The Official NSC Best Acting Performance Award

[Easy 10]

No, I'm not talking about Daniel Shittu last week.
It seems like there are quite a few movie buffs on NSC, being as the film threads always do well. So lets have our own NSC Oscar for the best individual acting performance in a film. The film itself might be cack, but there might be a stand-out performance by one particular actor which saves the whole film. Or the film might be great anyway, and the actors performance merely adds to it. Examples:

Jack Nicholson as Nathan Jessop, A Few Good Men
Daniel Day-Lewis as Butcher Bill, Gangs of New York
Russell Crowe as Maximus, Gladiator
Johnny Depp as Cap'n Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
Al Pacino as Satan, Devils Advocate

Those are a few of my faves. Reply with as many nominations as you like, then later on, I'll collate all the nominations into a top 4 and post the top 4 nominee's into a seperate poll for everyone to vote on, to find out who wins the Official NSC Best Acting Performance award. I'll leave this thread running over the weekend before I collate it and do the poll on Monday.

And before you ask, yes, I do have too much time on my hands.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal
Vince Vaughn - Swingers

 

[JJ McClure]

Jack Nicholson as Nathan R Jessop in A Few Good Men
Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects
Edward Norton in Fight Club
Al Pacino in pretty much anything as the man is god

 

[Potters mate]

Jack Nicholson-one flew over the cuckoos nest
Andy Serkis-two towers, return of the king
Martin Sheen-Apocolipse now
Des Lynam-My summer with Des

 

[The Large One]

Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voigt in Midnight Cowboy
Timothy Spall in Secrets & Lies

 

[Chesney Christ]

Ed Norton - American History X

Kevin Spacey - Seven

Robert De Niro - Goodfellas

 

[Beach Hut]

Robert De Niro - Godfather 2
Jack Nicholson - One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Sean Connery - Pretty much any film he has ever been in

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

whoever played atticus finch in to kill a mockingbird is a legend in my eyes, dont know the name sadly

 

[marvin]

Sean Connery - Pretty much any film he has ever been in

Largely cos he acts the same in largely every film he has been in.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
Jonny Depp - Donnie Brasco
John Cusack - Grosse Point Blank
Morgan Freeman - Shawshank Redemption


Arnold Scharzenegger - Kindergarten Cop. Only joking.

 

[NMH]

Dustin - Rain Man - Papillon - Graduate etc. Great adoptions of character.

Daniel day Lewis - Unbearable Lightness - My Left Foot - Favourite Laundrette - Last of Mohicans (but certainly NOT gangs of new yeuck)

Peter O'Toole - Stunt Man - Laurence of Arabia etc. It's his delivery, marvelous.

Rob De Niro - versatile, but has plumped for acting in absolute rubbish too many times.

Joaquin Phoenix - Better than Crowe in Gladiator, only redeeming factor in Quills (awful film) and should be in more.

Tom Cruise - better actor than credited for.

Donald Sutherland - ditto
Lee Remick - a talented beauty, died way too young.

 

[Juan Albion]

John Cusack - Grosse Point Blank

One of my all-time favourite movies. Some great music too.

 

[Harty]

Tony Millard in Pussycats Lapdancing Bar Hove, looked totally interested, what a performance!!!!!!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Where do I start

part 1

Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List
Ben Kingsley - Schindler's List and Gandhi
Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the lambs and Shadowlands
Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross
Tom Cruise - Born on the 4th July
Dustin Hoffman - Rainman
Russell Crowe - Gladiator
Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

part 2

Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
Ed Norton - Fight Club
Tom Cruise - Magnolia
Christian Bale - American Psycho
John Hurt - The Elephant Man
Ray Milland - Lost Weekend
Michael Douglas - Wall Street
James Stewart - Its a wonderful life
Jeff Bridges - Starman

 

[Southy]

whoever played atticus finch in to kill a mockingbird is a legend in my eyes, dont know the name sadly

The late Gregory Peck, his best film.

 

[Wienergull]

Humphrey Bogart - Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon
Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaums
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces
Burt Lancaster - The Leopard, Atlantic City
Bill Murray - Groundhog Day
Frances McDormand - Fargo

 

[SussexSpur]

off the top of the head. . .

Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
Jack Nicholson - Batman
Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
Joel Grey - Cabaret
Brian Glover/David Bradley - Kes
Bill Murray - Tootsie (if only for the way he delivers the pay-off line: "Now THAT is one nutty hospital!"
Steve Martin - Little Shop Of Horrors (like Jack Nicholson in Batman, stupidly hammy - but stupidly enjoyable)

 

[Soton Seagull]

De Niro - Godfather part II
Adrian Brody - The Pianist
Ed Norton - American History X
Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman - Shawshank Redemption
Jack Nicholson - Batman
Most of cast - City of God (particuarly as most are genuine street kids)
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane

If I had more time I'm sure I could use up all the NSC Bandwith. One thing for sure, Ben Affleck wouldn't be on there!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

part 3

Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon
Henry Thomas - ET
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemtpion
Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
Christian Bale - Empire of the sun
Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
Richard Harris - The Field