Great actors of our time?

[norrahe]

Helen Mirren for her stint in Gosford park.

Morgan Freeman for shawshank redemption.

Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis for some like it hot

[d000hg]

Helen Mirren for her stint in Gosford park.

Morgan Freeman for shawshank redemption.

Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis for some like it hot

I think "great" implies their career, not single performances.

[d000hg]

Leonardo Di Caprio

Controversial. Unless it was a joke...

[monobrow]

Controversial. Unless it was a joke...

Another controversial one perhaps?

Russell Crowe

Romper Stomper
Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Amercan Gangster
The Insider

sure, he has some stinkers in there aswell (virtuosity?!) - but who hasn't? best actor of my (late 30 somethings) generation imho!

[norrahe]

I think "great" implies their career, not single performances.

I was merely highlighting dome of their best performances.

I should add Anthony Hopkins to the list as well.

[Platypus]

Patrick Stewart

Wonderful in Macbeth and The Tempest.

[Platypus]

Helen Mirren

Grrrr. Gone right off her since she became so anti-British. Ingrate.

[Platypus]

The Usual Suspects and Pay it Forward were good IMHO.

Let me add Swimming with Sharks and Se7en.
EDIT: in fact, check out http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000228/ for some corkers
(I have lots of Spacey films!)

I also rate Tom Hanks

Shudder. Too many stinkers to count IMO. Like Nick Cage <another shudder only more so>

[TimberWolf]

I agree about many mentioned here: Tom Hanks, Richard Burton, Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Russell Crowe.

As an aside, Robert Lindsay was magnificent in "Hornblower", I often think how far he has fallen when I see him in those silly dramas or comedies or whatever they are that I don't watch. Ioan Gruffudd excelled in Hornblower too.

[Scrag Meister]

The Usual Suspects and Pay it Forward were good IMHO.

Spacey was great in "The Life of David Gale" too.

"21" was quite entertaining although not an acting master class from him.

Defo second "The Usual Suspects"

Every respect for Johnny Depp though, he is a great actor but I also respect him for the doing the slightly off the beaten track movies and just following his own taste rather than what Hollywood produces.