What is Edward Norton's best performance?

Oscar-nominated menace, deadpan comedy and a couple of roles you may have forgotten he played. Which version of Norton sticks with you?

1. 1
   American History X

   His Oscar-nominated 1998 role as Derek Vinyard, a neo-Nazi trying to save his younger brother after prison.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Red Dragon

   Norton plays FBI profiler Will Graham, hunting a killer with Hannibal Lecter's reluctant help.
   952pts
3. 3
   Everyone Says I Love You

   Woody Allen's 1996 musical comedy, with Norton singing and charming as the earnest fiancé Holden.
   800pts
4. 4
   Birdman

   His third Oscar-nominated role, as Mike Shiner, a brilliant and insufferable Broadway method actor.
   762pts
5. 5
   Glass Onion

   Norton plays Miles Bron, the blowhard tech billionaire hosting a murder-mystery weekend on his private island.
   734pts
6. 6
   Kingdom of Heaven

   Norton's masked, uncredited turn as the leper king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem in Ridley Scott's crusades epic.
   659pts
7. 7
   The Grand Budapest Hotel

   Norton plays Inspector Henckels, the officer chasing a concierge across a fictional Alpine republic.
   659pts
8. 8
   Rounders

   Norton plays Worm, the reckless card-cheat friend who drags Matt Damon back into high-stakes poker.
   571pts
9. 9
   Motherless Brooklyn

   Norton wrote, directed and starred as Lionel Essrog, a detective with Tourette syndrome in 1950s New York.
   571pts
10. 10
    Keeping the Faith

    Norton's 2000 directing debut, in which he plays a priest caught in a love triangle with his best friends.
    571pts
11. 11
    Fight Club

    David Fincher's 1999 cult classic, with Norton as the insomniac Narrator opposite Brad Pitt's Tyler Durden.
    467pts
12. 12
    25th Hour

    Spike Lee's 2002 drama, with Norton as Monty Brogan spending his last day of freedom in post-9/11 New York.
    467pts
13. 13
    The Illusionist

    Norton plays Eisenheim, a stage magician in Habsburg Vienna whose tricks threaten a crown prince.
    467pts
14. 14
    The Score

    A 2001 heist thriller where Norton's slippery Jack Teller shares the screen with Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando.
    343pts
15. 15
    Primal Fear

    Norton's 1996 debut as altar boy Aaron Stampler, a turn that earned him an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe.
    343pts
16. 16
    Moonrise Kingdom

    Wes Anderson's 2012 fable, with Norton as the earnest, overwhelmed Scout Master Ward.
    343pts
17. 17
    The Painted Veil

    Norton plays Walter Fane, a bacteriologist who drags his unfaithful wife into a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
    343pts
18. 18
    The People vs. Larry Flynt

    Norton plays Alan Isaacman, the young lawyer defending Hustler's publisher all the way to the Supreme Court.
    0pts
19. 19
    The Incredible Hulk

    Norton's 2008 Marvel turn as Bruce Banner, on the run from the army and from himself.
    0pts
20. 20
    A Complete Unknown

    His fourth Oscar-nominated role, as folk singer Pete Seeger mentoring a young Bob Dylan.
    0pts

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