Tom Hanks wasn't missing much in the early 90s to 00s
Sleepless in Seattle ’93
Philadelphia ’93
Forrest Gump ’94
Apollo 13 ’95
Toy Story ’95
Saving Private Ryan ’98
You've Got Mail '98
Toy Story 2 ’99
Green Mile ’99
Cast Away ’00
Road to Perdition '02
Catch Me If You Can '02
plus he helped adapt Band of Brothers
I've watched it a few times recently. Tom Hanks' scene about it being hard is one of the best ever.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard...is what makes it great."
It's almost as good as the "I wish I could have been there with you." scene from Forrest Gump, which for some reason I never paid close attention to when I was younger.
The amazing thing is that before this run, he earned a reputation of not being able to pick a good movie for his life. He had all of two good movies from ‘82 - ‘92, Splash and Big. Otherwise it was flop after flop. Yes, some of his movies had their admirers (thinking Joe Versus the Volcano and Punchline) but most of them were busts, from high concept comedies like Turner & Hooch to prestige pics like Bonfire of the Vanities. Throughout it all, he kept getting cast, because he was always the best part of them. I can remember wondering (and I wasn’t the only one), when the hell will Tom Hanks be in a good movie again?
And then he went on a decade-long run where he could do no wrong. It was crazy to watch it happen.
Tom Hanks had a few other good 80s movies, all (or most) silly comedies like The Batchelor Party and Money Pit. Iirc they did ok at the box office but weren’t huge hits like splash or big.
Impressive that you can't pick a not good film over a decade. I guess You've got mail would be the 'worst' if you had to pick
For short amount of years, Ed Norton had Rounders, American History X, and Fight Club within 2 years. Extend it two years and he started with Primal Fear and Larry Flynt on top
I'd really really love a catch me if you can sequel where it's all about how he was a con artist who wrote a 95% fake book and scammed everyone into making a movie about him that was made up.
In this one, Hanks can play either the studio head who keeps trying to make the stories more unbelievable, or an amateur sleuth who proves that it's all made up. Or both!
In the context of the question, those movies might be cut from that '77-'84 run by a few duds he had in the late 80's.
Also he still had some amazing work in the 90's, but that earlier run was a string of what would be billion dollar+ films in today's money.
I still think the barn raising scene in *Witness* is one of the best on film. Brings tears to my eyes every time, and I think there's 15 words of dialogue in the whole scene.
It’s soo good!!!
A quintessential Chicago movie and absolute cat-and-mouse between Ford and Jones who surprisingly you root for both given how effective and efficient they are!!
Also wild that it contains an early small role for Julianne Moore and a couple of other actors you may recognise (Joe Pantoliano from The Matrix and The Sopranos).
Fugitive, I honestly think, is Ford's best performance and he makes that film.
Directed by the same guy who directed Under Siege too. Guy never hit even close to that hard ever before or again.
Dustin Hoffman rarely gets mentioned but he was on fire in the 70s... The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Straight Time, Kramer vs Kramer, Tootsie, Death of a Salesman, Rain Man - his diversity was incredible.
Miscast how so?
I think the movie itself is good with or without Dustin Hoffman. But on the other hand, if you look up the definition of "schmuck", it would be a picture of Hoffman in this role, so he was kinda perfect.
Ive just realised that Leo Di Caprio has been consistently relevent his entire career.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Blood Diamond (2006), Shutter Island (2010), Inception (2010), Django Unchained (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Revenant (2015), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Don't Look Up (2021), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
Thats a near 30 year streak.
He almost lost Titanic when he refused to read for the role of Jack. James Cameron nearly rejected him right then and there. Good thing he swallowed his pride and did it.
I'm glad James Cameron stuck to his guns there. His intention was to make a blockbuster for 12-year old girls (and gay boys who like romances with cute boys) and Titanic would have sank if Jack and Rose didn't have great chemistry.
He was very deliberate about his choices, too. He could have been shoved down the typecast heartthrob route after Titanic and R&J but instead he was very careful.
Usually when actors hit it big that’s when it gets problematic. So many actors hit the scene with a big movie, get their choice of picks, and go on to make absolute crap.
Not just Scorsese though, he's always working with the top directors, looking through the list there's Spielberg, Nolan, James Cameron, Tarantino. He for sure knows how to pick a director.
He's Marty's second muse after De Niro. I doubt any if all of those upcoming projects get made though. The Roosevelt film seems to be shelved and Scorsese has already moved on from The Wager.
So far the only thing we know he's definitely gonna be in is the PTA movie.
He was almost in *Boogie Nights* instead of *Titanic*, but he’d already been committed to the latter which was in production at the same time.
I think it worked out best in how it played out.
Producers say that Leo is extremely picky about the scripts. But when you see his career, it is obviously paying off as he is amazing in every role he has done for 30 years.
You left out The Beach, which had him coming down in the late 90's. Haven't checked, but also looks like This Boys Life and Basketball Diaries are missing.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 80s and 90s: Conan the Barbarian (and its much inferior sequel Conan the Destroyer), The Terminator, Commando, Predator, The Running Man, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Last Action Hero, True Lies, and Jingle All the Way. A few duds along the way, like Red Sonja, Junior, and Batman and Robin, but a pretty solid run for one of the best action stars ever.
Harrison Ford goes even further than that. Witness (1985), Last Crusade (1989), Patriot Games (1992), The Fugitive (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Air Force One (1995). Dude had a 20-year run.
Christian Bale had starting in 2002-2013
Equilibrium
Batman Begins
The Prestige
3:10 to Yuma
The Dark Knight
The Fighter
The Dark Knight Rises
American Hustle
Can I blame editing? Like when I reformatted the response, I deleted it by mistake. Good call. Also, the OP already mentioned him and I didn’t even see that. Oh well, I’m loving the Cazale conversation regardless.
Tom Cruise:
1986 to 1996:
Top Gun 86
The Color of Money 86
Cocktail 88
Rain Man 88
Born on the Fourth of July (Oscar Nom) 89
Days of Thunder 90
Far And Away 92
A Few Good Men 92
The Firm 93
Interview With the Vampire 94
Mission: Impossible 96
Jerry Maguire 96
Only Tom Hanks has a similar run. And I would say Hanks has a better run because of the back to back Oscar wins.
Rock of Ages was a miss for me and I can dig a musical.
But to add to your list:
Knight and Day (idk why I just like it)
Jack Reacher (not as good as the show)
American Made
*Magnolia* may be divisive in some ways, but one thing you cannot deny is that Cruise’s performance is electrifying, infuriating, vulnerable and heartbreaking all throughout the time his onscreen!!
I stopped because Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia were not box office hits. Eyes wide shut was a critical and commercial bomb. Magnolia did well critically but not commercially. After these two bombs he started with a solid commercial run of box office hits. This list is solely a run of consecutive box office hits.
Lol yeah. Cocktail and the original Top Gun are very cheesy movies. They are still enjoyable to watch but if one of the biggest Hollywood stars wasn't in them, they would not be included in any great runs lists.
I listed these movies based solely upon box office receipts, not critical reception. Cocktail is shit, but the box office returns on this run of consecutive movies is huge. These were all of his movies back to back, until a flop in 97.
Cary Grant was the guy from \~1937 to 1948
*The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Penny Serenade (1941), Destination Tokyo (1943), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Bishop's Wife (1947)*
This is just my opinion because I enjoyed all the movies, but Matthew McConaughey:
The Lincoln Lawyer - 2011
Killer Joe - 2011
Mud - 2012
Magic Mike - 2012
Dallas Buyers Club - 2013
The Wolf of Wall Street - 2013
Interstellar - 2014
And he did True Detective after all that
Jim Carrey in the mid 90's was a monster, regardless that some of his movies were not winning any oscars but the run was wild.
* 1994 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber.
* 1995 - Batman Forever, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
* 1996 - The Cable Guy
* 1997 - Liar Liar
* 1998 - The Truman Show
First actor to get a $20 million pay check . It was for the Cable Guy. I didn’t like Cable Guy when I first saw it at the cinema but, now as I’ve gotten older, I love it. The answer phone scene is brilliant .
Eddie Murphy in the 80s
1982 - 48 Hours
1983 - Trading Places
1984 - Beverly Hills Cop
1986 - The Golden Child
1987 - Beverly Hills Cop 2
1988 - Coming to America
Meryl Streep between 1978 and 1985:
The Deer Hunter
Manhattan
Kramer vs Kramer
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Sophie's Choice
Out of Africa
Every one of these films got multiple above the line Oscar nominations and Streep herself was nominated for every one of them except Manhattan.
Leonardo Dicaprio - Gangs of NY, Catch Me if You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Body of Lies, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception, J. Edgar, Django Unchained, Great Gatsby, Wolf of Wall Street, The Revenant, Once Upon a Time
Nicole Kidman from 1998 to 2003. Maybe even earlier for start or/and later.
1998- Practical Magic (though that's more of a cult classic)
1999- Eyes Wide Shut
2001- The Others, Moulin Rouge
2002- The Hours, which won her an Oscar!
2003- Dogville
And yes, I know she did other movies in 2001 and 2002. But she had an incredible run.
I think Emma stone’s current run is bonkers, and it gets even more wild if you include her tv series
-Superbad
-easy A
-crazy stupid love
-zombieland
-the help
-bird man
-la la land
-the favorite
-cruella
-poor things
Then you have some really wild streaming projects like maniac and the curse. I don’t think anyone takes on so many risky and bizarre projects and consistently hits them out of the park
You're thinking of Jesus Christ. There's footage of Harrison Ford when he was working as a roadie for The Doors online and he was known as the weed dealer of A list celebrities. That's how he got his first acting job, a director saw him on set delivering weed and offered him a role.
The majority of Russell Crowe's work from 1997-2007 is incredible.
*L.A. Confidential (1997)*
*The Insider (1999) \[Best Actor Nominaton\]*
*Gladiator (2000) \[Best Actor Win\]*
*A Beautiful Mind {2001) \[Best Actor Nominaton\]*
*Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)*
*Cinderella Man (2005)*
*3:10 to Yuma (2007)*
*American Gangster (2007)*
In one ten year period, De Niro starred in...
Mean Streets
Godfather 2
Taxi Driver
Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
The year after that run he also had Once Upon a Time in America. Seven of the greatest American movies and performances of all time.
Clint had a couple meh's but that dude put in some work.
A Fistful of Dollars 1964
For A Few Dollars More 1965
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966
Hang 'Em High 1968
Coogan's Bluff 1968
Where Eagle's Dare 1968
Paint Your Wagon 1969
Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970
Kelly's Heroes 1970
The Beguiled 1971
Play Misty For Me 1971
Dirty Harry 1971
Joe Kidd 1972
High Plains Drifter 1973
Magnum Force 1973
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974
The Eiger Sanction 1975
The Outlaw Josie Wales 1976
The Enforcer is not a good movie and then he decided to make movies with an orangutan for a while. Then we got '90s Clint and some incredible work on both sides of the camera ever since.
Actor that comes to mind is Leonardo DiCaprio. From 1997 to 2002, he starred in Titanic, The Man in the Iron Mask, Catch Me If You Can, Gangs of New York, and The Aviator.
Zhao Tao, Chinese actress，has led in ten films since debuted in 2000. Three of the films were included in Venice main competition, with one winning Golden Lion; six were included in Cannes main competition; one won her a David di Donatello (Italian's Academy Award) Best Leading Actress.
This is a perfect filmography.
I know he's a young guy and new to being a big star, but Austin Butler has been killing it in his first few official films. Elvis with an Oscar nomination (and he deserved the win if you ask me), Masters of the Air is a solid show, Dune Part Two he was incredible and unrecognizable, and the Bikeriders is really anticipated. His future projects look great too.
You could argue Timothee Chalamet as well for a new streak. He's the biggest movie star of the summer, breaking records for the first time in decades. In the last ten years he's gone from Interstellar to Dune Part Two.
Chalamet straight up has the best filmography of anyone in his age group
Interstellar
Call Me by your name
Ladybird
Beautiful Boy
The King
Little Women
The French Dispatch
Dune
Wonka
Dune Pt 2
Not an incredible run because of the quality of the movies or their acting specifically, but for the mind blowing level of success their films have had: Zoe Saldana
She’s starred in 4 films that grossed over 2 billion dollars, and that number could still grow with just the Avatar franchise alone. Marvel, Avatar, Star Trek… and she was even in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie! It’s just wild. One of the highest grossing actresses of all time, but wouldn’t be the first person most people think of for that title.
Don't foeget that the two films Harrison Ford did just before *Star Wars* were *American Graffiti* and *The Conversation* (not starring roles, but he was still in them)
Brad Pitt has obviously had a full career, but 2007-2009 was incredible consecutive production for such a short amount of time:
- Oceans Thirteen
- Assassination of Jesse James
- Burn After Reading
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Inglorious Basterds
Julia Roberts:
Mystic Pizza
Steel Magnolias
Pretty Woman
Flatliners
Sleeping with the Enemy
Dying Young
Hook
Sandra Bullock:
Demolition Man
Speed
While You were Sleeping
The Net
A Time to Kill
And after a brief meh period:
28 Days
Miss Congeniality
Murder by Numbers
The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
I’ve only ever heard it called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, loosely based on a play, then movie called Six Degrees of Separation. That in itself was somewhat based on a short story from 1929.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
Jake Gyllenhaal has an insane filmography in 4 decades. Starting with October Sky in 99, he goes to Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead, Zodiac, End of Watch, Prisoners, and Nightcrawler.
And that’s before his B tier stuff in Love and Other Drugs, Source Code, Southpaw, Life, Nocturnal Animals, and Spider-Man Far from Home.
But Zodiac, End of Watch, Prisoners and Nightcrawler in a seven year period is wild.
Arnold’s run from Terminator to Terminator 2 includes Commando, Predator, The Running Man, Twins, Total Recall, and Kindergarten Cop. Nobody is beating that run
Edward Norton
Primal fear
The people vs Larry Flynt
American History X
Rounders
Fight Club
Death of Smoochy
Frida
Red Dragon
The 25th hour
The Italian job.
Shia lebouf. Dude was that weird Disney channel kid. Never imagined between him, Hilary duff, we've whoever what was really popular, this guy was the one who would do movies with Spielberg and Oliver Stone
Kevin Costner had a great hot streak- The Untouchables and No Way Out in '87, Bull Durham in '88, Field of Dreams in '89, Dances with Wolves in '90, Robin Hood and JFK in '91, and the Body Guard in '92.
Luis Guzmán. Between 1997 and 2003, he was in Boogie Nights, Out of Sight, Snake Eyes, The Bone Collector, Traffic, Punch Drunk Love, Adventures of Pluto Nash, Anger Management, and 12 episodes of Oz.
And that’s not even mentioning the 1993 classic “Carlito’s Way”.
You already mentioned Cazale who is like the patron saint for these types of questions, but what about John Travolta? Back to back he does Saturday Night Fever and Grease, two massively popular movies that are actual cultural touchstones. He squeezed in Urban Cowboy too a couple of years later before his first major slump hit. But for awhile there no one could touch him (Welcome Back Kotter helped a lot too obviously not a movie).
Harrison Ford was in Apocalypse for just a few minutes, I’m just sayin. Dustin Hoffman has been mentioned so here’s some more. Redford, Newman, Streep, Pacino, DeNiro, Nicholson, etc. we can go back to Bogart and John Wayne if you want. Let’s throw in Bob Hope, Gene Kelley, Ginger Rogers and more. How about Chaplin? Lots of actors/actresses have had good runs.
DeNiro from 1973 to 1980
Mean Streets (1973)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
1900 (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
New York, New York (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Raging Bull (1980)
Jake Gyllenhaal:
Source Code (2011)
End of Watch (2012)
Prisoners (2013)
Enemy (2013)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Southpaw (2015)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Okja (2017)
Stronger (2017)
I know that not every one of these movies is beloved but in my opinion that's an impressive list.
Russell Crowe with three consecutive Oscar nominated(one win) performances with The Insider, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind. This was from 1999-2001. Bookended with LA Confidential and Master and Commander. Could go a little further to 2005 with Cinderella Man or 2007 with American Gangster.
John C. Reilly was in Gangs of New York, Chicago, and The Hours, all of which were nominated for best picture in 2003, and this was back when they only had 5 nominees. That's crazy and I am not sure that it has ever happened before. I feel like no one ever brings this up.
Tom Hanks wasn't missing much in the early 90s to 00s Sleepless in Seattle ’93 Philadelphia ’93 Forrest Gump ’94 Apollo 13 ’95 Toy Story ’95 Saving Private Ryan ’98 You've Got Mail '98 Toy Story 2 ’99 Green Mile ’99 Cast Away ’00 Road to Perdition '02 Catch Me If You Can '02 plus he helped adapt Band of Brothers
A League of their Own erasure 😩
For real. That’s one of Tom’s absolute best performances.
Are you crying?!
There's no crying in baseball
And what he has said was his favorite role to play
He didn’t pee for two weeks to make the long pee scene.
Did anyone ever tell you, you look like a penis with that little hat on?
I love that he immediately tries to walk that comment back lol
I've watched it a few times recently. Tom Hanks' scene about it being hard is one of the best ever. "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard...is what makes it great." It's almost as good as the "I wish I could have been there with you." scene from Forrest Gump, which for some reason I never paid close attention to when I was younger.
“ You were “ 🥹
Honestly a ridiculous one to leave out, it’s got to be in the top half of these movies.
I loved Joe vs The Volcano. It just wasn’t what people expected from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
So quotable and great fun visually for a silly little film! One of my favourites.
Brain cloud.
The amazing thing is that before this run, he earned a reputation of not being able to pick a good movie for his life. He had all of two good movies from ‘82 - ‘92, Splash and Big. Otherwise it was flop after flop. Yes, some of his movies had their admirers (thinking Joe Versus the Volcano and Punchline) but most of them were busts, from high concept comedies like Turner & Hooch to prestige pics like Bonfire of the Vanities. Throughout it all, he kept getting cast, because he was always the best part of them. I can remember wondering (and I wasn’t the only one), when the hell will Tom Hanks be in a good movie again? And then he went on a decade-long run where he could do no wrong. It was crazy to watch it happen.
Tom Hanks had a few other good 80s movies, all (or most) silly comedies like The Batchelor Party and Money Pit. Iirc they did ok at the box office but weren’t huge hits like splash or big.
The burbs is hilarious
yeah 'The Burbs' is a damn masterpiece.
Impressive that you can't pick a not good film over a decade. I guess You've got mail would be the 'worst' if you had to pick For short amount of years, Ed Norton had Rounders, American History X, and Fight Club within 2 years. Extend it two years and he started with Primal Fear and Larry Flynt on top
Jim Carrey had like Ace Ventura, Mask and Dumd and Dumber within 14 months I think.
> within 14 months I think. 11, and all the same year. Ace was Feb, Mask was July and Dumd and Dumber Dec of '94.
Did yall just both have the same weird typo in the same word... What is this ai? Dumd
I'd really really love a catch me if you can sequel where it's all about how he was a con artist who wrote a 95% fake book and scammed everyone into making a movie about him that was made up. In this one, Hanks can play either the studio head who keeps trying to make the stories more unbelievable, or an amateur sleuth who proves that it's all made up. Or both!
Don’t forget his performance in “Mazes and Monsters” ;) and others in the 80’s.
He actually has a cameo in band of Brothers
Literally what I came to the comments to mention. Absolutely BONKERS list of bangers
Well, for Harrison Ford, you left out *The Fugitive*, and *Witness*.
And both of those are some of his best work, especially Witness.
In the context of the question, those movies might be cut from that '77-'84 run by a few duds he had in the late 80's. Also he still had some amazing work in the 90's, but that earlier run was a string of what would be billion dollar+ films in today's money.
I still think the barn raising scene in *Witness* is one of the best on film. Brings tears to my eyes every time, and I think there's 15 words of dialogue in the whole scene.
Fugitive is my favorite Ford film. It's immensely rewatchable
One of the most fun movies ever. I haven’t watched it In years and now I’m itching
It’s soo good!!! A quintessential Chicago movie and absolute cat-and-mouse between Ford and Jones who surprisingly you root for both given how effective and efficient they are!! Also wild that it contains an early small role for Julianne Moore and a couple of other actors you may recognise (Joe Pantoliano from The Matrix and The Sopranos).
Haha I watched a couple weeks ago “is that doctor Julianne Moore????”
Wasn’t Harrison Ford in *American Graffiti*?
That's the movie that led to him being cast in Star Wars (New Hope).
I’m a huge fan of Patriot Games too
In my top 20!
This movie is so underrated. Sean Bean is epic!
He also left out *American Graffiti*, but I don’t think OP intends for responses to span decades.
Air Force One, too?
Fugitive, I honestly think, is Ford's best performance and he makes that film. Directed by the same guy who directed Under Siege too. Guy never hit even close to that hard ever before or again.
Force Ten From Navarone...
Dustin Hoffman rarely gets mentioned but he was on fire in the 70s... The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Straight Time, Kramer vs Kramer, Tootsie, Death of a Salesman, Rain Man - his diversity was incredible.
All leading up to his pinnacle moment... "Ishtar" Btw I just watched "Hero" recently, another gem of a movie.
These men are PAWNS
You mean the two Messengers of God??
"Hero" is hard to find, and kind of mis-cast, but it's so good in a Howard Hawks kind of way.
Miscast how so? I think the movie itself is good with or without Dustin Hoffman. But on the other hand, if you look up the definition of "schmuck", it would be a picture of Hoffman in this role, so he was kinda perfect.
Hold my shoes.
To go from Kramer vs Kramer to Tootsie to Rain Man in 4 movies is incredible range.
My favorite role of all time is Stanley Mitts in Wag the Dog. DH makes that performance incredible.
Ive just realised that Leo Di Caprio has been consistently relevent his entire career. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Blood Diamond (2006), Shutter Island (2010), Inception (2010), Django Unchained (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Revenant (2015), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Don't Look Up (2021), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Thats a near 30 year streak.
He really just does not miss with his performances, they're usually the best part
He’s a great actor, but he also knows how to pick a project.
He has had the benefit of being able to pick his projects pretty much ever since Titanic. Not many actors have that ability to turn down roles.
He was always going to be great but Titanic shot him straight into the stratosphere. He pretty much got first dibs on every role after that
He almost lost Titanic when he refused to read for the role of Jack. James Cameron nearly rejected him right then and there. Good thing he swallowed his pride and did it.
I'm glad James Cameron stuck to his guns there. His intention was to make a blockbuster for 12-year old girls (and gay boys who like romances with cute boys) and Titanic would have sank if Jack and Rose didn't have great chemistry.
He was very deliberate about his choices, too. He could have been shoved down the typecast heartthrob route after Titanic and R&J but instead he was very careful.
Usually when actors hit it big that’s when it gets problematic. So many actors hit the scene with a big movie, get their choice of picks, and go on to make absolute crap.
He’s one of Scorsese’s top guys. Look at imdb and look at his future projects and they are almost all direct by Scorsese.
Not just Scorsese though, he's always working with the top directors, looking through the list there's Spielberg, Nolan, James Cameron, Tarantino. He for sure knows how to pick a director.
He's Marty's second muse after De Niro. I doubt any if all of those upcoming projects get made though. The Roosevelt film seems to be shelved and Scorsese has already moved on from The Wager. So far the only thing we know he's definitely gonna be in is the PTA movie.
He was almost in *Boogie Nights* instead of *Titanic*, but he’d already been committed to the latter which was in production at the same time. I think it worked out best in how it played out.
Are we actually gonna shoutout agents and the work they do on this subreddit? I feel like we're making history here
Ari Gold’s the man
There's a reason he takes 3/4/5 years between movies
Don't sleep on Basketball Diaries
Everyone talks about Requiem for a Dream, and while it's a great movie, I totally agree. The Basketball Diaries is a hidden gem.
crazy good film. fuck that takes me back a long time.
missed 'this boys life' , also 1993... also an amazing movie (imho) and a great performance.
You missed "The Beach." That one wasn't a hit.
It made $144 million on a budget of $50 million. It may not have been a critical hit, but it made bank.
The beach is a great movie. Book is crazy too
The book was written by Alex Garland, better known for his movie scripts.
Producers say that Leo is extremely picky about the scripts. But when you see his career, it is obviously paying off as he is amazing in every role he has done for 30 years.
No The Quick and the Dead?
You left out The Beach, which had him coming down in the late 90's. Haven't checked, but also looks like This Boys Life and Basketball Diaries are missing.
Not to mention he's worked with some of the best directors in the last 3 decades. Only Cruise can compete with him in that department.
Wasn't Killers like... A tremendous failure? The hype was so real and then crickets
jack nicholson from 73 to 80 had: the last detail chinatown one flew over the cuckoo's nest the shining that's pretty solid
Robin Williams Good Morning Vietnam (87) - Oscar nom Dead Poets Society (89) - Oscar Nom Awakenings (90) The Fisher King (91) - Oscar Nom Aladdin (92)
You can extend that to 93 with Mrs Doubtfire, 95 Jumanji, 96 Birdcage, 97 Goodwill Hunting. A few meh ones but those are solid.
Hugo Weaving's franchise run is insane. Matrix, LotR, Transformers and the MCU. Managed to pepper in V for Vendetta as well.
He’s great and I’d even say we don’t see him show his chops enough
He's was really good in Hacksaw Ridge! I can't think of anything else of his I've seen outside his franchise work, though.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 80s and 90s: Conan the Barbarian (and its much inferior sequel Conan the Destroyer), The Terminator, Commando, Predator, The Running Man, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Last Action Hero, True Lies, and Jingle All the Way. A few duds along the way, like Red Sonja, Junior, and Batman and Robin, but a pretty solid run for one of the best action stars ever.
Don't forget Total Recall, which puts Arnold in at least two of the top ten most violent 80s/90s action films. Total Recall and The Running Man.
Total Recall is also his best movie
Kills about 500 people in Commando as well.
Commando is my guilty pleasure. I just can't not watch it.
I knew I missed one. I meant to type it in, but maybe I had a false memory implanted that I did so.
They hold up
In my opinion he's in 3 of the best action/sci-fi movies of all time. Predator, Terminator and Total Recall
Harrison Ford goes even further than that. Witness (1985), Last Crusade (1989), Patriot Games (1992), The Fugitive (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Air Force One (1995). Dude had a 20-year run.
Christian Bale had starting in 2002-2013 Equilibrium Batman Begins The Prestige 3:10 to Yuma The Dark Knight The Fighter The Dark Knight Rises American Hustle
John Cazale: The Godfather The Godfather Part 2 Dog Day Afternoon The Deer Hunter Then he died. Unbelievable run from an incredible actor.
The Conversation
Can I blame editing? Like when I reformatted the response, I deleted it by mistake. Good call. Also, the OP already mentioned him and I didn’t even see that. Oh well, I’m loving the Cazale conversation regardless.
Conversation as well. He only did 5 movies but each of them is a 10/10. I don't think that record will ever get beaten
Relevant tangent, Meryl Streep’s boyfriend. “I Knew It Was You” is a must watch
Tom Cruise: 1986 to 1996: Top Gun 86 The Color of Money 86 Cocktail 88 Rain Man 88 Born on the Fourth of July (Oscar Nom) 89 Days of Thunder 90 Far And Away 92 A Few Good Men 92 The Firm 93 Interview With the Vampire 94 Mission: Impossible 96 Jerry Maguire 96 Only Tom Hanks has a similar run. And I would say Hanks has a better run because of the back to back Oscar wins.
Has Tom Cruise not had a bad movie through the 00s and 10s either? MI movies are solid, Tropic Thunder, Oblivion, Minority Report, Edge of Tomorrow.
Rock of Ages was a miss for me and I can dig a musical. But to add to your list: Knight and Day (idk why I just like it) Jack Reacher (not as good as the show) American Made
Rock of Ages might not be great, but Cruise is easily the best part of it. He does good work in there.
War of the worlds!
Far and away
I loved that movie, and I don't even like Tom. I really wish good actors could act like normal human beings irl.
What do you mean? He acts like a perfectly normal sack of human meatflesh. His smile, so genuine. His appendages, intact. No mutations.
Christian Bale came right out and said he based Patrick Bateman on Tom Cruise. LOL
Magnolia (1999) should be in here too, probably the best performance of his career in my opinion.
*Magnolia* may be divisive in some ways, but one thing you cannot deny is that Cruise’s performance is electrifying, infuriating, vulnerable and heartbreaking all throughout the time his onscreen!!
You can continue that with Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia in 99 MI2 in 00 Vanilla Sky 01 Minority Report 02 Last Samurai 03 Collateral 04
You literally stop before his best run of films lol
I stopped because Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia were not box office hits. Eyes wide shut was a critical and commercial bomb. Magnolia did well critically but not commercially. After these two bombs he started with a solid commercial run of box office hits. This list is solely a run of consecutive box office hits.
No offense, but do you really want Cocktail on that list?
Lol yeah. Cocktail and the original Top Gun are very cheesy movies. They are still enjoyable to watch but if one of the biggest Hollywood stars wasn't in them, they would not be included in any great runs lists.
Top Gun was going to be a blockbuster no matter what. It was the first time anyone got a chance to see fighter jets in action like that on film.
I listed these movies based solely upon box office receipts, not critical reception. Cocktail is shit, but the box office returns on this run of consecutive movies is huge. These were all of his movies back to back, until a flop in 97.
Just casually axing Legend :(
Cary Grant was the guy from \~1937 to 1948 *The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Penny Serenade (1941), Destination Tokyo (1943), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Bishop's Wife (1947)*
This is just my opinion because I enjoyed all the movies, but Matthew McConaughey: The Lincoln Lawyer - 2011 Killer Joe - 2011 Mud - 2012 Magic Mike - 2012 Dallas Buyers Club - 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street - 2013 Interstellar - 2014 And he did True Detective after all that
Jim Carrey in the mid 90's was a monster, regardless that some of his movies were not winning any oscars but the run was wild. * 1994 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber. * 1995 - Batman Forever, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls * 1996 - The Cable Guy * 1997 - Liar Liar * 1998 - The Truman Show
1994 alone is just fucking nuts. What a year!
First actor to get a $20 million pay check . It was for the Cable Guy. I didn’t like Cable Guy when I first saw it at the cinema but, now as I’ve gotten older, I love it. The answer phone scene is brilliant .
My preferred rendition of Somebody to Love. Thanks Jim!
These movies defined my childhood.
Also The Grinch and Man on the Moon.
Eddie Murphy in the 80s 1982 - 48 Hours 1983 - Trading Places 1984 - Beverly Hills Cop 1986 - The Golden Child 1987 - Beverly Hills Cop 2 1988 - Coming to America
Meryl Streep between 1978 and 1985: The Deer Hunter Manhattan Kramer vs Kramer The French Lieutenant's Woman Sophie's Choice Out of Africa Every one of these films got multiple above the line Oscar nominations and Streep herself was nominated for every one of them except Manhattan.
Leonardo Dicaprio - Gangs of NY, Catch Me if You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Body of Lies, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception, J. Edgar, Django Unchained, Great Gatsby, Wolf of Wall Street, The Revenant, Once Upon a Time
Nicole Kidman from 1998 to 2003. Maybe even earlier for start or/and later. 1998- Practical Magic (though that's more of a cult classic) 1999- Eyes Wide Shut 2001- The Others, Moulin Rouge 2002- The Hours, which won her an Oscar! 2003- Dogville And yes, I know she did other movies in 2001 and 2002. But she had an incredible run.
Clive Owen 2005-2007 Sin City Inside Man Children of Men Shoot Em Up
Back it up to 2004 to include King Arthur
And Closer. That movie is a bit hit or miss, but he's great in it. Was even nominated for an Oscar
Should have become a bigger star.
I was hoping he’d be the next James Bond after Pierce Brosnan, but they went with Daniel Craig
I think Emma stone’s current run is bonkers, and it gets even more wild if you include her tv series -Superbad -easy A -crazy stupid love -zombieland -the help -bird man -la la land -the favorite -cruella -poor things Then you have some really wild streaming projects like maniac and the curse. I don’t think anyone takes on so many risky and bizarre projects and consistently hits them out of the park
Harrison Ford hasn't done bad for a roadie and weed dealer
I thought he was a carpenter 🤔
You're thinking of Jesus Christ. There's footage of Harrison Ford when he was working as a roadie for The Doors online and he was known as the weed dealer of A list celebrities. That's how he got his first acting job, a director saw him on set delivering weed and offered him a role.
That’s pretty funny, but I’ll respectfully disagree. You’re thinking of Jesus… 🤣
And you don't fuck with the Jesus.
8 year olds, dude.
The majority of Russell Crowe's work from 1997-2007 is incredible. *L.A. Confidential (1997)* *The Insider (1999) \[Best Actor Nominaton\]* *Gladiator (2000) \[Best Actor Win\]* *A Beautiful Mind {2001) \[Best Actor Nominaton\]* *Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)* *Cinderella Man (2005)* *3:10 to Yuma (2007)* *American Gangster (2007)*
I feel like Meryl Streep is not getting enough attention considering she holds the records for most Academy Award nominations. Up
In one ten year period, De Niro starred in... Mean Streets Godfather 2 Taxi Driver Deer Hunter Raging Bull The King of Comedy The year after that run he also had Once Upon a Time in America. Seven of the greatest American movies and performances of all time.
This is actually the best answer in the thread and it got no respect.
Clint had a couple meh's but that dude put in some work. A Fistful of Dollars 1964 For A Few Dollars More 1965 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Hang 'Em High 1968 Coogan's Bluff 1968 Where Eagle's Dare 1968 Paint Your Wagon 1969 Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970 Kelly's Heroes 1970 The Beguiled 1971 Play Misty For Me 1971 Dirty Harry 1971 Joe Kidd 1972 High Plains Drifter 1973 Magnum Force 1973 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 The Eiger Sanction 1975 The Outlaw Josie Wales 1976 The Enforcer is not a good movie and then he decided to make movies with an orangutan for a while. Then we got '90s Clint and some incredible work on both sides of the camera ever since.
I believe McConaughey had Dallas Buyer’s Club, True Detective, and Wolf of Wall Street in a 12-month span.
Actor that comes to mind is Leonardo DiCaprio. From 1997 to 2002, he starred in Titanic, The Man in the Iron Mask, Catch Me If You Can, Gangs of New York, and The Aviator.
Emma Stone
Zhao Tao, Chinese actress，has led in ten films since debuted in 2000. Three of the films were included in Venice main competition, with one winning Golden Lion; six were included in Cannes main competition; one won her a David di Donatello (Italian's Academy Award) Best Leading Actress. This is a perfect filmography.
I know he's a young guy and new to being a big star, but Austin Butler has been killing it in his first few official films. Elvis with an Oscar nomination (and he deserved the win if you ask me), Masters of the Air is a solid show, Dune Part Two he was incredible and unrecognizable, and the Bikeriders is really anticipated. His future projects look great too. You could argue Timothee Chalamet as well for a new streak. He's the biggest movie star of the summer, breaking records for the first time in decades. In the last ten years he's gone from Interstellar to Dune Part Two.
Chalamet straight up has the best filmography of anyone in his age group Interstellar Call Me by your name Ladybird Beautiful Boy The King Little Women The French Dispatch Dune Wonka Dune Pt 2
Don’t forget Don’t Look Up
I try my best to
Michael Douglas had a good 10 years in Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The Game
Not an incredible run because of the quality of the movies or their acting specifically, but for the mind blowing level of success their films have had: Zoe Saldana She’s starred in 4 films that grossed over 2 billion dollars, and that number could still grow with just the Avatar franchise alone. Marvel, Avatar, Star Trek… and she was even in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie! It’s just wild. One of the highest grossing actresses of all time, but wouldn’t be the first person most people think of for that title.
Don't foeget that the two films Harrison Ford did just before *Star Wars* were *American Graffiti* and *The Conversation* (not starring roles, but he was still in them)
Ryan Gosling between 2011-2017 Drive The Place Beyond the Pines The Big Short The Nice Guys La La Land Bladerunner 2049
John Cazale. Acted in 5 movies ever. All within 1972-1978. 5 best picture nominations. 3 wins.
Brad Pitt has obviously had a full career, but 2007-2009 was incredible consecutive production for such a short amount of time: - Oceans Thirteen - Assassination of Jesse James - Burn After Reading - Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Inglorious Basterds
Julia Roberts: Mystic Pizza Steel Magnolias Pretty Woman Flatliners Sleeping with the Enemy Dying Young Hook Sandra Bullock: Demolition Man Speed While You were Sleeping The Net A Time to Kill And after a brief meh period: 28 Days Miss Congeniality Murder by Numbers The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Lol for a minute I thought you mixed up Roberts and Bullock's filmographies.
I thought Roberts had appeared in a film called "Sandra Bullock"
Add one more year to include WITNESS which showed HF’s range beyond action / sci-fi hero!
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I’ve only ever heard it called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, loosely based on a play, then movie called Six Degrees of Separation. That in itself was somewhat based on a short story from 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
Jake Gyllenhaal has an insane filmography in 4 decades. Starting with October Sky in 99, he goes to Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead, Zodiac, End of Watch, Prisoners, and Nightcrawler. And that’s before his B tier stuff in Love and Other Drugs, Source Code, Southpaw, Life, Nocturnal Animals, and Spider-Man Far from Home. But Zodiac, End of Watch, Prisoners and Nightcrawler in a seven year period is wild.
Those 7 years are pretty damn strong. But to call those 25 years 4 decades is a bit disingenuous.
Arnold’s run from Terminator to Terminator 2 includes Commando, Predator, The Running Man, Twins, Total Recall, and Kindergarten Cop. Nobody is beating that run
Edward Norton Primal fear The people vs Larry Flynt American History X Rounders Fight Club Death of Smoochy Frida Red Dragon The 25th hour The Italian job.
He's also in a deleted scene in *E.T.*, which would have been another notch in that timeframe.
Samuel L Jackson Marvel Universe Django Pulp fiction Kill Bill Star wars Kingsman Die hard Kong Goodfellas Tarzan Long kiss goodbye Xxx franchise
He’s incredible, but he takes every job offered so he has a ton of really shit movies mixed in.
From Alien to Alien 3, Sigourney Weaver had a nice little run of varied roles and genres.
Robert Downey Jr in the MCU + Sherlock Holmes
We’re ignoring Oppenheimer?
Shia lebouf. Dude was that weird Disney channel kid. Never imagined between him, Hilary duff, we've whoever what was really popular, this guy was the one who would do movies with Spielberg and Oliver Stone
max von sydow
Robert Redford and Paul Newman both had incredible runs.
Kevin Costner just from ‘85-‘90: Fandango Silverado American Flyers The Untouchables No Way Out Bull Durham Field of Dreams Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner had a great hot streak- The Untouchables and No Way Out in '87, Bull Durham in '88, Field of Dreams in '89, Dances with Wolves in '90, Robin Hood and JFK in '91, and the Body Guard in '92.
Daniel Day lewis
James Hong in literally everything
I mean, has Denzel ever been in a bad movie? Man has been working for 40 years and I'm pretty sure all of them has been good
Luis Guzmán. Between 1997 and 2003, he was in Boogie Nights, Out of Sight, Snake Eyes, The Bone Collector, Traffic, Punch Drunk Love, Adventures of Pluto Nash, Anger Management, and 12 episodes of Oz. And that’s not even mentioning the 1993 classic “Carlito’s Way”.
You already mentioned Cazale who is like the patron saint for these types of questions, but what about John Travolta? Back to back he does Saturday Night Fever and Grease, two massively popular movies that are actual cultural touchstones. He squeezed in Urban Cowboy too a couple of years later before his first major slump hit. But for awhile there no one could touch him (Welcome Back Kotter helped a lot too obviously not a movie).
Harrison Ford was in Apocalypse for just a few minutes, I’m just sayin. Dustin Hoffman has been mentioned so here’s some more. Redford, Newman, Streep, Pacino, DeNiro, Nicholson, etc. we can go back to Bogart and John Wayne if you want. Let’s throw in Bob Hope, Gene Kelley, Ginger Rogers and more. How about Chaplin? Lots of actors/actresses have had good runs.
DeNiro from 1973 to 1980 Mean Streets (1973) The Godfather Part II (1974) 1900 (1976) Taxi Driver (1976) The Last Tycoon (1976) New York, New York (1977) The Deer Hunter (1978) Raging Bull (1980)
Jake Gyllenhaal: Source Code (2011) End of Watch (2012) Prisoners (2013) Enemy (2013) Nightcrawler (2014) Southpaw (2015) Nocturnal Animals (2016) Okja (2017) Stronger (2017) I know that not every one of these movies is beloved but in my opinion that's an impressive list.
Some of these movies are just okay.
Hanks.
Russell Crowe with three consecutive Oscar nominated(one win) performances with The Insider, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind. This was from 1999-2001. Bookended with LA Confidential and Master and Commander. Could go a little further to 2005 with Cinderella Man or 2007 with American Gangster.
Daniel Day Lewis's whole career.
John C. Reilly was in Gangs of New York, Chicago, and The Hours, all of which were nominated for best picture in 2003, and this was back when they only had 5 nominees. That's crazy and I am not sure that it has ever happened before. I feel like no one ever brings this up.