What is the best Dustin Hoffman movie?

From awards-season heavyweights to gritty character studies and a few pure crowd-pleasers, this run spans a career that reshaped what screen acting could be. Where do you stand?

1

Rain Man

The 1988 Best Picture winner in which Hoffman plays autistic savant Raymond Babbitt, earning him his second Best Actor Oscar.

1000pts

2

The Graduate

Mike Nichols' 1967 classic featuring Hoffman as aimless graduate Benjamin Braddock seduced by Mrs. Robinson.

999pts

3

Outbreak

The 1995 pandemic thriller starring Hoffman as a military scientist racing to stop a deadly virus.

874pts

4

Midnight Cowboy

The 1969 Best Picture winner where Hoffman plays sickly con man Ratso Rizzo alongside Jon Voight.

807pts

5

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah's controversial 1971 thriller with Hoffman as a mild academic pushed to violence.

807pts

6

Papillon

The 1973 prison-escape epic where Hoffman plays counterfeiter Louis Dega alongside Steve McQueen.

807pts

7

Little Big Man

Arthur Penn's 1970 revisionist Western featuring Hoffman as a 121-year-old frontier survivor.

807pts

8

All the President's Men

The 1976 political thriller casting Hoffman as Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein opposite Robert Redford.

681pts

9

Meet the Fockers

The 2004 comedy hit with Hoffman as the free-spirited father-in-law Bernie Focker.

681pts

10

Wag the Dog

The 1997 political satire with Hoffman as a Hollywood producer staging a fake war.

681pts

11

Sleepers

Barry Levinson's 1996 crime drama featuring Hoffman as a lawyer in a story of childhood abuse and revenge.

681pts

12

Tootsie

The 1982 comedy in which Hoffman plays a struggling actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role.

599pts

13

Marathon Man

John Schlesinger's 1976 thriller with Hoffman as a student tortured by a Nazi war criminal.

599pts

14

Lenny

Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic of provocative comedian Lenny Bruce, earning Hoffman an Oscar nomination.

599pts

15

Kramer vs. Kramer

The 1979 divorce drama that won Hoffman his first Best Actor Oscar as a father fighting for custody.

499pts

16

Hook

Steven Spielberg's 1991 fantasy in which Hoffman plays the swashbuckling Captain Hook.

499pts