Best Year for an Actor...

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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Matt Damon had a pretty good year last year with The Informant and Invictus.

[steelcurtain311]

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That's why this question intrigued me so much, because these days it is hard to find an actor doing more than one real good role/movie in a single year.

Because it's pretty impossible to do. They'd have to work like 10 months out of the year.

"These days" acting is a different trait than it was in like the 50's or 60's, when guys could do a billion movies a year, since they'd shoot them in half the time, and give half the effort. Look at John Wayne, while he did many classic movies that I love and everything, the fact of the matter is they're all basically in the same boat, and he's playing the same guy in all of them. After guys like Brando and De Niro reinvented the whole idea of acting, actors devote far more time and effort to their roles.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I never did like Casino. Loved Heat though.

[bill2451]

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More a year and a half, but Sean Connery from 1962-1963 had The Longest Day (one of the best WW2 movies ever made from a historical perspective), Dr. No and From Russia with Love.

in that case I would have to throw Tom Hanks out there... in like a 7 month span both Philadelphia (December 93) and Forrest Gump (Summer 94) came out... (heck, Sleepless in Seattle came out Summer 93, and Apollo 13 came out in Summer of 95, so you could go a year and a half in either direction lol)

I thought maybe Costner had a good run in one year, but he had The Untouchables, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Dances With Wolves, and JFK one year after the other from 87-91

[Cebby]

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Kevin Spacey in 1995 is definitely a contender with Se7en, The Usual Suspects, and Outbreak.

Cheadle in 2004 had Crash, Hotel Rwanda and 2 decent movies in After the Sunset and Ocean's Twelve.

Just about every year in the 90s Bruce Willis was putting out multiple damn entertaining movies. Obviously nothing great, but enjoyable flicks none the less.

[TheMatrix31]

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This question was posed by one of my friends...

What's the best single year for an actor in history? Meaning who had the best year ever in regards to multiple roles/movies in a single year (hopefully that makes sense).

The best one anyone could come up with, and you definitely have to enjoy his sense of humor:

Jim Carrey, 1994: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber and The Mask.

What else do we have?

First that popped into my mind.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Tom Hanks 1995: Apollo 13, Toy Story

[jeremym480]

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Ok, I'm nored at work so I searched some random actors.

Charlie Sheen
1986
Lucas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Platoon

Sure those movies probably aren't as good as other but, I'll be damned if these movies aren't on just about every weekend.

Benicio del Toro
2000
Traffic
The Way of the Gun
Snatch

Casey Affleck
2007
Ocean's Thirteen
The Assassination of Jesse James
Gone Baby Gone

Owen Wilson
2001
Behind Enemy Lines
The Royal Tenenbaums
Zoolander

Tommy Lee Jones
1994
Blown Away
The Client
Natural Born Killers
Blue Sky
Cobb

That's all I've got for now.

[JayBee74]

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Angelina Jolie trumps that.....

2008

Kung Fu Panda
Changeling
Wanted

2004

Alexander
Sky Captain and the world of tommorrow
Shark Tale
Taking Lives

You must be an Angela Jolie Fan. She was in a lot of movies and.....?

Micheal Douglas's 1987 Fatal Attraction and Wall Street (for wish he won an Oscar).

[bill2451]

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Charlie Sheen was barely in Ferris Bueller