OT: G.O.A.T Actors
Hi everyone, I’m bored and I like hearing everyone’s opinions about random stuff, so here it goes.....
A few weeks ago I did GOAT Movies, then singers. I thought actors would be fun. So, who are your top 3? I may do an actress thread or more like this with different topics if everyone continues to enjoy these threads while we’re all trying to get through the offseason.
The criteria is....
1. They can play different type roles, meaning not just in funny movies...etc.
2. They have starred in movies for at least 10 years.
My 3 in order are 1. Tom Hanks. 2. Denzel. 3. DiCaprio
reminder... I am looking for GOATS not FAVORITE. Denzel would be only one on favorite list for me from what I chose for my GOAT list.
Adam Sandler
1. Tom Hanks. 2. Denzel. 3. Ed Norton (although he seems to have fallen off a cliff and doesn't make movies anymore)
Norton is fantastic. Definitely top 10.
1) Christian Bale
2) Woody Harrelson
3) Tom Hanks
Ben Kingsley. From Ghandi to Sexy Beast.
1) Tom Hanks
2) Robin Williams
3) Mel Gibson
Not enough Robin Williams love .....
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bryan Cranston
Gene Hackman
I'm going with DeNiro, Gene Hackman, and Nicholson. If you are 50, your list will look similar. Seymour Hoffman is good but wasn't around long enough. DDL is great but I mark him down because so many of his movies suck. Just my opinion , love the topic though.
Embarrassed that I forgot Gene Hackman. That guy played so many roles, so many ways, and was just awesome. Good guy, villain, tough, vulnerable, funny. That man could do it all.
Paul Giamatti. He's brilliant on Billions.
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Lets have some love for the supporting actors.
1.William H Macy
2. J.K. Simmons
3. Woody Harrelson
4. And posthumously my man Heath Ledger (yes he was a lead too but his best role was the Dark Knight, and he was fantastic in the Patriot)
J.K. Simmons is the man.
Here's an out of the box choice for sheer range: Steve Carell.
Compare the roles he played in "The Office," "40-year Old Virgin," "The Big Short," and "Foxcatcher." That's so much range the deer and antelope could play on it.
then there are Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole and Alec Guiness who are all phenomenal too.
I'm guessing that Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and James Stewart won't be on too many MGoBloggers' Top Ten Lists of the Greatest Actors of All Time, but they were pretty good in their day. If I were making one of those lists, I'd have to give each of them serious consideration.
Jimmy Stewart is one of the greats. Vertigo is one of my top five best films.
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Humphrey Bogart, too.
The list is so long, I'm not sure I could narrow it down to 3. I do think Henry Fonda should get some love though. Failsafe and 12 Angry Men are classics. Also, Carey Grant says, Hello.
North By Northwest is my absolute favorite film. One of Hitchcock & Cary Grant's best films.
I also really liked his sarcastic wit. Father Goose was hilarious. And, Leslie Carron was stunningly beautiful in that film.
Father Goose was fun. if you haven't seen Bringing Up Baby it is an classic. Obviously To Catch a Thief and Notorious are also Grant/Hitchcock greats. Charade is great with Audrey Hepburn. Operation Petticoat is pretty funny as well.
I'm a fan. 20+ years of insomnia leads to seeing a lot of films and I'm a huge Hitchcock fan so I became a Cary Grant, James Mason, Jimmy Stewart, & Sean Connery fan.
I think Edward Norton is excellent, but he doesn’t seem to be in as many movies lately. He was great in primal fear, American history X, fight club, and rounders. For some reason he hasn’t taken on the same quality of roles in recent years.
If he never played the Hulk he would probably be fine but he did and pissed off one too many companies. He had/has a reputation of being hard to work with. Luckily he has Wes Anderson to give him a role every 2 years.
Will Smith, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey (focus on his good ones because I acknowledge he had a lot of whiffs)
Deniro, Pacino and Hoffman. nm
I don't know if I can put together a top three yet but here are some top names:
I'm surprised Hugh Jackman isn't getting any love here. In terms of breadth of scope, you have everything from Wolverine in X-men to singing and dancing as PT Barnum in The Greatest Showman and Jean Valjean in Les Mis, to Leopold in Kate and Leopold.
I agree with Denzel and I think Kevin Spacey is also right up there. Others I would consider in the conversation are Forrest Whitaker, Sir Alec Guinness, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart
Daniel Day Lewis
Tom Hanks
Anthony Hopkins
Jimmy Stewart
Laurence Olivier
I know its supposed to be top 3 but its too hard to decide. Even top 5 I had to leave out some people I think are very deserving. But there it is, my top 5.
Just because context and technology has changed, it shouldn’t devalue Paleozoic Actors:
1. James Cagney
2. Micheal Caine
3. Humphrey Bogart
1. Laurence Olivier
2. Daniel Day Lewis
3. Marlon Brando
For the Denzel fans among us, I cannot recommend enough the podcast Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period. It's hosted by comedians Kevin Avery and W. Kamau Bell (who is a super-insightful dude, in addition to being hilarious).
Not sure how John Lithgow and Bryan Cranston don't make the list.
Lithgow was the father in Harry & the Hendersons and also a great serial killer in Dexter
No particular order
Jimmy Stewart (best films imo are Harvey, Vertigo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Man Who Knew Too Much). Was great early in his career (Philadelphia Story) and late in his career (Shenandoah). Brilliant when teamed with Hitchcock
Tom Hanks - best of our generation
Can't decide on a third but it would be between Bogart, William Holden (amazing actor unrecognized by people too young to remember him), Newman, Hoffman, Nicholson, Bogart, DeNiro
John Wayne is probably greatest all time movie star. Unmatched screen presence. Amazing when pared with John Ford (The Searchers, The Quiet Man, Fort Apache among about a dozen or so)
When you get around to all time greatest directors, you have to include John Ford.
May not be a great man but Kevin Spacey is thrown in my top 3.
1 Tom Hanks
2 Paul Newman
3 Humphrey Bogart
5) Jeff Daniels - Pleasantville, D&D, Newsroom
4) Denzel Washington - Training Day, Man on Fire, etc.
3) Christian Bale - Dark Night, American Psycho, etc.
2) Samuel L. Jackson - Take your pick - A Kiss Goodnight, King's Men, Pulp Fiction, Black Snake Moan, etc.
1) Kevin Spacey - American Beauty, Usual Suspects, Etc. Granted KPax was terrible, Se7en, etc.
Robert Duvall was onscreen for 28 minutes in the three-hour Apocalypse Now! and was nominated for best supporting actor.
Greatest of _ALL TIME_
Reading through, not a single comment has Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Bogart, Olivier, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Peter O'Toole?!?!?
If you don't respect the past, then your entire comment is invalid (you're not respecting the premise of the question - I'm not questioning your subjective view of the universe (though calling all acting before 1990 **** Mr. Toboggan, seriously?), I'm saying you're not working to the question.
Look, few bad options I've read here, Denzel, Hanks, DDL, Robin Williams, Tom Hardy, few others here are worth putting in the discussion, but you all seem to be ignoring some very towering performers.
I believe all of the actors you mentioned have cropped up at some point in this thread. They are all worthy candidates
read the first page and posted before I noticed the other pages.
my bad on the rashness.
Vin Diesel, van Damme, Nic Cage, Keanau Reeves. Just fucking kidding!
D Washington, Tom Hanks are my clear cut winners 1a 1b, then probably Jack Nicholson, maybe Duvall.
Terry Bradshaw
Brett Favre
Joe Montana
Bonus points to Bradshaw for showing us that great ass in "Failure to Launch"
Daniel Day Lewis has to be in top 3
1. LEO
2. DDL
3. NICHOLSON
Personal favorite
1. Leo
2. Cruise
3. Bale (hated his Batman)
The best actor is not someone that can just be authentic in the moment but who can be authentic with a completely different inner attitude depending on the character. Imagine someone that could play both Obama and Trump, two guys with completely different subconscious filters for how they experience the world (don’t make this political). Given that, there are many great Oscar winning actors from Streep to Peter O’Toole that are great at playing characters but are limited in the roles they can play. There are others who are truly great.
Lewis is clearly one of the greatest.
I hear Hardy really needs to be watched. He could become the GOAT.
There is a guy on the #metoo l wont name.
I personnaly love O’Toole as my favorite but I can’t put him in the GOAT category.
There are a number of newer actors that have great range compared to 20 years ago.
The britts then and now tend to produce better actors.
De Niro, Pacino, Hanks