Greatest movie actor ever

This is why I love In the Name of the Father. Perhaps his most "real" and relatively in the moment role.

 

So good in A Serious Man. I also loved his character in Lincoln...

This is his next movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jasmine

Though I doubt he'll be the lead, given that cast.

 

Just off his performance in The Client Brad Renfro has to be considered.

 

Never saw "In the Name of the Father, but, come to think of it, I did really enjoy DDL in "The Age of Innocence." Thought he was magnificent in that role. Have a hard time enjoying most of his over-the-top performances. Or movies, for that matter.

 

What a cast:

Alec Baldwin
Cate Blanchett
Michael Emerson
Bobby Cannavale
Louis C.K.
Andrew Dice Clay
Sally Hawkins
Peter Sarsgaard
Michael Stuhlbarg.

 

He wouldn't crack my top 20 favorite actors, but I think his legacy and talent are pretty undeniable.

 

I couldn't just name one. My list looks like this:

Morgan Freeman
Denzel Washington
Anthony Hopkins
Tom Hanks
Sean Connery
John Wayne
Gene Hackman
Henry Fonda
Charlie Chaplin
Steve McQueen
Orson Wells
James Cagney
Peter O'Toole
Toshiro Mifune
Michael Douglas
Michael Caine
Kevin Spacey
Brad Pitt
Anthony Quinn
Roy Scheider
Jason Robards
Warren Beatty
Jack Lemmon
Burt Lancaster
Robert Mitchum
George C Scott
Peter Sellers
William Holden
James Dean
Edward G Robinson
Gene Kelly
Richard Burton
Buster Keaton
Fred Astaire
James Mason
William Powell
Errol Flynn
Bruce Willis
Charlton Heston
Lliam Neeson
Christopher Walken
Rudolph Valentino
Robert Downey jr
Jeff Bridges
Heath Ledger
Donald Sutherland
John Malkovich
Tommy Lee Jones
Steve Bucemi
Alec Guinness
Ed Harris
Ben Kingsley
Forest Whitaker
Dennis Hopper
Mickey Rooney
Christopher Lee
Martin Sheen
Richard Dreyfuss
Yul Brynner
Christopher Plummer
David Niven
Lee Van Cleef
Ray Milland
Rex Harrison
William Hurt
James Caan
Tony Curtis
Omar Sharif
Rock Hudson
Luis Jordan
William H Macy
Robert Wagner
Lee Marvin
James Cromwell
Charles Bronson
John Turturro
Danny Glover
Mickey Rourke
Malcom McDowell
John Gielgud
Jon Voight
Graham Greene
James Coburn
Jack Palance

 

I dig Clark Gable and Cary Grant, but both were more movie star than actor.

I haven't seen 'Lincoln,' but I think Day Lewis has been guilty of falling into the pattern of always going big - 'Gangs of New York,' which wasn't good, and 'There Will Be Blood,' which was fantastic.

Pacino and Nicholson have often been criticized the past decade or so for always going big with their characters. And justifiably criticized.
Although I'd say roles like 'About Schmidt' and 'The Pledge' have shown a little more subtlety for Nicholson.

 

I agree with that. I would love to see him in a goddamn comedy, though. Just to see what the hell it would look like.

 

Has anyone mentioned George Clooney? I know he's a Movie Star. But he was outstanding in "Up in the Air," and he knocked "The Descendants" out of the park.

 

Clooney is surpisingly versatile, so is Pitt.
As far leading-man good looks with wide acting range, you've got to go with Paul Newman.
Did it all.

 

Subtlety is underrated, this is true.

I know it's a supporting role, but Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild jumps out at me...