Favorite Performance in a movie

[Bullet-Tooth]

Whats your favorite performaces and by who?

Actor-Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver
Actress-Ellen Burstyn-Requiem for a dream
Sup. Actor-Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction
Sup. Actress-Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction

[rupert_pupkin]

Actor - Robert DeNiro (King of Comedy)

Actress - Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)

Supporting Actor - Jack Lemmon (Glengarry Glen Ross)

Supporting Actress - Marrianne Jean Baptiste (Secrets and Lies)

[James Logan]

Actor - Harrison Ford (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK)

Actress - Cameron Diaz (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY)

Sup. Actor - SAMUEL L. JACKSON (DIE HARD III)

Sup. Actress - Angelina Jolie (GIRL INTERRUPTED)

[Adidas03]

Actor - Samuel L. Jackson in the Negotiator
Actress - Sandra Bullock in Speed
Sup. Actor - Sean Connery in the Last Crusade
Sup. Actress - Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction

[tomit2000]

Jeremy Blackman
Julianne Moore
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
William H Macy
etc ....whole cast of Magnolia

Kevin Spacey: American Beauty

Russell Crowe: The Insider

Jack Lemmmon: Glengary Glen Ross

Jack Nicholson: China Town

Malcom McDowell: Clockwork Orange

Marlon Brando: The Godfather

James Mason: Lolita

Martin Sheen: Apocalypse NOW

Ralph Fiennes: Schindlers List

Douglas Rains voice: 2001 as HAL 9000

[SIREN30]

No one is saying why are they? My favorite performance of all time is by Jimmy Stewart in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON as I've stated before...very honest performance and moving also...

My favorite female performance is a tie between two performances by the same actress. Emma Thompson in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and HOWARD'S END... both are amazing. Her face is a kaleidoscope of emotion and I think she is debatable as the greatest actress of all time.

[SIREN30]

I didnt realize we were doing supporting performances also

Male supporting-tie between Tommy Lee Jones in THE FUGITIVE and Lee Marvin in CAT BALLOU

Female supporting is hands down Angela Landsbury in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.

[QUENTIN]

I couldn't narrow it down to just one so:

Best Actor: Robert DeNiro for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull

Best Actress: Liv Ullman for Cries and Whispers, Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking, Faye Dunaway for Network

Best Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction, Orson Welles for The Third Man

Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman for Notorious and Casablanca

[Trinity]

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[KornKidJedi]

Actor Harvey Keitel in Reservoir Dogs
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween

Best Supporting Actor Edward Norton in American History X
Best Supporting Actress Ellen Brustin in Requiem For A Dream

[A.J. Hakari]

Best Actor: Campbell Scott, "The Spanish Prisoner"

Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn, "Requiem for a Dream"

Best Sup. Actor: (tie) Steve Martin, "The Spanish Prisoner" & Robert Shaw, "The Sting" ("You're not only a cheat, you're a gutless cheat as well.")

Best Sup. Actress: Melinda Dillon, "A Christmas Story"

[wanderinggambler]

Actor: (tie) Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan; Russell Crowe in L.A. Confidential; and Bruce Greenwood in Thirteen Days

Sup. Actor: Sean Connery in the Untouchables or Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential

Actress: i really dunno.

Sup. Actress: i dunno either.

[Brock Landers]

here's ten for now...

- James Spader in "Sex, Lies & Videotape"
- Mickey Rourke in "Barfly"
- Thomas Jane in "Boogie Nights"
- Jack Nicholson in "Five Easy Pieces"
- Matthew Modine in "Birdy"
- Daniel Day-Lewis in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
- Ian McKellan in "Gods & Monsters"
- Brad Pitt in "Kalifornia"
- Robert Downey Jr. in "Less Than Zero"
- Tom Waits in "Down by Law"

[jetro315]

Denzel Washington in The Hurricane
Joe Pesci in Raging Bull
Don Cheadle in Rebound
Tom Hanks in Cast Away
Paul Newman in Coolhand Luke
Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets
Ed Norton in Primal Fear
Christian Slater in True Romance
Val Kilmer in The Doors and Tombstone
Brad Pitt in Snatch
Vince Vaughn in Swingers
Robert Carlyle and Ewen MacGreggor in Trainspotting
Billy Bob Thorton in Sling Blade
Uma Thurman in Pulp
Patricia Arquette in True Romance
Joey Lauren Adams in Chasing Amy

There are so many more......

[Ebert]

KEVIN SPACEY - American Beauty
ROBERT DeNIRO - Goodfellas
MARLON BRANDO - The Godfather
KEVINS SPACEY - The Usual Suspects