Single Best Acting Job Ever By An Actor?

Borkwett 1/27/13 10:04 am

Kenny Rogers ... macShayne

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Capricornio 1/27/13 10:51 am

@IntoYesterday said:

Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood.

I was thinking this, but DDL in Gangs of New York is just as good and, in my opinion, a more entertaining character.

Some others to consider:
Peter O'toole in Lawernce of Arabia
Richard Burton in The Night of the Iguana
Takashi Shimura in Ikiru
Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
Charlie Chaplin in City Lights

and assuming actresses can be added to this list:
Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria

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Jerrytheband 1/27/13 10:54 am

@IntoYesterday said:

Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood.

He maybe the greatest actor of all time

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guyute26 1/27/13 10:59 am

@GrooveHolmes said:

@guyute26 said:
U guys r all on crack!!!!
Johnny depp from fear and loathing. Hands down
Are you even aware that Bill Murray nailed the role of Hunter Thompson before Johnny Depp was even an actor?

yes i have seen where the buffalo roam and depp did it better than bill

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ypehmish 1/27/13 11:05 am

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Phaster 1/27/13 11:14 am

The Dude Lebowski. Everything I see him in he's the dude to me.

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Mr_Burns 1/27/13 1:53 pm

Leo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. It's so believable.

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smuggs 1/27/13 2:03 pm

jim carey - ace ventura

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nolakid 1/27/13 2:09 pm

Everything said about Daniel Day Lewis I support. Also, love Jack Nicholson in The Shining.

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zappaforprez 1/27/13 2:10 pm

And the award goes to....can't decide either Manti Te'o or Lance Armstrong...maybe they'll fight it out to the death and no one will win...I really don't wish harm on anyone but hopefully neither of them will be able to make a dime off any of this

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 1/27/13 2:16 pm

::mind blown::

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 1/27/13 2:32 pm

A christmas story - ralphie/ peter billingsley

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Herbdacious 1/27/13 2:34 pm

samuel l jackson - pulp fiction

nazi guy in inglorious bastards

johnny depp in anything

jamie foxx and other guy in django

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RR1994 1/27/13 3:48 pm

"The Dude Lebowski. Everything I see him in he's the dude to me."

This is my pick as well, but John Goodman is almost as good!

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Phaster 1/27/13 4:03 pm

http://phish.net/user/RR1994
You are entering a world of pain!

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mattsox94 1/27/13 4:25 pm

Totally forgot about Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men and Heath Ledger as the Joker. As for my original Kevin Spacey comment, he may have been better in American Beauty.

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MiguelSanchez 1/27/13 4:33 pm

@me_no_are_no_nice_guy said:

@IntoYesterday said:
Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood.
This was actually going to be my answer.

I have to go w/ his role as the butcher in gangs of ny. There will be blood is a much better movie, but his part in gangs of ny is the only thing that makes that movie worth watching.

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dealgodown 1/27/13 4:46 pm

Im going with walter sobchak

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SconnieGuy 1/27/13 7:36 pm

This is a good dark horse...

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Chilly 1/27/13 7:40 pm

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight as the Joker was absolutely incredible. @mattsox94 mentioned it a few posts above, definitely one of the best ever. I don't know if anyone else could of came even close to pulling that off to such perfection.

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Slothberries 1/27/13 8:11 pm

@IntoYesterday said:

Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood.

Ive been meaning to watch this movie.

I believe you when you say it. He was GREAT in Gangs of NY

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parrott56 1/27/13 8:11 pm

Guys/gals. Let us not ignore the very real possibility that THE acting accomplishment of OUR time is...

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SconnieGuy 1/27/13 8:16 pm

@Slothberries said:

@IntoYesterday said:
Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood.
Ive been meaning to watch this movie.

I believe you when you say it. He was GREAT in Gangs of NY

Only DDL can take a line as silly as "I drink your milkshake" and make it so menacing. You will enjoy it!

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frump 1/27/13 8:20 pm

jeff bridges, the big lebowski

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bobbob 1/27/13 9:34 pm

I cant believe Heath Ledger hasnt gotten more love as the joker.

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AnalogKid 1/27/13 9:52 pm

Michael Rennie as Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still. The disgust and compassion he feels for the human race is brilliantly expressed.

And for all of you who haven't seen Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln should probably rectify that. He's as close to Lincoln as you'll ever see without traveling back in time.

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Punchyouinthejejunum 1/27/13 10:09 pm

Many of the best mentioned here. The winner is in here somewhere already, but I'd like to add:

Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black, in "Walk the Line"

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lacesoutmike 1/27/13 10:20 pm

I may have missed it but I didn't see mentioned above:

Morgan Freeman- The Shawshank Redemption
Denzel Washington- Remember the Titans
Jack Nicholson- The Shining

but my performance ever in a TV series is Michael K. Williams as Omar in The Wire

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cactoid 1/27/13 10:31 pm

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe /thread

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dkast85 1/27/13 11:30 pm

Ive considered DDL in There Will be Blood a fantastic performance. Other legendary ones are Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy, Christian Bale in American Psycho, and imo the most authentic acting performance ever is this scene right here. It is short but watch

so Kubrick, being the genius he is, hired a real drill sergeant for this scene. He asked him to give him a natural perfomance like he would if he was actually addressing the new candidates on Parris Island. So this is not actually acting, this is a real drill sergeant f***ing the face of a bunch of actors, not marines.

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Shmendrick 1/27/13 11:41 pm

Mt criteria is simply their ability to convince others that they really are the character and/or enable you to suspend your disbelief that they are not 'acting'

De Niro - Vito Corleone, Travis Bickle, Jake La Motta
James Gandolfini - Tony Soprano
Peter Krause - Nate Fisher
Michael C Hall - David Fisher
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (this last one is not a joke. based on the above criteria, he's amazing)

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lefty 1/28/13 12:52 am

Heath Ledger the Joker

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forbin1 1/28/13 1:28 am

@moma01

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mjrphishhead 1/28/13 4:01 am

@mattsox94 said:

Totally forgot about Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men and Heath Ledger as the Joker. As for my original Kevin Spacey comment, he may have been better in American Beauty.

The three mentioned here are my top three.

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Possum 1/28/13 4:10 am

@conradjohansen said:

Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
Heath Ledger - Dark Knight

agreed Heathh Ledget

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tidemikey 1/28/13 7:28 am

j bardem -- no country for old men

that haircut still scares me

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Shukky 1/28/13 8:44 am

Pretty much any character that Danial Day Lewis has played.

My favorite of his is The Butcher from Gangs of NY

His Lincoln was great as well.

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SicMD 1/28/13 9:28 am

Id love to see celebrity death match lance legstrong vs man tie tao..........

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walstib 1/28/13 10:17 am

Can't believe Mel Gibson in Braveheart hasn't been mentioned. Insane performance.

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

Jack - One flew Over.

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Looks2Much 1/28/13 11:18 am

Nathan Lane in The Birdcage

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YorkvilleBeerLover 1/28/13 11:59 am

I mean i haven't even seen it but it has to be Houston - int The world's Biggest Gang Bang III - The Houston 620

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jaylimmo 1/28/13 12:44 pm

Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai. Humor, compassion and total badassery rolled up in one package. The scene where he's holding the kid by the burning mill kills me every time.

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IntoYesterday 1/28/13 12:45 pm

@tidemikey said:

j bardem -- no country for old men

that haircut still scares me

That was a last minute decision. They were in the middle of a haircut for Javier to get his hair right and stopped for a brief moment, for whatever reason, and the Cohen brothers couldn't stop laughing so they kept it that way.

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IntoYesterday 1/28/13 12:47 pm

@walstib said:

Can't believe Mel Gibson in Braveheart hasn't been mentioned. Insane performance.

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

Jack - One flew Over.

Impossible to overlook the fact that he's Mel Gibson, or that after the movie when they erected a statue of William Wallace in Edinburgh, it had Mel Gibsons face.

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mfhgreyboy 1/28/13 12:56 pm

Brad Pitt - True Romance.

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walstib 1/28/13 1:06 pm

@IntoYesterday said:

@walstib said:
Can't believe Mel Gibson in Braveheart hasn't been mentioned. Insane performance.

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

Jack - One flew Over.
Impossible to overlook the fact that he's Mel Gibson, or that after the movie when they erected a statue of William Wallace in Edinburgh, it had Mel Gibsons face.

At least Wallace was a real person who deserved a statue. The people of Philly seem to actually believe Rocky was a real person. Name another fictional character who got a statue in a public place. That's got to be worth an honorable mention to Stallone.

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mfhgreyboy 1/28/13 1:17 pm

@walstib said:

At least Wallace was a real person who deserved a statue. The people of Philly seem to actually believe Rocky was a real person. Name another fictional character who got a statue in a public place. That's got to be worth an honorable mention to Stallone.

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. But it's bordering on blasphemy. Careful.

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Capricornio 1/28/13 1:20 pm

@walstib said: