poor guy
IMO he was a better choice vs Forest Whitaker in 2006
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1995_The_Basketball_Diaries/995BLD_Bruno_Kirby_002.jpg
When Swifty gets his 5 spot back...
What should he win an oscar for? I agree he's a good actor but he's competing against better actors.
Look at the best actors in recent years and ask yourself if he's better than any of them.
Daniel Day-Lewis - He's not even in the same league.
Sean Penn - close. Maybe not.
Denzel Washington - not even in the same league
Russell Crowe - close. Maybe.
Kevin Spacey - not even in the same league
Jack Nicholson - not even in the same league
Tom Hanks - not even in the same league
Al Pacino - not even in the same league
Jeremy Irons - not even in the same league
Anthony Hopkins - not even in the same league
Nicolas Cage - ok, Leo missed his chance. Where the fuck was Leo in 1995?
Here's the thing though. I personally think he's getting better and better with each movie. He's also still young. Give him a few more years of these great movies and I think he'll find a role that will win him something.
Spacey is better? Bwahaha, yeah right.
Kevin Spacey is awesome.
DiCaprio has this thing called range. He plays 'characters'.
Daniel Day-Lewis is fucking awesome. Many of the others on that list are very lacking.
Denzel is great, but when has he not played a mildy-sarcastic very-clever selectively-stereotypical black man?
Jack Nicholson? Only good when he plays a psychopath. I suspect he's a psychopath.
Al Pacino? Terrible. Just fucking terrible.
Terrible now maybe, but certainly great back in the day.
Yes, this. Pacino was amazing back in the day.
KT
I like the dude a lot, but he's in a tier below some of the heavy hitters in my opinion.
KT
I think he lacks some versatility, but still has more than most. I think most actors play themselves over and over and that makes it more about casting.
Peter Sellers
Willem Dafoe
George C. Scott
Daniel Day Lewis
Elizabeth Taylor
Meryl Streep (still hate her)
Jack Lemon
Walter Matthau
Steven Root (The astounding Steven Root)
William H. Macy
Don Cheadle
Robert Ridgely
Crispin Glover
Michael Parks
Katy Bates
These are actors that can transform themselves into other people before your eyes.