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| 4 | * The Walt Creator/{{Disney}} Company has gone through this multiple times. |
| 5 | ** The first was in 1950 with ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', a return to feature-length animated movies after a string of mediocre package films designed to keep the company afloat during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 6 | ** The second time was in 1989 with ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', a tribute to classic Disney films after some stiff competition from Creator/DonBluth and the failure of ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' almost sank the company’s animation division entirely. |
| 7 | ** The third time was in 2010 with ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', after Disney had [[{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaur}} trouble]] [[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle adapting]] to 3D animation in the 2000s and was routinely trounced by Creator/{{Pixar}} and Creator/DreamworksAnimation. |
| 8 | %%%* Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer and Creator/UnitedArtists seem to be making a comeback as of the start of TheNewTwenties. United Artists merged with MGM after the failure of ''Film/HeavensGate'' in 1980, and MGM itself went bankrupt in 2010, which meant that its films had to be distributed by other studios. However, MGM and UA would resume self-distribution of their films in 2018 starting with ''Creed II'', which was considered a worthy successor to the original film. In 2019, the company changed its name ''United Artists Releasing'' and managed to put out hits such as ''Booksmart'', ''The Hustle'', and ''The Addams Family''. Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic shaking things up for the company and the rest of Hollywood in 2020, the studio had a surprisingly decent 2021, with the only true failure being ''Respect'' - ''No Time To Die'' became one of the highest-grossing films of 2021. ''House of Gucci'' became the highest-grossing drama film of the year. ''Licorice Pizza'' became an Oscar contender. ''Wrath of Man'' and ''The Addams Family 2'' also increased profits. With ''Dog'' turning into a surprise comedy hit the following year, it seems that MGM is slowly but surely returning to its former glory. In March 2022, Creator/{{Amazon}} completed its purchase of the studio for $8.45 billion. |
| 9 | %%%* Creator/{{Paramount}} has not had the best of times during the latter half of the 2010s and early 2020s, thanks to a volatile combination of high-profile and costly bombs, leadership turnovers, and toxic industry politics. 2022 has seen a change for the better, as the studio released two acclaimed franchise movies that made back their small budgets many times over - ''Film/{{Scream|2022}}'' and ''Series/{{Jackass}} Forever'', with the former even getting a sequel green-lit a month after its release and the latter getting a second revival series. They also experienced a mid-budget hit with the adventure rom-com ''Film/TheLostCity'', which became the first non-IP film post-pandemic to open with more than $30m worldwide. Then ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'' opened to better reviews than its predecessor and made $71 million dollars in its opening weekend, confirming that the studio is a new franchise to rely on. Paramount's good luck also extended to ''Film/TopGunMaverick'', which opened at the Cannes Film Festival to stellar reviews, became the first film from the studio to open over $100m in its opening weekend since 2014, and topped ''Film/Titanic1997'''s long-standing record as the studio's highest-grossing domestic title. Their streaming service, Creator/ParamountPlus, has also seen major growth, thanks to such hits as ''Series/{{Halo}}'', ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'', etc. |
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| 13 | * '''Creator/EllenDeGeneres''' saw her career suffer when she came out of the closet in 1997 and her character promptly followed suit on ''Series/{{Ellen}}''. This cost the show sponsors and viewers, leading to its cancellation. She attempted a comeback with ''The Ellen Show'', but the show failed to attract enough viewers and was canceled before its only season finished broadcasting. Then came ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', where her performance as Dory brought her back into the spotlight in probably the biggest way this has ''ever'' happened with a voice acting role. Riding the hype and acclaim of the role, Ellen received a talk show and a couple of stints hosting the Oscars and came to be considered one of America's most beloved celebrities (until 2020, when her popularity waned due to her reputation for being rather mean to her crew off-camera). Thirteen years later, the main draw of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' was considered to be that [=DeGeneres=] was the star. |
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| 17 | * '''Creator/BenAffleck''' with ''Film/GoneBabyGone'' and ''Film/TheTown''. After ''Film/{{Gigli}}'' infamously bombed, his career hit rock bottom. Then in 2007, he made his directorial debut with the critically and commercially successful ''Gone Baby Gone''. He followed that up in 2010 with the equally successful ''The Town'', which he acted in too. He won his second Oscar [[note]]having prior won for co-writing ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' with Creator/MattDamon[[/note]] as a producer in 2013 when his third film ''Film/{{Argo}}'' won Best Picture. Affleck's profile further increased when he was cast as ComicBook/{{Batman}} in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, while starring in ''Film/GoneGirl'' netted more acclaim. Though Affleck's next directorial effort after ''Argo'', ''Film/LiveByNight'', garnered mixed reception and profits in 2016, he recovered his esteem when ''Film/Air2023'' earned stellar reviews. |
| 18 | * '''Creator/DonAmeche''' in ''Film/TradingPlaces''. Ameche was one of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox's biggest romantic stars and light comedians in the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s, starring in numerous successful films such as ''The Story of Alexander Graham Bell'' and ''Film/{{Heaven Can Wait|1943}}''. After 1949, however, his film career flatlined with only five film appearances over the course of the next three decades. He made frequent television appearances and also starred in a few Broadway musicals, but his main income came from working in dinner theatre. In 1983, the 75-year-old Ameche was cast in the major role of Mortimer Duke in the hit comedy ''Trading Places'', his first film in 13 years. The film brought him back into the Hollywood mainstream after 34 years put out in the pasture. He won an MediaNotes/AcademyAward for Best Supporting Actor for his following film, ''Film/{{Cocoon}}'', and worked steadily for the rest of his life. |
| 19 | * '''Creator/JulieAndrews''' with ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries''. She had been an icon from TheSixties till TheEighties for popular hits like ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic''. She, frustrated at such typecasting, sought to break away from it, notably in the 1970 flop ''Film/DarlingLili''. Though she later succeeded in 1982 with ''Film/VictorVictoria'', a botched throat surgery damaged her singing voice. It wasn't until ''The Princess Diaries'' that she truly returned to the limelight in 2001 by returning to her Disney roots. Andrews now possesses a different CoolOldLady image by slightly AdamWesting her previous sweet persona. She also enjoys a lot of success as a CelebrityVoiceActor in the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' and ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' franchises, later voicing a sea monster in 2018's ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' as well as providing the narration for Lady Whistledown in ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}''. |
| 20 | * '''Creator/DanAykroyd''', not only with ''Trading Places'' opposite Don Ameche (see above), but also with ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''. Aykroyd was part of the inaugural cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' when it premiered in 1975, staying on board for the next four years. During his tenure, he, together with fellow cast member and dear friend Creator/JohnBelushi, formed a band on ''SNL'' for a musical skit, the Blues Brothers. That bit's popularity resulted in a film based off said premise, also called ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', to be released in 1980, which was a SleeperHit in that year's box office calculus. They made a popular comedy duo, but Belushi's untimely death caused by drug addiction put a tragic end to that collaboration. Studio executives were hesitant to cast Aykroyd after Belushi's passing, which they allegedly compared to casting [[Creator/AbbottAndCostello "Abbott without Costello."]] Aykroyd's starring roles in ''Trading Places'' and ''Ghostbusters'' (the latter of which he co-wrote with co-star Creator/HaroldRamis) quelled their worries when they became big successes, proving he could mesh well with other actors besides Belushi. He returned to host or guest star on ''SNL'' multiple times, while eventually gaining an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination for his supporting role in 1989's ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy''. He reprised his ''Ghostbusters'' role in [[Film/GhostbustersII the sequel]] that same year, which was profitable despite becoming a classic case of {{Sequelitis}}. Unfortunately, he would later suffer a downslide with the failure of ''Film/NothingButTrouble'' in 1991 ([[CreatorKiller which he starred in, wrote, and directed]]). While Aykroyd would appear in many failures afterwards, his recurring presence on ''SNL'' and continued work in the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise (notably reprising his role as Ray Stantz in ''Ghostbuster II's'' direct sequels ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' and ''Film/GhostbustersFrozenEmpire'') [[note]][[Film/Ghostbusters2016 the 2016 film being a reboot with little to no connection to the previous films]][[/note]] ensure he's still around in Hollywood. |
| 21 | * '''Creator/JavierBardem''' initially found fame in his native Spain before moving to Hollywood. After truly making his name known in America with his [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-winning role in ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'' (having received a previous nomination for ''Literature/BeforeNightFalls''), his career, with further hits like ''Film/VickyCristinaBarcelona'' (which he starred in opposite his wife Penélope Cruz, also mentioned on this page), ''Film/EatPrayLove'' (which was a surprise box office success despite getting mixed reviews), ''Film/{{Biutiful}}'' (which got him his third Oscar nomination), and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' (where he played a Bond villain) continued rising. However, Bardem's input began to slump after ''Skyfall'' with films that either were polarizing (''Film/ToTheWonder'', ''Film/TheCounselor'', ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'', ''[[Film/Mother2017 mother!]]'', etc.) or just hated (like ''Film/TheGunman''). His luck, thankfully, changed for the better in 2021 with roles in three movies: ''The Good Boss'', ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'', and ''Film/BeingTheRicardos''. The latter two got particularly positive notices after becoming major contenders in that year's Oscars ceremony, with Bardem even getting his fourth Oscar nomination for playing Creator/DesiArnaz in ''Being the Ricardos'' (starring with Nicole Kidman, also mentioned on this page, who got an Oscar nomination too, playing Arnaz's wife Creator/LucilleBall). He later returned as Stilgar for ''Film/DunePartTwo'', which was an even bigger hit in 2024. |
| 22 | * '''Creator/SachaBaronCohen''' in ''Film/TheTrialOfTheChicago7'' and ''Film/BoratSubsequentMoviefilm''. In the late 2000s, Baron Cohen became famous for his role in 2006's ''Film/{{Borat}}''. However, none of the films that followed (''Film/{{Bruno}}'', ''Film/TheDictator'', ''Film/{{Grimsby}}'') achieved the same level of success. Luckily, 2020 saw the above two critically acclaimed films released on Creator/{{Netflix}} and Prime Video respectively. The former is seen as one of the best movies of the year, while the latter is considered a worthy sequel and became the year's second most streamed movie (after ''Hamilton'' on Creator/DisneyPlus). %% Family name is Baron Cohen, not Cohen. |
| 23 | * '''Creator/DrewBarrymore''' in ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''. After starting off as a child actress in the blockbuster ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' as well as ''Film/{{Firestarter}}'' and ''Film/IrreconcilableDifferences'' during TheEighties, Barrymore's pre-adolescent drug and alcohol problems and her StageMom overshadowed her career. While she cleaned up early in TheNineties, by that time her career had been reduced to low-budget, independent movies (which most of the time, seemed to {{typecast|ing}} her as [[ActorAllusion a promiscuous, rebellious, and/or out-of-control youth]]) like ''Doppelgänger'', ''Film/PoisonIvy'', and the remake of ''Film/GunCrazy'', and small roles in major movies like ''Film/BatmanForever''. Her [[OneSceneWonder small but memorable role]] in 1996's ''Scream'' brought her more and more A-list friendly roles (beginning with ''Film/TheWeddingSinger''), most often of the RomanticComedy variety. After her Netflix TV series ''Series/SantaClaritaDiet'' was cancelled, she started hosting her own syndicated self-titled daytime variety talk show. |
| 24 | * '''Creator/PaulBettany''' with ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. Bettany got his breakout role playing the title character in the 2000 crime film ''Film/GangsterNo1'', which subsequently led to roles in more high profile movies: among those were ''Film/AKnightsTale'', ''Film/ABeautifulMind'', ''Film/MasterAndCommander'', ''Film/{{Wimbledon}}'', etc. Even ''Film/TheDaVinciCode'', which drew a great deal of controversy, was a big hit nevertheless. His input later on, however, declined with failures like ''Film/{{Firewall}}'', ''Literature/{{Inkheart}}'', ''Film/{{Legion}}'', ''Film/TheTourist'', and ''Film/Priest2011''. Bettany retained a steady income with his voice role as J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse [[note]]films ''Film/IronMan1'', ''Film/IronMan2'', ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', and ''Film/IronMan3''[[/note]], [[https://www.businessinsider.com/how-paul-bettany-cast-as-vision-2015-5 but his live-action career was described as dead]] before he was double cast as [[Characters/MCUVision The Vision]] in ''Avengers: Age of Ultron''. The role, which was his most prolific one in live-action after four years, renewed his audience recognition and garnered him tons of praise, with critics noting his performance was an unexpected but welcome surprise in the film, that somehow stood out within its ensemble cast. He returned as Vision in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', plus the Creator/DisneyPlus miniseries ''Series/{{WandaVision}}'' alongside Creator/ElizabethOlsen as [[Characters/MCUWandaMaximoff Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch]]. For his performance in ''[=WandaVision=]'', Bettany got an MediaNotes/EmmyAward nomination. Alongside Olsen and Creator/KathrynHahn, this made the three of them the first actors in an MCU property to get major awards acknowledgment. [[note]] In early 2023, Creator/AngelaBassett became the first actor to get an Oscar nomination for starring in an MCU film with ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever''.[[/note]] |
| 25 | * '''Creator/EmilyBlunt''' with ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' and ''Film/IntoTheWoods''. After her breakout role in ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'', Hollywood saw her as the next best thing. Unfortunately, her career, after making many errors in film choices, the comedy flop ''Film/GulliversTravels2010'' becoming the most notorious (which her commitment to forced her to decline the part of Black Widow in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse), appeared as if it would be perpetually restricted to small indies or supporting roles, such as in ''Film/{{Looper}}''. But then, 2014 had both ''Edge Of Tomorrow'' and ''Into the Woods'' catapult her back onto the A-list. Blunt now enjoys a better profile: with films like ''Film/{{Sicario}}'', ''Film/AQuietPlace'' ([[Film/AQuietPlacePartII plus its sequel]]), ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' and ''Film/JungleCruise''. Blunt later starred in ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' alongside Creator/RobertDowneyJr (also mentioned below) and Creator/CillianMurphy, with her performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife Kitty earning her an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination (her first) for Best Supporting Actress. Her first post-''Oppenheimer'' project, ''Film/TheFallGuy2024'', is doing well too. |
| 26 | * '''Creator/MarlonBrando''' in ''Film/TheGodfather''. Brando was a major star in TheFifties with classic hits such as ''Film/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' and ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', and he had won an [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] for Best Actor for the latter. By TheSixties, however, Brando's failed movies outweighed his successes, partly due to his temper on set, and most movie studios considered him a risk. Flash forward to 1972, when Creator/FrancisFordCoppola was adapting Mario Puzo's novel onto the big screen, and he wanted the 47-year-old Brando to play the patriarch of a Mafia family. Creator/{{Paramount}} finally gave in after Coppola gave Brando a screen test, and ''The Godfather'' became an instant classic. Brando won a second Oscar for his performance as Don Vito Corleone, and high-profile roles in ''Film/LastTangoInParis'', ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' and ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' soon followed. |
| 27 | * '''Creator/JoshBrolin''' in ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''. After being deemed a rising star in TheEighties following ''Film/TheGoonies'', a number of barely released films and short-lived television series derailed him. Brolin spent several years in obscurity in films like ''Film/{{Mimic}}'' and ''Film/HollowMan'' until turning it around in 2007 with supporting roles in three films: ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', ''Film/InTheValleyOfElah'', and ''Film/AmericanGangster'', before playing the main protagonist in ''No Country for Old Men''. The role got him much praise despite an AwardSnub, although the next year he received more acclaim and an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination for his supporting role in ''Film/{{Milk}}''. He hasn't looked back since then, with roles in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as ComicBook/{{Thanos}} and in ''Film/Deadpool2'' as ComicBook/{{Cable}}. He later joined the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' universe by appearing as Gurney Halleck in ''Film/Dune2021'' and ''Film/DunePartTwo''. Beyond franchise work, Brolin reunited with ''No Country for Old Men'' directors Creator/TheCoenBrothers (mentioned down in Directors) with hailed performances in ''Film/TrueGrit'' and ''Film/HailCaesar'' Additionally, he appeared in ''Film/{{Sicario}}'' with Creator/EmilyBlunt (see above) and returned for its sequel ''Film/SicarioDayOfTheSoldado''. |
| 28 | * '''Creator/GeorgeBurns''' was a {{Vaudeville}} comic who made his fame during The Golden Age of Radio and Television with ''Radio/TheBurnsAndAllenShow'': doing the rounds with Creator/SidCaesar, Creator/JackBenny, etc. He faded like many stars of the era before winning an MediaNotes/AcademyAward for ''Film/TheSunshineBoys'' at age 79 and then starring in the series ''Film/OhGod'', remaining a hot property til his death at age 100. |
| 29 | * '''Creator/JamesCagney''' in ''Film/WhiteHeat''. Cagney first became famous in TheThirties for playing "tough guys", most notably gangsters in several crime classics (like ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'', ''Film/TheRoaringTwenties1939'', etc.). He broke from this {{typecast}}ing with his MediaNotes/AcademyAward-winning role in the musical ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', which made good usage of his lesser-known vaudeville training in song and dance. However, he later formed his own production company which, despite his best efforts, failed to make a hit, even with films where he was the star. He thus returned to the gangster genre once more with ''White Heat'', which was a big success and reinvigorated his career. He continued to have a lucky streak all the way until he retired in 1961, only coming out of retirement to star in the critically acclaimed ''Literature/{{Ragtime}}'' in 1981. |
| 30 | * '''Creator/JimCarrey''' in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020''. He seemed to fade from the limelight after 2014's ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'', the sequel to ''Film/DumbAndDumber''. Due to various legal issues surrounding that film against the crew responsible for making it, it marked the end of Carrey's reign as a box office heavyweight after he had been the biggest for a time. Carrey mainly appeared in smaller art-house releases and direct-to-video fare after that flop, becoming better known for controversial paintings critical of former president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump among several others. He also suffered from severe depression and coped with his ex-girlfriend's suicide. However, 2017 saw things begin to turn around: the Netflix documentary ''Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond'' (about his experiences making ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'') was highly acclaimed, he had a modest success with the Showtime series ''Series/{{Kidding}}'' (which ran two seasons), and he got the role of Dr. Robotnik in a film adaptation of the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' video game series. When the film was released in 2020, it not only was the film the second video game-based live-action film to see critical and box office success after ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', but it also was Carrey's first big-budget movie in 6 years. From there his well-reviewed debut novel (with Dana Vachon) ''Memoirs and Misinformation'' sold well, and guest performances as the presidential candidate and later president UsefulNotes/JoeBiden on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' garnered viral fame and some acclaim. Come 2022, ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'' managed the biggest opening weekend of his career (slightly outperforming ''Film/BruceAlmighty''). Meanwhile, his voiceover work on Music/TheWeeknd's ''Dawn FM'' was widely regarded as a highlight of the album. These successes also point to his now having a multigenerational fanbase. |
| 31 | * '''Creator/JenniferConnelly''' in ''Film/ABeautifulMind''. Connelly, a rising [[TheIngenue ingenue]] in TheEighties, made her screen debut in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' directed by Creator/SergioLeone, which got an initially bad reception, but was later VindicatedByHistory as one of the decade's finest movies. Parts in the {{giallo}} flick ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'', directed by Creator/DarioArgento, and the fantasy film ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', where Connelly starred opposite Music/DavidBowie (see his section under Music), kept furthering her status as an '80s icon. But later in the decade and continuing into TheNineties, her career sank as she began getting {{typecast}} as MsFanservice. She slowly rebuilt her esteem with lauded acting in ''Film/DarkCity'' and ''Film/RequiemForADream'', but it was her MediaNotes/AcademyAward-winning role as mathematician John Nash's wife Alicia in ''A Beautiful Mind'' that fully revitalized her stardom. Since then, her career, thanks to successes like ''Film/LittleChildren'', ''Film/BloodDiamond'', and ''Film/OnlyTheBrave'' (which, though not wholly profitable, were critically acclaimed), has continued thriving. She later landed her biggest hit yet starring opposite Creator/TomCruise as his love interest in ''Film/TopGunMaverick'', which became her highest-grossing film to date. She currently stars on the TV series ''Series/{{Snowpiercer}}'', based on [[Film/{{Snowpiercer}} the film of the same name]] by director Creator/BongJoonHo. |
| 32 | * '''Creator/GaryCooper''' in ''Film/HighNoon''. Cooper, one of only a handful of actors who managed to successfully transition from silent films to talkies, was one of the most popular leading men during the MediaNotes/ThePreCodeEra as well as MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. His roles included, among others, MediaNotes/AcademyAward-nominated parts in movies like ''Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown'', ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'', and ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'', while ''Film/SergeantYork'', in 1941, actually won him the award for Best Actor. However, his star power sank after ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' in 1943 and persisted for nine years into the post-war era. None of his films during this time were particularly successful before he played the lead role in 1952's ''High Noon''. That Western became Cooper's biggest hit in years and won him another Oscar for Best Actor. His following movies kept drawing in both good reviews and crowds before his death in 1961. |
| 33 | * '''Creator/PenelopeCruz''' reached immense heights in the 2000s after she got critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her performance in 2006's ''Film/{{Volver}}'' (which was her third collaboration with acclaimed Spanish director Creator/PedroAlmodovar, after starring in ''Live Flesh'' and ''Film/AllAboutMyMother'' in TheNineties), before soon winning the award for Best Supporting Actress in ''Film/VickyCristinaBarcelona'' two years later. After her Oscar victory, however, she fell into a slump starting with the 2009 adaptation of the musical ''[[Theatre/NineMusical Nine]]''. While she got another Oscar nomination for it, critical reception and box office profits were far inferior than ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona''. Cruz's next films failed to light the world on fire (although ''Film/SexAndTheCity2'' and ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'' made money despite mediocre reviews), with her career hitting its nadir when ''Film/Zoolander2'' became a critical and financial disappointment. However, she soon rose from the ashes of that film's failure. After ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017'' became her first box office success in years, Cruz appeared as Donatella Versace on ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'''':'' ''Series/TheAssassinationOfGianniVersace''. Her performance on the FX series was critically acclaimed, and she received her first Emmy nomination for it. Cruz soon reunited with Almodóvar to star in his autobiographical ''Film/PainAndGlory'', before headlining his 2021 drama ''Parallel Mothers''. The film premiered in Venice to a dazzling reception, with Cruz later winning the film festival's award for Best Actress. Her performance in it would later garner Cruz her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress since ''Volver''. |
| 34 | * '''Creator/JamieLeeCurtis''' found her career slowing down in the 2000s and announced that she was going into retirement after ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'' flopped. She returned properly to the public eye with a starring role in ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'', which got her a Golden Globe nomination. She also returned to the series that made her famous with ''Film/Halloween2018'', which became the biggest financial success of the franchise and some critics called it her best work in years. She later joined the ensemble casts of ''Film/KnivesOut'' in 2019 and ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' in 2022. In addition to getting massive critical praise and shockingly good box office returns, the latter got Curtis her first MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination – and win – in her career. |
| 35 | * '''Creator/WillemDafoe''' with ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' and ''Film/SpiderMan1''. Dafoe initially was one of the most notable up-and-coming actors of TheEighties, having attained an Oscar nomination for his supporting performance as Sgt. Elias in Creator/OliverStone's ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' and further critical praise for his role as UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} in Creator/MartinScorsese's ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist''. His trajectory dipped down, however, when he starred opposite Music/{{Madonna}} in the critically reviled erotic thriller ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'', which was deemed one of the worst films of TheNineties and was nominated for six MediaNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s (with Dafoe being nominated for Worst Actor). While Madonna was able to retain success with her music, Dafoe spent the next few years in relative anonymity. He kept popping up sporadically in supporting roles (most notably in ''Film/ClearAndPresentDanger'' and ''Film/TheEnglishPatient'', with Dafoe rarely mentioned in those films' plaudits despite their success), before his portrayal of silent film star Max Schreck in the 2000 film ''Shadow of the Vampire'' netted him rave reviews and another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later, he portrayed the ComicBook/GreenGoblin in Creator/SamRaimi's ''Spider-Man'', which became his first big financial success in years. Dafoe, since then, garnered two more Oscar nominations for ''Film/TheFloridaProject'' and ''At Eternity's Gate'', became a member of Creator/WesAnderson's ProductionPosse, was in the $1B dollar-grossing ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'', and appeared in many other critically acclaimed films (''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'', ''Film/JohnWick'', ''Film/TheLighthouse'', ''Film/PoorThings'', etc.), which re-affirmed his place on Hollywood's A-List. He later reprised his role as the Green Goblin in the MCU-set ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', which eclipsed the first ''Spider-Man'' and ''Aquaman'' as his highest-grossing film ever. Despite its 2021 release amid the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, ''No Way Home'' scored over $1 billion dollars during its first two weeks in theaters. It became the first film since the start of the pandemic to do so and broke many other box office records in the process. Reviews were positive too, with Dafoe's performance considered a standout for the manic energy he brought to the role while also being game to do his own stunts despite being '''in his sixties'''. |
| 36 | * '''Creator/BetteDavis''' pulled this off twice. After transitioning from Broadway to the silver screen, she became one of Hollywood's most respected leading ladies of TheThirties and TheForties. But after she had a failed lawsuit against her [[Creator/WarnerBros studio]], she found herself doing smaller and smaller films. Then came her famous performance as Margo Channing in ''Film/AllAboutEve'' and the following Oscar nomination. After the buzz from that had died down, she went radically against type as a psychotic WhiteDwarfStarlet in ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'' - and that ensured that she was still working steadily until her death. |
| 37 | * '''Creator/DanielDayLewis''' in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''. Day-Lewis was considered one of the top stars of the early '90s, thanks to his Oscar-winning role in ''Film/MyLeftFoot'' and hits like ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans''. Afterwards, due to his infamous selectiveness, he decided to retire from acting due to not liking the roles offered to him. Scorsese convinced him to return for OneLastJob. His iconic performance as Bill the Butcher and his second collaboration with his favorite director[[note]]Lewis always cited ''Film/TaxiDriver'' as the film that inspired him to become an actor[[/note]] revived his passion for his craft, and Lewis went on to the second stretch of his career which lasted fifteen years between this and ''Film/PhantomThread'' (which led to his second retirement). During this period, he won two more Best Actor Oscars for ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' and ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', establishing himself as the best film actor of his generation and putting him in the pantheon with Creator/MarlonBrando and Creator/RobertDeNiro. |
| 38 | * '''Creator/JohnnyDepp''' arguably underwent this twice, first in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''. He started off as [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 Freddy's]] first victim and later gained notice on ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet'' before breaking through in ''Film/EdwardScissorhands''. After that, his resume is a bit spotty, mixing dubious films (like ''Film/DonJuanDeMarco'' and ''Film/NickOfTime'') and some hidden gems (''Film/DonnieBrasco'', ''Film/EdWood'' and ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'') along with a lone blockbuster (''Film/{{Sleepy Hollow|1999}}''... like Edward, with Creator/TimBurton). Then he turns up in ''Pirates'', earns an Oscar nomination, signs on for the sequels and renews his partnership with Burton to fantastic results in ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' and ''Film/{{Alice in Wonderland|2010}}''. However, although it was a huge hit at the box office, ''Alice in Wonderland'' was heavily criticized with many arguing that Depp had become typecast as an eccentric loner. Depp's next films, ''Film/{{Transcendence}}'', ''Film/TheRumDiary'', ''Film/TheTourist'' and ''Film/{{Mortdecai}}'' were outright bombs, and culminated in the massive flop ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013''. Depp's performance in ''Film/BlackMass'' was widely hailed as a return to form and seemed to have restored his critical respectability, but his next film after that, ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'', [[StarDerailingRole irreparably nuked that respectability by being another colossal flop]], not helped by his simultaneous domestic violence scandal. His replacement casting of Creator/MadsMikkelsen in the sequel to ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' didn't help, although he still maintains strong fan support and is rumored to be signing up for smaller-scale indie roles in the new decade. |
| 39 | * '''Creator/LauraDern''' was a critical darling in the early '90s, appearing in such acclaimed films as ''Film/BlueVelvet'', ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'', ''Film/WildAtHeart'' and ''Rambling Rose'' - as well as her prominent role in ''Film/JurassicPark1993''. She faced some backlash in her career when she starred in ''{{Series/Ellen}}'''s infamous "The Puppy Episode" and claims that she didn't work for a full year afterwards because of her role (though she claims she'd still do it all over again). Dern maintained a low profile in the 2000s but slowly returned to prominence in TheNewTens. It started with an appearance in the MediaNotes/AcademyAward-nominated ''Film/TheMaster'' and aided by the SleeperHit ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars''. She got an Academy Award nomination for ''{{Film/Wild}}'', and later was cast the star-studded miniseries ''Literature/BigLittleLies'' as well as ''Film/TheLastJedi''. She finally won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Film/MarriageStory'' in 2019, and returned in the summer of 2022 to the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' series with ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''; though the latter got mostly negative reviews, it still was a massive box office success. |
| 40 | * '''Creator/VinDiesel''' in ''Film/FastAndFurious''. Diesel had started the TurnOfTheMillennium as an ActionHero with films like ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001'', ''Film/{{XXX}}'', and ''Film/PitchBlack'' before destroying his credibility with action duds like ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' and ''Film/BabylonAD'' and the critically ravaged family film ''Film/ThePacifier''. An attempt to establish dramatic credibility in ''Film/FindMeGuilty'' won critical plaudits [[AcclaimedFlop but no attention from moviegoers]]. Diesel reestablished his career by returning to the series that made him famous, as well as returning to ''Film/{{Riddick}}''. Furthermore, his status as JustForFun/OneOfUs has also produced two highly acclaimed Riddick games, ''VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay'' and ''VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena''. He also gained near universal adoration for voicing ComicBook/{{Groot}} in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. |
| 41 | * '''Creator/RobertDowneyJr''' in ''Film/IronMan1''. One of the biggest examples of this in modern Hollywood. He played a few roles in his Brat Pack years before receiving high critical praise in the biopic ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' as Creator/CharlieChaplin, and the sky was the limit. Then his well-documented substance abuse problems eventually landed him in state prison in California as well as being in and out of rehab. He landed a recurring role on ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' (which he got fired from due to his last arrest) and would surface in a big-budget A-list film like ''Film/USMarshals'' with Creator/TommyLeeJones or ''Film/{{Gothika}}'' with Creator/HalleBerry, but never as the first-billed star. He would invariably be seen on the cover of some tabloid and being carted back to rehab shortly thereafter. Heck, his addiction and arrests were referenced on shows such as ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Downey Jr. rehearsed a comeback with critically praised roles in ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' and ''Literature/AScannerDarkly''. Then ''Iron Man'' hit, his next film (''Film/TropicThunder'') netted him an Oscar nomination, ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'' won him a Golden Globe, and ''Film/IronMan2'' was a smash hit at the box office. He also got top billing in the AllStarCast of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', once again reprising what's now recognized as his signature role, Tony Stark[=/=]ComicBook/IronMan, a character he has gone on to portray throughout the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. He became so well known for his role as Iron Man that the public eventually forgot about his arrests in TheNineties, and he was even pardoned by the state of California in 2015. As of now, he's considered one of the highest-paid male actors of all time alongside Creator/TomCruise and Creator/SamuelLJackson (whom he has worked with in multiple MCU films.) For the 2023 film ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'', Downey won an MediaNotes/AcademyAward for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Lewis Strauss. |
| 42 | * '''Creator/KirstenDunst''' in ''Film/{{Melancholia}}''. Dunst was an acclaimed child actress who managed to successfully negotiate her transition to adult roles, averting the FormerChildStar trope in style with roles in ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides'', ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', and the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' films, among others. She was considered one of Hollywood's most promising young actresses before depression and rumored substance abuse led her to check herself into rehab at the age of 25, and the rest of Hollywood to write her off as yet another party girl burnout. Three years later, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 for her turn as a [[RealLifeWritesThePlot depressed young bride-to-be]] in ''Film/{{Melancholia}}''. It's a pretty spectacular way to make a career comeback, as these things go. Even director Creator/LarsVonTrier's inappropriate Nazi joke at Cannes wasn't enough to kill Dunst's momentum. Dunst kept that lucky streak active throughout TheNewTens, branching out into television with her role in ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' (for which she received her first Emmy nomination) and turning in a career-best performance in ''Film/ThePowerOfTheDog'' (for which she received her first Oscar nomination). |
| 43 | * '''Creator/RalphFiennes''' shifted from Shakespearean theatre to a film career in TheNineties with MediaNotes/AcademyAward-nominated roles in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and ''Film/TheEnglishPatient'', and he seemed to be on the way to being a star. However, the massive critical and financial failure of ''Film/TheAvengers1998'' killed his career for several years. Although Fiennes kept working sporadically in minor parts, it was only in 2005 that he truly had a resurgence with six releases that year. The most successful of those films were ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' and ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', with Fiennes playing [[Characters/HarryPotterLordVoldemort Lord Voldemort]] in the latter and returning for [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix later]] [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows films]] that rank as some of his career's biggest hits. He later on joined the Franchise/JamesBond series starting with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' as Gareth Mallory/[[Characters/JamesBondM M]], returning for later entries ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' and ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. Outside that and the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise, Fiennes affirmed his repute as an actor when films like ''Film/InBruges'', ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', ''Film/HailCaesar'', and ''Film/TheMenu'' were critically acclaimed, especially for his performances. Plus, animated work like ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'': ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'', made him a popular CelebrityVoiceActor. |
| 44 | * '''Creator/JodieFoster''' in ''Film/TheAccused''. After becoming a child star in TheSeventies, she was left shaken in 1981 by one of the most infamous LoonyFan [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan moments]] in history, which caused her to go off to college and only do a handful of films. Her career dried up as a result, and by the late '80s Foster was desperate to get a role in a mainstream film, hence why she had no reservations about this film's graphic content, the reason why Creator/KimBasinger, Creator/DemiMoore, Creator/JenniferBeals, Creator/MegTilly, Creator/RosannaArquette, and Creator/KristinDavis all turned it down. Even then, she almost wasn't cast, partly because they felt she didn't have enough sex appeal (in a film about a rape victim, mind) or box office clout. It was only after Creator/KellyMcGillis, at the height of her stardom from ''Film/{{Witness}}'' and ''Film/TopGun'', came on board to play District Attorney Kathryn Murphy that they let Foster play the lead role of Sarah Tobias. The subsequent Oscar win helped get her career back on track, and after another win three years later for ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', she was on her way to becoming Hollywood royalty. |
| 45 | * '''James Fox''' with ''Literature/APassageToIndia''. He was a prominent star of the British New Wave in TheSixties with prominent roles in films like ''Film/TheServant'', ''Literature/KingRat'', and ''Film/{{Performance}}'', while becoming recognizable among American audiences for his role in ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie''. However, Fox became heavily involved in drug culture, which (along with his father's death) precipitated a physical and mental breakdown. Fox left the film industry in 1970, became a born-again Christian, and disavowed his earlier career. In 1984, Fox appeared in the Creator/DavidLean epic ''A Passage to India'' and experienced a major comeback, both as a leading man and as a popular character actor, appearing in films as varied as ''Film/PatriotGames'', ''Film/TheRemainsOfTheDay'', ''Film/SexyBeast'', ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' and ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''. |
| 46 | * '''Creator/JamieFoxx''' in ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. Foxx first became prominent in TheNineties as a cast member on the sketch comedy series ''Series/InLivingColor'' Its success resulted in Foxx receiving [[Series/TheJamieFoxxShow his own sitcom]], which was a big enough hit on television to last up to five seasons on Creator/TheWB. [[TomHanksSyndrome He pivoted towards drama]] after ''The Jamie Foxx Show'' concluded its run: first with supporting roles in ''Film/AnyGivenSunday'' and ''Film/{{Ali}}'' before 2004 certified his star power with two MediaNotes/AcademyAward-nominated performances in ''Film/{{Collateral}}'' and ''Film/{{Ray}}'', soon winning the Best Actor award for his portrayal of Music/RayCharles in the latter. However, his career trajectory plummeted after his Oscar victory: first with his lead role in the notorious disaster ''Film/{{Stealth}}'' opposite Creator/JoshLucas and Creator/JessicaBiel, with most of his subsequent films (''Film/{{Jarhead}}'', ''Film/MiamiVice'', ''Film/TheKingdom'', ''Film/TheSoloist'', ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'', ''Film/ValentinesDay'', and ''Film/DueDate'') failing commercially and/or critically. Luckily, Creator/QuentinTarantino cast Foxx as the title protagonist of ''Django Unchained'' after his original choice Creator/WillSmith declined the role. The film became a commercial and a critical hit during the 2012 Christmas season, restoring Foxx's position on the A-list. Foxx's renewed success increased when he portrayed the Spider-Man villain Electro in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' (while it got mixed reviews and became the lowest-grossing Spider-Man movie so far, it was still profitable), and in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]-set ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' (which surpassed ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' in terms of both profit and reviews, being widely acclaimed while making almost $2 billion at the box office worldwide). He also starred in several hits between his Spider-Man films – such as ''Film/BabyDriver'', ''Film/JustMercy'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'' – while returning to television via hosting the game show ''Series/BeatShazam''. |
| 47 | * '''Creator/MorganFreeman''' in ''Film/MillionDollarBaby''. Gaining momentum in the late 1980s to early-mid 1990s, mostly for his role as a pimp in 1987's ''Street Smart'', he grew to become a household name for African-American cinema and was known for his award-winning performances in ''Film/{{Glory}}'', ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy'', ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', and ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', until he was derailed with the flops of ''Literature/MollFlanders'' and ''Film/ChainReaction''. For the next several years, he would only play roles as narrators and other supporting roles until a shed of light appeared, when he was praised for his performance as {{God}} in ''Film/BruceAlmighty''. When he won an Academy Award for his role as a former boxer in ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'', he once again returned to A-list status and it seems he still isn't looking back. |
| 48 | * '''Creator/RichardGere''' with ''Film/InternalAffairs'' and ''Film/PrettyWoman''. He first gained notice in 1978 as a supporting actor before winning the lead role in Creator/TerrenceMalick's ''Film/DaysOfHeaven'', which made him a star overnight. Gere soon became a recognizable leading man in the early '80s, with ''Film/AmericanGigolo'' and ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' being his biggest successes. Unfortunately, his career was then battered badly by the consecutive failures of ''Film/TheCottonClub'' and ''Film/KingDavid''. ''The Cotton Club'' was notorious for being an extremely TroubledProduction and eventual BoxOfficeBomb, which overshadowed its muted acclaim (see [[TroubledProduction/FilmSerialOffendersCreators Francis Ford Coppola's section on that page for more details]]). ''King David'', on the other hand, flopped badly, with critics, in particular, noting how Gere was woefully miscast in the title role. The latter film's critical and financial failure led to Gere being passed over for many sought after roles for the next few years until 1990, when the consecutive successes of ''Internal Affairs'' and ''Pretty Woman'' put him back on the A-list. Gere later on garnered controversy for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government, regarding its treatment of the people of Tibet. While his career slightly fizzled out amidst Hollywood formulating partnerships with Chinese production companies in the following decades, Gere, nevertheless, keeps getting significant roles in major Hollywood films like ''Film/PrimalFear'', ''Film/{{Chicago}}'', and ''Film/{{Arbitrage}}''. |
| 49 | * '''Creator/HughGrant''' is a two-folded self-inflected example - after gradually losing his boyhood looks and starhood status in the mid-naughties, he retired from acting to pursue more significant parts behind the camera as a producer and outspoken political activist. This worked well for him until ''Film/FlorenceFosterJenkins'' was offered to him, in part because the opportunity to work opposite Creator/MerylStreep was just too good to pass up. The film was a flop, but the acting bug bit him hard and he began PlayingAgainstType in supporting roles, such as ''Film/Paddington2'' (as a LargeHam actor). |
| 50 | * '''Creator/JackieEarleHaley''' in ''Film/LittleChildren'' and ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''. Known for his early role in ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'', Haley's movie career was sidelined by a reputation as a FormerChildStar. He all but retired from acting in 1993 and was forced to take menial work over the years (including a stint as a limo driver) until he started directing TV commercials in Texas. He was remembered by fellow actor Creator/SeanPenn (they co-starred in a play in the early 1980s), who got him a role in the remake of ''Film/AllTheKingsMen''. It was followed by ''Film/LittleChildren'', which was critically acclaimed and gave Haley an Oscar nomination. And then Haley virtually became a fan icon overnight after landing the role of Rorschach in Creator/ZackSnyder's ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' in 2009, and he has since become the go-to actor for portraying disturbing anti-heroes and villains. While ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'' received negative reviews, Haley's portrayal of Freddy Krueger was well received. He has since gone back to supporting roles (such as ''Film/DarkShadows'', ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', the 2014 remake of ''[[Film/Robocop2014 RoboCop]]''), and later played a corrupt sleazebag villain with a tragic backstory in the TV adaptation of ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}''. |
| 51 | * '''Creator/TomHardy''' in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. He fell into a deep depression after ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' crashed and burned at the box office, which he tried coping with alcohol and cocaine. Hardy eventually triumphed over his depression and addictions, remaining clean ever since. He then chose to pull an extreme form of reinvention when he bulked up to play an unrepentant, physically-imposing gangster in ''Film/{{Bronson}}'', which won him acclaim. He later played a small but important supporting role in ''Film/{{Inception}}'' as suave con artist Eames, which brought him on the radar of director Creator/ChristopherNolan. Nolan decided to cast Hardy as the main antagonist Bane in the final film of his ComicBook/{{Batman}} trilogy, ''The Dark Knight Rises''. Amidst the widely positive critical and audience reception the film received, Hardy's performance was hailed as a worthy successor to Creator/HeathLedger's [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] from [[Film/TheDarkKnight the previous film]]. He has also portrayed the titular AntiHero protagonists of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'' (a role he would later reprise in its sequel ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''), while also reuniting with Nolan a third time for ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}''. His Oscar nomination for ''Film/TheRevenant'' has certainly boosted his stature too, as did his appearances in the series ''Series/PeakyBlinders''. |
| 52 | * '''Creator/WoodyHarrelson''', although pretty much always cast as a sidekick or character actor, had a solid run on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' for nearly a decade. During and after its run he turned in a steady string of solid performances in fairly successful films (''Film/LAStory'', ''Film/DocHollywood'', ''Film/WhiteMenCantJump'', ''Film/IndecentProposal'', ''Film/NaturalBornKillers''), and even earned several award nominations (among them an MediaNotes/AcademyAward) for his performance as "Hustler" magnate Larry Flynt in ''Film/ThePeopleVsLarryFlynt''. He sort of vanished after that, turning up in bit parts in major films or as a guest star on a television series (including a memorable stint on ''Series/WillAndGrace''). However, his career began to pick up in the mid-2000s; first, he obtained a minor but noteworthy role in ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', which revived the careers of Josh Brolin (see above) and the Coen brothers (see below in Directors). In 2009, he turned a memorable performance in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' as gun-toting, Twinkie-seeking redneck Tallahassee; that same year, he also got critical acclaim and another Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in ''Film/TheMessenger2009''. Harrelson was eventually cast as Haymitch Abernathy in ''Film/TheHungerGames'', and stayed for [[Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire all]] [[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 three]] [[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2 sequels]]. These hits put Harrelson back on the A-List, often in a first- or second-billed role. He later starred alongside Creator/JulianneMoore in ''Film/GameChange'' and alongside old friend Matthew [=McConaughey=] in ''Series/TrueDetective'', and received MediaNotes/EmmyAward nominations for his work in both. Later on, ''Film/ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri'' netted Harrelson a third Academy Award nomination. |
| 53 | * '''Creator/KatharineHepburn''' in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''. After winning an Oscar for 1933's ''Morning Glory'' and enjoying a box-office hit playing Jo March in that year's adaptation of ''Film/{{Little Women|1933}}'', she seemed to be a star in the making. Unfortunately, between a string of box-office disappointments and her own controversial public image (known for being prickly and {{tomboy}}ish in a time when it was not considered acceptable for women to act like that), her track record proved to be subsequently shoddy, aside from another Oscar nomination for ''Alice Adams'' (1935). 1938's ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', despite [[AcclaimedFlop positive reviews and later acclaim as one of her best films]], was a BoxOfficeBomb that got Hepburn labeled "box office poison" by theater owners and "Katharine of Arrogance" by the tabloids, and she subsequently bought out her studio contract. She turned to Broadway and starred in a successful play called ''The Philadelphia Story'', [[AdamWesting playing]] a [[RichBitch stuck-up socialite]] who, in the opening scene, gets knocked over by Creator/CaryGrant and falls on her ass, and bought the film rights to the play so she could star in the film. A great risk that paid off, as ''The Philadelphia Story'' resurrected Hepburn's career overnight, and a Hollywood legend was born. |
| 54 | * '''Creator/DennisHopper''' in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Although it seems impossible looking back at his career over the past twenty years, there was a time when Hopper was anathema to studios and audiences. After a meteoric rise to the top in TheFifties with appearances in ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'' and ''Film/{{Giant}}'' as well later appearing alongside Creator/JohnWayne in ''Film/TheSonsOfKatieElder'' and ''Film/TrueGrit'', and after his directorial debut ''Film/EasyRider'' in 1969, Hopper was on top of the world. However, he became addicted to drugs and alcohol and had a dissolving marriage to boot. In 1971, Hopper released his second film as a director, ''Film/TheLastMovie'', which was a complete flop with audiences and critics. Hopper would disappear into obscurity for years afterwards by hiding out in New Mexico and appearing in a number of low-budget films in TheSeventies, often as a "tormented maniac", an archetype that landed him a role in 1979's ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. After a failed "suicide" attempt in the early '80s (it ended up being a stunt), though, he went into rehab and subsequently started a run of critically-acclaimed performances, culminating in 1986 with his career-defining role as Frank Booth in David Lynch's ''Film/BlueVelvet'' and an Oscar-nominated one in ''Film/{{Hoosiers}}''. |
| 55 | * '''Creator/MichaelBJordan''' in ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}''. Jordan was already doing quite well for himself until hitting the brick wall that was ''Film/FantasticFour2015''. Unlike his cast mates, Jordan suddenly hit his revival so soon after with ''Creed''. He played the illegitimate son of the late Apollo Creed in this ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' spin-off/follow-up, trained to follow in his footsteps by his father's former rival Rocky Balboa. This resurgence let him take up the role of the villain [[Characters/MCUErikStevens Erik Killmonger]] in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', which redeemed him from his earlier comic book failure. He reprised his role as Adonis Creed in the sequels ''Film/CreedII'' and ''Film/CreedIII'', with the latter also marking his directorial debut. |
| 56 | * '''Creator/MichaelKeaton''' in ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance''. Known for comedic roles in TheEighties, Keaton first hit it big playing the title roles in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' and ''Film/Batman1989''. However, his career fell into a slump once he left following ''Film/BatmanReturns'' and was finally destroyed by ''Film/JackFrost1998''. The 2000s saw Keaton pursuing a number of secondary roles in lesser films, though he still managed to do some good voice work for Pixar in ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. ''Birdman'', in which Keaton plays [[ActorAllusion a washed-up actor known for a superhero role twenty years ago]], earned him a Golden Globe win and an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor, setting him on the path to becoming a leading man once more. His following films, ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'' and ''Film/TheFounder'', also opened to excellent reviews (with ''Spotlight'' winning the 2015 Academy Award for Best Picture), before starring as the Vulture in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. His performance was hailed by fans and critics as one of the best villain performances in not just the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, but superhero movies in general. He joined the ensemble cast of ''Film/TheTrialOfTheChicago7'' with Creator/SachaBaronCohen (see above), and played the lead in the Creator/{{Hulu}} miniseries ''Series/{{Dopesick}}''. Both projects were praised, with ''Dopesick'' winning him an MediaNotes/EmmyAward in 2022. He later finally donned the Batman cowl again, this time in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse film ''Film/TheFlash2023''. Despite the film's box office underperformance and mixed reviews, Keaton's portrayal of the Dark Knight was widely praised once more and seen as one of its saving graces. He'll also return as the Ghost with the Most in the 2024 sequel ''Film/BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice''. |
| 57 | * '''Creator/HarveyKeitel''' was a rising star from TheSixties until TheSeventies, with his performances in [[Film/WhosThatKnockingAtMyDoor four]] [[Film/MeanStreets early]] [[Film/AliceDoesntliveHereAnymore films]] [[Film/TaxiDriver by]] Creator/MartinScorsese gaining him particularly favorable attention. He was then cast as Capt. Benjamin Willard in ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' — and was promptly sacked after only one week of filming to be replaced by Creator/MartinSheen. Though keeping busy via minor roles in several often negatively received films during TheEighties, it wasn't until 1991 when Keitel regained some esteem with supporting roles in popular Oscar contenders ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' plus ''Film/{{Bugsy}}'' (with the latter getting him a Best Supporting Actor nomination). The next year, Creator/QuentinTarantino cast Keitel as Mr. White in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' whereas Creator/AbelFerrara cast him as the eponymous ''Film/BadLieutenant''. These roles helped reacquaint audiences with his original image as a hard-boiled street hood while garnering him more attention than he got in years. He still acts just as much since then, but is more likely to be playing a key role (or, as in ''Film/PulpFiction'', getting a [[OneSceneWonder notable cameo]]). |
| 58 | * '''Creator/DeborahKerr''' became a star in her native UK with notable parts in ''Major Barbara'', ''Love on the Dole'' and ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' - the latter of which got the attention of Hollywood. Although she got her first Oscar nomination with ''Edward, My Son'', she soon found herself typecast as an EnglishRose in {{Costume Drama}}s - in what she mockingly called "poker up the arse parts". The low point for her was ''Film/YoungBess'', where she lost out on the lead role and got stuck with the insignificant role of Catherine Parr - which led to her nearly leaving Hollywood altogether. But her next big project was a war drama called ''Film/FromHereToEternity'' - which saw her going against type as a depressed adulteress. It broke her out of typecasting, got her another Oscar nomination and secured her status in Hollywood until she retired in the late 60s. |
| 59 | * '''Creator/ShahRukhKhan''' in ''Film/{{Pathaan}}''. One of UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}'s biggest superstars in the '90s and '00s, to the point that he was widely known by simply his initials, "SRK", his career went on the skids in the 2010s, largely for political and cultural reasons. Specifically, he was one of the most high-profile Muslim celebrities in India in 2014 when the Hindu nationalist politician Narendra Modi became [[UsefulNotes/ThePradhaanMantris Prime Minister of India]], and he became an outspoken opponent of Modi's anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies. Modi's supporters turned against Khan and started boycotting his films, leading to declining box-office receipts that culminated in him taking a four-year hiatus from acting after the 2018 failure of ''Zero'', and in 2021 his son Aryan Khan was targeted in a drug raid that many critics of the Modi government believed was politically motivated. ''Pathaan'' in 2023 was billed as his comeback, but given the controversies surrounding him as well as some of the content of the film itself, many of his critics, including politicians from Modi's party, called for another boycott. Instead, it broke box office records and became a cultural sensation, demonstrating that Khan was still one of India's biggest stars. After its opening weekend, he was quoted as saying "the last four days have made me forget the struggles of the past four years." |
| 60 | * '''Creator/NicoleKidman''' first became famous in the '90s through a variety of performances in acclaimed films, the most notable being 1999's ''Film/EyesWideShut'' (where she co-starred opposite her then-husband Creator/TomCruise). Further successes came with ''Film/MoulinRouge'' and ''Film/{{The Others|2001}}'' in 2001, which culminated with a Best Actress Oscar win for her role in 2002's ''Film/TheHours''. Starting around 2004, however, she began falling into a slump with flops like ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'', ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'', ''Film/{{Australia}}'', and ''Film/JustGoWithIt''. Her sole saving grace during this time was the 2010 adaptation of the play ''Theatre/RabbitHole'', which was an AcclaimedFlop that still earned her another Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Kidman's lowest point came in 2014 with ''Grace of Monaco'', a film with a rather TroubledProduction that was critically derided (with a glaring 9% on Website/RottenTomatoes) and had its theatrical release revoked in the U.S. (ultimately being shunted to a debut on Creator/{{Lifetime}}). After that debacle, however, Kidman's luck began to turn for the better. First, she appeared as the main antagonist in the well-received children's film ''Film/Paddington2014''. Her next notable role was in 2016's ''Film/{{Lion}}'', which was a financial SleeperHit that received multiple Oscar nominations (including another acting nomination for Kidman, this time in the Best Supporting Actress category). She branched out into television with HBO's ''Series/BigLittleLies'' the following year, for which she won Primetime Emmy Awards for acting in and producing the miniseries. She then had three theatrical releases in 2018: ''Film/{{Destroyer|2018}}'', ''Film/BoyErased'', and most notably, the superhero film ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' as the titular character's mother, which became her biggest financial success. In 2021, she portrayed Creator/LucilleBall in the Creator/AaronSorkin drama ''Film/BeingTheRicardos''. While the film itself got mixed reviews, Kidman earned raves (and a Golden Globe) for her work. Her performance has once more put her into the contest for Oscar glory and she did get nominated for Best Actress, alongside Javier Bardem (see above) portraying Ball's husband Creator/DesiArnaz (for which he got an Oscar nomination too). |
| 61 | * '''Creator/JohnKrasinski''' in ''Film/AQuietPlace''. He established himself in the mid-2000s with his role as Jim Halpert in ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', and the success of that sitcom convinced studios to push him as a leading man in film comedy. That swiftly ended when he headlined the critically mauled ''License to Wed'' in 2007, which also hurt the rising film career of Creator/MandyMoore (see Live-Action TV). Although he remained on ''The Office'' all the way until its run ended in 2013, Krasinski's film career was limited to supporting roles for the next ten years. Then he directed and headlined ''Film/AQuietPlace'' (co-starring opposite his wife Emily Blunt, mentioned above), which was praised as one of the scariest horror films of 2018. Krasinski received much critical acclaim for his performance while emerging as a promising filmmaker. The film's financial success ensured [[Film/AQuietPlacePartII a sequel]] was greenlit with Krasinski returning as a director. He also returned to television with ''Series/JackRyan'' that same year, which was a huge hit on the Creator/{{Amazon}} streaming service Creator/PrimeVideo. |
| 62 | * '''Creator/MatthewMcConaughey''' in ''Film/DallasBuyersClub''. He was [[HollywoodHypeMachine a hot young talent]] in TheNineties, starring in such acclaimed films as ''Film/DazedAndConfused'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/{{Amistad}}'', etc. However, his [[WalkingShirtlessScene perpetual shirtlessness]], plus poor choice of film roles, mostly in middling {{romantic comed|y}}ies, made him a walking punchline over the course of the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]], with critics lamenting his squandered potential as a serious actor. Then he got critical acclaim in 2011 for his roles in ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' and ''Film/KillerJoe'', and went on to astonish critics everywhere over the next few years with his turns in ''Film/{{Mud}}'', ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'', the TV series ''Series/TrueDetective'', and ''Film/DallasBuyersClub'', which won him an Oscar in 2014. [=McConaughey=]'s seeming overnight turnaround from rom-com pretty boy to one of the brightest stars in Hollywood was dubbed "The [=McConaissance=]", but it was unfortunately negated with a downslide post-2014. Most of his live-action films after that year haven't been successful, with his one major hit being ''Film/TheGentlemen'' (which was also a mild success for its director Guy Ritchie; see below). Luckily, he's cultivated a good career as a CelebrityVoiceActor with his work in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' ([[AcclaimedFlop which opened to critical acclaim, but flopped]]); ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'', which got decent reviews and did fine at the box office, becoming his biggest hit domestically; and ''WesternAnimation/AgentElvis'', with [=McConaughey=] voicing the title character. |
| 63 | * '''Creator/EddieMurphy''' went through this twice. Murphy was one of the biggest comedy stars of TheEighties, but as time went on, films like ''Film/TheGoldenChild'' and ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopII'' tainted his reputation with critics. In the early '90s, they disappointed financially too (the vanity project ''Film/HarlemNights'', ''Film/VampireInBrooklyn'', etc.). He might have gone down as something of a relic of the '80s if not for his multiple-role performance in ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'', which was a huge hit. Since then, the quality and financial success of his work has been wildly hit and miss, ranging from ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}'' to ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash''. He has a RatedGForGangsta reputation now (due to doing many family films, most famously the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' franchise), but he was still an A-lister for much of the 2000s, even receiving an Oscar nomination for ''Film/{{Dreamgirls}}''. Unfortunately, in the late 2000s/early 2010s another string of financial and/or critical flops (''Film/MeetDave'', ''Film/{{Norbit}}'', ''Film/AThousandWords''), combined with the end of the ''Shrek'' franchise, put him back on the scrap heap, outnumbering hits like ''Film/TowerHeist''. But then Murphy hit Creator/{{Netflix}} starring as Rudy Ray Moore in the biopic ''Film/DolemiteIsMyName'', which was acclaimed as a long-awaited return to the R-rated comedy that made him a star in the 80s as well as the prestige material that he was previously praised for in ''Dreamgirls''. Earning a Golden Globe nomination, he followed this up with a well received return to ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' that boosted the show's ratings to their highest in a decade. |
| 64 | * '''Creator/LeslieNielsen''' in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''. Nielsen had a long career in Hollywood, playing mostly bit parts in films, TV guest shots, with the occasional leading role in a low-budget project. Before 1980, he was probably best remembered for his leading role in ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''. After 1980, he was best known as Dr. Rumack in ''{{Film/Airplane}}'', where his deadpan performance made him one of the funniest things in the film. [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome He would go on to play similar roles in an assortment of other]], mostly similar comedies, notably Frank Drebin in ''Series/PoliceSquad'' and ''Film/TheNakedGun'' film trilogy as well the lead roles in ''Film/SpyHard'' and ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt''. |
| 65 | * '''Creator/GaryOldman''' was known throughout the '80s and '90s for films such as ''Film/SidAndNancy'', ''Film/TheFifthElement'' and ''[[Film/TheProfessional Leon: The Professional]]'', but by the early 2000s roles were getting scarcer. He took the role of Sirius Black in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' because [[MoneyDearBoy he desperately needed the work, not having done a film in over a year,]] but this turned out for the best because he got to stay with the [[Franchise/HarryPotter series]] for multiple films. He was sought out later by Creator/ChristopherNolan to play [[PlayingAgainstType Commissioner Gordon]] in ''Film/BatmanBegins'', resulting in him [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy also]] returning for [[Film/TheDarkKnight its]] [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises sequels]]. The two franchises combined led to his name being known amongst a new generation of fans which thrust him back into the limelight. Other successes he was in during this period were ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' and ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', while he got his first [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nomination in his decades-long career playing British intelligence operative George Smiley in ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''. He finally got recognized by award committees in 2017 for his portrayal of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill in ''Film/DarkestHour'' and swept that year's awards season, capped with an Oscar win for Best Actor. He garnered more plaudits and another Oscar nomination for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in the 2020 biopic ''Film/{{Mank}}'', directed by Creator/DavidFincher. In 2022, he starred in the Creator/AppleTVPlus espionage drama ''Series/SlowHorses''. The show marked the first time he had a lead role in a television series after guest spots in the past, with his performance getting hailed once more. |
| 66 | * '''Creator/AlPacino''' has undergone several Career Resurrections throughout the years. After first making it big in TheSeventies with [[Film/TheGodfather several]] [[Film/Scarecrow1973 of]] [[Film/{{Serpico}} that]] [[Film/TheGodfatherPartII decade's]] [[Film/DogDayAfternoon best]] [[Film/AndJusticeForAll films]], his trajectory started dipping downward in the following decade. ''Film/{{Cruising}}'', released in 1980, was reviled by critics and condemned by the LGBT community for its homophobic undertones, while ''[[Film/Scarface1983 Scarface]]'', despite being [[VindicatedByHistory later reappraised]] as one of Pacino's best films, was poorly received and criticized for its graphic content upon its initial release. The utter disappointment of ''[[Film/Revolution1985 Revolution]]'' in 1985 led Pacino to take a hiatus from acting till 1989, when he appeared in a little film called ''Film/SeaOfLove''. The film was a minor success, spurring Pacino to take roles [[Film/DickTracy in]] [[Film/TheGodfatherPartIII bigger]] [[Film/FrankieAndJohnny films]], culminating in 1992 with the consecutive successes of ''Film/GlengarryGlenRoss'' and ''Film/ScentOfAWoman'', the latter for which he won a long-overdue Oscar for Best Actor. Pacino had the pick of his roles for the rest of TheNineties with a plentiful output of box office hits (''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'', ''Film/AnyGivenSunday''), critical darlings (''Film/CarlitosWay'', ''Film/TheInsider'') or films that were both (''Film/{{Heat}}'', ''Film/DonnieBrasco''). However, he would fall into yet another slump in the following decade, first by taking a supporting role opposite Creator/BenAffleck in the aforementioned ''Film/{{Gigli}}''. He had a brief respite with his Emmy-winning performance in the HBO miniseries ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'' and a supporting role as the villain in ''Film/OceansThirteen''. His next lead film roles, unfortunately, were in ''Film/EightyEightMinutes'' and ''Film/RighteousKill'', which were eviscerated by critics, ignored by audiences, and garnered Pacino Razzie nominations for Worst Actor in 2008. Pacino would spend the next ten years afterwards slumming it in schlock (the most notorious of which, ''Film/JackAndJill'', garnered him a Razzie win for Worst Supporting Actor), with his sole saving grace being the HBO television film ''You Don't Know Jack'': for which he won another Emmy. In 2019, however, he appeared in two of the year's best films, Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' and Creator/MartinScorsese's ''Film/TheIrishman''. Pacino's performance as Jimmy Hoffa in Scorsese's film has been deemed his best work in years, and it even garnered him his first Oscar nomination since his win for ''Scent of a Woman''. He later appeared as Aldo Gucci in Creator/RidleyScott's crime drama ''Film/HouseOfGucci'', which was released in November 2021. |
| 67 | * '''Deepika Padukone''' in ''Cocktail''. Having made her Bollywood debut as the heroine in the hugely-successful 2007 film ''Film/OmShantiOm'', the momentum of her career faltered when she starred in several lacklustre films in the late-00's and early-10's such as ''Chandni Chowk to China'' and ''Housefull'', which were financial and critical failures, respectively. Apart from an appearance as a MsFanservice in the 2009 film ''Billu'', and her performance alongside Saif Ali Khan in ''Love Aaj Kal'', she had no other notable successes, and was slowly beginning to be seen as a OneHitWonder. In 2012, however, Padukone's career took a turn for the better when she starred in ''Cocktail'', a romantic comedy where her role as a party girl garnered her notable praise for her acting talents. This was subsequently followed by other hit films in the following year such as ''Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani'', ''Chennai Express'', and ''Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela'', which further cemented her status as one of the most successful leading actresses in all of Bollywood, and as one of the most popular personalities in all of India itself. |
| 68 | * '''Creator/RobertPattinson''' in ''Film/TheBatman2022''. ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', despite making him a TeenIdol, also made him into a target of ridicule, with his detractors, particularly those who never liked ''Twilight'' to begin with, believing that he [[DullSurprise couldn't act]]. The series ending in 2012 seemed to kill his career prospects... at least until he, his meal ticket paid for by those teen vampire movies, realized that he was free to do whatever the hell he wanted and proceeded to go indie. He recovered when ''Film/GoodTime'', ''Film/TheLostCityOfZ'', and ''Film/TheLighthouse'' were critically acclaimed, particularly for his performances, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct surprising critics]] who wrote him off before. Director Creator/MattReeves later cast him as [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} the title role]] in ''The Batman'', a casting decision that met [[QuestionableCasting the typical reaction]] at first but which died down considerably once his defenders pointed out his entire post-''Twilight'' career. Not only was this film critically acclaimed as well, it also became Pattinson's largest box office success ever since his ''Twilight'' days. This is no mean feat, given its release just as the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic was easing up. |
| 69 | * '''Creator/SeanPenn''' in ''Film/DeadManWalking''. Penn became popular in TheEighties, with performances in wildly different films like ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' and ''Film/TheFalconAndTheSnowman''. However, his career soon took a severe beating after he starred opposite his then-wife Music/{{Madonna}} in the notorious disaster ''Film/ShanghaiSurprise''. Her career remained intact with her music, but his career stalled for many years. Though Penn made several attempts to rev up his career again, it was unsteady for some time with a potential hit followed by a poor dud. His career finally got back on track after ''Dead Man Walking'' became both a financial and critical darling while he got a Best Actor MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination for his performance as an inmate on death row. He later won two Oscars in that category for ''Film/MysticRiver'' and ''Film/{{Milk}}'', while also getting two more nominations for ''Film/SweetAndLowdown'' plus ''Film/IAmSam''. |
| 70 | * '''Creator/RobertRedford''' in ''Film/AllIsLost''. From TheSixties to TheNineties, Redford was one of the biggest stars in the world. He had roles in numerous hits (including his [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-nominated one in ''Film/TheSting''), and additionally pivoted towards directing with successful results like ''Film/OrdinaryPeople'' (which won Redford an Oscar for Best Director). But in the TurnOfTheMillennium, his career was killed off by several failures and seemed unlikely to recover. Then ''All Is Lost'', where Redford played the sole role as a sailor stranded out at sea, premiered to critical acclaim at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, with Redford’s performance cited as one of his finest in years for how he was able to carry the film all on his own with minimal dialogue. Afterwards, he started receiving more prolific work. ''A Walk in the Woods'', which saw Redford star alongside Creator/NickNolte, was a mild box office success despite mixed reviews, while ''Film/Truth2015'' – where Redford played news correspondent Creator/DanRather – and ''Film/TheOldManAndTheGun'' opened to critical acclaim. Additionally, he reunited with Creator/JaneFonda (with whom he previously made three films together) for the also well-received ''Our Souls at Night''. Redford also branched out into more family-friendly territory with ''Film/PetesDragon2016'', plus he appeared in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. |
| 71 | * '''Creator/KeanuReeves''' in ''Franchise/JohnWick''. During TheNineties and early '00s, Reeves made the successful transition from [[Franchise/BillAndTed comedy]] to action, playing the lead roles in ''Film/{{Speed}}'' and ''Film/TheMatrix'' series. However, a rising criticism was his [[DullSurprise lack of acting range]], which got worse when the mid-late '00s saw him ruthlessly typecasted as TheStoic ActionHero, and his acting became the butt of many jokes by critics. His role as the BigBad in ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'', which also served as his directorial debut, showed promise for him to finally break free of this typecasting, but he suffered a StarDerailingRole in ''Film/FortySevenRonin'' shortly after. Initially expected to do poorly, the low-budget revenge thriller ''Film/JohnWick'' was instead a critically acclaimed, commercially successful SleeperHit, with critics and fans alike [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct praising Reeves's performance]] as the titular hitman and for [[NoStuntDouble performing the action scenes himself]]. The film was successful enough to [[Franchise/JohnWick spawn a franchise]], and the summer of 2019 was dubbed the "Keanussance", launched by the release of ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' (which quickly became the biggest hit of the franchise, immediately greenlighting a fourth installment upon its release), followed by turns in ''Film/AlwaysBeMyMaybe'' (AdamWesting as himself) and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'' (as the voice of Canadian action figure Duke Caboom), as well as the announcement of him portraying a character in the anticipated video game ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' at that year's MediaNotes/{{E3}}. |
| 72 | * '''Creator/JuliaRoberts''' in ''Film/ErinBrockovich''. Roberts looked like a rising star with critically acclaimed roles in ''Film/MysticPizza'', ''Film/SteelMagnolias'', and her StarMakingRole ''Film/PrettyWoman''. ''Film/SleepingWithTheEnemy'' was panned but did very well at the box office. However, her career hit turbulence when ''Dying Young'' and ''{{Film/Hook}}'' were both trashed by critics, not helped by a CreatorBreakdown as her relationship with Creator/KieferSutherland fell apart – even fleeing the set of ''Hook'' to hide out in Ireland briefly. She took a two-year hiatus from acting, and when she returned, it was to flops like ''Film/ILoveTrouble'', ''Film/MichaelCollins'', and ''Film/MaryReilly''. However, ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'' heralded a return to form as her subsequent films did good business, thus ending her up as the highest paid actress of TheNineties. An Oscar win later came for ''Erin Brockovich''. |
| 73 | * '''Creator/SaoirseRonan''' with ''Film/{{Brooklyn}}''. She first became famous as a child for her supporting role in 2007's ''Film/{{Atonement}}'', which netted her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress at just thirteen years old. She subsequently received a bigger push from Hollywood and starred in many films, but none of them garnered the same levels of acclaim as ''Atonement'' had. After the critical and financial disasters of ''Literature/TheHost2008'' and ''Film/LostRiver'', many feared Ronan would fade into obscurity as a FormerChildStar and disappear from acting altogether. She soon dispelled that notion and turned things around for the better, first by making a small but important appearance in Creator/WesAnderson's ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''. Then in 2015, she starred in ''Brooklyn'', which landed her another Oscar nomination, this time in the leading category. She followed this up with a string of critical successes, and even garnered two more Oscar nominations for Best Actress in ''Film/LadyBird'' and ''Film/{{Little Women|2019}}''. |
| 74 | * '''Creator/MarkRuffalo''' with ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. He was never derailed, but remained forever on the B-list in the 2000s. There even used to be a trope called "Mark Ruffalo Syndrome" that was used to describe an actor who is eternally stuck in secondary roles. Becoming part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, however, has made him more famous than he ever was, and led to him taking leading roles in films like ''Film/BeginAgain'', while garnering critical acclaim for ''Film/TheNormalHeart''. He later won an MediaNotes/EmmyAward for ''Series/IKnowThisMuchIsTrue'', and has garnered four MediaNotes/AcademyAward nominations (for ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'', ''Film/{{Foxcatcher}}'', ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'', and ''Film/PoorThings''). |
| 75 | * '''Creator/AdamSandler''' by signing to Creator/{{Netflix}}. Sandler's career was reeling in the early 2010s after the flops of ''Film/JackAndJill'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'', with the final straw seemingly coming in 2015 with ''Film/{{Pixels}}''. When, after that film's failure, he signed a distribution deal with Netflix to have his forthcoming live-action comedies released exclusively on the streaming service, many saw it as a symbol of how far his star had fallen; at the time, streaming exclusives were still seen as the equivalent of the DirectToVideo market. Little did anybody know that Sandler would become one of Netflix's breakout stars as the streaming service invested in original films in a major way. The tipping point came in 2019 with ''Film/MurderMystery'', a film that, had everybody who streamed it seen it in a theater, would've enjoyed [[http://fortune.com/2019/06/19/netflix-movies-murder-mystery-cast-adam-sandler/ a $120 million opening weekend,]] as well as a well-received guest hosting gig on his old ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' stomping grounds that earned him an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series as well as being selected as the show's submission for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series (ultimately winning). He followed this up with the lead role in ''Film/UncutGems'', which earned him rave reviews for what many consider the best performance of his career. The further success of films such as ''Film/HubieHalloween'' and ''Film/Hustle2022'' cemented his place back on the A-List. |
| 76 | * '''Creator/PeterSellers''' in ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther''. Already huge in his native England, he achieved international megastar status over 1963-64 with the first ''Pink Panther'' films and his work with Creator/StanleyKubrick. Still, he was so difficult to work with on ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' that he was fired midway through the shoot, and the disjointed effort to cover up his absence resulted in an over-budget mess he was blamed for. From then on, most of his films flopped. By 1974, some of them weren't even making it to theaters; he barely got by making commercials and television appearances. When he was approached to reprise his Inspector Clouseau character in 1975, he took the opportunity. ''Return'' proved so popular that he was immediately back on the A-list. With two more Panthers, ''Film/MurderByDeath'', and especially ''Film/BeingThere'' (which netted him a Best Actor nomination, his second), he remained there up until his death in 1980. |
| 77 | * '''Creator/AmandaSeyfried''' in ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain''. Seyfried was one of Hollywood's biggest "it girls" at the TurnOfTheMillennium with roles in ''Series/VeronicaMars'' and ''Film/MeanGirls'', before she seemingly became a big star with the mega-popularity of ''Film/MammaMia'' However, three critical and/or financial flops released between 2011 to 2012 (''Film/RedRidingHood'', ''Film/InTime'' and ''Film/{{Gone|2012}}'') snuffed the momentum Seyfried accumulated. She got a minor boon when ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' became a major success later that year, but most of the praise was heaped upon Creator/HughJackman and Creator/AnneHathaway for their acting. Her next film, ''Film/{{Lovelace}}'', was an AcclaimedFlop in 2013; while her next attempt at a major blockbuster, ''Film/{{Pan}}'', instead became one of the most notoriously hated {{Box Office Bomb}}s of 2015. Seyfried's career prospects seemed like they couldn't get better before she reprised her role for the sequel to ''Mamma Mia!'' It came out in 2018 to a much better critical reception than its predecessor and did well at the box office. Two years later, Seyfried played Marion Davies in Creator/DavidFincher's widely praised drama ''Film/{{Mank}}''. Her performance was noted by many critics as a standout, leading her to get an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Then in 2022, she played disgraced former medical entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes in the Creator/{{Hulu}} miniseries ''Series/TheDropout''. Her performance as Holmes is viewed by many as her finest work yet, and she won an MediaNotes/EmmyAward for it. |
| 78 | * '''Creator/SylvesterStallone''' in ''Film/RockyBalboa'' and ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}''. Technically, his first resurrection was with ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'', that helped him WinBackTheCrowd after two [[Film/{{Oscar1991}} horrible]] [[Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot comedies]]. But then his career choices were rather unfortunate (besides the critically acclaimed ''Film/CopLand'', ''Film/DemolitionMan'', and a voice acting role in ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}''). After some [[AdamWesting self-parodying]] in ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'', he decided to go back to what started his career. ''Rocky Balboa'' was a critical and commercial hit, and allowed Stallone to finally make a fourth ''Film/{{Rambo|IV}}'', and follow it with the action film with a [[AllStarCast dream cast]] ''Film/TheExpendables''. Stallone went through another comeback with ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'', after starring in much-maligned bombs in the last few years, and garnered him critical respect he hasn't seen in a long time, including a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination. |
| 79 | * '''Creator/TerenceStamp''' with ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/SupermanII''. By TheSeventies, his acting career waned after some attention in TheSixties. After playing General Zod so memorably in those blockbuster superhero films, Stamp found himself having the pick of roles for the rest of his career. |
| 80 | * '''Creator/HaileeSteinfeld''' in ''Film/PitchPerfect 2'' and ''Film/TheEdgeOfSeventeen''. After garnering acclaim plus an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination at the age of thirteen for her performance as Mattie Ross in the 2010 remake of ''Film/TrueGrit'', she was one of Hollywood's most heavily hyped child actors. However, she instead took time off from acting. Upon returning three years later with a new adaptation of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', critics tore the film to shreds and criticized Steinfeld's performance in particular for feeling too childish to properly relay Juliet's {{coming of age|Story}}. A string of later failures resulted in many writing her off as a flash in the pan. However, ''Pitch Perfect 2'' in 2015 became both a big hit and also gave Steinfeld the means to start a successful second career as a pop singer. The next year, ''The Edge of Seventeen'' was widely hailed and restored her critical stature. She got another hit with the ''[[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' spin-off ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'', while making her television debut portraying American poet Creator/EmilyDickinson on the Creator/AppleTVPlus series ''Series/{{Dickinson}}''. By the end of the decade, Steinfeld became one of the biggest {{Teen Idol}}s active in both film and music. She also voiced animation work as Spider-Gwen in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' (returning for its sequel ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse Across the Spider-Verse]]'') and as Vi in the Creator/{{Netflix}} adult show ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. In late 2020, she was cast as Kate Bishop / Hawkeye II in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse – making her first appearance in the Creator/DisneyPlus series ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}''. |
| 81 | * '''Creator/JimmyStewart''' with ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife.'' He first established himself in TheThirties as a supporting actor before gaining bigger exposure as the title role in 1939's ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', for which he got nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. He subsequently won an Oscar the following year for ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', which also revived Katharine Hepburn's career (see above). However, when the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, Stewart opted to partake in the effort as a military pilot and served until the war's end. After finishing his service, Stewart, having lost a good chunk of recognition after being away from the screen for so long, struggled to find roles in Hollywood. Luckily, Creator/FrankCapra, his director on ''Mr. Smith'', offered him the lead role of George Bailey in ''It's a Wonderful Life.'' While the film did fine enough at the box office, Stewart's performance was widely praised. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, including another nomination for Stewart as Best Actor. The film has since been VindicatedByHistory, and signaled a new beginning for Stewart, who would go on to have an extensive, fruitful career in Hollywood. |
| 82 | * '''Creator/KristenStewart''' in ''Film/{{Spencer}}''. Just as it was for her co-star (and [[RomanceOnTheSet then-boyfriend]]) Creator/RobertPattinson, ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' was a double-edged sword that, while making her rich and famous, limited her career prospects afterwards, earning her a reputation for DullSurprise performances. ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' in 2012 knocked her off the A-list, especially after she was caught cheating on Pattinson with the film's director Rupert Sanders, which caused ''Twilight'' fans to [[YokoOhNo turn against her]]. However, she responded to her exile from Hollywood by, like Pattinson, going indie and demonstrating that [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct she could actually act]]. With her performance in ''Film/CloudsOfSilsMaria'', she became the first American actress to win a César Award (the French version of the Oscars). Stewart also did a 180 on her public image from TheIngenue to a bisexual, semi-butch GoodBadGirl that turned out to be a much better fit for her. Whereas in 2012 she was one of the most disliked young actresses in Hollywood, by the end of the decade it seemed as if all was forgiven. In 2021, she played Princess Diana in ''Spencer''. Her performance has been acclaimed as her finest work yet, and she even earned an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actress. |
| 83 | * '''Creator/CharlizeTheron''' in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. After winning an Oscar for ''Monster'', Theron had nowhere to go but up, even getting nominated again for ''Film/NorthCountry'' in 2005, but the same year, she starred in the critically and financially unsuccessful ''Film/AeonFlux''. After that, she was relegated to starring in many forgettable movies. The critically acclaimed 2011 film ''Film/YoungAdult'' wasn't a huge hit, but she was nominated for a Golden Globe. 2015 would prove to have a massive start for her with heaps of critical acclaim bestowed on her for her performance as Imperator Furiosa in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad,'' so much so that most will say it's really ''her'' film and Max is just along for the ride. Hers has been oft-cited as one of the greatest ActionGirl performances, alongside Creator/SigourneyWeaver in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and Creator/JenniferLawrence in ''Film/TheHungerGames''. She further solidified her credentials as an action star with roles in ''Film/AtomicBlonde'' and ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'', while a string of other performances – including an Oscar-nominated turn as Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in ''[[Film/Bombshell2019 Bombshell]]'' – ensured she would remain in the critics' good graces. |
| 84 | * '''Creator/HenryThomas''' in ''Film/OuijaOriginOfEvil''. For decades, Thomas struggled to shed his image as "that kid from ''[[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial E.T.]]''". While he never exactly disappeared (unlike most {{Former Child Star}}s), it seemed for ages that he was forever doomed to minor roles and the (very) occasional major or even leading role in poorly received films. In 2014, though, he had a supporting turn in Creator/MikeFlanagan's prequel to the critically reviled ''Film/{{Ouija}}''. It was a surprise critical success (''especially'' compared to the downright abysmal reception the first film was met with) that led to Flanagan (who had already gained notices for his work with ''Film/{{Absentia}}'' and ''Film/{{Oculus}}'') becoming an increasingly hot commodity whose every project seems to be even better received than the last. Since then, Thomas has been one of the most frequently recurring members of Flanagan's ProductionPosse, with roles in ''Film/GeraldsGame'', ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018'', ''Film/DoctorSleep'', ''Series/TheHauntingOfBlyManor'', and ''Series/MidnightMass''. His roles are still usually of the supporting variety, but they're all quite meaty and varied parts that gave him more of an opportunity to show off his chops and have earned him more attention than he's had in decades. While his part in E.T. will likely always be his signature role (to the point he reprised it for a heavily publicized ad for Xfinity in 2019), he no longer has to worry about his career being defined solely by that one film. |
| 85 | * '''Creator/UmaThurman''' in ''Film/KillBill''. She became an "[[HollywoodHypeMachine it girl]]" after ''Film/PulpFiction'', only to watch her career crash and burn after ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' and ''Film/TheAvengers1998''. Fortunately for her, Creator/QuentinTarantino still saw something he liked in her, and gave her the lead role in what turned out to be one of the biggest action flicks of the year. ''Motherhood'' dented her career a bit - selling an embarrassing eleven tickets on its opening night in the UK. But she still got an Emmy nomination for her role in ''Series/{{Smash}}'', got critical acclaim for ''The Slap'' miniseries, and doesn't seem to be disappearing without a fight. Unfortunately, as she would reveal years later, a neck injury on the set of ''Kill Bill'' not only damaged her [[ProductionPosse working relationship with Tarantino]] but prevented her from taking the action roles that might have otherwise become her bread and butter in the wake of that film's success. |
| 86 | * '''Creator/JohnTravolta''' in ''Film/PulpFiction''. His career started with iconic roles in ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' and ''Film/{{Grease}}'', a respectable run on the very successful sitcom ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' and even critical acclaim with ''Film/BlowOut''. He spent most of TheEighties in hiding, reemerging briefly in the {{narm}}ish ''Film/LookWhosTalking'' (which was a hit) and its two sequels (the first which was only a minor success and the second which failed). However, Travolta made his comeback with the iconic Creator/QuentinTarantino Academy Award-nominated hit and followed up with ''Film/GetShorty'', cementing him as an A-list actor for the next few years. Then, of course, came ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', a passion project based on the works of Creator/LRonHubbard that badly battered his career. He's mostly fallen into DirectToVideo hell following that flop, although occasionally he'll star in some hits like ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}''. He also got an MediaNotes/EmmyAward for producing and a nomination for acting in ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory: Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson''. |
| 87 | * '''Creator/ForestWhitaker''' in ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland''. Whitaker, a well-regarded character actor for many decades, got started in TheEighties with supporting roles in films like ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'', ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'', ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', and ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'', before netting critical acclaim for his first lead part as jazz saxophonist Music/CharlieParker in the biopic ''Bird'', directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. More high-profile work followed, notably the title role in ''Film/GhostDogTheWayOfTheSamurai''. Then ''Battlefield Earth'', where he starred with the aforementioned John Travolta, was utterly ravaged in 2000, sending his career into a downward spiral, which was ironic since it was meant to be his first big blockbuster. Whitaker's input, besides a brief spell of luck with supporting roles in ''Film/PanicRoom'' and ''Film/PhoneBooth'', comprised of duds for over six years before he played Ugandan dictator UsefulNotes/IdiAmin in ''The Last King of Scotland''. It received a widely positive reaction, with Whitaker's performance praised especially and winning many accolades like the MediaNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor. He has gone on since then to star in a lot of high-profile projects: most notably ''Film/{{Arrival}}'', ''Film/RogueOne: A Franchise/StarWars Story'', and ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''. Whitaker also proceeded to forge a respectable career in television beginning with a critically hailed guest run on ''Series/TheShield'', followed by his stint on ''Series/{{Empire}}''. He currently stars on ''Series/GodfatherOfHarlem'' as Bumpy Johnson and also reprised his ''Star Wars'' role on the Creator/DisneyPlus series ''Series/{{Andor}}''. |
| 88 | * '''Creator/ReeseWitherspoon''' in ''Film/{{Wild}}''. Witherspoon was a critical darling with films like ''Film/{{Freeway}}'', ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'', and ''Film/{{Election}}'', with film magazines praising her as "the next Creator/MerylStreep". She became a genuine star in ''Film/LegallyBlonde'', culminating with an Oscar win for her highly acclaimed performance in ''Film/WalkTheLine''. After that, she became in a string of films that either were bombs (''Rendition'', ''Film/{{Penelope|2006}}''), critically panned (''Film/FourChristmases''), or both (''Film/ThisMeansWar2012'', ''How Do You Know''), later being "honored" by ''Forbes'' and one of the "most overpaid actors" in Hollywood, three years in a row, due to the businesses of those films. Even modest success, like ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' and ''Film/WaterForElephants'', didn't do much for her. She attributes this to [[CreatorBreakdown her divorce from ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe, and a simple lack of passion about the job]]. What happened next? After garnering great reviews for her small roles in much-praised films such as ''Film/{{Mud}}'' and the Creator/PaulThomasAnderson-directed ''Film/InherentVice'', she started a production company that produced ''Film/GoneGirl'', a commercial and critical success, and starring/producing ''Film/{{Wild}}'', directed by Creator/JeanMarcVallee, giving an Oscar-nominated performance that has been acclaimed as the best of her career. She later starred in/produced the HBO miniseries adaptation of the national best-seller, ''Literature/BigLittleLies'', also directed by Vallée, which garnered her critical acclaim once again, with critics praising her performance as even ''better'' than what she accomplished in ''Wild''. She would later go on to win her first Primetime Emmy Award as a producer when the project won Best Limited Series in 2017 and additionally earned a nomination for Lead Actress. Unfortunately, her film career after ''Wild'' hasn’t been too good, suffering critically panned, box office flops such as ''Film/HotPursuit'' (which she also produced), ''Home Again'', and ''Film/AWrinkleInTime2018'', although she did have a voice role in the box office hit ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}''. However, while her film career is in doubt, with the second season of ''Big Little Lies'', the new Apple TV+ series ''Series/TheMorningShow'' starring her and Creator/JenniferAniston, and the Hulu miniseries ''Literature/LittleFiresEverywhere'' starring her and Creator/KerryWashington, her newfound career in television will ensure she’ll be getting high profile work for years to come. |
| 89 | * '''Creator/NatalieWood''', after ''Film/TheSearchers'', appeared in a string of failed films. According to Creator/EliaKazan, by 1960, she was considered as "washed up" at just 22 (she had been acting since age 5). Kazan still cast her in ''Film/SplendorInTheGrass'', which came out in 1961, received critical acclaim, and brought Wood her second Oscar nomination. Also in 1961, she starred in ''Film/{{West Side Story|1961}}'', which was the biggest hit of the year and won the Oscar for Best Picture. This one-two punch shot her straight back to the A-list. |
| 90 | * '''Creator/MichelleYeoh''' in ''Film/CrazyRichAsians''. Yeoh moved from her homeland Malaysia to China so she could try acting after establishing herself prior as a model. She quickly became a major figure of Hong Kong action cinema who frequently did her own stunts. Yeoh then made her Hollywood debut as Wai Lin opposite Creator/PierceBrosnan in the Franchise/JamesBond flick ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', with her performance and role praised as a good {{foil}} to his 007. Her biggest role came when Creator/AngLee cast her in his ''wuxia'' epic ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'', which truly established her in the eyes of international audiences. Yeoh's screen career afterwards, however, sagged with a string of failures like ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' (which got mixed reviews, especially for casting non-Japanese actors like Yeoh and Creator/ZhangZiyi in Japanese roles, perpetuating the racist perception in Hollywood that Asians are interchangeable), ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' (which became both the lowest-grossing and worst-received entry in the Creator/BrendanFraser series), ''Film/BabylonAD'', and ''Film/{{Morgan}}'', with her sole hit for almost a decade being a voice role in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''. Her popularity, fortunately, recovered around the tail end of TheNewTens, starting with ''Series/StrikeBack'', ''Series/MarcoPolo'', and ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' on TV. She then got her first major Hollywood role in years via the film adaptation of ''Literature/CrazyRichAsians'', playing the imperturbable matriarch Eleanor Young. The film was notable for being the first American film in nearly 25 years to feature a predominantly Asian cast, following ''Film/TheJoyLuckClub'' in 1993. It received widely positive reviews and was a surprise box office success in 2018, later on becoming the highest-grossing {{romantic comedy}} of the decade. Yeoh's performance was particularly hailed, with talk of her possibly nabbing an Oscar nomination circulating which ultimately didn't come to fruition. Yeoh eventually went back to her action movie roots with a supporting role as Ying Nan in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' [[note]]following a cameo as a different character in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''[[/note]], which was a decent hit in 2021. In 2022, she finally played another lead role as multiversal traveler Evelyn Wang in ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' (which co-starred Jamie Lee Curtis, who's also listed on this page above). The film surpassed expectations to become the biggest financial success of indie studio Creator/{{A24}} and got even better reviews than ''Crazy Rich Asians'', while Yeoh's performance in it has been described as her finest yet. She ultimately won the Oscar for Best Actress for it, making history as the first Asian actress to be nominated and win in this category. Yeoh also continued extending her career in streaming with Creator/DisneyPlus's ''Series/AmericanBornChinese2023'' and Creator/{{Netflix}}'s ''Series/TheBrothersSun'', which were critically acclaimed despite both lasting only one season. |
| 91 | * '''Creator/ReneeZellweger''' in ''Film/Judy2019''. After winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2003's ''Film/ColdMountain'', her movies became less financially and critically successful as her career went into TheNewTens. The nadir arrived with ''Film/Case39'', a movie that was delayed twice and, when it was finally released in 2010, received negative reviews and flopped at the box office, opening at #7 in its first week. This resulted in a six-year hiatus from acting. A brief return to the carpet in 2014 saw a drastic change in her looks, which was claimed to be due to extensive plastic surgery to the point she was almost unrecognizable (though she has denied this) which many deemed the final nail in the coffin for her career. However, she returned to acting in 2016 with films including ''Literature/BridgetJones's Baby'', a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel critically speaking but not commercially successful otherwise. She would eventually reclaim her profile in 2019 after her role as Creator/JudyGarland in the eponymous biopic won rave reviews from critics, topped off with an Oscar for Best Actress. |
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| 95 | * '''Creator/RobertAltman''' with ''Film/ThePlayer''. He was one of the biggest directors of TheSeventies, having directed acclaimed hits such as ''Film/{{MASH}}'', ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller'', and ''Film/{{Nashville}}''. His career was then derailed by an adaptation of ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' released in 1980, after which his output consisted of flop after flop. Released in 1992, ''The Player'' was a critical success and was nominated for 3 Oscars – including Best Director for Altman. He would be nominated for Best Director again the following year (for ''Film/ShortCuts'') and in 2001 (for ''Film/GosfordPark'', which also served as a second comeback as his career post ''Short Cuts'' began to lag). Altman would remain well-regarded by the time he died in 2006, with his final film ''Film/APrairieHomeCompanion'' being warmly received by both audiences and critics. |
| 96 | * '''Creator/KathrynBigelow''' with ''Film/TheHurtLocker''. She first found recognition in TheEighties with the Western-vampire medley ''Film/NearDark'', which was an AcclaimedFlop. Her following films, the cop drama ''Film/BlueSteel'' starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and the action film ''Film/PointBreak1991'' starring Keanu Reeves and Creator/PatrickSwayze, did just as well at the box office as they did with critics. Her momentum halted when the 1995 {{cyberpunk}} sci-fi flick ''Film/StrangeDays'' became an Acclaimed Flop too, except its rather steeper budget compounded with meager box office returns proved more damaging than the low-cost production of ''Near Dark''. For comparison, while ''Near Dark'' grossed $3.4 million on a $5 million budget, ''Strange Days'' cost $42 million to produce yet only made a mere '''$8 million''' at the domestic box office. Afterwards, Bigelow failed to get any directorial projects off pre-production until 2000's ''The Weight of Water'', a French-American co-production that never got a wide release in the US. Her following film, the 2002 submarine drama ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'', also [[{{Pun}} sunk]], and she fell off the radar for some years afterwards. By the end of the decade, however, she received newfound recognition when ''The Hurt Locker'' became near-universally hailed and did decently at the box office. The film would win six [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]], including Best Picture and Best Director for Bigelow. Her next films, ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'' and ''Film/{{Detroit}}'', were also positively reviewed, with ''Zero Dark Thirty'' becoming her highest-grossing film. |
| 97 | * '''Creator/ShaneBlack''' with ''Film/KissKissBangBang''. He started out hot with ''Film/LethalWeapon'', and his unique take on the cop movie, filled with CasualDangerDialogue and [[BuddyCopShow mismatched protagonists trading barbs as they investigated crimes]], was quickly imitated by Hollywood action movies in the late '80s/early '90s. However, the failure of 1996's ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'' brought his success to a screeching halt. Black came back swinging with ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'' after spending nearly a decade in retirement, which also served as his directorial debut and the beginning of [[Creator/RobertDowneyJr its lead actor's]] own Career Resurrection. Although Black didn't direct another film for eight years, said feature (''Film/IronMan3'') reunited him with Robert Downey Jr. and became his highest-grossing film with over a billion-dollar gross at the box office. His following film ''Film/TheNiceGuys'' was a lower-budget affair that was closer in style to ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'' and earned positive reviews. While it turned in an adequate profit, ''The Nice Guys'' has found renewed attention as a CultClassic on home media. |
| 98 | * '''Creator/TheCoenBrothers''' went through this twice. |
| 99 | ** The first was in the 1990s. After ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'' very nearly killed their careers entirely, they made ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', which not only revived their momentum completely but was nominated for several Oscars (including Best Picture) and won for Best Original Screenplay. |
| 100 | ** Again in the 2000s. After the runaway success of ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou,'' they followed it up with the commercially unsuccessful ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere2001,'' the less distinctive ''Film/IntolerableCruelty,'' and the coolly received ''Film/TheLadykillers2004.'' Critics had begun to believe that the brothers had lost their touch and they didn't make another film until three years later. That movie? ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen,'' which won the Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay. |
| 101 | * '''Creator/SofiaCoppola''' had a rough beginning to her film career thanks to her abysmally received performance in ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'', when she replaced Creator/WinonaRyder after the latter abruptly dropped out of the project. Coppola, however, pivoted from acting in to directing films, which proved to be a better avenue with hits like ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides'' and ''Film/LostInTranslation'' (while the latter won her an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay). Then the divisive ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006'' placed her career on the skids for four years, and she did nothing major in the interim. Fortunately, she rebuilt her stature in TheNewTens. First, 2010's ''Film/{{Somewhere}}'' premiered in the Venice Film Festival and won its coveted Golden Lion. Then, ''Film/TheBlingRing'', ''Film/TheBeguiled'' and ''Film/OnTheRocks'' each garnered glowing praise. ''Film/{{Priscilla}}'', her biopic chronicling Priscilla Presley's relationship with Music/{{Elvis|Presley}}, was released in November 2023 to even more acclaim, including a nomination for the Golden Lion and a win at the Venice Film Festival for actress Cailee Spaeny’s performance as Priscilla. Many consider it Coppola’s best work in over a decade, and pointed out the culmination of themes that have been present throughout her directing career, such as the isolation of fame, femininity, and "privilege without power". |
| 102 | * '''Creator/JulesDassin''' with ''Film/{{Rififi}}''. Dassin initially emerged as one of the most promising Hollywood filmmakers of TheForties after directing successful noirs like ''Film/{{Brute Force|1947}}'' and ''Film/TheNakedCity''. But while abroad in London making ''Film/NightAndTheCity'', he was discredited as an alleged communist and subsequently [[MediaNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist blacklisted]] amidst the anti-communist hysteria sweeping America. Although he had finished filming ''Night and the City'', he was unable to oversee post-production and prohibited from editing the film. Following its release in 1950, he couldn't attain a filmmaking job for four years in the U.S. and thus moved to France to make ''Rififi''. The caper film became a TropeCodifier for the genre and a major hit in Europe, with Dassin later on winning the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. It also was released in America with Dassin's name in the credits and made him one of the first filmmakers to break from the blacklist. He continued having a thriving career in Europe for the rest of his life, with successes like the Greek film ''Film/NeverOnSunday'' (which won an Oscar for Best Song and received several other nominations, including two for Dassin for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay) and the heist flick ''Film/{{Topkapi}}''. |
| 103 | * '''Creator/SpikeLee''' with ''Film/BlacKkKlansman''. Lee first established himself in TheEighties as a confrontational force tackling heavy matters of race with his classic ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. While his films left white audiences divided, he experienced critical if not always commercial acclaim through the 1990s. That acclaim faded over the course of the 2000s and early 2010s, as his films (with the exception of ''Film/InsideMan'') either weren't well received or flopped at the box office. Lee instead became more notorious for his controversial statements and off-set behavior, including his lawsuit against [=SpikeTV=] over his name and a public feud with fellow director Creator/QuentinTarantino following the release of ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. It wasn't until ''[=BlacKkKlansman=]'' surpassed expectations that he became mainstream again and truly returned to his social commentary roots. Many consider it Lee's best film since ''Do the Right Thing'', and it led to him winning a long overdue Oscar (for Adapted Screenplay). The positive reception towards 2020's ''Film/Da5Bloods'' further solidified his resurrection. |
| 104 | * '''Creator/RichardLinklater''' had several. He first made a name for himself with ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/BeforeSunrise'' before spending the years of 1997-2003 making low-key indie projects that got minimal attention, the lone exception being ''WesternAnimation/WakingLife''. All that changed when he made ''Film/SchoolOfRock'', his only movie that was a box office smash that helped establish Creator/JackBlack as a major star in the process. But a SoOkayItsAverage remake of ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' and an adaptation of ''Fast Food Nation'' for which he was criticized for changing the tone of the novel to an anti-meat AuthorTract grounded his career to a halt. Critics and fans began to feel that he had lost his touch. With ''Film/MeAndOrsonWelles'' being under-distributed, many critics thought his career was good and done for. That is, until he reunited with Jack Black for ''Film/{{Bernie}}'' and made the final part in the ''Before'' series, ''Before Midnight'' (receiving an Oscar nomination in the process). With his 12-year project, ''Film/{{Boyhood}}'', being released to overwhelming acclaim in 2014 with many critics calling it a modern classic, it seems he's back in their good graces. |
| 105 | * '''Creator/SidneyLumet''' also had several throughout his decades-long career. After making a spectacular debut with ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'' in 1957, Lumet sustained a good career for the rest of TheFifties and into the following decade with acclaimed adaptations of the stage plays ''Theatre/AViewFromTheBridge'' and ''Theatre/LongDaysJourneyIntoNight''. Then after ''Film/FailSafe'' in 1964, he suffered a decline lasting the rest of TheSixties while his next films didn't nab critical or audience attention. Upon ''Film/{{Serpico}}'' becoming a big hit in 1973, his career promptly rebounded when his following films in TheSeventies like ''Film/{{Murder on the Orient Express|1974}}'', ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', and ''Film/{{Network}}'' collectively received his best reviews ever since ''12 Angry Men''. His luck lasted into the early '80s with ''Film/PrinceOfTheCity'' and ''Film/TheVerdict'', only to sink in the latter half of the decade as his input from the time premiered to indifferent and sometimes harshly negative reception. Lumet occasionally had hits like ''Film/RunningOnEmpty'' and ''Film/QAndA'', but most of his films for the next few decades (''Film/FamilyBusiness'', ''A Stranger Among Us'', the 1999 remake of ''Film/{{Gloria}}'', etc.) tanked. It wasn't until 2007 that he found new success with ''Film/BeforeTheDevilKnowsYoureDead'', which got his best reviews since ''The Verdict'' and was a decent financial hit. It also was his final film before his death from lymphoma in 2011. |
| 106 | * '''Creator/GuyRitchie''' with ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''. After directing ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'' and ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', he was pegged to direct the 2002 remake of ''Film/SweptAway'', which is considered one of the worst movies of all time. ''Sherlock Holmes'' (which served as another success for Robert Downey Jr. after his comeback began with ''Iron Man'') became one of the highest grossing movies of 2009, and [[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows its sequel]] experienced similar success. Even though ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE'' and ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' bombed, he followed them up with the live-action remake of ''[[Film/Aladdin2019 Aladdin]]'' (which earned $1B worldwide, becoming his highest-grossing film) and ''Film/TheGentlemen'' (which brought him back to his gangster cinema roots). |
| 107 | * '''Creator/MartinScorsese''' has had several: |
| 108 | ** ''Film/RagingBull'' was not a wide commercial success, but on a personal and professional level, it was important in making Scorsese both continue to commit himself to narrative film-making and make himself more disciplined in both his personal and professional life (such as kicking his drug habit) -- and in due time, it would be VindicatedByHistory as one of the greatest films of TheEighties and of his career. ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'', made in the middle of TheEighties, likewise became his first major commercial success since ''Film/TaxiDriver'' and helped get his career back on track; before then, it had stalled with the first version of ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' being canceled and his other movies getting mixed reviews at the time. |
| 109 | ** While the latter half of the 1980s was a rough spot for him, ''Film/GoodFellas'' gave him his AuteurLicense back. Its success restored Scorsese's commercial cache and critical reputation, allowing him to make films with bigger budgets that tackled uncommercial subject matter like ''Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence'', ''Film/{{Kundun}}'', and ''Film/{{Hugo}}''. Scorsese continues to thrive today, bolstered by the mainstream success of films like ''Film/TheDeparted'' and ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''. |
| 110 | * '''Creator/MNightShyamalan''': Once hailed as the next Creator/StevenSpielberg with ''Film/TheSixthSense'', Shyamalan's reputation went into the gutter as he became more and more known for being a self-absorbed and pretentious filmmaker with the increasingly ridiculous uses of his Main/TwistEnding that was one of the reasons why he was successful in the first place. Then came the quadruple bogey of ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', ''Film/TheHappening'', ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', and ''Film/AfterEarth'' which bombed critically and/or commercially with most of the film industry thinking his career was over. There was talk of a comeback when, with his back to the wall and $5 million of his own money invested, he made ''Film/TheVisit'' and received mixed-to-positive acclaim. However, with the release of ''Film/{{Split}}'', his career seems to be back in full force, as the movie not only received glowing reviews, but also ended up making four times its budget on its opening weekend. Despite the follow-up ''Film/Glass2019'' not critically meeting up to the expectations set up by ''Split'', ''Glass'' was a CriticProof hit that grossed twelve times its budget. His next film, 2021's ''Film/{{Old}}'', was a modest box office success despite getting mixed reviews and its release during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, as was his follow-up in 2023, ''Film/KnockAtTheCabin''. |
| 111 | * '''Creator/RobertStevenson''' with ''Film/OldYeller''. Stevenson began his career in 1932 directing English films such as ''Tudor Rose'' and the first film adaptation of ''King Solomon's Mines''. His work caught the attention of ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' producer David O. Selznick, who was so impressed that he offered Stevenson a contract in 1940, which Stevenson agreed to. However his first American film ''Tom Brown's School Days'' was a flop and he spent the next five years bouncing around various Hollywood studios, his movies ranging from the Academy Award-nominated ''Joan of Paris'' to doing collaborative work on ''Forever and a Day''. After UsefulNotes/WorldWarII he spent the next seven years doing a run of crime dramas and film noirs, most of them for RKO and all of which were box office bombs. For most of the 1950s, he was stuck doing television work and his story looked set to become a cautionary tale of European auteur directors being swayed by the allure of Hollywood during the golden age... until he was tapped by Creator/WaltDisney to direct a two-part episode of [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents the Disneyland television show]] centered around the story of Literature/JohnnyTremain. Disney liked the way that the episodes turned out so much that he released them into theaters as a single film, and proceeded to sign Stevenson to direct ''Old Yeller''. The film became Stevenson's biggest hit at the time and it led him to spend the remainder of his career at Creator/{{Disney}}, where he directed some of the studio's most famous films of the era including ''Film/TheShaggyDog'', ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', ''Film/MaryPoppins'' (for which he received an Oscar nomination), ''Film/TheLoveBug'' and ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' until his retirement in 1976. |
| 112 | * '''Creator/AgnesVarda''' with ''Film/{{Vagabond|1985}}''. Varda, a major pioneer of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave in TheFifties and TheSixties, directed several of its influential films, like ''La Pointe Courte'', ''Film/CleoFrom5To7'', ''Film/LeBonheur'', etc., as a part of the Left Bank Group, a collective which comprised directors Creator/AlainResnais and her husband Creator/JacquesDemy. But in the late '60s and TheSeventies, her feature output steadily became rare and obscure. From that period and continuing early into TheEighties, she primarily worked on shorts. ''Vagabond'' was her first big feature in decades. Its unanimously positive reception, with Varda eventually winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, reaffirmed her status as one of cinema's best, and led to a string of masterpieces afterwards, such as ''Film/KungFuMaster1988'', ''Film/TheGleanersAndI'', and ''Film/FacesPlaces'', with the last one getting her an [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nomination for Best Documentary. She also received an Honorary Oscar in 2017. By the time she died in 2019, she was widely revered as, in the words of Creator/MartinScorsese, "one of the Gods of cinema." |
| 113 | * '''Creator/JossWhedon''' with ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. The success of his BreakthroughHit ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and its spinoff ''Series/{{Angel}}'' proved to be a ToughActToFollow for much of the '00s, with ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' getting ScrewedByTheNetwork, ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' proving to be divisive, and ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' (co-written with director Drew Goddard) winding up on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for three years thanks to Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer's financial woes. He spent much of the late '00s and early '10s working in comics, web shows, and gun-for-hire TV directing gigs, which allowed him to maintain his fanbase but didn't become anything close to the mainstream sensation that the Franchise/{{Buffyverse}} had been. Whedon himself described his career as having been [[https://www.popmatters.com/173510-joss-whedon-film-society-of-lincoln-center-2495740687.html "on the skids"]] during this time. However, Creator/KevinFeige decided to take a risk on him, sensing that he was the right man to direct the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's first CrisisCrossover. The result paid off handsomely, not only turning the MCU into a pop culture colossus but also (together with ''The Cabin in the Woods'' finally getting a theatrical release and becoming a modest hit while winning the acclaim of horror fans) restoring Whedon's mainstream profile, and for a good chunk of the early-mid 2010s, he was renowned as geek royalty. It also gave him the AuteurLicense to make his low-budget, personal passion project ''Film/MuchAdoAboutNothing2012'', an adaptation of the [[Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing play of the same name]] by Creator/WilliamShakespeare that was well-received in arthouse circles. Unfortunately, later in the decade the failure of ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' (which many fans blamed him for, especially after the release of the much-better-received [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague "Zack Snyder cut"]]), combined with reports of adultery and PrimaDonnaDirector behavior on his part, knocked him back down. |
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| 117 | * In 2015, the [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]] (the anti-Oscars) introduced a new award called the "Razzie Redeemer Award", where a past nominee or winner had transitioned into a far more critically successful movie. The years below are the film release years, as awards are normally handed out the following year. |
| 118 | ** 2014: Creator/BenAffleck won for his roles in ''Film/{{Argo}}'' and ''Film/GoneGirl'' |
| 119 | ** 2015: Creator/SylvesterStallone won for his role in ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'' |
| 120 | ** 2016: Creator/MelGibson won for directing ''Film/HacksawRidge'' |
| 121 | ** 2018: Creator/MelissaMcCarthy won for her PlayingAgainstType performance in ''Film/CanYouEverForgiveMe'' |
| 122 | ** 2019: Creator/EddieMurphy won for ''Film/DolemiteIsMyName'' |
| 123 | ** 2021: Creator/WillSmith won for ''Film/KingRichard'' |
| 124 | ** 2022: Creator/ColinFarrell won for ''Film/TheBansheesOfInisherin'' |
| 125 | ** 2023: Creator/FranDrescher won, but not for a film role. Instead, she won for her work as president of [[MediaNotes/UnionsInHollywood SAG-AFTRA]] during [[MediaNotes/TVStrikes its 2023 strike]], playing her part in bringing it to a satisfactory conclusion. |
| 126 | * A film scoring example is '''Music/ElmerBernstein'''. Once a notable name for action films and dramas in the 1950s and 1960s, Bernstein had found himself reduced to scoring mostly TV shows by the 1970s (although even in the 1950s and 1960s he was happy to work in television, a medium he never considered himself above). Then, Creator/JohnLandis, who was Bernstein's neighbor as a child, needed someone to score ''Film/AnimalHouse'' after the first score was rejected. He suggested Bernstein and the film's success resurrected Bernstein's career, later going on to score many successful comedies as well as thrillers and dramas (he was not only a regular composer for Landis but for Creator/IvanReitman and Creator/MartinScorsese as well) until his retirement in 2002 and eventual passing in 2004. |
| 127 | * A truly unique example comes from the film ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''. Before the film, composer Antonio Salieri and his music were mostly forgotten, but the film revived interest in his work. Website/{{Wikipedia}} notes how many of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri#Legacy Salieri's operas and compositions]] have since been produced and recorded by modern artists, and festivals and theatres have been named in his honor. |
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