Best Acting Performances of All-Time

[GreatDanish]

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I caught a few minutes of "Awakenings" with Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro, and I was reminded at how amazing Robert DeNiro was as patient Leonard Lowe.

What are the best acting performances you've seen?
Here's a top 6 list for me, in no order:
- Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather
- Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs
- Robert DeNiro as Leonard Lowe in Awakenings
- Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot
- Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Surely there are some others that are on the all-time best list. Any recommendations?

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	I caught a few minutes of "Awakenings" with Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro, and I was reminded at how amazing Robert DeNiro was as patient Leonard Lowe. What are the best acting performances you've seen? Here's a top 6 list for me, in no order: - Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather - Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs - Robert DeNiro as Leonard Lowe in Awakenings - Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man - Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot - Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Surely there are some others that are on the all-time best list. Any recommendations?

-Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather, The Godfather II
-Robert DeNiro as Jake Lamotta in Raging Bull
-Kenneth Branagh as King Henry V of England in Shakespeare's Henry V

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Elijah Woods - lord of the rings
Tom Berringer - as Stonewall Jackson in Gettysburg
Denzel Washington - Glory
Mathew Broderick - Glory
Charlton Heston - Ben Hur

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	Elijah Woods - lord of the rings Tom Berringer - as Stonewall Jackson in Gettysburg Denzel Washington - Glory Mathew Broderick - Glory Charlton Heston - Ben Hur

Tom Berringer as Sgt. Barnes in Platoon.

[Ditchdoc]

The woman I had to respond to the other night who was faking a seizure. It really was Oscar material!

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Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman

[rhYno]

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	- Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Or ANYTHING involving Jack Nicholson... hence the reason he's the greatest actor ever!

[NYBamaFan]

Tom Hanks in any of these:
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
Castaway
Saving Private Ryan
The Green Mile

James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life

Charlton Heston in any of these:
Ben-Hur
The Ten Commandments

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Kathy Bates in

Dolores Claiborne

or

Misery....both very good

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Rene Zellwenger - Cold Mountain

[bamasoldier71]

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	Tom Berringer - as Stonewall Jackson in Gettysburg

He played Gen. Longstreet; Jackson died prior to Gettysburg.

I'll nominate Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

[derek4tide]

Clint Eastwood - Grand Torino, Unforgiven and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.

Forrest Whittaker - The Last King of Scotland

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	He played Gen. Longstreet; Jackson died prior to Gettysburg. I'll nominate Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

I knew that it's hell getting old, first goes the brain then...............
and I just watched that movie again last week.