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My Top 10 Performances (in no particular order):

Jean Gabin - Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties (1975)
Joel Grey - Cabaret (1972)
Leslie Howard - Pygmalion (1938)
Martin Landau - Ed Wood (1994)
Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
Bill Murray - Ghostbusters (1984)
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
George Sanders - All About Eve (1950)
Barbara Stanwyck - The Lady Eve (1941)

Sitting just outside the Top 10 are Al Pacino for Dog Day Afternoon, John Goodman for The Big Lebowski and Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon.

There are really too many to list but here goes. I'll skip some of my favorites that have already been mentioned.



Heath Ledger - the Joker [The Dark Knight]

It's a such performance that's become a pop icon of sorts I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned. Or maybe I'm not.



Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaum [The Royal Tenenbaums]

"I've had a good run."



Tom Hanks - John Baskin [Big]

The best man child performance out there.



Meryl Streep - Susan Orlean [Adaptation]

Her character has to go to so many different places in this wild script. I doubt anyone could've done it as well.



Jennifer Connolly - Sarah Williams [Waking the Dead]

I probably would have a hard time moving on from this girl as well.



Kate Winslet - Clementine Kruczynski [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]

Complex. I want nothing to do with this character and am totally attracted to her at the same time.

Some of my other faves:

Chris Cooper - John Laroche [Adaptation]
Sir Ian McKellan - Gandalf [Lord of the Rings]
Burt Reynolds - Jack Horner [Boogie Nights]
Claire Danes - Sookie [Igby Goes Down]
Martin Landau - Bela Lugosi [Ed Wood} + Judah Rosenthal [Crimes and Misdemeanors]
Brad Pitt - Mickey O'Neil [Snatch]
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Freddie Miles [The Talented Mr Riply]