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25 Greatest Female Screen Performances of All Time
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The 25 greatest performances by women on film. Ranked in order of preference, with the name of the movie in which the great performance takes place listed in the description. Generally, I prefer subtlety to grandstanding in thespians, hence the absence of notable performers such as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. Even the most ostentatious of the performances below (like Dietrich's or Rowlands'), however, come from a place of deep interiority and none amongst the chosen can be accused of scenery-chewing for the sake of it.
25 Greatest Male Screen Performances of All Time
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The 25 greatest performances by men on film. Ranked in order of preference, with the name of the film in which the great performance takes place listed in the description. Generally, I prefer subtlety to grandstanding in thespians, but will include a scenery-chewing turn (as in Day-Lewis or Nicholson's) if the performance is just that undeniable. Inveterate scene-hogs like Al Pacino (post-Godfather II, his last restrained and good performance) or Laurence Olivier, however, men whose actorly egoism actively detracts from a vast majority of their movies, never had a shot at this list.
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