Can you name the 100 Great Acting Performances? by beckyw

Actor/Character	Movie
Daniel Day Lewis/Daniel Plainview
James Stewart/George Bailey
Jeff Bridges/Rooster Cogburn
Marlon Brando/Stanley Kowalski
Robert DeNiro/Travis Bickle
Kevin Spacey/Verbal Kint
Natalie Portman/Nina Sayers
Jeff Bridges/Bad Blake
Heath Ledger/The Joker
Elizabeth Taylor/Martha
Anthony Hopkins/Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Jack Nicholson/Jack Torrance
Malcolm McDowell/Alex DeLarge
Frances McDormand/Marge Gunderson
Daniel Day Lewis/Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Brad Pitt/Jeffrey Goines
Colin Firth/King George VI
Dennis Hopper/Frank Booth
Bette Davis/Baby Jane Hudson
Jack Nicholson/Randall Patrick McMurphy
Charlize Theron/Aileen
Edward Norton/Derek Vinyard
John Goodman/Walter Sobchak
Kevin Spacey/Lester Burnham
Tom Hanks/Title Character
Naomi Watts/Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn
James Franco/Aron Ralston
Charlie Sheen/Chris
Robert DeNiro/Jake La Motta
Sigourney Weaver/Ellen Ripley
Al Pacino/Michael Corleone
Joe Pesci/Tommy DeVito
George Clooney/Everett
Jeff Bridges/The Dude

Actor/Character	Movie
Christian Bale/Patrick Bateman
Cate Blanchett/Daisy
Marlon Brando/Don Vito Corleone
Willem Dafoe/Sgt. Elias
Philip Seymour Hoffman/Truman Capote
Brad Pitt/Tyler Durden
Liam Neeson/Oskar Schindler
Robert DeNiro/Jimmy Conway
Edward Norton/The Narrator
Christoph Waltz/Col. Hans Landa
Hilary Swank/Brandon Teena
Jamie Foxx/Nathaniel Ayers
Sharon Stone/Ginger McKenna
Vivien Leigh/Blanche DuBois
Geoffrey Rush/David Helfgott
Meryl Streep/Sophie
Gloria Swanson/Norma Desmond
Matt Damon/Will Hunting
Sean Penn/Harvey Milk
Samuel L. Jackson/Jules Winnfield
Shelley Duvall/Wendy Torrance
Geoffrey Rush/Lionel Logue
Viven Leigh/Scarlett O'Hara
Robin Williams/Sean Maguire
Peter Sellers/Cpt. Mandrake, Pres. Muffley, Title Character
Linda Blair/Regan MacNeil
Jamie Foxx/Ray Charles
Johnny Depp/Title Character
Morgan Freeman/'Red' Redding
Tom Berenger/Sgt. Barnes
Philip Seymour Hoffman/Caden Cotard
Sissy Spacek/Carrie White
Tom Hanks/Andrew Beckett
Jimmy Stewart/Jefferson Smith

Actor/Character	Movie
Denzel Washington/Title Character
Paul Giamatti/Miles
Mel Gibson/William Wallace
Forest Whitaker/Idi Amin
Linda Hamilton/Sarah Connor
Tim Robbins/Andy Dufresne
Russell Crowe/John Nash
Tom Cruise/Ron Kovic
Martin Sheen/Cpt. Benjamin Willard
Ben Kinglsey/Mahatma Gandhi
Uma Thurman/Mia Wallace
Billy Bob Thornton/Karl Childers
Jim Carrey/Andy Kaufman
Dustin Hoffman/Raymond Babbitt
Sally Field/Title Character
Woody Harrelson/Mickey Knox
Robert Downey, Jr./Charlie Chaplin
Clint Eastwood/Bill Munny
Helena Bonham Carter/Marla Singer
Marlon Brando/Col. Walter Kurtz
Brad Pitt/Lt. Aldo Raine
Kathy Bates/Annie Wilkes
Gwyneth Paltrow/Margot Tenenbaum
William H. Macy/Jerry Lundegaard
Viggo Mortensen/Tom Stall
Cameron Diaz/Lotte Schwartz
Woody Harrelson/Larry Flynt
Tom Hanks/Chuck Noland
Guy Pearce/Leonard Shelby
Ellen Page/Title Character
Gene Wilder/Willy Wonka
Will Smith/Chris Gardner

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100 Great Acting Performances Quiz

by beckyw

Created May 26, 2011 in Movies
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	jimmers_205:	May 26th, 2011 at 19:54 GMT		5 points
	Malcolm X, not X, Crazy Heart and Gandhi are spelled wrong, and accept 12 Monkeys and Mulholland Drive or Mulholland Dr without the dot.

	clay21:	May 26th, 2011 at 20:05 GMT		3 points
	Wow nice try.

	SketchyGalore:	May 26th, 2011 at 20:20 GMT		1 point
	Also, Synecdoche New York is spelled wrong (there's only one "ch")

	amwoods13:	May 26th, 2011 at 20:42 GMT		5 points
	Besides the above, is this based on something. If so, you should give the link.

	Mahmoud:	May 26th, 2011 at 23:13 GMT		7 points
	kinda pissed that i spent the longest while trying to spell "Crazy heart" when the real answer was Cray Heart.

	dummo:	May 27th, 2011 at 04:33 GMT		0 points
	The list is very subjective and you shouldn't base 'Best 100' lists simply based on your own opinion. While most of these are acclaimed performances and oscar nominated roles, it's clear you're favouring certain actors and certain films. Brad Pitt is featured way too heavily for example, as does Fight Club.

	dtmich:	May 27th, 2011 at 04:57 GMT		3 points
	Agree with Dummo, you could have the same exact quiz and call it "100 Movies by Actor/Role" and you wouldn't catch any heat.

	jeffthepardoner:	May 27th, 2011 at 14:46 GMT		1 point
	The inclusion of "I am Sam" makes this entire list ridiculous.

	beckyw:	May 27th, 2011 at 18:33 GMT		2 points
	Sorry guys. I didn't mean for it to go live yet. I hadn't proofread it at all, and I typed it up in about 20 minutes. I'm trying to figure out how to edit it, but I think the Sporcle admins have complete control over it now, so I'm just hoping they can edit some of the glitches.

	jencon117:	May 27th, 2011 at 19:10 GMT		2 points
	No, you have to edit the quiz yourself. Go to "Create" and click "EDIT" next to the name of the quiz. And in addition to the spelling errors mentioned above, I would change the name of the quiz to "100 Great Acting Performances" instead of "greatest," since it is a matter of opinion.

	beckyw:	May 27th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT		2 points
	Thanks for the help, jencon. It's all fixed :)

	drr2893:	May 27th, 2011 at 21:12 GMT		-3 points
	since clearly there is a lot wrong with this quiz I will not nitpick at everything just that Vivien Leigh is there twice for A streetcar named desire.. oh and you get a 1

	debbiedoesnothin:	May 27th, 2011 at 21:46 GMT		1 point
	I'm curious why you'd put Woody Harrelson and Jamie Foxx on the list twice. With all the great actors you've left off, do you really think they deserve to be there twice? And since this is just your opinion, why choose more than one from the same movie? As soon as we answer the first one, we get credit for the rest. You could use different movies for those actors since most of them had more than one good role.

	beckyw:	May 28th, 2011 at 14:01 GMT		0 points
	I apologoize to everyone who is upset by the quiz. It's a quiz. These are great acting performances. It's more or less designed to quiz on users' knowledge of actors and their title roles in films in which they gave outstanding performances. I used parts of lists from digitaldreamdoor.com (mostly for great female acting performances) as well as Premiere.com's list of 50 greatest performances, as well as a handful that I felt were missing from lists (i.e. Jeff Bridges in True Grit and Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds). And I put Woody Harrelson and Jamie Foxx on the list twice because they gave two outstanding, critically acclaimed performances. I knew when making this quiz that it might ruffle some feathers because people get passionate about film, and that's fine. I'm not claiming to be the greatest film expert of all time. I was simply trying to create a mildly amusing quiz that represented a lot of really, really good acting performances over the years.

	godpaul25:	May 30th, 2011 at 06:02 GMT		3 points
	@beckyw: Great job on the quiz. Some people get a little uptight when taking quizzes and don't realize you made it for fun and you may not be a "professional" quizmaker. I think people need to lighten up a little with non-published quizzes, and realize that there are people that are just starting out making quizzes and just want to have fun and contribute to the site. Leaving nothing but negative comments doesn't help anyone and just discourages people from trying in the future. Constructive critisism is one thing, but mostly I see people just trying to slam someone for trying, or at least that what it comes off as when you only put negative stuff. I would implore people to say "I like the idea of this quiz but maybe you should...." When you say nothing positive about it and only the negative it really is counter productive.