What is the best Christoph Waltz movie?

Award-winning signature roles share the field with blockbuster villains, a chamber comedy, animation and smaller genre films he carried almost alone.

1. 1
   Inglourious Basterds

   Quentin Tarantino's 2009 war film in which Waltz plays SS colonel Hans Landa, the role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Cannes Best Actor prize.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Django Unchained

   Tarantino's 2012 western with Waltz as Dr. King Schultz, a German dentist turned bounty hunter, which earned him his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
   980pts
3. 3
   Water for Elephants

   A 2011 Depression-era circus drama directed by Francis Lawrence, with Waltz as the volatile circus owner August opposite Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson.
   592pts
4. 4
   The Three Musketeers

   Paul W. S. Anderson's 2011 swashbuckler based on the Dumas novel, with Waltz as the scheming Cardinal Richelieu.
   582pts
5. 5
   Frankenstein

   Guillermo del Toro's 2025 adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, with Waltz as Harlander, a wealthy arms dealer who funds Victor Frankenstein's experiments.
   582pts
6. 6
   Dead for a Dollar

   Walter Hill's 2022 western starring Waltz as bounty hunter Max Borlund, who crosses paths with an outlaw played by Willem Dafoe.
   513pts
7. 7
   The Green Hornet

   Michel Gondry's 2011 superhero action comedy in which Waltz plays Los Angeles crime boss Benjamin Chudnofsky against Seth Rogen's masked hero.
   513pts
8. 8
   Carnage

   Roman Polanski's 2011 adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play God of Carnage, with Waltz as lawyer Alan Cowan opposite Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and John C. Reilly.
   434pts
9. 9
   Downsizing

   Alexander Payne's 2017 satirical science fiction comedy, with Waltz as Dusan, Matt Damon's partying neighbour in a community of shrunken people.
   434pts
10. 10
    The Zero Theorem

    Terry Gilliam's 2013 science fiction film starring Waltz as Qohen Leth, a reclusive computer programmer set to prove a formula about the meaning of life.
    434pts
11. 11
    Alita: Battle Angel

    Robert Rodriguez's 2019 cyberpunk action film produced by James Cameron, with Waltz as Dr. Dyson Ido, the cyber-surgeon who rebuilds Alita.
    434pts
12. 12
    Big Eyes

    Tim Burton's 2014 biopic with Waltz as Walter Keane, who took credit for his wife Margaret's paintings, a role that brought him a Golden Globe nomination.
    342pts
13. 13
    The Legend of Tarzan

    David Yates's 2016 adventure film in which Waltz plays Léon Rom, a Belgian envoy plotting to capture Tarzan in the Congo.
    233pts
14. 14
    Georgetown

    Waltz's debut as a feature director, a crime drama in which he plays Washington social climber Ulrich Mott opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Annette Bening.
    233pts
15. 15
    Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

    A 2022 stop-motion musical that won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, with Waltz voicing Count Volpe, the carnival owner who exploits the wooden boy.
    233pts
16. 16
    Old Guy

    Simon West's action comedy, released in the US in 2025, with Waltz as aging hitman Danny Dolinski training a young recruit played by Cooper Hoffman.
    233pts
17. 17
    Spectre

    The 24th James Bond film, directed by Sam Mendes in 2015, with Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the criminal organisation Spectre.
    0pts

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