Top 100 Performances of All Time
As a warm up to the Top 100 Films of All Time later tonight I thought I’d give my top 100 Performances of All Time. So let’s get too it!
100. James Franco as Saul Silver in Pineapple Express
99. Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde
98. Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers
97. Jerry Orbach as Jake Manheim in Chinese Coffee
96. Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
95. Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
94. Judd Nelson as John Bender in The Breakfast Club
93. Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally…
92. Colin Farrell as Ray in In Bruges
91. Stanley Tucci as Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada
90. Robin Williams as Henry Sagan Parry in The Fisher King
89. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
88. Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Batman Returns
87. Robert Downey Jr as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin
86. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X
85. Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider
84. Kathy Bates as Anne Marie Wilkes in Misery
83. Anjelica Houston as Lilly Dillon in The Grifters
82. Rutger Hauer as Roy Batter in Blade Runner
81. Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday
80. Lon Chaney as Erik, The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera
79. John Cusack as Rob in High Fidelity
78. Gene Wilder as Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein
77. Pam Grier as Jackie Brown in Jackie Brown
76. Paul Muni as James Allen in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
75. Jon Voight as Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy
74. Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry in Brazil
73. Susan Sarandon as Louise Elizabeth Sawyer in Thelma & Louise
72. Dustin Hoffman as Thomas Levy in Marathon Man
71. Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
70. Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas
69. Mo’Nique as Mary in Precious
68. Nicole Kidman as Alice Harford in Eyes Wide Shut
67. Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws
66. Christian Bale as Dick Ecklund in The Fighter
65. Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock in Pollock
64. Ellen Burstyn as Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream
63. Willem Dafoe as He in Antichrist
62. Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull
61. Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network
60. Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
59. Jack Nicholson as JJ “Jake” Gittes in Chinatown
58. Angelina Jolie as Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted
57. Jean Martin as Col. Mathieu in The Battle of Algiers
56. Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in The Conversation
55. Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs
54. Dorothy Dandridge as Carmen Jones in Carmen Jones
53. Judy Garland as Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester in A Star is Born
52. Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins
51. Leila Hatami as Simin in A Separation
50. Mary Tyler Moore as Beth Jarrett in Ordinary People
49. Kevin Spacey as John Doe in Se7en (I know he’s like awful but this role deserved a mention)
48. Madhabi Mukherjee as Charulata in Charulata
47. Chieko Higashiyama as Tomi Hirayama in Tokyo Story
46. Jeff Bridges as The Dude in The Big Lebowski
45. Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway in Secretary
44. Vincent Cassel as Vinz in La Haine
43. Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner in Uncut Gems
42. Sissy Spacek as Holly Sargis in Badlands
41. River Phoenix as Chris Chambers in Stand By Me
40. Harry Dean Stanton as Travis Henderson in Paris, Texas
39. Al Pacino as Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross
38. Jason Miller as Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist
37. Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice
36. Edward Norton as Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear
35. Peter Sellers as Capt. Lionel Madrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove
34. Michael B Jordan as Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station
33. Leonardo DiCaprio as William Costigan Jr in The Departed
32. Benicio del Toro as Oscar Z Acosta in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
31. Aleksei Dravchenko as Florian Gaishun in Come and See
30. Viola Davis as Rose Maxson in Fences
29. Soumitra Chatterjee as Apurba in The World of Apu
28. Robert De Niro as Neil McCauley in Heat
27. Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind
26. Fernanda Montenegro as Isadora Teixeira in Central Station
25. Deborah Kara Unger as Catherine Ballard in Crash
24. Javier Bardem as Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls
23. Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel in The Great Dictator
22. James Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
21. Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
20. Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane
19. Elizabeth Taylor as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
18. Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny
17. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard
16. Maria Falconetti as Jeanne d’Arc in The Passion of Joan of Arc
15. Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands in Hunger
14. Kitty Winn as Helen in The Panic in Needle Park
13. Ingrid Bergman as Charlotte Andergast in Autumn Sonata
12. Tatsuya Nakadai as Ryunosuke Tsukue in The Sword of Doom
11. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Chow Mo-Wan in In the Mood For Love
10. Sharon Stone as Catherine Tremell in Basic Instinct
9. Kevin Kline as Otto in A Fish Called Wanda
8. Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
7. Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman/Tony Clifton in Man on the Moon
6. Alexandre Rodrigues as Buscapé in City of God
5. Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs
4. Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
3. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather
2. Bruno Ganz as Alexandros in Eternity and a Day
1. Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter
Just a few more hours until the Top 100 Films of All Time