Griff’s Favorite Actors

My first favorite actor is Joaquin Phoenix. My favorite performances of his are:

• To Die For (1995)
• The Yards (2000)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
• Signs (2002)
• Hotel Rwanda (2004)
• Walk the Line (2005)
• We Own the Night (2007)
• Two Lovers (2008)
• I’m Still Here (2010)
• The Master (2012)
• Her (2013) [Pic above]
• The Immigrant (2014)
• Inherent Vice (2014)
• Irrational Man (2015)
• You Were Never Really Here (2018)
• Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018)
• The Sisters Brothers (2018)
• Mary Magdalene (2019)
• Joker (2019)

My second favorite actor is Philip Seymour Hoffman. My favorite performances of his are:

• Boogie Nights (1997)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Happiness (1998)
• Magnolia (1999)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• State and Main (2000)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Red Dragon (2002)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• Owning Mahowny (2003)
• Along Came Polly (2004)
• Capote (2005)
• Mission: Impossible III (2006)
• The Savages (2007)
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
• Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Doubt (2008)
• Jack Goes Boating (2010)
• The Ides of March (2011)
• Moneyball (2011)
• The Master (2012) [Pic above]
• A Most Wanted Man (2014)

My third favorite actor is Daniel Day-Lewis. My favorite performances of his are:

• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
• A Room with a View (1985)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
• My Left Foot (1989)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• The Crucible (1996)
• The Boxer (1997)
• Gangs of New York (2002) [Pic above]
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Lincoln (2012)
• Phantom Thread (2017)

My fourth favorite actor is Willem Dafoe. My favorite performances of his are:

• The Loveless (1981)
• To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
• Platoon (1986)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• Mississippi Burning (1988)
• Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Light Sleeper (1992)
• Tom and Viv (1994)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Animal Factory (2000)
• American Psycho (2000)
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Auto Focus (2002)
• Finding Nemo (Voice) [2003]
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
• Adam Resurrected (2008)
• Antichrist (2009)
• The Hunter (2012)
• A Most Wanted Man (2014)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• The Florida Project (2017)
• At Eternity’s Gate (2018) [Pic above]
• Pasolini (2019)
• The Lighthouse (2019)
• Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
• Tommaso (2020)

My fifth favorite actor is Robert Pattinson. My favorite performances of his are:

• Cosmopolis (2012)
• The Rover (2014)
• Map to the Stars (2015)
• Life (2015)
• The Childhood of a Leader (2015)
• The Lost City of Z (2017)
• Good Time (2017)
• Damsel (2018)
• High Life (2019) [Pic above]
• The Lighthouse (2019)
• The King (2019)

My sixth favorite actor is Jake Gyllenhall. My favorite performances of his are:

• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Zodiac (2007)
• End of Watch (2012)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Enemy (2014)
• Nightcrawler (2014) [Pic above]
• Nocturnal Animals (2016)
• Okja (2017)
• Stronger (2017)
• The Sisters Brothers (2018)
• Wildlife (2018)
• Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

My seventh favorite actor is Ryan Gosling. My favorite performances of his are:

• Half Nelson (2006)
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
• Blue Valentine (2010)
• Drive (2011)
• The Ides of March (2011)
• The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
• The Big Short (2015)
• The Nice Guys (2016) [Pic above]
• La La Land (2016)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• First Man (2018)

My eighth favorite actor is Ethan Hawke. My favorite performances of his are:

• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Reality Bites (1994)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Hamlet (2000)
• Tape (2001)
• Training Day (2001)
• Before Sunset (2004)
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
• Before Midnight (2013)
• Boyhood (2014)
• Predestination (2014)
• Born to be Blue (2016)
• First Reformed (2018) [Pic above]
• The Kid (2019)

My ninth favorite actor is Tom Hardy. My favorite performances of his are:

• Layer Cake (2004)
• Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
• RocknRolla (2008)
• Bronson (2008)
• Inception (2010
• Tinker Tailor Solider Spy (2011)
• Warrior (2011)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
• Locke (2014) [Pic above]
• The Drop (2014)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Legend (2015)
• The Revenant (2015)
• Venom (2018)
• Capone (2020)

My tenth favorite actor is Christian Bale. My favorite performances of his are:

• American Psycho (2000)
• The Machinist (2004)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• The Prestige (2006)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Fighter (2010)
• American Hustle (2013) [Pic Above]
• The Big Short (2015)
• Hostiles (2017)
• Vice (2018)
• Ford v Ferrari (2019)

My eleventh favorite actor is Adam Driver. My favorite performances of his are:

• Frances Ha (2013)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
• While We’re Young (2015)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• Midnight Special (2016)
• Paterson (2016) [Pic above]
• Silence (2016)
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) [2017]
• Logan Lucky (2017)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
• BlacKkKlansman (2018)
• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2019)
• The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
• The Report (2019)
• Marriage Story (2019)

My twelfth favorite actor is Oscar Isaac. My favorite performances of his are:

• Drive (2011)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) [Pic above]
• A Most Violent Year (2014)
• Show Me a Hero (Miniseries) [2015]
• Ex Machina (2015)
• Suburbicon (2017)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
• At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

My thirteenth favorite actor is Michael Stuhlbarg. My favorite performances of his are:

• A Serious Man (2009) [Pic above]
• Hugo (2011)
• Seven Psychopaths (2012)
• Lincoln (2012)
• Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
• Trumbo (2015)
• Steve Jobs (2015)
• Fargo (TV Series) [2017]
• Call Me by Your Name (2017)
• The Shape of Water (2017)
• The Looming Tower (Miniseries) [2018]
• Shirley (2020)

My fourteenth favorite actor is Colin Farrell. My favorite performances of his are:

• Minority Report (2002)
• The New World (2005)
• Miami Vice (2006)
• In Bruges (2008)
• Horrible Bosses (2011)
• Seven Psychopaths (2012)
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
• The Lobster (2015) [Pic above]
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
• The Beguiled (2017)
• Widows (2018)

My fifteenth favorite actor is Timothée Chalamet. My favorite performances of his are:

• Miss Stevens (2016)
• Lady Bird (2017)
• Call Me by Your Name (2017) [Pic above]
• Beautiful Boy (2018)
• The King (2019)

My sixteenth favorite actor is Casey Affleck. My favorite performances of his are:

• To Die For (1995)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Gerry (2002)
• The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
• Gone Baby Gone (2007)
• Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Manchester By the Sea (2016)
• A Ghost Story (2017)
• The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
• Light of My Life (2019)

My seventeenth favorite actor is Benicio del Toro. My favorite performances of his are:

• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Basquiat (1996)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
• Snatch (2000)
• Traffic (2000)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• Sin City (2005)
• Che (2008)
• The Wolfman (2010)
• Inherent Vice (2014)
• Sicario (2015) [Pic above]
• Escape at Dannemora (Mini-Series) [2018]

My eighteenth favorite actor is Paul Dano. My favorite performances of his are:

• The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Where the Wild Things Are (Voice) [2009]
• Meek’s Cutoff (2011)
• Looper (2012)
• Prisoners (2013)
• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Love & Mercy (2014)
• Swiss Army Man (2016)
• Okja (2017)
• Escape at Dannemora (Mini-Series) [2018]

My nineteenth favorite actor is Joel Edgerton. My favorite performances of his are:

• Animal Kingdom (2010)
• Warrior (2011)
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
• The Gift (2015)
• Black Mass (2015) [Pic above]
• Loving (2016)
• It Comes at Night (2017)
• The King (2019)