Can you order this best performance to worst? Make a list for each actor.
Jeff Bridges: Herat Crazy, The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman or Contender.
Jack Nicholson: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Reds, Terms of tenderness, Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed, A Few Good Men, as good as it obtains About Schmidt
Daniel Day-Lewis: My Left Foot, In the name of the Father, Gans of New York, There Will Be Blood
Morgan Freeman: Invictus, Million Dollar Baby, Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy, Street Smart
Marlon Brando: A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, Julius Caesar, On the Waterfront, Sayonara, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, A Dry White Season
Michael Caine: Alfie, Sleuth, Educating Rita, Hannah and her sisters, the Cider House Rules, The American Quieet
VS Dustin Hoffman: The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny Kramer. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag
Gene Hackaman: Bonnie and Clyde, I never sang for my father, French Connection, Mississippi Burning, Unfrogiven
Laurence Olivier Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Henry V, Hamlet, The Entretainer, Othello, Sleuth, Marathon Man, The Boys from Brazil
Denzel Washington: Cry Freedom, Glory, Malcolm X, Hurricane training day
Sean Penn Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, I am Sam, Mystic River, milk
Russell Crowe: The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind
Johnny Depp: Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Neverland, Sweeney Depp
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Capote, Charlie Wilson's War, doubt
Jeff Bridges - Starman, very good job, then you do not mention "Arlington Road"
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the ...
Daniel Day-Lewis - In the name of the Father and My Left Foot
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy with a strong second
Marlon Brando - Sayonara, A Streetcar Named Desire
Michael Caine - Sleuth, Alfie
Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy, has tears in his eyes, Rain Man, The Graduate
Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
Lawrence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil, Sleuth, Wuthering Heights
Denzel Washington - Glory, Cry Freedom, The Bone Collector John Q, and
Sean Penn - I am Sam
Russell Crowe - none of them do not like his game
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean, but "Nick of Time" is my favorite, a great thriller
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - have never seen in these films, he got totally cut off from himself in "Scent of a Woman", the sniveling toad.
I did what I could with your list, but there were others, you do not list my favorite and when I did not put all the others, which was the only one I liked and has no views on others or don 't seen because I was not interested. All those first mentioned my first choice among those you listed.
I'll list the movies I've seen from best to worst:
Jeff Bridges: Starman
Jack Nicholson: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, As Good As It Get's A Few Good Men
Daniel Day-Lewis: None of these
Morgan Freeman: Million Dollar Baby, Shawshank Redemption, Invictus, Driving Miss Daisy
Marlon Brando: A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Sayonara
Michael Caine: none of these
Dustin Hoffman: Rain Man, Tootsie, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Graduate
Gene Hackman: Mississippi Burning, Bonnie and Clyde
Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Othello
Denzel Washington: The Hurricane, Training Day, Glory, Malcolm X
Sean Penn Dead Man Walking, Mystic River
Russell Crowe: A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator
Johnny Depp: Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Neverland, Sweeney Todd
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Mat, Capote
Posted on May 18, 2010.