Top 20 Performances of 2023
by Aunt-Peg | created - 4 months ago | updated - 1 month ago | PublicThese are my top 20 performances listed in order for each category (lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor & supporting actress).
1. Paul Giamatti
Actor | Sideways
Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...
in The Holdovers (best performance by an actor in a leading role)
2. Simon Morzé
Actor | Schnell ermittelt
Simon Morzé was born in 1996 in Wien, Austria. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Fast Forward (2009), The Fox (2022) and L'animale (2018).
in The Fox (2nd choice)
3. Koji Yakusho
Actor | Perfect Days
Koji Yakusho is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actor who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia's biggest film export. He was born in the southern city ...
in Perfect Days (3rd choice)
4. Arieh Worthalter
Actor | Le procès Goldman
Arieh Worthalter was born on March 25, 1985 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for The Goldman Case (2023), Bastille Day (2016) and Girl (2018).
in The Goldman Case (4th choice)
5. Franz Rogowski
Actor | Transit
Franz Rogowski is an actor. He was born on 2nd February 1986 in Freiburg, Germany. The actor is known for Victoria (2015) and Love Steaks (2013). Victoria (2015) is one of the few feature films shot in a single continuous take and won amongst other things the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic ...
in Passages (5th choice)
6. Sandra Hüller
Actress | Anatomie d'une chute
Sandra Hüller was born in Suhl. She studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. For her performance of Anneliese Michel in Hans-Christian Schmid's drama Requiem she won The Silver Bear for Best Actress. She is internationally known for her starring role in Maren Ade's Toni...
in Anatomy of a Fall & The Zone of Interest (best performances by an actress in a leading role)
7. Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Actress | Holy Spider
Zar Amir Ebrahimi was born on July 9, 1981 in Tehran, Iran. She is an actress and producer, known for Holy Spider (2022), White Paradise (2022) and Tatami (2023).
in Shayda (2nd choice)
8. Eli Skorcheva
Actress | Urotcite na Blaga
Eli Krasteva Skorcheva is a Bulgarian cinema, television and theater actress. She was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on March 8, 1954. She graduated from the School of Engineering and Architecture, then - in "acting" from National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia, Bulgaria and later - in "...
in Blaga's Lessons (3rd choice)
9. Paula Beer
Actress | Undine
Paula Beer was born on February 23, 1995 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She is an actress, known for Undine (2020), Frantz (2016) and The Dark Valley (2014).
in Afire & Stella. A Life.(4th choice)
10. Emma Stone
Actress | La La Land
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...
in Poor Things (5th choice)
11. Dominic Sessa
Actor | The Holdovers
Dominic Sessa was born on October 25, 2002 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for The Holdovers (2023), Tow and Now You See Me 3.
in The Holdovers (best performance by an actor in a supporting role)
in Silver Haze (2nd choice)
13. Milo Machado-Graner
Actor | Anatomie d'une chute
Milo Machado-Graner was born on August 31, 2008. He is an actor, known for Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Stuck Together (2021) and Waiting for Bojangles (2021).
in Anatomy of a Fall (3rd choice)
14. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
in Poor Things (4th choice)
15. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
in Killers of the Flower Moon (5th choice)
16. Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Actress | The Holdovers
Da'Vine Joy Randolph made her Broadway and West End debuts starring as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost the Musical (2012 Tony Award® Nomination, Best Featured Actress in a Musical). A Philadelphia native, she is an alum of Temple University in Theater with a concentration in Musical Theater and then ...
in The Holdovers (best performance by an actress in a supporting role)
17. Adriane Gradziel
Actress | Der Fuchs
Born in Vienna, Adriane is Austrian with Polish roots. She moved from Vienna to Paris in 2006. From 2010 to 2012 she enrolls the Academy Cours Florent in Paris. Adriane is fluent in German, English, French and Polish and has an extensive list of hobbies as skiing, riding and kite-surfing. She's ...
in The Fox (2nd choice)
18. Angela Bruce
Actress | Doctor Who
Angela Bruce was born in Leeds to an English mother and Trinidadian father. Despite an inauspicious start in life after her mother was forced to place her in a children's home, where the matron considered her "too coloured" to be adopted, her life changed dramatically at the age of three, when she ...
in Silver Haze (3rd choice)
19. Leah Purcell
Actress | The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Multi talented Leah Purcell is a Theatre, Film and Television Actress, Singer, Director, Playwright and Author. She is the youngest of seven children of Aboriginal Australian descent. Her father was a butcher and a boxing trainer. After a difficult adolescence, looking after her sick mother who ...
in Shayda (4th choice)
20. Stella Gonet
Actress | Nicholas Nickleby
Stella Gonet was born on May 8, 1960 in Greenock, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Spencer (2021) and How I Live Now (2013). She has been married to Nicholas Farrell since 2005. They have two children.
in El Conde (5th choice)
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