Best Performances I’ve Ever Seen, a list by Connor McCreesh

228 titles

12 Angry Men

1957

9.2Flick

Lee J. Cobb

12 Years a Slave

2013

8.1Flick

Chiwetel Ejiofor Lupita Nyong’o

The 400 Blows

1959

8.2Flick

Jean-Pierre Leaud

Ace in the Hole

1951

7.7Flick

Kirk Douglas

Adaptation.

2002

8.0Flick

Nicolas Cage

Aftersun

2022

8.5Flick

Paul Mescal

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

7.6Flick

Klaus Kinski

Airplane!

1980

7.4Flick

Leslie Nielsen Lloyd Bridges Julie Hagerty

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

7.6Flick

Brigette Mira El Hedi ben Salem

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1974

7.3Flick

Ellen Burstyn

Aliens

1986

8.0Flick

Sigourney Weaver

All About Eve

1950

8.1Flick

Bette Davis

All That Jazz

1979

8.4Flick

Roy Scheider

Amadeus

1984

8.6Flick

Tom Hulce F. Murray Abraham

American Psycho

2000

7.4Flick

Christian Bale

Amour

2012

7.9Flick

Emmanuelle Riva

The Apartment

1960

8.6Flick

Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine

Apocalypse Now

1979

8.7Flick

Robert Duvall

At Eternity's Gate

2018

7.6Flick

Willem Dafoe

The Babadook

2014

6.4Flick

Essie Davis

Batman Returns

1992

7.1Flick

Michelle Pfeiffer Danny DeVito

Before Midnight

2013

7.9Flick

Ethan Hawke (my favorite performance of his) Julie Delpy

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

7.6Flick

Harold Russell

The Big Lebowski

1998

8.0Flick

Jeff Bridges John Goodman

Black Swan

2010

8.6Flick

Natalie Portman

Blade Runner

1982

7.8Flick

Rutger Hauer

Blue Valentine

2010

7.6Flick

Michelle Williams Ryan Gosling

Blue Velvet

1986

8.2Flick

Dennis Hopper Isabella Rossellini

Boyhood

2014

7.4Flick

Ethan Hawke Patricia Arquette

Brokeback Mountain

2005

8.5Flick

Heath Ledger Jake Gyllenhaal

Cabaret

1972

8.2Flick

Liza Minnelli Joel Grey

Call Me by Your Name

2017

7.7Flick

Timothee Chalamet

Carol

2015

8.1Flick

Cate Blanchett

Carrie

1976

7.8Flick

Sissy Spacek Piper Laurie

A Clockwork Orange

1971

8.2Flick

Malcolm McDowell

C'mon C'mon

2021

8.1Flick

Joaquin Phoenix Woody Norman

The Color Purple

1985

7.5Flick

Whoopi Goldberg Danny Glover Oprah Winfrey

Come and See

1985

9.0Flick

Aleksei Kravchenko

Cool Hand Luke

1967

7.8Flick

Paul Newman George Kennedy

Cure

1997

8.5Flick

Koji Yakusho

Da 5 Bloods

2020

7.1Flick

Delroy Lindo

The Dark Knight

2008

8.8Flick

Heath Ledger

Dead Poets Society

1989

8.9Flick

Robin Williams

The Deer Hunter

1978

8.1Flick

Christopher Walken

The Departed

2006

8.5Flick

Jack Nicholson

Diabolique

1955

7.8Flick

Véra Clouzot

Do the Right Thing

1989

8.7Flick

Giancarlo Esposito Danny Aiello Ossie Davis

Dog Day Afternoon

1975

8.5Flick

Al Pacino Chris Sarandon

Dolemite Is My Name

2019

7.1Flick

Eddie Murphy

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

8.2Flick

Peter Sellers George C. Scott Sterling Hayden

Ed Wood

1994

7.8Flick

Johnny Depp Martin Landau

The Elephant Man

1980

8.6Flick

John Hurt

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1982

7.4Flick

Drew Barrymore Henry Thomas

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

8.5Flick

Jim Carrey

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

8.5Flick

Pretty much everyone

The Exorcist

1973

7.6Flick

Ellen Burstyn Jason Miller Linda Blair

Faces

1968

7.2Flick

Gena Rowlands Seymour Cassel

Fargo

1996

7.9Flick

Frances McDormand William H. Macy Steve Buscemi

The Father

2020

8.3Flick

Anthony Hopkins

The Favourite

2018

8.0Flick

Olivia Colman (my favorite performance of hers)

First Reformed

2017

8.0Flick

Ethan Hawke

A Fish Called Wanda

1988

7.1Flick

Kevin Kline John Cleese Jamie Lee Curtis

The Fisher King

1991

7.4Flick

Robin Williams (my favorite performance of his)

Five Easy Pieces

1970

7.3Flick

Jack Nicholson

Frances Ha

2012

8.0Flick

Greta Gerwig

Full Metal Jacket

1987

8.2Flick

R. Lee Ermey Vincent d’Onofrio

Gaslight

1944

7.5Flick

Ingrid Bergman

Get Out

2017

8.3Flick

Daniel Kaluuya Alison Williams Catherine Keener

The Godfather

1972

8.8Flick

Al Pacino Marlon Brando

The Godfather Part II

1974

9.0Flick

Al Pacino De Niro Diane Keaton

Gone Girl

2014

8.2Flick

Rosamund Pike

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966

8.9Flick

Eli Wallach

Good Time

2017

7.8Flick

Robert Pattinson

Good Will Hunting

1997

8.7Flick

Robin Williams

GoodFellas

1990

8.7Flick

Ray Liotta Joe Pesci

The Graduate

1967

8.1Flick

Anne Bancroft Dustin Hoffman

The Great Dictator

1940

8.1Flick

Charlie Chaplin

The Green Mile

1999

8.4Flick

Michael Clarke-Duncan

Happy Together

1997

8.2Flick

Tony Leung Leslie Cheung

Harakiri

1962

8.9Flick

Tatsuya Nakadai

The Hateful Eight

2015

8.0Flick

Jennifer Jason Leigh Sam Jackson

The Heiress

1949

7.4Flick

Olivia de Havilland

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

1986

6.9Flick

Michael Rooker

Her

2013

7.8Flick

Joaquin Phoenix

Hereditary

2018

7.9Flick

Toni Collette

The Holdovers

2023

8.7Flick

Paul Giamatti

Hot Fuzz

2007

8.2Flick

Pretty much everyone

I Saw the Devil

2010

7.9Flick

Choi Min-sik

Ikiru

1952

8.6Flick

Takashi Shimura

I'm Not There

2007

7.3Flick

Cate Blanchett

I'm Still Here

2024

8.7Flick

Fernanda Torres

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020

6.9Flick

Toni Collette David Thewlis

In a Lonely Place

1950

7.7Flick

Humphrey Bogart (favorite performance of his) Gloria Grahame

In Bruges

2008

8.2Flick

Colin Farrell Brendan Gleeson Ralph Fiennes

In the Heat of the Night

1967

7.5Flick

Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger

In the Mood for Love

2000

8.6Flick

Tony Leung Maggie Cheung

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989

8.0Flick

Sean Connery

Inglourious Basterds

2009

8.7Flick

Christoph Waltz Brad Pitt

The Invisible Man

2020

6.7Flick

Elizabeth Moss

It Happened One Night

1934

8.0Flick

Claudette Colbert

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228 titles

12 Angry Men

1957

9.2Flick

Lee J. Cobb

12 Years a Slave

2013

8.1Flick

Chiwetel Ejiofor Lupita Nyong’o

The 400 Blows

1959

8.2Flick

Jean-Pierre Leaud

Ace in the Hole

1951

7.7Flick

Kirk Douglas

Adaptation.

2002

8.0Flick

Nicolas Cage

Aftersun

2022

8.5Flick

Paul Mescal

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

7.6Flick

Klaus Kinski

Airplane!

1980

7.4Flick

Leslie Nielsen Lloyd Bridges Julie Hagerty

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

7.6Flick

Brigette Mira El Hedi ben Salem

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1974

7.3Flick

Ellen Burstyn

Aliens

1986

8.0Flick

Sigourney Weaver

All About Eve

1950

8.1Flick

Bette Davis

All That Jazz

1979

8.4Flick

Roy Scheider

Amadeus

1984

8.6Flick

Tom Hulce F. Murray Abraham

American Psycho

2000

7.4Flick

Christian Bale

Amour

2012

7.9Flick

Emmanuelle Riva

The Apartment

1960

8.6Flick

Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine

Apocalypse Now

1979

8.7Flick

Robert Duvall

At Eternity's Gate

2018

7.6Flick

Willem Dafoe

The Babadook

2014

6.4Flick

Essie Davis

Batman Returns

1992

7.1Flick

Michelle Pfeiffer Danny DeVito

Before Midnight

2013

7.9Flick

Ethan Hawke (my favorite performance of his) Julie Delpy

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

7.6Flick

Harold Russell

The Big Lebowski

1998

8.0Flick

Jeff Bridges John Goodman

Black Swan

2010

8.6Flick

Natalie Portman

Blade Runner

1982

7.8Flick

Rutger Hauer

Blue Valentine

2010

7.6Flick

Michelle Williams Ryan Gosling

Blue Velvet

1986

8.2Flick

Dennis Hopper Isabella Rossellini

Boyhood

2014

7.4Flick

Ethan Hawke Patricia Arquette

Brokeback Mountain

2005

8.5Flick

Heath Ledger Jake Gyllenhaal

Cabaret

1972

8.2Flick

Liza Minnelli Joel Grey

Call Me by Your Name

2017

7.7Flick

Timothee Chalamet

Carol

2015

8.1Flick

Cate Blanchett

Carrie

1976

7.8Flick

Sissy Spacek Piper Laurie

A Clockwork Orange

1971

8.2Flick

Malcolm McDowell

C'mon C'mon

2021

8.1Flick

Joaquin Phoenix Woody Norman

The Color Purple

1985

7.5Flick

Whoopi Goldberg Danny Glover Oprah Winfrey

Come and See

1985

9.0Flick

Aleksei Kravchenko

Cool Hand Luke

1967

7.8Flick

Paul Newman George Kennedy

Cure

1997

8.5Flick

Koji Yakusho

Da 5 Bloods

2020

7.1Flick

Delroy Lindo

The Dark Knight

2008

8.8Flick

Heath Ledger

Dead Poets Society

1989

8.9Flick

Robin Williams

The Deer Hunter

1978

8.1Flick

Christopher Walken

The Departed

2006

8.5Flick

Jack Nicholson

Diabolique

1955

7.8Flick

Véra Clouzot

Do the Right Thing

1989

8.7Flick

Giancarlo Esposito Danny Aiello Ossie Davis

Dog Day Afternoon

1975

8.5Flick

Al Pacino Chris Sarandon

Dolemite Is My Name

2019

7.1Flick

Eddie Murphy

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

8.2Flick

Peter Sellers George C. Scott Sterling Hayden

Ed Wood

1994

7.8Flick

Johnny Depp Martin Landau

The Elephant Man

1980

8.6Flick

John Hurt

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1982

7.4Flick

Drew Barrymore Henry Thomas

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

8.5Flick

Jim Carrey

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

8.5Flick

Pretty much everyone

The Exorcist

1973

7.6Flick

Ellen Burstyn Jason Miller Linda Blair

Faces

1968

7.2Flick

Gena Rowlands Seymour Cassel

Fargo

1996

7.9Flick

Frances McDormand William H. Macy Steve Buscemi

The Father

2020

8.3Flick

Anthony Hopkins

The Favourite

2018

8.0Flick

Olivia Colman (my favorite performance of hers)

First Reformed

2017

8.0Flick

Ethan Hawke

A Fish Called Wanda

1988

7.1Flick

Kevin Kline John Cleese Jamie Lee Curtis

The Fisher King

1991

7.4Flick

Robin Williams (my favorite performance of his)

Five Easy Pieces

1970

7.3Flick

Jack Nicholson

Frances Ha

2012

8.0Flick

Greta Gerwig

Full Metal Jacket

1987

8.2Flick

R. Lee Ermey Vincent d’Onofrio

Gaslight

1944

7.5Flick

Ingrid Bergman

Get Out

2017

8.3Flick

Daniel Kaluuya Alison Williams Catherine Keener

The Godfather

1972

8.8Flick

Al Pacino Marlon Brando

The Godfather Part II

1974

9.0Flick

Al Pacino De Niro Diane Keaton

Gone Girl

2014

8.2Flick

Rosamund Pike

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966

8.9Flick

Eli Wallach

Good Time

2017

7.8Flick

Robert Pattinson

Good Will Hunting

1997

8.7Flick

Robin Williams

GoodFellas

1990

8.7Flick

Ray Liotta Joe Pesci

The Graduate

1967

8.1Flick

Anne Bancroft Dustin Hoffman

The Great Dictator

1940

8.1Flick

Charlie Chaplin

The Green Mile

1999

8.4Flick

Michael Clarke-Duncan

Happy Together

1997

8.2Flick

Tony Leung Leslie Cheung

Harakiri

1962

8.9Flick

Tatsuya Nakadai

The Hateful Eight

2015

8.0Flick

Jennifer Jason Leigh Sam Jackson

The Heiress

1949

7.4Flick

Olivia de Havilland

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

1986

6.9Flick

Michael Rooker

Her

2013

7.8Flick

Joaquin Phoenix

Hereditary

2018

7.9Flick

Toni Collette

The Holdovers

2023

8.7Flick

Paul Giamatti

Hot Fuzz

2007

8.2Flick

Pretty much everyone

I Saw the Devil

2010

7.9Flick

Choi Min-sik

Ikiru

1952

8.6Flick

Takashi Shimura

I'm Not There

2007

7.3Flick

Cate Blanchett

I'm Still Here

2024

8.7Flick

Fernanda Torres

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020

6.9Flick

Toni Collette David Thewlis

In a Lonely Place

1950

7.7Flick

Humphrey Bogart (favorite performance of his) Gloria Grahame

In Bruges

2008

8.2Flick

Colin Farrell Brendan Gleeson Ralph Fiennes

In the Heat of the Night

1967

7.5Flick

Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger

In the Mood for Love

2000

8.6Flick

Tony Leung Maggie Cheung

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989

8.0Flick

Sean Connery

Inglourious Basterds

2009

8.7Flick

Christoph Waltz Brad Pitt

The Invisible Man

2020

6.7Flick

Elizabeth Moss

It Happened One Night

1934

8.0Flick

Claudette Colbert

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