Best movie performances (My opinion)

Devlin in Notorious


Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story


David in Bringing Up Baby

Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind


Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire


Myra in Waterloo Bridge

Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now


Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire


Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather

Margo Channing in All About Eve


Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager


Baby Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Peter Warne in It Happened One Night


Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind

Ilsa Lund in Casablanca


Alicia Huberman in Notorious


María in For Whome the Bell Tolls

John Nash in A Beautiful Mind


Jim Braddock in Cinderella Man


Maximus in Gladiator


Ben Wade in 3:10 to Yuma

Linda in The Deer Hunter


Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt


Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County

Guido Anselmi in 8½


Marcello Rubini in La Dolce Vita


Gabriele in A special day(Una giornata particolare)


Giovanni Pontano in La Notte

Ed Wood in Ed Wood


Sir James Matthew Barrie in Finding Neverland


Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean series


John Dillinger in Public Enemies

Hanna Schmitz in The Reader


April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road


Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino


Frankie Dunn in Million Dollar Baby

Sydney Prosser in American Hustle


Charlene Fleming in The Fighter


Peggy Dodd in The Master

Michael in The Deer Hunter


Rodrigo Mendoza in The Mission


Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II


Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (suggested by Dark Warrior)

Sabrina Fairchild in Sabrina


Princess Ann in Roman Holiday

Michael Corleone in The Godfathe I,II


Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon

Vicki Lester / Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born


Irene Hoffman in Judgement at Nuremberg

Paul Edgecomb in The Green Mile


Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump


Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan

Ada Monroe in Cold Mountain


Lady Sarah Ashley in Australia

Alfred Borden in The Prestige


Dicky Eklund in The Fighter

Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice


Cecilia Tallis in Atonement

Rooster Cogburn in True Grit


Bad Blake in Crazy Heart

Maria in The Impossible


Kitty Fane in The Painted Veil

Howard Hughes in The Aviator


Billy in The Departed

Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story


Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond


Susan in Bringing Up Baby

R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


J.J. Gittes in Chinatown

Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator


Jude in I'm not There

Truman Capote in Capote


Lancaster Dodd in The Master


Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt

Eloise Y. Kelly in Mogambo


Kitty Collins in The Killers

Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist

Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby

Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes

Allie in The Notebook

King George VI in The King's Speech

Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose(La Mome)

William Wallace in Braveheart

Sayuri in Memoirs of a Geisha

Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List

Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda

Nina Sayers / The Swan Queen in Black Swan

Benjamin Button in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Celie Johnson in The Color Purple

Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

Lisbeth Salander in Millenium series

Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech

Governor Mike Morris in The Ides of March

Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria

Tommy DeVito in GoodFellas

Shosanna in Inglourious Basterds