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/Just_J3ssica 1d ago

Toni Collette in Hereditary

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u/Active_Ad7175 1d ago

Toni Collette in literally anything

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u/GeeMinDaka 1d ago

The Sixth Sense scene in the car with her son. Holy crap that was good.

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u/Active_Ad7175 1d ago

Man, when I was thinking of all of the movies she’s been amazing in, I forgot about this powerhouse performance from her.

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u/seanx40 1d ago

Ha, I told a friend about Collette's performance in that. So she watched it. And called me at 1am screaming "why the fuck didn't you warn me? After that last one you told me about?"

The last one was Martys