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 WOKJ's 100 Greatest Performances: Complete! 
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Overall, very solid and fun list and great great job xiayun and Chris.

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nice to see people here pay respect to the godfather and Bogart...

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1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - Johnny Depp - 2003
2. The Departed - Jack Nicholson - 2006
3. Gladiator - Joaquin Phoenix - 2000
4. American Psycho - Christian Bale - 2000
5. The Aviator - Leonardo DiCaprio - 2004
6. Gladiator - Russell Crowe - 2000
7. Training Day - Denzel Washington - 2001
8. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - Mike Myers - 1997
9. Blood Diamond - Leonardo DiCaprio - 2006
10. American History X - Edward Norton - 1998
11. The Departed - Mark Wahlberg - 2006
12. Batman - Jack Nicholson - 1989
13. Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America - Sacha Baron Cohen - 2006
14. The Departed - Leonardo DiCaprio - 2006
15. The Birdcage - Nathan Lane - 1996
16. Hard Candy - Ellen Page - 2005
17. Edward Scissorhands - Johnny Depp - 1990
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Harrison Ford - 1981
19. Match Point - Jonathan Rhys Meyers - 2005
20. The Nutty Professor - Eddie Murphy - 1996

12 out of 20 ain't bad.
And yes, i do believe Captain Jack Sparrow is the most "entertaining" character of all time, which is why i put Depp at first... Sue me... :whistle:


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And yes, i do believe Captain Jack Sparrow is the most "entertaining" character of all time, which is why i put Depp at first... Sue me... :whistle:


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1. Aliens - Sigourney Weaver - 1986
2. Witness for the Prosecution - Charles Laughton - 1957
3. Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks - 1994
4. The African Queen - Humphrey Bogart - 1951
5. The African Queen - Katharine Hepburn - 1951
6. The Insider - Russell Crowe - 1999
7. The Elephant Man - John Hurt- 1980
8. Sleuth - Lawrence Olivier - 1972
9. Sleuth - Micheal Caine - 1972
10. American History X - Edward Norton - 1998
11. Ed Wood - Martin Landau - 1994
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Jack Nicholson - 1975
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Louise Fletcher - 1975
14. Patton - George C. Scott - 1970
15. Once Upon a Time in the West - Henry Fonda - 1968
16. Tootsie - Dustin Hoffman - 1982
17. Downfall - Bruno Ganz - 2004
18. Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney - 1942
19. Taxi Driver - Robert DeNiro - 1976
20. Psycho - Anthony Perkins - 1960


10 out of 20. I guess it could have been worse.

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xiayun wrote:
#8
Frances McDormand, Fargo (1996)


Amazingly, accumulated the same number of points as Pacino, and have 7 top 20s to be ahead. 13 votes total is also among the highest.

And yes, she is the highest female.


Wow. Had her in my top 30 but never thought she would show up. Nice surprise


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Edward Norton, American History X (1998)


13 votes, only 4 top 20s, but they are all top 10s.


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And Jon is wrong again! :)

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Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump (1994)


Two points separate Hanks from Norton, which is pretty big with only 21 votes.


too much love for Hanks in here. He's the Lord of the Rings among actors


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Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)


A popular choice for sure: 14 votes, 7 top 20s and one #1.


totally undeserved. this is just plain stupid. not even top 5 of his year


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Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction (1994)


Very much surprised that Jackson could place this high, let alone seeing him stay neck-to-neck near the top and be even ahead before the last three votes decided it.


Pathetic.


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Post Re: WOKJ's 100 Greatest Performances: Complete!
Thanks Xia for your work. It was a very nice list - until the Top 10 came. That Bogart has only turned up once and Cary Grant not at all is ver sad when Depp and Jackson make the top 5


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Here are the next 100 or so that didn't make the list, along with their scores (the cutoff is exactly 8 points):

The Devil Wears Prada - Meryl Streep - 2006 8
Before Sunset - Julie Delpy - 2004 8
North by Northwest - Cary Grant - 1959 8
Hard Candy - Ellen Page - 2005 7.5
Pride & Prejudice - Keira Knightley - 2005 7.5
Star Wars - Alec Guiness - 1977 7.5
The African Queen - Humphrey Bogart - 1951 7.5
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Leonardo DiCaprio - 1993 7.5
Witness for the Prosecution – Charles Laughton – 1957 7.5
A Few Good Men - Jack Nicholson - 1992 7
Airplane! - Leslie Nielsen - 1980 7
American Beauty - Annette Bening - 1999 7
Dog Day Afternoon - Al Pacino - 1975 7
Fargo - William H. Macy - 1996 7
Gandhi - Ben Kingsley - 1982 7
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - David Carradine - 2004 7
L.A. Confidential - Russell Crowe - 1997 7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Louise Fletcher - 1975 7
The Deer Hunter - Christopher Walken - 1978 7
The Departed - Mark Wahlberg - 2006 7
The Exorcist - Linda Blair - 1973 7
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly - Clint Eastwood - 1966 7
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart - 1941 7
The Passion of Joan of Arc - Maria Falconetti - 1928 7
The Sixth Sense - Haley Joel Osment - 1999 7
The Truman Show - Ed Harris - 1998 7
Titanic - Kate Winslet - 1997 7
Walk the Line - Reese Witherspoon - 2005 7
Dancer in the Dark - Bjork - 2000 6.5
Ray - Jamie Foxx - 2004 6.5
Roman Holiday - Audrey Hepburn - 1953 6.5
The Deer Hunter - Robert DeNiro - 1978 6.5
The Godfather - James Caan - 1972 6.5
The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman - 1967 6.5
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Humphrey Bogart - 1948 6.5
Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder - 1974 6.5
A Streetcar Named Desire - Vivien Leigh - 1951 6
Being John Malkovich - Cameron Diaz - 1997 6
Ben-Hur - Charlton Heston - 1959 6
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Audrey Hepburn - 1961 6
Casablanca - Claude Rains - 1942 6
Closer - Natalie Portman - 2004 6
Driving Miss Daisy - Jessica Tandy - 1989 6
Fight Club - Edward Norton - 1999 6
Gattaca - Jude Law - 1997 6
Girl, Interrupted - Angelina Jolie - 1999 6
Gone With the Wind - Vivien Leigh - 1939 6
L.A. Confidential - Guy Pearce - 1997 6
L.A. Confidential - Kevin Spacey - 1997 6
Million Dollar Baby - Hilary Swank - 2004 6
O Brother Where Art Thou? - George Clooney - 2000 6
Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon - 1959 6
The African Queen - Katharine Hepburn - 1951 6
The Aviator - Leonardo DiCaprio - 2004 6
The Elephant Man - John Hurt - 1980 6
The General - Buster Keaton - 1927 6
The Godfather Part II - Robert DeNiro - 1974 6
Wall Street - Micheal Douglas - 1987 6
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - Mike Myers - 1997 5.5
Chaplin - Robert Downy Jr. - 1992 5.5
Dirty Harry - Clint Eastwood - 1971 5.5
Dr. No - Sean Connery - 1962 5.5
Fight Club - Helena Bonham Carter - 1999 5.5
His Girl Friday - Rosalind Russell - 1940 5.5
In the Mood for Love - Tony Leung - 2000 5.5
Network - Faye Dunaway - 1976 5.5
On Golden Pond - Katharine Hepburn - 1981 5.5
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks - 1998 5.5
The Bridge On The River Kwai - Alec Guinness - 1957 5.5
The French Connection - Gene Hackman - 1971 5.5
The Shawshank Redemption - Tim Robbins - 1994 5.5
A Beautiful Mind - Russel Crowe - 2001 5
Braveheart - Mel Gibson - 1995 5
Bringing Up Baby - Katherine Hepburn - 1938 5
Brokeback Mountain - Michelle Williams - 2005 5
Dead Man Walking - Susan Sarandon - 1995 5
Driving Miss Daisy - Morgan Freeman - 1989 5
Elizabeth - Cate Blanchett - 1998 5
GoodFellas - Robert DeNiro - 1990 5
King Kong - Naomi Watts - 2005 5
Leaving Las Vegas - Nicolas Cage - 1995 5
Lost in Translation - Bill Murray - 2003 5
My Cousin Vinny - Marisa Tomei - 1992 5
My Left Foot - Daniel Day Lewis - 1989 5
Ordinary People - Timothy Hutton - 1980 5
Platoon - Tom Berenger - 1986 5
Pleasantville - Joan Allen - 1998 5
Rebel Without a Cause - James Dean - 1955 5
Requiem for a Dream - Ellen Burstyn - 2000 5
The Adventures of Robin Hood - Errol Flynn - 1938 5
The Aviator - Cate Blanchett - 2004 5
The Notebook - Rachel McAdams - 2004 5
12 Monkeys - Brad Pitt - 1995 4.5
Cabaret - Joel Grey - 1972 4.5
Chinatown - Jack Nicholson - 1974 4.5
Glengarry Glen Ross - Jack Lemmon - 1992 4.5
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Tim Cury - 1975 4.5
The Big Lebowski - Jeff Bridges - 1998 4.5
The Contender - Joan Allen - 2000 4.5
The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin - 1925 4.5
The Green Mile - Michael Clarke Duncan - 1999 4.5
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Elizabeth Taylor - 1966 4.5

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I sadly had to depart at the end of the show, but great job, Xia and Chris!


It's a solid, though partially expected list. One thing that really took me off-guard was Samuel L. Jackson's placement. I thought he was better in Jackie Brown!

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i heard a rumour that the real Italian mafia dons pay a lot of respect to Marlon Brando and Al Pacino for their performances... :funny:

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Things I like about this list:
1. Comparing to the film list, there are more classic performances included (e.g. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Grapes of Wrath, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sunset Blvd.);
2. Better and more appropriate placements of others (City Lights, Citizen Kane, even All About Eve although still low for the performance itself);
3. In general a little more unpredictable.

Things I wish would happen:
1. More classics, only one Bogart and Welles, no Grant, and whatever overlap the next point;
2. More females, only one Streep (and way too low) and Bergman, no either Hepburn, Leigh, or Dunaway.

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bogart is great in Casablanca but hes better in his other two films.


Nicholson, 5X
Hanks,4X
Stewart,4 X

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1. The Silence of the Lambs - Anthony Hopkins - 1991
2. The Truman Show - Jim Carrey - 1998
3. Sophie's Choice - Meryl Streep - 1982
4. Big - Tom Hanks - 1988

5. The Piano - Holly Hunter - 1993
6. The Village - Bryce Dallas Howard - 2004
7. The Silence of the Lambs - Jodie Foster - 1991
8. The Shining - Jack Nicholson - 1980
9. Edward Scissorhands - Johnny Depp - 1990
10. Tootsie - Dustin Hoffman - 1982

11. To Die For - Nicole Kidman - 1995
12. Taxi Driver - Robert DeNiro - 1976
13. Psycho - Anthony Perkins - 1960

14. Ordinary People - Timothy Hutton - 1980
15. Awakenings - Robert DeNiro - 1990
16. Brokeback Mountain - Heath Ledger - 2005
17. A Streetcar Named Desire - Vivien Leigh - 1951
18. A Streetcar Named Desire - Marlon Brando - 1951
19. Aliens - Sigourney Weaver - 1986
20. Cast Away - Tom Hanks - 2000


15 out of 20. Pretty good. I guess my vote alone bumped Tom Hanks' perfomance in Big :happy: And I guess nobody else voted for Streep - shame on you... :disgust:

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