Best Acting Performances Post 2000
In Episode 38 of The Good The Bad The Ugly Film Show Dave, Nick and Greg took at look at what they feel are the best acting performances in films made after the year 2000.
NICK GARDENER’S LIST
Viggo Mortensen – ‘A Dangerous Method‘
Christoph Waltz – ‘Inglorious Basterds‘
Kirsten Dunst – ‘Melancholia‘
Charlotte Gainsbourg – ‘Melancholia’
Russell Crowe – ‘A Beautiful Mind’
Tom Hardy – ‘Bronson’
Javier Bardem – ‘No Country For Old Men’
Will Ferrell – ‘Zoolander’
George Clooney – ‘The American’
Robert Downey Jnr – ‘Iron Man’
Daniel Day Lewis – ‘There Will Be Blood’, ‘Lincoln’
Paul Giamatti – ‘Sideways’
Anna Paquin – ‘Margaret’
Michael Fassbender – ‘Shame’, ‘X-Men: First Class’
Heath Ledger – ‘The Dark Knight’
Naomi Watts – ‘Mullholland Drive’
Joaquin Phoenix – ‘The Master’
GREG KING’S LIST
Matthew McConaughey – ‘Mud’
Heath Ledger – ‘The Dark Knight’
Anne Hathaway – “Les Miserables’
Sean Penn – ‘Mystic River’
Daniel Day Lewis – ‘Lincoln’
Christoph Waltz – ‘Inglorious Basterds’, ‘Django Unchained’
Carey Mulligan – ‘Shame’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – ‘Mysterious Skin’, ’50/50′
Ryan Gosling – ‘Blue Valentine’, ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’, ‘Drive’
Matt Damon – ‘The Bourne Franchise’, ‘Promised Land’
DAVID GRIFFITHS’ LIST
Joaquin Phoenix – ‘The Master’
Michael Shannon – ‘Take Shelter’
Heath Ledger – ‘The Dark Knight’
Anne Hathaway – ‘Rachel Getting Married’
Mickey Rourke – ‘The Wrestler’
Forrest Whitaker – ‘The Last King Of Scotland’
Alan Rickman – ‘Harry Potter Franchise’
Emma Stone – ‘Easy A’
Noomi Rapace – ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – ‘Mysterious Skin’, ‘Brick’
Hugo Weaving – ‘Last Ride’
Ellen Page – ‘Juno’
Christoph Waltz – ‘Django Unchained’
Leonardo DiCaprio – ‘Shutter Island’, ‘Django Unchained’, ‘The Departed’
Michelle Williams – ‘Wendy & Lucy’, ‘Blue Valentine’
Kate Winslet – ‘Little Children’, ‘The Reader’
Penelope Cruz – ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’
Sam Rockwell – ‘Moon’
Jessie Eisenberg – ‘The Social Network’
Justin Timberlake – ‘The Social Network’
Nicolas Cage – ‘Lord Of War’
George Clooney – ‘The Descendants’
Michael Fassbender – ‘Shame’
Jennifer Lawrence – ‘Winter’s Bone’
Matthew McConaughey – ‘Mud’
Ryan Gosling – ‘Drive’
Robert Pattinson – ‘Remember Me’
Tom Holland – ‘The Impossible’
Naomi Watts – ‘The Impossible’