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Best Performance: THE RESULTS Nov 21, 2023 0:03:03 GMT mikediastavrone96, mhynson27, and 13 more like this

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Post by JangoB on Nov 21, 2023 0:03:03 GMT

Well folks, that's it - another day gone, another MAR poll finished

Without further ado, let's jump to the results of our final all-time rumble.

According to MAR, the Best Performance of All Time is...

Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part II :royal:

Pacino won the packed All Time battle with 11 votes. And here is the final breakdown:

1. 11 votes - Pacino
2. 9 votes - Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
3. 5 votes - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
4. 2 votes - Isabelle Adjani, Possession / Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire / Maria Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc
5. 1 vote - Anthony Hopkins, The Father / Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story / Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia
6. no votes - Joaquin Phoenix, The Master / Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter

So there it is! Many thanks to our voters - I really appreciated all the activity :yes:

And here're the full results for your viewing pleasure:

ALL TIME WINNER:
1970s: Al Pacino, The Godfather: Part II (11/34)

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DECADE BATTLE WINNERS:
2020s: Anthony Hopkins, The Father (13/26)
2010s: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master (11/30)
2000s: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (10/30)
1990s: Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story (7/30)
1980s: Isabelle Adjani, Possession (7/29)
1970s: Al Pacino, The Godfather: Part II (9/28)
1960s: Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia (8/30)
1950s: Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire (7/28)
1940s: Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter (10/19 - via Tiebreaker)
1930s: Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind (11/22)
1920s: Maria Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc (9/17)

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YEARLY WINNERS:
2022: Cate Blanchett, Tár (10/19)
2021: Simon Rex, Red Rocket (14/20 - via Tiebreaker)
2020: Anthony Hopkins, The Father (9/18)

2019: Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems (5/21)
2018: Emma Stone, The Favourite (6/25)
2017: Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread (7/27)
2016: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea (13/20 - via Tiebreaker)
2015: Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years (13/24 - via Tiebreaker)
2014: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night (16/25 - via Tiebreaker)
2013: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (6/23)
2012: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master (10/22)
2011: TIE: Olivia Colman, Tyrannosaur — Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (12/12)
2010: Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy (16/22 - via Tiebreaker)

2009: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds (12/24)
2008: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (9/24)
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (10/21)
2006: Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others (5/20)
2005: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (7/24)
2004: Paul Giamatti, Sideways (4/26)
2003: Charlize Theron, Monster (7/25)
2002: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York (5/21)
2001: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr. (8/24)
2000: Christian Bale, American Psycho (5/23)

1999: Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story (8/21)
1998: Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station (4/25)
1997: Pam Grier, Jackie Brown (7/25)
1996: Frances McDormand, Fargo (7/26)
1995: Isabelle Huppert, La Cérémonie (14/27 - via Tiebreaker)
1994: Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump (6/21)
1993: Ralph Fiennes, Schindler's List (8/27)
1992: Denzel Washington, Malcolm X (9/29)
1991: Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern (9/26)
1990: Joe Pesci, Goodfellas (9/26)

1989: Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys (13/21 - via Tiebreaker)
1988: Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers (9/27)
1987: Max von Sydow, Pelle the Conqueror (15/21 - via Tiebreaker)
1986: Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa (14/21 - via Tiebreaker)
1985: Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple (7/23)
1984: F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus (14/24 - via Tiebreaker)
1983: Gérard Depardieu, Danton (7/25)
1982: Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice (14/26 - via Tiebreaker)
1981: Isabelle Adjani, Possession (10/24)
1980: Robert De Niro, Raging Bull (14/29)

1979: Hanna Schygulla, The Marriage of Maria Braun (14/22 - via Tiebreaker)
1978: Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata (9/28)
1977: Shelley Duvall, 3 Women (8/21)
1976: Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver (12/30)
1975: Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon (11/29)
1974: Al Pacino, The Godfather: Part II (13/30)
1973: Ana Torrent, The Spirit of the Beehive (15/27 - via Tiebreaker)
1972: Liv Ullmann, The New Land (7/29)
1971: Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange (9/29)
1970: George C. Scott, Patton (13/28)

1969: Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (8/25)
1968: Burt Lancaster, The Swimmer (11/21 - via Tiebreaker)
1967: Robert Blake, In Cold Blood (5/24)
1966: Bibi Andersson, Persona (12/16 - via Tiebreaker)
1965: Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight (6/25)
1964: Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (13/22)
1963: Paul Newman, Hud (12/29 - via Tiebreaker)
1962: Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia (10/26)
1961: Deborah Kerr, The Innocents (11/21 - via Tiebreaker)
1960: Anthony Perkins, Psycho (10/22)

1959: Emmanuelle Riva, Hiroshima Mon Amour (6/22)
1958: James Stewart, Vertigo (8/27)
1957: TIE: Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria — Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd (9/9)
1956: Kirk Douglas, Lust For Life (6/22)
1955: Robert Mitchum, The Night of the Hunter (8/26)
1954: Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront (11/27)
1953: Charles Vanel, The Wages of Fear (7/25)
1952: Takashi Shimura, Ikiru (8/24)
1951: Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire (7/25)
1950: Bette Davis, All About Eve (14/27 - via Tiebreaker)

1949: Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress (8/25)
1948: Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (8/22)
1947: Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus (5/17)
1946: James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life (14/21)
1945: Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter (8/22)
1944: Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity (10/21)
1943: Teresa Wright, Shadow of a Doubt (15/22 - via Tiebreaker)
1942: Bette Davis, Now, Voyager (6/18)
1941: Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve (7/24)
1940: Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator (9/17 - via Tiebreaker)

1939: Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind (11/17)
1938: Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby (10/19 - via Tiebreaker)
1937: Erich von Stroheim, Grand Illusion (6/9 - via Tiebreaker)
1936: Greta Garbo, Camille (5/16)
1935: Victor McLaglen, The Informer (4/13)
1934: Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night (9/16)
1933: Greta Garbo, Queen Christina (6/14)
1932: Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (9/14)
1931: Peter Lorre, M (8/18)
1930: Louis Wolheim, All Quiet on the Western Front (5/12)

1929: Louise Brooks, Pandora’s Box (5/7)
1928: Maria Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc (12/14)
1927: Janet Gaynor, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (5/12)
1926: Buster Keaton, The General (5/12)
1925: Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush (7/13)
1924: Gibson Gowland, Greed (6/11)
1923: Harold Lloyd, Safety Last! (7/10)
1922: Max Schreck, Nosferatu (4/9)
1921: Charlie Chaplin, The Kid (4/11)
1920: Conrad Veidt, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (4/8)

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Best Performance: THE RESULTS Nov 21, 2023 0:21:51 GMT Martin Stett, JangoB, and 1 more like this

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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 21, 2023 0:21:51 GMT

Michael Corleone - in Part 2 - is almost an impossible role to pull off for an actor btw.....not sure anybody voted with that criteria in mind but it's one of the most challeging roles ever for a leading male to pull off when you consider it.

The length of the film and how he centers it and how measured /controlled / restrained / closed off he has to be .......(ie he rarely raises his voice, he doesn't fire a gun, he has to be suggestive and not emotive, he has to evoke the younger character but be convincingly "different" etc)

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Best Performance: THE RESULTS Nov 21, 2023 4:56:05 GMT JangoB and pacinoyes like this

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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 21, 2023 4:56:05 GMT

Great job MAR

For having the brains to vote Pacino #1. Sometimes I doubt your intellect, but I can't deny when ya'll do something good.

O'Toole is the only one even close to Pacino in my books, and even he.... in his greatness can't touch Pacino. But nobody really can, really. CUZ he is THE GOATIE GOAT.

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Post by Nikan on Nov 22, 2023 13:35:14 GMT

Nov 21, 2023 0:21:51 GMT pacinoyes said:

Michael Corleone - in Part 2 - is almost an impossible role to pull off for an actor btw.....not sure anybody voted with that criteria in mind but it's one of the most challeging roles ever for a leading male to pull off when you consider it.

The length of the film and how he centers it and how measured /controlled / restrained / closed off he has to be .......(ie he rarely raises his voice, he doesn't fire a gun, he has to be suggestive and not emotive, he has to evoke the younger character but be convincingly "different" etc)

What did you think about Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year btw? I remember everyone assigned him to Pacino in GFs... His film isn't as long, but he never hands it over to somebody like a young DeNiro either... of course his material and results isn't close to GOT-level, but it doesn't contain shootouts/murders/schocks either to distract us from his character, even temporarily.

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Nov 22, 2023 13:35:14 GMT Nikan said:

Nov 21, 2023 0:21:51 GMT pacinoyes said:

Michael Corleone - in Part 2 - is almost an impossible role to pull off for an actor btw.....not sure anybody voted with that criteria in mind but it's one of the most challeging roles ever for a leading male to pull off when you consider it.

The length of the film and how he centers it and how measured /controlled / restrained / closed off he has to be .......(ie he rarely raises his voice, he doesn't fire a gun, he has to be suggestive and not emotive, he has to evoke the younger character but be convincingly "different" etc)

What did you think about Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year btw? I remember everyone assigned him to Pacino in GFs... His film isn't as long, but he never hands it over to somebody like a young DeNiro either... of course his material and results isn't close to GOT-level, but it doesn't contain shootouts/murders/schocks either to distract us from his character, even temporarily.

I thought it was a fine performance but I'm actually in the minority and thought Chastain was more interesting tbh .........the thing that makes Michael Corleone - in Part 2 - more "difficult" than almost every movie character is his range of connections without range of actions.........like I love DDL in TWBB - but the amount of characters he interacts with and that his existence touches is much, much smaller.......the heavy lifting in Pacino's performance is really shocking because Coppola essentially turned the movie over to him (mostly) and the writing of the character is pretty thin (for Michael) for a "masterpiece" ......he essentially has to "distill a single Shakespeatean-like emotion" rather than overtly act those emotions out.......

The one performance I think is comparable in "degree of difficulty" is Lydia Tar tbh but for being the opposite - she has almost too much to convey in a lot of ways - 2 professions, a marriage - both portrayed in A LOT detail - a mysterious past (present too), guilt, joy, arroagance, weakness, the mechanics / language of one of her jobs (conducting) in 2 languages (!?!)......one is a minimalist piece of GOAT acting, the other is across a broader template of what she has to embody

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........also almost an impossible role to pull off imo.......that couldn't have been pulled off "better" that I can see anyway - both of them are in my "best Lead performances in English performances Male or Female" in the modern era (post-1967) which is our MAR official lis thankuverymucht :grouphug:

- GF 2, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, Ragng Bull, TWBB, Last Tango in Paris, Tar, Sophie's Choice, A Woman Under the Influence

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