Here's my top 25 performances, Not sure how I should rank these so these are in no order:
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brefane-41162 — 9 years ago(May 17, 2016 06:54 PM)
A great performance is a great performance no matter whether it's considered lead or supporting and the term
actor
applies to females as well, I assume. So my list should include Liv Ullman in Face to Face as well as Kim Stanley in The Goddess. -
KevsHardLemonade — 9 years ago(September 08, 2016 08:09 PM)
- Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
- Klaus Kinski (Aguire: Wrath of God)
- Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
- Paul Newman (The Hustler)
- Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
- Edward Norton (American History X)
- Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
- Al Pacino (The Godfather part II)
- Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)
- Isabelle Adjani (Possession 1981)
- Gary Oldman (Leon The Professional)
- Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy)
- Harvey Keitel (Bad Lieutenant)
- Michael Fassbender (Shame)
- Eric Bana (Chopper)
- Marlon Brando (Apacolypse Now)
- Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)
- Michael Rooker (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer)
- Ellen Burstyn (Requiem of a Dream)
- James Stewart (Vertigo)
Honorable Mention:
Christian Bale (American Psycho)
Those are just off the top of my head. I know I'm missing a lot of good ones. Its hard to choose just 10 (or just 100 for that matter).