What is the best Dustin Hoffman movie role?

Oscar winners sit beside a pirate captain, a cartoon kung fu master and a handful of gritty 1970s turns that rarely get their due. One actor, wildly different people.

1. 1
   Raymond Babbitt (Rain Man)

   The autistic savant in Rain Man (1988), which won Hoffman his second Best Actor Oscar.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Benjamin Braddock (The Graduate)

   The adrift college graduate seduced by Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), Hoffman's breakout role.
   660pts
3. 3
   Master Shifu (Kung Fu Panda)

   The red panda kung fu master he voices across the Kung Fu Panda films (2008-).
   595pts
4. 4
   Sam Daniels (Outbreak)

   The Army virologist racing a deadly epidemic in the thriller Outbreak (1995).
   595pts
5. 5
   Ratso Rizzo (Midnight Cowboy)

   The sickly New York hustler in Midnight Cowboy (1969) whose 'I'm walking here!' became legend.
   550pts
6. 6
   Ted Kramer (Kramer vs. Kramer)

   The divorcing father fighting for custody in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), his first Oscar win.
   498pts
7. 7
   Max Dembo (Straight Time)

   The paroled thief sliding back into crime in the gritty drama Straight Time (1978).
   498pts
8. 8
   Lenny Bruce (Lenny)

   The provocative stand-up comic in Bob Fosse's biopic Lenny (1974), an Oscar-nominated turn.
   440pts
9. 9
   Michael Dorsey (Tootsie)

   The difficult actor who becomes soap star Dorothy Michaels in the comedy Tootsie (1982).
   372pts
10. 10
    Jack Crabb (Little Big Man)

    The 121-year-old frontier survivor recounting his life in the revisionist western Little Big Man (1970).
    372pts
11. 11
    Babe Levy (Marathon Man)

    The graduate student tortured by a Nazi dentist in the thriller Marathon Man (1976).
    372pts
12. 12
    David Sumner (Straw Dogs)

    The mild mathematician pushed to violence in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971).
    293pts
13. 13
    Captain Hook (Hook)

    Peter Pan's flamboyant pirate nemesis in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991).
    293pts
14. 14
    Bernie LaPlante (Hero)

    The petty crook who saves plane-crash victims and loses the credit in Hero (1992).
    293pts
15. 15
    Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men)

    The Washington Post reporter chasing Watergate alongside Robert Redford in All the President's Men (1976).
    200pts
16. 16
    Harold Meyerowitz (The Meyerowitz Stories)

    The prickly sculptor patriarch in Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).
    0pts
17. 17
    Louis Dega (Papillon)

    The bespectacled forger imprisoned on Devil's Island beside Steve McQueen in Papillon (1973).
    0pts
18. 18
    Stanley Motss (Wag the Dog)

    The Hollywood producer staging a fake war in the political satire Wag the Dog (1997), an Oscar-nominated role.
    0pts
19. 19
    Bernie Focker (Meet the Fockers)

    Greg's free-spirited father in the comedy Meet the Fockers (2004).
    0pts

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