Favorite Film Performances — Page 2

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

I left out Jeffrey Wright, Al Pacino, and Meryl Streep in HBO's Angels in America.

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

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.

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

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• Vivien Leigh in Streetcar and GWTW. The two best performances I have ever seen in a movie
• Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice and The Devil Loves Prada
• Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate
• Bruno Ganz in Downfall
• James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Christophe Waltz in Inglorious Basterds
• Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
• Frances McDormand in Fargo
• Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs
• James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life
• Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine
• Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth
• Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby
• Paul Newman and Orson Welles in The Long Hot Summer
• Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina
• Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler
• Monty Woolley in The Man Who Came to Dinner
• Burl Ives in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Julianne Moore in Still Alice
• Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in Notes from a Scandal

If I count TV,

• Jane Alexander in Franklin and Eleanor
• Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
• Vanessa Redgrave in Playing for Time...so much controversy about her casting, but what a great performance
• Judy Davis in The Judy Garland Story