
76. Wendy Hiller... Murder on the Orient Express
77. Christoph Waltz... Inglorious Basterds
78. Peter Finch... Network
79. Nicolas Cage... Raising Arizona
80. Holly Hunter... Raising Arizona
81. Michael Rooker... Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer
82. Daryl Hannah.... Kill Bill Vol 1
83. Stanley Baker ... Accident
84. Susannah York... Images
85. Chris Cooper... Adaptation
86. Avis Bunnage... The Whisperers
87. Marlon Brando .... Apocalypse Now
88. Henry Fonda... The Wrong Man
89. Marcello Mastroianni... The Stranger
90. Alfre Woodard... Miss Firecracker
91. David Keith... An Officer and a Gentleman
92. Bette Davis... Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
93. James Woods... The Onion Field
94. Albert Finney...Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
95. Michael Redgrave... Dead of Night
96. Maria Callas... Medea
97. Roman Polanski.. The Tenant
98. Margaret Leighton ... The Go-Between
99. Joseph Cotten ...The Third Man
100. Cloris Leachman... Young Frankenstein
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Thought we were getting started on the film noir poll after labor day? I guess we could do both.
One thing i always had against doing this poll is whoever is doing it is gonna have a harder time than anyone ever in the history of these polls. Takes a lot of patience and attention. Its like favorite actors poll I did but with infinitely more possibilities to select from.
Take the list above for example (and this is why I personally am against "one performance per actor"). While there are a few obvious choices that will surely get more votes, only a handful of the performances there would have even been on my radar. Not that any of them are bad performances. But everyone is gonna have unique picks that cater to their taste, and going the route of picking one performance per actor could be detrimental. You see, if everyone does it that way, you're looking at James Dean and Heath Ledger outperforming Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman because there's less great performances to choose from the former two. If 10 people take part, De Niro's gonna have 2 Taxi Drivers, 2 Raging Bulls, a King of Comedy, maybe a Godfather 2 or Deer Hunter or Goodfellas or Awakenings. But Ledger's split vote between 5 Dark Knights and 3 Brokeback Mountains could put him way ahead of actors just because he was less prolific. And then actors who have a general consensus best performances like Orson Welles in Citizen Kane could wind up on double the amount of lists as any single Brando performance (though if Falconetti's Joan of Arc wins the whole thing I won't complain).
But even if most of us are willing to put our favorite actors more than once, and even if half as many people participate than usual, this is gonna be a pain in the ass to add up. Better you than me.
Yeah, I was planning to start the film noir poll next Wednesday. But it's not like we've had a stampede of people wanting to host polls, so I guess I'll push mine back. Not sure how long -- lemme think on that and see how this goes.
Does seem like there will be more discrete performances than films in most polls, so it may be quite a bit harder than usual to tally.
Slightly off-topic: What's the film poll that had the most unique (as in individual) films submitted? Directed at Hayden or anyone who has some knowledge of submissions.
I imagine Brando in Streetcar will do fine on its own.
Yeah, good luck tallying this list. Props to you for taking on the task.
I have a draft of 72 performances that I've worked on before, but it's definitely in the rough stages after about 30. I'll get it to at least 75 and possibly 100 before I post it. And there are definitely actors appearing more than once. I assume the final result after the entries have been tallied would look something like:
1. Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
2. Marlon Brando - On The Waterfront
...but wouldn't prevent De Niro or Brando (just as an example since others have named them already), or anyone, from appearing a couple more times in the final list?
Ok, here's my top 100. It is subject to change
And I have included a lot of top comedy performances because I think it takes a certain kind of genius and are just as important as good dramatic performances.
Here's my list:
1. Richard E Grant - Withnail & I
2. Meryl Streep - Silkwood
3. Robert Powell - Jesus of Nazareth
4. Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
5. Maria Falconetti - The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
6. Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy - Stalker
7. Shelley Duvall - 3 Women
8. James Stewart - It's A Wonderful Life
9. Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
10. Stephane Audrane - Babette's Feast
11. Chishu Ryu - Tokyo Story
12. Brad Davis - Midnight Express
13. Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire
14. John Hurt - The Elephant Man
15. Nicholas Hope - Bad Boy Bubby
16. Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
17. Martin Sheen - Badlands
18. Sissy Spaceck - Carrie
19. Scott Wilson - The Ninth Configuration
20. Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
21. Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy
22. Geoffrey Rush - Shine
23. James Stewart - Harvey
24. John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
25. Eddie Murphy - Trading Places
26. Leonardo di Caprio - The Basketball Diaries
27. Tom Hardy - Stuart: A Life Backwards
28. Teri Garr - Young Frankenstein
29. Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke
30. Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
31. Brad Pitt - Fight Club
32. Setsuko Hara - Late Spring
33. Matthew Modine - Birdy
34. Maggie Smith - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
35. Paul McGann - Withnail & I
36. Mickey Rourke - Francesco
37. Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein
38. Gary Oldman - Sid And Nancy
39. Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
40. Steve Martin - The Jerk
41. Anthony Hopkins - The Remains Of The Day
42. Jacob Tremblay - Wonder
43. Natalya Bondarchuk - Solaris
44. James Stewart - Mr Smith Goes to Washington
45. John Hurt - Midnight Express
46. Jim Caviezel - The Passion Of The Christ
47. Samuel L Jackson - Pulp Fiction
48. Liam Neeson - Gangs Of New York
49. Michael Pitt - The Dreamers
50. Kyle Mooney - Brigsby Bear
51. Nikolay Burlyaev - Ivan's Childhood
52. Ethan Hawke - Before Sunrise
53. Rosanna Arquette - After Hours
54. Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
55. Vivien Leigh - Gone With The Wind
56. Shani Wallis - Oliver!
57. Michael J Fox - Back To The Future
58. Wil Wheaton - Stand By Me
59. River Phoenix - Stand By Me
60. Kim Stanley - Seance On A Wet Afternoon
61. Richard Griffiths - Withnail & I
62. Johnny Depp - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
63. Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
64. Harrison Ford - Star Wars
65. John Cusack - Better Off Dead
66. Ted Neeley - Jesus Christ Superstar
67. Sigourney Weaver - Alien
68. Marlon Brando - The Godfather
69. Robert de Niro - The Deer Hunter
70. Olivia de Havilland - Gone With The Wind
71. Laurence Fishburne - Boyz N The Hood
72. Robert Duvall - The Godfather
73. Jurgen Prochnow - Das Boot
74. Anthony Perkins - Psycho
75. Julie Andrews - The Sound Of Music
76. Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
77. Mel Gibson - Braveheart
78. Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
79. Alastair Sim - Scrooge
80. Paul Mercurio - Strictly Ballroom
81. Topol - Fiddler On The Roof
82. Terence Stamp - The Collector
83. Goldie Hawn - Overboard
84. Toni Collette - Muriel's Wedding
85. Cary Elwes - the Princess Bride
86. John Travolta - Grease
87. Olivia Newton-John - Grease
88. Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
89. Chris Pratt - Guardians Of The Galaxy
90. Nicolas Cage - Adaptation
91. George Clooney - Three Kings
92. Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool
93. Paul Hogan - Crocodile Dundee
94. Jim Carrey - The Cable Guy
95. Max von Sydow - The Exorcist
96. Peter Sellers - Being There
97. Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
98. Judy Garland - The Wizard Of Oz
99. Leslie Nielsen - The Naked Gun
100. Kurt Russell - The Thing
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This is gonna be tough, but I will submit a list at some point. It's not only gonna tough making a list, but it could be tough compiling it. There are so many possibilities. For example, we all love Tom Hanks (at least I hope we do). But suppose we all select different Tom Hanks performances? The result could be none of them make it. I already see several actors/actresses on bobbyb5's and Stover75's lists that I would represent...but not with the same performance they list. I think user participation needs to be high for this.
This is gonna be tough, but I will submit a list at some point. It's not only gonna tough making a list, but it could be tough compiling it. There are so many possibilities. For example, we all love Tom Hanks (at least I hope we do). But suppose we all select different Tom Hanks performances? The result could be none of them make it. I already see several actors/actresses on bobbyb5's and Stover75's lists that I would represent...but not with the same performance they list. I think user participation needs to be high for this.
Precisely what I was trying to say, although Hanks probably isnt gonna wind up on my list at all, nothing against him but yeah, yall know my list is gonna be eclectic. I might start on it tonight but it's gonna be time consuming if i want to get it right on the first draft. But yeah, low participation is gonna equate to a really random list, while high participation is probably gonna take months to calculate. I'd honestly like to recommend that nobody even post a list unless it's your final one in case CGD wants to try to get ahead of the game and add as we go.
I havent watched Taxi Driver in a long time. Not that I feel I need to because I know it like the back of my hand. It was my favorite movie for a bit as a teenager. But I dont know how anyone thinks it's De Niro's best performance. Raging Bull is where its at. Emotion, physicality, character development, the works.
Does anybody REALLY know what this lady's real name was? In the last couple days I've seen her name as Maria falconetti, Renee falconetti, Marie falconetti, and sometimes she doesn't even have a first name. Lol
Does anybody REALLY know what this lady's real name was? In the last couple days I've seen her name as Maria falconetti, Renee falconetti, Marie falconetti, and sometimes she doesn't even have a first name. Lol
I believe Renee Jeanne Falconetti is her actual name. It is the name on her grave, at least. The others could have been stage names; not sure why she would have had so many but it isn't unprecedented either. So mysterious. What isn't mysterious is that it'll be #1 on my list. I know that for sure. The rest is honestly a crapshoot, but I just grabbed my handy dandy notebook to start figuring it out. See you guys in a couple days.
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