Best perfomances in cinema

Jeanne d'Arc
in The Passion of Joan of Arc (La passion de Jeanne d'Arc) (1928)

Vivian Revere Kirkwood
in Three on a Match (1932)

John 'Scottie' Ferguson
in Vertigo (1958)

A Tramp
in City Lights (1931)

Johnny Gray
in The General (1926)

Samuel Spade
in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Holly Golightly
in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

T.R. Devlin
in Notorious (1946)

Eddie Felson
in The Hustler (1961)

C.C. Baxter
in The Apartment (1960)

Tajômaru
in Rashomon (1950)

Guido Anselmi
in 8 1/2 (8½) (1963)

Michael Corleone
in The Godfather (1972)

Daniel Plainview
in There Will Be Blood

Jack Torrance
in The Shining (1980)

Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin M
in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Dr. Hannibal Lecter
in The Silence of the Lambs

Joker
in The Dark Knight

Atticus Finch
in To Kill a Mockingbird

Terry Malloy
in On the Waterfront (1954)

Edward Scissorhands
in Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Police Inspector Harry Callahan
in Dirty Harry (1971)

Jake La Motta
in Raging Bull (1980)

Charlotte Andergast
in Autumn Sonata

Eleanor of Aquitaine
in The Lion in Winter (1968)

Jett Rink
in Giant (1956)

Writer
in Stalker (1979)

Richard III
in Richard III (1955)

Marcello Clerici
in The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970)

Adolf Hitler
in Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004)

Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli
in Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) (1957)

Graf Orlok / Nosferatu
in Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (1922)

Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett
in White Heat (1949)

Sophie
in Sophie's Choice (1982)

Patrick Bateman
in American Psycho (2000)

Carole
in Repulsion (1965)

Harry Powell
in The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Hans Beckert
in M (1931)

Antoine Doinel
in The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) (1959)

T.E. Lawrence
in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Catherine
in Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1962)

Letty
in The Wind (1928)

Clementine Kruczynski
in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Giovanni Sermonti
in The Son's Room (Stanza del figlio (La) ) (2001)

Martha
in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Dan Dunne
in Half Nelson (2006)

Elisabeth Vogler
in Persona (1966)

Anna / Helen
in Possession (1981)

Erika Kohut
in The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) (2001)

Don Logan
in Sexy Beast (2000)