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/keeks85 1d ago

Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley

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u/CPT_Yesterday_ 1d ago

"How's the peeping?" Is amongst my most quoted quotes.

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u/keeks85 18h ago

“Tommy Tommy Tommy tommyyyyyy, how’s the peepin?” lol this world will never be the same without him

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u/phaetae 1d ago

Hoffmann was SO GOOD 🥹😭