19 greatest performances in all of cinema 

American Psycho | Image Source: Lions Gate Films
American Psycho | Image Source: Lions Gate Films

8. Marcello Mastroianni in (1963)

8½ | Image Source: Cineriz
8½ | Image Source: Cineriz

Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi in is a masterful representation of an artist torn by personal and professional chaos. Again, as a director who has attained a creative deadlock, there is humoring confusion and existential anguish in the delivery, which captures the vulnerability and complexity of a man torn between fantasy and reality, guilt, and desire. The fact that Mastroianni managed to capture so much uncertainty surrounding the struggle of an artist so subtly and deeply makes his performance one of the greatest in cinema history.

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Edited by Apoorva Jujjavarapu