Favorite Film Performances

What are your favorite film performances?

Mine are as follows, in chronological order :

Renee Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc

Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story

Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve

Bette Davis, All About Eve

Rosalind Russel, Auntie Mame

Kim Stanley, The Goddess

Shelley Winters, Lolita

Geraldine Page, Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Amy Adams, American Hustle

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Sarah Paulson, Twelve years a slave

Emma Stone, La La Land

Updated On: 4/23/17 at 10:19 AM

Geraldine Page - Trip to Bountiful

An astonishing performance.

Vivian Leigh in Streetcar.

F. Murray Abraham - AMADEUS

Hillary Swank - BOYS DON'T CRY

Ellen Burstyn - REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

Judy Parfitt in Dolores Claiborne.

Cate Blanchett as "Elizabeth".

Updated On: 4/30/17 at 05:11 PM

MichelleCraig said: "Gena Rowlands in "A Woman Under the Influence"...and most of the performances mentioned above.



I really loved her in Another Woman.

Judy Garland.......A Star is Born......A Child is Waiting

Bette Davis.........The Little Foxes

Jane Fonda......The Dollmaker

Anna Magnani....The Rose Tattoo

Irene Dunne......I Remember Mama

Spencer Tracy....Inherit the Wind

Whoopi Goldberg..The Color Purple

Susan Hayward...I'll Cry Torrorrow

Geraldine Page...Trip to Bountiful

Meryl Streep...Ironweed

Some of my favorites and not-so-obvious choices:

Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
Brenda Belthyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Claire Rushbrook in Secrets & Lies
Linda Henry and Tameka Empson in Beautiful Thing
Franka Potente in Run, Lola, Run
Carmen Maura in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett in Sense & Sensibility
Dianne Wiest in Hannah & Her Sisters, Parenthood and Bullets Over Broadway

Anna Paquin in Margaret

Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter

J.K. Simmons in Whiplash

Meryl and Shirley in Postcards From The Edge. It will always be my favorite!

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

Updated On: 4/29/17 at 06:17 PM