Rambo's Best Performance of All Time-Prelim

[john_rambo]

Hey, I thought it would be cool if we as Schmoes tried to narrow down what we feel is the best performance by an actor or actress in the history of films. Nominate a couple and then in 2 weeks we will put the ones with the most votes into a poll... and then decide who is the best... If anyone wants to help me tally em just tell me in your post, or pm me.

Here are a couple of mine...

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040726/040726_americaCimemagodFather_vmed_3p.widec.jpg
Brando as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather

This is my personal favorite, I just think Brando nailed the role in a way no one else could.

http://thomaswilson.intheteam.com/site/images/6376/hannibal.jpg
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs

By far the best villain performance there has been on screen. Hopkins owned the role

http://blog.news-record.com/staff/culture/Culture%20Shock%20-%20The%20Joker-thumb.jpg
Heath Ledger as Joker

I know some may think its all fan boy or whatever, but the more I think about this role the more it amazes me, I do not know who else could have nailed it like he did.

Let the Nominations begin!

[Le_Big_Mac]

http://boxeanglaise.b.o.pic.centerblog.net/b7bsplh3.jpg
Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull

http://livingincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/travis-bickle.jpg
Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/images/ae/reviews/onthewaterfront2.jpg
Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, On the Waterfront

[jaw2929]

My picks:

http://www.edward-norton.org/images/articles/usdec1.jpg

http://www.seweso.com/blog/uploaded_images/The%20Machinist%2022-759909.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/films/reviews/g_m/images/matchstick_270.jpg

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/ScenesFromMovies/AmericanBeautyMrSmiley(BIG).JPG

[john_rambo]

Can you write the name under them cause I notice some of em then others I have no clue.

[Natty]

The four just mentioned were Norton for American History X, Bale for the Machinist, Cage for Matchstick Men and Spacey for American Beauty.

I have to go but I shall be back:)

[SAI]

http://i.realone.com/assets/cs/905/01153905.jpg
Julianne Moore in Boogie Nights

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-blender/files/2008/06/carrie.jpg
Sissy Spacek in Carrie

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l69/zakkro/Al-Pacino---The-Godfather-Photograp.jpg
Al Pacino in The Godfather [and The Godfather Part 2]

I'll think of some more later

[Natty]

http://nytheatremike.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/peter-otoole-as-lawrence.jpg
Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

http://www.dvdtown.com/images/displayimage.php?id=4352
Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik (Dog Day Afternoon)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2332/1587274510_02fa3f4e31.jpg?v=0
Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum (Mystic River)

http://dannymiller.typepad.com/blog/images/normadesmond2.jpg
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond (Sunset Blvd.)

http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/5861/billthebutcher3wj.jpg
Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill the Butcher (Gangs of New York)

[QUENTIN]

Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull
Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris
Jean-Louis Barrault in Children of Paradise
Denzel Washington in Malcolm X
Klaus Kinski in Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Liv Ullmann in Persona
Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc
Giulietta Massina in Nights of Cabiria
Ingrid Bergman in Notorious
Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking

Orson Welles in The Third Man
Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction
Erich Von Stroheim in La Grande Illusion
Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now
Alain Delon in The Leopard

Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show
Ellen Burstyn in The Last Picture Show
Nastassja Kinski in Paris, Texas
Agnes Moorhead in The Magnificent Ambersons
Angela Landsbury in The Manchurian Candidate

[pinballwizard]

ACTORS TOP 5
1. Marlon Brando-On the Waterfront
2. Peter O'Toole-Lawrence of Arabia
3. Al Pacino-The Godfather Pt. II
4. Robert DeNiro-Raging Bull
5. Denzel Washington-Malcolm X

ACTRESSES TOP 5
1. Meryl Streep-Sophie's Choice
2. Audrey Hepburn-Breakfast At Tiffany's
3. Vivian Leigh-Gone With The Wind
4. Bette Davis-All About Eve
5. Liv Ullmann-Persona