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My Actors of the 00s By mathayus [39 more lists]
These are the actors (male and female) who I've enjoyed the most in movies made this decade. This isn't quite the same as "favorite actors". For example, I like Angelina Jolie, but for the most part, I don't actually like her movies. To make this list, you've got to be in movies I like, and be part of the reason I like the movies.
It's also a bit of a wake up call formalizing this list. I'd have thought Kate Winslet would be on the list, but turns out, over recent years I've *meant* to see a lot more of her movies than I actually saw.
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1963Arizona Dream, Public Enemies, Wild Roses, Tender Roses, The Astronaut's Wife, Donnie Brasco, Sonic the Hedgehog, 21 Jump Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Benny & Joon, Blow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chocolat, Corpse Bride, Cry-Baby, Dead Man, Don Juan DeMarco, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Finding Neverland, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, From Hell, Nick of Time, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Platoon, Private Resort, Secret Window, Shantaram, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Brave, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Libertine, The Man Who Cried, The Ninth Gate, The Rum Diary, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Pirates of the Caribbean films, Cannes Man, Before Night Falls, Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants, Slow Burn, Alice in Wonderland, SpongeBob vs. The Big One, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, When You're Strange, Rango, The Devil, The Sinner, and His Journey, The Tourist, Dark Shadows, The Lone Ranger, L.A. Without a Map, The Lone Ranger, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: Movies that Rocked 'n' Rolled, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Jack & Jill, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride, Gypsy Caravan, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Deep Sea 3D, Brando: The Documentary MoreOwensboroUnited States of America“ Hands down the top actor around right now for me. Great talent, and great choice of movies.Took what I thought would be a joke of a movie in Pirates of the Caribbean and made the most iconic performance I've seen in years out of it. „ - 2
1977Paris, je t'aime, Riding in Cars with Boys, A Dangerous Woman, Happy Endings, Strip Search, Stranger Than Fiction, Secretary, Waterland, Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema, Cecil B. Demented, Criminal, Mona Lisa Smile, Sherrybaby, Away We Go, World Trade Center, Homegrown, The Great New Wonderful, Donnie Darko, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Innocence, The Photographer, The Dark Knight, Voice from the Stone, The Patron Saint of Liars, High Falls, Trust the Man, Monster House, Adaptation, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Casa de los Babys, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Crazy Heart, Hysteria, Shattered Mind MoreLower East SideUnited States of America“ Pretty amazing she rates so highly. An actor can have great talent and great taste, but if they don't have clout, it's not easy for them to climb on a list like this. But Maggie's managed to consistently be in movies I love, and often playing roles that absolutely stuck with me. Secretary and Stranger than Fiction stand out particularly. „ - 3
1962Despicable Me, American Breakdown, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Melinda and Melinda, Great Hope Springs, Burt Wonderstone, Suits, Get Smart, Crazy, Stupid, Love., Over the Hedge, Sleepover, Bruce Almighty, Horton Hears a Who!, Bewitched, Stories USA, Dan in Real Life, Dinner For Schmucks, Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Evan Almighty, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie, Curly Sue, Knocked Up, Cat and Dog, Date Night, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Official Inaugural Celebration, Hammy's Boomerang Adventure MoreActonUnited States of America“ Has been on possibly my two favorite TV shows of this decade (Daily Show and Office), and has done some great work in theaters. Most known for 40 Year Old Virgin which was great, but his performance in Little Miss Sunshine is my favorite. „ - 4
1967The Wendell Baker Story, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Stranger Than Fiction, Fight for Your Right Revisited, Drowning Mona, Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party, Presidential Reunion, Old School, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, A Night at the Roxbury, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, MTV Movie Awards Reloaded, Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln, Everything Must Go, Dick, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie, Starsky & Hutch, MegaMind, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Semi-Pro, The Other Guys, Will Ferrell: You're Welcome, America: A Final Night with George W. Bush, Frost on Satire, Boat Trip, Bewitched, Curious George, Step Brothers, Land of the Lost, Southern Rivals, Elf, Superstar, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Men Seeking Women, Winter Passing, The Producers, Megamind: The Button of Doom, Casa de Mi Padre, The Other Guys, The Landlord, Criminal Hearts, Melinda and Melinda, The Thin Pink Line, Zoolander, Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy, Wedding Crashers, The Suburbans, Blades of Glory, Mediocre American Man Trilogy, Kicking & Screaming, The Ladies Man, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Dear Woman, The Other Guys NYPD Recruitment Video, A Bucket of Blood MoreIrvineUnited States of America“ Ferrell snuck up on me. I've seen more of his movies this decade than any other performer. Typically he'll provide a good enjoyable time, without what I'd call excellence, but he's still gotten up there some, particularly if you include his non-movie theater performances on SNL and online. „ - 5
1965Gothika, Bowfinger, Game 6, Iron Man: Bonus Material, Wonder Boys, Black and White, Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree, Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens, Tropic Thunder, Short Cuts, Hail Caesar, Weird Science, The Singing Detective, U.S. Marshals, In Dreams, Too Much Sun, Baby It's You, Mussolini: The Untold Story, Charlie Bartlett, 1969, Zodiac, Back to School, Rented Lips, The Last Party, Less Than Zero, Chaplin, The Pick-up Artist, One Night Stand, The Soloist, Whatever We Do, True Believer, Two Girls and a Guy, Due Date, Firstborn, The Gingerbread Man, Hugo Pool, Home for the Holidays, Iron Man, Highlander, Johnny Be Good, Tuff Turf, Sherlock Holmes, Air America, Wonder Boys, A Scanner Darkly, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, Up the Academy, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Richard III, Good Night, and Good Luck., The Avengers, Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow, Heart and Souls, Greaser's Palace, That's Adequate, Yucatan, Love & Distrust, Eros, Natural Born Killers, Soapdish, The Shaggy Dog, Danger Zone, Friends and Lovers, Only You, Restoration, Fur, Chances Are, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Lucky You, Pound, How to Talk to Girls, The Party's Over MoreNew York CityUnited States of America“ One of the most talented guys around. Glad to see him getting more attention now with Iron Man, but he's been doing great work for quite a while. A Scanner Darkly is my personal fave, but Zodiac was great, and Tropic Thunder was crazy.Here's hoping Sherlock Holmes is as good as it should be. „ -
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1956Radio Flyer, The Polar Express, He Knows You're Alone, Angels & Demons: Bonus Material, Big, Toy Story 3, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code: Bonus Material, The Pixar Story, Saving Private Ryan: Bonus Material, Cars, Catch Me If You Can, A Cold Case, Philadelphia, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13, Bachelor Party, Cast Away, Dragnet, Every Time We Say Goodbye, Forrest Gump, Joe Versus the Volcano, Nothing in Common, Punchline, Road to Perdition, Saving Private Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle, That Thing You Do!, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The 'Burbs, The Da Vinci Code, The Green Mile, The Ladykillers, The Man with One Red Shoe, The Money Pit, The Terminal, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Turner & Hooch, Volunteers, Charlie Wilson's War, Mazes and Monsters, Splash, You've Got Mail, The Great Buck Howard, The War, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch, Elvis Has Left the Building, The Lost Symbol, Cloud Atlas, Larry Crowne, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Toy Story, Hawaiian Vacation, The Official Inaugural Celebration, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, Directors: Robert Zemeckis, Return With Honor, Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, The Celluloid Closet, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Fox: The Blockbuster Years, Beyond All Boundaries MoreConcordUnited States of America“ One of the greats. He's slowed down a bit from the 90s, but he's still doing some great work. Cast Away and Ladykillers are good enough that we'll just not talk about Dan Brown. „ - 7 1966Lorelei, Football, Twelfth Night: Or What You Will, Terminator Salvation, Till Human Voices Wake Us, Women Talking Dirty, Carnivale, A Room with a View, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Novocaine, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald, Shantaram, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, Alice in Wonderland, Merlin, Dark Shadows, Humanoids from the Deep, Dancing Queen, Conversations with Other Women, Live from Baghdad, Big Fish, Hamlet, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fight Club, Maurice, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Corpse Bride, Howards End, Margaret's Museum, Mighty Aphrodite, Planet of the Apes, The Wings of the Dove, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Lady Jane, Getting It Right, The Theory of Flight, Sixty Six, Francesco, The Heart of Me, Sweet Revenge, Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex, Enid, The Mask, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Gruffalo, The King's Speech, Portraits Chinois, Romantic Movie Favorites, Toast, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Bonus Material, Great Expectations, Henry VIII, Butter , A Hazard of Hearts MoreGolders GreenUnited Kingdom“ I realize I've seen more of her movies than any other actress this decade, despite the fact that I've missed some I meant to see. She'd rank even higher if I were generous and included Fight Club as part of this decade. „
- 8 1967The Human Stain, Archer's Adventure, Dogville, Happy Feet, Bewitched, The Stepford Wives, Fur, Nightmaster, Trespass, Panic Room, Birth, Eyes Wide Shut, Birthday Girl, Bush Christmas, The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Compass, Hemingway & Gellhorn, Moulin Rouge!, The Invasion, The Others, The Timidity of the Loverat, Dead Calm, Australia, No. 5 The Film, To Die For, Flirting, The Lady from Shanghai, Batman Forever, Billy Bathgate, BMX Bandits, Cold Mountain, Days of Thunder, Far and Away, Practical Magic, The Hours, The Interpreter, The Peacemaker, My Life, Margot at the Wedding, Malice, Need, Chase Through the Night, Emerald City, The Bit Part, Skin Deep, An Austrian in Rome, Windrider, Matthew and Son, Wills & Burke, Nine, Rabbit Hole, The Rivals, The Danish Girl, Just Go With It, Short: International Release #2, The Red Curtain Trilogy, The Paperboy, The Leading Man, Un'australiana a Roma, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Robbie Williams: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Lagerfeld Confidential, Rita, Stoker, Celebrity News Reels: Hollywood's Most Infamous Couples and Ugliest Breakups MoreHonoluluUnited States of America, Australia“ I feel a little bit awkward having her on this list because she hasn't done much lately, but earlier in the decade she was on fire. Others and Moulin Rouge were great, and the Hours was fantastic. „
- 9 1970Ocean's Thirteen, True Grit, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Identity, Howard Zinn: You Can´t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mystic Pizza, Rounders, All the Pretty Horses, Invictus, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, The Informant!, The Departed, Happy Feet Two, Gerry, The Adjustment Bureau, The Third Wheel, Che: Part Two, Saving Private Ryan, School Ties, Ponyo, Geronimo: An American Legend, Youth Without Youth, Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, Green Zone, Dogma, Bourne, Titan A.E., Courage Under Fire, Stuck On You, Saving Private Ryan: Bonus Material, The Good Old Boys , The Brothers Grimm, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The People Speak, Margaret, The Good Shepherd, Jersey Girl, We Bought a Zoo, Teenage Paparazzo, EuroTrip, Push, Nevada, Behind the Screens, The Rainmaker, The Majestic, Ocean's Twelve, Syriana, Chasing Amy, Finding Forrester, Glory Daze, Running the Sahara, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Hereafter, Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Contagion, Elysium, Rising Son, Liberace MoreCambridgeUnited States of America“ Has carved out a very solid career for himself. I became a fan of both him and Affleck after Good Will Hunting, but while Affleck hasn't picked movies to my taste, Damon has. Departed was great, and the Bourne movies are bar none the best action movies of this era. „
- 10 1968SydneyAustralia“ I'm a sucker for a good comic book performance, and seeing Jackman go from that to series drama and not-so-serious musicals is pretty dang impressive. „
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