Favorite Film Performances

[carnzee]

Posted: 4/22/17 at 10:19am

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

[South Florida]

Posted: 4/22/17 at 10:28am

Kim Jong Il - Team America

[morosco]

Posted: 4/22/17 at 7:09pm

Geraldine Page - Trip to Bountiful

An astonishing performance.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/22/17 at 7:53pm

Amy Adams in Arrival

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/22/17 at 8:11pm

Vivian Leigh in Streetcar.

 

[South Florida]

Posted: 4/22/17 at 9:15pm

Liam Neeson - Schindlers.

 

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/22/17 at 10:55pm

F. Murray Abraham - AMADEUS

Hillary Swank - BOYS DON'T CRY

Ellen Burstyn - REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

[Perfectly_Marvelous]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 5:47pm

Off the top of my head: Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet. 

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 9:31pm

Judy Parfitt in Dolores Claiborne. 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 11:37pm

Natalie Wood in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

Martin Sheen in BADLANDS 

Chris Sarandon in DOG DAY AFTERNOON 

Jane Fonda in KLUTE

Michael Douglas in WALL STREET

Jessica Lange in FRANCES

Don Murray in A HATFUL OF RAIN

Andy Griffith in A FACE IN THE CROWD

Paul Newman in COOL HAND LUKE

Faye Dunaway in PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD

Geraldine Page in SUMMER AND SMOKE

Catherine Deneuve in BELLE DE JEUR

Robert Redford in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

Susan Sarandon in BULL DURHAM

 

 

[Cat Guy]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 5:11pm

Cate Blanchett as "Elizabeth". 

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

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 8:40pm

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

Updated On: 4/25/17 at 08:40 PM

[carnzee]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 8:43pm

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

 

I really loved her in Another Woman. 

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 8:43pm

...and Meryl Streep in "Sophie's Choice"...

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 9:32pm

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

 

 

[Cat Guy]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 11:03pm

Eleanor Powell in anything.

Updated On: 4/30/17 at 11:03 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/26/17 at 12:10pm

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

[hork]

Posted: 4/26/17 at 3:13pm

Mister Matt said: 
Linda Henry and Tameka Empson in Beautiful Thing
 

Yes, and yes! Why Tameka Empson didn't become a big star is still a mystery to me.

[BakerWilliams]

Posted: 4/26/17 at 6:22pm

Anna Paquin in Margaret

Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter

[South Florida]

Posted: 4/26/17 at 7:38pm

Fun scene from maybe the best ensemble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1DSTS5-yI

[The Josh]

Posted: 4/28/17 at 1:49am

J.K. Simmons in Whiplash

 

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/29/17 at 12:10am

Why Tameka Empson didn't become a big star is still a mystery to me.

I also loved her on 3 Non-Blondes!  I always hoped she'd get her own comedy series.  She continues to do a ton of work, but I don't know why it hasn't really happened for her.

 

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 4/29/17 at 1:54am

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

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 4/29/17 at 3:48am

Gene Hackman in The French Connection and Hoosiers

Jeff Daniels in Gettysburg

Robert DeNiro in Ronin

Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart

George C. Scott in Patton

Rod Steiger & Sidney Poitier in In The Heat of The Night

Cary Grant, James Mason and Eva Marie Saint in North By Northwest

William Daniels in 1776

 

[javero]

Posted: 4/29/17 at 6:17pm

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