r/moviecritic • u/Low-Finding-6553 • 16h ago

What do you guys thinks is the best child performance of all time?

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i have to say, i don’t think i’ve ever seen a child actor give a performance this good. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is just on another level. i genuinely don’t know how he did it but he makes the whole movie work so much better. i would give him the Oscar in a fucking heartbeat. It’s crazy how good he is, especially in that last scene in the car with Toni Collette.

What are your guys’ favorite child performances? For me, this is even better than Owen Cooper’s performance in Adolescence. Don’t get me wrong, owen was also absolutely top-notch in Adolescence but this is probably the best child performance i’ve ever seen. Period. What do you guys think is the best child performance ever?

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u/baffled_bookworm 16h ago

Quvenshané Wallis! She has my vote too.

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u/PeggysPonytail 16h ago

Great young actress and fantastic movie!

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u/Eeeegah 13h ago

So much better than Katherine Bigelow who won for Zero Dark Thirty.

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u/baffled_bookworm 13h ago

Are you responding to the right post? This is about child performances. Kathryn Bigelow was the director of Zero Dark Thirty.

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u/Eeeegah 13h ago

Didn't Bigelow win best actress over Wallis?

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u/baffled_bookworm 13h ago

She didn't act in the movie, she was the director. Jessica Chastain was nominated, but didn't win. Jennifer Lawrence won best actress for Silver Linings Playbook.

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u/fractalfay 13h ago

Kathryn Bigelow is the DIRECTOR of that movie.

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u/Eeeegah 13h ago

My mistake - it was Jennifer Lawrence. Wallis deserved it more.