lukewarmwater

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Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954)
Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice (1982)
Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950)
James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Dustin Hoffman as "Ratso" Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
James Stewart as George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (1974)
Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980)
Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989)
Jack Nicholson as "Badass" Buddusky in The Last Detail (1973)
Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968)
Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies (1983)
Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin in Big (1988)
Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin in Notorious (1946)
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992)
Emily Watson as Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves (1996)
Paul Newman as Frank Galvin in The Verdict (1982)
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974)
Giulietta Masina as Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands in Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider (1999)
Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Greta Garbo as Ninotchka in Ninotchka (1939)
Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Marlon Brando as Paul in The Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940)
Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener in Being There (1979)
James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson in Vertigo (1958)
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie (1982)
Buster Keaton as Johnny Gray in The General (1927)
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005)
Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Cross Mulwray in Chinatown (1974)
Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in The Conversation (1974)
Carole Lombard as Maria Tura in To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Laurence Olivier as Richard III in Richard III (1955)
Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone Maretto in To Die For (1995)
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction (1994)
Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)
James Dean as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Charlie Chapman as a Tramp in City Lights (1931)
Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick in Election (1999)
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in Cast Away (2001)
Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993)
Liv Ullmann as Elisabet Vogler in Persona (1966)
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (1993)
Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002)
Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988)
Max Von Sydow as Lasse Karlsson in Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986)
Catherine Deneuve as Severine Serizy in Belle de Jour (1967)
Diane Keaton as Annie Hall in Annie Hall (1977)
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (1993)
Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy (1986)
Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti in A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961)
Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot (1959)
Holly Hunter as Jane Craig in Broadcast News (1987)
Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind (1960)
Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood in Silkwood (1983)
Judy Garland as Esther Blodgett, A.K.A. Vicki Lester in A Star Is Born (1954)
John Travolta as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles (1974)
Julie Christie as Diana Scott in Darling (1965)
Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Morgan Freeman as Leo Smalls Jr., A.K.A. Fast Black in Street Smart (1987)
Toshiro Mifune as Sanjuro Kuwabatake in Yojimbo (1961)
Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules and Jim (1962)
Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
George C. Scott as General George S. Patton Jr. in Patton (1970)
Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Anjelica Huston as Lilly Dillon in The Grifters (1990)
Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer in Frances (1982)
Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony in Strangers on a Train (1951)
John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956)
Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978)
Gong Li as Juxian in Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in The Big Lebowski (1998)
Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in Klute (1971)
Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971)
Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce (1945)
Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert in M (1931)
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993)
Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (1950)
Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast (2001)
Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944)
Steve Martin as Navin Johnson in The Jerk (1979)
Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Jamie Foxx, Russel Crowe and Reese witherspoon shouldn't be on there. other then that, not that horrible of a list.

cfloyd3

This is a strange list most notably because it is from someone who knows more than the common films everyone throws out there from actors. The great Gena Rowlands for A Woman, Emily Watson from Breaking the Waves, Liv Ullmann for Persona, Nicholson for The Last Detail, Hackman for The Conversation (instead of French Connection), Crowe for The Insider (instead of a Gladiator). You can go on here, it is an interesting list for the inclusions of films like Breaking the Waves and for choosing actors for their more lesserknown work.

I am not going to try and say this list is terrible and I disagree! It is a list that is the nature of them. For a mainstream publication it has some interesting inclusions.

Joe Molotov

I thought it was strange that of all Tom Hank's movies, they chose Big. Did they forget about The 'burbs and Joe vs. The Volcano?

ShallowHal

I see that Affleck in Boiler Room was passed over.

Charlie Goose

It's almost as if they made an effort to specifically choose lesser known performances so it seems like a more 'important' list.
However, other than a few glaring missteps it does shape up as a credible list.

Numanoid

No Richard Burton = no sale!

Not a bad list overall, but some silly inclusions like Groundhog Day and Pirates of the Caribbean and Edward freakin' Scissorhands.

Filmmaker

The fact that Al Pacino in SCARFACE and Jack Nicholson in THE SHINING are not listed indicates the editors of PREMIERE are interested in a wholly different acting aesthetic than myself...

raven56706

no John Travolta for Battlefield Earth????? No sale

wendersfan

By and large it seems a pretty good list. FWIW, when I saw the thread title two performances came to mind immediately - they ended up being the first two on the list.

Giles

I personally thought Kate Winslet performance in 'Heavenly Creatures' was a tad better than 'Eternal Sunshine'

EddieN

"Charlie Chapman"

Jaymole

Not a bad list, happy they included Gena Rowlands, Burt Lancaster and Maria Falconetti in their respective roles.

james2025a

I totally agree that Hanks, Foxx and Witherspoon have no place on this list. Total none entities in my opinion. I think more Eastwood, Olivier, Oldman maybe the odd Caine and more Walken should be added.

conscience

I agree with Pirates, but the other two are fantastic. Especially Depp in Edward Scissorhands. One of my favorite performances.

Even though they went out of their way to pick lesser known performances, doesn't mean those performances aren't great: Nicholson in The Last Detail for example.

AnonomusBob15

I really liked the inclusion of Foxx and especially Witherspoon. I liked the pick for Edward Scissorhands, but not for Pirates.

Big shouldn't have been on the list, but glad they recognized Cast Away (is it me, or was this film forgotten)?

Crowe deserves to be on that list, he was excellent in The Insider, even though I thought Al Pacino was great as well but always overlooked.

Wrong Bill Murrey performance.

The two that I am really sad to see not on the list is Will Smith in Ali (watched this again the other day) and Tom Cruise in Magnolia or maybe Depp for Fear and Loathing instead of Pirates. And no Morgan Freeman for Shawshank? Oh well.

wm lopez

I may have not seen the list but is Marlon Brando's GODFATHER not on there?

OldBoy

why would you note a good performance simply because it is more well-known?

i wholly agree with Hackman in "The Conversation" and Crowe in "The Insider". i didn't think "Gladiator" was all that great, let alone win best picture and Best Actor. "The Insider" meanwhile was a gripping good yarn that i was simply blown away by. While I love "The French Connection" , i thought "The Conversation" was a remarkable piece solely for the performance of Hackman in a role unlike most of his in his career. that is the one DVD i always regretted selling at the time.

the article was for performance and not movie as a whole and in that respect i totally agree. just because it is more well known don't make it better.

DieselsDen

Absolutely. Except for Oldman, who I don't like too much.

NatrlBornThrllr

I'm with Lopez. No Brando for Godfather? The fuck is up with that? Thumbs up for putting his On the Waterfront turn in the top two, though. I'm ashamed to admit that I've never made an evening out of watching Lawrence of Arabia, so I can't comment on whether or not Brando's Terry Malloy should be number one over the Peter O'Toole performance, but it's easily the best piece of acting I've ever seen.

-JP

GuessWho

# 101: keanu reeves in bill & ted's excellent adventure. the only role in which his dopey demeanor worked well

cfloyd3

Thanks for another great post scott as you obviously once again don't understand what someone else is trying to say before you comment. I was meaning usually these type of publications point out performances from actors that are more well known. This one did not.

OldBoy

no problem!

AnonomusBob15

I was thinking about this and would have liked to have seen at least One child performance, hopefully River Pheonix (Stand By Me, Running on Empty, My Own Private Idaho).

lordwow

I thought it was a pretty good list.

Fok

Where's Bruce Lee?