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My Actors of the 90s By mathayus [39 more lists]
These are the actors (male and female) who I've enjoyed the most in movies released in the 90s.
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1951The Final Cut, Old Dogs, Happy Feet, RV, A Wish for Wings That Work, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Shrink, Happy Feet Two, Aladdin, Hamlet, Fathers' Day, Deconstructing Harry, Good Morning, Vietnam, Robots, Jack, License to Wed, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, In Search of Dr. Seuss, Good Will Hunting, Toys, Jakob the Liar, Mrs. Doubtfire, World's Greatest Dad, Club Paradise, Popeye, Awakenings, The Secret Agent , Barbra Streisand: One Voice, An Uncommon Kindness: The Father Damien Story, Flubber, The Birdcage, Bicentennial Man, Everyone's Hero, The Best of Times, The Big White, Patch Adams, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Man of the Year, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, The Survivors, Dead Again, The World According to Garp, Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction, Hook, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, August Rush, Cadillac Man, Moscow on the Hudson, Insomnia, House of D, One Hour Photo, Jumanji, Nine Months, The Night Listener, Seize the Day, Shakes the Clown, Being Human, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Dead Poets Society, Death to Smoochy, The Fisher King, Night at the Museum, Noel, What Dreams May Come, Robin Williams: Live on Broadway, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Annabelle's Wish, Can I Do It ... Til I Need Glasses?, The Wedding, The Return of Spinal Tap, Certifiably Jonathan, Who is Harry Nilsson?, Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen MoreChicagoUnited States of America“ Brilliant. In movie after movie, he'd show up and be the best part. Good Will Hunting and the Fisher King are favorites. „ - 2
1959Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Telstar, Pay It Forward, Father of Invention, Beyond the Sea, The Negotiator, Consenting Adults, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Iron Will, Recount, A Time to Kill, Horrible Bosses, Forever Hollywood, American Beauty, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, The Ref, Swimming with Sharks, Hurlyburly, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Edison, A Show of Force, Margin Call, Doomsday Gun, Inseparable, Fred Claus, AFI's 100 Years, 100 Stars, K-PAX, Fall from Grace, Outbreak, The Big Kahuna, Moon, The Murder of Mary Phagan, The United States of Leland, Heartburn, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Henry & June, The Life of David Gale, Shrink, Dad, The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, Seven, 21, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, Looking for Richard, Casino Jack, When You Remember Me, Rocket Gibraltar, The Shipping News, A Bug's Life, Glengarry Glen Ross, L.A. Confidential, Working Girl MoreSouth OrangeUnited States of America“ Spacey snuck up on me. I hadn't thought of him as one of my favorites, but he just kept turning in great work. Favorites: Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil and American Beauty. „ - 3
1963Legends of the Fall, Snatch, Full Frontal, Babel, Spy Game, Across the Tracks, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, A River Runs Through It, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Too Young to Die?, Ocean's Eleven, The Devil's Own, Kalifornia, Ocean's Thirteen, MegaMind, Happy Feet Two, Directors: Terry Gilliam, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, No Man's Land, Johnny Suede, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Ultimate Fights, Moneyball, Twelve Monkeys, The Favor, The Image, Seven Years in Tibet, Seven Years in Tibet, Fight Club, Seven, The Dark Side of the Sun, Special Thanks to Roy London, Brad Pitt Hollywood Hunk, Inglourious Basterds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cool World, Burn After Reading, 1906, Troy, True Romance, Meet Joe Black, Sleepers, Cutting Class, Ocean's Twelve, The Mexican, Thelma & Louise, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Dirty Tricks, Interview with the Vampire, Tree of Life, Cogan's Trade, Celebrity News Reels: Hollywood's Most Infamous Couples and Ugliest Breakups, Celebrity News Reels: Hollywood's Hottest Hunk: Brad Pitt MoreShawneeUnited States of America“ The heartthrob factor bothered me at first, but damned if he didn't live up to the hype. Fight Club is possibly my favorite movie of all time. „ - 4
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“ He hadn't yet hit his stride, but he was still amazing. Would recommend Benny & Joon and Donnie Brasco, as well as the beat documentary, the Source. „ - 5
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“ The superstar thing generally annoys me to at least some degree, but it's impossible not to like Hanks. Adventurous work with solid success. Probably my favorite performance of this decade for him was A League of Their Own. „ -
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1960Blindness, SLaughterhouse II, Freedomland, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Roommates, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Chloe, Assassins, Magnolia, Trust the Man, Vanya on 42nd Street, Eagle Eye, Marie and Bruce, World Traveler, The Big Lebowski, Body of Lies, Next, Boogie Nights, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Cookie's Fortune, I'm Not There, The Forgotten, An Ideal Husband, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, Chicago Cab , A Map of the World, Surviving Picasso, The Hours, Crazy, Stupid, Love., Far from Heaven, Hannibal, The Kids Are All Right, The Ballad of G.I. Joe, Savage Grace, A Single Man, Safe, Elektra Luxx, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nine Months, The End of the Affair, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, A Child's Garden of Poetry, Children of Men, Evolution, Laws of Attraction, Short Cuts, The Fugitive, The Myth of Fingerprints, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The Shipping News, Psycho, Shelter, Cast a Deadly Spell, Body of Evidence, Backwoods, Benny & Joon, The Ladies Man, A Map of the World, Beckett on Film, The Naked Brothers Band, What Maisie Knew, The Seventh Son MoreFayettevilleUnited States of America“ The only woman on this list, hence my Actress of the 90s. Seems odd that women are so scarce here, but the men are generally bigger box office stars, and the big women generally are quite boring. Julianne Moore on the other hand, is just a fearless performer, who contributes to great movie after great movie. Her performances in the Anderson films Boogie Nights and Magnolia are stand outs. „ - 7 1937Under Suspicion, The Gospel at Colonus, All About Us, Scandalize My Name, Glory, For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots, The Pawnbroker, A Raisin in the Sun, The Maiden Heist, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Contract, Red, The Execution of Raymond Graham, The Long Way Home, Cosmic Voyage, The Hunting of the President, March of the Penguins, Unforgiven, Dreamcatcher, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, The 16th Man, Outbreak, Levity, Feast of Love, Moll Flanders, Marie, The Bucket List, The Sum of All Fears, Along Came a Spider, Deep Blue Sea, Deep Impact, The Big Bounce, Batman Begins, A Man Called Adam, 10 Items or Less, Kiss the Girls, Edison, The Dark Knight, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, Death of a Prophet, Eyewitness, Driving Miss Daisy, Chain Reaction, Amistad, High Crimes, Seven, The Shawshank Redemption, Hard Rain, Last of the Mississippi Jukes, That Was Then... This Is Now, The Power of One, The Dark Knight Rises, We the People, Gone Baby Gone, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Million Dollar Baby, The Civil War, Tusker, Brubaker, America Beyond the Color Line, Soul Brothas and Sistas: Vol. 4: Quadruple Feature, Ek - The Power of One, Nurse Betty, Lucky Number Slevin, Wish Wizard, Lean on Me, War of the Worlds, Harry & Son, Teachers, The Dark Knight: Bonus Material, Fight for Life, Guilty by Association, Street Smart, Clean and Sober, Johnny Handsome, An Unfinished Life, Unleashed, Evan Almighty, Wanted, Thick as Thieves, Invictus, Resting Place, Bruce Almighty, Clinton and Nadine, Dolphin Tale, The Dark Knight Rises, Summer at Dog Dave's, The Art of Romare Bearden, National Geographic: Inside the White House MoreMemphisUnited States of America“ Old reliable. This man ends up in more great movies. His performance in Shawshank Redemption is just legendary. „
- 8 1963Shrek the Halls, John and Yoko: A Love Story, Nobody Knows Anything, The Cat in the Hat, Shrek, Scared Shrekless, The Love Guru, Shrek Forever After, Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Event for Autism Education, Saturday Night Live: The Best of Tom Hanks, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Untitled Keith Moon Project, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Inglourious Basterds, 54, Shrek 2, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Wayne's World, Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers, View from the Top, Wayne's World 2, Shrek the Third, Elvis Stories, Mystery, Alaska, Austin Powers series, Home, Britney Spears: Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, The Thin Pink Line, Pete's Meteor, Shrek Film Series, Shrek 4-D, Donkey's Caroling Christmas-tacular MoreScarboroughUnited Kingdom, Canada“ He's rather fallen of the map this decade but man was he fun. Austin Powers and So I Married an Axe Murderer were both cult classics. „
- 9 1955Look Who's Talking Too, Hostage, Hammy's Boomerang Adventure, Moonlighting: The Pilot, Four Rooms, The Whole Ten Yards, Lay the Favorite, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, Lucky Number Slevin, The Whole Nine Yards, Hart's War, Die Hard 2, Twelve Monkeys, The First Deadly Sin, Fire with Fire, Tears of the Sun, The Astronaut Farmer, The Sixth Sense, Blind Date, Sunset, Grand Champion, Over the Hedge, Armageddon, Die Hard, Fast Food Nation, Perfect Stranger, The Kid, Death Becomes Her, Hudson Hawk, Cop Out, Red, Looper, The Return of Bruno, A Guru Comes, The Siege, Nobody's Fool, Breakfast of Champions, Kane & Lynch, The Cold Light of Day, Live Free or Die Hard, The Verdict, The Fifth Element, Set Up, In Country, Mortal Thoughts, The Expendables 2, Pulp Fiction, Last Man Standing, Planet Terror, The Expendables, Catch .44, 16 Blocks, Billy Bathgate, Striking Distance, Ten, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Last Boy Scout, Nancy Drew, The Story of Us, What Just Happened?, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Die Hard 5, Tony Bennett: An American Classic, Rugrats Go Wild, Mercury Rising, Ocean's Twelve, Fire with Fire, North, The Jackal, Alpha Dog, Bandits, Color of Night, Sin City, Unbreakable, Look Who's Talking, Assassination of a High School President, Surrogates, Grindhouse, Moonrise Kingdom, The Black Mamba , True West, Loaded Weapon 1 MoreIdar-ObersteinUnited States of America, Germany“ The man doesn't get much respect in acting circles, but I always like his performance. And his movie selection was very good. Favorites: Pulp Fiction and 12 Monkeys. „
- 10 1972State of Play, Bounce, Daredevil, Paycheck, Dazed and Confused, 200 Cigarettes, The Company Men, 10,000 BC, Mallrats, Pearl Harbor, Surviving Christmas, Going All the Way, The People Speak, Smokin' Aces, The Third Wheel, Daddy and Them, Gigli, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dogma, Extract, Office Killer, Clerks II, National Geographic: Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, Reindeer Games, Celebrity News Reels: Hollywood's Most Infamous Couples and Ugliest Breakups, The Sum of All Fears, He's Just Not That Into You, Joseph: King of Dreams, Shakespeare in Love, Jersey Girl, The Town, Push, Nevada, Saturday Night Live: The Best of Jon Lovitz, Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party, Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, Phantoms, Boiler Room, Changing Lanes, Forces of Nature, Hollywoodland, School Ties, Glory Daze, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Man About Town, Daddy MoreBerkeleyUnited States of America“ Rapidly established himself as a favorite of mine (though then fell of pretty quickly too). I was in a big Kevin Smith kick toward the end of the 90s which he was a big part of. Then there's Good Will Hunting, one of my all time favorites, which he not only starred in but wrote. „
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