r/movies • u/Fun_Protection_6939 • 1d ago

Discussion What is the single greatest acting performance you have seen?

What is the single greatest acting performance you have seen?

It's got to be Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice for me. Such a heartbreaking and nuanced portrayal of loss and devastation, and doubly impressive because she had to learn two languages fluently and had to speak German with a Polish accent, when neither language was native to her.

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u/rwags2024 1d ago

Denis Menochet

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u/Decent-Bear334 1d ago

Shosanna...

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u/centipededamascus 1d ago

Au revoir, Shoshanna!

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u/paper_zoe 1d ago

he was great in The Beasts a couple of years ago too.