Greatest Screen Performances per Film Actors

[Tim]

Forgot Lonesome Dove for Duvall (RIP) list. How about #6?

[ManPerson]

The Color of Money is at #10, so that I guess.

[Dubrow555]

Timothée Chalamet?:

1. Marty Supreme
2. Call Me by Your Name
3. A Complete Unknown
4. Beautiful Boy
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Dune
7. Wonka
8. Bones and All
9. The King
10. Little Women

(alternates: Lady Bird, Interstellar, The French Dispatch)

[Dubrow555]

Forgot Lonesome Dove for Duvall (RIP) list. How about #6?

Word for word something my mom texted me yesterday: "Saw a little blurb on news. Glad he went peacefully at age 95. Can't believe they said nothing about his roll on TV miniseries Lonesome Dove. That was huge."

[ManPerson]

Timothée Chalamet?:

1. Marty Supreme
2. Call Me by Your Name
3. A Complete Unknown
4. Beautiful Boy
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Dune
7. Wonka
8. Bones and All
9. The King
10. Little Women

(alternates: Lady Bird, Interstellar, The French Dispatch)

Forgot Lonesome Dove for Duvall (RIP) list. How about #6?

I support both of these.

[Tim]

Robert Downey Jr. (1965-)
1. Chaplin (1992)
2. Tropic Thunder (2008)
3. Oppenheimer (2023)
4. Less Than Zero (1987)
5. Iron Man (2008)
6. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
7. Zodiac (2007)
8. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
9. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
10. Ally McBeal (2000-2002)

Joaquin Phoenix (1974-)
1. The Master (2012)
2. Joker (2019)
3. Walk the Line (2005)
4. Gladiator (2000)
5. Her (2013)
6. You Were Never Really Here (2017)
7. Beau Is Afraid (2023)
8. C'mon C'mon (2021)
9. Inherent Vice (2014)
10. Two Lovers (2008)

Jim Carrey (1962-)
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. The Truman Show (1998)
3. Man on the Moon (1999)
4. The Mask (1994)
5. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
6. Liar Liar (1997)
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2001)
8. Dumb and Dumber (1994)
9. The Cable Guy (1996)
10. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Figured I'd take a stab at some contemporary actors as well.

[ManPerson]

I could see Dumb and Dumber a bit higher.

[Bruno]

I could see Dumb and Dumber a bit higher.

Agreed.

[Tim]

Bumped it to #6.

[Tim]

ManPerson, curious on why you have Pépé Le Moko as a top Gabin performance in the top performances by year? Not necessarily agree or disagree.

[Dubrow555]

A few things:

1. I prefer Master > Joker, but I'm curious if it contradicts the current decade list?

2. Wondering if Tropic Thunder has enough cultural impact to take down Oppenheimer's acclaim win

3. Wondering if Eddington would make more sense than "Two Lovers"

Other than that....looks good!

[Dubrow555]

More ideas!:

Brad Pitt:

1. Fight Club
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Se7en
6. Moneyball
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8. Ocean’s Eleven
9. Snatch
10. Burn After Reading

(alternates: Babel, Babylon, Ad Astra, Legends of the Fall)



George Clooney:

1. Up in the Air
2. The Descendants
3. Syriana
4. Michael Clayton
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. Out of Sight
7. Ocean’s Eleven
8. Three Kings
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. From Dusk till Dawn

(alternates: Burn After Reading, The Ides of March, Good Night, and Good Luck, Jay Kelly)



Christian Bale:

1. American Psycho
2. The Fighter
3. Vice
4. American Hustle
5. Empire of the Sun
6. The Prestige
7. Batman Begins
8. Ford v Ferrari
9. The Big Short
10. The Machinist

(alternates: The Dark Knight, The New World, Hostels)



Ralph Fiennes:

1. The English Patient
2. Schindler’s List
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Conclave
5. The Constant Gardener
6. Quiz Show
7. In Bruges
8. The Reader
9. The Menu
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

(alternates: Strange Days, The Duchess, The Hurt Locker, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple)



Samuel L. Jackson (this one was VERY hard, so feel free to shred apart):

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Jackie Brown
3. The Hateful Eight
4. Jungle Fever
5. Eve’s Bayou
6. The Incredibles
7. A Time to Kill
8. Unbreakable
9. Jurassic Park
10. Django Unchained

(alternates: Glass, Shaft, Iron Man, Mother and Child, Do the Right Thing)



Will Smith:


1. King Richard
2. The Pursuit of Happiness
3. Ali
4. Men in Black
5. Concussion
6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-air
7. Six Degrees of Separation
8. I Am Legend
9. Independence Day
10. Bad Boys

(alternates: Aladdin, Hancock, I, Robot, Hitch, Shark Tale)



Russell Crowe:

1. A Beautiful Mind
2. The Insider
3. Gladiator
4. Cinderella Man
5. L.A. Confidential
6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
7. American Gangster
8. 3:10 to Yuma
9. The Loudest Voice
10. The Nice Guys

(alternates: Nuremberg, Boy Erased, Les Miserables, Robin Hood)

[ManPerson]

ManPerson, curious on why you have Pépé Le Moko as a top Gabin performance in the top performances by year? Not necessarily agree or disagree.

I actually partially based that on your list for Gabin on the old forum where Pepe Le Moko was ahead of Grand Illusion.

[ManPerson]

A few things:

1. I prefer Master > Joker, but I'm curious if it contradicts the current decade list?

I think The Master is pretty clearly more acclaimed than Joker.

[Tim]

ManPerson, curious on why you have Pépé Le Moko as a top Gabin performance in the top performances by year? Not necessarily agree or disagree.

I actually partially based that on your list for Gabin on the old forum where Pepe Le Moko was ahead of Grand Illusion.

Worm Ouroboros of list-making.

[ManPerson]

More ideas!:

Brad Pitt:

1. Fight Club
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Se7en
6. Moneyball
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8. Ocean’s Eleven
9. Snatch
10. Burn After Reading

(alternates: Babel, Babylon, Ad Astra, Legends of the Fall)



George Clooney:

1. Up in the Air
2. The Descendants
3. Syriana
4. Michael Clayton
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. Out of Sight
7. Ocean’s Eleven
8. Three Kings
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. From Dusk till Dawn

(alternates: Burn After Reading, The Ides of March, Good Night, and Good Luck, Jay Kelly)



Christian Bale:

1. American Psycho
2. The Fighter
3. Vice
4. American Hustle
5. Empire of the Sun
6. The Prestige
7. Batman Begins
8. Ford v Ferrari
9. The Big Short
10. The Machinist

(alternates: The Dark Knight, The New World, Hostels)



Ralph Fiennes:

1. The English Patient
2. Schindler’s List
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Conclave
5. The Constant Gardener
6. Quiz Show
7. In Bruges
8. The Reader
9. The Menu
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

(alternates: Strange Days, The Duchess, The Hurt Locker, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple)



Samuel L. Jackson (this one was VERY hard, so feel free to shred apart):

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Jackie Brown
3. The Hateful Eight
4. Jungle Fever
5. Eve’s Bayou
6. The Incredibles
7. A Time to Kill
8. Unbreakable
9. Jurassic Park
10. Django Unchained

(alternates: Glass, Shaft, Iron Man, Mother and Child, Do the Right Thing)



Will Smith:


1. King Richard
2. The Pursuit of Happiness
3. Ali
4. Men in Black
5. Concussion
6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-air
7. Six Degrees of Separation
8. I Am Legend
9. Independence Day
10. Bad Boys

(alternates: Aladdin, Hancock, I, Robot, Hitch, Shark Tale)



Russell Crowe:

1. A Beautiful Mind
2. The Insider
3. Gladiator
4. Cinderella Man
5. L.A. Confidential
6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
7. American Gangster
8. 3:10 to Yuma
9. The Loudest Voice
10. The Nice Guys

(alternates: Nuremberg, Boy Erased, Les Miserables, Robin Hood)

I'd have Tree of Life somewhere on Pitt's list.

I'd probably have Pursuit of Happyness over King Richard, it seems to have more lasting acclaim and probably a stronger cultural legacy as well. I'd also have The Fresh Prince in the top 3.

I'd have Michael Clayton > Syriana since Syriana is widely considered to be a pretty undeserving win while I still see Michael Clayton cited by some as a standout performance from that decade.

I'd have The Machinist at 5 for Bale S it's one of his most notorious performances.

Schindler's List > The English Patient for sure. Without double checking, I assume that it's the other way around on the 90s list, but Schindler's List has way more lasting acclaim from what I've seen.

I'd have Django Unchained at 5 or 6 for Sam Jackson and I'd have Do the Right Thing somewhere in the top 10.