Great Acting

By: Jack Deicher​t

The greatest performances, in my opinion.

• 01
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 02
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 03
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 04
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 05
  Mean Streets
  Martin Scorsese
• 06
  A Streetcar Named Desire
  Elia Kazan
• 07
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 08
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 09
  Gangs of New York
  Martin Scorsese
• 10
  Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean
• 11
  The African Queen
  John Huston
• 12
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 13
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  David Lean
• 14
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Robert Mulligan
• 15
  A Man for All Seasons
  Fred Zinnemann
• 16
  In the Heat of the Night
  Norman Jewison
• 17
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 18
  The Lion in Winter
  Anthony Harvey
• 19
  Patton
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 20
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 21
  Network
  Sidney Lumet
• 22
  Kramer vs. Kramer
  Robert Benton
• 23
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 24
  Wall Street
  Oliver Stone
• 25
  Rain Man
  Barry Levinson
• 26
  My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
  Jim Sheridan
• 27
  Scent of a Woman
  Martin Brest
• 28
  The Silence of the Lambs
  Jonathan Demme
• 29
  Philadelphia
  Jonathan Demme
• 30
  Forrest Gump
  Robert Zemeckis
• 31
  The Shawshank Redemption
  Frank Darabont
• 32
  Shine
  Scott Hicks
• 33
  As Good as It Gets
  James L. Brooks
• 34
  Gladiator
  Ridley Scott
• 35
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 36
  Mystic River
  Clint Eastwood
• 37
  Ray
  Taylor Hackford
• 38
  Capote
  Bennett Miller
• 39
  The Last King of Scotland
  Kevin Macdonald
• 40
  Good Night, and Good Luck.
  George Clooney
• 41
  Milk
  Gus Van Sant
• 42
  Frost/Nixon
  Ron Howard
• 43
  Crazy Heart
  Scott Cooper
• 44
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 45
  Invictus
  Clint Eastwood
• 46
  Up in the Air
  Jason Reitman
• 47
  127 Hours
  Danny Boyle
• 48
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 49
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 50
  Good Will Hunting
  Gus Van Sant
• 51
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 52
  The Maltese Falcon
  Roy Del Ruth
• 53
  Young Adult
  Jason Reitman
• 54
  It's Kind of a Funny Story
  Anna Boden
• 55
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 56
  Midnight in Paris
  Woody Allen
• 57
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 58
  Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Woody Allen
• 59
  Little Miss Sunshine
  Jonathan Dayton
• 60
  Full Metal Jacket
  Stanley Kubrick