Honorable mention:

Bruce Campbell as Elvis in Bubba Ho-tep.

I have problems with this because there are so many small nuances to a performance. I might love one for the comedic factor, but then another for the drama. They don't really lend themselves to listing out in my skull. : /

But here's a few I thoroughly enjoyed.

Robin Williams in Patch Adams

Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption

Chris Tucker in The 5th Element (Because it is damned hard to play a metrosexual diva in the 25th century...)

Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist

Michael Clark Duncan in The Green Mile (I loved the books and the movie makes me cry ever...single...time.)

And...sadly...I can't really come up with too much else. I'm going to blame that on the fact I just woke up. Heh. :D

Bette Davis - What ever happened to Baby Jane
Joan Crawford - What ever happened to Baby Jane
James Stewart - Vertigo
Tom Hanks - Forestt Gump
De Niro - Taxi Cab
Anthony Perkins - Pyscho
Charlie Chaplain - The Immigrant
Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption

Isabelle Adjani is Posession
Sam Neil in Posession
Anthony Perkins - Psycho
Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
Brad Pitt in 12 monkeys
Jack Nicholson The Shining
Leo Bill - The Living and the Dead
Robert Deniro in taxi driver

Lon Chaney - "Phroso" West of Zanzibar
Warren Oates - "Bennie" Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Daniel Day Lewis - "Bill the Butcher" Gangs of New York
Cary Grant - "C.K. Dexter Haven" The Philadelphia Story
Katharine Hepburn - "Rose Sayer" The African Queen
Gena Rowlands - "Mabel Longhetti" A Woman Under the Influence
Alain Delon - "Costello" Le Samourai
Toshiro Mifune - "Murakami" Stray Dog

i have a ton, agree with alot of you on some of these...

kevin spacey- american beauty
denzel washington- training day
jack nicholson- the shining
tom hanks- forrest gump
samual l jackson- pulp fiction/unbreakable
anthony perkins- psycho
anthony hopkins- silence of the lambs
jeff bridges- the big lebowski:)
al pacino- godfather movies/ scarface
dustin hoffman- rain man
johnny depp- blow
harrison ford- the fugutive


there are so many others i cant think of off the top of my head

almost forgot nick cage in bringing out the dead

1. Robert Deniro - Raging Bull
2. Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
3. Robert Deniro - Cape Fear
4. Robert Mitchum - Night Of The Hunter
5. Al Pacino - Scarface
6. Joe Pesci - Casino
7. Lee Van Cleef - Good, Bad, Ugly
8. Clint Eastwood - good, bad, ugly

honorable mention
Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men

tell me about it. i can't wait to see more from him.

yep. dude plays one mean baddie.