nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

Best Actor of the modern era?

Duke of Url

Christian Bale.

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

SCOOP 64

Tom Hardy

kingtiger

I Am Nobody wrote: »

Gene Hackman

The Duck I say

van_beano

McNulty

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

How can anybody pick just one?

cbreeze

Nicholas Cage

Bobblehats

Matt Damon

buried

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

How can anybody pick just one?

True. Ima pick Robert Shaw too

[Deleted User]

No DeNiro?

There's so many that might not have been great but absolutely nailed a certain character. Heath ledger being the one example.

Whereas you have someone who might not ever get the Oscar but is always solid like Samuel Jackson. He never nailed it enough to deserve the Oscar but he's had some very memorable roles without stinking. Harvey Keitel as well.

Aidric

Be right back wrote: »

Heath Ledger is another one that comes to mind.

As a singular piece of work I've yet to see anyone top his performance in Brokeback Mountain.

For continuity Jake Gyllenhaal has been knocking it out of the park on a regular basis.

KevRossi

John Hurt
Jeff Bridges
Sean Penn
Philip Seymour Hoffmann

All did very different characters and did them brilliantly, that's the mark of a brilliant actor.

Gremlinertia

Cate Blanchett would be up there for me.. I think William H Macy manages to lift anything he is in

Bobblehats

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

No DeNiro?

He’s great as the hipster in that advert. Puts in a real shift. Rumour has it he walked around San Francisco in that get up sipping bubble tea and not so skinny lattes in order to adapt to the role

RandomViewer

Watched Once upon a time in Hollywood, Pitt, Dr Caprio and Margot Robbie were all good and the dog was brilliant

Bruce Dern was in it as well (nomination)

buried

Ray Wise. Leon C Nash in Robocop and Laura Palmer's owl lad in Twin Peaks was mighty work

jiltloop

Until fairly recently I would have went with Leo Di Caprio but I'm finding him to be a bit samey these days in that a lot of his characters are very similar. One of his last great performances I think was Shutter Island.

I've always really admired Cate Blanchet, she has bags of talent and has played a myriad of characters, she never fails to impress me. She's like a chameleon.

Tom Hardy I also think is excellent and has some very solid and fascinating performances under his belt. He's a master at conveying intensity without having to overdo the dramatics or become too animated. The film where he plays both if the Kray twins is amazing.

Christian Bale is also excellent but I have to say I lost a lot of respect for him after his fiasco with verbally abusing one of the production staff on a set.

RandomViewer

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Cate Blanchett would be up there for me.. I think William H Macy manages to lift anything he is in

Really don't like her, Think she spoils a lot of films

jiltloop

I also have to mention Harry Dean Stanton, I love that guy. Great solid actor and he's been in some great films.

TomRiddle35

A second vote for Adam Driver

Or yer man who played the Bomber in Pure Mule, pure daycent like

Feisar

Morgan Freeman’s voice

Mad_maxx

philip seymour hoffman

seenitall

The best screen performance that sticks in my mind is Billy Crudup in 'Waking the Dead'. Sorry, I'm too lazy to embed, but the restaurant scene in that film is a 3 minute acting masterclass. Stunning.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1nspf2E76cw

Be right back

Aidric wrote: »

As a singular piece of work I've yet to see anyone top his performance in Brokeback Mountain.

For continuity Jake Gyllenhaal has been knocking it out of the park on a regular basis.

His final scene in Brokeback was very moving. Brilliant as the Joker as well.

bodhrandude

Quite an underrated actor but a superb one is Paul Giamatti, loved the recent one he done called Private Life.

pidgeoneyes

Sam Rockwell.

[Deleted User]

Javier Bardem, all the way back to Jamón Jamón.

O.A.P

Christoph Waltz .

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

jiltloop wrote: »

Until fairly recently I would have went with Leo Di Caprio but I'm finding him to be a bit samey these days in that a lot of his characters are very similar. One of his last great performances I think was Shutter Island.

I’ve felt that way about DiCaprio for years. I get that people defended him when he was dismissed as the Titanic pretty boy because he is better than that. But I find him a bit limited at times.

murpho999

bodhrandude wrote: »

Quite an underrated actor but a superb one is Paul Giamatti, loved the recent one he done called Private Life.

How is he "under-rated" when he's been critically acclaimed for numerous roles and also won Emmys, Screen Actors' Guilds, Golden Globes and numerous other associations and award body awards.

Also been nominated for an Academy Award.

I agree with you that he's a great actor but he's had a very successful career to date and it has been critically well received and he's highly regarded and by no means under-rated.

Degag

Anthony Hopkins.

Owns the screen in anything he's in.

kevthegaff

Marlon Brando,Al Pacino, hoffmann, Nicholson and de Nirio streets ahead of the rest