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. 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. 2
   The Graduate

   Mike Nichols' 1967 classic featuring Hoffman as aimless graduate Benjamin Braddock seduced by Mrs. Robinson.
   999pts
3. 3
   Outbreak

   The 1995 pandemic thriller starring Hoffman as a military scientist racing to stop a deadly virus.
   800pts
4. 4
   Midnight Cowboy

   The 1969 Best Picture winner where Hoffman plays sickly con man Ratso Rizzo alongside Jon Voight.
   692pts
5. 5
   Straw Dogs

   Sam Peckinpah's controversial 1971 thriller with Hoffman as a mild academic pushed to violence.
   692pts
6. 6
   Papillon

   The 1973 prison-escape epic where Hoffman plays counterfeiter Louis Dega alongside Steve McQueen.
   692pts
7. 7
   Little Big Man

   Arthur Penn's 1970 revisionist Western featuring Hoffman as a 121-year-old frontier survivor.
   692pts
8. 8
   All the President's Men

   The 1976 political thriller casting Hoffman as Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein opposite Robert Redford.
   491pts
9. 9
   Meet the Fockers

   The 2004 comedy hit with Hoffman as the free-spirited father-in-law Bernie Focker.
   491pts
10. 10
    Wag the Dog

    The 1997 political satire with Hoffman as a Hollywood producer staging a fake war.
    491pts
11. 11
    Sleepers

    Barry Levinson's 1996 crime drama featuring Hoffman as a lawyer in a story of childhood abuse and revenge.
    491pts
12. 12
    Tootsie

    The 1982 comedy in which Hoffman plays a struggling actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role.
    360pts
13. 13
    Marathon Man

    John Schlesinger's 1976 thriller with Hoffman as a student tortured by a Nazi war criminal.
    360pts
14. 14
    Lenny

    Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic of provocative comedian Lenny Bruce, earning Hoffman an Oscar nomination.
    360pts
15. 15
    Kramer vs. Kramer

    The 1979 divorce drama that won Hoffman his first Best Actor Oscar as a father fighting for custody.
    0pts
16. 16
    Hook

    Steven Spielberg's 1991 fantasy in which Hoffman plays the swashbuckling Captain Hook.
    0pts

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