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Lead actor contemporaries that are better at acting than Leo

posted 6 years ago by dontgetdead (2)
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In no particular order

Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Joaquin Phoenix
Michael Fassbender
Daniel Day-Lewis
Viggo Mortensen
Oscar Isaac
Russell Crowe
Christian Bale
Ryan Gosling
Tom Hanks
Tom Hardy
James McAvoy
Matt Damon
Matthew McConaughey
Ed Norton
Clive Owen
Sam Rockwell
Tom Cruise
Casey Affleck
Javier Bardem
Chadwick Boseman
Chiwetel Ejiofor
James Gandolfini
Bryan Cranston
Idris Elba
Mads Mikkelsen
Stanley Tucci
William Dafoe
William H. Macy
Liev Schreiber
Ben Foster
Rami Malek
John C. Reilly
Tom Hiddleston
John Hawkes
Denzel Washington
Michael Shannon
David Oyelowo
Gary Oldman
Ben Mendelsohn
Johnny Depp
Hugh Jackman
Brian Cox
Kevin Spacey
Jake Gyllenhaal
Paul Giamatti
Don Cheadle
Forrest Whitaker
Benicio Del Toro
Sean Penn
Ralph Fiennes
Alan Rickman
Woody Harrelson
Michael Keaton
John Turturro
Anthony Mackie
Cillian Murphy
Damian Lewis

[–] ComputerBlue (327) 6 years ago

Many of those are wrong but why do you hate Leo? Seems like a personal grudge with a random list that long.

[–] dontgetdead (2) 6 years ago

For the "Best Actor EVER OMGGG" he sure has dozens and dozens of actors that are clearly better. I can name even more:

Jim Carrey
Colin Farrell
Daniel Kaluuya
Steve Carrell
Ethan Hawke
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Daniels
Jeremy Renner
Colin Firth
Billy Bob Thornton
Ewan McGregor
Jude Law
Laurence Fishburne
Paul Dano
Jared Leto
Brendan Gleeson

Every single actor I have named has at least one performance that is better than anything Leo has ever done.

[–] ArmadilloKnight (456) 6 years ago

Never heard of that "Best actor ever" kind of praise directed towards him. That's usually said about Day Lewis and Oldman. What I do hear every now and then about Leo is people claiming that he is the best actor of his generation. But then again, people say the same thing about Christian Bale, Edward Norton and others.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77984) 6 years ago

Great list
I love Leo but you mention some swell leading men that probably are his equal
Well done dead!

Welcome to MC btw...hope you stick around, our crew is quite fun and smart👍

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Well... at least Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford are not on the list.

[–] PaladinNJ (21582) 6 years ago

You missed a few