Best Performance playing a drunk?

[mr x]

Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses
Denzel Washington in Flight

 

[TKOK]

Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas.

 

[jackswstd]

Nic Cage was the ultimate drunk. Won an Oscar he was so good.

 

[Sly Cookin]

Lahey from trailer park boys

 

[shmoney]

denzel made me want to beciome alcoholic

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Dudley Moore- Arthur

 

[Sutter Kane]

Gary Poulter - Joe

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Christian Payton(Paul Williams in the Temptations movie) played a great drunk.

 

[Whitty Hutton]

 

[jadillac]

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Bed the Wine-o!!!

 

[jadillac]

Bed the Wine-o!!!

in this case he's Uncle Woody from Sanford n Son.

But he was so good he played a drunk on multiple shows

 

[kp404]

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and its not even a close second to these two.

 

[Stacks]

Matt Dillon in Factotum

Son gave NO fukks when it came to getting his drink on. Middle of the day, on the job, at the bar getting

 

[pickles]

Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas won this fukken thread.

There is this scene where he is the liquor store and he pushing the cart and twirling while he is filling the cart up with booze.:wowwow2:
Many of my boys were like " I need to cut back on my drinking" after watching that movie.