Favorite All-Time Film Performances...12-25

Those performances that *just* missed the top 10. Oh and there's no #11, because...there's a tie for 10th (duh, lol).

25. Christian Bale, Empire of the Sun


24. David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck.


23. Amber Tamblyn, Stephanie Daley


22. River Phoenix, Running on Empty


21. Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter


20. Cate Blanchett, The Aviator


18. *tie Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


17. Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice


16. Mia Farrow, The Purple Rose of Cairo


14. *tie Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


12. *tie Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, The Lion in Winter

Favorite All-Time Film Performances...26-49

Next batch of performances. Hope you enjoy!

49. (*tie) Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, Fargo


49. (tie) William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard, Fargo


47. (*tie) Lisa Kudrow as Lucia DeLury, The Opposite of Sex


47. (*tie) Joan Allen as Betty Parker, Pleasantville


46. Ingrid Bergman as Charlotte Andergast, Autumn Sonata


44. (*tie) Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy and Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest



43. Marisa Berenson as Lady Lyndon, Barry Lyndon


41. (*tie) Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein and Marty Feldman as Igor, Young Frankenstein


40. Maribel Verdú as Luisa Cortés, Y tu mamá también


38. (*tie) Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner, Pollock


38. (*tie) Benicio del Toro as Javier Rodriguez, Traffic


37. Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake, Vera Drake


36. Lupe Ontiveros as Carmen Garcia, Real Women Have Curves


34. (*tie) Debra Winger as Emma Horton and Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway, Terms of Endearment


33. Haley Joel Osment as David, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence


32. Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, The 400 Blows


31. Tom Wilkinson as Matt Fowler, In the Bedroom


30. Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie, California Suite


29. Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte, Lost in Translation


28. Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck Lane, Shattered Glass


27. Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown, My Left Foot


26. Glenn Close as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, Dangerous Liaisons

Favorite All-Time Film Performances...Bottom 50

Since I started this little list last year, I haven't had a chance to finish writing it. Well, unfortunately, I'm not going to have much time to complete it as much as I wanted to...but I still have the list done (without write-ups). So I'm just going to post the bottom 50 tonight and hopefully I'll get the rest up sometime this week.

Quick review of the ones that have been posted already.
100. Chalo Gonzalez as Tio Tomas, Quinceañera
99. Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter, It's a Wonderful Life
98. Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels, Tootsie
97. Stockard Channing as Rizzo, Grease
95. (*tie) Madeline Kahn as Miss Trixie Delight and Tatum O’Neal as Addie, Paper Moon
94. Thelma Ritter as Birdie, All About Eve
93. Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz

And the next ones...

92. Jaime Bell as Billy Elliot, Billy Elliot


91. Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper, The Last Picture Show


90. Tim Robbins as Griffin Mill, The Player


88. (*tie) Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker, Scream


88. (*tie) Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Batman Returns


87. Jeff Bridges as Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, The Big Lebowski


86. Sigourney Weaver as Janey Carver, The Ice Storm


85. Alessio Boni as Matteo Carati, The Best of Youth


84. George Sanders as Addison DeWitt, All About Eve


83. Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown, Singin' in the Rain


82. Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins


81. Norma Aleandro as Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez, The Official Story


80. Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, Cast Away


79. Emma Thompson as Karen, Love, Actually


78. Rosie Perez as Carla Rodrigo, Fearless


77. Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne, Some Like It Hot


76. Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, The Graduate


75. F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri, Amadeus


74. Kathleen Turner as Matty Walker, Body Heat


73. Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan, The Year of Living Dangerously


72. Julia Roberts as Anna, Closer


71. Gael García Bernal as Ángel/Juan/Zahara, Bad Education


70. Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum, The Royal Tenenbaums


69. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, Breakfast At Tiffany's


68. Keisha Castle-Hughes as Paikea Apirana, Whale Rider


67. Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin, The Manchurian Candidate


66. Timothy Hutton as Conrad, Ordinary People


65. Campbell Scott as Roger Swanson, Roger Dodger


64. Claire Danes as Mirabelle, Shopgirl


63. Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz


62. John Malkovich as John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich


61. Rita Moreno as Anita, West Side Story


60. Robin Williams as The Genie, Aladdin


59. Judi Dench as Barbara Covett, Notes on a Scandal


58. Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver


57. Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, Ed Wood


56. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, The Queen


55. Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath, The Piano


54. Art Carney as Harry Coombes, Harry and Tonto


53. Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle, The Constant Gardener


52. James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson, Vertigo


51. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Casablanca