Favorite Young Perfomance in a Movie

Best acting performance in a movie by an actor 19 years old or younger. Don't agree with the list? Place your vote or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on.

1) Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense

“He was the movie.”

RdrTech

“I beleive he was the main attraction for this movie. After all, he sees dead people...”

funkymonkey

“How did he not win an oscar for his performance is beyond me. His performance made that movie the the hit it was.”

2) Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape

“Amazing performance. You must see this movie.”

“So true.”

Ravergirl

3) Judy Garland - The Wizard of Oz

4) Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

5) Tatum O’Neal - The Bad News Bears

6) Dakota Fanning - Hide and Seek

7) Nicholas Hammond - The Sound of Music

8) Jennifer Love Hewitt - I Know What You Did Last Summer

9) Anna Paquin - The Piano

10) Jodie Foster - The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

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11) Kerri Green - Lucas

12) River Phoenix - Stand by Me

“unbeatable.
the best actor of all time. Even when he was just 14.”

“All the boys in it are great but Phoenix was just so talented. I still can’t believe he was only 14/15 at the time.”

13) Natalie Portman - Leon

14) Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween

15) Linda Blair - The Exorcist

“She was very frightening in The Exorcist. She almost made it seem as though she was the devil. And HELLO, she was nominated for an oscar for this role!”

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16) Elizabeth Taylor - National Velvet

17) Dakota Fanning - I Am Sam

18) Anne Hathaway - The Princess Diaries

19) Max Pirkis - Master and Commander

“very good. first movie too.”

Lottie

20) Shia LaBeouf - Holes

“The acting was very impressive especially for his first movie. They say Transformers was Shia’s best movie, but really, I thought this was his best.”

vmacmil-1

21) Lindsay Lohan - The Parent Trap

22) Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver

23) Peter Billingsley - A Christmas Story

24) Dakota Fanning - War Of The Worlds

25) Freddie Highmore - Finding Neverland

26) Josh Hutcherson - Bridge to Terebithia

27) Gaby Hoffmann - Field of Dreams

28) Michael Oliver - Problem Child

29) Bobby Driscoll - The Window

“I faint when he does...see him in Disney’s Treasure Island (1950), and watch those eyes!

At age 12, this film garnered him a special Oscar. Unfortunately, his was a brilliant star plucked from the heavens well before its time.”

30) Ricky Schroder - The Champ