Best acting performances ever...

[LeoTheLion678]

I'll start. Hoping for inspiration as I'm running out of Saturday night choices!

Charlize Theron - Monster. Her acting and appearance were both absolutely mind blowing

Leonardo Di Caprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape. How he didn't win every award under the sun makes me wonder who he fell out with in Hollywood!

Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips. Especially the end scene where he's gone into shock. But then he's my favourite actor in the solar system...

Elizabeth Debicky - The Crown. She was more like Diana... than Diana!

Who are your additions?

Sinéad Keenan in the TV series ‘Little Boy Blue’.

Adam Driver in Marriage Story
Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Olivia Coleman season two episode 'Forks' of The Bear

I came on to say this. Absolutely phenomenal.

Everyone in It's a Sin
Jack O'Connell as Paddy Mayne in Rogues Heroes
Stephen Graham in everything
Evan Peters as various characters in American Horror Story. I think he's fantastic and it baffles me he's not more famous than his is.

Alan rickman - truly, madly deeply
Sarah Lancashire - Happy valley
Daniel day Lewis- the Last of the Mohicans, my left foot
Marlon Brando - On The Waterfront
Bette Davis- all about eve
Cillian Murphy- peaky blinders

Alan Rickman and Juliet Stephenson in Truly, Madly, Deeply. Sublime

Siobhan Finneran in everything she’s ever been in.

Same for Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman.

i also LOVE Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in Inside Number 9. Their ability to play such a range of characters is truly amazing.

Ian Richardson in House of Cards.

Colin Firth in the King's Speech
Damien Lewis in the Forsyte Saga

Clare Danes and Daniel Lewis in Homeland.

Christoph Waltz - Django
Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor
Anya Taylor-Joy - Queens Gambit
Jared Harris - Chernobyl

Agree with Charlize Theron in Monster, to go from the J'dior beauty to abused murderer prostitute was incredible. The story was so sad but you watched fighting her fight, great film. Also Jack Osbourne in I'MAC last night pretending they lost a challenge was so believable

I just mentioned her performance yesterday on another thread. Absolutely excellent as always. It's a good show, I felt the couple could have been a bit more likeable though. I couldn't root for either of them. I loved Lizzie Caplan, I related to her character a lot.

Irish actress Denise Gough. I've seen her in only a few things and she was mesmerising.

We were shown the Emma Thompson scene during one of our screen acting classes. She conveyed such emotional depth in that brief moment of realisation - our hearts were all breaking for her.

I was blown away by her when I first watched that as a teenager.

Henry Cusick - The Gospel of John.

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator
Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley
Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman

Sarah Lancashire is always wonderful. Does anyone remember her in Clocking Off?

Olivia Colman in Broadhurch
Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years
Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders

Timothy Spall in “The Sixth Commandment”.

This immediately came to my mind too.

Oh and Danny Dyer in “Rivals”!

Imelda Stuanton in Vera Drake, which is such an underrated film.

Ralph Fiennesin Schindlers list. Bloody terrifying.