A couple of your choices of Best Actor performances

The first two that popped in my head :

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven
Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda

Originally I also had Cybill Sheppard for The Last Picture Show but saving her for best actress. I know Kevin Kline only had a supporting role but I put him here because I thought he did an outstanding job for a comedic role. That's not always easy for an actor to do.
 
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MarkinPhx said:
The first two that popped in my head :

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven
Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda

Originally I also had Cybill Sheppard for The Last Picture Show but saving her for best actress. I know Kevin Kline only had a supporting role but I put him here because I thought he did an outstanding job for a comedic role. That's not always easy for an actor to do.
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Okay, Mark. This thread isn't getting a lot of love, so let's switch now to best actress performances. Sheppard is a good one. Who would be a second one? BTW I also was knocked out by Cloris Leachman's performance in "Picture Show".

I'll throw out 2:

Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944)

Patricia O'Neal in Hud (1963)
 
I second both of those ! IMO, Patricia O'Neal was/is very underrated. I would be tempted to switch Hud for A Face in the Crowd but I'd be nitpicking. Barbara Stanwyck was outright scary in Double Indemnity. I'll have to think of others in the next couple of days.
 
MarkinPhx said:
I second both of those ! IMO, Patricia O'Neal was/is very underrated. I would be tempted to switch Hud for A Face in the Crowd but I'd be nitpicking. Barbara Stanwyck was outright scary in Double Indemnity. I'll have to think of others in the next couple of days.
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Yeah, O'Neal was good in "Crowd" for sure. It was a phenomenal break out role for Andy Griffith.
 
Nicolas Cage:
Leaving Las Vegas (I think he did win an award for that one)

Sometimes what I think is great other people don't, but I liked Meryl Streep in all these:
One True Thing, 1998
The Hours, 2002
It's Complicated, 2009
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Nicolas Cage:
Leaving Las Vegas (I think he did win an award for that one)

Sometimes what I think is great other people don't, but I liked Meryl Streep in all these:
One True Thing, 1998
The Hours, 2002
It's Complicated, 2009
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I agree re Cage, although I loved him in Raising Arizona (1987).

IMO Streep is the Barbara Stanwyck of the late 20th-dearly 21st Centuries.
I'd prefer if she'd kept her opinions to herself, but she's certainly a great actress.
 
I really enjoyed Joanne Woodward's performance in Three Faces of Eve (1957), for which she won the Oscar. It was rare, and very believable, for her to portray a vampy, sexy woman in a role.

Jean Smart blew me away in her role as First Lady Martha Logan in the 5th season (2006) of the great 24 series. She showed a range of acting that many in the business probably aspire to. I see she recently won an Emmy for her performance in Hacks (2021-present), but I haven't watched more than the very first episode.
 

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