Best actors or Best performances

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

John Leguizamo and Viggo Mortensen.

Leguizamo was great in "The Pest".

 

[simmo1]

Kathy Bates - Misery

 

[Munky]

JK Simmons belongs on an underrated list.

A scene stealer who's presence can almost redeem a whole movie (Burn After Reading, Spiderman 1-3).

Portal 2! Although that makes him a game stealer

 

[Knightmare]

A few other favourites ,


Martin sheen - apolcalypse now

Al Pacino - dog day afternoon

Toshiro mifune - Yojimbo or seven samurai

Paul Newman - cool hand Luke ( his greatest performance IMO)

Joe Pesci - goodfellas

John tutuoro - millers crossing

Klaus wennemann - Das boot

Tim Robbins - mystic river

Walter mathau - the taking of Pelham one two three

Michael Douglas - falling down

Paul giamatti - sideways

Robert Mitchum - the night of the hunter

Heath ledger - the dark knight ( never a fan before this , stunning performance)

Henry Fonda - once upon a time in the west

Christian bale - American psycho

Will Ferrell - stranger than fiction

Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

Orson Welles - the third man

Peter finch - network

Kirk Douglas - paths of glory

Samuel l Jackson - unthinkable

Peter Lorre - M

Edward Woodward - breaker morant

De Niro - taxi driver ( his best among many great ones)

Robert Duvall - lonesome dove

Absolutely!

 

[bileduct]

Martin Landau in Ed Wood.

 

[MSIH]

JK Simmons belongs on an underrated list.

A scene stealer who's presence can almost redeem a whole movie (Burn After Reading, Spiderman 1-3).

Disagree with Burn After Reading. Didn't need redeeming at all, top movie.

 

[Charles Bronson]

of recent, Fassbender in Inglorious Basterds

This movie will be a classic.

 

[Generalzod]

I can't go past the performance of Paul Newman, in my opinion is one of the greatest film of all time Cool hand Luke....."What we've got here is a failure to communicate"

 

[MKEB...]

Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.

 

[Dragon2010]

- Christian Bale in American Psycho and Equ.
- Heath Ledger in TDK
- Jim Cavaziel in The Count of Monte Cristo
- De Niro in Casino
- Pesci in Goodfellas
- Pacino in Scarface/Godfather I

+ Many more.