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

Ed Harris deserved an Oscar for Gone Baby Gone

“You beat a child?!? You molest a child?!? You see me coming, you better run, because I will lay you THE FUCK DOWN. shrugs Easy.”

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u/seanx40 1d ago

Harris should have a shelf of them