His performance in that totalled no more than about 5 or 6 minutes - but he was absolutely breathtaking! Every time I see a steak knife I think of Alec Baldwin.
In fact - that film had quite a few excellent performances - I found Jack Lemmon's the best though.
Back to my list.
Vincent D'Onofrio - Full Metal Jacket
Al Pacino - The Godfather, And Justice For All
Jack Hawkins - The League of Gentlemen
Michael Douglas - The War of the Roses
Kathleen Turner - The War of the Roses
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Tim Robbins - The Player, Bob Roberts
Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train
Delroy Lindo - Heist
Robert Shaw - The Taking of Pelham 123
Walter Matthau - The Taking of Pelham, Charlie Varrick
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction
Bette Davis - All About Eve
George Sanders - All About Eve
Jimmy Stewart - Rope
Gig Young - Teacher's Pet
Glenn Ford - The Blackboard Jungle
Lee J Cobb in Twelve Angry Men. Raw and powerful. Kenneth Branagh in Conspiracy. Chilling and riveting Donald Sutherland in JFK - Best Cameo in a movie.
Samuel L Jackson-Pulp Fiction
Jack Nicholson- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Gene Hackman- The French Connection
Robert De Niro-Raging Bull
Al Pacino- Dog Day Afternoon
Tommy Lee Jones- The Fugitive
Spencer Tracey- Bad Day at Black Rock
Brad Pitt- Moneyball
Jack Lemmon- Glengarry Glen ross
Gary Oldman- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Christopher Waltz- Django Unchained.
Diane Keaton- Annie Hall
Emily Watson- Breaking The Waves
Charlize Theron-Monster
Bette Davis- All About Eve
Penelope Cruz- Volver
Brenda Blethyn- Secrets and Lies.
Natalie Portman Black Swan
Jack Nicholson The Departed and Batman
Jim Carrey The Mask
Christopher Waltz Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained
Robert De Niro Cape Fear, Casino and Goodfellas
Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted and Changeling
Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator
Denzel Washington Man on Fire and Training Day
Gary Oldman Air Force one and the Batman films
Jodie FosterThe Silence of the Lambs and Panic Room
Kirsten Dunst Interview with the Vampire
Mickey" Rourke Sin City
Kurt Russell The Thing and Escape from New York
Tom Hanks Big and Road to Perdition
Javier Bardem No Country for Old Men and Skyfall
John Travolta Face/Off and Broken Arrow
Robert Englund A Nightmare on Elm Street
Jessica Biel The Illusionist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Vera Farmiga Orphan and Bates Motel
Marky Mark Fear and Shooter
Melissa George Triangle
Chloë Grace Moretz Kick-Ass and Let Me In
Diane Lane Unfaithful
Kate Winslet The Reader, Little Children and Titanic
Kathy Bates Misery
Alicia Silverstone The Crush
Rutger Hauer The Hitcher
Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye
George Clooney From Dusk Till Dawn
Richard Gere Internal Affairs
Ryan Gosling Drive
Hugh Jackman The Prestige and Prisoners
Chris Sarandon Fright Night
Chloë Grace Moretz Kick-Ass and Let Me In
Diane Lane Unfaithful
Kate Winslet The Reader, Little Children and Titanic
Kathy Bates Misery
Alicia Silverstone The Crush Rutger Hauer The Hitcher
Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye
George Clooney From Dusk Till Dawn
Richard Gere Internal Affairs
Ryan Gosling Drive
Hugh Jackman The Prestige and Prisoners
Good call.
It's broad daylight and there are people around but due to Rutger Hauer's brilliant acting, you still fear for the protagonist's life.
His performance in that totalled no more than about 5 or 6 minutes - but he was absolutely breathtaking! Every time I see a steak knife I think of Alec Baldwin.
In fact - that film had quite a few excellent performances - I found Jack Lemmon's the best though.
Back to my list.
Vincent D'Onofrio - Full Metal Jacket
Al Pacino - The Godfather, And Justice For All
Jack Hawkins - The League of Gentlemen
Michael Douglas - The War of the Roses
Kathleen Turner - The War of the Roses
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Tim Robbins - The Player, Bob Roberts
Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train Delroy Lindo - Heist
Robert Shaw - The Taking of Pelham 123
Walter Matthau - The Taking of Pelham, Charlie Varrick
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction
Bette Davis - All About Eve
George Sanders - All About Eve
Jimmy Stewart - Rope
Gig Young - Teacher's Pet
Glenn Ford - The Blackboard Jungle
Marlon Brando - Apocalypse Now
Hang S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
Vincent D'onofrio - Full Metal Jacket
Robin Williams - The Fisher King
Meredith Salenger - The Journey of Natty Gann
Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile
Brad Douriff - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
Robert De Niro - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Henry Thomas ET#
James Caan The Godfather
Michael Sheen The Queen
Judi Dench Notes On A Scandal
Helena Bonham Carter Howards End
Phillip Symour Hoffman The Talented Mr Ripley
Russell Crowe LA Confidential
John C Reilly Chicago
Anthony Perkins Psycho
Michelle Williams Brokeback Mountain
Melanie Lynskey Heavenly Creatures
Sean Astin Lord Of The Rings
Meryl Steep Doubt
Glenn Close Fatal Attraction
Some already mentioned my favourites, so here are the rest:
Matthew Modine - Birdy (not keen on the film, but he's outstanding here)
Nicolas Cage - Birdy (ditto)
Sandrine Bonnaire - Vagabond (lead)
Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction
Richard Farnsworth - The Grey Fox
Chris Evans - Snowpiercer (the monologue)
Don Cheadle - Talk to Me
Chiwetel Eijofor - Kinky Boots, Dirty Pretty Things, Talk to Me
Robert Shaw - Jaws (the monologue), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Nicole Kidman - To Die For
Gena Rowlands - Opening Night, A Woman Under the Influence
Joan Chen - Saving Face (mother)
Off my head for a list of non-English actors:
Ken Ogata - Vengeance is Mine (lead)
Rentarou Mikuni - Vengeance is Mine (father)
Ha-kyun Shin - Save the Green Planet! (lead)
Ryo Kase - Outrage (ambitious gangster)
Eugene Domingo – The Woman in the Septic Tank (the actress)
Miki Nakatani - Memories of Matsuko (lead)
Hirofumi Arai - Blue Spring (best friend)
Louis Koo - Election II (schemer)
Teruyuki Kagawa - Yureru (Sway) (older brother)
Hye-ja Kim - Mother (mother)
Seo-woo Eun - Phone (the little kid)
Takako Matsu - Confessions (lead)
Jung-Jae Lee - New World (lead)
Yosuke Kubozuka, Ji-tae Yoo, Kang-ho Song, Hideaki Ito, Koji Yakusho, Shun Oguri and Gong Li delivered almost every time.
Brad Pitt - Sleepers
Leonardo DiCaprio - Wolf of Wall Street
Charlize Theron - Monster
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips (the last scene especially)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Amy Adams and Ben Mackenzie in Junebug. I'd only ever seen them in teenage-orientated things before (Amy - Cruel Intentions 2 and 1 episode of Buffy; Benjamin in The OC) and was blown away by their performances.
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Pacino - Godfather Part 2
Brando - On The Waterfront
Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
His performance in that totalled no more than about 5 or 6 minutes - but he was absolutely breathtaking! Every time I see a steak knife I think of Alec Baldwin.
In fact - that film had quite a few excellent performances - I found Jack Lemmon's the best though.
Back to my list.
Vincent D'Onofrio - Full Metal Jacket
Al Pacino - The Godfather, And Justice For All
Jack Hawkins - The League of Gentlemen
Michael Douglas - The War of the Roses
Kathleen Turner - The War of the Roses
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Tim Robbins - The Player, Bob Roberts
Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train
Delroy Lindo - Heist
Robert Shaw - The Taking of Pelham 123
Walter Matthau - The Taking of Pelham, Charlie Varrick
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction
Bette Davis - All About Eve
George Sanders - All About Eve
Jimmy Stewart - Rope
Gig Young - Teacher's Pet
Glenn Ford - The Blackboard Jungle
Oh gawd! There's too many to mention.
Even though I'd seen it many times before, I saw TWOTR recently and was surprised that I hadn't noticed before, how good they were.
I think that applies to all of their films. They were a good team.
Kenneth Branagh in Conspiracy. Chilling and riveting
Donald Sutherland in JFK - Best Cameo in a movie.
Fantastic performance and if it had been released in cinemas she almost certainly would have been nominated for an oscar.
I hope she is really proud of that performance as she really in my opinion did little Edie justice
Ricky Schroder - The Champ
Geoffrey Rush - Pirates of the Caribbean
Jack Nicholson- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Gene Hackman- The French Connection
Robert De Niro-Raging Bull
Al Pacino- Dog Day Afternoon
Tommy Lee Jones- The Fugitive
Spencer Tracey- Bad Day at Black Rock
Brad Pitt- Moneyball
Jack Lemmon- Glengarry Glen ross
Gary Oldman- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Christopher Waltz- Django Unchained.
Diane Keaton- Annie Hall
Emily Watson- Breaking The Waves
Charlize Theron-Monster
Bette Davis- All About Eve
Penelope Cruz- Volver
Brenda Blethyn- Secrets and Lies.
Jack Nicholson The Departed and Batman
Jim Carrey The Mask
Christopher Waltz Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained
Robert De Niro Cape Fear, Casino and Goodfellas
Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted and Changeling
Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator
Denzel Washington Man on Fire and Training Day
Gary Oldman Air Force one and the Batman films
Jodie FosterThe Silence of the Lambs and Panic Room
Kirsten Dunst Interview with the Vampire
Mickey" Rourke Sin City
Kurt Russell The Thing and Escape from New York
Tom Hanks Big and Road to Perdition
Javier Bardem No Country for Old Men and Skyfall
John Travolta Face/Off and Broken Arrow
Robert Englund A Nightmare on Elm Street
Jessica Biel The Illusionist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Vera Farmiga Orphan and Bates Motel
Marky Mark Fear and Shooter
Melissa George Triangle
Don't know how I forgot that one - mesmerising.
Gotta add another - having just watched Aliens (again LOL) a brilliant showing from Sigourney Weaver.
And another ... Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter.
Diane Lane Unfaithful
Kate Winslet The Reader, Little Children and Titanic
Kathy Bates Misery
Alicia Silverstone The Crush
Rutger Hauer The Hitcher
Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye
George Clooney From Dusk Till Dawn
Richard Gere Internal Affairs
Ryan Gosling Drive
Hugh Jackman The Prestige and Prisoners
Chris Sarandon Fright Night
Good call.
It's broad daylight and there are people around but due to Rutger Hauer's brilliant acting, you still fear for the protagonist's life.
Rutger Hauer work on The Hitcher was so well done and the acting very believable. Thomas Howell was scared of Rutger Hauer while filming The Hitcher.
Delroy Lindo in Heist is a brilliant call.
Lindo is such an underrated actor.
He's excellent in everything he does.
Hang S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
Vincent D'onofrio - Full Metal Jacket
Robin Williams - The Fisher King
Meredith Salenger - The Journey of Natty Gann
Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile
Brad Douriff - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
Robert De Niro - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Henry Thomas ET#
James Caan The Godfather
Michael Sheen The Queen
Judi Dench Notes On A Scandal
Helena Bonham Carter Howards End
Phillip Symour Hoffman The Talented Mr Ripley
Russell Crowe LA Confidential
John C Reilly Chicago
Anthony Perkins Psycho
Michelle Williams Brokeback Mountain
Melanie Lynskey Heavenly Creatures
Sean Astin Lord Of The Rings
Meryl Steep Doubt
Glenn Close Fatal Attraction
Matthew Modine - Birdy (not keen on the film, but he's outstanding here)
Nicolas Cage - Birdy (ditto)
Sandrine Bonnaire - Vagabond (lead)
Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction
Richard Farnsworth - The Grey Fox
Chris Evans - Snowpiercer (the monologue)
Don Cheadle - Talk to Me
Chiwetel Eijofor - Kinky Boots, Dirty Pretty Things, Talk to Me
Robert Shaw - Jaws (the monologue), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Nicole Kidman - To Die For
Gena Rowlands - Opening Night, A Woman Under the Influence
Joan Chen - Saving Face (mother)
Off my head for a list of non-English actors:
Ken Ogata - Vengeance is Mine (lead)
Rentarou Mikuni - Vengeance is Mine (father)
Ha-kyun Shin - Save the Green Planet! (lead)
Ryo Kase - Outrage (ambitious gangster)
Eugene Domingo – The Woman in the Septic Tank (the actress)
Miki Nakatani - Memories of Matsuko (lead)
Hirofumi Arai - Blue Spring (best friend)
Louis Koo - Election II (schemer)
Teruyuki Kagawa - Yureru (Sway) (older brother)
Hye-ja Kim - Mother (mother)
Seo-woo Eun - Phone (the little kid)
Takako Matsu - Confessions (lead)
Jung-Jae Lee - New World (lead)
Yosuke Kubozuka, Ji-tae Yoo, Kang-ho Song, Hideaki Ito, Koji Yakusho, Shun Oguri and Gong Li delivered almost every time.
Leonardo DiCaprio - Wolf of Wall Street
Charlize Theron - Monster
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips (the last scene especially)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Terrific actor who shines in most things he does.