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Have you all gone over to Awards Circuit and checked out the series we’re doing on the top 10 greatest performances of all time? If not, you should be as it’s fascinating look into the psyche of avid film fans. My list is was finally revealed yesterday, and I figured that I’d share with you all my long list of contenders. Trying to even get down to this list is one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. Top 10 movies are easily done because they are singular but there could be umpteen good performances in a single movie and so to have to boil all of those down to a list of 10 was crazy difficult. Anyways, below is a list of all the performances I considered for the final list. I only made a long list of performances I was really serious about or felt like would make the list complete. So no I didn’t put Sarah Michelle Gellar from Cruel Intentions on this list 😉 or any other sort of “Terence type choice” that would be outlandish even for me. This long list also isn’t in any particular order, and you can see my final 10 here, this is just a bigger snapshot.

Top 10 Performances Long List

  1. Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
  2. Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afriad of Virginia Woolf
  3. Jodie Foster, Silence of the Lambs
  4. Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
  5. Hillary Swank, Boys Don’t Cry
  6. Susan Heyward, I Want to Live!
  7. Liza Minelli, Cabaret
  8. Faye Dunaway, Network
  9. Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
  10. Frances McDormand, Fargo
  11. Charlize Theron, Monster
  12. Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
  13. Robert Deniro, Raging Bull
  14. Anthony Hopkins, Silence of the Lambs
  15. Forrest Whitaker, Last King Of Scottland
  16. Charlton Heston, Ben Hur
  17. William Hurt, Kiss of the Spiderman
  18. F Murray Abraham, Amadeus
  19. Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush
  20. Katherine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
  21. James Cagny, Yankee Doodle Dandy
  22. Bette Davis, All About Eve
  23. Penelope Cruz, Volver
  24. Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
  25. Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
  26. Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
  27. Viola Davis, Doubt
  28. Kiera Knightley, Pride and Prejudice
  29. Jim Caveziel, The Passion of the Christ
  30. Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge!
  31. Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  32. Sally Field, Steel Magnolias
  33. Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones
  34. Roy Schnider, All That Jazz
  35. Rita Moreno, West Side Story
  36. Natalie Wood, Splendor in the Grass
  37. Piper Laurie, Carrie
  38. Sissy Spacek, Carrie
  39. Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire
  40. Brad Pitt, Moneyball
  41. Karl Malden, A Streetcar Named Desire
  42. EVERYONE, 8 1/2
  43. Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love
  44. Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
  45. Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
  46. Sareh Bayat, A Separation
  47. Edgar Flores, Sin Nombre
  48. Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes
  49. Richard Dreyfuss, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  50. Kate Winslet, Little Children
  51. Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
  52. Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart

What performances would you put in your top 10?