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)
- Tenet (2020)
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)