Well so many lists here for ’’5 Best Actors’’; all names are there in either this or that review. Thought of putting it in a slightly different way.
Here is a list of my favorite actors. I have been impressed by many many good performances in particular movies, but here the measure is consistency! I have named those whom I have been watching consistently and in my humble opinion, if there is an actor who you want to see perform again and again and you remember most of his performances, he’s gotta be good. Overall these may not be THE best actors (like Brad Pitt- many would be surprised to see him listed here, that too at a very good position) but I have judged them depending on number of good performances they have given.
This is not the filmography of the actors; I am just listing the movies in which I liked them. If there is a movie name missing for a particular actor that means I have not seen that movie or his performance in that particular movie did not impress me much as compared to other movies.
Ethan Hawke
Training Day, Before Sunset
Bruice Willis
The Sixth Sense, The Whole Nine Yards,
Tim Robbins
Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption,
Christopher Walken
The Deer Hunter, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, The Dead Zone
Sean Penn
Mystic River, I Am Sam, Sweet and Lowdown, Dead Man Walking
Russell Crowe
A Beautiful Mind, L.A. Confidential, The Insider, Gladiator
Edward Norton
American History X, Fight Club, Primal Fear, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Italian Job
Kevin Spacey
A Time to Kill, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, The Shipping News, L.A. Confidential, Se7en
Michael Douglas
Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Traffic, A Perfect Murder, Wonder Boys, Disclosure
Tom Cruise
A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, Collateral, Born on the Fourth of July, Rain Man, The Last Samurai, Minority Report
Brad Pitt
Twelve Monkeys, Se7en, Legends of the Fall, Fight Club, Ocean’s Eleven, Seven Years in Tibet, Snatch, Being John Malkovich, Meet Joe Black, A River Runs Through It
Johny Depp
Donnie Brasco, Nick of Time, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean, Blow, Platoon, Finding Neverland
Tom Hanks
The Terminal, You’ve Got Mail, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Cast Away,
Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Chinatown, Prizzi’s Honor, Ironweed, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, Anger Management,
And here are THE five!
Dustin Hoffman
Wag the Dog, Rain Man, Tootsie, Kramer vs. Kramer, Lenny, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, All the President’s Men, Marathon Man, Finding Neverland, Papillon
Anthony Hopkins
Shadowlands, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Meet Joe Black, Amistad, Legends of the Fall, The Innocent, A Bridge Too Far, The Elephant Man, Hamlet, The Remains of the Day,
Denzel Washington
The Bone Collector, Training Day, Crimson Tide, Philadelphia, Remember the Titans, The Hurricane, Courage Under Fire, Glory
Robert De Niro
Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, The Godfather: Part II, Awakenings, Analyze This, Goodfellas, Ronin
Al Pacino
And Justice for All, Scent of a Woman, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather, The Godfather II, Scarface, Dick Tracy, Any Given Sunday, The Devil’s Advocate, Donnie Brasco, Heat, The Insider, The Recruit