23 of my favorite Actors

Nearly all of his performances are list-worthy. I can't think of the performance I like most, so I'm gonna list all 5 contenders as #1, and add 4 more performances.

#1. Catch Me If You Can (2002) #1. The Departed (2006) #1. Blood Diamond (2006) #1. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) #1. The Revanant (2015)

#2. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) #3. Django Unchained (2012) #4. Inception (2010) #5. Titanic (1997)

A case study in wasted talent, he was one of the most interesting actors to watch in the '90s and early '00s before he became a superstar and threw it all away for the big paychecks from cookie-cutter movies.

#1. Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) #2. Devdas (2002) #3. Darr (1993) #4. Chak De! India (2007) #5. Swades (2004)

#1. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) #2. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) #3. Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) #4. The Philadelphia Story (1940) #5. Rear Window (1954)

Plus, his adorable act in Harvey (1946)

#1. Namak Haraam (1973) >> with Rajesh Khanna #2. Sholay (1975) >> with Dharmendra #3. Deewar (1975) >> with Shashi Kapoor #4. Dostana (1980) >> with Shatrughan Sinha #5. Agneepath (1990) >> with Mithun Chakraborty

#1. Mohabbatein (2000) >> with Shah Rukh Khan #2. Aankhen (2002) >> with Akshay Kumar #3. Paa (2009) >> with Abhishek Bachchan

#1. The Mask (1994) #2. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) #3. The Truman Show (1998) #4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) #5. Man on the Moon (1999)

Loved his Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

Favorite Cameo: Kick Ass 2 (2013)

#1. Swing Time (1936) #2. Top Hat (1935) #3. You Were Never Lovelier (1942) #4. Funny Face (1957) #5. The Towering Inferno (1974)

#1. Cool Hand Luke (1967) #2. The Hustler (1961) #3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) #4. The Sting (1973) #5. Hud (1963)

#1. X-Men (2000) #2. The Fountain (2006) #3. The Prestige (2006) #4. The Greatest Showman (2017) #5. Les Misérables (2012)

Favorite Cameo: Night at the Museum 3 (2014)

#1. Fight Club (1999) #2. Ocean's 11 (2001) #3. Twelve Monkeys (1995) #4. Moneyball (2011) #5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Not to mention Snatch.

Favorite cameo: Deadpool 2 (2018)

#1. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011) #2. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) #3. The Color of Money (1986) #4. Jerry Maguire (1996) #4. Collateral (2004)

Favorite Cameo: Tropic Thunder (2014)

#1. The Prestige (2006) #2. The Big Short (2015) #3. American Psycho (2000) #4. Ford v Ferrari (2019) #5. Vice (2018)

Not to mention The Dark Knight (2008)

#1. Chaplin (1992) #2. Iron Man (2008) #3. Tropic Thunder (2008) #4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) #5. Sherlock Holmes(2009)

Favorite cameo: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

#1. Die Hard (1988) #2. The Sixth Sense (1999) #3. Pulp Fiction (1994) #4. Looper (2012) #5. RED (2010)

Favorite cameo: Ocean's 12 (2004)

#1. Bad Boys (1995) #2. Men in Black (1997) #3. Suicide Squad (2016) #4. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) #4. Ali (2001)

#1. Groundhog Day (1993) #2. Ghostbusters (1984) #3. Rushmore (1998) #4. Lost in Translation (2003) #5. Caddyshack (1980)

And as the voice of Baloo in The Jungle Book (2016)

Favorite cameo: Zombieland (2009)

#1. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) #2. Dead Poets Society (1989) #3. Aladdin (1992) #4. Good Will Hunting (1997) #5. Insomnia (2002)

And as Roosevelt in the Night at the Museum series.

#1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) #2. The Shining (1980) #3. Chinatown (1974) #4. A Few Good Men (1992) #5. The Departed (2006)

Not to mention his Joker in Batman (1989)

#1. Dracula (1992) #2. JFK (1991) #3. Darkest Hour (2017) #4. Batman Begins (2005) #5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Not to mention his Sirius Black in the Harry Potter movies.