Best Actors of the 21st Century
imdb.com has many user-posted lists, and one of them is a list of the 25 Best Actors of the 21st Century. The list below excerpts their top 25, which includes late greats Heath Ledger and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Are there any glaring omissions? Is there anyone on the list who shouldn’t be? Anyone need to move up or down? What makes an actor either worthy of your list or unworthy of this list? For your favorites, please describe their best performances. For your least favorites, please explain their shortcomings. If you want to deal only with the top ten or pick and choose, that’s fine too.
1. Daniel Day-Lewis
2. Leonardo DiCaprio
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman
4. Jack Nicholson
5. Morgan Freeman
6. Russell Crowe
7. George Clooney
8. Javier Bardem
9. Brad Pitt
10. Christian Bale
11. Jeff Bridges
12. Sean Penn
13. Joaquin Phoenix
14. Heath Ledger
15. Johnny Depp
16. Denzel Washington
17. Tom Hanks
18. Clint Eastwood
19. Geoffrey Rush
20. Colin Firth
21. Viggo Mortensen
22. Tom Wilkinson
23. Gary Oldman
24. Bill Murray
25. Don Cheadle