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best working film actors
#25re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 1:40pm
My choices are made on consistently good performances. I also agree with:
Sissy Spacek
Laura Linney
Toni Collette
Shirley McClaine
and I would like to add Rachel Griffiths
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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#26re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 1:41pmOoh yes, Laura Linney. She's just tremendous.
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#27re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 3:52pm
Julianne Moore
Meryl Streep
Al Pacino
Daniel Day Lewis
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#28re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 4:17pm
I don't think I've seen Kenneth Branagh mentioned yet. And Liev Schrieber impresses me more and more with each film.
Ooh, and how about Mary Louise-Parker? When Hollywood's borrowing her from her home on Broadway. 
laactress
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/7/04
#29re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 4:23pm
Charlize Theron
Edward Norton
Angelina Jolie
John Malcovitch
To name a few......
It started with a sipmle idea, collecting one paper clip for every life lost, the feelings that connect us...are greater than those that divide us!
#30re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 6:11pm
my choices will be subject to ridicule at any point in time...
Alan Ruck
Alan Alda
Robin Williams
Colin Farrell
Edward Norton
Mr. Wahlberg
Christian Bale
Kevin Spacey
Matthew Broderick (so what you don't like the Producers, ever seen War Games?)
Tom Hanks
Charlize Theron
Emma Thompson
Katie Holmes
Phoebe Cates
Claire Danes
Julianne Moore
The entire cast of "White Oleander"
amongst numerous others who i absolutely adore
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#31re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 6:14pm
The entire cast of "White Oleander"
Alison Lohman managed to hold her own against all of the great actresses in WO, and was great in Matchstick Men. I'll add her to the up-and-coming list.
#32re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 6:17pmGovna, WO is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite "serious" movie ever. I am such a movie nut that I have to seperate "favorite" into categories.
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#33re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 7:24pm
Meryl Streep
Sean Penn
Julianne Moore
Al Pacino
Johnny Depp
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Updated On: 9/20/04 at 07:24 PM
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#34re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 7:25pm
Chris Cooper
Colin Firth
Parker Posey
Hugh Jackman
Uma Thurman
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#35re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 8:05pmOoh, I have to add Kate Winslet to my list. She was phenomenal in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the movie that should require a double viewing. :P
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#36re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 8:45pmI've got to add Samantha Morton to this list.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#37re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 8:46pm
A few not mentioned so far:
Mark Ruffalo
Alfre Woodard
Maggie Smith
Jeanne Moreau
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Judy Davis
Don Cheadle
Kathy Bates
Jack Nicholson
Ellen Burstyn
Gene Hackman
Robert Duvall
Dianne Wiest
Tommy Lee Jones
Miranda Richardson
Christopher Walken
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#38re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 8:49pmI also don't think anyone mentioned Jessica Lange yet.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#39re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 8:51pm
Yes Margo... I agree with most of your list, especially Judy Davis!
I have to agree with Meryl when she said in her Emmy speech last night that Judy Davis' performance in the Judy Garland Story is one of the best performances by an actress ever captured on celluloid.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Updated On: 9/20/04 at 08:51 PM
#40re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 9:45pm
I'm so glad that someone mentioend Parker Posy and, of course, Julianne Moore.
I would also add to the list, Phillip Seymore Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ed Harris, Susan Sarandon and Joaquim Phoenix.
A wonderful actress who I miss is Jodie Foster. I wish she would return to acting.
#41re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 9:53pm
Tobey Maguire
Kevin Spacey
Michael Douglas (loved him in WONDER BOYS)
Catherine Zeta Jones (Duh!!)
Collin Ferell (while he is in almost every movie, he plays different characters and all very well)
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#42re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 9:57pmNina, Jodie Foster has two movies coming out (A Very Long Engagement & Flightplan) plus she is lending her voice to the animated film TUSKER.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#43re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 10:13pmThat's great. I hadn't heard that. She's been behind the scenes producing far too much in recent years and needs to be back on the screen.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#44re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 10:44pmNow she'll only accept a film role if it gives her the time she wants with her kids. I hear she has a very strict schedule she sticks to and that limits her choices.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#45re: best working film actors
Posted: 9/20/04 at 10:45pmWhich is why I admire her both on and off the screen.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
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