Here are 52 performances from 2023 that I enjoyed. I may also update this in the future depending on what else I see from 2023 in the coming weeks.
So here they are: my favourite performances of 2023.
Madalena Almeida - Bad Living
Adria Arjona - Hit Man
Paula Beer - Afire
Jamie Bell - All of Us Strangers
Simon Bennebjerg - The Promised Land
Rita Blanco - Bad Living
Nicolas Cage - Dream Scenario
Jessica Chastain - Memory
Carrie Coon - His Three Daughters
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Lea Drucker - Last Summer
Tracee Ellis Ross - American Fiction
Ralph Fiennes - The Ratcatcher
Claire Foy - All of Us Strangers
Rupert Friend - The Swan
Noah Galvin - Theater Camp
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Hannah Gross - The Adults
Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
Isabelle Huppert - The Crime is Mine
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
Ben Kingsley - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Samuel Kircher - Last Summer
Pom Klementieff - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Nathan Lane - Beau is Afraid
Sadie Lapointe - Eureka
Eve Lindley - National Anthem
Natasha Lyonne - His Three Daughters
Ilinca Manolache - Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World
Rachel McAdams - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Julianne Moore - May December
Anabela Moreira - Bad Living
Megan Mullally - Dicks: The Musical
Kerry O'Malley - The Killer
Lorelei Olivia Mote - Riddle of Fire
Charles Parnell - The Killer
Skyler Peters - Riddle of Fire
Natalie Portman - May December
Glen Powell - Hit Man
Raphael Quenard - Yannick
Anne Ramsay - Brooklyn 45
Teresa Sanchez - Totem
Peter Sarsgaard - Memory
Jason Schwartzman - Asteroid City
Naíma Sentíes - Totem
Amanda Seyfried - Seven Veils
Charlie Stover - Riddle of Fire
Kiefer Sutherland - The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Teyana Taylor - A Thousand and One
Jeffrey Wright - Asteroid City
Donnie Yen - John Wick: Chapter 4
István Znamenák - Explanation for Everything