The Best Actors In Movies Today (Your Top Ten)

[idealdiscountdude]

Which actors do you consider the best in Hollywood?

Which consistnetly give great performances and generally pick great projects to work on?

Who do you think are the ten best actors working in Hollywood today?

Ideal's List:

1.Daniel Day Lewis
2.Samuel L. Jackson
3.Ewan McGregor
4.Morgan Freeman
5.Michael Caine
6.Jack Nicholson
7.Guy Pearce
8.John C. Reilly
9.Sean Penn
10.Ed Harris

[freakandgeek]

the best actors? well, let me see....

jake gyllenhaal
barry pepper
philip seymour hoffman
adrien brody
joaquin phoenix
david morse
edward norton
robert deniro
benicio del toro
john c reilly

[alexx]

The best actors are to me

Jude Law
Ethan Hawke
Joaquin Phoenix
Bruce Willis
Brad Pitt
Wes Bentley (but does the wrong movies)
Colin Farrell (should be a star)
Vin Diesel (I can forgive him for xXx)
Kevin Spacey
Jack Nicholson

[Heavenley]

1. Brad Pitt

2. Jack Nicholson

3. Tom Hanks

4. Harrison Ford

5. Denzel Washington

6. Daniel Day Lewis

7. Bruce Willis

8. Johnny Depp

9. Morgan Freeman

10. Tom Cruise


........and Leonardo Dicaprio

[ColinM]

Every time I make one of these lists, I feel like I'm forgetting one, so I probably did this time too...

Actors:
Al Pacino
Anthony Hopkins
Billy Bob Thornton
Denzel Washington
Jack Nicholson
Kevin Spacey
Morgan Freeman
Tom Hanks
Robert De Niro
Russell Crowe

Actresses:
Annette Benning
Cate Blanchett
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jennifer Connelly
Jodie Foster
Julianne Moore
Kate Winslet
Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman
Renee Zellweger
Thora Birch

[notchreturns]

ACTORS:
Gary Oldman (Sid and Nancy, The Contender)
Edward Norton (American History X, Fight Club)
Denzel Washington (Malcolm X, Devil in a Blue Dress)
Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en)
Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, The Man Who Wasn't There)
Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, The Insider)
Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Jungle Fever)
Steve Buscemi (Ghost World, Fargo)
Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, The Falcon and the Snowman)
Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Wild at Heart)

[Annie Hall]

-Kevin Spacey
-Al Pacino
-Ewan McGregor
-Philip Seymour Hoffman
-John C. Reily
-Johnny Depp
-Edward Norton
-Steve Buscemi
-Jeff Bridges
-Bobby DeNiro

[Mr_Jinx]

1. Tom Hanks
2. Brad Pitt
3. Jude Law
4. Jack Nickelson
5. Ed Nortan
6. Benito del toro (just for his role in traffic)
7. Matt Damon
8.Tom Cruise
9. Ralph fieenes
10. Nick cage

[Hucksta G]

Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Edward Norton
Tom Hanks
Morgan Freeman
Kevin Spacey
Russel Crowe
Anothony Hopkins

Cant think of anything else.

[BadCoverVersion]

Timothy Spall
Kevin Spacey
David Thewlis
Gary Oldman
Al Pacino
Ewan McGregor
Russell Crowe
Tim Roth
Edward Norton
Jack Nicholson

[Erin123]

Here are some of my favourites..in no particular order :)

Al Pacino
Anthony Hopkins
Ralph Fiennes
Jeremy Irons
Robert De Niro
Jack Black
Mike Myers
Edward Norton
John Cusack
Samuel L Jackson

There are too many to list here!

[BakeTheMooCow]

The list keeps changing but for now its :

1. Edward Norton
2. John Travolta
3. Robert DeNiro
4. John Goodman
5. Jim Carrey
6. Brad Pitt
7. Tom Cruise
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Matt Damon
10. Philip Seymour Hoffman

[Hannibal21]

Past:
1. Humphrey Bogart
2. Marlon Brando
3. Jimmy Stewart
4. Laurence Olivier
5. James Cagney
6. Henry Fonda
7. Orson Welles
8. Jack Lemmon
9. Robert Mitchum
10. Gary Cooper

Present:
1. Robert De Niro
2. Dustin Hoffman
3, Al Pacino
4. Edward Norton
5. Jack Nicholson
6. Anthony Hopkins
7. Kevin Spacey
8. Russell Crowe
9. Johnny Depp
10. Ewan McGregor

[Cosimo]

In no particular order,

Jack Nicholson
John C. Reilly
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Ralph Feinnes
Steve Buscemi
Daniel Day-Lewis
Johnny Depp
Jeff Bridges
Billy Bob Thornton
Benico Del Toro

[dh1989]

1. DiCaprio
2. Osment
3. Harrison Ford
4. Hartnett
5. Damon
6. D. Washington
7. Alan Rickman
8. Tom Hanks
9. Tom Cruise
10. Walken

[James Logan]

1°) Robert DeNiro
2°) Jack Nicholson
3°) Denzel Washington
4°) Al Pacino
5°) Edward Norton
6°) Harrison Ford
7°) Samuel L. Jackson
8°) Ewan McGregor
9°) Brad Pitt
10°) Morgan Freeman

For me, those are the actual ten BEST actors in the world today. Which means there are a lot of other actors that could be in that list but aren't (Spacey, Oldman, Pepper, Seymour Hoffman...), and I haven't put actresses in, although I have huge respect for a lot of them (Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones...).

[Cole666]

Edward Norton
Sean Penn
Steve Buscemi
Al Pacino
William H. Macy
Jeff Bridges
Tim Roth
Brian Cox
Dustin Hoffman
Robert Carlyle

[syxxpac]

1) Edward Norton
2) Guy Pearce
3) Al Pacino
4) Samuel L. Jackson
5) Tom Cruise
6) Christopher Walken
7) Kevin Spacey
8) Russell Crowe
9) Michael Biehn
10) Tom Hanks

Since I suck at lists, those are not in any particular order...

[Voodoodoll]

1. Bruce Campbell :cool:
No particular order:
Jack Nicholson
Christopher Lee
Guy Pearce
Elijah Wood
Dennis Hopper
Ray Liotta
Jim Caviazel (deserves better projects)
Hugh Jackman
Bill Paxton

Comedy: Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
:D
Other honourary mentions: Daniel Day Lewis, William Peterson (think he's busy with the smallscreen at the mo. :) ), Joe Pantoliano, Sean Bean, Toby Maguire, Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellan etc...

[Iceybox]

Hmm..This is a good one..I, for one, consider men and women as being actors. I like more of a challenge anyway.

Actors:

Tom Hanks
Daniel Day-Lewis
Meryl Streep
Jack Nicholson
Kathy Bates
Gary Oldman
Nicole Kidman
Renee Zellweger
Ed Harris
Julianne Moore

Young actors to watch:

Colin Farrell
Eric Bana
jake gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Josh Lucas
Sam Rockwell (ehh, he's technically not known by the public)
Alison Lohman
Derek Luke (His stardom depends on whether he makes more shit films like 'Biker Boyz')

[Hannibal21]

Originally posted by dh1989
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While I respect any schmoes opinion, could I ask for a reason? Come on, there are sooooo many young actors out there who are much better than boring old Josh. Just curious.