Top Favorite Intense, Moving, Effecting Best performance Actor Movie List

1. Jack Nicholson, The Shining
2. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
3. Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
4. Ralph Fiennes, Schindler's List
5. Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver
6. Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Anthony Hopkins, Silence of The Lambs
8. Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
9. Meryl Streep, Doubt
10. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
11. Natalie Portman Black Swan
12. Kevin Spacey, Seven
13. Christen Bale, The Fighter
14. Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction
15. Kathy Bates, Misery
16. Daniel Day Lewis, Gangs of New York
17. Sharon Stone, Casino
18. Naomi Watts Mulholland Drive
19. Betty Davis, All about Eve
20. Nicholas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
21. Sean Penn, 21 Grams
22. Meryl Streep, Ironweed
23. Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski
24. Michael Douglas, Wallstreet
25. John Hurt, The Elephant Man
26. Al Pacino, Scarface
27. Charlize Theron, Monster
28. Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet
29. Naomi Watts, 21 Grams
30. Kate Winslet, The Reader
31. Harvey Keitel, Bad Lieutenant
32. Gary Oldman, Sid and Nancy
33. Henry Fonda, Grapes of Wrath
34. Paul Newman, Hud
35. Marlon Brando, Godfather
36. Orson Wells, Citizen Cane
37. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
38. Danny Devito, Batman 2
39. Joe Pesci, Goodfellows
40. Anthony Perkins, Psycho
41. Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
42. Ellen Bernstein, Requiem For a Dream
43. William H. Macy, Fargo
44. Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
45. Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice
46. Christopher Walken, Deer Hunter
47. Russel Crowe, A Beautiful Mind
48. Sean Penn, Mystic River
49. Robin Williams, The Fischer King
50. Jessica Lang, The Postman Always Rings Twice
51. Christen Bale, American Psycho
52. Edward Norton, American History X
53. Willem Defoe Wild at Heart
54. Kevin Spacey, Usual Suspects
55. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
56. Joe Pesci, Casino
57. Faye Dunaway, Chinatown
58. Frances McDormand, Fargo
59. Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
60. Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
61. Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Antichrist
62. Jodie Foster, Silence of the Lambs
63. Shelly Duvall, The Shinning
64. Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights
65. Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
66. Edward Norton, Fight Club
67. Holly Hunter The Piano
68. Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct
69. Kirk Douglas, Spartacus
70. Annette Bening, The Kids Are Alright
71. Angelica Houston, Prizzi's Honor
72. Julianne Moore, The Big Lebowski
73. Anthony Hopkins, Magic
74. Tom Hulce, Amadeus
75. Harvey Keitel, The Piano
76. Mark Wahlberg, Boogie Nights
77. F. Murray Abraham, Amadeaus
78. Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
79. Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby
80. Cris Cooper, American Beauty
81. Halle Berry, Monsters Ball
82. Angelica Houston, The Grifters
83. Cary Mulligan, An Education
84. Julianne Moore, The Kids Are Alright
85. Elizabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas
86. Annette Bening, The Grifters
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