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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 04:00 PM
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Best Performance Ever in a Motion Picture?
I just watched Amadeus again, and a good case can be made could for F. Murray Abraham as Salieri.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 04:18 PM
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1. Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull
He set the standard for personal sacrifice for art.
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 04:27 PM
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2. Gene Hackman..... Superman....
Stole the show as Lex Luthor. Even though the role was way beneath his standing as an actor, he could have mailed it in but instead ran away with it.
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AmyDeLune Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 04:28 PM
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3. Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird. n/t
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 04:36 PM
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4. Orson Welles in Citizen Kane and also in Othello; Peter O'Toole as Lawrence
Christopher Plummer in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; one could make the argument for Orson Welles in Macbeth and Orson Welles in Touch of Evil as well.

Anthony Hopkins in Titus.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 04:37 PM
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5. Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
or Will Sampson as Chief Bromden in the same pic. "Umm, juicy fruit"
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 05:33 PM
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6. Ray Milland, "The Lost Weekend;" Lamberto Maggiorani, "The Bicycle Thief;" Martin Landau, "Ed Wood"
also Bette Davis in "All About Eve" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and Marlon Brando in "On The Waterfront" and James Dean in "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause"
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