Greatest leading role acting performances (all time)

from 17 votes

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant is an acting performance of Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie The Revenant. DiCaprio plays the role of frontiersman and fur trapper Hugh Glass...

from 1 vote

Bradley Cooper in American Sniper

Bradley Cooper in American Sniper is an Oscar-nominated acting performance of Bradley Cooper in the movie American Sniper. Cooper played a role of Chris Kyle...

from 1 vote

Steve Carell in Foxcatcher

Steve Carell in Foxcatcher in an Oscar-nominated acting performance of Steve Carell in the 2014 movie Foxcatcher. Carell played a role of John Eleuthère du Pont...

from 1 vote

Matt Damon in The Martian

Matt Damon in The Martian is an acting performance of Matt Damon in the movie The Martian. Damon played a role of a fictional American astronaut, Mark Watney...

8.5

from 4 votes

Tom Hanks in The Green Mile

Tom Hanks in The Green Mile is an acting performance of Tom Hanks in The Green Mile. Hanks played a role of Paul Edgecomb, a prison guard and a death row corrections officer...

8.5

from 2 votes

Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic is an acting performance of Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie Titanic. DiCaprio plays the role of Jack Dawson, a penniless artist who falls in love with first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, played b...

8.3

from 3 votes

Kate Winslet in Titanic

(1997)

Kate Winslet in Titanic is an acting performance of Kate Winslet in the movie Titanic. Winslet plays the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater, a first-class passenger who falls in love with Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, played by Leonar...

from 1 vote

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game is an Oscar-nominated acting perfomance of Benedict Cumberbatch in the movie The Imitation Game. Cumberbatch played a role of Alan Turing...

from 1 vote

Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything

Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything is an Oscar-winning acting performance of Eddie Redmayne in the movie The Theory of Everything. Redmayne played a role of Stephen Hawking...

from 1 vote

John Travolta in Pulp Fiction

(1994)

John Travolta in Pulp Fiction is an acting performance of John Travolta in the movie Pulp Fiction. Travolta played the role of mob contract killer Vincent Vega...

from 2 votes

Michael Keaton in Birdman

Michael Keaton in Birdman is an Oscar-nominated acting performance of Michael Keaton in the 2014 movie Birdman. Keaton played a role of Riggan Thomson / Birdman...

from 1 vote

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Cate Blanchett in Carol

Cate Blanchett in Carol is an acting performance of Cate Blanchett in the movie Carol. Blanchett plays the role of a woman going through a difficult divorce...

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Brie Larson in Room

Brie Larson in Room is an acting performance of Brie Larson in the movie Room. Larson plays the role of a woman held captive for years in an enclosed space with her 5-year-old son. They finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy...

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Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years

Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years is an acting performance of Charlotte Rampling in the movie 45 Years. Rampling plays the role of a woman who changes her perspective on her marriage after the discovery of her husband's ex-girlfriend...

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Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn is an acting performance of Saoirse Ronan in the movie Brooklyn. Ronan plays the role of a young Irish woman immigratibng to Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance. When her past catches up with...

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Jennifer Lawrence in Joy

Jennifer Lawrence in Joy is an acting performance of Jennifer Lawrence in the movie Joy. Lawrence plays the role of Joy Mangano, a self-made millionaire who created her own business empire...

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Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl is an acting performance of Eddie Redmayne in the movie The Danish Girl. Redmayne played the role of Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery...

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Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs

Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs is an acting performance of Michael Fassbender in the movie Steve Jobs. Fassbender played the role of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs...

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