best acting performance ever

ella minnow pea

methinks Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot...or actually the boy who played young Christy in that, anyone know what happened to him??

galactus

Dunno, but I often wonder if he made it as a professional goalkeeper.

Dempsey

Al Pacino in the Godfather trilogy would be my one, can't think of anyone else at the moment.

GreenHell

The invisible 6 foot rabbit called Harvey in Harvey!

Or else Jimmy Stewart for the same film.

Its a bitch of question really cause there is so much to pick from you could say Halle Berry for Monster Ball, although the film sucked the big one.

Sloth

Charles Dance. Any of his films.

tman

al pacino in scarface, superb bit of acting

galactus

Pacino gets mentioned a lot (recent C4 poll etc.) but if you've seen Simone then you'll probably agree he can't do comedy (De Niro can of course...)

Best acting performance 4 me is Klaus Kinski in either Aguirre - Wrath of God or Fitzcaraldo.

Not that Kinski is a funny guy or anything...

Wolf

Ed Norton for lots of stuff (but the smaller stuff realy)
Anthony Hopkins for his general work

Almost forgot Sidney Poitie in general is fabulous (spelling)








and the whole cast of Police academy 5 mission to Moscow

ciano

Originally posted by ella minnow pea
or actually the boy who played young Christy in that, anyone know what happened to him??

Agreed. He was good alright. I bro used to go to school with him ... no idea what hes up to now though. Wasnt his dad a famous piano player aswell??

Tusky

Tom Jones in "Mars Attacks" did it for me *unf*

Nemici

Gary Oldman is a fantastic actor, I think his perfomance in state of grace was amazing.

ciano

Originally posted by ciano
Agreed. He was good alright. I bro used to go to school with him ... no idea what hes up to now though. Wasnt his dad a famous piano player aswell??

Just remembered his name ... Hugh O'Connor

Gaz

Hugh O'Connor who played young christy is still acting .. here is his filmography.

patch

He's still around, the last thing I remember him being in was The Young Poisoners Handbook. The other great role he had was in Lamb with liam Neeson.

Bannor

Best acting by an animated chracter has to be Andy Serkis' Gollum/Smeagol in LOTR: The Two Towers. :cool:

jonno

Bogart, Stewart and Hopkins for most of their stuff.

Too broad to narrow it down.

DapperGent

Tough question, one that springs to mind is Leonardo Di Caprio in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?

Not that good a movie but an amazing performance.

patch

Hmmm....I'm trying to recall which Robert Duvall performance told me he was true class........

Sarky

Harrison Ford- it just wouldn't have been Indiana Jones with anyone else.



I understand the guy who played Chewie in Star Wars has something of a cult following...:)

Tha Gopher

Samuel L Jackson in A Time To Kill was class.

His best performance,apart from,of course,XXX and Die Hard

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by Sarky
Harrison Ford- it just wouldn't have been Indiana Jones with anyone else.

I would have loved to have seen Christopher Walken in the role.

galactus

Originally posted by patch69
Hmmm....I'm trying to recall which Robert Duvall performance told me he was true class........

THX1138.Or maybe Colors. Duval does a lot without saying anything. Movie trivia: he loves the smell of napalm in the morning.

Kai

i was going to say Gary Oldman in any film he is in especially Leon.
or Jack nicholson in any film he was in [the shining: "Im not gona hurt ya, im just gona smash your head in, thats right im gona smash your right in" Classic use of sutelty]

but then i remembered Shaquelle O Neil in Shazaam. if ever a guy was robbed of an Oscar.

Karl Hungus

After much, much consideration, I wish my single, and only vote to go to:

John Hurt in The Elephant Man

Bounty Hunter

Jack nicholsen
Kevin Spacey
Anthoney hopkins

now get the three of them in one film ooo yeah

tman

Originally posted by galactus
Pacino gets mentioned a lot (recent C4 poll etc.) but if you've seen Simone then you'll probably agree he can't do comedy (De Niro can of course...)

i havn't seen simone yet, but from what i have seen i gathered that it's a serious film
judging by de niro's performance in anal-ise this & meet the parents i'm going to guess that you're taking the piss

galactus

Originally posted by tman
i havn't seen simone yet, but from what i have seen i gathered that it's a serious film
judging by de niro's performance in anal-ise this & meet the parents i'm going to guess that you're taking the piss

Not taking the piss about Bobby D - methinks he's a great comedian. As a "straight man". I'm not thinking . More Walter Mattau than a fast-talking/slapstick comedian like Robin Williams. (OK bad example)

Talking about Bobby D - has anyone seen "15 minutes". Not a comedy - but a classic! The media obviously hated it.

Simone's not good and not funny. Not sure if it's supposed to be a comedy. Pacino is great but my point is I think he has a limited scope - every role he takes on reminds me of Serpico.

Lemming

Al Pacino - "Scent of a Woman" - the speech thingy at the end of the film was brilliant

jack Nicholson - take your pick.

Gary Oldman - "Leon"

Anthony Hopkins - the Hannibal Lector films & "Titus"

Ed. Norton - "American History X" . Not going to win the greatest performance award, but he carried it very well.

honourable mentions to DeNiro, Gene Hackman & Sean Pertwee (whom I think is extrordinarly overlooked and underused)

Beëlzebooze

Have to agree with Lemming on Ed Norton in American History X, chilling performance.

daveg

Not the best performance ever but one thats springs to mind is Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

fisty

Christopher Walkin in anything.

Ajos

John Huston in Chinatown - "Capable of... anything". Or the late Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird. He does so much by doing so little.

DMT

Originally posted by galactus
Pacino gets mentioned a lot (recent C4 poll etc.) but if you've seen Simone then you'll probably agree he can't do comedy (De Niro can of course...)

He could do comedy if he was playing straight-man to Robert De Niro.
That would be good - a film with De Niro and Pacino with more than one scene together.

bandit

Bobby DeNiro in Raging Bull gives a master class in method acting, tiz a flawless peformance

Retr0gamer

Steve Buscemi

Try to name one film were he doesn't steal the show. He was in desperado and millers crossing for about 20 seconds and still but in great preformances.

AngelofFire

I have a few

James Dean-Rebel without a cause.
Marlon Brando-On the waterfront
Daniel Day Lewis-Gangs of New York
Jack Nicholson-The Shining