best performance(s) by a child?

[BXKingPin82]

Lil homey in Problem Child
Terrifying performance

 

[Knights89]

macaulay culkin in the 'Good Son'
haley joel osment in 'Pay it Forward'
Journee Smolet in 'Eve's Bayou'
Linda Blair in 'The Exorcist'
Chloe Moretz in 'Kick-Ass'
Christina Ricci in 'The Addams Family'

 

[FlyRy]

Tatum O'neal in Paper Moon

I also always like this one even though i'm conflicted on the movie

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Dokata Fanning in I am Sam

 

[Mortal1]

Sean Nelson in Fresh

 

[pickles]

Christian Bale Empire of the Sun

Home Alone

The kid in The Shining

The Sixth Sense

The kid that played Ray Charles in Ray, I thought that kid did a better job than Jamie, especially in that one scene where he is navigating through the house.

ETA: Kid in the first Omen.

 

[Spaceman Piff]

natalie portman in the professional

 

[blazn101]

Anna Paquin in The Piano

 

[NobodyReally]

1. Quvenzhane Wallis in The Beasts of Southern Wilds
2. The little boy who played Tommy in Law & Order's Desperate episode (S04:18)
3. Leo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape
4. River Phoenix in Stand by Me
5. Kirsten Dunst in Interview with a Vampire

 

[notPsychosiz]

1. Quvenzhane Wallis in The Beasts of Southern Wilds
2. The little boy who played Tommy in Law & Order's Desperate episode (S04:18)
3. Leo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape
4. River Phoenix in Stand by Me
5. Kirsten Dunst in Interview with a Vampire

Was just gonna say that.

 

[nieman]

Hmm..

Cast of Stand by Me (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry o'Connell)
Corey Haim - Lucas
Lawrence Fishburn - Earl, Cornbread and Me
Dakota Fanning - damn near all of her early movies
Elijah Wood - Huck
Henry Thomas - ET
Drew Barrymore - Firestarter
Heather O'Rourke - Poltergeist
Warwick Davis - Willow (He wasn't even 18)
Eddie Winslow and this other kid in Big Shots

 

[gluvnast]

 

[Lanny Piffo]

River Phoenix

 

[onelastdeath]

Natalie Portman in Leon The Professional, or Dakota Fanning in Man On Fire. Both come to mind.

 

[Thug Waffle]

guys it's obviously Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace

mean muggin

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