What are the top 3 acting performances you have ever seen?

[Obtain Knowledge]

These:




Marlon Brandon in The Godfather:





Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now:





Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now:

 

[ADP]

some that I don't think were mentioned

Norton in Fight Club
Walken in The Deer Hunter
Pacino in Scent of a woman

 

[SuikodenII]

TRYING Not to include characters based on real life people and or popular fictional characters in comics/books/etc

Actors
Ed Norton- American History X...........not sure how much acting ability was actually needed
Christoph Waltz- Inglourious Basterds Had me like and the entire movie
Denzel Washington- Training Day

Honorable mentions to Nino Brown and Bishop

Actresses
Ellen Burstyn- Requiem For A Dream
Kathy Bates- Misery
Sanaa Lathan- Love & Basketball

Child Actors
Natalie Portman- The Professional
Haley Hoel Osment- The Sixth Sense
Douglas Silva- City of God/City of Men (TV series)

 

[Why-Fi]

oh shyt that WAS natalie portman. smh i need to rewatch some joints for real...

 

[Silkk]

Denzel In Training Day

Heath Ledger As The Joker

Silkk The Shocker In Hot Boyz

 

[Silkk]

Denzel Washington is Training Day is the most overrated fukking performance of that man's career. Only reason people hype it up is because it's the first time he played a villain and he won the oscar for it. I love the movie but people overrate the fukk out of his acting job in that film...

Denzel Washington's best performance to date was as Rubin Carter in the Hurricane.

:diddy:

 

[Tommy Fits]

Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver

Christian Bale - American Psycho

And this is TV but Jon Hamm as Don Draper

 

[Shadow]

No order

Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg
Pretty much everyone in 12 Angry Men
Peter Lorre - M

Others:
Jackie Earle Hayley - Little Children
John Jarrett - Wolf Creek
Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds
Anthony Perkins - Psycho
Karlheinz Böhm - Peeping Tom
Jack Nicholson - The Shining
Rinko Kikuchi and Adriana Barraza - Babel
Daniel Day Lews - There Will Be Blood
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Will Smith - The Pursuit Of Happyness
Casey Afleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Spencer Tracy and Fredric March - Inherit the Wind

 

[illwittdeez]

Terrance Stamp as Zod in Superman 2
Mr. T as Clubber Lang in Rocky 3
??????????

 

[HookersandIceCream]

I at Brando as the Godfather
Heath Ledger Joke was just incredible despite the stans making it unbearable

 

[Grand Conde]

Kathy Bates- Misery

Good call. :shake:

 

[phillycavsfan]

I actually watched this film a while back. I know she won an Oscar for it but what did you like about it?

I actually found the movie overrated

I thought she took a "simpleton" white trash character and made her seem intelligent and great at her job. I've never seen anything like that.