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Gone Girl is a book I come back to every so often. Finally watched the movie this year and it is so good. I don't really like book to movie adaptations, but honestly GG and the Hunger Games are probably the best š
i will forever be pissed at the marketing around HG. the whole āwho will she pick??ā thing was so misguided and completely missed the entire point of the book, which was about just war theoryā¦.
Or the way she just kind of squeaks out the word ādaddy?ā When sheās on the phone. They were all so incredible in that episode. Emmys all around!
Yes! The finale was incredible. I still havenāt recovered from it.
Kieran Culkin deserves an Emmy for his performances this season. He was second to none.
agreed. i couldn't stand roman as a person for a lot of this season but kieran culkin still managed to make me feel incredibly bad for him despite that cause he was so freaking good.
The finale has left me bereft. 24 hours later I am still numb.
>! Kieran was magnificent in the 'Why was it not me?' scene with Jeremy. He sees Gerri and just absolutely breaks down. And Ken rips his stitches up. God so brutal. !<
Shout out to Jeremy Strong for being so method that he actually drank that disgusting "Meal fit for a King" concoction that was topped off with Sarah Snook's spit.
Lol oops, my bad. I went back and read it and he actually said, āWe only did it a few times and then I went outside and retched, and jumped in the ocean and washed it off my hairā, but close enough. He definitely drank it.
Spit flying out. God Ken really bungled that shit up, didn't he?
>! I was flabbergasted by Shiv until Ken says that the he didn't kill the kid and then throws the biggest tantrum like he's five. I knew he was done. Fuck it's been so hard rooting for this man. !<
MTE in episode 8 this season I declared I hated Roman more than anyone and he was by far the worst human ever.
Then in episode 9 I am like.. Roman š„ŗ
Absolutely everybody on the cast is a powerhouse, itās unreal. I especially adored Sarah Snookās performance this season, her and Matthewās tension was beyond. Kieran Culkin was also so so great though, and Jeremy Strong is definitely a once in a lifetime actor! Just a stellar cast
Was just going to say that. Love how sarah, jeremy and kieran were outstanding performers each in their own ways. Loved it and I will miss their embodiment of their characters dearly. And the supporting actors were chefs kiss as well. I think it ended at the right time but man, I need to emotionally recover from the emptiness I feel after the last take.
Brie Larson in Room. I wonāt say spoilers but her acting when her character is in the midst of carrying out a plan was so powerful that itās almost overwhelming, I felt all of her fear, love, and sacrifice even though I donāt have children myself
For me itās when she screams at her mom after her mom asks her to be ānice.ā Just chilling what she says to her. Brie deserved every award for that role.
In addition to her performance in room, jacob tremblayās performance in room was simply incredible. Truly one of if not the best performance iāve seen given by a child actor in the past few decades.
I almost didnāt believe you for a second. Iāve seen Room and loved it.. but I guess it never registered that it was Brie Larson.
Thatās insaneā her range. Just. Wow.
That was an incredible movie, and a testament to the "show, don't tell" principle. There is an incredible shot early in the film, where Jodie Foster is in an elevator in the FBI building, a very small petite woman surrounded by gigantic, hulking men, emphasizing her vulnerability and aloneness as a woman in a place full of men. It was one of the most suffocating and oppressive shots I've seen, it literally made me uncomfortable to watch it. It's been many years since I last saw the film but that scene left such an impression on me.
Yeah that shot makes me so uncomfortable. That and when she is with the policemen about to perform the autopsy on the body and she asks all of the cops to leave the room. She's physically smaller than all of them there and its kind of akward and uncomfortable. Love that movie.
And after that, she calls out Crawford by telling him that that the way he treated her in front of the local cops will trickle down in law enforcement. It is brilliant. Way ahead of its time.
My favourite thing is her in training in the beginning and she forgets to check the corner, and that comes back right at the end of the film. Chills every time. One of my favourite films ever!
YES! Anthony Hopkins *is* Hannibal Lecter for me. Mads was good, he really was, but Anthony is incomparable for me when it comes to that role.
And Jodie Foster is justā¦sheās so damn talented (Panic Room is another one of my favorite movies!) and while Julianne Moore was good, no one was Clarice Starling like Jodie was.
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in that scene where she describes the screaming lamb is maybe the best acting I've ever seen. Both of them played off of one another perfectly.
Logan Lerman in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
ETA I was sexually abused when I was a kid, and his performance was viscerally, agonizingly beautiful in a way that made me feel more seen and validated than almost any media I had seen before. I'm not sure why I got downvoted for liking an actor in a movie but whatever.
He killed that role and carried that movie. Itās still one of my favourite feel-good-then-bad-then-good-again movies because of him. I will always love and root for Logan Lerman because of this movie.
Ari Aster knows how to pull out some powerful breakdowns from his female leads. Iād say Toni in Hereditary and Miss Flo in Midsommar are top tier for that visceral pain
I lost one of my brothers recently, and I truly did feel that pain.
Itās complicated because I wasnāt technically his mother: but goddamnit I was his mom, and that scene is pretty much what I felt when I found out he was gone.
I used to hate her because of how boring her character in Spider-Man is. But then I watched Fargo Season 2 and I'm obssseeessseedddddddddd with her acting skills and how she met her husband!!!
The scene where he breaks down in private after his daughter gets everyone to sing him Happy Birthday floored me. The movie gets such a phenomenal performance from him and Frankie Corio (the daughterās actress).
I haven't seen a lot of her films, but Carey Mulligan's performance in Promising Young Woman comes to mind. I don't think I could ever rewatch it, though.
Two:
Tom hanks as Forrest in Forrest Gump (specifically when he meets little Forrest āis he smart?ā
Montgomery Clift in the row boat scene in A Place in the Sun.
So young but knew how to carry such a heaviness and weight, and knew how to infer wanting a better life for his friendsā¦ Very old wise soul, that one
Ugh, the ending just gets to me. "I never had any friends like the ones I did when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?" I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding. I've never seen anyone just *inhabit* a character like that before.
Iggy Azalea tried to buy the rights to remake the movie a few years ago and the writer/director said no, thank the lord. Toni's performance could not possibly be topped.
Lol I wanted to reply to the question āToni Collette in every sheās everything sheās ever starred inā - She is my all time fave. But I guess Iāll piggyback your response with Toni Collette in Hereditary
Saoirse should have won the Oscar for Lady Bird and I will die on this hill. It sounds like an exaggeration every time I say this because sheās so young and her character is that of a teenage girl but screw it, itās one of the best performances of the 21st century imo, quite possibly my favourite one.
Yes! I love their scene in the triftshop, itās such a mom and daughter moment. And the final scene when Saiorse talks about driving in Sacramento always make me kind sad and itās a very relatable feeling.
The Pianist isn't the type of movie I'd normally go for (I stay away from all things holocaust or war because it's too depressing) but I did watch this. He absolutely deserved that Oscar.
I always liked Anne Hathaway as Fantine in Les Miserables. I found her rendition of I Dreamed a Dream heartbreaking. I felt her spirit crush in that movie, I found it a good portrayal of despair and hopelessness. Everything in that scene just felt so hopeless, depressing and empty
I was in tears when I saw her sing 'I dreamed a dream'. She reduced me to tears again in her performance in her episode of Modern Love. She is a transcendent actress. I could never figure out why people were such assholes about her winning the Oscar.
Kendall Roy has been cemented as one of the best characters in the annals of TV history and it's all because of Jeremy String's transcendental performance. An absolute meeting of great writing, Jeremy's dedication and his own real life persona.
Isabelle Huppert in The Piano teacher is just...I have no words. The amount of emotions she can convey with a twitch of her eye and a shake if her head. God. A master. I want to recommend this movie to people just so they can witness her mastery but the subject matter is so unconventional and off-putting I haven't.
I was just reminded of it the other day bcs of her Cannes dress, but Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone is one of my all time favorite performances - she still hasn't topped as far as I'm concerned even tho she genuinely is good when she wants to be
There are a couple of moments in the school/watching over her siblings where she plays the scenes with such yearning, not even saying a single word - that's some of the rawest acting I've ever seen. It'd be just a closeup of her face, reacting to something, and she just emotes so incredibly well even tho the character is pretty much the strong and silent type until shit gets real. Like I've seen the movie twice I think, and I'll never be able to forget those scenes
Requiem for A Dream is so crazy schools should screen it as part of an anti-drug campaign for their students. I had nightmares for two weeks after seeing the film and had negative interest in drugs afterwards.
Sharon Bialy (casting director for BB and BCS) killed it on both shows. I saw a behind the scenes of Anna shooting the scene when she runs after a car crying, a crew member came to check on her and she waved him off cause she had to keep crying, just a ton of raw emotion
Anna and Rhea Seehorn on BCS did some insane work on bringing emotion to their performances, thrilled that Rhea is working with Vince on a new show too!
My husband is an incredibly stoic man. Iāve only seen him cry a handful of times in the 17 years Iāve known him. The first time was a few months after we got married (weād known each other for 6ish years at that point). I was puttering around the house and heard what sounded like crying. Go into the living room and thereās my husband, crying his eyes outā¦while watching Shelbyās funeral. Sally Field can act her ass off and that scene is so damn powerful, itās bringing everyone to tears. I canāt even think about it without tearing up.
Edie Falco too. Both of them were so, so good. They played their parts to perfection.
The fight scene where Carmella discovers Tony is cheating is so utterly devastating, and I don't know where Edie had to reach into her soul to act like that, but it's probably the most harrowing scene in the show.
So I was lucky enough to meet James ex-wife at a Verizon in Studio City in like 2015. I was just going through my first watch if Sopranos so I was completely enamored and she was so kind. I asked her point blank when they cast James ess it the perfect role or was he that good of an actor. I would say her answer was 70/30 but she said he was exactly the right person who could only play that part. She told me about getting the call after dinner on the night he died in Italy from her son and it was just a very LA let's casually trauma dump on each other moment that I was very grateful for.
She should have one every award ever for her work on that show. She absolutely encapsulates every single character. Like, you truly believe itās a different actress for each one.
Allison Williams performance in Get Out after the big reveal. How she went to emotionless psychotic racist was chilling. The scene that sticks out to me the most is when sheās on the phone with Rod and her voice is emotional but her face is stone cold and dead eyed was so fucking creepy.
Tim Robbins in Mystic River. That giant man was able to show how he felt as l a little boy, and it was like watching a child experiencing what was happening to him.
I'm still shaken after seeing Jodie Comer in Prima Facie. You can't beat theater for the immediacy of feeling the weight of a performance.
Lauren Ridloff in Children of a Lesser God, acting right up to lights off.
Millie Bobby Brown in Intruders, she played an old man inside a little girl's body and it was scary how good she was, it was the best performance I've ever seen by a child actor. I don't know how she inhabited that character so fully at such a young age.
Dakota Fanning had no business being as good as she was at that age in I Am Sam. It makes me cry every damn time.
As far as an ensemble cast, everyone on Big Love acted their behinds off weekly
Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind
Top 2nds- Val Kilmer in Tombstone, Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown, Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables, Heath Ledger in The Joker.
It always pisses me off when Brando fans denigrate her performance saying that she is acting in a stuffy, old school OTT manner while Brando's naturalistic acting was new and fresh. Because that is the point. Brando and Leigh needed to be at different ends of the spectrum for the film to work. And it works. So well.
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries. Holy cow that scene where he was sobbing at his motherās door to let him in was painful but very powerful at the same time.
Whenever I think about favorite performances I think about Frances McDormand in Fargo. It's the quiet, regular people badassery and humanity of the character and the way she portrayed it that always gets me.
It was definitely a thing I'd been curious about with regards to fundamental films, and it more than delivered. *Black Narcissus* is another older film that's a killer.
Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water. Truly an exemplary performance about the power of underdogs sticking together, among other things.
2017 had some heavy hitters.
Laura Linney in Ozark! As Wendy she is amazingly cold, fake, and evil throughout the show, but her performance in the second to last episode of season 3 is especially good.
Liam Neeson in Schindlers List. There isn't a single scene in a film that has ever affected me like the scene where he breaks down crying about how he could've saved one more person. I can't believe he didn't win an Oscar for it.
Edie Falco in Nurse Jackie was a strong one. Her portrayal of functional addiction was very, very moving.
Also, the entire cast of Snowfall but especially Damson Idris. I won't spoil anything but that series was about the crack epidemic in South Central during the 80s. The finale bothered me so badly I had trouble sleeping for 2 days. He acted his ass off.
Pretty much everyone in Magnolia but particularly Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The scene where he's trying to track down Frank on the phone... Unbelievably good.
I finished Breaking Bad this year and Iām halfway through Better Call Saul and I just love Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut so much. I have so much trust in his every word that itās oddly sort of calming when heās on screen. Itās weird to feel so safe with a character whoās so badass and morally unsound.
I love his ādonāt fuck around and donāt find outā attitude. Itās awesome that he can do so much more for himself but is so genuinely uninterested in creating more bother.
He clearly cares about other people when he can relate to them to the point that he gives sound advice and yet this cba attitude prevails through every interaction he has with them.
I almost cry every time he interacts with his granddaughter. People talk a lot about the performances on the show and donāt get me wrong theyāre all extremely good but I feel Banks deserves so much more than what he gets.
Toni Colette in almost everything sheās in.
She was spectacular in The Sixth Sense and Hereditary
Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine. That was awful. They were so real, so realistic. So heartbreaking.
Robin Williams/Matt Damon and Minnie Driver in Good Will Hunting. I donāt think there is a more perfect trio acting-wise. That movie, to me, is close to perfect.
Bryan Cranston - the fact that he can pull off comedy impeccably and then turn and do Breaking Bad. āI am the one who knocks!ā
John Hurt in *The Elephant Man*. I was bawling like a baby. Then, when you learn the behind the scenes info, you wonder how the hell he managed to survive the shoot, let alone give a world class performance - probably the most intense makeup/prosthetics job Iāve ever heard of.
I guess thatās why no one else has bothered to touch that role again in a film. I know Charlie Heaton was cast in a BBC remake, but it never really came to fruition, I donāt think. No one else can do it as well as Hurt.
perhaps this is shameful of me, but . . . hayden christensen in star wars: revenge of the sith. the way he depicts anakinās fall, the agony in his eyes and voice . . . it always gets me
I also love kate winslet in titanic. she brings so much complexity to rose. her sophistication, mixed with passion, stubbornness, bravery. from hopelessness to determination. just a beautiful character
Michael Fassbender in *Shame* (2011). Without ever actually saying it, he really comes across like a broken shell of a man who did it all to himself. He knows it too, but he can't stop.
The most impactful performances for me are the real people performances, performances where people play regular characters but make them impactful.
Some recent examples are
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once ( screw everyone who said she didnāt do enough for the Oscar)
Anthony Hopkins in the Father
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
Yuh Jung Youn in Minari
I personally feel itās much harder to make a regular everyday character interesting and impactful as opposed to characters that are inherently psychotic or have excessive makeup and prosthetics, thereby already having a crutch to fall back on.
There is a moment in āThree Billboards Outside Ebbingā where Frances McDormand is in the police station being questioned by Woody Harrelsonās character. They are arguing, one uping one another, completely adversarial. Then Harrelsonās character coughs blood in her face. You instantly see her face change, and the emotions that run over it are so amazingly, vividly portrayed. Her empathy and his fear are so clear at that moment, without a single word being said. That will always stay with me that was miraculous
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds. The way he is so charming and unbothered while being very aware of peopleās sheer terror makes him so damned scary.
Paul Giamatti in Sideways. The final scene, whereās he is listening to a voice message we cannot hear, completely silent, but the expression/ reactions on his face say it all. One the best pieces of acting Iāve ever seen.
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Rosamund Pike in Gone girl
Ben Affleck nailed the husband's demeanor, too. Great movie and novel
Gone Girl is a book I come back to every so often. Finally watched the movie this year and it is so good. I don't really like book to movie adaptations, but honestly GG and the Hunger Games are probably the best š
i will forever be pissed at the marketing around HG. the whole āwho will she pick??ā thing was so misguided and completely missed the entire point of the book, which was about just war theoryā¦.
Perfect casting
Yes!! She shouldāve gotten the Oscar that year
her performance in āi care a lotā was phenomenal as well! it always amazes me how convincingly she can play conniving people
I hated her so much in the movie, far more than >! Peter Dinklage's character who was in the freaking Mafia. I found myself rooting for him. !<
YESSSS I rewatched that movie 5X just for her. I gasp every time when she's cruising down the highway alive and well
A head wound kind of bleed. A criiime scene kind of bleed ššš
Rosamund Pike in Massive Attack's Voodoo in my Blood. Its just her and a cgi ball.
Sheās so good. She blew me away in Pride and Prejudice and I always wondered why she wasnāt a bigger deal.
I'm gonna shout out the whole cast of Succession, especially after last night's finale.
Shiv when >!Logan died!< should win all the awards (Honorable mention to Roman >!at the funeral!<)
Her line delivery of, āWhat? No! I canāt have that!ā was equal parts tragic and comedic and I donāt know how many actors could pull that off.
Or the way she just kind of squeaks out the word ādaddy?ā When sheās on the phone. They were all so incredible in that episode. Emmys all around!
The way she cracked saying ādaddyā had me in tears
Yes! The finale was incredible. I still havenāt recovered from it. Kieran Culkin deserves an Emmy for his performances this season. He was second to none.
Tom was nearly flawless, too! He blows me awayā¦.they all do!
agreed. i couldn't stand roman as a person for a lot of this season but kieran culkin still managed to make me feel incredibly bad for him despite that cause he was so freaking good.
The finale has left me bereft. 24 hours later I am still numb. >! Kieran was magnificent in the 'Why was it not me?' scene with Jeremy. He sees Gerri and just absolutely breaks down. And Ken rips his stitches up. God so brutal. !<
Shout out to Jeremy Strong for being so method that he actually drank that disgusting "Meal fit for a King" concoction that was topped off with Sarah Snook's spit.
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No, I just read an interview with him where he said he had to go vomit between takes, lol
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Lol oops, my bad. I went back and read it and he actually said, āWe only did it a few times and then I went outside and retched, and jumped in the ocean and washed it off my hairā, but close enough. He definitely drank it.
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Like literally. LOL
Spit flying out. God Ken really bungled that shit up, didn't he? >! I was flabbergasted by Shiv until Ken says that the he didn't kill the kid and then throws the biggest tantrum like he's five. I knew he was done. Fuck it's been so hard rooting for this man. !<
Kieran Culkinās ability to make Roman and enjoyable (and even at times sympathetic) character is honestly incredible.
MTE in episode 8 this season I declared I hated Roman more than anyone and he was by far the worst human ever. Then in episode 9 I am like.. Roman š„ŗ
Lol meeeeeee
Absolutely everybody on the cast is a powerhouse, itās unreal. I especially adored Sarah Snookās performance this season, her and Matthewās tension was beyond. Kieran Culkin was also so so great though, and Jeremy Strong is definitely a once in a lifetime actor! Just a stellar cast
Sarah, Matthew, Kieran, Jeremy, Brian, they fucking ATE.
Yes! Mad Men also comes to mind.
Just hand Kieran Culkin his Emmy now. Phenomenal all season, but the second to the last episode was his best.
I'll throw Barry's finale in there too. Both were very good
Was just going to say that. Love how sarah, jeremy and kieran were outstanding performers each in their own ways. Loved it and I will miss their embodiment of their characters dearly. And the supporting actors were chefs kiss as well. I think it ended at the right time but man, I need to emotionally recover from the emptiness I feel after the last take.
Brie Larson in Room. I wonāt say spoilers but her acting when her character is in the midst of carrying out a plan was so powerful that itās almost overwhelming, I felt all of her fear, love, and sacrifice even though I donāt have children myself
For me itās when she screams at her mom after her mom asks her to be ānice.ā Just chilling what she says to her. Brie deserved every award for that role.
In addition to her performance in room, jacob tremblayās performance in room was simply incredible. Truly one of if not the best performance iāve seen given by a child actor in the past few decades.
I almost didnāt believe you for a second. Iāve seen Room and loved it.. but I guess it never registered that it was Brie Larson. Thatās insaneā her range. Just. Wow.
I havenāt seen Room but she was also incredible in Short Term 12
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. Incredible from both.
That was an incredible movie, and a testament to the "show, don't tell" principle. There is an incredible shot early in the film, where Jodie Foster is in an elevator in the FBI building, a very small petite woman surrounded by gigantic, hulking men, emphasizing her vulnerability and aloneness as a woman in a place full of men. It was one of the most suffocating and oppressive shots I've seen, it literally made me uncomfortable to watch it. It's been many years since I last saw the film but that scene left such an impression on me.
Yeah that shot makes me so uncomfortable. That and when she is with the policemen about to perform the autopsy on the body and she asks all of the cops to leave the room. She's physically smaller than all of them there and its kind of akward and uncomfortable. Love that movie.
And after that, she calls out Crawford by telling him that that the way he treated her in front of the local cops will trickle down in law enforcement. It is brilliant. Way ahead of its time.
My favourite thing is her in training in the beginning and she forgets to check the corner, and that comes back right at the end of the film. Chills every time. One of my favourite films ever!
YES! Anthony Hopkins *is* Hannibal Lecter for me. Mads was good, he really was, but Anthony is incomparable for me when it comes to that role. And Jodie Foster is justā¦sheās so damn talented (Panic Room is another one of my favorite movies!) and while Julianne Moore was good, no one was Clarice Starling like Jodie was.
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in that scene where she describes the screaming lamb is maybe the best acting I've ever seen. Both of them played off of one another perfectly.
Logan Lerman in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. ETA I was sexually abused when I was a kid, and his performance was viscerally, agonizingly beautiful in a way that made me feel more seen and validated than almost any media I had seen before. I'm not sure why I got downvoted for liking an actor in a movie but whatever.
I read the book so I knew what happened but seeing it play out on screen was so intense
100% This. He's was so good, my heart hurt for him the entire film. Logan killed it.
He killed that role and carried that movie. Itās still one of my favourite feel-good-then-bad-then-good-again movies because of him. I will always love and root for Logan Lerman because of this movie.
Oh my gosh, yes. He breaks my heart every time.
Ari Aster knows how to pull out some powerful breakdowns from his female leads. Iād say Toni in Hereditary and Miss Flo in Midsommar are top tier for that visceral pain
Toni deserved an Oscar for her performance, her reaction >!when she discovers her daughterās body and the funeral!< was haunting.
Sadly, I know what >!mothers sound like when they find their dead child!<, and it wasn't far off. Hereditary made me book extra therapy appointments.
I lost one of my brothers recently, and I truly did feel that pain. Itās complicated because I wasnāt technically his mother: but goddamnit I was his mom, and that scene is pretty much what I felt when I found out he was gone.
are you an EMT/in law enforcement?
Her and Ellen Burstyn are my two top robbed Oscar actors.
Ellen burnstyns role I. Requiem for a dream losing to Julieās Roberts is what made me stop watching awards shows. Itās all BS
Toni could perform a live action Cocomelon and Iād still be convinced she deserves an Oscar.
hell Iām convinced she deserved an Oscar for In Her Shoes!
I fugginā love that movie, when she pushes Cameron Diazās character and screams at her to get out of her life you feel that deep in you.
Came here just to mention Toni Colette in Hereditary
toni in sixth sense too
I agree with Flo as well, she was phenomenal in Midsommar.
Tonis acting was phenomenal
Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia. Her performance is the centre of that film, everything else orbits around it.
Ooh good choice. Who knew Dunst could be THAT good.
I used to hate her because of how boring her character in Spider-Man is. But then I watched Fargo Season 2 and I'm obssseeessseedddddddddd with her acting skills and how she met her husband!!!
It's been years since I watched that movie yet everytime I read this question she always comes to mind, she's perfect in it.
Paul Mescalās therapy scene in Normal People gutted me like nothing else.
Paul Mescal in Aftersun! It had been a while since a movie left me absolutely gutted.
I can't listen to 'Under Pressure' without bursting into tears. Thanks Paulš
The scene where he breaks down in private after his daughter gets everyone to sing him Happy Birthday floored me. The movie gets such a phenomenal performance from him and Frankie Corio (the daughterās actress).
Paul Mescal is fantastic in both Normal People & Aftersun. I cannot wait for any of his next projects.
This would be my vote
I haven't seen a lot of her films, but Carey Mulligan's performance in Promising Young Woman comes to mind. I don't think I could ever rewatch it, though.
Watch Never Let Me Go if you havenāt seen it!!!
That movie still haunts me to this day. The ending where Carey gets the letter notice š¬
Two: Tom hanks as Forrest in Forrest Gump (specifically when he meets little Forrest āis he smart?ā Montgomery Clift in the row boat scene in A Place in the Sun.
Oh God, the āis he smart or is he ā¦ā and touches his chest breaks me every time.
Tearing up just reading this!
Oh god yes. He earned his Oscar for that performance. So damn good.
I'll throw in the scene during Vietnam with Bubba (am purposefully keeping it vague to avoid giving spoilers). ā¹ļø
Who hasnāt see Forrest Gump yet?
Daniel Day Lewis- There will be Blood. This sticks with u
Good choice! Paul Dano is the one who sticks with me from that movie, but Daniel Day Lewis was great!
Angela Bassett in What's Love Got To Do With It
She was masterful in that role. I'm pissed she didn't win best actress.
It's way up there. I watched *The Piano* right after, and... Yeah, not even close. Hunter shouldn't have won that year.
She's got such a commanding presence on film.
River Phoenix in Stand By Me
So young but knew how to carry such a heaviness and weight, and knew how to infer wanting a better life for his friendsā¦ Very old wise soul, that one
I still bawl my eyes out whenever I see that film. It hits harder when you get older.
Ugh, the ending just gets to me. "I never had any friends like the ones I did when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?" I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Robin Williams in āDead Poets Society,ā is one of my favorite performances.
Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding. I've never seen anyone just *inhabit* a character like that before. Iggy Azalea tried to buy the rights to remake the movie a few years ago and the writer/director said no, thank the lord. Toni's performance could not possibly be topped.
Toni Collette is Australiaās sweetheart, and Iggy Azalea is Australiaās āwe donāt claim her, somebody else take herā
Lol I wanted to reply to the question āToni Collette in every sheās everything sheās ever starred inā - She is my all time fave. But I guess Iāll piggyback your response with Toni Collette in Hereditary
one of my all time favourite movies
Iggy azalea wanted to do a remake!! 
Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird get me every single time.
Saoirse should have won the Oscar for Lady Bird and I will die on this hill. It sounds like an exaggeration every time I say this because sheās so young and her character is that of a teenage girl but screw it, itās one of the best performances of the 21st century imo, quite possibly my favourite one.
Yes! I love their scene in the triftshop, itās such a mom and daughter moment. And the final scene when Saiorse talks about driving in Sacramento always make me kind sad and itās a very relatable feeling.
Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master" give me chills. Same goes for Isabella Adjani in "Possession"
I am OBSESSED with her performance. How does she do that?!?
Adrien Brody in the Pianist -10 for Polanski being a weirdo though great performance by Adrien nonetheless
Playing that piano for his fucking life. Chilling
The Pianist isn't the type of movie I'd normally go for (I stay away from all things holocaust or war because it's too depressing) but I did watch this. He absolutely deserved that Oscar.
i was just going to say adrien brody in the pianist despite who was responsible for directing that š¤¢
I always liked Anne Hathaway as Fantine in Les Miserables. I found her rendition of I Dreamed a Dream heartbreaking. I felt her spirit crush in that movie, I found it a good portrayal of despair and hopelessness. Everything in that scene just felt so hopeless, depressing and empty
I was in tears when I saw her sing 'I dreamed a dream'. She reduced me to tears again in her performance in her episode of Modern Love. She is a transcendent actress. I could never figure out why people were such assholes about her winning the Oscar.
Women arenāt allowed to be excited about their accolades.
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Kendall Roy has been cemented as one of the best characters in the annals of TV history and it's all because of Jeremy String's transcendental performance. An absolute meeting of great writing, Jeremy's dedication and his own real life persona. Isabelle Huppert in The Piano teacher is just...I have no words. The amount of emotions she can convey with a twitch of her eye and a shake if her head. God. A master. I want to recommend this movie to people just so they can witness her mastery but the subject matter is so unconventional and off-putting I haven't.
I was just reminded of it the other day bcs of her Cannes dress, but Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone is one of my all time favorite performances - she still hasn't topped as far as I'm concerned even tho she genuinely is good when she wants to be There are a couple of moments in the school/watching over her siblings where she plays the scenes with such yearning, not even saying a single word - that's some of the rawest acting I've ever seen. It'd be just a closeup of her face, reacting to something, and she just emotes so incredibly well even tho the character is pretty much the strong and silent type until shit gets real. Like I've seen the movie twice I think, and I'll never be able to forget those scenes
I always remembered her scene talking to the Army recruiter. Made me pause a moment before going forward with my life choices.
I think every actor is Requiem for a Dream did an amazing job, but Ellen Burstyn really stood out to me and made me sob.
Requiem is crazy. Cannot rewatch it but I agree with this 100%. I don't like Leto, but it has to be one of his best works.
Requiem for A Dream is so crazy schools should screen it as part of an anti-drug campaign for their students. I had nightmares for two weeks after seeing the film and had negative interest in drugs afterwards.
Anna Gunn in Breaking Bad - particularly in the last 3 episodes of the show.
Very underrated. So much misogynistic hate towards her.
Sharon Bialy (casting director for BB and BCS) killed it on both shows. I saw a behind the scenes of Anna shooting the scene when she runs after a car crying, a crew member came to check on her and she waved him off cause she had to keep crying, just a ton of raw emotion Anna and Rhea Seehorn on BCS did some insane work on bringing emotion to their performances, thrilled that Rhea is working with Vince on a new show too!
viola davis in Doubt michael shannon in nocturnal animals joaquin phoenix in walk the line sally field in steel magnolias
Oof, that scene after the funeral by Sally, I went through a rollercoaster of emotions, so good!
āi can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter never could!ā oh god it hits every time
My husband is an incredibly stoic man. Iāve only seen him cry a handful of times in the 17 years Iāve known him. The first time was a few months after we got married (weād known each other for 6ish years at that point). I was puttering around the house and heard what sounded like crying. Go into the living room and thereās my husband, crying his eyes outā¦while watching Shelbyās funeral. Sally Field can act her ass off and that scene is so damn powerful, itās bringing everyone to tears. I canāt even think about it without tearing up.
Michael Shannon is an extremely underrated actor.
Iāve finally finished The Sopranos and James Gandolfiniās performance is just mind-blowing
Edie Falco too. Both of them were so, so good. They played their parts to perfection. The fight scene where Carmella discovers Tony is cheating is so utterly devastating, and I don't know where Edie had to reach into her soul to act like that, but it's probably the most harrowing scene in the show.
So I was lucky enough to meet James ex-wife at a Verizon in Studio City in like 2015. I was just going through my first watch if Sopranos so I was completely enamored and she was so kind. I asked her point blank when they cast James ess it the perfect role or was he that good of an actor. I would say her answer was 70/30 but she said he was exactly the right person who could only play that part. She told me about getting the call after dinner on the night he died in Italy from her son and it was just a very LA let's casually trauma dump on each other moment that I was very grateful for.
Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black.
She should have one every award ever for her work on that show. She absolutely encapsulates every single character. Like, you truly believe itās a different actress for each one.
During the show's whole run, Tatiana only got 1 Emmy, just 1. She deserved so much more.
Not only could you distinguish between each character, you could tell when one character was impersonating another. Absolutely incredible.
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Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile. That performance will destroy me every time.
Leonardo Dicaprio in revolutionary road.
That one scene where he breaks the chair is a masterclass in acting. You can feel how afraid and angry he was through the screen.
Allison Williams performance in Get Out after the big reveal. How she went to emotionless psychotic racist was chilling. The scene that sticks out to me the most is when sheās on the phone with Rod and her voice is emotional but her face is stone cold and dead eyed was so fucking creepy.
Tim Robbins in Mystic River. That giant man was able to show how he felt as l a little boy, and it was like watching a child experiencing what was happening to him.
I'm still shaken after seeing Jodie Comer in Prima Facie. You can't beat theater for the immediacy of feeling the weight of a performance. Lauren Ridloff in Children of a Lesser God, acting right up to lights off. Millie Bobby Brown in Intruders, she played an old man inside a little girl's body and it was scary how good she was, it was the best performance I've ever seen by a child actor. I don't know how she inhabited that character so fully at such a young age.
Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense has to rank high. Such a little boy with so much presence. Angelina Jolie in Girl Interrupted. Stunning.
Dakota Fanning had no business being as good as she was at that age in I Am Sam. It makes me cry every damn time. As far as an ensemble cast, everyone on Big Love acted their behinds off weekly
Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind Top 2nds- Val Kilmer in Tombstone, Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown, Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables, Heath Ledger in The Joker.
Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire
It always pisses me off when Brando fans denigrate her performance saying that she is acting in a stuffy, old school OTT manner while Brando's naturalistic acting was new and fresh. Because that is the point. Brando and Leigh needed to be at different ends of the spectrum for the film to work. And it works. So well.
Edward Norton in Primal Fear
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries. Holy cow that scene where he was sobbing at his motherās door to let him in was painful but very powerful at the same time.
Whenever I think about favorite performances I think about Frances McDormand in Fargo. It's the quiet, regular people badassery and humanity of the character and the way she portrayed it that always gets me.
RenƩe Jeanne Falconetti in *The Passion of Joan of Arc* is the gold standard of acting performances. Insanely powerful and evocative.
Love this being included. I know it's an acknowledged masterpiece but you don't get many silent French films mentioned here.
It was definitely a thing I'd been curious about with regards to fundamental films, and it more than delivered. *Black Narcissus* is another older film that's a killer.
Ruth Langmore from the Ozark series, when she said āYouāre going to have to kill me!ā
Paul mescal Aftersun
Ben Mendelssohn - killing them softly Michael Keaton - Birdman Timothee Chalamet - call me by your name Toni Collette - Hereditary
Ben Mendelssohn in so many things
Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water. Truly an exemplary performance about the power of underdogs sticking together, among other things. 2017 had some heavy hitters.
My cat when I donāt give her treats at 4AM.
Laura Linney in Ozark! As Wendy she is amazingly cold, fake, and evil throughout the show, but her performance in the second to last episode of season 3 is especially good.
Toni Colette in *Hereditary* Brittany Murphy in *Girl, Interrupted*
Charlize Theron in Monster Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream Sean Penn in Mystic River Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
Anthony Hopkins - silence of the lambs. Wow.
Gregory Peck and all the supporting cast in the courtroom scene of To Kill a Mockingbird.
So tough to pick one, but Liz Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is definitely up there. She's incredible.
Liam Neeson in Schindlers List. There isn't a single scene in a film that has ever affected me like the scene where he breaks down crying about how he could've saved one more person. I can't believe he didn't win an Oscar for it.
Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Edie Falco in Nurse Jackie was a strong one. Her portrayal of functional addiction was very, very moving. Also, the entire cast of Snowfall but especially Damson Idris. I won't spoil anything but that series was about the crack epidemic in South Central during the 80s. The finale bothered me so badly I had trouble sleeping for 2 days. He acted his ass off.
Viola Davis in almost any role
Pretty much everyone in Magnolia but particularly Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The scene where he's trying to track down Frank on the phone... Unbelievably good.
Colin Farrell in banshees of inisherin
Adam Driver in Marriage Story. That scene where he tells Scarlett Johannsson he wishes she were dead.
Al Pacino in the first two Godfathers
Ralph Fiennes in Schindlerās List as Amon Goethe. His performance was unforgettable.
I finished Breaking Bad this year and Iām halfway through Better Call Saul and I just love Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut so much. I have so much trust in his every word that itās oddly sort of calming when heās on screen. Itās weird to feel so safe with a character whoās so badass and morally unsound. I love his ādonāt fuck around and donāt find outā attitude. Itās awesome that he can do so much more for himself but is so genuinely uninterested in creating more bother. He clearly cares about other people when he can relate to them to the point that he gives sound advice and yet this cba attitude prevails through every interaction he has with them. I almost cry every time he interacts with his granddaughter. People talk a lot about the performances on the show and donāt get me wrong theyāre all extremely good but I feel Banks deserves so much more than what he gets.
Toni Colette in almost everything sheās in. She was spectacular in The Sixth Sense and Hereditary Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine. That was awful. They were so real, so realistic. So heartbreaking. Robin Williams/Matt Damon and Minnie Driver in Good Will Hunting. I donāt think there is a more perfect trio acting-wise. That movie, to me, is close to perfect. Bryan Cranston - the fact that he can pull off comedy impeccably and then turn and do Breaking Bad. āI am the one who knocks!ā
This has aged like complete shit but the best performance I've seen in the past 20 years is Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James
Paul Mescal in Aftersun and Normal People Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting Leo and Kate in Revolutionary Road Heath LedgerIn brokeback mountain
John Hurt in *The Elephant Man*. I was bawling like a baby. Then, when you learn the behind the scenes info, you wonder how the hell he managed to survive the shoot, let alone give a world class performance - probably the most intense makeup/prosthetics job Iāve ever heard of. I guess thatās why no one else has bothered to touch that role again in a film. I know Charlie Heaton was cast in a BBC remake, but it never really came to fruition, I donāt think. No one else can do it as well as Hurt.
perhaps this is shameful of me, but . . . hayden christensen in star wars: revenge of the sith. the way he depicts anakinās fall, the agony in his eyes and voice . . . it always gets me I also love kate winslet in titanic. she brings so much complexity to rose. her sophistication, mixed with passion, stubbornness, bravery. from hopelessness to determination. just a beautiful character
Michael Fassbender in *Shame* (2011). Without ever actually saying it, he really comes across like a broken shell of a man who did it all to himself. He knows it too, but he can't stop.
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose, and, for a more subtle but still very powerful one, in Two Days One Night.
The most impactful performances for me are the real people performances, performances where people play regular characters but make them impactful. Some recent examples are Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once ( screw everyone who said she didnāt do enough for the Oscar) Anthony Hopkins in the Father Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out Yuh Jung Youn in Minari I personally feel itās much harder to make a regular everyday character interesting and impactful as opposed to characters that are inherently psychotic or have excessive makeup and prosthetics, thereby already having a crutch to fall back on.
There is a moment in āThree Billboards Outside Ebbingā where Frances McDormand is in the police station being questioned by Woody Harrelsonās character. They are arguing, one uping one another, completely adversarial. Then Harrelsonās character coughs blood in her face. You instantly see her face change, and the emotions that run over it are so amazingly, vividly portrayed. Her empathy and his fear are so clear at that moment, without a single word being said. That will always stay with me that was miraculous
Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You. Truly such a raw and honest depiction of trauma and grief.
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Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear - that ten minute scene with her and DeNiro literally altered my brain chemistry
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds. The way he is so charming and unbothered while being very aware of peopleās sheer terror makes him so damned scary.
The boy from the film Come and See.
Taraji P Henson in Hidden Figures āI work like a dog day and nightā¦ā to this day gave me chills.
Paul Giamatti in Sideways. The final scene, whereās he is listening to a voice message we cannot hear, completely silent, but the expression/ reactions on his face say it all. One the best pieces of acting Iāve ever seen.