Top 5 performances from your favorite actor and actress?

Willem Dafoe
1. The Lighthouse
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
3. Wild at Heart
4. Antichrist
5. Shadow of the Vampire

Isabelle Huppert
1. La Cérémonie
2. The Piano Teacher
3. Story of Women
4. Elle
5. Things to Come

1. There Will Be Blood
2. My Left Foot
3. Gangs of New York
4. Phantom Thread
5. Lincoln

1. The Trip to Bountiful
2. The Pope of Greenwich Village
3. Interiors
4. Sweet Bird of Youth
5. The Beguiled

1. The New Land
2. Persona
3. Face to Face
4. The Emigrants
5. Cries and Whispers

1. The Leopard
2. From Here to Eternity
3. Sweet Smell of Success
4. The Swimmer
5. Judgment at Nuremberg

Constantly changes, since both of them have a ridiculous amount of great performances to choose from, that I could probably have a completely different 5 next week for both. But these are my favorites this week :







1 The Tragedy Of Macbeth
2 He Got Game
3 Man On Fire
4 Malcolm X
5 Fences

1 To Die For
2 Destroyer
3 The Northman
4 Dogville
5 Being The Ricardos

Well, I did say my favorite performances constantly changes for both of them. Maybe it's a cheat . This isn't a best performance list for me, though some may correlate. If it was a best performance list, Malcolm X is no.1 for me. But right now, these are the performances of his I get the most enjoyment out of watching. The Tragedy Of Macbeth is one of his top 10 best performances, but it's probably at the top of my most favorite list right now for him due to recency bias:

I mean ask me in 2 months time, my 5 current favorite list for him might look like this, as I may have rewatched and enjoyed them more recently:

1 Training Day
2 Philidelpia
3 Glory
4 The Hurricane
5 Inside Man


Again, taking note that it's a current favorite (not best) list, I kinda love what she did with Lucille Ball in  Being The Ricardos against all the odds. I've rarely seen a casting so villified and hammered. Maybe Michael Keaton got something like that for Batman 89, but that was in the pre-internet era, so he could probably block it out to an extent. Kidman, under immense scrutiny and pressure had to deliver a performance that could get most of the vultures off her back, and she did.  The feeding frenzy to decide she was going to fail spectacularly in the role before she even shot it was something hubristic. So for her to show exactly why she's one of the world's greatest actresses by giving a nuanced, acclaimed performance that won her a Golden Globe and got her an Oscar nomination was gratifying to see. People can still choose to dislike her performance and that's fine, but there's no question that she also shut a lot of people up spectacularly with the acclaim she received for it. It probably wouldn't make my top 5 Best Nicole Kidman performances (top 10 or 15 best? Certainly), but it's in my top 5 current favorite performances of hers for those reasons and recency bias.

pupdurcs Denzel in The Tragedy Of Macbeth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Will Smith in King Richard...just saying

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. The Revenant
3. Django Unchained
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
5. Revolutionary Road

1. Sharp Objects
2. Doubt
3. Arrival
4. The Fighter
5. American Hustle

Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
Cast Away
Captain Philips
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Enchanted
Arrival
Doubt
Junebug
The Fighter

Greta Garbo
1. Anna Karenina
2. Camille
3. Queen Christina
4. A Woman of Affairs
5. As You Desire Me



Burt Lancaster
1. The Leopard
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. Criss Cross
4. The Rainmaker
5. Atlantic City