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