The 100 Greatest Performances of All Time
PREMIERE ranks the best performances in movie history and talks to some of the actors and directors who made those performances possible.
We love great movies for everything they've got going for them—propulsive plots, scintillating style, ravishing visuals, and so much more. But we love great movies the most—we feel the most electric connection to them—when the actors look out from that big screen and hook into us. They make us believe that they're the people they're playing and often—although it's certainly happened more than one hundred times. These are our hundred.
100 - 76 | 75 - 51 | 50 - 26 | 25 - 1
PLUS:
Stars like Reese Witherspoon and Matt Dillon what they think is the greatest performance ever.
CHILD PRODIGIES: The five greatest kid performances.
MULTIPLE CHOICES: One Film, One Actor, More than One Great Role
DYNAMIC DUOS: Movies that featured pairs of great performances.
This article originally appeared in the April 2006 issue of PREMIERE magazine.
Written and reported by Kelly Borgeson, Sara Brady, Rachel Clarke, Chris Cronis, Ryan Devlin, Ann Donahue, Jay A. Fernandez, Brooke Hauser, Kathy Heintzelman, Peter Herbst, Howard Karren, Glenn Kenny, Jessica Letkemann, Cristy Lytal, Jason Matloff, Neil Pergament, Tom Roston, Tom Russo, Stephen Saito, Fred Schruers, and Al Weisel
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92. Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry (1971)
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