Jaymole

Daniel Day Lewis, followed by Sean Penn.

MrGoat00

DDL... followed by Viggo Mortensen

conscience

No contest:

Ash Ketchum

Jason Statham, hands down--and he'll kick everyone else on that list's ass just to prove it!

Mr. Cinema

Michael Fassbender is gaining steam, yet left off the list. Same goes for Gosling.

Damn it, I'm picking Leo. I think he is a superb actor and I enjoy his movies. So that's why I'm picking him. I like my actors to make different kinds of movies, and better yet, make more than 1 every 5 years.

GoldenJCJ

DiCaprio may not be at the same level as Daniel Day Lewis but he's miles better than Christian Bale. Being able to gain and lose weight at will doesn't make someone a great actor.

Dr Mabuse

Unanswerable question and a horrendous poll. Some good actors listed, but that list for "best"?



Yeah Michael Caine certainly wouldn't be in the running would he? Vincent Cassel? Tadanobu Asano? Ryan Gosling? Michael Gambon? Michael Fassbender? Frank Langella? Andy Lau? Brendan Gleeson? Bruno Ganz? Gerard Depardieu? Jean Rochefort? Michael Lonsdale?

Tarantino

Tough question between Daniel Day Lewis, Seymour Hoffman & Gary Oldman. I picked Philip Seymour Hoffman.

superdeluxe

George Clooney?

Mike86

I was going to say. Can't believe he would be excluded from a list like this compared to some listed and he'd be my choice probably. Philip Seymour Hoffman would be up there too.

JumpCutz

George Clooney is very good, but has limited range.

OldBoy

i've been loving a lot of what Jeff Bridges has done lately. Crazy Heart was amazing and then True Grit and even gave credence to new Tron. also, perfectly diabolical in Iron Man.

Clooney would be a close second for me.

**edit** just saw George Clooney not in the poll...hummina hummina, waaaaa????

superdeluxe

While that might be true, How he is not on a list of 20-30 actors is beyond strange.

JumpCutz

Agreed.

Shannon Nutt

I'm partial to Russell Crowe, but I won't argue with anyone that says Daniel Day Lewis or Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

DeputyDave

Oldman

Dr. DVD

Same here.

Supermallet

No love for Brad Pitt? He may be a movie star but he's spent more time playing off-kilter characters than anyone not named Johnny Depp, and far more convincingly than Depp as well.

Solid Snake

He and Depp are nowhere near Neeson, Irons, or DDL quality. Sooooo no.

Supermallet

Yeah, but Joaquin Phoenix and Nicolas Cage and Sean Penn (and Johnny Depp) are in the poll. Sooooo yeah.

Irons has gone way down in quality lately. If we were talking about Dead Ringers era, then absolutely. But these days he just does this gruff voice and very little else.

PopcornTreeCt

I love Neeson as much as the next guy... but better than Penn or Depp? Nope.

Solid Snake

I'd take out:

DiCaprio
Washington
Cage
Spacey
Depp
Phoenix
Cooper
Rush Crowe
Law
Bridges
Norton
Giamatti (well...maybe he'd stay in)

All those guys are really good at their jobs but there wide fucking gaps in comparison to DDL or Tony Leung etc. Or others that Doc Mabuse put up. I'm actually pretty amazed Fassbender and Neeson (cuz he's really been popular lately) aren't on there.

tommyp007

Came in to vote for Clooney, but since he's not here, Denzel got the nod.

Supermallet

I'm trying to think of the last really great Neeson performance. Kinsey? Rob Roy?

PopcornTreeCt

Taken, duh.