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Poll: Best Method Actor

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Who Do You Consider To Be The Best Method Actor of All Time??
Method Acting is a term you've probably heard more and more frequently in recent years. There is a certain mysticism to it that conjures up images of actors going to bizarre lengths in pursuit of realistic performances. We're going to vote for actors who gave us a truly believable performance.

Wikipedia defines Method acting as a range of training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances, as formulated by many different theatre practitioners.

Here are some well-known Method Actors who went to such extraordinary lengths to get in a character that their performance has pushed the boundaries of the bizarre. Which actor's performance do you think has touched the bottom of your heart?

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    Daniel Day-Lewis

    Best known for There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York, Lincoln, The Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Phantom Thread, The Age of Innocence, The Crucible, and The Boxer.
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    Jack Nicholson

    Best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Departed, The Shining, Chinatown, As Good as It Gets, A Few Good Men, The Last Detail, About Schmidt, Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, Terms of Endearment, Prizzi's Honor, Reds, and Ironweed.
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    Marlon Brando

    Best known for Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Julius Caesar, The Wild One, Last Tango in Paris, Superman, The Score, Sayonara, Viva Zapata!, A Dry White Season, and The Ugly American.
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    Robert De Niro

    Best known for Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, The Deer Hunter, The Untouchables, Mean Streets, Casino, Once Upon a Time in America, Heat, Goodfellas, The Irishman, and The Godfather: Part II.
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    Leonardo DiCaprio

    Best known for The Revenant, Django Unchained, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter Island, Blood Diamond, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, Inception, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Great Gatsby, and Titanic.
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    Al Pacino

    Best known for Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, The Devil's Advocate, Serpico, Dick Tracy, And Justice for All, Carlito's Way, Donnie Brasco, Any Given Sunday, The Insider, Scarecrow, Scent of a Woman, Heat, The Irishman, and The Godfather Trilogy.
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    Christian Bale

    Best known for American Psycho, The Machinist, American Hustle, The Fighter, Empire of the Sun, Hostiles, Harsh Times, Vice, The Big Short, Ford v Ferrari, The Prestige, Equilibrium, and The Dark Knight Trilogy.
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    Joaquin Phoenix

    Best known for Joker, The Master, Her, You Were Never Really Here, Walk the Line, The Sisters Brothers, I'm Still Here, and Gladiator.
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    Heath Ledger

    Best known for The Dark Knight, Brokeback Mountain, The Patriot, 10 Things I Hate About You, A Knight's Tale, Lords of Dogtown, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Casanova, Candy, Ned Kelly, and I'm Not There.
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    Charlize Theron

    Best known for Mad Max: Fury Road, Atomic Blonde, Monster, The Devil's Advocate, The Italian Job, Æon Flux, Tully, The Huntsman films, Bombshell, Hancock, Prometheus, Dark Places, and The Road.
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    Tom Hanks

    Best Known for Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Philadelphia, The Green Mile, Apollo 13, Catch Me If You Can, Sully, Bridge of Spies, Captain Phillips, The Terminal, Road to Perdition, Cloud Atlas, The Da Vinci Code, Saving Mr. Banks, Sleepless in Seattle, The Post, Big and Toy Story series.
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    Denzel Washington

    Best known for Training Day, Glory, Fences, American Gangster, Philadelphia, Flight, The Book of Eli, Man on Fire, Inside Man, Remember the Titans, The Magnificent Seven, Malcolm X, The Hurricane, Antwone Fisher, Roman J. Israel, Esq., and The Equalizer Duology.
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    Jim Carrey

    Best Known for Man on the Moon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show, Batman Forever, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Dumb and Dumber Duology, The Mask, Yes Man, The Cable Guy, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura Duology, and Bruce Almighty.
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    Nicolas Cage

    Best Known for Face/Off, Lord of War, Adaptation., Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Raising Arizona, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Birdy, and Ghost Rider Duology.
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    Tom Hardy

    Best Known for Mad Max: Fury Road, Dunkirk, The Revenant, Warrior, Locke, Bronson, Venom, Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises.
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    Johnny Depp

    Best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Edward Scissorhands, Blow, Finding Neverland, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Transcendence, Dark Shadows, The Lone Ranger, Black Mass, Donnie Brasco, Platoon, and The Pirates of the Caribbean series.
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    Gary Oldman

    Best known for Darkest Hour, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hannibal, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Léon, The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Fifth Element, and The Laundromat.
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    Dustin Hoffman

    Best known for Hook, Papillon, Marathon Man, Outbreak, Little Big Man, All the President's Men, Rain Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, Wag the Dog, Tootsie, Lenny, Midnight Cowboy, and The Graduate.
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    Nawazuddin Siddiqui

    Best Known for Raman Raghav 2.0, Sacred Games TV Series, Gangs of Wasseypur Duology, Manjhi: The Mountain Man, Badlapur, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Manto, Bombay Talkies, The Lunchbox, Talaash, Te3n, Babumoshai Bandookbaaz, and Lion.
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    Christoph Waltz

    Best Known for Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, Carnage, Spectre, The Legend of Tarzan, Water for Elephants, Big Eyes, The Zero Theorem, and A King for Burning.
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    Anne Hathaway

    Best known for Les Misérables, Rachel Getting Married, Love & Other Drugs, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar.
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    Angelina Jolie

    Best known for Girl, Interrupted, Changeling, Salt, Gia, Unbroken, The Tourist, A Mighty Heart, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Original Sin, Wanted, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Maleficent Duology, and Tomb Raider Duology.
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    Natalie Portman

    Best known for Black Swan (2010), V for Vendetta, Closer, Léon, Jackie, Anywhere But Here, Brothers, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and Thor films.
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    Adrien Brody

    Best known for The Pianist, The Experiment, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Midnight in Paris, Detachment, The Jacket, Backtrack, Bullet Head, and American Heist.
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    Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Best known for The Master, Capote, Charlie Wilson's War, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Doubt, Boogie Nights, Mission: Impossible III, The Talented Mr. Ripley, A Most Wanted Man, Scent of a Woman, Moneyball, and Red Dragon.
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    Manoj Bajpayee

    Best known for Gangs of Wasseypur, Aligarh, Satya, Special 26, In the Shadows, Sonchiriya, Pinjar, Shool, Raajneeti, and Veer-Zaara.
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    Choi Min-sik

    Best known for Oldboy, I Saw the Devil, Failan, The Tiger, Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time, Our Twisted Hero, The Admiral, and Lucy.
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    Edward Norton

    Best Known for American History X, Fight Club, Birdman, Primal Fear, The Illusionist, 25th Hour, Motherless Brooklyn, Red Dragon, The Painted Veil, The Score, The Italian Job, and The Incredible Hulk.
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    Sean Penn

    Best known for Mystic River, I Am Sam, Carlito's Way, The Game, 21 Grams, The Tree of Life, Milk, Dead Man Walking, The Professor and the Madman, Casualties of War, and Sweet and Lowdown.
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    Forest Whitaker

    Best known for The Last King of Scotland, The Butler, Arrival, Southpaw, Vantage Point, Black Panther, Good Morning, Vietnam, Street Kings, The Crying Game, Repo Man, Battlefield Earth, The Great Debaters, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Bird.
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    Naomi Watts

    Best known for The Impossible, Birdman, 21 Grams, King Kong, Mulholland Drive, The Ring, Eastern Promises, The Painted Veil, Fair Game, Demolition, Adore, and Mother and Child.
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    Jared Leto

    Best known for Dallas Buyers Club, Blade Runner 2049, Requiem for a Dream, The Outsider, Lord of War, Mr Nobody, Fight Club, The Thin Red Line, and Suicide Squad.
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    Shia LaBeouf

    Best Known for American Honey, Nymphomaniac: Vol. I, Lawless, Holes, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, Man Down, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Honey Boy, Fury, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Transformers Trilogy.
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    Marilyn Monroe

    Best known for Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and The Prince and the Showgirl.
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    James Dean

    Best known for Giant, East of Eden, and Rebel Without a Cause.

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