Sean Connery & Tippi Hedren in Marnie
Joe Mantegna in House of Games
Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now
Charlton Heston in The Agony and the Ecstasy
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Denzel Washington & Ethan Hawke in Training Day
Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire
Matt Damon in The Good Shepherd & the Bourne Trilogy
Angelina Jolie in Salt & Gia
Ewan McGregor in Angels and Demons
Annette Benning in Valmont & Being Julia
Colin Firth in Valmont & Kingsman: The Secret Service
Anthony Hopkins in The Human Stain & The Rite
Jeffrey Wright in Basquiat
Keenu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula & The Matrix Triology
Robin Givens & Grace Jones in Boomerang
Daniel Craig, Mara Rooney and Stellan Skarsgard in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Rebecca Romijn & Antonio Banderas in Femme Fatale
Fred MacMurray & Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity
Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield and Kevin Hooks in Sounder
Benicio del Toro and Emily Blount in Sicario
Gary Oldman in all his film performances
It's interesting to see the ratio of female performances to male in these lists.
I also loved Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful. I never tire of watching her performance.
Jack Lemon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin in Glengarry/Glen Ross (I thought all the men were fantastic, but those three were standouts).
Frances McDormand in Fargo
Anne Hathaway's phone call to Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
I left out Jeffrey Wright, Al Pacino, and Meryl Streep in HBO's Angels in America.
I left out a few too:
Toby Jones in Infamous and W.
Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Ed Harris in Enemy at the Gate
Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz and Stuart Townsend in Head in the Clouds
Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, and Kristen Scott Thomas in Easy Virtue
Kate Beckinsale and Bill Nighly in the Underworld series
Tilda Swinston and Tom Hiddleston in Only Lovers Left Alive
George Clooney and Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton
Colin Firth and Julianne Moore in A Single Man
Tom Hanks in Philadelphia
Leo DiCaprio in The Revenant (surprise!!!)
Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria
Al Pacino in Angels in America
Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cate Blachett in Blue Jasmine
Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie
Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby
lol, I also left out an important one- Charlize Theron in Monster.
Jane2, I really enjoyed Charlize in Monster as well but have watched it only once for some reason. The one's on my list are the movies I tend to download on days I'm shut in. My all time fave is Double Indemnity with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. Advances in forensic science make the plot seem highly implausible today. But, that takes nothing away from the acting, writing, and direction. I'm still a sucker for the film noir genre and well-acted small-budget indie movies like Notes on a Scandal starring Judi Dench , Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighly. Sprawling period pieces have never really done anything for me.
Javero, agreed. It doesn't matter if the film is Hollywood, Independent or otherwise. Fine acting shines on its own. I did see Monster twice, and I give more credit when a role is a stretch for the actor. That's why I couldn't rave about Casey Affleck this past year.
Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show (the last scene is my favorite acted scene of any motion picture in my many decades of movie watching).
Geraldine Page, Trip to Bountiful
Liza in Cabaret
Broadway Star Joined: 9/2/11
luvcaroline said: "Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show (the last scene is my favorite acted scene of any motion picture in my many decades of movie watching).
Geraldine Page, Trip to Bountiful
Liza in Cabaret
And to think it only took Cloris one take!
Glad to see all the Geraldine Page love on this thread.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
???????Sorry...got a little carried away:
If I count TV,
Anne Bancroft - THE MIRACLE WORKER
Julie Andrews - THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Jimmy Stewart - IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Kathy Bates - DOLORES CLAIBORNE
Olivia de Havilland - THE SNAKE PIT
Anthony Perkins - PSYCHO
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