Doesn't necessarily mean the most Oscar worthy, just the one you most enjoy watching for whatever reason
Mine: Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - lovely stuff - closely followed by Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. <3 both those intelligent, charismatic sociopaths. And a third place podium finish for - and unless you've see the movie, this is going to sound embarrassing - Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. Everything else he's done is stunningly poor, but he's schmick in that.
Edward Norton or Benicio Del Toro in most things.
Oh yeah
Ed Norton in American History is superb
erm,
*X
and then he had to go and do
Keeping the Faith.
Keeping the Faith is awesome
Stfu.
just when i was getting past
your homophobia...
just a shame that the film itself is total dogshit
American History X is awesome
Stfu.
Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai
Val Kilmer in tombstone:
Fucking amazing.
Tombstone - Fucking amazing!
Brad Pitt in Fight Club
OR
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will BE bLOOD.
Can't choose
between Pesci, Liotta and De Niro in Goodfellas.
A few:
Ed Norton - Primal Fear
Nicholson - One flew over the cuckoos nest (obvious but brilliant)
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
George Clooney - O Brother where art thou
David Stratairn - Good night, and good luck
Vincent Cassel - La Haine
in fact there are loads and I cannot pick one.
Christian Bale in American Psycho
Terrifying, intelligent, hilarious. He looks great too.
Bill Paxton in Aliens/Predator 2.
Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny.
De Niro in Taxi Driver
De Niro in anything pre 1980
Deerhunter is his performance
*best performance
I'm so shite today
I've got a few
Al Pacino in Godfather II
Liam Neeson & Ben Kingsley in Schindler's List
Robert de Niro in Raging Bull or Taxi Driver
Even Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Carribean.
oh
and Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.
Will second Neeson here ^
Surely Ralph Fiennes
blows everyone else out of the water in that film?
He is fucking terrifying in that film
He is
but I would argue it is harder to play Schindler well in that film. I think it is slightly easier to play (and get the plaudits for) a violent psychopath.
True
very true. I will include him as well.
Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka is brilliant!!
Marlon Brando in streetcar named desire
just cos he's sexy
mike myers in austin powers because he has hilarious facial features
and samuel L jackson in pulp fiction because every line he delivers in the most cool way you could potentially deliver that line. It's a joy.
Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys
Kevin Spacey in Usual Suspects
Charlize Theron in Monster
Good call on Monster
She's terrifyingly good in that.
Travolta/Cage in Face Off
Superb stuff
Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall
To bring such a charicatured historical figure to life with such realism without once straying into cartoony archetypes is incredible - for most of that film, honest to God you think you are actually watching Hitler. It's jaw dropping
^^^^Good shout LordLucius
Fucking immense performance, I found myself feeling sorry for him at parts which is total credit to Ganzs performance.
^^ can only
echo what's been said in both posts. An epic performance.
Okays
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
Christian Bale - The Prestige
VinÃcius de Oliveira - Central Station (aww!)
Salvatore Cascio - Cinema Paradiso (aww!)
And
Cary Grant / Gary Cooper / Gregory Peck in anything.
Mark Wahlberg is great in The Departed
"I'm the guy doing his job. You must be the other guy."
I'd go for Audrey Tatou in Amelie. Or Vince Vaughn in Swingers. Or Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.
Wahlberg - fucking worst actor ever!
But he really isn't
in fact he is becoming a fairly capable actor.
You clearly haven't seen The Happening.
Comic genius, he could give Judd Apatow a run for his money.
lets not start
this again
.
The one that really jumps out at me is Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast. Awesome.
As well as the obvious ones....
^^^Kingsley is fucking brilliant in sexy beast.
Terrifying performance.
he's just a sweary ghandi
and that's a bad thing?
Good call.
Roberto Benigni - Life is beautiful!
The film is a fairy story
but his performance is utterly breathless. And breathtaking.
I agree ht27, a tad corny in parts...
but anyone who doesn't have a huge grin on their faces because of Benigni performance must be a cold son of a bitch.
Absolutely
he's brilliant.
Klaus Kinski in Aguirre:wrath of God
or anything really.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
in most things he's appeared in, to be honest: Capote, Happiness, The Savages, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
he is the hero of all that is good in the world
he just makes films good
totally agree....
watched Charlie wilsons war for the first time last night and every scene he is in he steals.
That films big letdown is that Hoffman is not in every scene.
Oh and I loved Philip Seymore Hoffman in Almost Famous
which also adds Kate Hudson to my list - I loved her as Penny Lane
^ what I was going to say
(Kinski in Aguirre, in case this post gets lost somewhere)
I would actually have said Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York if somebody had asked me my least favourite performance in a film ever.
^5 to the Malcolm McDowell choice
Paddy Considine in 'Dead Mans Shoes'' is nearly impeccable and Dennis Hopper in 'Blue Velvet'' eminates a most pungent evil. Completely engrossing.
I prefer Paddy in A Room For Romeo Brass
but DMS is bloody amazing.
tom waits
in short cuts.
leslie nielson
in naked gun.
Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
nick cage
in leaving las vegas and raising arizona and adaptation.
i really hated nic cage
before adaptation.
still hanging out to see the wicker man!
You've got to see Wicker Man,
it's truly jaw dropping.
i'm heading to the lovefilm list now...
How'd it get BURNT?!
.
The thing about
Cage in Leaving las vegas is:
Once you've seen him be that good it's just annoying how lazy and half arsed he is in everything else.
^ Yes
^MASSIVE NO
^Yes
Val Kilmer
is very underrated
daniel day lewis in gangs of new york yes!!!
hes amazing.christian bale in american psycho.heath ledger as the joker (i know its not out yet but come on it looks ridiculously good)
John Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
jason schwartzman in rushmore.
THE HIGHEST FIVE IN THE WORLD TO YOU
^5
i love that performance so much, that i think i love him.
I want to be Max Fischer so much
I've started to look a bit like him
same.
glasses: check
moles: check
side parting of hair: check
i just need to work on my eyebrows,
but they're so light and the hairs are so fine. it's not gonna work :(
Oh I got the whole look down
I just need to find the perfect blue blazer and that's me.
I FOUND ONE!
i actually bought one in a charity shop, because when i tried it on i felt like mac fischer. i really need some 'attendance' and 'punctuality' badges though
:D
Also handy is that I do look 15!
I like to quote him too. Like:
Someone: "I did blah, blah, blah"
Me: "That's great. I wrote a hit play and directed it, so I'm not sweating it either."
SO DO I!
also, i think i'm spending too much time writing and stuff, i should probably be trying harder to score guys, cause that's all anyone cares about. also, I SAVED LATIN.
I actually prefer
Bill Murray's performance in Rushmore. Jason Schwartzman is a legend though. I really liked him in I <3 Huckabees.
i really liked his performance,
but just not as much.
i really liked i <3 huckabees too, i know it's dismissed a lot as 'pretentious', but i thought it had an interesting concept, great casting, and it was funny as well.
it's hilarious
and Mark Whalberg is good in it also.
i saw him in real life
at a film awards thing in sydney, and he is totally worth falling in love with. unfortunately he would be too short for me.
so freaking jealous that a guy i know got to interview him for total film:
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/jason_schwartzman_steps_off_the_darjeeling_limited
/end gush
yus!
"I like your nurses uniform"
"these are OR scrubs"
"O, R they?"
(bill murray chokes on ice)
Macaulay Culkin
Home Alone
An inspired choice
Helena Bonham Carter as Marla
In fight club.
Tom Courtney in A day in the life of ivan desnovich
Michael caine in Alfie
i'm gonna watch gangs of new york now.
good choice
there was a thread earlier tailor made for you (and some others) (i made it)
link plz.
i was probably sleeping. i'm pondering if i should take tomorrow off too.
FOOD IS THE SUBJECT :D
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3678441
replied!
i want to be home :(
reply again!
awww you wil be home soon enough wont you :)
6 weeks yesterday.
i cannot wait! i have to do loads of overtime before then though, like 27 hours or something. booo. my mum is coming to take some stuff in 4 weeks, yay!
that german footballer guy had his wedding reception just outside of munich recently. my friend said there were loads of paparazzi. how interesting.
Ben Wishaw in Criminal Justice
Marlon Brando
in Streetcar Named Desire
They don't make em like that anymore
...
Ulrich Thomsen - Festen. Incredibly emotive and pure performance, and its quite a demanding role considering the the movies use of flashes of humour to punctuate and give relief from the more emotionally weighty moments. The dinner party speech scene is intense. You never know which way he is going to go with it.
John Turturro - Barton Fink. Boring, but then Id say John Turturro in **almost** anything.
this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqccyUpnZwA
Jack Nicholson
in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
A lot of the obviuos ones
have already been said:
Andy Garcia and Christopher Lloyd in things to do in denver when you're dead.
William H Macy in the Cooler
Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken (for just 1 scene) in true romance.
Adrien Brody in The Pianist
Tom Hanks in Cast Away / anything
Robert De Niro in Awakenings
Harvey Keitel
in most things he has ever done.
:D
Richard E Grant - Withnail & I
or Spiceworld
:D
:)
^
PADDY CONSIDINE
in dead mans shoes and room for romeo brass
Martin Sheen in Apocolypse Now
or if only for his brief cameo Alec Baldwin in Gelngarry Glenn Ross which I think has best ensemble cast performance of any film ever
Takashi Shimura in Ikiru, maybe.
comedy-wise
Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, the Mask and the Cable Guy, and Mike Myers in Waynes World.
Wow
great list there.
if that's sarcasm
you truly suck.
No!
I was being serious, i love all those films!
comedy wise for me
would be :
Bill Murray in Groundhog Day
Steve Martin in The Jerk
Seth Rogen in Knocked Up
Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite
Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man
I would say for comedy
then it would have to be The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup particularly Groucho
i was going to say
bill murray in groundhog day as well, fantastic.
Matthieu Almaric in The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
If you haven't seen it, I strongly suggest that you do.
Ed Norton in Fight Club.
Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Everyone in Little Miss Sunshine.
And I reckon soon I will be saying:
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
yup yup.
a few come to mind
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
Jason Lee - Chasing Amy
Jeff Bridges - The Squid and The Whale
Daniel Day-Lewis - In The Name of the Father
Paddy Considine - Dead Mans Shoes
Christian Bale - Empire of the Sun
Tamer Hassan - Football Factory
Danny Dyer - Football Factory
Danny Dyer - The Business
danny dyer?
seriously?
like, honestly?
Danny Dyer
is beyond criticism...
Daniel Day-Lewis'
performance in 'In The Name of The Father' was brilliant.
Paul Giamatti in American Splendor
is just perfect for the roll.
* role
-bedtime-
no
I'm your huckleberry
Kilmer slays in that film. He's not all bad. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang anyone?
Day Lewis in Gangs of New York was the first thing i thought of at this question
Gene Wilder in... well... all his good films
Rhys Ifans in 'Not Only But Always'
Alan Rickman in
'Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves'.
*yeahiknow*