Bear in mind that I'm only posting this because I have a compulsive need to make film lists and share them, but feel free to answer it anyway. Mine are:
1. Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris
2. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
3. Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
4. James Stewart in Vertigo
5. Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Runner-up: Toshiro Mifune in High and Low
2006-12-12 12:40:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
1. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
2. Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
3. Robert De Niro - Taxi driver
4. Sean Penn - Carlito's Way
5. Al Pacino - The Godfather
Honorable mentions to:
Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie, All the president's men), Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven), Jim Carey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind), Sean Penn (Mystic River), Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now, Last Tango In Paris), Robert De Niro (Cape Fear), Robert Mitchum (Night of the Hunter), Henry Fonda (Twelve Angry Men), Tom Cruise (Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, Collateral), Brad Pitt (Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club), Ed Norton (American History X, Fight Club), Christan Bale (The Machinist, American Psycho)
Damn just read the other answes Jack Nicholson is a must (One flew over ..... should be in top 5, As good as it gets could be there too). This question is too hard, I'm going away to think some more about this.
2006-12-12 12:51:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Al Pacino - The Godfather
2. Robert De Niro- The Deer Hunter
3 Al Pacino and Robert De NIro - The Godfather Part 2
4.Jack Nickelson - The Shining
5. Wesley Snipes - the Blade Trilogy
2006-12-12 20:49:00 · answer #2 · answered by Karra E 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The classics:
1. Peter Lorre, 'M.'
2. Maria Falconetti, 'The Passion of Joan of Arc.'
3. Harriet Andersson, 'Cries and Whispers.'
4. Gloria Swanson, 'Sunset Boulevard.'
5. Charlie Chaplin, 'The Great Dictator.'/Peter Sellers, 'Dr. Strangelove.'/Alec Guinness, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets.' (Could not bear to leave either of the first two off the list, and including the second meant I had to include the third.)
The moderns:
1. Clive Owen, 'Croupier.'
2. Tim Roth, 'Rob Roy.'
3. Om Puri, 'My Son the Fanatic.'
4. Jurnee Smollett, 'Eve's Bayou.'
5. Ellen Burstyn, 'Requiem for a Dream.'
2006-12-12 21:23:49 · answer #3 · answered by Kate S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My top five (no particular order):
Agree with DeNiro in Taxi Driver and Brando in On the Waterfront
Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (and Tom Cruise was pretty good, too...at least he held his own against Hoffman, which is saying something.)
Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption.
My honorable mentions:
Alec Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai
William Holden in Stalag 17
Sorry I can't work Steve McQueen in there somewhere.
2006-12-12 20:46:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My list is the top 5 performances by an actor in a chick flick (no particular order)
1. Kevin James, Hitch (goofy, but amazing)
2. Hugh Grant, Sense and Sensibility (pure Hugh, pure classic)
3. Colin Firth, Love Actually (oh the hormones are loose again, he gets number 1)
4. Omar Epps, Love and Basketball (on second thought maybe Omar gets number 1)
5. Gerard Butler, Dear Frankie (he makes Scottish sexy)
Runner up: Denzel Washington, Mississipi Masala (ooooh the butt shot was worth the price of admission)
2006-12-12 20:53:09 · answer #5 · answered by TriniGirl 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I cannot think of 5 but John Hurt as John Merrick (The Elephant Man) has to deserve a mention.
2006-12-13 09:48:54 · answer #6 · answered by D.F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋