Actors Poll 2009 Edition - Part II - CLOSED

[Ally]

Other parts to the Actors Poll:
Part I
Part III

How to Participate:
Submit a list of your favorite performances of all-time by an actor or actress (with a limit of one actor's performance per list). The real test will come down to who impresses us with their actual acting abilities!

Point System
1-10: 3 points each
11-20: 2 points each
21-30: 1 point each
31-40 = .5, 41-50 = .25
51-? = .05

Rules:
1) Please submit the name of the actor and the name of the movie of their best performance. Let's say you can't name just one and you list Sean Connery in First Knight and all of the James Bond movies. That is fine, but please list all the performances together and not in separate tiers (example below).
2) Please do not number your picks, if at all possible. Please list them in different tiers, in sets of tens.
3) There is no minimum. You can list only one if you like. There is no maximum, however, everything over 30 will be awarded miniscule points: (so eat your heart out).

Deadline: OCTOBER 31, 2009

EXAMPLE

Favorite Performances List

Tier One
ANTHONY HOPKINS: Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
JODIE FOSTER: Nell, Maverick, Sommersby

You do not need to list the character name or more than one performance. But you can. If you have already listed Anthony Hopkins in your favorite performance, you cannot list another favorite performance in another tier. Any questions, post below.

*The results will be combined with Part I of the actors poll, unless there is a great protest.


Received lists from these people:
CypheroN
Passenger
Waxy
Ally
AgentKnight
InHuman
Lauren
James
Nadafingah
Simon
C Henrik Bæckström
Janne Frank's Diary
Jos

[Waxy]

for such a big list and issue, sep 30 isnt too short?

[Ally]

I was thinking of extending the deadline!

Is October 30th good? Or should I extend till Halloween: October 31st?

[Simon M.]

yes, please! Oct. 31st for both polls, this is gonna require a lot of time and energy on my part.

[Ally]

yay yay.

[Waxy]

[warthog]

man i started working on a list but i was so repulsed by it after about 15 nominations that I decided not to do this

[Simon M.]

just list Nicolas Cage as Peter Loew and be done with it.

[CypheroN]

OK NOW...

01. Robert de Niro - 'Jake La Motta' - Raging Bull 1980
02. Daniel Day Lewis - 'Daniel Plainveiw' - There Will Be Blood 2007
03. Jack Nicholson - 'Jack Torrance' - The Shining 1980
04. Orson Welles - 'Harry Lime' - The Third Man 1949
05. Tatsuya Nakadai - 'Lord Hidetora' - Ran 1985
06. Charles Chaplin - 'A Tramp' - City Lights 1931
07. Tom Cruise - 'Ron Kovic' - Born on the Fourth of July 1989
08. Robert Duvall - Sgt.Kilgore - Apocalypse Now! 1979
09. Christopher Walken - 'Nick' - The Deer Hunter 1978
10. James Stewart - 'Scottie Ferguson' - Vertigo 1958
11. Marlon Brando - 'Terry Malloy' - On The Waterfront 1954
12. Takashi Shimura - 'Kanji Watanbe' - Ikiru 1954
13. Toshiro Mifune - 'The Samurai / Sanjuro' - Yojimbo 1962
14. Cary Grant - 'Walter Burns' - His Girl Friday 1940
15. Clint Eastwood - 'Blondie / The Man With No Name' - Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966
16. Samuel Jackson - 'Jules Winnfield' - Pulp Fiction 1994
17. Peter Lorre - 'Hans Beckert' - M 1931
18. Joe Pesci - 'Tommy DeVito' - Goodfellas 1990
19. Victor Sjöström - 'Dr.Isak Borg' - Smultrönstallet 1957
20. Eli Wallach - 'Tuco / The Ugly' - Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)

Others: Willis, Keitel, Dafoe, Malkovich, Keaton, and so on...

[Ally]

man i started working on a list but i was so repulsed by it after about 15 nominations that I decided not to do this

Do it!!! Do it!!! (do you have anything else better to do? No)

OK NOW...

01. Robert de Niro - 'Jake La Motta' - Raging Bull 1980
02. Daniel Day Lewis - 'Daniel Plainveiw' - There Will Be Blood 2007
03. Jack Nicholson - 'Jack Torrance' - The Shining 1980
04. Orson Welles - 'Harry Lime' - The Third Man 1949
05. Tatsuya Nakadai - 'Lord Hidetora' - Ran 1985
06. Charles Chaplin - 'A Tramp' - City Lights 1931
07. Tom Cruise - 'Ron Kovic' - Born on the Fourth of July 1989
08. Robert Duvall - Sgt.Kilgore - Apocalypse Now! 1979
09. Christopher Walken - 'Nick' - The Deer Hunter 1978
10. James Stewart - 'Scottie Ferguson' - Vertigo 1958
11. Marlon Brando - 'Terry Malloy' - On The Waterfront 1954
12. Takashi Shimura - 'Kanji Watanbe' - Ikiru 1954
13. Toshiro Mifune - 'The Samurai / Sanjuro' - Yojimbo 1962
14. Cary Grant - 'Walter Burns' - His Girl Friday 1940
15. Clint Eastwood - 'Blondie / The Man With No Name' - Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966
16. Samuel Jackson - 'Jules Winnfield' - Pulp Fiction 1994
17. Peter Lorre - 'Hans Beckert' - M 1931
18. Joe Pesci - 'Tommy DeVito' - Goodfellas 1990
19. Victor Sjöström - 'Dr.Isak Borg' - Smultrönstallet 1957
20. Eli Wallach - 'Tuco / The Ugly' - Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)

Others: Willis, Keitel, Dafoe, Malkovich, Keaton, and so on...

OMG, Cypheron, excellent list. This performance idea was pretty much an afterthought, but I'm glad people are able to come up with some great picks and you're leading the way. Thanks!!

[Passenger]

TIER 1:
Edward Norton - American History X
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull
Harvey Keitel - Bad Lieutenant
Bruno Ganz - Der Untergang
Ana Torrent - Cria Cuervos
Liv Ullman - Persona
Isabelle Adjani - Possession
Samantha Morton - Morvern Callar
Naomi Watts - 21 Grams

TIER 2:
Bela Lugosi - Dracula
Marcello Mastroianni - 8 1/2
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
Sean Penn - Mystic River
Ellen Burstyn - Requiem For A Dream
Adele Haenel - Naissance Des Pieuvres
Marion Cotillard - La Mome
Sophie Marceau - My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
Ingrid Thulin - The Silence

TIER 3:
Claude Laydu - Diary Of A Country Priest
Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
Aleksei Kravchenko - Come And See
Dana Andrews - Where The Sidewalk Ends
Arno Frisch - Benny's Video
Jeanne Moreau - La Notte
Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion
Charlize Theron - Monster
Rita Hayworth - Gilda
A.J. Cook - The Virgin Suicides

[CypheroN]

OMG, Cypheron, excellent list. This performance idea was pretty much an afterthought, but I'm glad people are able to come up with some great picks and you're leading the way. Thanks!!

[Ally]

Great list too, passenger! I'm eager to see others' lists. And to make one of my own of course.

[warthog]

american history x, is that supposed to be a joke of some sort?

[Simon M.]

no joke, olof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouphOqv7qlk

[warthog]

my signature says it all...

[Waxy]

1

Charles Chaplin Modern Times (1936) A Factory Worker
Toshirô Mifune Shichinin no samurai (1954) Kikuchiyo
Charlton Heston Ben-Hur (1959) Judah Ben-Hur
Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
Elizabeth Taylor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Martha
James Stewart Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Jefferson Smith
Henry Fonda 12 Angry Men (1957) Juror #8
Marcello Mastroianni 8½ (1963) Guido Anselmi
Max von Sydow Jungfrukällan (1960) Töre
Klaus Kinski Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) Don Lope de Aguirre

2

Al Pacino The Godfather: Part II (1974) Don Michael Corleone
Eli Wallach Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966) Tuco
Richard Burton Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) George
Peter Lorre M (1931) Hans Beckert
Ingrid Bergman Casablanca (1942) Ilsa Lund
Ray Milland The Lost Weekend (1945) Don Birnam
Humphrey Bogart The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Dobbs
Claude Laydu Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) Priest of Ambricourt
Maggie Cheung Fa yeung nin wa (2000) Su Li-zhen - Mrs. Chan
Tony Leung Chiu Wai Fa yeung nin wa (2000) Chow Mo-wan

3

Groucho Marx Duck Soup (1933) Rufus T. Firefly
Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Stanley Kowalski
Robert Mitchum The Night of the Hunter (1955) Harry Powell
Alec Guinness The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Colonel Nicholson
Soumitra Chatterjee Apur Sansar (1959) Apurba Roy
F. Murray Abraham Amadeus (1984) Antonio Salieri
Gena Rowlands A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Mabel Longhetti
Björk Dancer in the Dark (2000) Selma Jezkova
Bruno Ganz Der Untergang (2004) Adolf Hitler
Mathieu Amalric Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) Jean-Do

The rest

Rutger Hauer Blade Runner (1982) Roy Batty
Woody Allen Zelig (1983) Leonard Zelig
John Candy Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) Del Griffith
Vincent D'Onofrio Full Metal Jacket (1987) Pvt. Pyle
Ralph Fiennes Schindler's List (1993) Amon Goeth
Jim Carrey The Truman Show (1998) Truman Burbank
Bruce Willis The Sixth Sense (1999) Dr. Malcolm Crowe
Tom Hanks Cast Away (2000) Chuck Noland
Sean Penn I Am Sam (2001) Sam Dawson
Tony Leung Chiu Wai Ying xiong (2002) Broken Sword
Maggie Cheung Ying xiong (2002) Flying Snow
Adrien Brody The Pianist (2002) Wladyslaw Szpilman
Adam Sandler Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Barry Egan
Miho Kanno Dolls (2002) Sawako
Takeshi Kitano Zatôichi (2003) Zatôichi / Ichi
James Caviezel The Passion of the Christ (2004) Jesus
Jim Carrey Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Joel Barish
Christian Bale El maquinista (2004) Trevor Reznik
Gael García Bernal Diarios de motocicleta (2004) Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Argentina)
Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood (2007) Daniel Plainview
Mickey Rourke The Wrestler (2008) Randy 'The Ram' Robinson
Heath Ledger The Dark Knight (2008) The Joker
Benicio Del Toro Che Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

[CypheroN]

Oh shit.. Forgot Sellers in Dr.Strangelove..

[Jos]

Just went through some of my favorite directors films and noted the best performances, am already at 80. This is tough...

[HHH]

Wont bother making a list, no good at it - but i must say all the love for DDL from There Will be Blood is a bit weary - considering he was basically just a pantomime villain

[Waxy]

very tough

[Ally]

Just went through some of my favorite directors films and noted the best performances, am already at 80. This is tough...

yay, that's impressive! I was considering making my own list soon but it's tough, it really is.

[CypheroN]

You shouldn't take it so seriously.. just make a list with 20 good performances

[Jos]

If i get into an endeavor like this i will take it seriously.

[Ally]

I have 86 so far. Remind me to stop at 100.
been working on it all day. I kinda like what I have.