I really like acting a lot, probably more than I should anyhow :p ... but here are a couple of my favorite moments in acting history


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmerFuzRNZ4

One of the best moments in acting history right here.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjXTieWKyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PxG5zvgOM

Hard to believe that this is the same guy who starred in "Bad Santa" . . .
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Meryl Streeps performance in August Osage County was scary good. Im shocked she didnt win the Oscar.

Also, anything with the late Phillip Seymore Hoffman is great.

Morgan Freeman in 'Shawshank'.

Topol...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRIaNHkechs

Marlon Brando in Mutiny on the Bounty played Christian too a tee and Trevor Howard was great as Capt Bligh as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3vtKU9bi10

Tim Curry did a helluva job in Rocky Horror, not exactly my genre of movies but his portrayal was superb.

This man is a genius. And versatile, too.
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This guy is pretty versatile, as well.
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Christolph Waltz (colonel Hans Landa) in Inglourious Basterds. The opening sequence of dialog, where he is just talking with the French farmer, actually made the hair on the back of my neck stand up the first time I saw it. The character he plays is somehow charismatic and entirely evil at the same time.

Ed Norton pretty much all the time. The first time I saw him, in Primal Fear (especially after the final scene), I remember thinking this guys going to be huge. Also great in Fight Club and American History X.

Agree, Heath Ledger as the Joker was mind blowing.

Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.

Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood.

Mickey Rourke did a surprisingly awesome job in The Wrestler. That is such a sad, sad movie.

Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones. There was a scene earlier this season that involved some back and forth dialog between his character and his father in open court that just blew me away. He's been fantastic this entire series, but the acting in that episode, which had an homage to / had me thinking about the monster from Frankenstein, was just amazing.

Some other actors who have had amazing moments, and I think are going to land an amazing role one day, are Benedict Cumberbatch (he is fantastic in Sherlock, and as the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness he had a dialog scene where he cried on command that was jaw dropping) who just needs to land an appropriately big role, and Michael Fassbender who's been great in everything he's ever done but also just needs to land something a little less "genre."

Just my thoughts anyway.

Christolph Waltz (colonel Hans Landa) in Inglourious Basterds. The opening sequence of dialog.

Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones. There was a scene earlier this season that involved some back and forth dialog between his character and his father in open court that just blew me away. He's been fantastic this entire series, but the acting in that episode, which had an homage to / had me thinking about the monster from Frankenstein, was just amazing.

Yes!! Both of these guys are amazing! Dinklage doesn't quite have the english accent down, but he makes up for it in his acting.

Christolph Waltz (colonel Hans Landa) in Inglourious Basterds. The opening sequence of dialog, where he is just talking with the French farmer, actually made the hair on the back of my neck stand up the first time I saw it. The character he plays is somehow charismatic and entirely evil at the same time.

Speaking of which . . .
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This gentleman plays just as well in Fargo as he does in Vegas . . .
Bill Macy . . . not Mr. Baldin . . . =)
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So many GREATS in this one...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmIJvNSQdg

Lee Marvin in "The Big Red One".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opiv1x_B60A

Anything Roger Moore did as James Bond........ :Smiley122

I haven't heard of half of these people from current movies and TV. That reflects my age - nothing else. :)

The best acting I have ever seen would probably come from movies involving one or more of these people...no particular order.

Robert De Niro
Michael Caine
Lauren Bacall
Jack Nicholson
Robert Duvall
Jimmy Stewart
Meryl Streep
Tom Hanks
Judi Dench
Gene Hackman
Fredric March
Ingrid Bergman
Anthony Hopkins

All greats to me.

The Dude, in the dark shirt in this clip, has proven, over time, that he ain't no slouch, neither . . .
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Anything Roger Moore did as James Bond........ :Smiley122

With the possible exception of View to a Kill......which I realize really wasn't Moore's fault....but it was a cruddy way for him to exit the Bond series.....

This scene, from the best use of film ever made, proves that Liam Neeson is a great actor.
He could play this . . . followed up by scads of goofy buffoonery/action movies.
And the bad guy was pretty good in the scene, too.

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Two of The Greats (in terms of acting) In Action:

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(I might have edited the line to: "We Are Here To PROTECT (rather than " to observe") Democracy" yet . . . that's a battle I cannot win. =)

The Dude, in the dark shirt in this clip, has proven, over time, that he ain't no slouch, neither . . .
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One of the most underrated actors of our time. Whatever character he's playing, you believe he is that character. It's not over the top, it's just believable. Whether he's Duane Jackson or The Dude or Bad Blake or Obadiah Stane or Jack Lucas or many other characters he's played through the years.

Wonder what ever happened to these fellas...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob2DIURBXts

Charles Laughton in any movie he did.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_-pnXC8NU

Hard not to love Heath Ledger as the Joker, but his turn in "Brokeback Mountain" was spectacular as well.

Michael Fassbender in just about anything he does is superb, and of particular note, his turn in "Shame" is an absolute stand-out. I still get chills thinking about that role, not because of what he did, but because of how he pulled his character back from any emotional investment given his complete dysfunction and inability to connect with any "real" person outside of an abusive situation. On that same point, Carey Mulligan's role as his equally dysfunctional sister is spellbinding, as well. This film made me squirm with extreme discomfort, and not during the obvious scenes where detached and broken people were engaged in raw and callous sexual acts, but in very chaste scenes where their complete inability to function on any "normal" emotional level was brought to the surface. I genuinely believe Fassbender would have won the Oscar for that role had he been nominated, but the subject matter was perhaps a bit too on edge for most Academy voters. This film haunts me for so many reasons, but most notably the subtle turn of these performances, which were some of the best I've ever seen.

Another performance I can never fail to recognize was Forrest Whitaker in his Oscar-winning turn as Idi Amin in "The Last King Of Scotland." I saw the film when it came out and said at the time he would win an Oscar for that role, and he did. He held the character on a knife's edge the entire way through and you never knew which way he was to turn, literally and figuratively. Truly outstanding work.

My perennial favorite, however, is indie actor John Hawkes, who became known to me during his stint on HBO's now defunt "Deadwood." His range is remarkable and he's been spellbinding in just about everything I've seen him in. An actor who is quiet, but draws you in with his intensity. "Winter's Bone," "Martha Marcy May Marlene," and "The Sessions" (he was nominated for an Oscar for this) are all worth watching.

Felicity Huffman in her role as a transgendered woman in "Transamerica" is also worth a look.

Most "actors" are capable of emoting and selling their work on screen, but it's rare for an actor to bring you into their character with raw intensity, as if wrestling some great beast under the surface and pulling you in for the fight. To me, this is the mark of a great actor far more than someone who can just chew scenery.

I put some work into this article to come up with my favorite nine well acted boxing movies. Lots of clips:

Silliman's Nine Favorite Well-Acted Boxing Movies | Bleacher Report (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/546538-sillimans-favorite-well-acted-boxing-movies)

William H Macy as Bill Porter in door to door

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIKxmCp_fho

Stephen Root.

That dude is in EVERYTHING. And has played the full range very, very well. And 90% of you will have to google him to see who I'm talking about. Only 23% of you will admit this.

I put some work into this article to come up with my favorite nine well acted boxing movies. Lots of clips:

Silliman's Nine Favorite Well-Acted Boxing Movies | Bleacher Report (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/546538-sillimans-favorite-well-acted-boxing-movies)


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/546538-sillimans-favorite-well-acted-boxing-movies/page/2

Stephen Root.

That dude is in EVERYTHING. And has played the full range very, very well. And 90% of you will have to google him to see who I'm talking about. Only 23% of you will admit this.

Dude. You think you're the only one that's seen Office Space or News Radio? We know who he is.

I know what you're thinking. But when I think of outstanding acting
this is the first movie that comes to mind. Seriously.

@8:00 "he doesn't want me, he want's the other monkey!" Then
what follows...

By the way, the grand father of a very good friend of mine did the
sound for many of these.

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I haven't heard of half of these people from current movies and TV.
That reflects my age - nothing else. :)

The best acting I have ever seen would probably come from movies
involving one or more of these people... no particular order.

Robert De Niro
Michael Caine
Lauren Bacall
Jack Nicholson
Robert Duvall
Jimmy Stewart
Meryl Streep
Tom Hanks
Judi Dench
Gene Hackman
Fredric March
Ingrid Bergman
Anthony Hopkins

All greats to me.
A very, very good list.

I'd add to your list:
John Wayne
Humphrey Bogart
Debbie Reynolds (she could do it all while blind folded)
Lionel Barrymore (he could act better sitting in a wheel chair than
most actors could standing up)
Cary Grant (who I believe would have made a fantastic James Bond)
James Cagney
Edward G. Robinson
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford (if you name Bette you must name Joan)
Orson Wells
Paul Newman
And when I think of "A Touch of Evil" Charlton Heston.

Supporting Actors
Edward Everett Horton
Jack Carson
Ben Johnson
George Kennedy

I'm a John Wayne fan. I can't think of a single western without
him coming to mind.

Case in point "The Searchers". He makes my skin crawl.
The Quiet Man.
True Grit.
Rooster Cogburn.

Freddie Highmore has a knack for portraying a creepy MF'er in Bates Motel.

Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York was pretty good.

I'm a John Wayne fan. I can't think of a single western without
him coming to mind.

Case in point "The Searchers". He makes my skin crawl.
The Quiet Man.
True Grit.
Rooster Cogburn.

About the only movie John Wayne didn't play the same character in was one of my favorites, The Quiet Man

In Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Keanu Reeves had me totally convinced he was a brain dead stoner. Amazing job. I haven't seen any of his other movies but I can only assume he's turned in the same amazing caliber of performance.

LeBron?