Top 15 favorite actors & 5 reasons why

Top 15 favorite actors & (at least) 5 reasons why

This is definitely subjective and for all intents and purposes these are my favorite actors not necessarily what some might consider the best. In italic are my suggested films for each

Here is the who and a quick why


Joaquin Phoenix
The Master
H.E.R
The Village
To Die For
Walk The Line,
I'm Still Here



Benicio Del Toro
Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas,
Snatch
The Usual Suspect
Sin City
Che





Gary Oldman

Hannibal,
Bram Stoker's Dracula,
Sid and Nancy
True Romance
Dark Knight series






Bill Murray

Coffee and Cigarettes
Lost in Translation
Wild Things
Ed Wood
Ghostbusters
Moonrise Kingdom


Robert DeNiro

Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Casino
The Goodfather II
Raging Bull
Frankenstein
Cop Land

Woody Harrelson

Zombieland
No Country For Old Men
Palmetto
Wag the Dog
Natural Born Killers

Daniel Day Lewis

Gangs of New York
There will Be Blood
The Last of the Mohicans
In the Name of the Father
Lincoln



Tim Robbins
The Shawshank Redemption
Jacob's Ladder
Mystic River
Arlington Road
City of Ember




Christopher Walken

True Romance
The King of New York
Deer Hunter
Catch me If you can
The Dead Zone



Anthony  Hopkins

Bram Stokers Dracula
Silence of The Lamb (all Hannibal series)
The Elephant Man
Amistad
Beowulf
The Remains of the Day

Clint Eastwood:

High Plain Drifters
A fistful of Dollars
Hang Em High
A Few Dollars More
Dirty Harry
The Good the Bad and The Ugly
Gran Torino

Ryan Gosling

• Drive
• Only God Forgives
• A place Beyond the Pines
• Half Nelson
• ...*he's still young, he'll have 5 soon

Al Pacino

The Godfather
Scent of a Women
Scarface
Phil Spector
Donnie Brasco
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Dog Day Afternoon
Carlito's Way



Christian Bale

The Machinist
American Psycho
I'm not there
Dark Knight series
American Hustle

Brad Pitt

12 Monkeys
Inglorious Bastards
Se7en
Snatch
Meet Joe Black
True Romance
The tree of life
The curious case of Benjamin Button
Fight Club