method acting

Marlon Brando's performance in Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) exemplifies the power of Stanislavski-based acting in cinema.

Method acting, known as the Method, is a group of rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and expressive performances through identifying with, understanding, and experiencing a character's inner motivation and emotions. Theatre practitioners built these techniques on Stanislavski's system, developed by the Russian and Soviet actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski and captured in his books An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating a Role.