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)

A Tramp
in City Lights (1931)

John 'Scottie' Ferguson
in Vertigo (1958)

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)

Tajômaru
in Rashomon (1950)

C.C. Baxter
in The Apartment (1960)

Michael Corleone
in The Godfather (1972)

Guido Anselmi
in 8 1/2 (8½) (1963)

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

Edward Scissorhands
in Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Joker
in The Dark Knight

Terry Malloy
in On the Waterfront (1954)

Jake La Motta
in Raging Bull (1980)

Police Inspector Harry Callahan
in Dirty Harry (1971)

Atticus Finch
in To Kill a Mockingbird

Writer
in Stalker (1979)

Eleanor of Aquitaine
in The Lion in Winter (1968)

Charlotte Andergast
in Autumn Sonata

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

Jett Rink
in Giant (1956)

Richard III
in Richard III (1955)

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

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

Sophie
in Sophie's Choice (1982)

Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett
in White Heat (1949)

Adolf Hitler
in Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004)

Patrick Bateman
in American Psycho (2000)

Hans Beckert
in M (1931)

Carole
in Repulsion (1965)

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

Harry Powell
in The Night of the Hunter (1955)

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

Letty
in The Wind (1928)

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

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

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

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

Elisabeth Vogler
in Persona (1966)

Dan Dunne
in Half Nelson (2006)

Anna / Helen
in Possession (1981)

Sam Quint
in Jaws (1975)

Margo
in All About Eve (1950)