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?

Actually RF in anything

Actually RF in anything

Agree with all of these! Inside Number 9 is just amazing.

Fantastic to see all the love for brilliant pieces of acting in soaps. So many underrated actors due to snobbery. Sarah Lancashire as Raquel for years turning in fantastic performances but not appreciated outside the soap world until last tango in Halifax then of course Happy Valley.

I'm off the soaps because I can't make the time, but I grew up on them taking fantastic acting for granted. The wooden ones (Adam rickett etc) stood out because they were the exception..

James Norton in Happy Valley
Sarah Lancashire in the same

Timothy Spall in everything he's done

Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons. The opera scene where everyone is booing and hissing, and then she’s taking off her makeup - gets me every time.

Glad to see the love for Truly, Madly, Deeply. I haven’t watched it for years, but it has always stayed with me.

I also loved Ian Richardson in House of Cards.

Michael Shannon

His performance in the dinner scene in Revolutionary Road.

Tom Hardy 'The Krays'

Also Cracker - Robert Carlyle as Albi Kinsella in the 'To Be Somebody' storyline.

On a much lighter note I think Ross Kemp was brilliant in Extras.

''Stripped to the waist''
IYKYK 😂

Agree with everyone saying Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List but also Liam Neeson as Schindler. I thought he was extraordinary.

Meryl Streep in The Devil
Wears Prada. Looking forward to the sequel!

Robert Carlisle in The Full Monty. A comedy but the emotion of being a divorced dad trying everything to get a job so he could see his son in a time when the steel industry was demolished and the coal mines closed by the then government was so clearly portrayed.

For a comedy it is heartbreaking.

Funniest bit of of him standing on a dead car in a canal. He's trying to keep his balance when a man walks post with his dog and they both wish each other good morning before man walks on.

British humour at its finest.

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses is a work of genius

Jake Gyllenhaal - astonishingly versatile.

Gary Oldman in anything and everything he’s ever done.

Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas.

Robin Wright in House of Cards. Completely compelling.

Gary Lewis as the dad in Billy Elliot. Incredible performance and the look on his face in the final scene always moves me to tears.

I didn’t know the actor’s name, but you’re right —- and not just in that scene. He’s utterly convincing throughout.

Gary oldman in The Firm is a recent play i've watched. On bbciplayer atm. also has a great play with Miranda Richardson; Sweet As You Are, who is great in everything she does.

I think Gillian Anderson is an amazing actress and has such charisma. I loved her in the Fall and, more recently as the alcoholic mother in C4's brilliant adaptation of Louise Kennedy's book Trespasses. I have some Northern Ireland family and her accent is faultless! Can't believe she was Agent Scully all those years ago.

Agree with Gary oldman in everything hes in

Gillian Anderson in Bleak House is one of my favourite performances in anything ever.

I also immediately first thought of Edward Norton in Primal Fear - he was just phenomenal, and I don’t know how he didn’t get an Oscar for it.

My current votes would go to both Joel Edgerton and William H Macy in Train Dreams. I watched this on Netflix yesterday, and was blown away by their performances (amongst many others), but the film overall is sublime I think.

He's great throughout but his gasp and expression as Adam Cooper/Billy leaps onstage is incredibly moving (I cry too!) I also thought Jamie Draven good as Tony.