Greatest Acting Performances of All Time

1

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

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74%

2

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Rotten Tomatoes®

87%

3

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

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96%

4

American History X (1998)

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83%

5

American Psycho (2000)

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69%

6

Birdman (2014)

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91%

7

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Rotten Tomatoes®

90%

8

Capote (2005)

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89%

9

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

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98%

10

Fight Club (1999)

Rotten Tomatoes®

79%

11

Forrest Gump (1994)

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70%

12

Gladiator (2000)

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77%

13

Her (2013)

Rotten Tomatoes®

94%

14

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Rotten Tomatoes®

89%

15

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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94%

16

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

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87%

17

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

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80%

18

Life of Pi (2012)

Rotten Tomatoes®

86%

19

Milk (2008)

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93%

20

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Rotten Tomatoes®

85%

21

No Country for Old Men (2007)

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93%

22

North by Northwest (1959)

Rotten Tomatoes®

97%

23

Oliver! (1968)

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83%

24

Philadelphia (1993)

Rotten Tomatoes®

80%

25

Rain Man (1988)

Rotten Tomatoes®

89%

26

Rear Window (1954)

Rotten Tomatoes®

98%

27

Schindler's List (1993)

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98%

28

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Rotten Tomatoes®

86%

29

Taxi Driver (1976)

Rotten Tomatoes®

96%

30

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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96%

31

The Green Mile (1999)

Rotten Tomatoes®

78%

32

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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100%

33

The Pianist (2002)

Rotten Tomatoes®

95%

34

The Shining (1980)

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84%

35

The Theory of Everything (2014)

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80%

36

The Truman Show (1998)

Rotten Tomatoes®

95%

37

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Rotten Tomatoes®

91%

38

Tootsie (1982)

Rotten Tomatoes®

90%

39

Whiplash (2014)

Rotten Tomatoes®

94%

40

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Rotten Tomatoes®

79%

Greatest Acting Performances of All Time

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